: the D&D movie rocks but I think it should be an anthology series. like yeah the obvious choice …

: Don't make up reasons to hate people if there's already plenty laying around Alternatively, “a stopped clock is right twice a day”, “the worst person you know …

: Note on LLMs My thesis statement I guess is: LLMs and the current work on AI is an interesting and possibly …

: Ayyyy eye Time for another “nuance blog”. I think LLMs are fundamentally bad, on balance. The …

: Homebrew A while ago, during the Great OGL Kerfuffle, there was an interesting idea promoted by a bunch of …

: On buying a car to save the planet I wanted to write this down so the next time someone complains I’m lacking nuance or whatever, …

: So what's this button do? Ah, yes. That button defaults the country on its debts. What? Why is that even there? shrug. It …

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: Merry Christmas

: passed the first interview. now comes the big coding test, which I always do poorly at. I …

: The little drum fill before the vocals start in “Litany” by Fucked Up is so perfect 🎵

: Just watched “Mad God”. I need a hug

: thought a lot about my game setting thing. it’s sort of turning into “‘Kill Six …

: soft-launched a big feature today, I’ll open it up to more users next week. I think it’s …

: i want to do a really gonzo TTRPG game. Relatively short in length, but completely absurd. …

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: My boss just published his 4th game, Charioteer. It’s a racing game and it’s a lot of fun! It plays …

: So we got our RTO order. Everyone who had remote status, but was within a set of zip codes near the …

: I listened to about 4800 minutes of Clutch this year. This is also the first year Black Flag was not …

: Did anyone else notice how Elmo didn’t provide reciepts for his claim about Twitter and the …

: When Apple v Epic happened it was easy to root for injuries: Apple is totally wrong in its handling …

: Trying to get banned from bird site

: This is an absolutely amazing setting riff: forum.rpg.net/index.php I would pay real money for this! …

: I am thinking that this here site does not violate these precepts www.jwz.org/blog/2022…

: Bought nothing today.

: really great piece from Monte Cook. I have been so, so guilty of basically being a slave to …

: Remember, every time you take mass transit, you give a fash-adjacent billionaire a headache

: Gotta admit I’m a little shocked that Alexa is such a titanic loser. I never would have guessed at …

: I keep trying to think more in terms of functional programming and somehow I always end back up with …

: i want to run a kinda-sorta OSR game: like no big high-concept thing, no complicated story. Just …

: I noticed that I don’t use contractions when I’m being very serious. A strange sort of tic I guess

: Making a social network a financial success is a cultural problem, not an engineering one. It isn’t …

: The office isn’t as cold as it used to be but I still need thermies and a warm jacket to make it …

: This place sucks but at least there’s coffee

: “New” social network interactions are always kind of lonely.

: It’s cold outside and I am operating the grill

: Gotta write up the new trailer stuff AND post updated pics; and I have plans for upgrades over the …

: Here’s another view, from the front.

: First trip with the full wall kit. Sarah called it “the M.A.S.H. Tent”

: the walls for the awning arrived - just in time for this weekend! we’re going to have a little …

: Ghosted by Best Buy. Still no microwave. I tire of the modern primitive lifestyle (using the oven …

: fixed my Cards problem. Turns out the problem was, you need to use cardsv2, but, all the links are …

: Today in “basic tasks I fail at”, it’s the “cardsV2” return format for a Google chat bot. It’s …

: It’s undoubtedly a symptom of my growing old-man vibe but the relentless moral panics about …

: He’s so goddamned adorable

: everyone is looking to what service to flee to, and not really asking what they want out of social …

: This is what I mean by “the awning”

: Got walls for the awning on the way and with this we should be able to camp all through winter. …

: Finished “The Orville”. It’s … cute? Like, the highest budget fanfic ever. Flawed but overall I …

: I was thinking about how to adapt Minesweeper to a real-time, vaguely first-person game. Like you’re …

: I’m increasingly finding that I dislike anything that has “plugins” or some sort of extension …

: Do you think that when we moved from the “thorn” character to “th” people got super mad the way they …

: “Prehistoric Planet” is delightful

: gonna be in New River Gorge in a couple weeks. Excited to get to a new camping location.

: I’m old enough to remember when the most evil thing 4chan could do was to mess with YouTube …

: Came up with a pretty good mashup of Spelljammer and The Locked Tomb books. Really want to try it …

: Pretty grim over on Bird Site. Everyone wants to leave but is unsure about how to preserve the ol’ …

: Backed the Old Gods Kickstarter, because I’m a big fan of the podcast and the idea of Southern …

: Treats?

: A bunch of performance-intensive stuff coming up at work. Might have to do stuff in Go? Can’t …

: You can fit a full quarter cord into a short-bed Taco if you’re REALLY good at geometry

: Thinking a lot about the Old Gods of Appalachia TTRPG and wondering how to do group stories. Seems …

: Guy makes Viking movie trying to be sensitive to how Nazis love that shit and not include blatantly …

: Learning ASL is a lot of fun. What isn’t fun is seeing bands going back on tour and knowing I can’t …

: welp. begin the exodus.

: A playlist is an ordered list of 3-tuples (song, album, artist) with some metadata. Why does it take …

: he’s obsessed with the space heater

: Finding myself speaking more explicitly in the language of design patterns. Like, “I should use a …

: Latest RPG story idea: think The Expanse, only instead of the protomolecule being sci-fi mumbo …

: Dogs poop in alignment with Earth’s magnetic field, study finds - PBS NewsHour Ollie poops …

: Soon

: The great kava boom: how Fiji’s beloved psychoactive brew is going global - World news - The …

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: Whenever The Muffs come up on shuffle I get really sad. But also I guess I’m old enough now that …

: Huh. Militia groups spurn alt-right ‘trash’ at Virginia gun rally while establishing a dialogue with …

: Ok

: An app I like switched to a subscription model. Ok, fine. The problem is they added like 60+ new …

: Bleak Sword (Apple Arcade) is really good! Super-low-res swipe-based Dark Souls, basically. Simple …

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: Notice: Heisenburg works here now

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: “Any blockers?” Yes, Turing machines

: Another Sabrina note. The musical numbers are cringe af. It’s like some exec said, “this shits too …

: Op-Ed: Yes, Gov. Cuomo, Car Helmets Could Save Lives – Streetsblog New York City Or, you know, build …

: Made it a good chunk of the day before [redacted] broke my spirit

: The only part of S3 of Sabrina i am liking is uh “sexy witch and pansexual warlock go on a revenge …

: Wild how everyone credits “Allied forces” for liberating Auschwitz. It was the Red Army.

: It’s nice to live in a world where immensely important systems explode overnight and no one noticed …

: It seems like the touch sensitivity of the micro.blog app is higher than any app on my phone. I so …

: Some updates to the “booze blog”, including fixing pagination and tags

: Went in hellscape bird site to vent my spleen. Please forgive this transgression. But I promise, …

: I had a few too many and made this thebooze.ninja I’m (slowly!) adding all my recipes and notes and …

: The thing I notice about focusing on Flickr is I want to take better pics. I always want to take …

: “And the Lord did say unto them, ‘never shall there be a Hot Pope Who Fucks’, amen.” Pope Benedict …

: Flickr is very nice. Instead of drunk idiots at brunch or “influencers”, it’s nice photography. And …

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: Look I get it, Grimes is at best insufferable and probably insane but Art Angels was a good as hell …

: github.com I haven’t used Chrome (not counting testing) in over a year. I haven’t used Google search …

: Use duck fat to roast your vegetables. Total game-changer.

: They should have left Pepper as Extremis-enabled for Infinity War/Endgame

: Netflix is sort-of down for me on all my devices (UI loads but complains of “No internet …

: Imminent threat to American lives from nation-state who has been pwning us since the 50s: Hellfire …

: It is my solemn promise that if faced with an evil maniac working the controls of some inter …

: Yaaay it’s retired! pythonclock.org Or, not, I guess! www.python.org/psf/press…

: Happy new year from ol’ Yoda ears

: Let’s get some F’s going in the chat for Python 2 (I stopped seeing the guy with the “2.8” tshirt at …

: Trying to unlike everything in my hellscape bird site account. None of the apps seem to do it. Doing …

: Feels good to have no emotional investment in Star Wars. Everyone else can fight it out.

: Fitbit SDK Everything about the FitBit SDK makes me want to develop for it. Nothing about WatchOS …

: If adtech is so good why do I get ads for: Trump, Biden, Gabbard, Bloomberg. That list is “things …

: Inside Documents Show How Amazon Chose Speed Over Safety in Building Its Delivery Network — …

: Rainy Sunday morning. Listening to the soundtrack for The Expanse S3, doing PyCon work. As you do

: I should go for a run bc it’s 60-something and beautiful outside but I didn’t sleep and sometimes I …

: Why does this psychopath have a job www.khq.com/news/rep-… Also cool I am part of a …

: Instagram literally stopped updating for me so I took it as a sign to log out and forget about it. …

: The risotto wanter has logged on

: Ok final Witcher thought. I do enjoy the way he’s often a sad-sack: covered in guts, doing a …

: The Witcher: “yeah, she’s part elf so, like she’s all afflicted. Hunchback, face all messed up, the …

: I’m watching The Witcher. What the fuck is happening. Who the fuck are these people. Is there a …

: I was looking something up and after clicking around, ended at the official Java tutorial …

: Didn’t go running and I feel like a slob but it was 34 degrees and raining. Also once a slept …

: Supreme Court to Have Final Say in Oracle v. Google Java API Battle Genuinely wondering how this one …

: Leon is the best character in Mr. Robot. This is a hill I will die on.

: If your mortgage payment is $10 - call it $8 principal and $2 interest - and you pay $11, is there a …

: No affirmative hand signals allowed

: Commute by public transit is practically relaxing sometimes. Just sit and kill some time. Longer? …

: I’m less interested in cats v dogs as pets than predator vs prey as pets. Why the hell would anyone …

: Gotta book Pycon but also I’m trying to convince my employer to pay for a trip to Vegas for …

: I was never (officially) a “junior dev”. I was just a sysadmin, then the only dev - “a dev” - for so …

: My end of year music thing is obvious if you know me: Clutch, Black Flag, Propaghandi, Deadmau5, …

: So You Think You Want to Open a Brewery… - Serious Eats

: twitter.com/BillKrist… Just join the Democrats and allow a real leftist party to emerge; send …

: Why I am afraid to be 100% remote: twitter.com/cstross/s… Not that I’ll become a MAGA hat but …

: Tool was beautiful.

: Gonna see Tool tonight. Last saw them at Ozzfest a long time ago. I am sorta meh bc I loathe arena a …

: One of the chief reasons we ruled out Asheville as a place to move www.cnn.com/2019/11/2…

: I’ve gotten 9000 or so ads for Bloomberg on YouTube this morning alone. Proof all this adtech is …

: Over on hellscape bird site they were doing “unpopular food opinion”. Mine is not too unpopular, I …

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: We have Smooth Yoda And we have Baby Yoda Unleash …. Smooth Baby Yoda

: The house liquor of the Muslim world - The Outline

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: Commuting by public transit today. Fingers crossed this goes well

: I’m one of those weirdos for whom the iPad represents the dream of computing. This is how I’ve …

: Today in “I cannot actually use an iPad Pro as a full-time computing device”: the AWS console. I …

: Welp. Back to this. Shouting into the void over there at Mastodon wasn’t much fun. I mean here I’m …

: Current status: being electrocuted

: opentable just sent me a notification suggesting i dine at The Inn At Little Washington. …

: Curious if MeWe mewe.com is a worthy microblog competitor. I see stuff about “freedom of …

: the whole Alfred E Neuman thing is hilarious and shows the obvious hole in the Republican movement: …

: Good Girls is kind of a fun show but, like, clearly also network tv. It’s structured like “prestige …

: It says, eg, you need to work to make funds. So I drag the “job” icon onto the “work” icon. Funds do …

: I don’t understand “Cultist Simulator”. A bunch of colorful icons appear then 3-5 minutes later it …

: Everything hurts. I continue to under-recover.

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: I’m now an AWS Certified dingbat or whatever

: I’ve had a small amount of success with my most recent Linux On The Desktop fling but this remains …

: “Studying” for the AWS certification. Half of it is just learning their words for what you already …

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