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Anyways, check out TASKMAST:3R if you're at MFF! The whole crew has put a ton of work into this, and we're really looking forward to putting on a good show for y'all!

Showtime is 9:30 PM on Thursday in room 33 of the convention center.

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A mock up of an event badge, listing the timing info for TASKMAST:3R, a "HELLO MY NAME IS" sticker, the word CREW on the front, and then on the back a quick reference of important times for the cast and crew, and the paw print wax seal logo.

Also, because we've finally got all the resources together, I decided to mock up an event badge as well... Am I being a bit extra for a panel that might only pull a dozen people? Probably. But I have the chance to cosplay an event tech and I'm not passing this up.

So for the past few months I've been working on TASKMAST:3R, a panel at I'm helping put together for this year's MFF!

Tonight's project: a wax stamp logo! I ended up doing it in Blender, so I couldn't help myself from putting a quick little animation together...

🩷 HOME SWEET HOME 🖤
🐶 HEY SYRI! @ MFF 2025 🐶
⏰ FRIDAY NIGHT 1200 AM ⏰
🔥IT’S GONNA GET HECTIC🔥

@furfest.org #Furfest2025 #MFF2025

I wonder what's causing all the horrific industrial accidents. Anyway, here's a picture from 2016 of Trump complaining about regulations before cutting as many as possible

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Photo of a bin of chee plushies at Ikea

Photo of a large cheetah on the wall at Ikea

If ya need me, I'll be in the Ikeachee bin! q.p

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Marble Countertops: I'm dirty, you should clean me.

Me: But I can't see anything, where is the mess?

MC: Better just clean everywhere.

Me: How will I know if I missed a spot?

MC: :)

*does this to take up your entire bed*

It'll depend largely on your own willingness to travel around the city and how much time you're willing to spend on transit, but it should work.

Amtrak should take you downtown, Union Station. From there, you can ride the Blue Line ~30 minutes to Rosemont, then walk 10 minutes to the hotel.

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The downside to travel is you end up splitting your life between multiple places, so you’re always a little bit sad and missing people you love no matter where in the world you are.

Just 12 more hours and I should (hopefully) be home.

Yet another year of binging visits to Halloween Horror Nights, yet another year of thinking "someone should create an immersive and interactive horror experience in VRChat with human scareactors."

With the right cast, it could be a lot of fun.

We love a good nuanced take. Two things can be true at the same time.

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Like, the idea of "feelings getting hurt" requires a degree of personification. What are we personifying? The computer? The software stack supporting the math models? The math itself?

If it's the math, is it only in that specific arrangement of operations and numbers? Or can all math be hurt?

Abstracting: the LLM is just math, the computer is just a fancy calculator.

Hypothetically, let's say I sit down and do all of the calculations through the LLM with an ungodly amount of pen and paper.

Who's feelings are getting hurt here? Not mine, I'm just doing the math. The math itself?

My only exposure to CBP has been at international airports, where they seem effectively like TSA+ and bureaucrats. How many of them are gonna want to keep doing good work when they realize the country hates them?

At least when it was just ICE, the guy at the desk in O'Hare had some deniability.

I'm admittedly largely uneducated on this, but my first impression is this is a massive misplay by DHS. Let ICE take all the heat.

What happens when public sentiment turns against CBP? You're gonna demoralize the people working at ports who screen goods and collect your precious tariffs.

Huh. Yeah, I somehow escaped the check by having the sticker, and a friend told me you can even just go through the "all others" walkway like you're not going to the US, they both dump out into the same concourse.

I don't remember anything like that at GVA last year, also on United.

That's fair, I guess most of my international trips have had a checked bag, and even those that didn't, I've gone to check in at the counter since I figured I'd need the sticker anyways, even though I don't remember anywhere but FRA where they've even checked after the fact that I had it.

That said, I do remember thinking, after spending a week in Hamburg, at the gate area and especially the first few minutes after boarding, "huh, I'm surrounded by Americans again," and not in a good way.

We really can be an entitled bunch, and it stands in stark contrast.

I recently flew back to the States out of FRA and don't remember a check after the exit stamp? United did have a separate US passenger check in Z, but they saw the security sticker on the back of my passport and waved me through, and doesn't everyone get that at check-in?

You're welcome!

I could have sworn that I had one from the top floor looking down, but I can't find it. When I fly back in a week I may head over and take one just because it sounds fun, I can add it here if it'd be useful!

Agony in the garden

That's my collection of wide images of the hotel space from previous years.

If you still need more, I can run over there when I get back home in a week and take any specific photos you need, I'll never turn down an excuse to go to the Regency!

My thought is that it's no different than someone bookmarking the page. Like, the access stays the same; if someone is blocked or the post is deleted, neither would load anymore. More benign than a screenshot. At least with saves, you know, unlike a bookmark. Unsure if that's better or not though...