there are a lot of reasons I love A Knight’s Tale but the bit where William and company reenter London in triumph while The Boys Are Back In Town blares is near the top of the list
truly the boys have never been so back
ngl this also seems like it would be an excellent premise for a side quest in a D&D campaign.
this sounds delightfully unhinged.
here is my tip if you’d like an even MORE affordable SUNY degree:
take as many gen ed credits at your local SUNY community college during high school (THEY ARE FREE and worth more) INSTEAD of AP classes. finish your associates the year after you graduate HS & transfer to ANY SUNY YOU WANT 4 ur bach
An AI slop image showing the '12 steps to masterful game directing", including 'Connectiarg' and 'Porkon Cows'
People over on Facebook/YouTube/elsewhere on bluesky/reality have been mocking this, but these are all totally genuine and highly advanced GMing techniques pioneered in obscure corners of indie rpg design in the early 2000s.
Let's go through them one by one and learn together.
This? bsky.app/profile/look...
no *you're* writing a type unification / variable reification function for Python.
Pleased to announce my group's new state of the questionable art hyperparameter tuning strategy, HatTune.
We pull a hyperparameter out of a hat. It is a good hyperparameter, you will like it. We try a couple others from the hat, and they are worse. Do not question the hat.
A federal AI framework is necessary. But a moratorium on state AI regulation would backfire. @acmpolicy's new op-ed explains why — and what Congress should do instead. 🧵 #AIPolicy #TechPolicy
Need a little more time for your submission on reorienting information retrieval towards explicit, politically-aware, pro-social ends? We've extended the JEDI @ #SIGIR2026 deadline to Apr. 30: jedi.inertial.science/sigir2026/
Okay CTA. This is a good sign.
The submission deadline for the ACM SIGIR JEDI Workshop has been extended by 2 weeks. Please spread the word! #JEDIWorkshop #SIGIR2026
My most old-coded opinion is that stuff should work
"Sad baby Yoda / Happy baby Yoda" meme. Top panel (sad baby Yoda) reads "Submission deadline is in 2 days" and bottom panel (happy baby Yoda) reads "Submission deadline has been extended by 2 weeks".
**Important announcement** 📣📣📣
We are extending the presentation proposal submission deadline by two weeks. All extended abstracts are now due on April 30. #JEDIWorkshop #SIGIR2026
More info: jedi.inertial.science/sigir2026/
Well this is interesting. Looks a lot like the kind of things 'jj' has been working to bring to version control. github.github.com/gh-stack/
just bought tickets to a festival headlined by The Rosetta Reaction.
this and achieving FTL travel by doing so much cocaine you can use the time knife as a starship rudder…
The point of the university as a concept is that it's been here for a thousand years and meant to be here another thousand. Turning education over to producing what the market needed five years ago is never going to work well.
2:20, the setup to Dany's high belt in Hell You Call A Dream. youtu.be/s6b_FgQnXL8?...
6) I am begging you, do not reuse passwords. Get a password manager. Have it randomly generate and save strong unique passwords for every login. Turn on 2FA everywhere you can. Do not let your account be one of the ones that enters this ecosystem.
it’s a coordinated assault on the skills and virtues of independent critical thought, which enable one to resist illegitimate power.
I am not fluent in pope but I think this says “per my last homily”.
For the other romance options and the later games, there is still the inherent power a captain has over the people on a ship, but most of the associations are more voluntary than literal military chains of command (except Kelly, Diana, & James 😬).
So this is one of my 2 biggest complaints about Mass Effect 1’s writing (the other being the xenophobia in the renegade convo paths): the available human love interests are your inferiors in the military command chain.
No. Bad BioWare, no cookie.
Wow. (🧵)
omg what?
I am 41 and use two spaces in plain-text formats, because I spent grad school using Emacs and it made the forward/backward by sentence navigation commands work.
They're choking US R&D, and when it withers, will claim it's because American universities let in too many minorities and labs wouldn't let directors call junior staff who won't sleep with them slurs.
Adding to reasons DS9 is Best Trek… they actually worked through some of those implications: creating a school, having Jake & Rom get in trouble, etc.
(Also VOY handled it too? Only kid was Naomi, until Tom & B’Ellana’s, and there was some “how does a starship raise a kid”?)
I'm one of those trans women. I worked ground ops for Artemis I.
I am torn between celebrating the success of my friends and peers and grieving how my dream of working for NASA was shattered by hateful assholes in Tallahassee