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It’s well-known that LLM usage has changed communication in lots of ways: From slop grenades to automated emails, the erosion of real communication is there for all to see. I’ve noticed another trend: instead of receiving emails that ask...
Happy Pride. I'm glad that I'm still here, that you're still here. I'm proud of who you are and who you are becoming. Thank you for being here. The world is scary, but you are not alone. You are never alone. There is still time. It is...
Streaming platform Tidal lays out its AI content policy. The headline decisions are that AI-generated music will be labeled and cannot be monetized. The challenge will of course be enforcement. On that, Tidal says:→ TIDAL - High Fidelity...
During the Steam Summer Sale, I picked up Ace of Seafood, a 2016 plane-combat-parody-game??? where you play as a fish who is trying to conquer the ocean. I haven't played a lot of fighter jet combat games like Ace Combat, but I've played...
I’m all at sea. The ship is called the “James Joyce”. It took me a while to get onboard as the instructions were extremely long and difficult to understand. I decided to take this route to the UK for a change and I must say it is very...
While I was looking for a job earlier this year, I worked on ProMe (pronounced “pro-may”), a companion app for the solo TTRPG called “The Protector’s Memories”, created by Enzo Salviato. What started as a quick and dirty little tool to...
Use AI to make things clearer, not longer. Let it sharpen your thinking, not replace it. FROM: noslopgrenade.com No Slop Grenade. Source This is a corollary to not letting others do your writing and thinking for you.
There is a difference between knowing something, and truly understanding it. I think we've all had those moments, the ones where a truth you learned a long time ago really sits with you for the first time. It rests in your mind and...
Heya all. So, once more I feel the need to blog something but didn’t have any singular impactful event, so here’s a bunch of shit that happened to me recently. Feel free to skip around. I’m almost done with my Masters Degree which thank...
As much as it delights me to live in a world where Slowdive are a constantly touring entity, I won’t pretend I’m not waiting for them to get off the road and back into the studio because, well, I live in a festival-less market so it’s...
KRULE X-FORCE (TOY BIZ) “A member of the long-lived strain of mutantkind called the Externals, Krule has had literally a millennium to perfect the arts of savagery and torture he enjoys so much. Because of his fiery personality, he finds...
I start with characterizing a term, ‘Humphreys opacity’ (or, if you prefer, ‘epistemic opacity’):1 this involves the inability to surveil the steps of a process from a known input to a known desirable (or truthful, useful, beautiful,...
Fun and fascinating - with fabulous fotos - Danceteria oral history by Joy Press, aka the missus, who was a regular at the legendary New York club in the 1980s. Everyone from Madonna and Fab 5 Freddy to Mark Almond and Michael Musto to...
If the comments beneath HBO Max's newly released House of the Dragon Season 3 opening credits are anything to go by, viewers are more excited than ever to return to Westeros. The overwhelming reaction? Those drums. Hundreds of fans...
by Jan Jakeš A 3D museum in which you can walk on all about the history of WordPress, with displays for each release, some of the history behind them, all that. Really cool!