Helpful AI alignment chart.

Finally got my Daemonist painted up, been a long time coming (yes, still need to paint base rim, I know). #infinity #miniatures #painting

Sunday Infinity game, "Provisioning", Bakunin vs vanilla Nomads. Was fun.

Some more Infinity done, Fiddler (and her murderbots) & Avicenna. #miniatures #painting #infinity

Built some "bling" objective markers for Warcrow. Two per player, plus four neutrals, with glass marble denoting player control (if any) -- enough for all current official scenarios. The STL was originally for a tall fantasy lantern thingy, but I modded it in Blender. #miniatures #warcrow

I saw an infographic a couple years ago about how to remove source identifiers from links and why it's important, but I can't find it again and too many people I know are sending me links with them so here's an infographic straight from the oven

Movie you’ve watched more than six times using gifs (hard mode, no SW, ST, or LOTR)

Elect a sociopathic narcissist, get sociopathic narcissism.

Solar + storage is now $104 per MWh in Las Vegas or similar regions for nearly 100% clean firm power. There is no way new nuclear can compete with this. Even new gas plants will struggle and that is assuming access to cheap gas over the life-cycle of the plant, which is kind of a crazy gamble TBH.

I get annoyed at the narrative that all the awareness and work on climate change hasn't done anything. Yes, global CO₂ emissions indeed continue to climb, but we don't know the counterfactual. When I was in grad school, we were on track for 5°C of warming. Now it's below 3°C. That's progress.

NICE.

Whee, managed to snag a complete set of the original hardcovers for the complete Chanur series. My ancient paperbacks were getting a bit worn...

This is... not wrong. :)

Finally own the full set of Absolute Transmetropolitan albums, plus the (absolutely huge) omnibus edition of Invisibles. Intend to re-read these soon, some of my favorite works.

This is how. Greta Thunberg spits fire and gives you the only media training you may ever need.

Deathloop is a wonderful sandbox of deaths and time loops. It's clever, it's witty, it's fun. And for a week, it's also free. So yeah, high recommendations. store.epicgames.com/en-US/p/deat...

“A Busy, Busy Day at the Airport” By Ruben Bolling Genius. Click in.

The fact that so many "AI" start-ups turn out to be digital sweatshops full of humans sweeping up after idiot LLMs introduces the funny idea that the particularly delusional cohort of chatbot users convinced they're in love with it may actually BE in love. It's just with, y'know. Brown foreigners.

"Pay no attention to the men behind the curtain!" :D

"ChatGPT isn't its own, unique problem. It's a symptom of a totalizing cultural paradigm in which passive consumption and regurgitation of content becomes the status quo."

Suurimmasta osasta on lähteenä OECD:n, Eurostatin tai World Bank Groupin tilastosivusto, jossa vertailuja voi helposti ulottaa haluamiinsa maihin. Linkit lähteisiin löytyvät täältä kirjoituksen lopusta. lauspalo.com/2025/06/vahe...

Printed out some of the official STLs from Dream Pod 9, for "Heavy Gear". Really nice models, and I love the fact that DP9 took the plunge of also selling STLs of some models. #miniatures #heavygear

I try not to judge people. Everyone has their own context and most people are trying to do their best But also if I find out someone is regularly using LLMs to research/make decisions, I add them to a mental list called "Dumb Motherfuckers: Do Not Trust Their Judgement"

Digitally kitbashed together an Abyssinian Expeditionary Force starter army for Trench Crusade, using 3rd party kits (Sir Nicholas @myminifactory and Funduk24 @cults3d) plus some Blender time. Pretty nice results, perfectly usable while we wait for official models. #trenchcrusade #miniatures

Compare Vonnegut buying an envelope with this tech bro running from his life

Weather finally warm enough so I can run my 3d resin printer again (it's in the woodshed, for ventilation). First batch for this year is a Trench Crusade warband (Sultanate of the Iron Wall). Really nice minis. Have yet to play the game, but one thing at a time. #miniatures #trenchcrusade

This was just posted by @tbretc.bsky.social on another platform. The Chicago Sun-Times obviously gets ChatGPT to write a ‘summer reads’ feature almost entirely made up of real authors but completely fake books. What are we coming to?

Just saw "Flow" in the theater, fantastic. And even more impressive considering it was made in Blender, which isn't usually associated with full film projects. Hats off to the team behind this.

This is bleak reading

The kids on Tumblr know what's what

"We'll just terraform Mars," they insist, unable to terraform Earth, a planet that is already perfect except it's like 2° too warm.

Hallitus kuvittelee yhteisöveron laskun maksavan itsensä isolta osin takaisin viitaten tutkimukseen, jonka tekijä kiistää väitteen ja toteaa: ”Päähavainto on, että keskiarvoisesti itserahoittavuus on lähellä nollaa.”

This looks really cool, actually. A slightly different & interesting take on cyberpunk, with EU shipping if you want a print copy.

Cassocks are red Conclaves are dope Wake up babe we got a

Just saw "Sinners", fantastic. Best movie I've seen since "Poor Things".

People are NOT understanding what empty cargo ships from China means. It means no work for dock workers. No work for truck drivers, no work for retailers, fewer dollars circulating. The cascade effect is just mind boggling.

On muuten jännä, miten suurituloisten veroja ei tulisi ikinä korottaa, koska niin ei saada riittävästi veroja kerrytettyä pienen väestömäärän vuoksi. Heidän verojaan voidaan kuitenkin rutkasti alentaa, koska sillä tavoin saadaan aikaan hurja tuottavuushyppy ja talouskasvu.

Elon Musk said he'd step down from being Twitter ceo too and all he did was ad a woman as a figurehead who could be occasionally blamed while he still ran the site. Musk will only have his hands off the government when he's in jail or dead.

Lenin, Stalin ja Brezhnev ja Orpo matkustivat junalla. Yllättäen juna pysähtyi. Lenin: Johdattakoon työväenluokan väkevä vallankumousaate meitä eteenpäin! Stalin: Ammutaan junankuljettaja ja lämmittäjä! Brezhnev: Suljetaan verhot ja hytkytetään vaunua. Orpo: Meillä on hyvä juna-aikataulu.

The most daming claim in this statement IMO: Within 15 minutes of DOGE accounts being created… Attackers in Russia tried logging in using those new creds. Correct usernames and passwords. 2 options here. The DOGE device was hacked. And I don't think I need to explain the 2nd.

It seems Tesla is detecting vehicles that may have problems, and artificially running their odometers faster so the warranty expires before they have to do any service Just incredible grift

Coolest thing I've seen at Salute today: this minis version of the classic early-80s Atari arcade game Battlezone. Not the digital-to-tabletop adaptation I'd expected to find, but wow.

From the Discord.

I have tariffed the penguins that are on Heard Island and which you were probably assuming did not export goods forgive me they were taking advantage of us so cunning and so cold

Everyone wants there to be a grand scheme behind all of this but the terrible truth is that extremely stupid people are in charge and they have a fanatical devotion to wrong, childlike concepts of society and economics cooked up by right wing radio hosts in order to sell tainted dietary supplements

Omelas, folks, what a wonderful city. So beautiful. So beautiful. Streets are clean, the economy, oh the economy, it's so beautiful. Really beautiful economy. They—and the liberal media won't tell you this folks—they keep a child in a dungeon. This child dungeon. They showed it to me. So beautiful

Wow, this is truly scathing.

The thing about trade deficits, is, odds are you buy a hell of a lot more onions from the supermarket than they buy from you. That is a trade deficit in onions, a huge one because odds are you haven't sold them even a single onion. Imagine getting so angry at this you set fire to the store.