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Arty @artylo.bsky.social · 7h

Just got the next chapter of FON outlined. I think this one might be good, but it needs a lot of work to get it to the place where it's going to hit true. Already at 10 pages of notes.

Arty @artylo.bsky.social · 10h

Like, it is genuinely braindead. If you don't counterspell, just destroy it after. If you have leftover mana, make them discard. Get all your Rooms and Enchantment Sagas (4x Bandit's) and just sit there and let them play into you. The only thing you don't beat is artifacts which is expensive to play

Arty @artylo.bsky.social · 10h

I just got really fed up with people playing a kind of Dimir Control that is entirely counterspells, exiles, destroys and discards with no real win condition, so I made a deck with the literal scraps I had lying around and I've made five people rage-quit as I remove their shit for twenty turns.

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Arty @artylo.bsky.social · 16h

Money Monster (2016)
Directed by Jodie Foster

“A level of extreme and unlikely circumstances that will fit right at home in this new post-irony and post-truth era.”

letterboxd.com/artylo/film/... #filmsky

A review of Money Monster (2016)

A surprise. I have no clue where I picked this one up from, but it is definitely an unexpected hit. It's competently directed, intelligently written (if a bit manipulative), but ultimately well worth ...

letterboxd.com

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Arty @artylo.bsky.social · 16h

I was just listening to a Vox show called The Gray Area, and the guest quoted the words "I'm old enough to remember when the internet wasn't just five giant websites filled with screenshots of text from the other four", and I felt that. I felt it in my bones.

Arty @artylo.bsky.social · 1d

What a great language.

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Arty @artylo.bsky.social · 2d

I just got around having to make an account for a website by building a torrent magnet file from the bottom up - i.e. manually adding trackers to an info hash. Now I'm just waiting for the slow trickle of 24.6 KiB/s from a single Russian IP over the next 5h 52m. Never giving up my email.

Arty @artylo.bsky.social · 3d

I'm really fond of there riichi mahjong cheat sheets. I bring them, just in case I have to teach people how to play the damn game (it always happens):

zes.sx/riichi/

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Arty @artylo.bsky.social · 3d

That and the last two games were plagued by a mana draught so severe that I was playing a 3.3 mana average deck with just about 4 mana both games.

Arty @artylo.bsky.social · 3d

I went 2-3, which for me is fairly respectable. The problem was, I think, that I had too much of a reliance on stations, which have so far not really worked out for me. They're fairly expensive, and even if I tap to crew them I feel like I'm leaving myself open.

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Arty @artylo.bsky.social · 3d

Played my first proper Quick Draft after saving up for about a week's worth of gold in MTG: Arena. I think my heart was in the right place, but it didn't seem like a very functional deck compared to what I was playing against. I drafted this weird Izzet Aggro Artificer/Artifact deck.

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Today is Friday in California @fridaypacific.bsky.social · 4d

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Arty @artylo.bsky.social · 4d

My current train of thought is trying to figure out Arch or some Arch-derived distro, since I remember not liking Ubuntu at all. That and SteamOS is Arch-based, so I have some minimal experience with it there. The current standout seems to be CachyOS, which comes highly recommended.

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Arty @artylo.bsky.social · 4d

Every single thing I hear about Windows 11 convinces me that this is the year of the Linux desktop.

I am no longer not entertaining the thought of just converting over my Windows partitions and taking the plunge. My SteamDeck has convinced me I can absolutely do it and not feel instant regret.

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Arty @artylo.bsky.social · 4d

The whole discussion is weirdly myopic. It has in it a naive sort of optimism for humankind, which feels misplaced. They say that LLMs can be useful if "used properly" or "used as an aid" but what does that even mean. Some people can't use search engines as it stands, let alone some mythical AGI.

Arty @artylo.bsky.social · 4d

I used to think it was hilarious that in the first week of university I had genuine lectures as to what critical thinking was and how to attain it. You would think it would have been too late, if I was just now finding out?

Then again my grades were also lowered because of attendance, not my memory

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Arty @artylo.bsky.social · 4d

If someone managed to live well into their mid-twenties and still hasn't developed the critical thinking skills or found a topic that fascinates them, they most likely were never going to, even if the options were presented to them decades ago.

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Arty @artylo.bsky.social · 4d

This is obviously true, to an extent, but neglects how schooling is mostly graded based the ability to remember, rather than an actual examination of knowledge.
Being able to memorise the entire school-book looks and sounds like knowledge, but it is limited to the scope of that book's covers.

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Arty @artylo.bsky.social · 4d

The other point they raised is that the use of LLMs will negatively impact the effects of schooling, since students will use it to get the right answers and skip the part where they know why they're the right answers.

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Arty @artylo.bsky.social · 4d

The plain old internet has been the modern day equivalent of the Library of Alexandria for several decades now, and some people still only enter it to use the toilet.

No amount of fancy chat bots or naturalistic Turing-test-passing machinery will make people look at the knowledge on the shelves.

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Arty @artylo.bsky.social · 4d

Knowledge, in a way, needs to be tempered by something else. Be that risk assessment, critical thinking, or even plain old common sense. Knowledge and access to knowledge don't mean anything if you don't know what you're looking for.

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Arty @artylo.bsky.social · 4d

Some people can find anything on the internet, while others will struggle to find a recipe for banana bread, regardless of how much technology you aid them with.
No amount of tech innovation will topple the Occam's razor that is general human stupidity.

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Arty @artylo.bsky.social · 4d

Just as some people still cannot use a search engine properly to find anything
They lack the intuition of how to ask the initial question that gets them to the knowledge. There's a giant rift between asking "how do atom bombs work" and "what is the critical amount of xenon-135 for a nuclear reactor"

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Arty @artylo.bsky.social · 4d

Regardless of how many bullets (fragments of knowledge) a person might have, I'd imagine a significant portion of them would still miss the broad side of a barn, without knowing what to apply said knowledge with.

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Arty @artylo.bsky.social · 4d

They speak of LLMs as something akin to the old Colt slogan of "God created men. Colt made them equal." Yet, I can also imagine that despite the democratisation of knowledge (exclusive knowledge and jargon being a feudal system anyway) that most people still won't know what to do with it.

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