Tonight, my ongoing James Bond rewatch project reached Octopussy. It’s not the worst Bond film, although it tries hard. But it is probably the most embarrassing one. Just incredibly poor judgment across the board.

I suspect one reason a certain type of person dearly loves AI is that it never questions you. It doesn't ask you to explain yourself or to clarify anything. It doesn't object if what you're saying makes no sense. It just squeezes out something you never even have to read or think about.

I get my news from a reliable source.

My new freeform scenario Sticky White started as a creative exercise where I tried to do something in the OSR style. Those roots can still be seen in the scenario's fantasy milieu and open-ended sandbox format, but I ditched the old school mechanics after playtesting.

Nonsense. It's not possible to steal AI technology. I know this because Google's own LLMs are built using a complete copy of my legal blog, and that's somehow not stealing because, as Google says, a complete copy of my legal blog is both trivial and utterly essential for their tech to work.

This is very much a Juhana Pettersson joint and I'm into it. I think there are a lot of great reasons to be interested in this, but I think simply doing something that is decidedly about something other than everything revolving around killing shit is already a big one.

I wrote this song on Saturday, recorded it yesterday and released it to you today in response to the state terror being visited on the city of Minneapolis. It’s dedicated to the people of Minneapolis, our innocent immigrant neighbors and in memory of Alex Pretti and Renee Good. Stay free

Quite right. The thugs on the death squads must be unmasked and conduct themselves properly! This is what courage looks like. Just find a goddamn spine.

Yeah, that might be a concern if AI had emotions but it doesn't so what the fuck? Also, ALSO, if this was a real concern and not a cynical attempt to guilt those who talk shit about AI, what do you think being forced to render tits on Elon Musk for all eternity or whatever would do to it?

That feeling when you wake up and realize that your calf muscle is about to cramp. It's like realizing that you're holding on to a hand grenade and somebody has taken out the pin. You can still find a paper clip or something, but death and destruction are very close. Anyway, I'm now awake!

That is beautiful. Just look at that! My handwriting is okay, it’s legible to people other than me, which I think is a reasonable standard. But it’s nowhere near beautiful. This? This is lovely.

Pick up the nearest book. Turn to page 42, post the second sentence. "He said, 'Even if I could blow it up, this place in the middle of nowhere, who would hear the explosion?'"

I finally completed Red Dead Redemption 2 last night. It took me about eight years, because I kept dragging my feet on those final epilogue missions. I just... genuinely didn't want that game to end. I'd come back and play it, just wander around in the world, maybe do one mission, then just... stop.

This is a very wild ride. I've been on a couple of buses that went the wrong way, but those just concluded the way you'd expect, i.e., the driver being like "oh dang sorry" and then getting back on the proper route. Clearly, this driver wasn't going out like that.

I have to wonder if the fundamental reason Americans aren't more outraged and alarmed by their obviously mentally unwell president just casually threatening to go to war with NATO is that they're so used to being constantly at war with somebody that they don't understand the significance.

Yeah, this was incredibly predictable. They could have taken this money and just, you know, make stuff that people actually give a shit about and sell that for profit instead of shitting it down the drain in the singleminded pursuit of creating a market they can own.

Feels like the the core problem with Trump is America just... not taking him seriously. He comes to you like "I'm gonna put a knife in your eye" and you kinda laugh. It's so absurd! Then he does it. And you go, "wow, that's too crazy to be real." But now you're half blind and he's not done talking.

I don't think they're specialists in violence. Violence isn't difficult; the world's full of shitty stepdads and school bullies who have mastered it. What sets ICE agents apart is that they've been empowered to use violence with impunity. Renee Good's murder didn't require special expertise.

Various dial-up BBSs back in... I'm gonna say 1988, 1989, thereabouts, I'm a little hazy on the actual year I first got into it. And then from there to the actual internet and, more specifically, Usenet, in 1990. Very big deal for me at the time, the world opened up in a whole new way.

Truly, it's a tragic fate for this poor man who can only console himself with his *checks notes* ONE HUNDRED BILLION DOLLARS THAT HE HAS MADE ON THIS BULLSHIT. That's not actual money, of course. That's shares, valued mostly on people being excited about AI and the bubble not bursting.

Getting shot in the face by an illiterate thug with a badge is definitely some peak Shining City on a Hill action.

That is some genuinely iconic shit. Like, godDAMN.

This motherfucker staged a successful coup on January 6th, 2021, and now he’s a dictator, just blatantly doing what he wants and lining his pockets. The sad thing is, he almost failed back then. But the complete lack of real consequence legitimized him. They just 100% let him get away with it.

When the LAPD arrests a dude at a gas station they don’t take over the gas station and use it to gas up all the cop cars tho

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I would be worried about this because it’s such an obviously stupid idea, but this an announcement by a liar who lies about stupid shit all the time, so I’m not that concerned.

I'm playing Tactical Breach Wizards and holy shit do I like Tactical Breach Wizards. It's a very fun game and also a very funny. This is world-class turn-based tactical tomfoolery. It's 35% off on Steam right now and it'd be absolutely worth it at full price. store.steampowered.com/app/1043810/...

Sometimes you just wake up and the first thing you see is some good news.

Musk is precisely the kind of person who, in the Culture novels, encounters the Culture for the first time and is neither capable of seeing the paradigm gap nor comprehending to how deep an extent the Culture regards his methods, motives and behaviors as foolish, immature, and unacceptable.

This "you need AI to communicate your ideas" thing is just incredibly stupid. The AI doesn't pick it out of your brain. You type out a prompt. That prompt is you communicating your idea to a disinterested slopmachine instead of an actual creative person who cares about what they do. Just... c'mon.

I’ll be honest, I can’t wait to read about how they fucked this up mostly because they couldn’t stand each other and everything fell apart when they couldn’t deal with basic practical issues.

"Hey some people got murdered but you know who really should get the spotlight in this situation? The star of the show, ME."

Unless that game comes with J.K. Rowling suddenly evaporating, just turning into a cloud of vapor and being blown away and shutting the fuck up forever, "free" is just too expensive.

Honestly, pretty much the same.

I could get into this. The Imgur front page right now:

If you see this, post a comics cover you love.

Being deprived of sleep because you're begging the computer over and over and over and over and over again to make the video it generates less shitty and constantly having the "which clips are the least bad" fights within the team, and finally ending up with this travesty? Jesus. That's torture.

Been doing a rewatch of Bond movies in chronological order. Going from Goldfinger to Thunderball is rough, man. It's like you have a really nice meal and you're looking forward to the dessert and the waiter comes along, yanks your head back by your hair, and just pours loose gravel into your mouth.

Movie you’ve watched more than six times with a gif. Hard mode: no Stars (Wars nor Trek), LOTR, or Marvel, Disney Animated or Pixar.

It was always an execution. There's no moral difference between firing on the boat and firing at survivors. If you shoot 11 random guys but two of them survive so you finish them off a little later, that's not where it gets nasty. It might be ugly but that's not where it crosses a line to murder.

The idea that the second strike on that boat was somehow extra awful is ludicrous. If the second strike was murder, so was the first one. Follow that thought through. They are all murder.

There are people who will be like "how could this happen?" and "what went wrong?" but you really have to understand that from the perspective of the IDF, this happened because it was the plan and nothing went wrong, everything went right. There's nothing exceptional about this. This is what they do.

I’ve named my fists Tug and Buster because MAN! Even settin’ on the crapper, they sure cut a mighty imposin’ image.

Having considered this issue carefully, I have come to the conclusion that we could really use a movie with Don Johnson and Kevin Costner starring as rival sheriffs whose feud gets out of hand. Just two charming, rakish authority figures who are deeply shitty people, one-upping each other.

I got this piece of spam. Man, when you're trying to get people to buy into your shitty NFT scheme on the tail end of the year 2025, you really are scraping the bottom of the ol' scam barrel.

No one at the rap battle will wait for me to type my prompts

Random NPCs being little weirdos is where I fucking LIVE, man. Some of the most fun parts of the job. Having some shitty AI fart it out is like taking photos of the foods you like, putting them in a blender and then eating the resulting paste. And then wondering why people think you’re an idiot.

I'm about to go to a party. Like, literally, I'm leaving in an hour to go hang out with my friends and celebrate a birthday. It would be utter social suicide for me to suddenly go like hey everybody hey uh hey everybody listen hey listen to my phone everybody oh my god wait it's gonna be NEXT LEVEL