Just wow. @pluralistic.net.web.brid.gy came out swinging in this article. He's right though and that's the coolest part.

Regular reminder that I am trying to build a corps of new Youtubers to cover indie RPGs. If you have any desire to do this, please let me know and I will give you what little knowledge I posses.

Based on modeling out its last three quarters of sales, NVIDIA appears to have shipped around 4GW of IT load - yet I cannot find compelling evidence that even 1GW has come online. I believe there are millions of GPUs in warehouses, waiting to be installed. wheresyoured.at/premium-how-...

This is what happens when tech has its claws so deeply embedded in the politics of your city and state. Waymo is effectively being product tested at the expense of the well being of the people of SF.

Yes. And translators, badly paid, have been trying to make people aware of this, but they have only a small platform. Need writers and readers to be aware and speak out. All my foreign language contracts going forward will stipulate that a real person translates.

PG&E is having a massive outage in San Francisco. Waymo robots aren't handling the traffic light outages well. Cell service is also out is some places. No surprise as Waymo robots & cell have repeatedly failed during power outages. CPUC regulates both Waymo and PG&E (Profit Greed & Explosions).

And yes, this went on across the city… www.sfgate.com/bayarea/arti...

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We spoke to a dozen professional concept artists who are currently or have previously worked in game development about whether generative AI image tools have made their jobs any easier. Zero said it did. Most said it made things harder. thisweekinvideogames.com/feature/conc...

Most of us did not choose to write or draw or design so that we could put products on the shelf. We chose to do it because it’s a set of skills we enjoy exercising, that give us fulfillment. It’s like asking a pro pitcher to just let a machine pitch for them. Fuck off and give me the ball.

Sometimes I write something hard into a script, for fun. Am I having fun here? It's not clear

I've been asked for information about UK-based researchers with interest in TTRPGs and Actual Play. I have a half-dozen names off the top of the dome, but would be happy to hear of more to pass along for Schemes.

I think the suggestion of the mechanical implies an attitude or an ideology toward rules, perhaps thet they should return predictable results no matter who's implementing them. Same inputs, same outputs, impervious to players' preferences and tastes, not reliant on their judgments or whims.

Mmmm if there’s an actual useful distinction, it often feels like mechanics are more “enabling” and “opening” while rules cover “restrictions” and “requirements”. Feels like there’s a slight difference in being invited to engage with mechanics vs being asked to abide by rules.

I cannot express how pathetic you have to be to believe this happened in the TTRPG hobby in the last decade

Just real quick: Your body is not going to fight off stage 2 cancer on its own. Cancer is not the sniffles. FFS. Check your parts, get your screenings. Damn, people. Please.

Rockstar now claims it was, in fact, the leaking of “specific game features from upcoming and unannounced titles” that led to the firings. We’re going to have to see the company prove this in an employment tribunal & more than that, it’ll need to prove it for all 31 fired employees in the UK too.

Kids, wake up. New Network State just dropped.

Carl from Internet of Bugs did a video on this (he actually uploaded a version that ONLY covered the SciShow video, but expanded to other YouTubers so people wouldn't think it was a problem unique to them: www.youtube.com/watch?v=4lKy...

- ספרייה שלום - יש לכם את הספר יד שנייה? - מה? - הספר "יד שנייה" - יש לכם אותו? - לא, אין לנו. בטוח שזה שם הספר? של מי זה? - של יעל נאמן. - אני לא מוצאת אותו גם בגוגל. - שאלתי את הצ'אט וזה מה שיצא. - אה, הצ'אט ממציא. - אה, באמת? - כן. - אז את יכולה להמליץ לי? - כן, בוא לספרייה ונמליץ לך. #מהדלפק

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“Students learn how to spot deception across subjects: in maths, they see how statistics can be manipulated; in art, they explore how images can convey misleading messages; in history, they study famous propaganda campaigns; & in Finnish, they examine [how] words can be used to confuse or mislead.”

Two weeks ago I said that there were likely millions of uninstalled Blackwell GPUs sitting in warehouses as there is neither the data center capacity nor the power to turn them on. Michael Burry is looking into it and it looks like he’s got evidence I’m right. www.wheresyoured.at/the-haters-g...

as of 2024 we've passed 422 ppm co2

TIL about a memorial ceremony in Iceland in 2019 to mark the end of a glacier, changing the place name from Okjökull to Ok (jökull = glacier). Uncompromising wording on the bronze plaque: "This is to acknowledge that we know what is happening and what needs to be done. Only you know if we did it".

Marx and Engels Moomin

upping my rates because I got back into magic the gathering

All of the companies that make the software I use are increasing their prices, to account for an "investment" in AI. I'm sat here imagining how my clients would feel if I added 30% to each invoice, because I "really got into gambling".

Everyone is vulnerable to believing that their expertise - writing, tech, engineering, philosophy, whatever - is The Most Important One that’s going to Fix Everything, but there’s something unique about gambling addicts saying “what if we tried gambling our way to the truth?”

6-fold ward against AI-induced psychosis

One of the many things worth thinking about re: Steam's ban on Horses is how it highlights is the centralization problem caused by having such a monolithic (and maybe mono-something-else) retail giant. Independent studios with even humble commercial aspirations are chained to Valve's whims.

it's time to play a game of [pointing microphone to audience] IS! THAT! GOOD? archive.is/Rk9XL#select...

Trump pardoned the ex-president of Honduras who shoveled hundreds of tons of cocaine into the U.S. He pardoned the founder of a black market who imported fentanyl from China. These men poisoned America. Whatever Trump’s illegal boat strikes are about, it sure isn’t drugs.

The subgenre of “cozy games are are actually about death and grief” (Cozy Grove, Spiritfarer, Gris I think but I haven’t played) is another banger category

When the ALA recognizes one's work, that's pretty dang cool. "The games recognized as 2026 Platinum Play Classics are Clue, Jenga, Pokémon, Magic: The Gathering, Apocalypse World, Call of Cthulhu, Mario Kart 8, and Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater." #ApocalypseWorld #AW3rd #PBTA www.ala.org/news/2025/11...

Whether you're resting after eating, escaping from annoying family members, traveling, or not involved at all in US holiday madness, we've got an early episode for you! friendsatthetable.net/website/perp...

הנחת היסוד שלנו כשאנחנו מדברים על זכאויות היא שתמיד, באופן בלתי נמנע, יהיו אנשים שזכאים לזכות ולא מקבלים אותה (אי-מיצוי), ואנשים שלא זכאים לזכות וכן מקבלים אותה ('רמאות', לצורך הדיון). שני המספרים תלויים זה בזה - ככל שנבדוק יותר נגלה יותר רמאים אבל נגרום ליותר אי מיצוי.

טוב, יאללה, ננצל את ההזדמנות לשרשור על מלחמה ברמאויות במדינת הרווחה. למען הרקורד: אני חוקר של מדיניות רווחה, וחקרתי ספציפית את הנושא של טענות לרמאות וההשפעה שלהן על עיצוב הטבות של מדינת הרווחה (ספציפית, חופשת לידה לאב) https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/1097184X17696175

Good morning to Brazilian reporter Manuela Borges, who’s been waiting eleven years for this petty moment. ❤️ 🇧🇷

Anybody available to talk to me about SRDs? Very practically speaking, how do you use one? What do you do with it when you have it open in front of you? What's your favorite one that I should look at?

מצטערת יש רק כותרת אחת נכונה לטקסט הזה וזה לא זאת שנבחרה

I really don't like anything about D&D's alignment system, but I appreciate its power as a shorthand, and I'd love to do something that could work similarly, and this is a swing at that. walkingmind.evilhat.com/2025/11/23/o...

I updated my guide to digital preservation of Actual Play to make it easier to navigate & added a little diagram to explain the relationship between backups, digital preservation & digital archives allmyfriendsarestories.neocities.org/digitalpres Also, now it has a glitter cursor.

Just ran a session of #GodfleshRPG with @icel.me and @yushuv.bsky.social and I’m happy to say it’s really cool! I haven’t GMed since, like, ‘93 but Aviv and Yehuda were great sports. Godflesh is a PBTA game about adventurers seeking to attain godhood by consuming the flesh of dead gods.

squirrel: *points gun* me: what do you want me to do? squirrel: *gestures at sign* me: alright, i get it *opens book drop* squirrel: *makes hurry-up motion* me: NOT A SQUIRREL! squirrel: *disappears into book drop* me: *whispers* forgive me, keith

Just finished a 12 sessions game of Fall of Magic for my ##ActualPlay. This game is absolutely brilliant. We got so much milage out of its understated prompts. Highly recommended. ##ttrpg ##fallofmagic

Surprise, we're getting pretty close to the final version of REALIS! ICYMI: I've been making a TTRPG about mystical moons and living spaceships and sentences that can kill you. A preview is available now (see my pinned post), but the full version draws near! www.kickstarter.com/projects/cru...

A cycling influencer nominated for a list of top 100 women cyclists said she has declined the honour due to the decision not to include trans women. Claire Sharpe, a cycling coach from Bristol, said: "If they don't want to ride with all women, then it's not the kind of ride I want to be part of" 👏🏻