Posts

A listing of all long-form posts published to-date. Herein, you'll find my thoughts on concepts, ideas, politics, and more.

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VAAK: 37 Days Later

In continuing work on VAAK, which has been progressing each day, every day. Sort of, kind of going over a lot of the same issues until the wrinkles are flattened out, while others spring up for the first time, or once again (the fediverse being tons and tons of different...
published October 12, 2026
#tech #programming #socialmedia
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Valerie's Complex: The MineCraft Server, Returns

A while back, I shut my Minecraft server off, and moved onto other projects. Mostly because I needed to save some money. But, that was before I shuffled my bills around and canceled a bunch of stuff I didn’t need. Even so, it remained pretty much gone for a while....
published September 28, 2026
#minecraft #gaming #server
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VAAK: My Little Two and a Half Week Old Fediverse App

Welcome to the world of using Mastodon, Akkoma, GoToSocial and deciding that none of them do all of the things I’ve always wanted to do with software on the fediverse. All of them having strengths, and also weaknesses, and taking years to implement features. This goes doubly hard for Mastodon....
published September 9, 2026
#socialmedia #tech #code #projects #vaak
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Second Life: Another Retrospective of the Past Twelve Years

Recently, I wrote about how I was “shutting down” my store and moving on from Second Life, potentially, indefinitely. That much was basically true, and my store still exists as something you can find on the marketplace website (REVOSA)… where all of its sales happen, anyway. And, as my vacation...
published September 2, 2026
#secondlife #virtualstores #metaverse
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mkultra.monster Now Acts as a Single-User ActivityPub Instance

It was wild, it was nuts, it was the most ambitious project ever! It was refined urani–er, I mean. The backend of this website is now running, and you read that correctly, running, ActivityPub. What the hell? What the heck? What do you MEAN this website is running ActivityPub? This...
published August 28, 2026
#activitypub #socialmedia #blogged
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Twitter Returns, Uhm ... That's the Post

Although many people still call “X” by its birthname, the … original rightsholders? Or, something? Have decided to launch a new app by the name of “twitter.now,” promising that we’re about to “take back the town square” and that it belongs to us! A familiar line of branding that you’ve...
published August 27, 2026
#social-media #twitter #twitter2 #bluesky
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Her Name Was Emma

I listen to a lot of true crime. Most of the time while I’m driving. Occasionally, Youtube will toss some content of a similar nature into my “suggestions” (if you can call them that), and suddenly it’ll have me watching police interrogation videos of numerous types of criminals. And then,...
published August 24, 2026
#trans #murder #missingperson #truecrime #justice
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New Server: CMPLXTUBE, a Peertube Instance

As one or two people may know, along with others that have seen it in passing, I’ve been trying to make it a regular thing to start streaming my gameplay on stream.place. Why? Because it makes gaming feel like it’s less “by myself”, you know? And I wanted to set...
published August 18, 2026
#peertube #streaming #gameplay #server #infosec
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It's Time to Get Parasocial, or ... Paralives?

The Sims has been a franchise that’s been with me since the mid to late 90s. A thing that started, for me, with one of the very first SimCity games, on a school PC in a computer lab. This was before The Sims was even a glimmer in anyone’s eyes,...
published August 17, 2026
#sims #life-sim #nostalgia #online #parasocial
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VAL3R1E: The AI Assisted Music Project, and What's This All About?

So, I’m sure a lot of people, or at least some people, remain apprehensive. Some probably angry, banging their fists against a wall, plopping some deuces on the ground, or what-have-you. That’s fine, as long as I don’t have see it. But as someone who’s been making music for eleven...
published August 11, 2026
#ai #experiment #fediverse #llms #bluesky