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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 - Sat, 25 Jan 2025 18:59:09 +0000
Content warning:USPol, government by blockchain
I tell you what will really drive US government efficiency: A really slow redundant inefficient database!
I tell you what will really protect important government data: making it all public on a really slow redundant database!
What?
How do you even?
Musk exploring blockchain use in US government efficiency effort
I can see a case for making government finance public, or for having a sign-off for every transaction, but there's no reason at all to do that with any kind of blockchain.
Madness from the so-called government-efficiency department.
Status at - Fri, 24 Jan 2025 00:54:05 +0000
Enjoying the new round of sessions at the improv group. Finally concentrating on more long-form activities.
Getting to make up some actual stories rather than just snippets and scenes and parlor games.
I find playing with and inventing narrative structure more interesting engaging and memorable than the short-form stuff. More room for story flow and slow build than the previous sessions.
Nice to have some of the folks from the previous sessions and the new players seem good and fun too.
I'm not really at my best at the moment for health reasons, but you barely notice that in the group situation anyway. Everyone supporting each other with the whole being more than the sum of it's parts.
Status at - Thu, 23 Jan 2025 00:37:56 +0000
Watched "The Ark", a SyFy show about a space-ship fleeing a doomed Earth, which is damaged by an accident killing half the crew as the rest come out of stasis in the opening scenes.
The science is, uh, not great. Worse than Trek even, just barely even making sense. It sure ain't hard sci-fi.
But its a fun space-opera. The story is pretty engaging and the characters are good archetypes. Captain's dead, everyone on-board seems to have a secret, and everyone's fighting for control and to hide their past. Lots of betrayal and plotting and political maneuvers.
Watched the first two seasons. Seems like they are planning more but that'll have to wait till after the summer presumably.
Status at - Wed, 22 Jan 2025 01:02:23 +0000
Content warning:re: USPol Pardons
Though in probably the only good act Trump will do in his entire term, he has pardoned Ross Ulbricht.
The Dread Pirate from Silk Road is reprieved from his ridiculous excessive two-life-sentences term given at his farcical show-trial.
Status at - Mon, 20 Jan 2025 16:58:53 +0000
Content warning:USPol Pardons
Everyone gets a pardon today! Democrats all pardoned by Biden, Republicans all pardoned by Trump. It's a complete crime reset! A crime jubilee!
Well, except for the whistleblowers, obviously.
Nobody will pardon Snowden or Assange because in the corporate kleptocratic government the only real crime is reporting the crimes.
Status at - Mon, 20 Jan 2025 15:29:58 +0000
Content warning:re: Trump Meme Coin / Melania Meme Coin
There's people saying Trump's worth is 90% in crypto now, that he's a crypto whale, that this coin of his means he's one of the richest people in the world
But really, there's no liquidity in the market at all. Selling 30 million dollars worth yesterday crashed to price 50%.
There's "only" like 50 million dollars there really, not the market-cap of 50 billion.
Which is a nice little earner from nothing but a few scam entries in a distributed database, but isn't really 90% of Trumps real net worth and doesn't actually mean he's a crypto billionaire.
Status at - Sun, 19 Jan 2025 22:08:26 +0000
Content warning:Trump Meme Coin / Melania Meme Coin
Trump's pump meme coin is dropping now, by nearly 50% in an hour so far.
But don't worry, Melania Trump has her own meme coin too in the last couple of hours, and that's sure to pump and then dump too!
What the hell is happening?
🤯
Status at - Sun, 19 Jan 2025 19:50:41 +0000
Content warning:re: TikTok Trump Mafia Protection
Sounds like TikTok have agreed terms, Trump has saved the day. What a glorious day for Trump and TikTok!
His inauguration will surely be the most viral inauguration on TikTok in history. Democrats will get the blame for the ban (Which was initiated by Trump in his last term), Trump will get the glory, America will get half the money, and the USA will get control over their algorithm so it never again allows Bin Laden's speeches about American Imperialism to go viral or promotes anything implying Palestinians are real people.
Hurray for the corporate web. 🙄
Status at - Sun, 19 Jan 2025 18:13:48 +0000
Content warning:TikTok Trump Mafia Protection
Trump:
"I would like the United States to have a 50% ownership position in a joint venture... Keep it in good hands... Without US approval there is no TikTok. With our approval, it's worth hundreds of billions"
It's exactly a kleptocract mafia protection racket.
Nice app you got there. Be a shame if we banned it. We might not ban it if we have 50%. Just half.
Hope Bytedance tells him to go fuck himself, but they almost certainly won't. They'll just cave, give him half like he asks for.
USA is the Mafia man. For reals.
Status at - Sat, 18 Jan 2025 16:58:24 +0000
Some people were worried today that Trump's twitter had been hacked to announce a fake Trump crypto shitcoin scam!
But it turns out it's a genuine Trump crypto shitcoin scam.
The crucial difference being which scammer gets the scam proceeds.
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Bookmarks
Things I have bookmarked lately.An information dark age is upon us. I’m logging off | Stewart Lee | The Guardian - Wed, 22 Jan 2025 20:35:10 +0000
"We can’t let Musk, Zuckerberg and Bezos reshape our reality, and have to
encourage every friend, relative, celebrity and institution to
disconnect from them."
Decentralized Social Media Is the Only Alternative to the Tech Oligarchy - Wed, 22 Jan 2025 20:31:20 +0000
"Zuckerberg, Musk, TikTok CEO Shou Chew, Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, Apple CEO Tim Cook, Google CEO Sundar Pichai, and OpenAI CEO Sam Altman
were all in attendance at Trump’s inauguration Monday. There is now no
major corporate-owned social media platform that is not aligned with
Trump or beholden to him in some way, and nearly every American is on at
least one of these platforms. "
Forum software NodeBB joins the fediverse | TechCrunch - Tue, 21 Jan 2025 18:21:10 +0000
nodeBB joins the Activitypub Fediverse.
Corbyn is being smeared again – this time to stop protests against genocide - Mon, 20 Jan 2025 12:04:53 +0000
"I was an eyewitness to events on Saturday. The
Metropolitan police are lying when they claim the ex-Labour leader and
MP John McDonnell forced their way through a police cordon"
Is the UK government bankrupt? - YouTube - Sun, 12 Jan 2025 11:59:54 +0000
Gary doesn't want to panic us, but says things which seem fairly panic-worthy anyway. When government interest payments are higher than economic growth plus inflation, debt spirals out of control. And with recent interest rate rises (the rates market will pay for government debt) this is happening.Two options he reckons: Emergency cuts, or emergency taxes. He's expecting emergency austerity and a continuing failure to tax the super rich.He doesn't mention what I think I'd be doing: Just mint new money and pay off the debt completely with it. Presumably that'd be even worse for some reason.
Elon Musk and the right’s war on Wikipedia - Fri, 03 Jan 2025 08:45:29 +0000
Molly explains what Elon and the right hate about the wiki: "This resilience against control helps explain why figures like Musk find Wikipedia so infuriating. They can buy platforms, threaten lawsuits, or pressure advertisers, but they cannot simply purchase or coerce control over Wikipedia."
eternity - Sam kriss - Mon, 30 Dec 2024 00:48:23 +0000
Sam kriss having some sort of time crisis, mentions a point: "Time has been going for just under fourteen billion years, which sounds like a while, but that’s less than two years for every human being on Earth. Collectively, we’ve lived the entire history of the universe since the beginning of 2023."
biocubes: an inventory of biomass and technomass - Sun, 29 Dec 2024 19:04:46 +0000
Human constructions weigh more than all the life on the planet put together these folks reckon. And mostly made in our lifetime. - Nice animated presentation.
How to survive the broligarchy: 20 lessons for the post-truth world | Carole Cadwalladr | The Guardian - Sat, 28 Dec 2024 00:24:31 +0000
Carol Cadwallar thinks it's the end of surveillance capitalism, it's surveillance fascism now: "My experience of “discovery” – handing over 40,000 emails, messages,
documents to the legal team of the Brexit donor I’d investigated – left
me paralysed and terrified. Think what a hostile legal team would make
of your message history. This can and will happen... In the broligarchy, every data point is a weapon. Download Signal, the encrypted messaging app. Turn on disappearing messages."
Will we ever trust robots? - Tue, 24 Dec 2024 09:51:56 +0000
a company making butler bots: "expects the first release of Alfie to handle only about 20% of tasks on his own. The rest will be assisted by a Prosper team of “remote assistants,” at least some of them based in the Philippines, who will have the ability to remotely control Alfie’s movements." - your butler robot is a corporate spy, like every other device these days