On the quarter-century anniversary of Douglas Adams' death, please remember that the marketing division of the Sirius Cybernetic Corporation were a bunch of mindless jerks who were the first against the wall when the revolution came

Stardew Valley Kerbal Space Program XCOM Enemy Unknown

Newspaper.

Happy Earth Day.

Look, for my money the absolute game changer technologies right now are batteries and biosciences, not statistically modeling a mid conversation, but you do you.

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OpenAI: We’re burning money like the Joker. A miracle needs to happen for us to turn a profit Microsoft: Please please use our AI systems, we’re teetering on the edge here Anthropic: I wonder what’ll kill us first: lawsuits, regulations or model collapse Media and universities: AI is here to stay

Many of the criticisms in this report are true or partially true, but the biggest problem that's brought down U.S. colleges is indeed the 50-year crusade by the right to wipe away any notion that higher ed is a public good, massively cut funding for publics, and create the student debt crisis

I keep seeing "all authors use AI, the real issue is they're being forced to be sneaky about it" headlines. Full stop No. This is a lie peddled for normalization. It's schoolyard-level pressure tactics "C'mon, all the cool kids are already doing it. We won't tell. It's fine. We're on your side."

Don’t know how much literal truth is here, but @kenburnside.bsky.social, I guarantee you will enjoy it: sightlessscribbles.com/posts/the-pa...

it's a real mindfuck to see the leadership of a publication creating some of the most important journalism of a generation trying to screw the people doing the work

I was asked to give my thoughts on generative AI usage in games - here they are!

my editor told me that people were calling Trump’s foreign policy the Jolene doctrine bc he’s taking things “just because he can” and I said it was unfair to Jolene to name a doctrine after a motivation a third party projected on her and he got annoyed and said I should “go tweet that”

🚨 A new frontier of coordinated disinformation. Fossil fuel industry front groups are using AI platforms to flood clean air regulators with fake public comments—submitted under real residents' names, without their consent. @robbonta.bsky.social www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/arti...

COGLEY: "And I repeat, I speak of rights. A machine has none. A man must. My client has the right to face his accuser, and if you do not grant him that right, you have brought us down to the level of the machine. Indeed, you have elevated that machine above us."

‘85% of IT leaders say traceability and explainability gaps have delayed or stopped AI projects from reaching production.‘ I love the term ‘traceability and explainability gaps’ as a way of saying ‘We have no way of knowing why our LLM bots do things and we’ve suddenly realized that’s a problem’.

This is ultimately what a LOT of prepper/gun dude stuff is about: talismans and rituals against randomness, against an indifferent universe where sometimes bad things just happen for no reason to you. Where none of us are going to get out alive in the end, but maybe I will, if I just do this.

Screaming

This is the era to take detailed notes on who the Business Idiots are. Every single person who bought into this at this scale has outed themselves as an untrustworthy individual with questionable taste www.wheresyoured.at/the-era-of-t...

No one who follows me will doubt the good that local newspapers do. But the evidence is… impressive. Read this thread.

I think about this Tony Benn speech much more than I used to

2003, folks. 2003.

The complete and utter lack of imagination of the establishment left is breathtaking. This is from the UK, but the same could be said of Chuckles Schumer & Co.:

Conservative "scholarship" isn't. It's affirmative action for glabrous failsons who can't handle the competition that a "DEI hire" had to defeat to get into undergrad.

You know who could put a stop to this in a heartbeat? Clark Hunt. “Sorry, Gov. Kelly. I can’t condone moving my football team to a state that would do this.”

On this date 40 (FORTY) years ago, the Legend began.

Truck is full of gas, I am full of cheeseburger. A raven landed nearby so I tweeted the whistle I bought from @mostlybree.kitrocha.com and tossed it a French fry. I will train every corvid in Susanville to come to the sound of community defense whistles.

Apparently they changed the PSLF requirements sometime in the last four years so that working for a private college now counts. About half of my remaining student loans now have enough qualifying payments to be forgiven; the other half will get there either in the fall or next spring.

Yesterday, those who teach Intro to Sociology at Florida colleges (as opposed to universities) received a ready-made curriculum from the state and were ordered to teach it. Yes, you read that correctly. The *state* is enforcing a curriculum on college profs, complete w/ the following restrictions:

NBC ran a piece where Mary Carrillo went to Norway to find out why they're so good at the Winter Olympics and i was yelling BECAUSE IT'S COLD THERE then she went to a little tiny ski jump for kids and was like "it's free, equipment is provided, & they don't emphasize results" and i was like. oh!

Thousands of institutions abandoned programs, ended or rewrote scholarships, closed down clubs and publications, all in pre-emptive compliance. And you know why? Mostly because they wanted to do it if they thought they could blame someone else for it.

Aaaaand we're home! Improving on her previous record 🤣, total time in the hospital was 73 hours, and it probably would have been less if neurosurgery hadn't been quite as busy with OTHER cases. She's resting now, with a shower planned in the near future - all is well. 🙂

Kiddo's surgery took a little longer than expected but went well. She had a bit of (not uncommon) swelling around the breathing tube, so that's still in for now, which means she's still heavily sedated, but settled into her room in the PICU (as planned) for the next couple of days.

This is how it's done.

I know all eyes are on Minneapolis, but there's a fast-approaching nightmare in Springfield, Ohio. Trump is revoking protected status for tens of thousands of Haitians living there on Feb. 3. Reportedly, on Feb. 4, 1000 ICE agents are arriving to remove this population. Ethnic cleansing.

DHS is a disastrous kludgy mess created in the panicked aftermath of 9/11 and it has not for a minute of its existence made “the homeland” more secure it should absolutely be dismantled

So, it's probably about time to mention this more broadly, because I know many of y'all care about us. My daughter's brain tumor has recurred. Surgery is in about a week and a half. (We've been watching it, so no emergency surgery this time.)

The visionary game from Lucas Pope imagines a highly unrealistic, wildly fanciful world where immigration officers are held accountable. paletteswap.site/dif...

I feel like as a writer you should be able to sue for not getting the fucking point.

as always, follow the money

“While on the subject of burning books, I want to congratulate librarians, not famous for their physical strength, who, all over this country, have staunchly resisted anti-democratic bullies who have tried to remove certain books from their shelves,

I feel like "academic hiring" discourse is always kind of downstream of the fact that in the 50s we started building a giant public system to make a college education almost universally available and in the 80s and 90s we started taking it apart to go back to the only-the-rich model

If you're not trans, I don't think I can fully explain how important this is. It's so powerful that one of the most circulated science media publications in the world has come out and said "trans children are real and providing transition care improves their lives." That's groundbreaking.

You don’t have to share what that guy has to say. About anything, ever. we all know he’s awful. At this point if you share what he says I’m forced to assume at some level that you like it.