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http://Homebrewandhacking.com
🤍 I do developmental editing and design.
💜 I broadcast TTRPG news and support indie devs and artists.
🖤 I chat about funding and publishing TTRPG books.
http://Homebrewandhacking.com
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6- You haven't filled in your profile
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AI busy solving the problem of wages...
Many well paid specialists will never recover. They can’t pivot fast or hard enough. This is a calamity for the 60-80th percentile of US wage earners.
November 10, 2025 at 2:38 PM
AI busy solving the problem of wages...
Ohhhh...
I mean it doesn't think but copy and pasting from Stack Overflow but really quick would definitely qualify it for "junior programmer" status.
I mean it doesn't think but copy and pasting from Stack Overflow but really quick would definitely qualify it for "junior programmer" status.
Generative AI is the apotheosis of this process. It's praised for doing better than a human on certain tasks, but those tasks were *made for computer logic* in the first place.
The new world will try to convince you that this computer logic is more valuable than your human thought. Defy it.
The new world will try to convince you that this computer logic is more valuable than your human thought. Defy it.
November 10, 2025 at 1:41 PM
Ohhhh...
I mean it doesn't think but copy and pasting from Stack Overflow but really quick would definitely qualify it for "junior programmer" status.
I mean it doesn't think but copy and pasting from Stack Overflow but really quick would definitely qualify it for "junior programmer" status.
November 9, 2025 at 5:35 PM
Reposted by PJ Coffey - They/Them @[email protected]
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November 9, 2025 at 3:46 PM
Just four hours left in the campaign and we are FUNDED! Thank you to everyone for your support!
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If you haven't backed yet, don't miss your chance!
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#ttrpg #tabletop #TheSpyGame
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If you haven't backed yet, don't miss your chance!
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#ttrpg #tabletop #TheSpyGame
Reposted by PJ Coffey - They/Them @[email protected]
I guess it's thrilling to imagine oneself to be part of a mad chase to the creation of artificial life. But it's not just fun and games when that chase is being used to concentrate wealth & power and involves despoiling the physical & information ecosystems + massive labor exploitation.
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November 9, 2025 at 3:05 PM
I guess it's thrilling to imagine oneself to be part of a mad chase to the creation of artificial life. But it's not just fun and games when that chase is being used to concentrate wealth & power and involves despoiling the physical & information ecosystems + massive labor exploitation.
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Reposted by PJ Coffey - They/Them @[email protected]
Instead, "AI" is completely in the thrall of billionaires and TESCREALists -- how else to explain anyone taking the paper-shaped objects out of corporate labs seriously?
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November 9, 2025 at 3:03 PM
Instead, "AI" is completely in the thrall of billionaires and TESCREALists -- how else to explain anyone taking the paper-shaped objects out of corporate labs seriously?
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November 9, 2025 at 3:51 PM
Hadn't appreciated that he'd fallen for the Bell Curve so hard. Those neat little graphs sure look convincing! Until you find out that the data underneath is so messy. And I guess he didn't intuit reading "the mismeasure of man" was worth his while.
*smh* gotta interrogate those attitudes.
*smh* gotta interrogate those attitudes.
Perhaps try reading this, written by Sharon Begley in 2021 before she died, as a counter to all the "Oh, Watson wasn't really sexist or racist. His denigration of Franklin was a bit to show that biology was fun, and hey, he went to Africa!" hagiographies.
www.statnews.com/2025/11/07/j...
www.statnews.com/2025/11/07/j...
James Watson, dead at 97, was a scientific legend and a pariah among his peers
James Watson, the co-discoverer of the structure of DNA who died Thursday at 97, was a scientific legend and a pariah among his peers.
www.statnews.com
November 9, 2025 at 1:05 PM
Hadn't appreciated that he'd fallen for the Bell Curve so hard. Those neat little graphs sure look convincing! Until you find out that the data underneath is so messy. And I guess he didn't intuit reading "the mismeasure of man" was worth his while.
*smh* gotta interrogate those attitudes.
*smh* gotta interrogate those attitudes.
@losthavenart.bsky.social
I'm writing to those people and asking them to reconsider their terrible, terrible "neutral" stance.
If they don't then that'll be it from me too.
I'm writing to those people and asking them to reconsider their terrible, terrible "neutral" stance.
If they don't then that'll be it from me too.
November 8, 2025 at 10:02 PM
@losthavenart.bsky.social
I'm writing to those people and asking them to reconsider their terrible, terrible "neutral" stance.
If they don't then that'll be it from me too.
I'm writing to those people and asking them to reconsider their terrible, terrible "neutral" stance.
If they don't then that'll be it from me too.
If you like my spicy takes on genAI
"No. Did chatGPT tell you to think that?"
Support my work on moving beyond species! Include cultures in your games!
How you were raised has a big impact!
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"No. Did chatGPT tell you to think that?"
Support my work on moving beyond species! Include cultures in your games!
How you were raised has a big impact!
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November 8, 2025 at 9:57 PM
If you like my spicy takes on genAI
"No. Did chatGPT tell you to think that?"
Support my work on moving beyond species! Include cultures in your games!
How you were raised has a big impact!
www.drivethrurpg.com/en/product/5...
2e of electrum selling
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1/ DnD
"No. Did chatGPT tell you to think that?"
Support my work on moving beyond species! Include cultures in your games!
How you were raised has a big impact!
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2e of electrum selling
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"If someone thinks they can slap an LLM into their company7 and it’ll solve their problems...you don’t want them as a customer."
Another banger from ludic.mataroa.blog/blog/i-am-ou...
Another banger from ludic.mataroa.blog/blog/i-am-ou...
November 8, 2025 at 7:25 PM
"If someone thinks they can slap an LLM into their company7 and it’ll solve their problems...you don’t want them as a customer."
Another banger from ludic.mataroa.blog/blog/i-am-ou...
Another banger from ludic.mataroa.blog/blog/i-am-ou...
A morning spent recording entries for the audiobook version of Free5e. Because I wouldn't let Dale use AI on it and then the community rallied round to keep the clankers out.
And now a rather jolly afternoon chatting about TTRPG news on the podcast. :)
And now a rather jolly afternoon chatting about TTRPG news on the podcast. :)
November 7, 2025 at 2:57 PM
A morning spent recording entries for the audiobook version of Free5e. Because I wouldn't let Dale use AI on it and then the community rallied round to keep the clankers out.
And now a rather jolly afternoon chatting about TTRPG news on the podcast. :)
And now a rather jolly afternoon chatting about TTRPG news on the podcast. :)
"AI is a neutral technology" say people who share it's biases.
I had explained to me “AI isn’t a political tool.”
Yeah, that’s baloney.
It’s bankrolled by key political actors and it’s used by those holding political office as a disinformation machine.
Now read this,
Yeah, that’s baloney.
It’s bankrolled by key political actors and it’s used by those holding political office as a disinformation machine.
Now read this,
"Fascism and AI, whether or not they have the same goals, they sure are working to accelerate one another."
🗣️📢
www.404media.co/ai-is-superc...
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www.404media.co/ai-is-superc...
November 7, 2025 at 7:19 AM
"AI is a neutral technology" say people who share it's biases.
(The last post because BS can't thread)
Great analysis that pinpoints where I find genre emulators to fall down. They confine you to the genre and the good ones provide you with mechanics to do things with, whereas many just say "do the thing".
Because not everyone _knows_ genres well.
Great analysis that pinpoints where I find genre emulators to fall down. They confine you to the genre and the good ones provide you with mechanics to do things with, whereas many just say "do the thing".
Because not everyone _knows_ genres well.
Encroachment in Double Cross is the constant tempting devils bargain with your own superpowers because there's a Real Ass Combat System there constantly asking me "don't you want to survive this? Use Your Damn Powers." as I math out how much I can let my superpowered evil side solve things.
November 7, 2025 at 7:05 AM
(The last post because BS can't thread)
Great analysis that pinpoints where I find genre emulators to fall down. They confine you to the genre and the good ones provide you with mechanics to do things with, whereas many just say "do the thing".
Because not everyone _knows_ genres well.
Great analysis that pinpoints where I find genre emulators to fall down. They confine you to the genre and the good ones provide you with mechanics to do things with, whereas many just say "do the thing".
Because not everyone _knows_ genres well.
Reposted by PJ Coffey - They/Them @[email protected]
My favorite comment on the FT story
November 6, 2025 at 7:49 PM
My favorite comment on the FT story
Reposted by PJ Coffey - They/Them @[email protected]
The climate crisis has forced us to see the Earth for what it is; one huge, joined up life-support system. This is the biggest, most far-sighted and powerful movement the world has ever seen, and it needs political leaders with ambition to match, not for themselves, but for the entire planet. 13/13
November 6, 2025 at 9:39 PM
The climate crisis has forced us to see the Earth for what it is; one huge, joined up life-support system. This is the biggest, most far-sighted and powerful movement the world has ever seen, and it needs political leaders with ambition to match, not for themselves, but for the entire planet. 13/13
I recognise troll face when I see it.
November 6, 2025 at 9:59 PM
I recognise troll face when I see it.
*looks up from newspaper*
Phrenology? From the Economist?
How disappointing. 😞
Phrenology? From the Economist?
How disappointing. 😞
A new paper suggests a photo can tell a recruiter much about an applicant’s personality
Should facial analysis help determine whom companies hire?
A new paper suggests a photo can tell a recruiter much about an applicant’s personality
econ.st
November 6, 2025 at 8:57 PM
*looks up from newspaper*
Phrenology? From the Economist?
How disappointing. 😞
Phrenology? From the Economist?
How disappointing. 😞
November 6, 2025 at 8:48 PM
Sky News, SKY NEWS, thinks that X is too far right and too biased.
(Trans. note: if Fox News said "steady now, those guys are a bit extreme" it would be similar)
(Trans. note: if Fox News said "steady now, those guys are a bit extreme" it would be similar)
Vital piece of investigative reporting from Sky. They've uncovered the X algorithm which feeds users extremist right wing material from the moment they join the site. It is a far-right radicalisation engine, by design.
news.sky.com/story/the-x-...
news.sky.com/story/the-x-...
Elon Musk is boosting the British right - and this shows how
Elon Musk is boosting the British right - and this shows how
news.sky.com
November 6, 2025 at 5:55 PM
Sky News, SKY NEWS, thinks that X is too far right and too biased.
(Trans. note: if Fox News said "steady now, those guys are a bit extreme" it would be similar)
(Trans. note: if Fox News said "steady now, those guys are a bit extreme" it would be similar)
"We've" all started talking like AI goons? Still at least they're easy to spot now.
It's giving "Invasion of the bodysnatchers" or is that just me?
It's giving "Invasion of the bodysnatchers" or is that just me?
Finally one thing they are, due to being statistical models of text, these neural networks and other large language models are indeed designed to do: milquetoastify boringify language.
LLMs steal and drain off human creativity originality verve by merely copying.
english.elpais.com/technology/2...
LLMs steal and drain off human creativity originality verve by merely copying.
english.elpais.com/technology/2...
The ChatGPT effect: We’ve all started talking like robots
The use of artificial intelligence is leading to a flattening of our language that is evident in the emails we write and the texts we compose. Studies have already confirmed this. Robotic verbiage era...
english.elpais.com
November 6, 2025 at 5:35 PM
"We've" all started talking like AI goons? Still at least they're easy to spot now.
It's giving "Invasion of the bodysnatchers" or is that just me?
It's giving "Invasion of the bodysnatchers" or is that just me?
Reputable politicians don't post on the Nazi site.
The local branch of the Green Party in the Southampton (UK) area has left X (1.930 followers)
Bluesky: @southamptongreens.bsky.social
Bluesky: @southamptongreens.bsky.social
November 6, 2025 at 5:33 PM
Reputable politicians don't post on the Nazi site.
Reposted by PJ Coffey - They/Them @[email protected]
🟢 Tax billionaires.
🟢 Cut bills.
🟢 Cut bills.
November 6, 2025 at 7:37 AM
🟢 Tax billionaires.
🟢 Cut bills.
🟢 Cut bills.
Ahh, 1st session misdirection, players on edge about crooked cops trying to off the witness they're protecting.
All around them is the very obvious, in retrospect, foreshadowing of a zombie Apocalypse.
#SWN 😀
All around them is the very obvious, in retrospect, foreshadowing of a zombie Apocalypse.
#SWN 😀
November 5, 2025 at 10:05 PM
Ahh, 1st session misdirection, players on edge about crooked cops trying to off the witness they're protecting.
All around them is the very obvious, in retrospect, foreshadowing of a zombie Apocalypse.
#SWN 😀
All around them is the very obvious, in retrospect, foreshadowing of a zombie Apocalypse.
#SWN 😀
Anyway, that's one of the many reasons I don't get invited to parties. 😀
"Niceness" is absolute poison to justice and equity.
Not kindness, but the insistence that people rub along with others they find objectionable.
Niceness insisted that we let Nazis talk, Niceness insists that we let AI into creative spaces.
The net effect is the destruction of safety and talent.
Not kindness, but the insistence that people rub along with others they find objectionable.
Niceness insisted that we let Nazis talk, Niceness insists that we let AI into creative spaces.
The net effect is the destruction of safety and talent.
November 5, 2025 at 12:07 PM
Anyway, that's one of the many reasons I don't get invited to parties. 😀