May started off with a bang and a big holiday in Portugal with lots of friends, but I broke my rib on the waterslide and then spent the rest of the month mostly in recovery not able to lie down to sleep. Sill, recovered enough to do some animation work and sing a song by…
Read more May 2022 Digest – Broke my rib on a waterslide in Portugal
I went on holiday for a week and bloody-hell what have you all being doing with the #markets while I was away? #btc #bitcoin #luna #crypto #nasdaq #capitalism🧵 LunaIn the “crypto” casino, another shit-coin has collapsed to zero again. Someone noticed that they could do to Luna/UST what Soros did to the bank of England…
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The drama this month was mostly online with the reaction to Musk deciding to buy Twitter. The flood of newbies into the Fediverse, the complaints of the people losing followers on Twitter, economic and political and social analysis. He sure does get people talking. Spent a few nights with friends, but I spent most of…
I did some foreign travel, ate a ton of chocolate, got fat, won an award against a background of mass job-sackings and city-sackings and financial-hackings. Me Some stuff from my microblog on the fediverse: War in the internet age is weird, it’s on zoom and social media while television channels get banned. I went to…
It’s been a good month if you don’t count the outbreak of war, continuing pandemic, threat of nuclear disaster or any of that stuff. Me Some stuff from my microblog on the fediverse: When Facebook threatened to leave Europe, there was a chorus of “Yes please” from all over the web, I was quoted to…
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Me Some stuff from my microblog on the fediverse: I wrote a few paragraphs on web3 and identity and Moxie’s web3 post. I found out how to turn of the annoying web-search in the windows11 task-bar My drains got blocked and I did a tarot reading about it before actually managing to fix it myself…
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On last week’s episode, we had finally found a way to glue and screw a frame together from the fans and perspex windows. Having built the window it’s time to cut a hole. You start with a template. And then you drill a small hole. But find the drill’s battery is flat so you can’t…
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Social Some stuff from my microblog on the fediverse: * A comment on the UK re-fortifying it’s drug war. * Pointing out forcing people into rehab doesn’t work. * Sometimes a broken clock tells the wrong time for 2 minutes an hour * Building a window for my server-cupboard * Things the press do and…
Social * I got a new musical toy, watch me play Zombie with the little palm-sized synth * Wrote a blog on some thoughts about the future of Bitcoin * I can’t buy any Oculus games now I’m locked out of Facebook * Some progress made on my latest VR Cartoon. * Complaining about people…
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Someone mentioned the Haven protocol and I didn’t know what it was. Sometimes I look into some of these sorts of things a bit. Let’s have a look at this one. What does their documentation say? https://havenprotocol.org/knowledge/how-does-haven-work/ To Paraphrase, if we call Haven “X” for short, “Owning xCoin lets you convert your xCoin into xAssets…
Someone asked if I thought bitcoin would work out. Lightly edited, I replied that: It depends on what is “work out” is I guess. Will it be a life-boat in a sinking economy as the pound and the dollar crash into nothing and socialist-fascism takes over the whole globe except for bitcoin citadels in what…
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I have a new toy, it’s a hand-sized synth and looper. It’s fun look! Same video, multiple places. Who knows what they’ll delete you for. On Odysee: On Youtube
Social * The war with the squirrels continues. More engineers called out to fix their damage. * Commented about an article suggesting Facebook are in trouble coz their audience is aging and quitting and the cool kids are joining. * And indeed I finally finished leaving Facebook myself. This won’t be posted there. * Captain…
Social The company I work for got an innovation award from the queen I talked about my Thursday-night pringles-and-primula sandwich tradition I wondered about the EU wanting up scan all your uploads B3ta’s photoshop competition “Make TV more British” was hilarious. I complained about complaints about measuring standards. Using my new speaker, I can play…
I was pleased there was a new campaign released for VR game Pistol Whip I also cycled to the absolute range-limit of my e-bike for a picnic I had lunch with my parents in Ruby and finally collected Xmas presentsincluding a lovely new plasma-ball added to my lighting corner My band broke up 🙁 –…
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Left my pinephone unpowered for weeks. I think the battery died? I replaced the battery and then it isn’t booting any more so I have to reinstall. And wow, this page is terrible. I don’t even know what an eMMC is, or what the difference between an installer-image and a prebuilt-image is, I don’t know…
Read more Installing Mobian on a Pinephone
I added some eyes to my lights-controller and then later I made it compose Artificial Intelligence Subgenius rants I ranted about being a casualty in the war with the robots I went to see a Doctor Who Interactive Theatre show It subsequently flooded and all future performances were cancelled. Sorry. It was great though. I…
Social My band played an online gig which went okay, though sending to Youtube failed. So you had to be there. I failed at watching BBCQT because it’s too terrible I noticed the media studiously not noticing things about Julian Assange. I published the email-list manager app for nextcloud I’ve been working on I had…
Social I voted I edited audio together for a new cartoon The queens speech is terrifying My lava-lamp flipped me the bird, so I replied in kind I gushed about Max and Stacy I fell over playing VR I was invaded by magic drunken wasps Reading Amanda Palmer’s “Art Of Asking” is her autobiography and…
Social It is compulsory to lie to children, the government remind us I updated my homepage to include all my projects up front I looked for some voice actors Got curious about stock prices 20 years apart Learned how to rescue books from Amazon’s DRM Listened to a lot of audition recordings Ranted about user…
Social Learning to drink coffee Ranting about how stupid None-Fungible-Tokens are in the crypto-space Escaping from google Worrying about cops guarding statues more than they guard people Reading Media Lens’s review of Peter Oborne’s book Updating you on coffee drinking Listening to someone chat with AI-engine GPT-3 Playing an online gig with my band Defending…
I own the new company dalliance.network and I own it 100%. But, it is a legal entity whereas in contrast I am an actual person. Legal entities may have beliefs, arguably, but even if they do those beliefs are not the same as the people who make up the legal entity. The Dalliance Network is…
Read more Disclaimer: My opinions and those of dalliance.network are not the same.
I just got this weird email from a new address I seem to own. I think that means I got the job! The boss sounds like a bastard. You know that “Stealth mode” stuff when really it’s just “I’ve no idea what I’m doing, just put anything up for now”. The people you have to…
A video in which Adam receives the initial test-print of the World Cloud Tarot card-deck and looks through the cards, doing their first ever reading in which we find that the world of tarot was indolent and lazy, and should be worried right now because the Word Cloud Tarot deck is here, and will bedevil…
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The King of Wands is an inventor, a financial founder. Innovative in business, but multi-dimensional, also filled with eloquence and likeability. He’s adaptive and his idealism leads to success, and other things listed here on this card for those who can read. https://wordcloudtarot.com/wands/14-wands-king/
The Queen of Wands is a fun loving mothering unbridled dynamic seductress. Her respectfulness and enthusiasm and exuberance are proudly confident. Lots of other things describe her, as can be read on this card in actual words. https://wordcloudtarot.com/wands/13-wands-queen/
The Knight of Wands is a risk-taker filled with energy and power and has aspirations and anticipations of criminal amounts of leisure. Among many other things you can read on this card. https://wordcloudtarot.com/wands/12-wands-knight/
The Page of wands is a Free Thinking and Powerful Rebel, facing Adversity and Despair, Braving Unhealthy Mindsets and Foolhardy Materialism with Fearlessness Ethics and Hedonist Passion. https://wordcloudtarot.com/wands/11-wands-page/
The ten of wands is called Oppression, and features our alien Enslaved and Bound in Chains, Stuck with Injustice and Coping with Repression.https://wordcloudtarot.com/wands/10-wands-oppression/
The nine of wands is Manifest, and our aliens pulls a rabbit from a hat. His discipline is powerful and insatiable. His lust and infatuation are courageous and vibrant. https://wordcloudtarot.com/wands/9-wands-manifest/
The eight of wands is Swiftness, and our alien is pictured running behind words like freedom and consciousness and interpersonal telecommunications that portent a radical destination . https://wordcloudtarot.com/wands/8-wands-swiftness/
The seven of wands is Valour, and our alien gets a Medal as an Award for Patience and Honesty when he Fought in Combat, facing Difficulty and finding Opportunities. https://wordcloudtarot.com/wands/7-wands-valour/
The alien signs a “V” for victory, signalling the Successful Fruition of his Endeavour, his Influence and Self Confidence have grown, he is a Contemporary Ruler, who through Revolution has Achieved Attainment, and lots of other things you can read on the card. https://wordcloudtarot.com/wands/6-wands-victory/
The five of wands is called Strife, and the magical power of Wands finds itself in a struggle and a quarrel against Swords. The battle will be disruptive, filled with violence and squabble.https://wordcloudtarot.com/wands/5-wands-strife/
Our alien Ceremoniously and Dynamically Celebrates as he marks off another task from his todo list. He’s Alive with Effort and Interconnectedness. https://wordcloudtarot.com/wands/4-wands-completion/
The three of Wands is Virtue, our alien’s Brilliant Bright halo lights up the words behind him like Preparation and Knowledge and Prudence and Piety and Conscious Control. https://wordcloudtarot.com/wands/3-wands-virtue/
The two of wands is Dominion, and the Wands alien stands at his research table, planning his strategy in the kingdom’s dispute, ways to cause or solve instability and imbalance and perhaps cause some equanimity. https://wordcloudtarot.com/wands/2-wands-dominion/
THE LAST SUIT! I’ve started the LAST SUIT! Only thirteen more to go now. The ace of wands is the birth of a magician, clutching his wand with impetus and originality and power and mystery and drama and lots of other things written on the cards. https://wordcloudtarot.com/wands/1-wands-ace/
The King of Swords is a mediator, filled with integrity and practising state-craft. His aspiration is to consult and appease and his passion is honest and enthusiastic. He is also many other things, as you can read from this Worldcloud Tarot card. https://wordcloudtarot.com/swords/14-swords-king/
The Queen of Swords is a smart advisor, an employer and wealthy passionate enlightened mentor. She’s also many other things, as you can read from the worldcloud tarot card. https://wordcloudtarot.com/swords/13-swords-queen/
The Knight of Swords is courageous and stringent and scrupulous and empathic and fun loving and passionate but also snarky. He lifts his sword aloft ready for battle. https://wordcloudtarot.com/swords/12-swords-knight/
The page of swords presents his weapon ceremoniously. The card represents devout sleepless intrigue and passionate but rational concern, among all the other things easily read from the card. https://wordcloudtarot.com/swords/11-swords-page/
The tenth swords card is called Ruin and features the Swords alien, head in hands, sitting in a ruin. It represents heartache and agony and inability and crisis and backstabbing humanness.Plus a bunch of other things easily surmised by reading the words in the cloud. https://wordcloudtarot.com/swords/10-swords-ruin/
The nine of swords is “Cruelty”, and our alien shows his colours by torturing a puppy. He’s brutal and treacherous and worryingly deceitful, the puppy afraid and anxious and afraid. https://wordcloudtarot.com/swords/9-swords-cruelty/
The eight of swords is named Interference, and as you can read is as much about self sabotage as restriction and hindrances and unanticipated obstruction. In the image our alien’s sword is interfered with and warped by Wand’s magic powers. https://wordcloudtarot.com/swords/8-swords-interference/
Like Sisyphys, our alien is faced with an impossible futile task on the seven of swords. He faces it with fatalism, wishful tactical direction and the paranoia of stupidity, plus many other things behind him as he pushes his stone once again to the top of his hill. https://wordcloudtarot.com/swords/7-swords-futility/
The six of swords is named “Science”, and represents technology and maths and clarity and thinking as you can read on the card here. You can also see our Swords alien doing some actual science with beakers and glowing liquids. https://wordcloudtarot.com/swords/6-swords-science/
The five of Swords is defeat, and the Swords alien lies dead on the floor, stabbed in the back. The card represents disorder, quarrels, treachery, arrogance and loss and murderous spite as well as many other things written onto the card. https://wordcloudtarot.com/swords/5-swords-defeat/
A sneak preview of the Wands alien appears early here at the four of swords, known as truce. For it is with the Wands alien that our Swords alien makes his truce. There is a negotiation, agreement, a fortuitous peace between them and and also written in words behind them. https://wordcloudtarot.com/swords/4-swords-truce/
Swords and war and fighting often cause sorrow, and so the three of swords is called Sorrow. Our poor alien is also feeling sad, filled with loneliness, frustrations, headaches and woes, and many other things easily read from the words on the card if not from his expression.
