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The power of personal printouts is under utilizedYou took no risks, you got no rewardsDeath of the Scenius Artist: A creator is left to fend for themselves on a faceless ToS platform of strangers, hostile or friendly, depending on a...
If you are attending this year’s World Science Fiction Convention, LAcon V, you can catch some contributing folks from the Ancillary Review of Books, and guests from A Meal of Thorns, on the program! And, of course, we’re excited for all...
The current issue of the New Yorker has a poem by Adrienne Su called “Lament” which ends with the lines “the reasons to gather/have never been clearer/The dinner is gravy.” Reading the poem sent me down a little rabbit hole of her work...
This being the 136th anniversary of the birth of Howard Phillips Lovecraft, I thought it the perfect opportunity to write another installment in my increasingly irregular Reconsiderations series. I also think it makes sense as a topic,...
I've been playing more games as a player - which is to say, at all - and DMing for different people. My wife also started DMing last year, and has done lots this year, so we've had some good chats. There's definitely a lot of impostor...
I am eagerly awaiting fall. I’m not a summer lover. Sure those first few sunshiney days of spring are amazing after a long winter. And I do love a good summer vacation, but mostly it’s hot and humid and I just want to cuddle up and stay...
I made a big mistake in my previous entry in this series. Actually, I probably made a few dozen, not least of which was deciding to tackle this topic at all without first laying a lot more foundation. But before I give up and go back to...
Halfway to San Diego. Heading to Oceanside for the surfer girl, surf competition, skate comp, and music festival. We’re getting some decent rain now in Yuma as I stand outside of the Starbucks waiting for Buffy to get her refill. Lola is...
These screenshots come from a YouTube video titled "10 Antique Typewriters in Your Attic Worth a Fortune! (Most People Don't Know What They Have)." The whole thing is AI-generated. It doesn't pretend to be anything else, but I still...
The good folks at “Our World in Data” have been putting together a data series which shows monthly spending on the “on-site work to build data centers each month, including materials and construction labor. It excludes the cost of IT...
A few weeks ago I cancelled Tidal. This is everything I built instead, on a server that answers to nobody but me.
This is the first of two parts on media creation. I’ll update this post with a link when the second one is out. “The students already come with an understanding of the grammar of visual storytelling, but not of writing or audio.” This...
I recently gave my first Toastmasters speech, an icebreaker about sushi. Why sushi? What is so special about sushi? You’ll find out soon enough. If you’ve spoken to me lately, this won’t come as a surprise; my newfound obsession with...
With the increasing availability of assistive AI, many people have turned to AI frameworks and harnesses (Hermes Agent, Claude Cowork, etc.) to help them achieve day-to-day goals. In many cases the AI has been directed to carry out those...
Thanks to Charlie Horse 47 and Killdumpster for their sponsorship of this post, via the magic of Patreon. ***Let us tarry not... ...and leap straight into the action.I detect the tale in which the Fantastic Four find themselves up...