lori

Well, it’s kind of up to him. His NLNet grants require it to be open source and dictate what license he uses, but I don’t know the details to know if that just means it has to be open sourced in order to receive the grant (awarded upon completion not ahead of time) or right away.

A few days ago he posted (then I think deleted) this, which among other things makes me extremely inclined to not believe anything he says:

In March 2019 I teased the Pixelfed mobile app. The only problem was, I didn’t know how to write one. So just like the original “federated instagram” post, I faked a commercial to build hype. It was coming along well. Then in mid 2020, I came out and put the app aside. It wasn’t until late 2022 that I found a Pixelfed react native app, and cloned it and tinkered. In 2023 I released the first Pixelfed app, but it was slow. I rewrote it from scratch in May 2024. From faking, to making!

It would be a way better movie if you just cut out that trash at the beginning. Even then it’s iffy, but there’s some bits of it that are very good and some bits that are very bad. But the eugenics angle really makes it hard to go back to now that I’m not a teenager.

I wouldn’t say Republican just hardcore libertarian. Which is still bad.

King of the Hill had a lot of fantastic writers and staff working on it, but it ran for a very long time. The politics of the show vary wildly as it goes on. The worst episodes in the show are the ones where it feels like Mike Judge personality saw half of a Fox News headline and got mad about trans fat bans or bond measures or the ADA. In some episodes it’s a progressive show and in some it feels like the Mike Judge Twig Boy Hate Soapbox Hour.

King of the Hill is maybe the show I have watched the most of in my life, I have a very deep love of this show, and…I could not possibly want it to return less. Between Mike Judge’s work after it ended, his weird libertarianism not aging well, Hardwick’s death and just being tired of reboots, I don’t want it back. It belongs where it was.