PBS Space Time presenter: Take the Earth,
Me, automatically: Please!
I worry sometimes I just come across as an irascible old person who just doesn't use newfangled technology. My real particular goal I guess is that when I talk about using some or other thing that's fallen out of favour is that it's a reminder that whatever abusive tech monopolies aren't inescapable - that we had a time without them and can imagine a new time without them. Not that all new things are bad, but that we have more opportunities open to us before and after.
The other thing I suppose is that the ability to do something in a way "dies" when you don't have people around you doing it. Like, managing a local music library of things you own was completely normal - "tech illiterate" people did it. It seems hard now for people who haven't done it because there's fewer people around you doing the same things, so you have fewer people to ambiently get knowledge from or who could help you. If I do things in maybe a weird way for today, that opens a door for someone else to try it too.
broke: brutalism is bad because big scary concrete block
woke: brutalism is good because [40 minute architecture history lecture ensues]
bespoke: brutalism is good because it means a building was designed with an honest-to-god aesthetic instead of purely on the basis of "we need X square feet, what's the cheapest and fastest you can cram that in without getting us on the news," which makes it a marvel and a delight no matter how goddamn gray the result is
Ok so I'm watching cinema YouTube, and I come across a comment on a video about Star Wars that goes something like this: "Darth Vader is the product of several people. James Earl Jones (voice), David Prowse (physical actor), a stunt choreographer, costume designer, sound designer for the vocal effects, and others. It was very much a team effort."
With that in mind, I propose that Darth Vader is a muppet