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I'm tired. Life kept getting in the way today and I didn't wanna write. But I made myself sit down for 15 minutes before my bedtime routine and I wrote 340 words that are not great, I do not feel proud of them, but I did write them lol

Great game to back/buy! Get in while it's hot! Medieval horror setting where nobody can die anymore and when you DO die (which you will!) you come back to life with increasingly horrific mutant powers

Back this TODAY, like RIGHT NOW.

sexy

OpenAI pulls back: ChatGPT will no longer give medical, legal, or financial advice over liability fears OpenAI redefines ChatGPT as 'educational tool,' restricting specific medical, legal, and financial advice amid liability fears

"AI" just bled. We can kill it.

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In my opinion you should read this.

smooth (adj.) An essay on Baby Steps, genAI, and the friction of leading one’s life.

Baby Steps has got me thinking about convenience and friction and play and political economy and the discomfort of getting and being free and I tried to write about all of it! illdefined.beehiiv.com/p/smooth-adj

Was up later than usual editing this essay with the windows open and heard someone nearby loudly achieve climax not once but twice. A good omen! If you read my piece, a small bit of that ecstasy can live in you. Pretty sure that's how that works.

ill-defined (adj.) a slow accumulation of thoughts and gestures about art, literature, and apocalypses large and small

Unlike making Nate walk across slightly uneven ground, subscribing to my blog/newsletter/thing is an easy thing to do! Do it maybe! illdefined.beehiiv.com

smooth (adj.) An essay on Baby Steps, genAI, and the friction of leading one’s life.

Baby Steps has got me thinking about convenience and friction and play and political economy and the discomfort of getting and being free and I tried to write about all of it! illdefined.beehiiv.com/p/smooth-adj

gonna infect you with this

Are you tired of seeing AI slop everywhere? Do you enjoy little acts of resistance and slapping stickers on surfaces? Oooo you’re gonna like these!

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Thanks for supporting human made art!

bod-bamned buboes

New Noah Day for all who celebrate

Or put slightly differently: grokipedia is an epistemic weapon.

"buboes" is such an unserious word lol

Tiny pus clone! Barbecue accidents! Ferromagnetism! Boy, this AP has it all.

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On this special AP episode of Why We Roll, we play a one-shot of Danse Macabre with Shubha, Teddy, and Zan from @kickstarterunited.org—the union that supports KS workers. Tune in for medieval hijinks, labor politics, and... you guessed it—mutant zombies! #actualplay #AP #Kickstarter #Union #podcast

not the pus clone 😩

Another reason to ditch MS and their insistence on shoving Co-pilot into everything.

evil clippy

ran late for work because I suddenly *had* to write down what I was thinking, and managed to bang out 519 words on the essay I've been drafting

am I... healing?

Sometimes! It can sorta get me in the headspace to do work vs. when I don't.

Screenshot of text: unfuck google drive by shooting gemini Hey folks! Google is fucking you via sneaky enshittification again! Want the shit in your google drive to load instantly again, instead of taking for-fucking-ever? Open your gdrive (web OR app) Settings > Manage Apps Gemini was checked "use as default" (and i sure the fuck didn't set it that way, this was a silent push) Nuke that, and suddenly, folders that took up to a minute to populate and sort do so in a fraction of a second.

friend shared this, immediately updated my settings

Trying to come up with a definition of phycological

hell yeah

Started running an open-table-format Pathfinder campaign of Abomination Vaults each session a fresh expedition into the megadungeon, and realizing I've really missed a simple dungeon crawl.

Getting a guided tour of 4X games from @sbmakesstuff.bsky.social over the last 16 months has highlighted a lot of moral & modeling problems with how it treats its essential focus on empire, but the thing that's deeply weird is that the games are built to be won rather than lost. 🧵