> Hello and welcome to another Qoth! Here's what's been happening in Q2 of 2026! > Joshua Branson added a pretty cool svg logo for our ethernet multiplexor. He built that image with Inkscape whilst using a Hurd laptop (Thinkpad 420) running on real iron! The Hurd wiki could certainly use more artwork. Perhaps you have a favorite Hurd translator that you believes needs some artwork!
the money that youtube paid out in 2024 was over 30 billion dollar. that is, coincidentally, around the same amount of *revenue* of the global box office.
youtube is bigger than cinema and the whole music industry, combined.
there's been a very violent (but weirdly unnoticed) switch from professional culture = pop culture to amateur culture = pop culture. nobody cares about movies or tv shows, but people do care about let's plays, tiktok skits, vtubers. even things like smiling friends stop early because it's just not worth the hassle.
@kaia btw if you want to see some retro show about the topic, there was one called 'welcome to the scene', where nearly all of the drama was happeing via instant messengers. by now it's 20 years old: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLC2FCB2871C396459
