Robert Kingett / is on Nostr

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I'm a Blind, and gay, author and essayist. I follow more hashtags than people, and enjoy listening to all kinds of audiobooks. I blog sometimes. Former journalist turned #Romance writer. I have a literary agent, and freaking love cats and diverse audiobooks.

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Last Notes

2024-09-10 01:51:49

All you new folk should read this about anti-blackness in the #Fediverse. I mean, us oldies should read this again too but check it out! https://logicmag.io/policy/blackness-in-the-fediverse-a-conversation-with-marcia-x/ #Mastodon

2024-03-14 20:13:43

Pluralistic: The Coprophagic AI crisis (14 Mar 2024) https://pluralistic.net/2024/03/14/inhuman-centipede/ #AI #AIHype

2024-01-31 08:13:25

A Gentle Intro to RSS https://derekkedziora.com/blog/rss-guide #RSS #Feed

2024-01-10 00:58:41

I'm starting to think that #Piracy is a form of preservation. Hear me out.
Let's take the case of the long gone TV show, the Journey of Allen Strange. You can't stream it *anywhere* today, legally. I tried looking for DVDs once. Couldn't find anything in 2 hours.
For it's time, it was ironically a pretty progressive show. So, today, I wanted to watch it.
I found a playlist on YouTube containing episodes, but I was just astonished that there was *no* way to watch this legally.
I get it. I'm an indie creator. People don't like paying artists and art. Trust me, people would like nothing more than to make sure we don't get paid because that would be admitting that art has value, and we can't have that! I really get it, but how else was I supposed to buy this TV show and stream it?
Longer blog post coming about this, but let's take the case of #AudioDescription. There are older described VHS tapes that were never digitized. The AD tracks get lost all the time and barely appear on streaming services. If they do, they show up days or weaks after the streaming service launched this third party TV show/movie on their platform.

2023-12-28 21:48:28

I cannot believe that this is already a proposal, advertisements in e-books! I was making an offhand prediction from a college essay I did years ago, but then, someone actually replied with this. This is a literal nightmare come true! US20120084150A1 - Ebook advertising and related techniques - Google Patents https://patents.google.com/patent/US20120084150A1/en #Publishing #EBooks #Books @npub1kt3…5004

2023-11-05 22:00:06

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@npub1w78…efqy What editing services do you offer?

2023-10-17 11:34:09

Today I wrote about #RSS feeds and the #IndieWeb https://robertkingett.com/2023/10/17/refuge/

2023-09-10 10:59:29

With inspiration from Rockstar, I pirated a copy of one of the Amazon exclusive anthologies I was a contributor so that I could grab my story from inside of it, and then sell the story to a few magazines that accept reprints because I couldn’t copy and paste the Kindle version I purchased, and the publisher no longer exists. Let this be a lesson to other writers. Keep everything, even if you sell something. #Publishing #Piracy

2023-08-19 20:49:10

Slowly making podcast 2.0 apps easier to use! For example, I began with the open source Podverse app. https://github.com/podverse/podverse-rn/issues/1904 #Podcast #Podcasts #Accessibility

2023-08-19 15:19:51

I'm honestly dreading Windows 12. It's gonna be filled with so much LLM garbage I'll have to spend weeks finding a debloated ISO installer. At least Windows is super, super, easy to crack. I'm sticking to Windows 10 as long as I can. I deeply, deeply, deeply, wish non techy Blind people like me could use #Linux It is also highly amusing that I keep getting called techy! Never programmed a thing in my life, unless you count Alexa skills and AutoHotkey scripts and powershell scripts. #Enshittification is deep within Microsoft already and I'm so not looking forward to the next version of Windows. Ugh! I'm honestly starting to understand why people are becoming extremely disillusioned with the whole tech industry.

2023-08-04 03:57:21

Really enjoying browsing recorded #FanFiction on the internet archive. Not sure why people want to fill it up with AI garbage, but there's a few good gems in here https://archive.org/search.php?query=subject%3A%22podfic%22 #Podcast #Podcasts #Podfic

2023-05-26 17:51:01

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@npub1ttk…x6r5 I'll never understand how people say an algorithm will help people read their feeds. Like, I curate my following list exceptionally well, mixed in with following hashtags, and I never run out of interesting stuff, all from things i curate without ads or algorithms. As for the argument that algorithms will help people that just wanna see the most popular whatever, boost, link, toot, whatever, like, that's not why I am here. You can use a different front end if you want that kind of feed but I like seeing a mixture of non-popular and most popular, without anything being sorted for me. Lastly, I consider it a pleasent suprise when one of my followers posts a hidden gem, like a link or something, that I would have completely missed if I was just looking at trending crud.