it's crazy to have been working on this game for 4 years and to finally have mockups of it

The first Double Feature from Cairn Press hit 200% funded today! Pretty cool, pretty cool. 6 days to go. www.kickstarter.com/projects/cai...

My favorite band from the early 2000s

My wife was just telling me yesterday about how some of the investment products these days are just AI agents, rather than people, managing the portfolio. This is one reason it's a bad idea. Another is my lingering questions about fiduciary duty.

Ein paar Kaffeebilder, die noch erhältlich sind ☕️🖌

New annoyance unlocked. Audio exposure limit warnings are apparently required here (no way to turn them off), and iOS happily warns me twice a day that I've exceeded my 7 day exposure limit. But the readings are wrong. I have my over-ear headphone wired in AUX->USB-C, and the volume at 20-25% max.

Ever read or hear something and you can't help but keep coming back to it? That's how I've felt about @plach.bsky.social and @emgrumbach.bsky.social lightning talk on friendship and labor in DH for @ach.bsky.social last week.

Zeynep explains why she does not share the trending pessimism over AI's likely effect on employment: LLM AIs are, by their very nature, irremediably prone to hallucinations, to a degree we will find unacceptable. And they can’t fix it. www.nytimes.com/2026/06/30/o...

A thing I haven't seen written about but would love to read is an exploration of the ~ pivot to video ~ / rise of short-form video / YouTube-ification of news/info as being predicated on people consuming information either 1) in isolation or 2) without regard to the people around them in public

Today I discovered eiernockerl. Naturally now I want to put it on a taco with some cheese and hot sauce.

I've long had personal use cases for semi-autonomous cargo bots, probably something more like a little red wagon with a computer in it. I think we all might if we thought about it. What I envisioned and desired was not these, though.

“Don't fight them. Don't waste your time struggling with them and trying to make sense to them. They'll never understand.” This is coming to me at exactly the time I needed to hear it, so maybe it’ll find you, too.

Appx. N Jam 2026 by @dankdungeons.bsky.social and @jorphdan.bsky.social is starting next week! So I wrote something about the Appendix N and why TTRPG can be weirder. I wasn't expecting it to be a manifesto, but here we are 😂 afraidofencounters.bearblog.dev/appendix-n-m...

Anthropic and Open AI are making LinkedIn Fortnite

This is my next book restoration project: a c.1910 revised edition of Mrs Beeton’s Household management. Of no great financial value even in immaculate condition, but of sentimental value to me, binding falling apart so badly that it can barely be handled.

If you're like me, every haircut is some kind of capitulation, a giving up against the anticipatory anxiety of dealing with another pitched battle over the state of your hair, once the increasing dishevelment of having put off the visit finally becomes too much and you reluctantly go to war.

I don't need to buy a Rolex. I just look at their ads and figure out what time it is for free.

Si tenéis juegos de rol, de mesa o videojuegos en itchio, por favor, ponerlos en este paquete para que llegue toda la ayuda necesaria a Venezuela 💘💘💘💘

THIS. THIS. THIS. There’s reasons why folks might focus on D&D depending on their scope/ research question. BUT I do not accept arguments for focusing on D&D like: - the extant research focuses on D&D - D&D is inevitable touchstone - D&D was first _________ - D&D can represent all of TTRPG

There were a whopping 80 blog posts for the latest Random Blogwagon! I round them all up into a rollable table here: #osr #ttrpg #blogwagon

True story: one time, many years ago, I had lunch with Bill Gates (this was long before we knew about the Epstein stuff or him creeping on women at MS), and he ended up yelling at me about the topic of air conditioning in *the region of rural India my family is from*.

what is wild is we're supposed to get all butthurt about air conditioning for humans but be ok about air conditioning for nvidia gpus

> Bias against non-native English speakers in peer review persists even when authors use large language models to improve their writing. Sounds to me like it's the bigotry that needs to change & structural support needs to be built up and not "chatGPT is a tool" rhetoric rolled out uncritically. 1/

Similarly, "AI in education" should be far more "What can you tell us about the lack of accountability over content & bias in these models? What can you tell us about substituting plausibility for verifiability? What data privacy exists?" instead of "When is your instruction going to be AI-first?"

“AI in libraries” should be “what can you tell us about corporate profit-driven control of search and retrieval” instead of “when are librarians going to get on board.”

I was asked to create a risk analysis of Microsoft 365 Copilot for a labor council and it occurs to me that others may find it useful. Voila! padlet.com/verdigris21/...

I understand the excitement about technology “rediscovering lost texts.” I do, & I get the media hype. But I wish people knew that there are hundreds of thousands of “lost” texts just sitting in manuscripts in libraries, which have never been published outside of those single manuscripts. 1/n

“Digital humanities gives us a space for connecting people who care about this kind of thing and who have the linguistic and cultural competence to be appropriately skeptical of the machine's results.” - @quinnanya.me and Regina Pieck 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥 #ACH2026

> Imagine a for-profit but heavily indebted utility advising customers to remember to leave their lights and appliances on all night. That's about where we are.

Cyclist Rides Up Loading Ramp of Delivery Truck to Give Drive a Little Lesson on Bike Lane Laws. Wow. momentummag.com/when-bike-la...

Deux occasions ce mois-ci de parler du projet Canadian Vichy Intercepts : au congrès de l’ACFAS à Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières, puis à Humanistica 2026 la semaine suivante. omeka.uottawa.ca/examination-... #humanitésnumériques #digitalhumanities #openscience

#ACH2026 Lauren Gonzales keynote: How are communities sustaining each other vs growing tech surveillance+extraction? Collaborating to maintain humanistic values in tech design, policy. Builds on UX+participatory design: supporting community knowledge/efforts/desires should remain DH's central focus.

In July, Exalted Funeral is doing a Backerkit campaign for their games that won ENNIES last year--that includes HIS MAJESTY THE WORM. If you've missed out on one of these games, make sure this is on your radar!

Tested into A1/2 German, so just one step above total beginner. I will take it.

A huge collaborative effort more than 7 (+ 30!) years in the making, and one I’m proud to have had a hand in bringing into the world. And we’re still building features!

🚨NEW Blogpost🚨 #England plays tonight. #Scotland tomorrow. ⚽ But which team would James VI/I have most favoured in the #WorldCup? 👑 Explore his complicated relationship w/ #football, & its shift from #medieval unlawful game to #earlymodern elite pastime. 👇 drtayloraucoin.com/2026/06/19/j...

See also "Why do I have to take history?"

#ACH2026 attendees who do craft/art/making, we have 2 opportunities for you! 1: Share an image of something you've made (art/craft/maker), for a digitally stitched "picnic blanket" and/or 2: Sign up to briefly share 1 thing you're making/made (art/craft/maker) @ Wed #DHmakes Show+Tell session: +

This is a slow moving thread of screaming and horrified city gates. Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa #ScreamingCityGates

Hello! 📕 This is not a drill: Save 25% on all Loeb Classical Library vol. through July 31, 2026, with code EPICS. This is in celebration of the new Odyssey, so don’t say that Christopher Nolan never did anything nice for you. A full Loeb set is around $20,000 btw. www.hup.harvard.edu/series/loeb-...

A very simple reason why I’m not interested in incorporating this software into my work. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Never ever do this. Close the tab. The website has been compromised.

NEVER let ANYONE tell you “Black Americans have no culture.” NEVER! The impact Black American culture has had on the World should be studied. From your folklore, regional dishes, accents, and traditions you’ve upheld ever since your ancestors stepped foot on these cursed lands.

There are plausibly types of analysis that you can do with LLMs on text about prejudice. eg you could *try* to use features/structures of embeddings of pre classified texts to try and derive some kind of linguistic meta pattern representing transphobia.

☀️BEHOLD, A NEW BLOGPOST ON PATREON🌕 How do you keep time in a world without clocks as a standard? By fire, vice, and the bright burning bodies in the sky. www.patreon.com/posts/161438...

well, I found out what an eyed agate ring is but I wish I hadn't V&A, 1680-1720

I have stopped editing out my repetitive tics in sentences (repeated “really” or other emphatic words) because they might be clunky but at least you know that a human with enthusiasm wrote it

This is a solution to only a few problems. 1. You don't have to send your data outside your network to process it. 2. You aren't paying unethical companies for access to their models. 3. You can measure your own compute/energy demands. But the rest of the problems? Still there.