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Freelance writer and game designer. West Coast Adventurers Guild writer. Legends of Greyhawk Story Lead (Wild Coast and Bandit Kingdoms Divisions). Diablo TTRPG developer-person. Creator of dispassionate, professional summaries of myself.
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Happy December — No more joking about I, Robot.
December 1, 2025 at 12:15 PM
Happy December — No more joking about I, Robot.
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This is actually quite brilliant, up to and including the final sentence 🔥
December 1, 2025 at 11:09 AM
This is actually quite brilliant, up to and including the final sentence 🔥
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This is all true but
1) under no definition are we currently at war with Venezuela under domestic US law
2) since we aren’t, the initial strike was just as much a murder as the follow up
The failure to understand this by a huge range of actors is really driving me up the wall.
1) under no definition are we currently at war with Venezuela under domestic US law
2) since we aren’t, the initial strike was just as much a murder as the follow up
The failure to understand this by a huge range of actors is really driving me up the wall.
If the Venezuelan sailors were enemy combatants, then the 2nd strike is a war crime.
If the Venezuelan sailors weren’t enemy combatants, then both strikes are criminal murder.
It’s that simple.
If the Venezuelan sailors weren’t enemy combatants, then both strikes are criminal murder.
It’s that simple.
November 30, 2025 at 11:07 PM
This is all true but
1) under no definition are we currently at war with Venezuela under domestic US law
2) since we aren’t, the initial strike was just as much a murder as the follow up
The failure to understand this by a huge range of actors is really driving me up the wall.
1) under no definition are we currently at war with Venezuela under domestic US law
2) since we aren’t, the initial strike was just as much a murder as the follow up
The failure to understand this by a huge range of actors is really driving me up the wall.
"Diamond" Lou Philips has more to do on The Chair Company than I would've expected this week! Good for "Diamond" Lou.
December 1, 2025 at 7:14 AM
"Diamond" Lou Philips has more to do on The Chair Company than I would've expected this week! Good for "Diamond" Lou.
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every trans person i see post about the OU suspension knows that the suspended target is trans & a grad student, & has an innate awareness that this is about purging trans employees. every cis person i see thinks the target is a rando professor & that this is about giving conservatives good grades
December 1, 2025 at 12:04 AM
every trans person i see post about the OU suspension knows that the suspended target is trans & a grad student, & has an innate awareness that this is about purging trans employees. every cis person i see thinks the target is a rando professor & that this is about giving conservatives good grades
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Sure, they've made an environmentally catastrophic mass hallucination disinformation plagiarism Clippy that will destabilize the world, but also their other goal is to replace human workers entirely and let us humans starve. A boycott of AI is the most important boycott of your entire life.
"All of this falls apart if humans don't adopt the tech. This is why you've seen Meta cram its lame chatbots into WhatsApp and Instagram. This is why Notepad and Paint now have useless Copilot buttons on Windows. This is why Google Gemini wants to "help you" read and reply to your emails."
Analysis: OpenAI is a loss-making machine, how can it survive?
Don't call it a bubble! Loss-making monster OpenAI is on the hook for $1.4 trillion (with a T) in compute commitments. How can this go on?
www.windowscentral.com
November 30, 2025 at 9:17 PM
Sure, they've made an environmentally catastrophic mass hallucination disinformation plagiarism Clippy that will destabilize the world, but also their other goal is to replace human workers entirely and let us humans starve. A boycott of AI is the most important boycott of your entire life.
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The numbers in here are hilarious.
Do you use AI on the job?
Execs: 87%
Managers: 57%
Workers: 27%
Planned investment by 2030: $5T
"Necessary" annual revenue to justify that spend: $650B
Current annual revenue: $50B
Do you use AI on the job?
Execs: 87%
Managers: 57%
Workers: 27%
Planned investment by 2030: $5T
"Necessary" annual revenue to justify that spend: $650B
Current annual revenue: $50B
Three years into the generative-AI wave, demand for the technology seems surprisingly flimsy
Investors expect AI use to soar. That’s not happening
Recent surveys point to flatlining business adoption
econ.st
November 30, 2025 at 12:28 AM
The numbers in here are hilarious.
Do you use AI on the job?
Execs: 87%
Managers: 57%
Workers: 27%
Planned investment by 2030: $5T
"Necessary" annual revenue to justify that spend: $650B
Current annual revenue: $50B
Do you use AI on the job?
Execs: 87%
Managers: 57%
Workers: 27%
Planned investment by 2030: $5T
"Necessary" annual revenue to justify that spend: $650B
Current annual revenue: $50B
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When this criminal was jailed, the judge told David Gentile and America: ‘This is a warning to would-be fraudsters that seeking to get rich by taking advantage of investors gets you only a one-way ticket to jail.’ I guess not
November 30, 2025 at 9:27 AM
When this criminal was jailed, the judge told David Gentile and America: ‘This is a warning to would-be fraudsters that seeking to get rich by taking advantage of investors gets you only a one-way ticket to jail.’ I guess not
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"All of this falls apart if humans don't adopt the tech. This is why you've seen Meta cram its lame chatbots into WhatsApp and Instagram. This is why Notepad and Paint now have useless Copilot buttons on Windows. This is why Google Gemini wants to "help you" read and reply to your emails."
Analysis: OpenAI is a loss-making machine, how can it survive?
Don't call it a bubble! Loss-making monster OpenAI is on the hook for $1.4 trillion (with a T) in compute commitments. How can this go on?
www.windowscentral.com
November 29, 2025 at 11:30 PM
"All of this falls apart if humans don't adopt the tech. This is why you've seen Meta cram its lame chatbots into WhatsApp and Instagram. This is why Notepad and Paint now have useless Copilot buttons on Windows. This is why Google Gemini wants to "help you" read and reply to your emails."
I want to ask how someone so stupid and oblivious could rise to be the "boss" of a company like this, but he's hardly the exception to a rule. I don't care what shampoo you use; I do care whether the art I'm buying from you was made by humans.
"Why stop at AI use? We could have mandatory disclosures for what shampoo brand the developer uses" — Epic boss Tim Sweeney says Steam should ditch its AI generated content disclosure. https://bit.ly/4a193vt
November 30, 2025 at 11:31 PM
I want to ask how someone so stupid and oblivious could rise to be the "boss" of a company like this, but he's hardly the exception to a rule. I don't care what shampoo you use; I do care whether the art I'm buying from you was made by humans.
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Oh, does a *venture capitalist* have a good slogan? Surely they have the best interests of ARE YOU OUT OF YOUR FUCKING MIND?!
November 30, 2025 at 6:09 PM
Oh, does a *venture capitalist* have a good slogan? Surely they have the best interests of ARE YOU OUT OF YOUR FUCKING MIND?!
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Google's "AI Overview" invents essay I've never written, about a book published two years after I was supposed to have written it, while claiming the book was published six years before it was published. For gifts like these, the global economic teeters on the verge of collapse.
November 30, 2025 at 6:14 PM
Google's "AI Overview" invents essay I've never written, about a book published two years after I was supposed to have written it, while claiming the book was published six years before it was published. For gifts like these, the global economic teeters on the verge of collapse.
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Yup. Even if Trump's policies were both effective and popular (lolololol, I know), Trump's pardons *alone* would be ample fodder.
This weekend Trump pardoned *yet another* drug lord and *yet another* infamous scammer!
This isn't low-hanging fruit, it's fruit delivered in a holiday basket!
This weekend Trump pardoned *yet another* drug lord and *yet another* infamous scammer!
This isn't low-hanging fruit, it's fruit delivered in a holiday basket!
And this is so obnoxious because actual-politics is kind of a fucking layup right now.
Your opponents are running a historically corrupt government.
Be anti-corruption. Run on fixing the shit they broke, holding assholes accountable, and improving people’s lives.
Duh.
Your opponents are running a historically corrupt government.
Be anti-corruption. Run on fixing the shit they broke, holding assholes accountable, and improving people’s lives.
Duh.
November 30, 2025 at 6:35 PM
Yup. Even if Trump's policies were both effective and popular (lolololol, I know), Trump's pardons *alone* would be ample fodder.
This weekend Trump pardoned *yet another* drug lord and *yet another* infamous scammer!
This isn't low-hanging fruit, it's fruit delivered in a holiday basket!
This weekend Trump pardoned *yet another* drug lord and *yet another* infamous scammer!
This isn't low-hanging fruit, it's fruit delivered in a holiday basket!
Reading this thread while in the middle of writing multiple things is, uh, super-depressing! I take some solace in knowing that the other people I'm writing things with are actually using their human intelligence to be creative, but it feels like a drop in the bucket.
An issue we're seeing at all levels of university is that many students are simply refusing to do *anything*. They aren't reading the syllabus, aren't following assignment guidelines, aren't engaging with material, ignoring deadlines. And this might seem like old news, but it truly has ramped up.
November 30, 2025 at 9:31 PM
Reading this thread while in the middle of writing multiple things is, uh, super-depressing! I take some solace in knowing that the other people I'm writing things with are actually using their human intelligence to be creative, but it feels like a drop in the bucket.
This is... I dunno, this... I despair. It's just so grim. I'm hoping against hope that this is some kind of phase and English courses can include READING again.
At this point, our intro comp/first-year English course has been so heavily revised, it no longer includes a novel, or "extended reading" of any kind, no "specialized" or "historical" reading, mostly in-class assignments, no research essay...and we are still seeing a 40-50% rate of AI misconduct.
November 30, 2025 at 9:27 PM
This is... I dunno, this... I despair. It's just so grim. I'm hoping against hope that this is some kind of phase and English courses can include READING again.
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Atleast nobody will have to question if my works are ai or not so enjoy these practical effect wings I made after 7 years of building different animatronic wings!
November 26, 2025 at 10:30 PM
Atleast nobody will have to question if my works are ai or not so enjoy these practical effect wings I made after 7 years of building different animatronic wings!
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It's not a foolproof plan but every political debate from now on should be a Normal Guy competition. Ask them to describe grocery shopping in detail. Talk about what it's like to have a friend
November 19, 2025 at 2:13 AM
It's not a foolproof plan but every political debate from now on should be a Normal Guy competition. Ask them to describe grocery shopping in detail. Talk about what it's like to have a friend
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My local library has copies of Fate Core, Fate Accelerated, and the Fate System Toolkit, thanks to some generous, anonymous donor. (They're in the Local Authors section.)
My local library system has a small number of ttrpgs. While perusing the shelves, I saw Root, which I had never read. So I checked it out and read it.
The moral of the story is that Libraries might have ttrpgs you can check out, and you can even recommend some to buy.
Libraries: 10/10
The moral of the story is that Libraries might have ttrpgs you can check out, and you can even recommend some to buy.
Libraries: 10/10
November 30, 2025 at 4:39 AM
My local library has copies of Fate Core, Fate Accelerated, and the Fate System Toolkit, thanks to some generous, anonymous donor. (They're in the Local Authors section.)
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My local library system has a small number of ttrpgs. While perusing the shelves, I saw Root, which I had never read. So I checked it out and read it.
The moral of the story is that Libraries might have ttrpgs you can check out, and you can even recommend some to buy.
Libraries: 10/10
The moral of the story is that Libraries might have ttrpgs you can check out, and you can even recommend some to buy.
Libraries: 10/10
November 29, 2025 at 1:21 PM
My local library system has a small number of ttrpgs. While perusing the shelves, I saw Root, which I had never read. So I checked it out and read it.
The moral of the story is that Libraries might have ttrpgs you can check out, and you can even recommend some to buy.
Libraries: 10/10
The moral of the story is that Libraries might have ttrpgs you can check out, and you can even recommend some to buy.
Libraries: 10/10
If you see this, I IMPLORE you to post a picture from whatever device you’re using without explanation.
November 30, 2025 at 2:55 AM
If you see this, I IMPLORE you to post a picture from whatever device you’re using without explanation.
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My husband and I have been trying to scare each other with the June Squibb cutout he got me for my bday
November 29, 2025 at 9:14 AM
My husband and I have been trying to scare each other with the June Squibb cutout he got me for my bday