How can you tell here? I’m looking at it and I think I could do something very similar in Inkscape in a half hour or maybe an hour (I’m a little rusty). But it looks like normal vector art to me?

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How cool! What kind of work? Any good stories?

Philosophers reinventing basic manners is just like when tech bros reinvent trains and busses.

My vote: Moxie Marlinspike

If you’re being fediverse-specific you could set up your own instance, federate with everything, and have it save only the content you’ve interacted with. It’s a pretty narrow archive so it wouldn’t be too resource intensive. And if you’re techy it wouldn’t be too hard* to write a native activitypub client that did only this if you were active on eg lemmy and mastodon and pixelfed

• for certain definitions of “too hard”

Eagerly awaiting part 2 while I try to recall the original storyline without rolling my eyes too hard.