Unreliable narrator stories are fun until you live through a global-economy tanking war between two sets of relentless liars both trying to influence a stock market full of investors who don't actually care what's true.

Yes prices have gone up so we're spending more We're also buying less This is generally thought of as a bad thing for a consumption based economy, which Hasset has always been a big proponent of

People as things, that's where it starts

"Past popes have apologized for Christians’ involvement in the trans-Atlantic slave trade. But no pope has ever publicly acknowledged, much less apologized for, the role that past popes themselves played in giving European sovereigns explicit authority to subjugate and enslave 'infidels.'" /1

“We must … avoid … the idolatry of profit that sacrifices the weak, a uniformity that neutralizes differences, and the pretense that a single language — even a digital one — can translate everything, including the mystery of the person, into data and performance”. www.vatican.va/content/leo-...

i cant believe tom steyer is the first dem politician (that ive seen) to proudly and forcefully make this correct and obvious counter argument to the bigotry but im glad he did

One of the many sources cited in the new papal encyclical is... Gandalf

THE POPE IS QUOTING GANDALF!!!

In this encyclical Pope Leo not only condemns slavery, praises the social sciences, and considers ethical treatment of computer intelligences but also compares truth to “a multifaceted polyhedron” blessed in its diversity. I believe the long-rum first D&D Pope theory just got a shoutout.

Actually understanding that high school sports is almost entirely about giving kids a place to grow as human beings and not "winning at all costs" immediately deflated the anti-trans discourse around trans athletes

My phone reminded me of this old meme I posted 4 years ago

“OpenAI user numbers go flat — just in time for the IPO – Pivot to AI” https://pivot-to-ai.com/2026/05/22/openai-user-numbers-go-flat-just-in-time-for-the-ipo/ > But “operating income margin” was not great

This is the funniest shit I've seen in a bit

congratulations to every indie game developer I know who has a more profitable business than openAI even if you never released your game or literally no one bought it

Agents! #GodsTeeth and #ImpossibleLandscapes, two of the most acclaimed campaigns for #TTRPGs and THIRTY-TWO other DG books are available now in the @fanatical.com bundle for only $14.99. That’s YEARS of gameplay for under $15! Get in there and (or) spread the word!

The changes to S&P and other indexes are being covered only by financial press, who treats the story as Wall Street clambering aboard the AI rocket ship. What’s actually happening is that private fund managers are looking for ways to offload garbage onto passive investors with low risk tolerance.

The Cortex Prime Game Handbook is live on DriveThruRPG for the first time! 256 pages of the most flexible RPG toolkit I could make—build any genre, any tone, any kind of story you want to tell. I'm so proud of this book. www.drivethrurpg.com/en/product/5...

Is this the clown equivalent of when media write stuff like "Comic books aren't just thwack, pow, biff any more", like are clowns reading this and getting really angry

In many ways the tech industry is a demonstration of the failure of the private market in building and managing vital public infrastructure.

Larry Ellison suddenly realizes that buying credibility for your propaganda network only works if you don't immediately trash that credibility in the most spectacular ways possible

If your basic workers can't even afford to live near your city, congrats: you don't have a city, you have a theme park.

That's not what Colossal are doing, that's not what they did. I'm begging you to not fall for the latest bullshit from publicity-hungry techbros that'll have actual scientists facepalm AGAIN.

LLM’s are, in a sense, genre-identifying machines. The literary terms ‘genre’ names something potentially statistically-identifiable - a basin or attractor in the field. The LLM’s success at pastiching a certain kind of postcolonial Caribbean prose shows that it’s become generic

too soon

Vuelve el bundle de Delta Green, por si alguno aun no se lo ha pillado. Gracias a @ozarmidrashim.bsky.social por el aviso. www.fanatical.com/en/bundle/de...

Since the announcement of our union, Wizards of the Coast and Hasbro have hired Fisher Phillips (a union avoidance firm), and chosen to engage in a daily union-avoidance campaign by sending emails to the Arena team that is spreading misinformation and sowing fear among our colleagues. #uwotc-cwa

Not now, Elder Gods From Outside Reality Frozen Under The Ice For Aeons

Microsoft cocaine chief gives it 18 months - for all white-collar work to be automated by cocaine bsky.app/profile/davi...

Nary a peep of protest from the MAHA crowd. The annual budget of WIC costs less than a week of the Iran war.

Today, miniatures are nearly always seen as gray plastic, but scholars postulate that they were originally meant to be covered in bright, vivid paint. Using sophisticated imaging techniques, researchers can reveal how these figures were possibly intended to appear:

Not only does telling a chatbot ‘do not hallucinate’ misunderstand how LLMs works, the idea that they are capable of following instructions is an illusion. At best, this just adds text to the context that may cause them to go down one path rather than another. But they don’t literally obey commands.

Yes. bsky.app/profile/theo...

These people are such irredeemable freaks.

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I used to feel a little bad that The Onion is about to surpass WaPo in print subs and stopped promoting the membership as a direct foil until today they came out with “Do POOR BABIES deserve DIAPERS???” so therefore

dawg I had to revive my Bad Place account for book proposal reasons and right now they are losing their minds at me for saying The Odyssey is not a true story

There’s a glaring historical inaccuracy in Christopher Nolan’s upcoming film of The Odyssey: they didn’t have cameras back then. Theatres should have a blank screen and an old man reading out the script

The CFO of Spindrift is complaining on LinkedIn about Anthropic's customer service. He recommends OpenAI because it allows you to "work with a human sales person." Unfortunately there's simply no broader lesson that a c-suite officer of a successful CPG brand might extrapolate from this preference.

System Mastery Live: We'll be covering Marvel Heroic RPG (that's the Margaret Weis Productions Cortex one), and James will be there just like everyone enjoys so much. It's the only Marvel RPG we haven't covered yet, as far as I'm aware. www.gencon.com/events/308718

Quantum Dallas: As far as I can tell, this is the only game of SPI's Dallas being run at the show. Only we're running three tables at once and each table is a different alternate universe of Dallas and YES you can cross dimensions and form multiversal Ewing alliances! www.gencon.com/events/308723

nothing has shifted, there have been Trumps for like 2000 years, this need to act like he is unique also feels like US exceptionalism, no you just did the same dumb shit that dozens of others did before you with highly similar results

Hey, here's an informative piece about a TTRPG company we did which involved ZERO use of AI! See, it can be done... www.enworld.org/threads/meet...

These people are heroes. They are there knowing they will face violence for being there.

At first you think "this is all he knows about China and its relationship to the US" and it's dumb enough Then it dawns on you that he's reading prepared remarks and a speechwriter wrote this for him and it gets worse

There are approximately 2.8 million trans people in the US. That means FOURTEEN PERCENT of American trans people have moved across state lines in the past 18 months.

One thing that I think is underestimated by political pundits both in the UK and the US is that pandering to get a larger share of the "asshole" vote drives down your share of the "I don't like assholes" vote 1/

“Developers talk not just about how the AI output is often flawed, but that using AI to get the job done is often a more time consuming, harder, and more frustrating experience … More concerning, developers who use AI at work report that they feel like they are de-skilling themselves.”

When you've been a Doctor Who fan for far too bloody long - you see a sign like this and the words "Recall UNIT : The great T-Bag Mystery" pop into your head.

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