if your goal is a house on the hill and a book deal and an HBO mini series — the honest truth is that the best advice for new creators in 2024 isn’t “create great content” or “show up.”
It’s “be famous for something else first.”
And if that sounds depressing… well, welcome to the attention economy.
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会議は“まき”でお願いします この作品を香港のハーバーシティで展示しています。 This work exhibit at Harbour City in Hong Kong.
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8x8 Font Advent Calendar 2024 Day 21
Shadow of the Beast ZXCPC
Shadow of the Beast was a gorgeous atmospheric Amiga game that struggled to fit into less powerful machines.
The Amstrad CPC and ZX Spectrum versions while graphically constrained did however include this gorgeous 8x8 bitmap font.
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#adventoffonts #bitmapfont #amstradcpc #zxspectrum
Today's threads (a thread)
Inside: Proud to be a blockhead; and more!
Archived at: pluralistic.net/2024/12/21/blo…
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"Being read and being part of a community and a conversation matters a lot to me. But the very act of writing is so important to me that even if no one read me, I would still write."
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Amen to that.
I totally identify with everything you say in this piece. I never saw metrics for Disintermedia until I reestablished my lemonade stand on SubStack. I only see metrics from there because it shoves them in my face, and I haven't figured out how to turn them off.
"Artists who are recruited to make new pink slime are given reference links to existing pink slime and ordered to replicate it as closely as possible. The tracks produced this way that do the best are then fed to the next group of musicians to replicate, and so on."
#CoryDoctorow, 2024
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Frankenstein's music *shudder*.
I guess this is all being done by a generative algorithm now? Or as I prefer to call it, a Trained #MOLE : )
BREAKING NEWS:
Reports of an attack in Yemen.
Most likely NOT an Israeli attack.
Probably a US and British strike in Sana’a
#AureFreePress #News #press #headline #Yemen #USA #Breaking #BreakingNews
In fact full text search *is* enabled for my account, or as I like to put it, "I run Mastodon with the PVP flag on"
That sound's like an insecure, dementia ridden unhinged VP to me.
My America?
What a sad statement.
You morons voted for Trumpistan.
And got Muskatonia.
While learning about Celery task queues, I wanted to figure out how to store custom metadata for tasks in a database. Here's a blog post on my solution. #Python #PythonDev #WebDevbryananthonio.com/blog/custom-...
T-Boy Wrestling is an event for trans wrestlers of any skill level and any expression of trans masculinity.
pride.com/trans/t-boy-wrestlin…
#transgender #trans #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA
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My latest. I wanted to take today off but I think more Americans need to know this before it's forgotten by tomorrow. "Elon Musk and JD Vance's Support of Germany's Nazi-Loving AfD Party Should Be Much Bigger News" …
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