Feels like the US has spent the last 5+ years on the verge of some kind of secular moral revival that keeps getting channeled into weirdo lifestyle puritanism

a comment from will in the NEOPETS RPG: if you give players a stack of dynamite, they're going to explode neopets. it's creating a possibility space where neopets end up painting the room (when all i wanted to do was paint the neopets)

a comment from will in the neopets rpg google doc: I think when you give me a hammer (the rules of this game) i'm going to swing at nails (kill neopets).

i am a professional editor. i come highly recommended. mind if i step inside your comments-on google doc for the NEOPETS RPG

AI boom could falter without wider adoption, Microsoft chief Satya Nadella warns Big tech boss tells delegates at Davos that broader global use is essential if technology is to deliver lasting growth

I was present for the birth of the web, the explosion of personal sites, and the blogging revolution, and you know what we never had to do? Beg people to use our shit.

every single day I stop myself from posting pictures of the shinzo abe gun

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Getting real good at taking my Magic cards out, looking through them, and then putting them back without building anything.

Warhammer Maker Games Workshop Bans Its Staff From Using AI in Its Content or Designs, Says None of Its Senior Managers Are Currently Excited About the Tech - IGN Warhammer maker Games Workshop has banned the use of AI in its content production and its design process, insisting that none of its senior managers are currently excited about the technology.

Well, this is at least good news. Good on them.

Upgraded to MacOS Tahoe and made the Wilhelm scream when I realized they removed Launchpad from the OS.

Nerds take Brooklyn @nerdtothecore.com @contaminated.space

Definitely!

Could fit a whole year of product in this bad boy.

A massive card catalog cabinet.

Any Magic: The Gathering players out there still looking for a card catalog? Found this doubled sided hoss of a cabinet in VA.

not the step dad, but the dad who stepped up

Getting on my ‘this is exactly why print mags are great’ soapbox again

I can’t even begin to work out how much awesome stuff I’ve discovered over the years because the magazine article on the thing I already loved was followed by one on something totally different I’d never have heard of otherwise

every AI advocate is like "look out specific industry, AI can now create a weird facsimile of what your specific industry makes, very poorly... looks like it's over for your industry"

it's not that i ever doubted that being a barista was a skilled position, but my year-long effort to try to produce a half-decent latte at home has convinced me that a good barista is easily more skilled than virtually every c-suite executive on the planet

i hope this election cycle empowers everyone the next time a centrist liberal says to drop pro-trans and pro-immigrant rhetoric to enthusiastically tell them to shut the fuck up

working on a new unified theory of american reality i'm calling "everyone is twelve now"

In the 2010s, this country's elites were thrown onto social platforms with everyone else and could finally read what we all think about them and it caused them so much psychic damage that they decided to destroy both the internet and democracy to make sure nothing like it ever happened again.

this is, hands down, the best video I've seen on men's influencer content and it's not close either

PICARD: These “Borg” are a curious blend of organic and machine, a culture so sublimated to its own technology that the line between natural life and technological facsimile is porous and thin.
RIKER: (nude in the holodeck) it’s insane they let us nut in the computer

Instead of building out green energy capacity or public transit, we’re gonna pay people to clean up the code wank from floors and walls of the vibe coding booths.

We need everyone back in the office because we want the serendipitous magic that only happens when you let humans get creative together and also we're replacing all of you with an AI machine that can only do things that it's seen done before

an actual gift of the internet age is how relatively easy it has become for non-wealthy people to maintain memory systems. both personal ones (photos, backups, searchable mail) and collective ones (wikis, archives, fan communities)

the glee with which that is being destroyed right now floors me

Patient, sobbing: But Doctor, I AM Pagliacci!
ChatGPT: Apologies. I didn't realise when recommending Pagliacci's epic show to cure your depression that you were the genius himself. I'm impressed! With regards to your initial question, I can recommend seeing the Great Clown Pagliacci.

I kinda think the way people use ChatGPT is sort of aspirational because it seems to emulate the way rich people have sycophants lying to them all the time until they lose touch with reality and also their entire minds

Age verification? I dialed into a BBS on a 2400 baud modem

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