It's live! New single on Bandcamp
https://frontalot.bandcamp.com/track/common-loot-feat-mcgwire
With playable music video RPG:
https://frontalot.com/loot
'Decimate' means much more today than it did in ancient Rome
https://www.kpbs.org/news/international/2026/05/01/decimate-means-much-more-today-than-it-did-in-ancient-rome?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
Posted into Podcasts @podcasts-KPBSPublicMedia
@silverpill @julian @fedimtl @ozoned @reiver @johannab @j12t @paige @mayel In this case, yes! I was only briefly in this session, and I didn't talk about Web Monetization.
SWF received money from ILF to work on four research projects: Fediverse sustainability, creator economy, cooperatives, and Web Monetization in multimedia Fediverse apps. We're not a buzz marketing agency.
I post about our work in our blog, but I'm also happy to answer your direct questions any time.
I'm sorry to say, I've just changed this building's Wikidata item from a palace to just a building. (Palaces probably have towel rails, I guess is the distinction.)
@reiver Yes, absolutely.
approx. two minutes between me sitting down at a table and me getting out the power strip I brought “just in case” (we didn’t have one on the table o_O)
I (Evan) will be at the Wikimedia Hackathon 2026 in Milan, Italy this weekend (May 1-4). I’m especially interested in how we can connect Wikimedia projects and content to the Social Web using ActivityPub. I’ll be holding a session on the topic on Sunday May 3 at 9AM, but I’ll also be available for discussions throughout the weekend.
My hacking project plan is to make an ActivityPub object server for films. There are about 343,000 films in Wikidata, which compares pretty favourably with the 740,000 films in IMDB. There is a JSON-LD interface to Wikidata, but the types used don’t match up with ActivityPub types like Video. So, like places.pub, I’ll set up movies.pub to share an ActivityPub object for every Q-item for a movie, as well as a search endpoint to find films by name.
If I get ahead of the project and I’m not too jet-lagged, I’d like to add an ActivityPub API app to “check in” to a movie that you’re watching (and maybe give a little review). Similar to checkin.swf.pub with places!
If you’re at #wmhack this weekend, please come say hi. I love talking about Wikimedia projects and the open social web.
I am at Fediforum demonstrating #tagspub for the people watching.
On my way to Milan. Getting supper at Paramount because it's so good.