kalloway @kalloway@fedibird.com

Just had a platform survey me about the #AI features I'd like to see them add. My response was loud and clear:

I need to be able to disable AI features completely. My MSAs have rules governing the use of AI. If your platform can't disable it, many companies are not going to be able to use your software and stay legally compliant.

Feature #1 should be the off switch.

Please share this loudly everywhere.

Because of the you-know-what-site ban, many people from Brazil are moving to Mastodon, including Artists, so let's do an Art Share for them only! Let's help them get the boost they need around here!

ARTISTS FROM BRAZIL
- In the comments, introduce yourself and show your art!

PEOPLE NOT FROM BRAZIL
- Boost this post and the ones from brazilian artists in the comments!

#Brazil #ArtShare #Art

Judge orders X ban in Brazil
https://www.theverge.com/2024/8/30/24231286/x-brazil-ban-elon-musk-legal-representative?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

Posted into The Verge @the-verge-theverge

Priorities. So important.

- Petition to keep video games playable by forcing the publishers to NOT remove essential functions: 302.000 signatures in less than a month. [1]

- Petition to tax the rich and keep our planet inhabitable: 271.000 signatures after 10 months. [2]

If you care about playing your games, please also support the other petition to make sure you still can do that and many other things, ok? :)

[1] https://eci.ec.europa.eu/045/public/#/screen/home
[2] https://eci.ec.europa.eu/038/public/#/screen/home

#JFFTheatre has five films (two movies, two documentaries and an anime) available free for streaming until the end of Sept (for two) or the end of Oct (the other 3) #JapaneseFilm

https://en.jff.jpf.go.jp/

Vintage art for a Chesapeake & Ohio Rail Road calendar by Charles Bracker! So sweet. The sleeping kitty is "Chessie", one of the most successful cat advertising mascots of the 20th century. https://www.ripleyauctions.com/auction-lot/four-charles-bracker-vintage-railroad-art-calenda_2CE9A72FB0/

SO excited to announce that the #32bitcafe is launching our monthly newsletter, 32-BIT CAFE BYTES!

you can expect:

* 32-Bit Cafe community updates, including any announcements and launches
* Discourse-specific updates
* most popular forum threads of the month
* discussion questions of the week
* calls for volunteers for projects
* upcoming events
* blog posts, either written by 32-Bit Cafe members or outside the community, that talk about the personal web and subjects related to our community mission
* featuring websites of our members

i'm so excited about this, so forgive my plugging! :) keep up with what we're doing in the cafe to help spread the good word of #webdev as a hobby, get more folks building their own #website, and bringing creativity and self-expression back to our web use again!

you'll have our inaugural newsletter in your inbox this weekend if you subscribe by august 31st! 👀

https://listmonk.32bit.cafe/subscription/form

#HTML #css #code #coding #neocities #smallweb #personalweb #indieweb #smolweb #internet #webdesign

For folks who like maintaining fandom wikis, consider migrating to or starting a wiki on miraheze or another non-profit or fan-friendly wiki platform!

Fandom dot com has tried to trademark the word fandom ( ), has known instances of deleting sections of legit user-submitted text for their internal goals, inserts countless ads all over the place, and ultimately profits off exploiting fan labor. Read this statement by Hollow Knight fandom for more details: https://hollowknight.fandom.com/wiki/Hollow_Knight_Wiki:Moving_from_Fandom

Miraheze.org is run by volunteers and sustained by user donations just like many Fediverse instances. Miraheze allows you to host an ad-free wiki.

Wiki.gg was established in opposition to Fandom platform. It features ads, but most if not all are ads for the games partnered with indie game publisher Freedom Games, meaning the ad experience is a lot friendlier.

There are also options for self-hosting and participating in wiki alliances for those who would like to explore that route.

Examples of fan wikis:

https://hollowknight.wiki/w/Hollow_Knight_Wiki

https://themagnusprotocol.miraheze.org/wiki/The_Magnus_Protocol_Wiki

#fandom #wiki

I've been searching for this desperately since I left twitter, she finally reposted it over on Bluesky.

https://bsky.app/profile/eunnieboo.bsky.social/post/3ktj4owidrt2s

The original 2019 post can be found here.

https://eunnieboo.tumblr.com/post/184192579421/pink-in-the-night

Pink in the Nigh 2019 (alt text by Eunnie, the artist)

I made a list of licensed JP BL novels here:

https://www.dreamwidth.org/captcha?returnto=https://geraineon.dreamwidth.org/280010.html

Let me know if I'm missing anything!

NEW ZINE NEW ZINE EVERYBODY GET YOUR NEW ZINE

Volume IV of my zine series exploring the wide world of women and gender-expansive filmmakers is now available, these are a lot of work and I am proud of them on their own but also it's very nice when people buy them!

https://www.etsy.com/listing/1769503294/women-filmmaker-zine-vol-iv

#film #art #zine #cinemastodon #movies #illustration #MastoArt

Cross-posting to all my accounts for maximum exposure.
Netflix has acquired Studio Ghibli’s ‘Grave of the Fireflies’.
They are marketing it as a heartwarming film.
Reader, it is not a heartwarming film. Unless you are Uncle Fester from the Addams Family.
I have seen it once. I have no desire to ever see it again. In that regard it shares the same company as ‘Schindler’s List’ and the BBC drama ‘Threads’.
Please take note.

Heyyo ! After a lot of time i finally finished this texte of the #FanPrompt of 4 august because I tried to write it in Wallon, the language that was spoken by my grandparent in wallonia lol

They may be errors in it because i'm mostly self-taught but here it is :

https://archiveofourown.org/works/58173121

But don't worry @fanprompt , because i posted the translation in english : https://archiveofourown.org/works/58504084

Enjoy this small little texte :)

OP went to Mercari’s Things with Unknown Names Exhibit (ended today), which featured the real but little known names of some common items. The best: a crab meat puller, whose full Japanese name is 蟹甲殻類大腿部歩脚身取出器具 (kani koukakurui daitaibu hokyaku mitoridashi kigu).

#japan #unseenjapan #japanese

Multifandom: Small Web September
Find out more: https://www.dreamwidth.org/captcha?returnto=https://fandomcalendar.dreamwidth.org/1093924.html

Hey fellow #SmallWeb and #IndieWeb peeps! Has anyone else been looking for motivation to work on indie web/coding/archiving things? Well, I'm running an event, Small Web September, over on DW - hosted at the excellent smallweb comm, run by @kalloway!

It's a chill event open to small web projects of every kind - including those you haven't made yet! We'd love to have anyone who's interested, and you can join in at any time. All the details can be found here: https://www.dreamwidth.org/captcha?returnto=https://smallweb.dreamwidth.org/2335.html