Grimdark Wishbone anthology series when?
"What's the story, Wishbone?"
*thousand-yard puppy stare as wishbone wraps up The Peripheral* I... the Jackpot, man. It's the only story. Always was.
Id like to end put in a good word for the non-industrious poor. At least they are not hurting anyone insofar as the time they take off from work is spend with friends and family enjoying and caring for those they love. They are probably improving the world more than we acknoledge.
Being unemployed is not always a bad thing.
Can't get over how well this single image condenses the experience of playing a Hideo Kojima game.
Introducing the new FBI-led, 10 federal agency strong “NSPM-7 Joint Mission Center"
www.kenklippenstein.com/p/fbis-new-p...
it’s objectively a tiny bit funny that he tweeted “praise be to allah” on Easter Sunday though
…do we? Feels like the tooling and affordances are pretty powerful. Like it’s a janky-ass language but as a de facto standard it’s working. We’ve got wasm etc, idk.
Like would life be better with a better language at the browser layer? For sure! But like, it’s all working, no?
Final Fantasy VI is 32 years old today.
It's hard to find words whenever I need to say something about FFVI because of how important and special it really is.
So I'll just say this—If you've never played it, you owe it to yourself as a gamer to experience it.
I promise, it's worth it.
things change:
authors and wizards are not always to be trusted:
nobody can explain a dragon.
"dune" poster from the dune font logo poster generator but it has bastardised "googoo dolls - iris" lyrics on it. "and i don't want the worm to see me - cause i don't think that they'd under sand"
googoo dolls iris voice
Bits all the way down.
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Narratively having Ever Given getting stuck in 2021 to set up Hormuz in 2026 is great foreshadowing. You want your audience to understand the basics of international shipping in a lower stakes context so you drop the real plot without a lot of saggy exposition about the minutiae of cargo logistics.
The Melian dialogs still relevant after all these years.
And also, what Athens did at Melos directly contributed to their loss.
History as tragedy, history as farce, bah — history is a bit taken too far.
A map of the Strait of Hormuz but instead of trucks taking oil to ships over the desert and ships taking oil to the world - it's renewable energy. I mean sure the strait needs to re-open for all of the other important products and oil is still necessary. But the absurd dependence on it for so much of our lives when better alternatives exist is why shutting the strait works and the world's economy shouldn't have single points of failure that small and easy to impact
Can this be a solution?
A woman in a mask Headline: Why Do Some People Still Wear Masks In 2026 And On A Completely Unrelated Note Why Is Everyone In The Office Sick Right Now Apart From The Guy In The Mask? Story from Jerk Wingley and Terramin Defishunsee Photo from Adobe
Why Do Some People Still Wear Masks In 2026 And On A Completely Unrelated Note Why Is Everyone In The Office Sick Right Now Apart From The Guy In The Mask?
Becky and Lloyd Didcot, 39 and 41, feel that an autism diagnosis carries too much stigma, so they prefer to talk about daughter Avery, 10, as if she’s batshit crazy instead.
The Elder Millennial urge to swim out past the breakers, watch the world die
⚠️ Anthropic:
“We cannot in good conscience accede” to the demands of the Department of War.
Concerns about the Department’s potential use of AI for mass surveillance and fully autonomous weapons have not been resolved.
I would be so good at this. This is such good bait.
This is well put. So *many* technologies are joyous and progressive. The web was invented in a PUBLICLY FUNDED UNIVERSITY! It is, in fact, an aberration that the fascist VCs think they're the default with their approach to tech. They were only ever supposed to be a tiny fraction of the ecosystem.
I say this as someone who has strong leftist values and also works with and plays with LLMs.
The answer as ever is “well it’s complicated and there are real issues that we must choose how to engage with.”
Personally to me “progress” would be more a rise of local models outside of investor capture.
As a passing observer here, I’d like to offer the perspective that “development of LLMs” is not necessarily “progress”.
Progress can be measured along any axis. Investor-captured technological progress often encodes a conservation of extant power dynamics.
So in that sense, pro-AI is conservative.
As someone who was tortured in ABA over autism this push is pretty obviously about cleaving off a subset of the population to do more of that too. Or otherwise throw away. So 1) I don’t support it & 2) they said I had severe autism in childhood and so I still assert that label now to make a point
Thank you!
Anyone on my network familiar with social supports in Canada, specifically in Edmonton, where a disabled autistic guy might turn for help? He’s about to lose housing and internet access. He’s brilliant but physically hurt, and he’s about to be on the street in this winter.
Sir Ian McKellen performing a monologue from Shakespeare’s Sir Thomas More on the Stephen Colbert show. Never have I heard this monologue performed with such a keen sense of prescience. Nor have I ever been in this exact historical moment.TY Sir Ian, for reaching us once again.
#Pinks #ProudBlue
it's wild how big tech forced technology on us that
* doesn't work the way they say it does
*most people are ill-equipped to use, and
* induces psychosis in otherwise stable individuals
And all anyone ever says is "better get used to it, it's here to stay"
I'm speaking, of course, about printers
Wonderman is an autistic-coded work of art exploring the loneliness of giving a shit in a world that doesn’t, and telling a story about what it’s like to be hard-wired against defection.
I really loved it a lot.
You've got to entertain the dumb ideas. Otherwise they'll never invite their smart friends over.
In 2022 I started tracking changes in how news outlets were describing trans people, and set up a bot to record every article pushed to the Google News index based on a handful of search phrases, including “biological sex” in both the US and UK. The amount in 2023 alone was absolutely staggering.
This is awesome and my mind immediately goes to, can we apply this concept to navigation in semantic latent spaces. Ima chew on this for a bit, thanks!
