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The men who raised the flags Nigel Farage says this summer’s movement was led by ‘ordinary people’ expressing their patriotism. That’s not what we found

"it is striking how many of the key players we have looked into — the people who have gone out of their way to put up hundreds of flags — seem anything but ordinary."

manchestermill.co.uk/the-men-who-...

"We need AGI to figure out how to fix climate change!"

We KNOW how to fix climate change.... We've known for donkeys years.... It's Difficult & Expensive (though cheaper than doing nothing).

What they WANT is AGI to cast a Magic Spell to fix climate change, and are betting everything on that...

You do get circumcisons that are done on medical grounds (the reason I know of is the foreskin being too tight at birth, interfering with urination), but finding enough of them? And there’s likely a genetic susceptibility? Yeah, going to be difficult.

I do remember liking The Martian.

Same place, you can put a frame rate cap on. For a VTT, I think 30fps will be fine. :-) That should also help.

#dnd #rpg #ttrpg #dungeonsanddragons #gaming #dndmemes #mtg #bg3 #criticalrole #gamedev #battlemap

*rummages around in archive*

"yep, knew it was here somewhere"

Because of the changes Musk made to The Algorithm, left-of-centre posts get MUCH more engagement here anyway. Which rather nullifies his argument....

And that's before you start to look at relative user base sizes, which TBF isn't easy given things like X's rampant bot problem.

The depressing thing about this is: If they're THIS bad at writing stuff for where we're expert enough to spot the problems, are they also butchering writing about subjects we don't know well enough to spot them fucking up? I suspect largely yes.... :-(

I got Curious & went looking, and there isn't anything that's a great match for Star Wars Saga ed. There's a generic sci-fi set that seems mostly aimed at the Fantasy Flight Star Wars RPG, but that's about it. Though maybe one of the Cyberpunk RED / 2020 sets might work? I feel doubtful...

I wonder if there’s a good set for Star Wars on the marketplace?

I got it too.

Interesting post. Their analysis of their own productivity aligns with the data showing minimal or negative impact of genAI on code productivity, but the point about the lack of shovelware is a real slam dunk.

Yep. I feel that letting it be widely known that voting Reform is something to be ashamed of is actually the correct thing to do....

It's not OUR behaviour which needs rethinking....

I can only think they’re hoping enough gets deleted that the data centres can decommission some racks of hard drives.

With Tom Lehrer's passing, I suppose this is a moment to share the story of the prank he played on the National Security Agency, and how it went undiscovered for nearly 60 years.

Ah, yeah, that makes sense then. And means it's Epic who really should be allowing other methods.

How will age verification for porn work and what about your data? Anyone in the UK wanting to access online porn will soon have to undergo more rigorous age checks.

Yes, though Blue Sky have made it worse through the implementation. BBC news points out verification by e-mail address is explicitly an allowed form of age verification in the legislation, and there's a company set up to do it already:

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Having looked at the options, I will absolutely not being giving Bluesky the sensitive information required to "verify" my age.

The e-mail address I use is _at least_ 20 years old. If companies don't work out non-intrusive options, they're not getting that sweet, sweet data.

Reminder that language is important.

Don't say: Where's the Postman?

Say: I await the coming of The Deliverer

Excellent thread that everyone who thinks gender and sex are as simple as you learned in school should read before they ever offer up an opinion of any kind on trans or intersex people

Why not join the Green party? Pool resources rather than fracture the vote more?

But yeah, there's some more detailed analysis out there, but AI companies have been bleeding cash at a rate that's Impressive even by the standards of tech companies (Twitter and Uber are famously loss making).

Which makes it **absolutely wild** that they're used as the charging unit, when there's NO WAY for a user to calculate how many tokens a prompt will take. And they just have to take the AI company at their word.

Tokens are a technical term for how the LLM breaks up language for processing. I don't think the exact criteria is precisely understood, and it probably varies a bit between models. They're _roughly_ syllables.

arstechnica.com/science/2023...

blogs.nvidia.com/blog/ai-toke...

Just a quick browse shows they've not included KOTOR2. They've also included _some_ entries in a series, then left out the best games in the series (Dishonoured, Mass Effect).

I think we can dismiss the list out of hand TBH.

Time to invest in auto-pen makers?

Maybe. The problems I can see with that is people will get an AI to craft the CV then copy it out by hand. Harder work than sending the electronic copy, but still much easier than writing it yourself.

It'll also hamper their AI CV initial sorting software that they insist on using.

I'm also Deeply Disappointed by Roll20's stance, will cease to spend money with them, and will start trying to migrate away from their properties.

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