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Somewhere right now, someone is carrying two things in a bag that shouldn't logically coexist: a Fujifilm Instax bought during the pandemic, and a phone streaming 4K over a network fast enough to make a decade-old apartment router look...
Cool and mostly clear. A raven croaks loudly from the vicinty of the powerline, just after the bird app tells me American Crow is my Bird of the Day. The smell of woodsmoke. A dog-day cicada starts up.
If anyone has trouble getting a hold of me the next few days, it’s because my phone is at the bottom of the San Marcos River! Lauren and Chris planned a fun tubing trip for my and Dana’s birthdays Friday. We were having a good time...
I admit it.Yes. My mind is always going. I am always rethinking, always calculating, always trying to decipher between safe and alert and tired and danger at the same time.Ah, the benefits of overthinking.This is exhausting, to say the...
Nina Simone live at Casino Kursaal, 16th June 1968. Remembered this one while thinking about the Before trilogy of films.
The other day I wrote a bit about running my current game - one of the things I discussed very briefly was the introduction of controlled randomness into a storytelling space. In our hobby this is done with the simulational machinery of...
Claude helped me build a thing. There, I’ve admitted it, not that my use of LLMs has ever been a secret. But this was a big thing, a thing I could not have done on my own. I know because I tried, some years ago, and even with good help...
Sunday ‘Cats eyes removed’ Spend the next 10 minutes trying to work out a short but less weird statement they could’ve put on the road sign. ‘Retroreflective road markings removed’ just doesn’t cut it. I assume the village kids here were...
Hannah Arendt's challenge to the Stoic ideal of inner freedom, and what it means for engineers who want their code to speak for itself.
It’s been four years since I talked to you. I wonder if you would still be here if I had paused my life and put all my energy into helping you get back on your feet. Confused about my own life’s purpose, I didn’t dare to imagine a life...
Recently I watched a video talking about the literacy crisis. A whole generation of youngsters are growing up with poor literacy skills, whilst adults are increasingly outsourcing their critical thinking skills to Grand Theft...
Sometimes I follow a link over to Mastodon and see the insane way people talk on social media, or I read an article about cash drops and other trends, and I thank all the powers that I am blessedly out of touch. I may be online a lot,...
I’m very curious about how languages will evolve because of the LLMs.If people start avoiding the language’s whole sentence structures and em dashes and god knows what else just because the AI uses them, what will happen to the language?...
If you like this content consider becoming a member. It helps the content keep coming. Read what you don't agree with This is a good reminder to read things you don't agree with because the other side is not dumb and it's far too easy to...
The past few days have been filled with discussion about the Lombards, aka the Langobards, and their origin according to medieval texts. This blog has mostly dealt with them previously because of their occupation of the northern Italian...