"But any attempt to simulate an economy risks also simulating economics, which is what we call it when millions of individual, rational decisions act together to create utter madness on a grand scale. Now, unfortunately, economics has happened to Planet Zoo."
"Sleep When I'm Dead" inspired the dream bubbles.
"The Perfect Boy"? Jake English.
"This. Here and now. With you" is just a full pesterlog that was originally a song title.
The FidoNet chapter from BBS: The Documentary (2004) is I think required viewing for fediverse admins.
Bulletin board services (BBSes) were pre-web online communities with forums, mail, games, etc. FidoNet was/is basically a volunteer-run federation layer that let BBSes communicate with each other.
The video talks about FidoNet's growing pains, especially around governance & a mismatch between what users wanted and what the sysops felt was required to maintain the net.
transmisogyny
cis people defining transness in terms that are narrowly aimed at describing very feminine straight trans women: Why don't I see as many trans men, hmmm?
cis people defining transness in terms that are narrowly aimed at describing very feminine straight trans women: Why aren't any trans women gay, huh? Why are they all very feminine and straight???
Trans, guy of center, well over 18.
I'm in tech and it feels weird.