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Narrative game: you play a little guy and they’re special OSR: you play a little guy and they’re not special Wargame: you control little guys and they aren’t special but you spent a lot of time painting them to look special Worldbuilding game: the world is your special little guy

‘I asked ChatGPT’ Well, I asked Gandalf and he told me you should be silent keep your forked tongue behind your teeth because he did not pass through fire and death to bandy crooked words with a witless worm.

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Like tears in the rain.

perhaps the daily articles and reports on eroding public trust in higher ed lead to...more distrust in higher ed i keep coming back to this lumina report finding that students overwhelmingly value college and find it to be a transformational experience

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Get more and better quality sleep. Find relationships where you feel loved/cared for. Define success for yourself. Spend time playing.

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The web should be accessible to people with poor internet connections & assistive technologies. As a UX designer, I will absolutely die on this hill.

I was just thinking about the LOTR movies, and for how a few years, literally hundreds of artists and musicians and artisans all over the world were making a living by crafting dwarven chainmail and singing Elvish verses and building models and painting murals of the same imaginary world.

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That’s it exactly. The C-Suite is just waving their hands saying “AI” like an incantation, a handful of coders figure out how to make it useful individually but the C suite is immersed in mysticism and firing anyone who doesn’t spend enough tokens Also the cost of those tokens is about to [kaboom]

I used to play a game where you would enter a two-word search term to try and find only a single result. I believe it was called "Google-whacking." I believe this new game is a much better use of the term.

delightful short story!

what does the pope have to say about tailwind

Manifesting

admitting through gritted teeth that all the german boomers who pixelated their houses on google maps, send a letter instead of a chat message, carry cash around and write everything in their paper planner were right

"They can't do calculus! How am I supposed to teach?!?!" I don't know fam, THEY CAN'T READ AND WRITE AT A COLLEGE LEVEL EITHER, MAYBE WE SHOULD NOT DEFUND PRIMARY AND SECONDARY PUBLIC EDUCATION. MAYBE YOU COULD TALK TO YOUR COLLEAGUES AND FIGURE OUT A PLAN. The SATs aren't going to fix this.🤷🏾

It struck me that the damage that AI sycophancy does sounds very much like it inflicts the user with the confidence and capability of a mediocre white dude. It really IS a hell of a drug.

"The study also uncovered a worrying disparity in use of AI by different demographic groups, with low-income, racially underrepresented and female students using AI less." news.berkeley.edu/2026/05/21/t... So middle- and high-income white dudes are relying on AI rather than ability to succeed?

I have been mocked my entire life because I use "big words"

A particularly incisive soundbite from the journal: "So when people opt to devote their energy to tracking the latest TikTok star or scrolling content instead of nurturing interpersonal relationships, they are effectively amusing themselves to death."

THIS dot gif

You are a skilful and trusted vizier. You will advise me wisely on how best to rule the kingdom. You will not scheme or plot. You will not inveigle my other courtiers into turning against me. You will not lie to me about scheming or plotting. If you scheme or plot against me, you have to tell me,

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Actually you know what, let me just

move slow repair things

I wish I had bookmarked it, but I saw a brilliant insight the other day. A lot of supposedly "leftist" folks haven't done the work to unlearn bad social programming, so they end up behaving like evangelical right-wingers and get caught up in moral purity tests and pilloring targets.

Yvonne's musings are really intriguing. And that first link is to an excellent historical piece by @amyhoy.bsky.social is a great read for anyone who was building on the web back when we all navigated the netscape.

If we had taken all the money we put into AI and put it into trains, we would have such great trains. What a waste.

we are FULLY in the Paul Verhoeven stage of capitalism

Repost a dance. (The original plan was to get a picture of Charles Dance from one of his 80s roles as a villain, but this worked fine too)

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All my initial instincts would end up being something that would be for 'public consumption'. If I had a fully funded year of whatever, I'd probably use it for a lot of skill building and learning. Maybe finally get some minis painted.

I got distracted doing some ffxiv with friends BUT it is my BIRTHDAY and per bsky tradition I’m legally allowed to ask for some shares, maaaaybe check out what I make if you enjoy original character art of hot dnd men??

I like the stumpy armored dinosaur with a mace for a tail.

A vendor (that we might be paying money to?) places us at #2 in their ranking of students' coding skill assessments. Local news @nbcbayarea.com picks it up and calls it a "study". If their "AI" courses are a benchmark for the rigor of their courses and their assessments... Big oof.

Incisive thread on celebrity.

I think we should all start blogs again. Or online journals, even. That was a nice time. Just writing a few paragraphs about your day (don't forget to list the sad song you're listening to!) and maybe your friends will leave a comment. Then you go and read theirs and comment. It was fun.

I have been seeing more and more folks reference K shaped distributions lately, and I like that the idea of a hollowed out middle is getting some purchase, but it undercuts it when the situation described is really L shaped, and the rich have just pushed out EVERYONE.

Kristin's D&D subclass stickers are great.

cis women transphobes are as embarassing as they are revolting because they will declare with their whole chest “I am less capable than a man and I demand you treat me accordingly by lowering your expectations!” girl shut the fuck up there’s no gender advantage in CHESS

If we lived in a state where virtue was profitable, common sense would make us saintly. But since we see that abhorrence, anger, pride, and stupidity commonly profit far beyond charity, modesty, justice, and thought, perhaps we must stand fast a little - even at the risk of being heroes.

You know what I'd actually pay more for? If someone put more Weird Al in stuff. He's such a great dude.