Folks — this is not a normal government shutdown. Let me explain the stakes and how we got here.

I made the horrible mistake of buying Hades II off the Nintendo Store and downloading it to my Switch, and now all I want to do is play Hades II on my Switch 2. I have always enjoyed a roguelike, and Hades II may be the most perfect expression of the genre.

I've been trying to keep political chatter off the Internet, no matter how I felt, but can someone please explain to me why the US Military is invading... *checks notes*... Portland?

I finished RF Kuang’s Katabasis and, I have to admit, I kept casting GBBO’s Paul Hollywood as Prof Jacob Grimes. “Your pentagram didn’t rise properly and it’s gone all claggy. And your lettering has no flavor. This won’t do.” Am I GBBO pilled? Maybe! #books

Behold: www.usatoday.com/story/entert...

I made this felted Gnome from a Going Gnome kit I bought from Maryland Sheep and Wool. He’s a most excellent overalls wearing knitting gnome with a fuzzy beard and a sweater project #craft #gnome #knitting

Time to watch Bryce Underwood play. Might be something good might be Michigan. #goBlue

I’m a #Michigan alum. The kiddo is at #pennstate. I declare today the greatest holiday of them all — first day of Annual Football Shit Talking Season! #goblue #big10

I found a use case for LLMs and GenA. A task so repetitive and obnoxious I’d happily hand it to a machine. A task no script seems to 100% solve. The worst problem in engineering: converting Markdown to Atlassian Confluence. Why Atlassian can’t just support MD I will never understand. #ai

This is Gnot Just Another Gnome from Imagined Landscapes. I made him from fingering weight remnants. Imo he came out excellent. Really love the cables! #knitting #knit #gnome #knitsky

This is Frank. He is, theoretically, a small dog. This has not yet been scientifically proven. At 5am, Frank decided he needed to sleep on my pillow wrapped around my head like a hat. First off, dog hats are hot. Second, they are squirmy. Third, he licked my forehead. Alot. #dogshame #dogs

We're playing #daggerheart. My clank stalwart guardian invokes its orderborne mantra "Subtly is for cowards and thieves" for that d20, yells "BOLDNESS IS ALL!" charges a badguy _from behind_ and... I roll a 1 on my d20 and a 3 on my d12 fear die. The badguy turns and I run into him head first.

I drove down to the District (actual DC NW district not Arlington or Falls Church DC) every day for years++ and I can attest that I’ve witnessed at least 75% of the horrific crimes in this very truthful article personally. I hope someone gets on these, stat. www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/cri...

after sharing our book about making outdoor pigs pay, lots of people are sending us this meme:

We're in ship-to-ship combat in a storm in open water, and @rdonoghue.bsky.social is somehow ATTACKING US WITH PSYCHIC BEES. BEES! BEEEEEEESSSSS!!!!

Daggerheart is the most comic book framing bullshit system I have ever played. ....And that is NOT a bad thing!

5am. Frank wakes me up. What is he doing? Licking my elbow. Why? My elbow needed licking. #dog

You must watch Dim 20…. ON A BUS! #gamechanger

It’s been fascinating to watch these last few months #AI capitalism in an arms race with the 2nd law of thermodynamics… and lose. Eventually someone will realize the digital world is made of physical stuff and physics is a thing.

Oh look it’s my career

Feeling get your war on this morning. #iran

My dogs: Frank makes eeping noises at 5:30 a.m. Eric tells Frank to go back to sleep. My alarm goes off at 6 a.m. I check on June, and she is in her normal June place. I look for Frank, and he is nowhere to be found. In a panic, I reach over to Eric…. …. and discover Frank sleeping on Eric’s head.

“On the dangers of stochastic parrots.” - dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/...

Go blue baby!

Hey all! Good news! It’s infrastructure week!

Absolutely perfect. No notes. #AI youtube.com/shorts/hL9pl...

This is Gnelson the Gnome from imagined design’s gnomes of grimblewood. And he’s delightful! Check out his custom leather belt! #knitting #knit #craft #pirate

*states at broken clock* The voice of economic sanity is… Rand Paul?

#Eurovision semi 2 was… very strange. The outcome of the voting was just odd. Fan vote with no jury == that terrible Armenia song getting in. I am still strongly Team Sweden (sauna!) but I would not be sad if Malta won this year.

Schnict Schnict Schnict Schnict #eurovision I am very much on Team Sweden this year but some of the other acts are also strong this year.

So stunned I had to sit down.

Frank, the King of Empanadas, demands treats.

I thought the whole point of MAGA was mah freedom to consume not a communist central planned economy.

39% of Americans support this guy.

Yup we’re playing Blades 68 as a bunch of tripping balls cultists and it’s going to get weird. But the compound has a swingin groovy conversation pit in blue velvet.

He should actually read it one day! It says kings and tariffs suck!

Something (written by George Harrison, on Abbey Road. Fun fact - it’s the Come Together single B-side.)

These guys think they’re the smartest people alive and they just reinvented LambdaMOO. The 90s called and it would like its internet back.

I spend an awful lot of my time differentiating between useful models that solve problems and the stupid.

subprime hamburger crisis

First it’s not a law. It’s the 16th amendment to the Constitution. Second, ask yourself how utterly terrible this system was to justify an amendment to the constitution. Third, think how much people wanted to ensure it could never be undone by adding an amendment to the Constitution.

The massive explosion in use of satellite imagery by archaeologists has led to the discovery of hundreds of thousands of ancient sites and features across the world in the last 25 years, none of which were known about previously due to data resolution+coverage. This is also a post about autism

So…. Paper clips.

Finished another piece. This is Photosynthesis by Tin Can Knits in yarn from Fiber Optik Yarns in the Bramble colorway. It is a much simpler knit than it looks! #knit #knitting #yarn #shawl

I’m sorry. Do we only have 1 person in the Democratic Party? We cannot scale? Why not both?

I know this #AI paper from 2023 is a little out of date, but the premise still holds true even with the newer chat-based models: How chat-based LLMs replicate the mechanics of a psychic’s con. (When I found this paper today I made a happy little noise) softwarecrisis.dev/letters/llme...

They’re straight up discussing concentration camps… and laughing about it. Eventually El Salvador will run out of room and then… a cheaper solution.

I’d like to know who the 44% is. How can 44% still approve?

Me: Let’s try this game the Blue Prince everyone is talking about. One hour passes… Me: This was a terrible idea. Also we need to take notes.