chatgpt is much like an improv comedy group 1) you are the audience, giving it prompts 2) it produces things roughly shaped like your prompt 3) it is trained to respond with Yes, And 4) it has the factual accuracy of improv 5) it does not understand comedy

It is interesting how an OSR person sees old D&D as liberating because it is easy to hack and has fewer rules while a non-OSR person typically sees it as constraining and outdated. Both view have bite. I'm much more in the former camp, of course, but I understand where the yungunz are coming from.

Ridiculous! Embarrassing! Shameful! …Yet still better than the present US Congress. youtube.com/shorts/Z0drq...

hey everyone wanna see what a manufactured hate campaign is shaped like???

During Wes Streeting's round of interviews, some of which over half an hour long, it doesn't seem to have occurred to a single of the interviewers to ask him about his country-wide ban on trans youth healthcare and the intense hostility with which he's viewed by the LGBTQ+ community.

am adopting "knicker sniffers" from this point on for any toilet police

Well, it seems that in order to justify their trans segregation policies the EHRC has determined that "doing gay things is sinful" isn't homophobic. Fantastic They've issued guidance that discrimination shielded in the justifications of faith isn't discrimination as long as it's not openly vicious

this is what I mean when I say "don't let orgs and managers see discriminating against trans folk as the path of last resistance". transphobes are persistent and annoying. be just as annoying. show them compliance is going to be a legal nightmare

There is an imbalance there that makes playing a PbtA type Dwarf feel pigeon-holed versus playing a race-as-class Dwarf elsewhere; and I think it has to come from the prescriptiveness/locking-off of narrative use, versus statement of how these are the caveats to narrative born of being a dwarf?

there is, lets be fair, only one way for your beliefs to align with objective reality, but lots of ways to be screamingly wrong

ill say it here again, the thing about Quinns is the man is an A+ reviewer. He has particular taste - a reviewer should have taste! It's the whole point of a review! The problem is he's the one guy in town operating at that production level. It's like if the whole of movie reviews was just Ebert lol

This, from Amnesty International, tells you all you need to know about transphobic bias in UK mainstream media.

PSA for YouTube Creators! Just wanna share this in case you don't want Google to have access to remix your YouTube shorts with GenAI using Gemini! YOU ARE AUTOMATICALLY ENROLLED. Here is what it's doing and how to opt out of said option if you don't want your shorts to be remixed with AI.

Trans people are not “fighting for unpopular positions that society isn’t ready for.” Trans people are fighting to KEEP the rights we have enjoyed for decades. We have been able to legally change our gender markers since the 70s and before. Same with bathrooms, sports, youth, all for decades.

Something like .02% or .03% of the population works in the coal industry. Just buy them all out. Give them lifetime pensions and close the mines. It's less than 50,000 people and it'd probably pay for itself in remediation and inspection costs.

The UK is going to implement a national trans bathroom ban this week by fiat. archive.ph/aXsWh

OpenAI Announces Construction Of New Data Center On Top Of Sick Child

This series is brilliant. Go and back it please.

Wealth is increasingly concentrated in the hands of a tiny few, while we're told there's no money for essential public services like the NHS. By developing a Scottish Wealth Tax we could make landowners, polluters and billionaires pay their fair share towards the common good.

Oh. Well, now I’m ashamed. Again. Super.

BLANCHE SHIELDS TRUMP: In a newly posted order signed by Acting AG Todd Blanche, the Department of Justice states that the federal government is now permanently barred from pursuing a wide range of tax-related claims and reviews against Donald Trump, his family members, and affiliated companies. 1/

Fuck this. Fuck you Google. Give me an internet that fucking works. We had one for 20 years. I’m so sick of everything getting shittier so modern-day emperors are never told no like a spoiled fucking toddler.

This one keeps coming up because no-one ever addresses what's actually going on here. The table wants the high stakes heroic victory but they don't want to just declare it, they want to feel that failure was a real possibility.

this is a masterpiece

Write the book you would like to see someone pull from a higgledy piggledy pile in a secondhand shop 63 years after your death and say, "This looks fucking weird. I think I will buy it for Joan

Met Police will ask the CPS to consider charging up to 57 people & 20 companies over the Grenfell Tower fire Alleged offences include corporate & gross negligence manslaughter, misconduct in public office & fraud 72 people were killed in the disaster

The world’s largest sand battery got through Finland’s harshest winter in years. 2,000 tonnes of sand, heated to 500-600°C by cheap power, feeding district heating in Pornainen. And it worked. Result from one install: oil down 100%, emissions down 70%. Industrial process heat is the real prize.

The theme of the new street art on the block surprised me. Did not expect to see massive Warhammer 40K murals!

We've created a huge incubator for deadly antibiotic resistant bacteria but neither SF or DUP will vote for measures to curb it because they both want votes from farmers.

Here’s the comparison of ancient woodland destroyed for HS2 (fuck all) and how much ancient woodland is being lost to rhododendron infestations (something I spend a lot of time fighting personally and professionally). We gotta get this invasive species banned ASAP. I’m two years overdue a campaign.

Oh god

WOTC and Hasbro can still voluntarily recognize our union at any point up to the NLRB election. We encourage you to sign our letter of support, and make your voice heard. cwa.org/uwotcletter

If three deep south trucker guys had made this video then all the yanks making fun of it would be falling over themselves to post Dudes Rock instead

Adventure 14: Travel Hazards for Classic Traveller is now in stock and shipping! www.mongoosepublishing.com/products/adv... Take a trip to a hellish backwater system where even your ship's sensors cannot be trusted in this sandbox-style adventure... #ttrpg #TravellerRPG

Expect a lot more of this as his heath continues to decline.

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Let me be clear here....fuck Harry Potter. And double, nay triple fuck Joanne. You want books about a talented youngster from a humble background who goes to magic school (and actually grows and matures as a person)? Le Guin did it almost 30 years before Rowling and did it a damn sight better.

Just a little PSA- Neil Gaiman has reactivated his Bluesky account. Because he deactivated before a lot of people could unfollow him, and/or because Bluesky doesn’t remove you from a person’s followers when you block them, a LOT of you are still publicly listed as following him. You should check.

At the weekend we had a movie night and I decided to introduce my kid to Mad Max with Fury Road. She told me afterwards that she thought the story and setting were awesome, she just wished they hadn't kept on interrupting it with car chases.

May not keep this one up too long, but here is a temperature check of where we are at these days with formerly 'just a normal classical liberal' types

JK Rowling referred to Posie Parker as a "genius" years ago, in her capacity as an an anti-trans leader in her movement. Posie appeared at a Tommy Robinson march on the weekend calling for Islam to be banned in the UK. You'd think a mainstream journalist might seek a quote from Rowling on it, right?

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Backing Rejoin isn't odd when you consider that: - Brexit is estimated to have hit GDP per capita by 6-8% - The US has embraced protectionism and the UK is being squeezed between rival power blocs - 55% of voters back Rejoin, including 80% of Labour supporters, with just 33% opposed (YouGov)

Nothing will change in the UK until the press is taken in hand, example #763,859

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