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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
Exocortex Log
Ongoing: A life-logging app, built as a progressive web app with all data stored on your local machine. Party for privacy, partly so I don’t have to run any servers. If you are interested in logging graphing and analysing your time as you spend it, this might be for you! But mostly it’s for me, I don’t care if you use it or not.
See the app at exocortexlog.com, or read the latest news blog.
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
Loopy
After the band broke up, I took to playing with myself via a loop pedal. Sometimes, very rarely, even in public.
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
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
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 - Sat, 30 May 2026 22:36:18 +0000
Went to Small World Spring Festival in Hedcorn Kent last weekend.
It was very hot.
It's been hot since. Barely done anything other than sleep on the sofa all week.
Spent most of it lolling in the shade with a battery fan barely able to pay attention to the musicians somehow managing to jump about in the heat.
The campervan wallpaper I put up did as I predicted and fell down quite a lot. Had the gorilla glue ready to try and patch it as it fell. The vinyl wallpaper is probably a mistake. The heat swings are too intense. It swells and the glue fails.
Stands more chance of staying up in future, but is way more creased and shoddy looking.
Still, it's form and function other than that are now as good as it's gonna get in a van that size. The mini-fridge isn't worth it. Coolbox just fine.
Love small world though. Proper hippy festival. Mostly solar powered and punk and ska and folk and jazz and that whole stage just for jamming.
Will likely be back there for the end of summer one. Nice that they open and close the summer.
Status at - Thu, 28 May 2026 21:57:01 +0000
I think there should be a strong social norm against quoting robots. Doing so ought to be embarrassing.
Status at - Thu, 28 May 2026 21:41:54 +0000
I am more against AI slop in chat channels than I am against space-based securities scams.
You wanna do a space-themed securities scam and pass laws that mean the whole pension market has to invest then, uh.. I prefer you don't but, whatever. You do you I guess.
Let me know your victim's address so I can warn them?
But if you want to put machine-generated slop in my chat channels?
Now you are affecting me personally.
Chat with the bot to interrogate your understanding if you want? Sure. There might be better ways like a text-book. but it's undeniably quick to identify where you disagree with the average.
To proffer your please-o-bot conversation as any evidence of anything, or to think it contributes to a public channel of real humans who are saying actual human things which are not synthesized by robots?
The revolution ain't built like that man. That isn't how you build human communication channels.
Keep your conversations with robots as private as your interactions with the VR Porn.
Talk with the robots if you must but nobody wants to hear about that or your dreams.
Status at - Thu, 28 May 2026 21:28:33 +0000
If you wanna smoke that stuff then you do you man, believe what you want.
But don't come quoting that slop machine at me, like it backs up a single thought.
Or worse, like it's a thought you had.
Here: this must be true, the robot thought it too!
The revolution will not come to mind when conferring with their chatbots.
The revolution will be live, not Ai-sized.
The revolution will be humanized.
Status at - Thu, 28 May 2026 21:19:54 +0000
The revolution will not be AI-ised
The revolution will not be brought to you by Facebook or Grok in four parts without commercial interruptions.
The revolution will not be sponsored by Google Gemini or Anthropic's Claude.
The revolution will be no re-run, brothers
The revolution will be live.
The revolution will not be AI-sized.
Status at - Thu, 28 May 2026 19:40:49 +0000
Content warning:re: UK Pol - Not In Education/Training, Private ownership of wealth
Care homes. Of course. That's another obvious mission of BritCoOp.
Care homes owned by british workers who work to provide care in the care home to british workers who can no longer work.
Doesn't matter if it returns a profit if it cares for the workers from decades gone by who are it's owners.
Status at - Thu, 28 May 2026 19:13:48 +0000
Have recently been accused of being
"so far left your perspective doesn't match most people's opinions"
🙇♂️
No notes.
This is surely the educational battle before us.
Status at - Thu, 28 May 2026 19:09:55 +0000
Content warning:re: UK Pol - Not In Education/Training, Private ownership of wealth
You know there's a chance it would be legal for the King to just set up Brit-Coop as an act of resignation.
Transfer ownership of everything belonging to the crown to a new organization that has ownership by worker-hour, and a mission to rebuild the public infrastructure for the public good.
Use government connections to get it the contracts for welfare-money-for-training.
He won't. Nor will his kids.
Royals aren't about that. They aren't the country. They shouldn't be it's owners.
But it wouldn't be illegal I don't think. If anyone has his royal ear. His big ear.
Status at - Thu, 28 May 2026 18:38:18 +0000
Content warning:re: UK Pol - Not In Education/Training, Private ownership of wealth
My first draft of National Co-op's mission:
- Train workers
- Replace Amazon
- Rebuild transport network
- Rebuild water network
- Rebuild electricity network
- Solar energy
- Wind energy
- Tidal energy
- Microprocessor fabrication
- Royal asset preservation, like museums in palaces and the like.
- Reforestation
That's to be going on with. What would you add?
Status at - Thu, 28 May 2026 18:38:09 +0000
Content warning:re: UK Pol - Not In Education/Training, Private ownership of wealth
I'd make its first mission really to replace Amazon with the Royal Mail, which would become BritCo's mail service.
Building a web-site to be a store-front for every UK-retailer, with warehousing and processing done by British workers. Building BritCo for the future of the nation wouldn't even be that hard. Amazon is just a compute infrastructure and software. We need British versions of those things anyway. After that it's just warehouse space.
Alongside that you can clean the rivers and build green energy and generally a supply-chain that is owned by the workers and not by multinational private capital.
This path is probably not compatible with a rejoin-EU I'm afraid.
Not without reforming the EU first, and sadly that is also an institution basically owned by multinational private capital and in which you can get any policy you like so long as it enriches private multinational capital.
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Bookmarks
Things I have bookmarked lately.Media Myopia As We Hurtle Towards Climate Oblivion – Media Lens - Sun, 31 May 2026 11:02:20 +0000
Our media continues to report on bullshit while ignoring the story: "Imagine that, instead of focusing on
short-term melodramas, leading news organisations rigorously probed
politicians, day in and day out, about the climate crisis.
Imagine that news editors and journalists
relentlessly challenged the government about current policies that are
bringing us closer to the brink of climate chaos.
Imagine that reporters investigated and
exposed the deep reluctance and state-corporate obstacles, including the
establishment media, that are blocking alternatives to climate
Armageddon.
Imagine, in other words, that we had a
sane media system. That could just mean the difference between human
survival and human erasure."
The economist billionaires fear: this is how we get a wealth tax - YouTube - Mon, 25 May 2026 13:45:19 +0000
Gary interviewing Gabriel Zucman on wealth taxes and the distribution of the tax burden between the mage rich and the poor.
Nobody Wants To Come To America, Mate - Mon, 18 May 2026 10:31:52 +0000
Professor Jiang Xueqin let Keen do the heavy lifting on the empire
question, then came in with the kill shot dressed up as polite analysis: “If you’re going to see regime change to stop this war, forget about seeing it in Iran. You need to see it in America.” --Pause on that for a second.That
is a Chinese academic, on British television, telling Piers Morgan that
the path to global stability runs not through Tehran but through
Washington. That the bloke in the Oval Office, the geriatric grift
artist with the Diet Coke button and the nuclear codes, is the
destabilising force. Not the Ayatollah. Not Xi. Not Putin. Not Kim. The
bankrupt steak salesman from Queens.And what’s wild is, he’s not wrong.
The Boring Internet | Terry Godier - Thu, 14 May 2026 22:31:51 +0000
Nobody can sell it. Nobody can pivot it. Nobody can take it public and
gut it for shareholders. Nobody can call an all-hands meeting and
explain that, going forward, the protocol will prioritize video.
You’re about to feel the AI money squeeze | The Verge - Fri, 24 Apr 2026 09:02:17 +0000
Gartner forecasts that large AI companies would need to earn cumulatively close to $7 trillion in AI-driven revenue through 2029, which is close to $2 trillion per year by the end of the period. In order to achieve “historic returns,” the providers would need to earn nearly $8.2 trillion in the same period.
Nuclear Genocide – The Threat And The Ceasefire – Media Lens - Sun, 19 Apr 2026 23:27:59 +0000
"Despite all the madness, horror and killing, Trump’s genocidal threat
provoked a display of deep-seated solidarity and compassion that defied
decades of propaganda demonising the Iranian people as ‘animals’,
‘savages’ and ‘primitives’. Clearly, very few of us are willing to
tolerate the threat of nuclear genocide. In these grim times, when it
sometimes feels like humanity has completely lost its way, that is
something to celebrate."
Reading is magic - by Sam Kriss - Numb at the Lodge - Sun, 12 Apr 2026 18:24:15 +0000
Sam Kriss writing on the coming illiteracy might affect politics. It's long so you know only people who read a bit will get to the end, and they prone to agree: "This is not a world we’re prepared for. All democratic politics
assume a literate population; people who are willing to think in
abstract terms about the kind of world they want to live in. Without
that, democracy becomes a kind of tribal headcount, or a struggle for
state resources between competing patronage networks. This is what lies
behind a lot of the growing liberal panic over the decline of literacy.
For a growing chorus of people who write in the Atlantic,
we’re recoiling into pre-Enlightenment conditions of absolute
domination. A population that can no longer think for itself will end up
voluntarily ceding power to strongmen or demagogues. The end of
literacy is the end of public reason. A post-literate world will be
unreasonable, irrational, full of anger and madness, and people eating
each other in the streets."
The Last Quiet Thing | Terry Godier - Fri, 10 Apr 2026 21:47:46 +0000
Your thermostat has opinions now. Your television requires a login. Your
car updates itself overnight, and sometimes when you start it in the
morning, the interface has rearranged itself, as if someone broke in and
reorganized your dashboard while you slept.
Shameless Guesses, Not Hallucinations - Tue, 17 Mar 2026 10:01:58 +0000
I hate the term “hallucinations” for when AIs say false things. It’s perfectly calculated to mislead the reader - to make them think AIs are crazy, or maybe just have incomprehensible failure modes.
AIs say false things for the same reason you do.
At least, I did. In school, I would take multiple choice tests. When I didn’t know the answer to a question, I would guess.