Index on Dalliance

A new king is corronated, I release two cartoons, AI’s progress continues, and the usual pile of links and stuff.

It’s been on my list to automate more of the compilation of the monthly newsletter for a while.

During April my new short films premiered at the Kino event, my wordy tarot decks finally hit Amazon so I did a reading about leaving twitter, and we continued to talk about AI and Decentralization of social media as the monarch prepares get a new hat whi…

When his band broke up during Lockdown, Pre spent a lot of time playing with himself.

A lovely holiday with my parents, the GPT4 release sparks more AI conversation, the Fediverse continues to grow, and I have a date for the first public screening of my new Starship film!

My mother wants a new computer and a new tablet and wants me to set them up for her since she doesn’t really know how to like, log in.

A month with a flat full of boxes, but all the kick-starter packages got packed up and sent out in time for my 50th birthday party.

I’ve been working on the animation, playing with Godot and Stable Diffusion, and fighting with banks while the UK government risks the union to insist it decides how Scotland should assess gender.

December was full of strikes, and of starting delivery of the Kickstarter rewards, and of Christmas and New Year.

March Update: All steam ahead.

Mastodon is software for talking to people on the internet.

My kickstarter ran through all November, finishing with just under 200 people pledging just under 12k between them.

The story is here, but here’s the transcript of writing it with the AI.

A chat with the new OpenAI chatbot getting it to help me write a story.

Calkey is a open-source microblogging server that uses ActivityPub.

This month an unelected leader took over and made massive stupid changes which risked the future of the whole thing.

There seems to be another wave of people coming through to join the Fediverse, and it’s at this time that it’s traditional in the community to write a blog post filled with tips and hints and metaphors to help all the newbies understand what the hell is g…

Congratulations to Richie Sunak on being appointed to run the king’s country.

This month the queen died, pretty much as I got on a plane to Peru.

As the monarch died, I boarded a plane bound for Peru and spent the mourning period having Peruvian adventures instead of being stuck at home with nothing but Mourn-Hub on TV.

This month I’ve been doing some test screenings for my next big VR film.

The month started with mass resignations and is ending with a new leadership contest.

My ribs healed just in time, thanks for your concern.

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.

The drama this month was mostly online with the reaction to Musk deciding to buy Twitter.

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.

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: I wrote a few paragraphs on web3 and identity and Moxie’s web3 post.

On last week’s episode, we had finally found a way to glue and screw a frame together from the fans and perspex windows.

Social Some stuff from my microblog on the fediverse: A comment on the UK re-fortifying it’s drug war.

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.

Someone mentioned the Haven protocol and I didn’t know what it was.

Someone asked if I thought bitcoin would work out.

I have a new toy, it’s a hand-sized synth and looper.

Social The war with the squirrels continues.

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…

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 presents including a lovely new plasma-ball added to…

Left my pinephone unpowered for weeks.

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 a…

Social My band played an online gig which went okay, though sending to Youtube failed.

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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

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 Liste…

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…

Dalliance.net Personal Page StarshipSD.com VR sci fi cartoons WordcloudTarot.com The meanings of the cards are written on the cards in a wordcloud.

The social networks are, almost every single one, centralized spying machines run by surveillance capitalists, designed to profile you and manipulate you on behalf of their customers the advertisers.

I own the new company dalliance.network and I own it 100%.

I just got this weird email from a new address I seem to own.

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