I was asked to give my thoughts on generative AI usage in games - here they are!

he's on the roof again (night edition)

Enemies Hate These Five Types of Subterfuge

One Simple Trick To Keep Marauding Mongols From Pillaging Your Villages

This was driven home for me when I also realised that Sun Tzu was basically writing ancient Chinese listicles for people with poor attention spans. "The Six Types of Terrain", "Five Factors for Victory." "The Seven Considerations—#4 Will Shock You!"

The Art of War makes infinitely more sense if you treat it not as a sublime work of unfathomable wisdom, ever beyond your reach, but if you assume that every fourth or fifth sentence should be read with, "you dummy, you blithering damned idiot" appended to the end.

Quiet Valley Living Historical Farm, the local cranberry bog, or a ski day. Sometimes we'd get a trip to Philly to visit Independence Hall or the Franklin Institution.

A new study finds that texting a random stranger is probably better to mitigate loneliness than talking to an AI-powered chatbot www.404media.co/chatgpt-lone...

I woke up this morning and chose violence buttondown.com/charliejane/...

This was based in a rational calculation that Philadelphians are more dangerous than the Iranian state. It may not have worked out in practice but it was the right thing to do.

Europeans when asked to help unblock the strait of Hormuz:

Holy shit y’all I just got an email I’d like to nominate for the "Wildest All-Faculty Email" Hall of Fame

[Sade voice 🎵]

begging people not to reshare anyone who writes "BREAKING" in a post followed by something totally unsourced, no matter how hard it confirms your priors

getting sent this and just saying i'm gonna need a source other than an "end-to-end digital marketer" on this one

this is fitting because like ai, carbon credits are primarily a rhetorical technology. they don't reduce carbon emissions, they produce permission to use energy

I needed a therapist in childhood and instead I discovered the magic of books

Presidents hate this one weird strait

Video I obtained through a public records request on behalf of MN50501 shows Liam and his dad boarding a Delta Air Lines flight at MSP. Delta was silent when workers were being snatched up by ICE at MSP, but was a vocal supporter of the Big Beautiful Bill, which increased ICE’s funding.

mom can you pick me up at the strait of hormuz, my friends are laughing at me and wont help

Wes Streeting is planning a Cass review for neurodivergency. We are the latest group targeted for public punishment in Labour's vain quest for rightwing support. Lives will be ruined and lives will be lost if they get their way. Please sign this petition. petition.parliament.uk/petitions/75...

Someone needs to send an ambulance to X

Nice to see colleagues in college writing recognizing that gen AI in the classroom is neither inevitable nor necessarily beneficial--as the research increasingly shows, quite the reverse! www.insidehighered.com/news/tech-in...

Spent all morning in a parents' workshop about sensory processing issues in people with autism, and while The Child's noise sensitivities are often challenging to deal with, I am really really really glad she's not one of the kids who can't stand the feeling of clothes touching their body.

Tom Holland could have pulled off “Dune” but Timothee Chalamet could not have pulled off “Umbrella”

Having a hard time believing this ides of March story, you're telling me senators did something other than send out fundraising texts

If I were a Marvel supervillain I'd be "Thyroid Mary", a gag villain who's always too tired to carry her schemes through

friend, this is Marcus Junius Brutus CAESAR has declared himself DICTATOR FOR LIFE and MUST BE STOPPED can you rush a donation of ten denarii today to show that you STAND WITH THE REPUBLIC?

pfffft every week is knife week when you're a scorpio

Scorpio: KNIFE WEEK IS BACK! Get ready for seven days of blades, blades, blades! Gemini lives upended by knives! Some helped, MANY harmed! Stabbings, slicings, choppings and much, MUCH more! Opportunities will knock, murderers WON'T! Knife Week: IT CUTS BOTH WAYS!

Hello, Gaius Cassius Longinus here. I have a favor to ask you. Julius Caesar has DECLARED himself DICTATOR FOR LIFE! I need you to send a denarius to Save The Republic PAC RIGHT NOW so we can stop Caesar from making himself a king.

i honestly can't stand seeing people say Gen AI is a disability aid because if it was a disability aid, they wouldn't be putting this much money into it

It's fun how once a week i go to The Atlantic page, and either find one of the more interesting articles I've recently read or one of the dumbest things ever expressed in the written word.

pretty sure this violates ahimsa

Reading a brilliant novel about a follower of Mahavira who comes into a fortune on the decease of a relative. Jain Heir.

Already looking like I'll be priced out of flights to the US this summer. Can't afford to buy until late May, so we'll see.

Well, if it’s 15 March, we could commemorate the 2,070th anniversary of the doing in of Julius Caesar... or we could note that it’s 70 years since My Fair Lady opened on Broadway, and use that as an excuse to trot out one of the finest of all theatrical anecdotes... 🧵

Please note most federal grants *required* information on how the grants would benefit underserved or understudied groups. If you applied for a grant, you *had to* include something that would speak to diversity and equity.

God help thee, old man, thy thoughts have created a creature in thee

WOW best Orange County swallow session of my life so far today! Perfect light. Perfect wind. Perfect flight patterns. Over 3000 shots in a half hour, and several close range videos. Can't wait to review at home someday! 🪶

Saint Anthony the Anchorite is all:

My favorite part was when the guy who killed 170 kids in Minab said he bombed only military installations on Kharg Island, and avoided oil facilities there "for the sake of decency" It was one of those moments when you find yourself thumbing through Dante to remind yourself how many levels Hell has

This weekend's project. Meant to do this before Christmas!

I'm out of cat treats, so my very handsome, slightly portly middle-aged tuxedo cat is barreling around the house doing parkour about it. It's like having a ham in formalwear be angry at you.

IMPORTANT UPDATE: Here he is last night after getting his treats.

Coming Wednesday 3/18: The Book of Job, in which powerful people mess with the lives of their underlings for fun and well-meaning friends give terrible advice for coping with a crisis.

Next week's BoAT covers the Book of Job, which is also proving to be painfully relevant to the current moment.