ServiceNow is one of several companies whose technology could be replicated by a middle school programming class but is insulated from competition by enormous multimillion dollar service contracts thanks to an army of sales psychos, yet the people in charge think their devs are cracking cold fusion

Band-Aids & Bullet Holes is live on Kickstarter! Tell your own bloody, John Wick-inspired revenge story in about as much time as it takes to watch one. It's a deckbuilder RPG named after a Taylor Swift lyric. Check it out now!

I've done a few reply guy comments on the Neon Odyssey kickstarter and I probably sound kinda negative (D&D in space has been done before, a lot!) I'm not really. I hope the game is good, the KS has exploded regardless of my opinion. It's stunning that they've blow past $3M so fast!

Happy Star Wars that could have been Day

Happy Mayday! To celebrate the Traveller holiday, I've officially announce my new Traveller history book, Free Trader Beowulf Origins, with a look at how it fits with my other writing & a full (but not necessarily final) table of contents.

Happy Mayday, workers of the world!

Happy Mayday to all who celebrate.

This has been thoroughly dunked on but the description is basically what's happening off-screen in Fahrenheit 451. TV that consumes people to the extent that they reject every other form of media.

“Never talk about goblins, gremlins, raccoons, trolls, ogres, pigeons, or other animals or creatures unless it is absolutely and unambiguously relevant,” reads OpenAI's coding agent instructions. www.wired.com/story/openai...

People in software sometimes joke that product managers just produce pretty slide decks but sadly a good deck outperforms solid research pretty much every time

People on here are going to be mad. KQED published a piece on why housing in the Bay Area is expensive. And it doesn't mention PRIVATE EQUITY or BLACKROCK. Instead it blames... communities! /1 www.kqed.org/news/1207861...

The new season of Hacks in incredible holy shit

People* one again complaining about being incredibly wealthy because taxes exist! * baby boomers owning houses in California www.latimes.com/business/sto...

BREAKING: Following the American threat of an “Avignon Papacy,” Robert Kennedy has begun a Diet of Worms

Americans are so weird. www.sfgate.com/california/a... These people say they won't/can't move because they'd owe taxes on their home sale. News flash - if you make a $4M profit, you can pay the $1M in taxes! What is so hard about this? That you can't keep every single cent from the sale?

Times have changed. The old rules no longer apply. Our foes have grown in strength. We must adapt. Don't worry. I gotchu. With updated tactics and brand-new tips for every monster, REMONSTERED! THE MONSTERS KNOW WHAT THEY'RE DOING comes out this Oct. 6. Preorder at bookshop.org/a/511/9.... #DnD

Kind of nuts that over 200 people have joined the #FakeTTRPGJam with still nearly a week left before it officially starts. Come on through if you wanna get esoteric with it itch.io/jam/you-cann...

BackerKit is currently running both Orbital Blues Month and Megadungeon Month IN THE SAME MONTH and honestly this just seems like poor planning.

Me when it's 17C at noon in California: wow kinda chilly today Toronto when it's 17C at noon:

It's Orbital Blues month over on Backerkit, and I figured that's a good excuse to write up my thoughts on the book in my usual review fashion. Give it a read! personable.blog/qlbb-orbital...

Cyberpunk 2020 adventure seeds coming in daily

It is funny[1] to think that the Trump Administration may make me, someone who has been a US citizen for a couple years, more of a citizen than someone who was born here. [1] unbelievably stupid

Computers work

The future will be electric. Storage, charged with renewable electricity will allow the sun to shine at night & the wind to blow on calm days. "Grid batteries reach stunning new peak of 44 pct of evening demand in world’s fourth biggest economy" 🧪🔌💡☀️💨💧🔋 reneweconomy.com.au/grid-batteri...

youtu.be/L2UzKWC9CfY?... I don't know who possibly came up with this idea but it rules. So good. DANCE DANCE DANCE DANCE DANCE TO THE RADIO

Watching the Junos online tonight it is clear I have been out of the country too long. Who are all these awesome artists?

war_iran_final-blow_v1.pdf war_iran_final-final-blow-v2.pdf war_iran_final-blow-no edits.pdf war_iran_final-blow-no edits (1).pdf war_iran_final-blow-no edits (1) APPROVED.pdf IRANWARPLANSFINALFINALFINAL.pdf IRANWARPLANSFINALFINALFINAL (1).pdf

Well, I am not sure what my analysis here is worth, but here is my 7,500 word primal scream of a military historian's take on the War in Iran. My best summary: this war is dumb as hell. acoup.blog/2026/03/25/m...

www.cbc.ca/news/canada/... This is a bad idea and will make no one safer.

Mary Fong Lau, the 80 year old woman who killed four people including a baby and a toddler after crashing into a bus stop going 75mph the wrong way down a 25mph street, has been sentenced to probation and will not permanently lose her drivers' license. This is a despicable miscarriage of justice.

A bunch of these are small polities in a much larger metroplex area because the US doesn't like municipal amalgamation for some reason. Santa Clara isn't a small town, it's just an arbitrary blob on the map in the suburban sprawl between SF and San Jose

translate.kagi.com?from=en&to=l....

Happy St. Patrick's Day, New York.

"it's a problem at home" was answering a question nobody asked but somehow says a whole lot

Is this why all these guys love LLMs so much - because they all have the same level of interiority?

It has come to my attention that Newt Gingrich[1] has proposed this unironically. [1] How has this human cadaver returned to life?

Operation Plowshare.

Break out your bell-bottoms because the 70s are back!

I know The Matrix literally doesn’t “take place” anywhere but how is it that the absolute best sequence in the entire quadrilogy takes place in Redwood City (somehow this feels Road Rash related even though it’s not)

The somewhat more charged term for what Matt describes is "sharecropping."

Everyone keeps saying AI but it was really cold over hiring and the end of zirp If interest rates went back to zero we'd be hiring developers like it was 1999 again.

I doubt I'll get more likes than TTRPGS in my library so... 1 like = 1 TTRPG in my library although I don't think I have a huge collection relative to the real hard-core collectors out there.

I doubt I'll get more likes than TTRPGS in my library so... 1 like = 1 TTRPG in my library although I don't think I have a huge collection relative to the real hard-core collectors out there.

Minesweepers get driven around like kids to soccer practice??? They're too slow to get home on their own?

In these trying times, take whatever wins you can. I made it to the top of Old La Honda on Sunday. I wasn't sure if I could, but I did. www.strava.com/activities/1...

There so many things wrong with this op-ed from every angle you can imagine, but at its core it's also just factually wrong - complex coffee drinks are the norm and Starbucks produces every drink in roughly the same amount of time. They're not roasting fresh beans for you.

As an IR professor, it's depressing that this is outperforming all others as the best theory of US foreign policy

Man this is a whole other possible timeline Very Time Safari Inc vibes: SAFARIS TO ANY YEAR IN THE PAST. YOU NAME THE RPG. WE TAKE YOU THERE. YOU PLAY IT.