True. In fact, it's hard to do better than a delicious Sandwich.

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

It’s like “vibe coding” but for blatant corruption.

I think the reason I've been a little ambiently mad all day is because January 6th rioters are statistically the most likely group of pedophiles in the world and they clubbed a guy to death and they're going to be rich from the tax money that I give to the country I live in.

There it is, the telltale nonsensical appearance of “quiet.” Also, this is pretty much just describing the outcomes of capitalism, where profit outweighs the community good.

"The author of a nonfiction book about the effects of artificial intelligence on truth acknowledged on Monday that he had included numerous made-up or misattributed quotes concocted by A.I." 🫠🫠🫠

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At some point we ought to (we're not going to) have an adult conversation about the fact that insurance isn’t health care, but rather a profit-extraction scheme that impedes the actual health care part of health care.

An auditor for the Ontario, Canada government found that AI agents tasked with turning doctor/patient conversations into structured notes routinely hallucinated false treatments, replaced drug names with entirely different drugs, and missed crucial information

Ha ha ha, out of nowhere this reminded me of the WoD MMO. Early prototyping had the combat system in place (of course) and an source of endless disagreement was how the game would systemically model social conflict, which always just defaulted to combat but with reskinned actions (BOO TO THAT).

Game night last night and it was a low-stress session. The party had previously explored a horrible demon- and spider-prowled town and had been raked over the coals, so last night’s session where they were able to eat hot food, sleep in warm beds, and have NPCs seek their expertise was balm to them.

Paid 11 dollars for a single pour of Fernet Branca and I swear to god the streets are about to run red.

Consider that the trial is already underway and you are being shown the evidence in real time every single day.

Realize a future where capitalism is documented in the DSM instead of being the underlying determinant for every component of society.

Widow’s Bay but replace “the fog” with “the frog.”

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Le secret des grandes fortunes sans cause apparente est un crime oublié, parce qu’il a été proprement fait. — Honoré de Balzac

"[Florida Republican Senator Rick] Scott was pressured to resign as chief executive of Columbia/HCA in 1997, after the company pleaded guilty to defrauding Medicare, Medicaid, and other federal programs in what was at the time the largest healthcare fraud settlement in U.S. history at $1.7 billion."

Contrast of outcomes.

argh an episode in which There Is a Misunderstanding

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Name a song with girl in the title but replace girl with squirrel. Pretty Squirrels Make Graves

I remember my dad hollering at me to not chew ice cubes when having an iced drink as a kid and it occurs to me that now I can’t stand chewing ice cubes but I don’t know whether it’s from negative reinforcement or because it’s genuinely unpleasant.

All this hand-wringing about “the K-shaped economy” when that is, in fact, the intention.

“Speaker of the TN House Cameron Sexton just removed me and every Democrat — and therefore every Black elected official in the state legislature from any committee we served on," Rep. Pearson said. Fascist reprisals for protesting.

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The position that billionaires “provide” for workers is misaligned. Billionaires -take from- workers. Labor creates; capital extracts. If billionaires disappeared tomorrow workers would self-organize and continue to produce. If workers all vanished, billionaires would have no labor value to steal.

Dacula, GA. Well, maybe it’s entirely explicable. It knows what it did.

Reading a book written in 1933 and it describes a “jig-saw puzzle” and I don’t know why I find those auld hyphenated words so funny but I do. And the most amusing of them is without a doubt “to-day.” To-day! Not just any day, you see. TO-day. To-day.

I know I usually sass about profiteering, but let me frame this in terms of game design: This is a system that rewards dishonesty in participation to such a degree that it all but REQUIRES dishonesty in order to be “competitive.” This is akin to three-card monte; it is not traditional speculation.

man there is a ton of music

My teeth don't look like that and I would never wear a shirt that symbiotically attaches to my neck.

Innovation!

A democracy requires information to function; participants in a democracy require information to make their decisions. When media is privately owned, it does not provide “information,” it provides influence via editorial. You can have democracy or you can have capitalism. You can’t have both.

The kids are alright.

Recognize any and all players from Downton Abbey or Braveheart whenever they appear in anything else.

One time one of the graphic designers woke up to hear some banging around in a dumpster and looked out his window and saw a possum rooting through the trash. Having never seen one before, he shrieked, “OH MY GOD IT’S A DOG WITH A HUMAN FACE.” Anyway, be kind to possums.

This is a really easy recipe, delicious, and my kids love it, too.

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Unfortunately not, but it would make a more dramatic story. The truth of the matter is more about timing and budget, and a decision to move away from traditional TTRPG cover art at the last minute (which was repurposed for the Players Guide, IIRC).

Particularly once you get away from consumption-identity hobbies being one’s other interests.

Woman at the snack counter has a perfectly cultivated early-1990s Tracey Thorn look happening and I might just die of appreciation.

First goblins and now this. Who would have guessed that the fash-funded liebot would act like a fash-funded liebot?

If the lawmakers do not have to heed the law, why should you?

Literally some people just want to hang out at the game table with their friends. And that’s just fine.

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Headed out early to play some games with the youngest kid before his football doubleheader. Formula D, Hive, Condottiere, Zombie Dice, blackjack, and poker. Good times!

This dog was a three term mayor of Whoville.