Category: Ideas

An open source full-size arcade cabinet which allows users to play a range of open source games. Obviously users could also add their own ROMs. Example list of open source games; https://osgameclones.com/

The fact that we don’t already have widely available open source tts executables for Max Headroom and Majel Roddenberry is perhaps the greatest failure of the artificial intelligence movement to date. Frankly I think it’s insane that this isn’t already a thing. Enter Vall-E which can create TTS models of someone based on just a… Continue reading Text-To-Speech Max Headroom and Majel Roddenberry

Create brand names for a distributed fabrication company specializing in making all sorts of personalized custom things to order using the following sorts of techniques;-Laser cut metal for things like business cards-3D printed personalized chotchkies and office desk ornaments-Custom tee shirts and other clothingThe firm will focus on designs for LGBTQ people which highlight queer… Continue reading Ask AI to name a personalized custom fabrication company

I recently spent several weeks off-grid at communist permaculture farms in Tennessee, dozens of which orbit around places like Short Mountain. I talked at some length with people there about the need for a completely off-grid instant messaging solution which does not rely on the internet or any traditional infrastructure. One of the ideas we… Continue reading Cyberpony Express

Building on my ongoing work on Ourspace, I think it’s important to consider a whole range of alternative apps formatted just like major products on the market. Ourspace itself would be format agnostic. It’s a general purpose content distribution and sharing platform and protocol. But you could easily build a version of it which looks… Continue reading OurSpace Examples: OurTube, OurTok, etc

a web gateway protocol that automatically fetches the DNSLink for any c-name pointed at the server and then locally replicates that site and serves it when requested these could easily be round robined by adding redundant c-names to different gateways for your domain. The protocol could be limited to file types like html, css, js,… Continue reading round robin ipfs over http

I think in many cases there are fundamental epistemic differences between people of different ideologies, and we need to learn to distinguish those kinds of claims from bad faith claims. Like if a trump supporter says he’s coming back in August, they really believe that to be true. And that’s different from Putin’s fake newspapers… Continue reading Fake News?

As a queer nonbinary person who is wrestling with whether or not to embrace post-structuralism, it’s been very interesting over the years to hear so many arguments from fans of queer theory against things like hate crimes legislation or even marriage equality. One of the more obvious arguments has been the fact that marriage equality… Continue reading Does post-structuralism merely extend the hegemony of neoclassicalism?

A screen which changes perspective with regard to how you’re looking at it versus what it’s showing inside a virtual world where it’s virtual correspondent is. So if it’s easier looking at it from the right side then it should show you what it would look like if you were actually looking through a window… Continue reading Looking Glass

A distributed alternative social media system based on RSS over IPFS and using BitTorrent to distribute media attachments. Use something like ENS to resolve usernames to a wallet public address and corresponding RSS feed file of their posts. People could easily restrict their feed to only be viewable to friends, like how TOX works, and… Continue reading OurSpace