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I just watched the Season 4 finale of Critical Role's "Vox Machina" on Amazon Prime. Don't like Critical Role? Here's 50 cents; call someone who cares. I enjoyed the hell out of it. They set up their Big Bad for Season 5, The Whispered...
When running "Combat as Sport" players and refs are mostly concerned with a "balanced game" where mastery over rules, procedures, execution and options results in victory. When running "Combat as War" the table is primarily concerned...
Not long ago, people asked: Will artificial intelligence become useful? Today the question has changed: Which AI should I use? But many of us are already living the next phase. The real question, even now, is: How do I use multiple AIs...
Forget me not flowers symbolize true love and respect. 13 Forget Me Knot
Posting this on the last day of the month instead of the start of the next one, but I'm not on the verge of finishing anything and I'm not watching a movie tonight so I think it's fair. Books 📕 The Murder at the Vicarage (Agatha...
I don't have any other details I can provide at this time (and there will certainly be a publication ban anyway, what with his big trial beginning August 24), but I can confirm that Bill was arrested yesterday and spent the night in jail...
Play-based preschool should be the default. Research consistently tells us that young children -- all young children -- need play and lots of it for both intellectual and healthy social-emotional development. Unfortunately, ignorance and...
The inspiration for this talk was Robert Chapman’s idea of health fascism, and their argument that the far right grows by idealising a lost past of individual and collective health. That left me wondering if the left has our own notion...
[Starting a wildfire is a poor way to celebrate.] Utah is having a record year for wildfires, and as a result, the governor has changed the state’s policy for fireworks. They’re now banned by default, though local municipalities can lift...
Three experiences inform this piece of writing: words Mike Kidron told an interviewer in 1964 (“not Trotskyist but Trotskyist-derived”), a piece a friend of mine Colin wrote last year (“how did these revolutionary socialists become so...
Well, i got better rest last night, but damn do I not want to work. I'm gonna go, but I'd love to do anything but that. Whatever, hopefully it'll go by fast.
Chicago’s weather is pretty lousy most of the year, but when it’s nice, it’s very nice. June blessed the city with dozens of idyllic days. But don’t worry—I still spent most of the time inside on the computer. Things I did I launched my...
Who are you, and what do you do? My name is Casey Liss. I’m a podcaster, app developer, and writer based out of Richmond, Virginia, USA. I host two podcasts: the Accidental Tech Podcast with Marco Arment and John Siracusa; I also host...
After posting Honoring the God yesterday, I came across W.K.C. Guthrie (1906-1981), The Greeks and Their Gods (Boston: Beacon Press, 1950; rpt. 1956), p. 88 (on Hermes): [W]e shall align ourselves firmly with Professor Nilsson when he...
Hello cubs ʕ•ᴥ•ʔ, The title says it all: I started learning crochet yesterday. After thinking about it all weekend, looking at tutorials and dozens of aesthetic Instagram accounts, I thought "Why not try?". Yesterday afternoon, I went to...