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Dalliance.net is Pre’s homepage, index of his projects, updates on his blog. That sort of thing. You can subscribe in various ways.
Projects
Blog
My blog, mostly monthly summaries of the Fediverse Account.
Visit at dalliance.net/blog
Or check out the categories index
Starship Schrödinger’s Destiny
Ongoing: An Interactive Sci-Fi story for Virtual Reality about the adventures of the crew of a flying saucer.
Visit at starshipsd.com
Wordcloud Tarot
Ongoing: My tarot decks have the meanings of the cards written on the card in a world-cloud. There’s also a video show with a reading about politics most weeks.
Visit at wordcloudtarot.com
Tentacles, After The End
A 30 minute animated movie about the last woman alive on a planet ravaged by tentacle monsters from outer space.
Tentacles is complete, visit the archive at tentacles.org.uk
Book: Do Dream Sheep Bleat?
A short story book about magic and memes and reality.
Dreamsheep is complete, you can buy a copy or read it online at dalliance.net/dreamsheep
Book: Yes, The Conspiracy Really Exists, And Furthermore It’s All Your Fault.
A long rant about how stupid humans screw up humanity.
The book is complete, you can buy a copy or read it online at dalliance.net/yes
Handsome Jack’s Showband
My punk cover’s band.
Despite some online-only gigs, the band didn’t make it though the pandemic, you can watch some old gig videos online at handsomejacks.co.uk
Bookshelf
An album of songs inspired by some of the best books on my bookshelf.
The album is complete, you can listen to the songs at dalliance.net/bookshelf
Joust Adventure
A little web-game I made back in 2011 with the hope people might pay me to make level 2.
I don’t think anyone ever finished level 1. Too hard.
Can you do it?
The project is abandoned, you can still play level one at dalliance.net/joustadventure. So far as I know, I’m the only person to ever complete the level. Let me know if you do!
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Diary
My diary from the Fediverse.Status at - Tue, 17 Dec 2024 12:08:40 +0000
With the sale of Royal Mail to foreign billionaire Daniel Křetínský a new stamp has been announced.
Featuring the corporation's new top Majesty Křetínský in a regal purple shade wearing his majestic glasses that symbolize his sovereign power over mail delivery in this normal island.
These stamps are expected to be more expensive than the old ones with a King's face on them, but delivery will be much better to everyone! (except those who live in unprofitable areas such a outside towns and cities or anywhere in the countryside)
Status at - Sun, 15 Dec 2024 17:20:25 +0000
Interesting that the new pick for fcc says he wants to "smash the censorship cartel", which could mean legal action against Bluesky if they ban transphobe harasser Jessie Singal?
"Free speech" surely doesn't mean forcing media to publish things they don't want to publish? The government saying "You may not ban this bad-actor"!
Forcing all centralized services like Bluesky to publish harassers and bullies doesn't sound very free to me!
Is properly decentralzied fediverse at an advantage here? Would government force my server to not block Singal? Could that even be done? Not by a foreign government presumably.
RE: https://mastodon.online/@mastodonmigration/113655334940433120
Status at - Sat, 14 Dec 2024 15:09:09 +0000
Interesting ten minute video from the Wall Street Journal about Teslas crashing, based on the data submitted to federal agencies:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mPUGh0qAqWABut don't worry, Musk has a plan!
He's encouraging Trump to end the requirement to submit the data.
Status at - Thu, 12 Dec 2024 20:30:33 +0000
Content warning:USpol Pardons
I don't care how many people he pardons, fact is he's more likely to pardon Trump than Assange or Snowden and that tells you all you need to know about the two cheeks of the American Political arse.
Status at - Wed, 11 Dec 2024 19:28:14 +0000
Work Xmas Social today was a cookery class where we made mince pies and gingerbread and Biscotti before a meal in a pub. Pretty nice.
Company is growing, more than 20 of us there this year.
Status at - Sun, 08 Dec 2024 12:28:24 +0000
This month becomes even more expensive: Oven's broke.
Ordered a new one to be delivered Friday, and crucially, they'll take the old one away.
Current account getting worryingly low now though.
Status at - Sun, 08 Dec 2024 10:31:15 +0000
Half way!
Transferred: 1.129 TiB
Elapsed time: 210h42m0.5sCrikey. Hopefully the incremental changes won't be this mad.
Status at - Thu, 05 Dec 2024 15:55:54 +0000
Ah, the Doctor cos-playing as Arthur Dent this Christmas. Nice. Can't wait.
Trailer's up:
Status at - Thu, 05 Dec 2024 11:51:26 +0000
Content warning:re: ukpol starmer speech
Questions from the press here are all about migration, despite migration barely being mentioned in the speech and not being in the "goals" at all.
It is in many many ways the media that drives this insane frame about immigration being bad and reducing it being the main aim of government.
Status at - Thu, 05 Dec 2024 11:44:49 +0000
Content warning:re: ukpol starmer speech
Everyone can see we're tired of people failing getting the job done, he reckons.
In summary then:
We will stay the course, and change the country.
Thanks for listening everyone, we'll be back with the next relaunch of government in another three months to say how we've changed again presumably.
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Bookmarks
Things I have bookmarked lately.Visualizing transformers and attention | Talk for TNG Big Tech Day '24 - YouTube - Tue, 17 Dec 2024 22:08:23 +0000
3-blue 1-brown's Grant Sanderson doing a talk about how AI Transformers work at some conference. He's ripped! He's also very clear and explains the ways in which tokens are correlated and their influence upon each other flows through the layers of a transformer model to encode meaning and structure. Great.
A Manifesto Against For-Profit Health Insurance Companies — by Michael Moore - Tue, 17 Dec 2024 09:58:15 +0000
"Hmmm. Do I condemn murder? That’s an odd question. In Fahrenheit 9/11, I condemned the murder of hundreds of thousands of innocent Iraqi people and the senseless murder of our own American soldiers at the hands of our American government. "
Re: Re: Bluesky and Decentralization - Sat, 14 Dec 2024 10:51:59 +0000
more on the difference between fedi and blue sky
Disappearing Genocide: BBC ‘Balance’ Between Perpetrator Israel And Palestinian Victims After Damning Amnesty Report – Media Lens - Fri, 13 Dec 2024 17:55:13 +0000
Media lens pointing out how the BBC assists a genocide by sidelining it. The BBC are very bad at reporting.
Pluralistic: Predicting the present (09 Dec 2024) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow - Mon, 09 Dec 2024 22:26:16 +0000
Cory writes about American healthcare and his story, Radicalized: "They say violence never solves anything, but to quote The Onion: that's only true so long as you ignore all of human history"
Baalbek, Lebanon - YouTube - Fri, 06 Dec 2024 18:09:36 +0000
Craig Murray is in Lebanon seeing what it's like when the Israel are targeting you.
Lebanon's Unbalanced Ceasefire Teeters on the Brink - Craig Murray - Fri, 06 Dec 2024 00:50:59 +0000
Craig on the ceasefire: "Israel has spent 72 hours blatantly violating the ceasefire without a
word of protest from the Western powers. The moment anybody fires back a
single shot, the USA and its satellites will voice outrage, heavy
bombing of Beirut will recommence and Israel will start trying to
advance again from its new upgraded Southern bases within Lebanon.
I see this happening sooner rather than later. Peace deals which
entirely favour one side never last, barring effective extermination of
the injured party, and that has not happened."
The Really Dark Truth About Bots - YouTube - Tue, 19 Nov 2024 20:44:50 +0000
Putin's Puppets on Twitter: Benn Jordan is counting the bots.
George Lucas Wasn’t Done With The Prequels, so we Finished Them - YouTube - Mon, 18 Nov 2024 16:53:51 +0000
George Lucas had Star Wars stolen from him by Disney, and was never able to release a Special Edition of the Prequels. The crew takes it upon themselves to bring balance to the force.
Two Weeks in Beirut - Craig Murray - Thu, 14 Nov 2024 01:58:59 +0000
Craig Murray's diary of two weeks in Beirut. Sounds like war is mostly about bureaucracy and death.