Jason @jk@librem.one

I'm SO happy with my inaugural streaming experience tonight on #MakerTube. It went very smoothly and I highly encourage others to consider streaming there. Makertube is specifically for makers, musicians, artist and DIYers. It's very small right now, but laden with potential.

I am doubly impressed that I can embed the stream and chat on my own website. Anyone with a Fediverse account can sign in to chat.

I'm ecstatic about the future. I feel like I'm home. I'm finally free of Twitch. Whew!!

For anyone unaware, Google Chrome is currently rolling out an update that track your interests based on browsing history, then share them with 3rd party websites. The notification page makes it sound like they added a new privacy feature, but in actuality they've automatically enrolled you into their tracking system and you have to go and manually opt out.

Not only have I now made the new MIDISID design in black but I've been able to buy the black aluminium encoder knobs once more. Beautiful!
https://peacockmedia.software/midisid/

To help us raise more funds for our development efforts, we are launching a new line of merchandise for Mastodon including t-shirts, mugs, enamel pins, and stickers.

https://blog.joinmastodon.org/2023/07/new-merchandise/

My favourite rewards are the Real River Trip and the Be Our Motor levels. Read them and imagine what it must be like to take a circus down the Mississippi on a makeshift boat.
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/rivercircus/flotsam-river-circus-mississippi-river-tour

NEW ARTICLE: Cartoonishly Evil CEO Is 'Very Disturbed' Screenwriters and Actors Expect to Be Paid Fairly for Their Work
 
Disney's Bob Iger took time away from a billionaires' conference to complain about how Hollywood's striking unions are being unrealistic.
 
Read: https://open.substack.com/pub/colehaddon/p/cartoonishly-evil-ceo-is-very-disturbed?r=1mimd1&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web

#WGAstrike #WGAstrong #WGA #sagaftra #sagaftrastrike #SAGstrike #unionstrong #Hollywood #Disney #screenwriting #screenwriter

'Screenwriting Tales: The F@cked-Up Amount of Free Work It Takes to (Not) Sell Something in Hollywood Today'
 
Or: that time a studio told me to spec a TV pilot for it even though I had an A-list actor attached to the project
 
"The Writers Guild of America is currently on strike, in part, because it’s impossible to build or sustain a career in a system as broken as this."
 
https://open.substack.com/pub/colehaddon/p/screenwriting-tales-the-fcked-up?r=1mimd1&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web

#WGA #WGAstrong #WGAstrike #screenwriting #screenwriter #writing #writingcommunity #amwriting

80s blank cassette aesthetics are untouchable

Thank you for being here and being a part of growing the #fediverse the way we want it together.

"If cats could talk to cops, they wouldn't"
Sticker seen in Portland, Oregon

Thanks to efforts by volunteers Nosamu and bai0, the Internet Archive's flash emulation just jumped generations ahead.

Mute/Unmute works. The screen resizes based on the actual animation's information. And for a certain group who will flip their lid:

We can do multi-swf flash now!

A pile of previously "broken" flashes will join the collection this week.

https://archive.org/details/softwarelibrary_flash

This is a short update on #MakerTube which got launched a week ago. It's a peertube video platform dedicated to #makers, #musicians, #artists and #diy content creators.

Changes since last week:
+77 users
+96 video uploads

I call this a great start! I also got funding until end of August, thanks a lot to the donors!

If you like the idea of an independent video platform please consider making a #donation at https://liberapay.com/MakerTube
Every penny counts!

Find the site here https://makertube.net

🎶🐦🎺 https://thekidshouldseethis.com/post/dawn-chorus-bird-puppets-jazz-george-wu

In the #shortfilm titled The #DawnChorus, a #jazz quintet celebrates avian #morning #song with “a mix of high-end style alongside playful #puppetry inspired by Alexander Calder, fingerbobs, and simple #automata.”

#video #birds #music #play #instruments

Rob off of the @themagpi shared their most favourite typo ever, then Jack at Pi Towers followed up with this visual assist.

The typo was: "Single bard computer."