Maeghith|RFSM

The Half Life 1 installer showing the EULA. The title bar reads "End User Liscence Agreement"

End User Liscence Agreement?
LISCENCE?
look I'm dyslexic but even I can spell license, valve.

I’ve managed to find the forbidden browser:

```
C:\>powershell -command “(new-object -comObject InternetExplorer.Application).visible=$true”
```

…weirder that comprehensible input works for second language acquisition but three-cueing doesn’t work for learning to read the first language (said he, stating some obvious differences between both scenarios 🤦‍♂️).

Idk, I’m just amazed, wondering in my own confusion. 🤷‍♂️

…has between letters and sounds and also given that what a word sounds like and what a word means are both arbitrary and only related by usage.

Also, somehow “use context to guess the meaning of words” sounds very similar to the comprehensible input method of language acquisition. So it seems even…

I learned the other day about three-cueing and (as an ESL and also not a linguist or a teacher) the theory kinda makes sense on paper: use context cues to guess the meaning of unknown words in a text.

In contrast, the
Phonics approach seems weird given the inconsistent relationship English…

this goes right along with my theory that the AI obsession in *users* is often bc…

1. they were never educated (esp "ipad generation") & don't know how computers work

2. our tools and services are all SO AWFUL NOW, degraded at best, actively user-hostile at worst

Natillas Reina (menos la galleta) + infusión sueño marca blanca Consum (*) = falso eggnog sin alcohol.

Se aproxima bastante a cierto sabor de otros dulces de pascua/navidad. Esta rico.

* preparar la infusión como normalmente en ½ vaso de agua, luego mezclar la natilla agitando hasta que combine.

My 17 yr old says this classic Tr*mp dance is known by Gen Z as "Donnie's double dick suck."

Don’t you dare invent the metre second there’s already enough people confused with the watt hour to add another one of those. Officially, SI unit abbreviations don’t have s-terminated plurals:
1m, one metre; 2m, two metres.

they gleefully announce the llm solves a difficult problem and then you find out...they use it to respond to an email, format some python, arrange two meetings in an 8 hour period.

we are going to let these people burn the planet because we are too nice to tell them they sound stupid.

lately i've been thinking about how LLMs must feel really amazing to use if you're a dumbass, but incredibly frustrating if you're just basically competent in life.

Pues si los americanos van a hacer paella con chorizo, yo me voy a tomar la libertad de hacer eggnog echándole licor a unas natillas 🤷‍♂️

An illustration of a White Walker from Game of Thrones, depicted as a skeleton with glowing blue eyes and wearing dark armor and a fur cloak, sitting cross-legged on a block of ice in a snowy landscape while reading a tablet that displays a Wikipedia page.

What could a new court ruling mean for the future of Wikipedia?

Authors Alliance unpacks the surprising implications of the latest decision in Authors Guild v. OpenAI ⬇️
authorsalliance.substack.com/p/copyright-...

@authorsalliance.bsky.social

Don't Buy Starbucks! At any location, today and beyond, while workers are on ULP strike!

As of this morning, Starbucks workers across the country are officially ON STRIKE. And we're prepared for this to become the biggest and longest ULP strike in Starbucks history.

Say #NoContractNoCoffee with us: DON'T BUY STARBUCKS for the duration of our open-ended ULP strike! $SBUX

RIP James Watson, co-discoverer of Rosalind Franklin's notes

If there is a god called Anansi, there must be other gods called: Anutf-8, Anlatin1, Anebcdic, and so on.

Or maybe not. 🤷‍♂️

📧 Years before Google, “Gmail” was a fan email service on Garfield․com; perfect for anyone who hates Mondays.

It vanished like lasagne into Garfield's belly, but pawprints remain on the #WaybackMachine ⤵️
web.archive.org/web/20000815...
🧵

#Wayback1T #WebHistory

La secuela homónima de “La sociedad por la preservación de los kaiju” que hizo llorar a John Scalzi.

YouTube video by Victor Jones I Get Hurt (Lyric Video)

With this as the weather on the last episode of Welcome to Night Vale, next I’m expecting is Hank Green making a cameo.

youtube.com/watch?v=cZir...

How it started: MAGA
How it is going: MAGDA *

(*) D for Depression.

And I know the itch.io thing says generative but that's just music speak for rule-based self-playing! no AI!

YouTube video by Red Means Recording Horror Audio Soundscape (1 HR - Free Download - NOT AI)

Do you need something spoooooooooky to play tonight? I made a one-hour long horror soundscape for SPOOOOOOKY you can play for free here: youtu.be/QshW1i6YLms

Grab the MP3 here if you want to play it offline!
jjbbllkk.itch.io/an-hour-of-g...

Imagine if Trump is actually secretly hoping to find “Lincoln’s gold” buried under the White House, because he believes The Simpsons predict everything (even if Homer didn’t even found it).

Didn’t someone misheard Epstein visa?

YouTube video by Steve Shives A Perfect Example of Why People Hate Moderates

NEW VIDEO! A Perfect Example of Why People Hate Moderates youtu.be/xIC5T8jvCX4

A post that is deleted, rewritten, and posted again is called a "palimpsest."

A post that is written in very tiny font and rolled up and placed inside a charm and worn about the neck is called a "phylactery."

YouTube video by Angela Collier internet people lie about fluoride

Great day to learn about the fluoride mechanism so you can explain it to your friends.

The noble frog's reclamation from fascist pervert associations is so long overdue

I just blame the English language, because of things like: peanuts aren’t nuts but legumes, fireflies aren’t flies but beetles, guinea pigs aren’t pigs but rodents, the funny bone isn’t a bone but a nerve, etc… it wouldn’t be weird if potato chips weren’t made with potatoes 🤷‍♂️

I genuinely cannot express how vital it is that you train yourself to recognize AI-generated images and videos for your own good because none of this is going away and many, many people are counting on you to fall for their shit