Art the art

My super modern regulatory plan is that any entity named for a thing from Tolkien has to publicly explain why Tolkien wouldn’t immediately throw it into Mount Doom

UPDATE: Following the firing of the director of the student newspaper, Indiana University has now cut the print edition of the newspaper entirely.

www.idsnews.com/article/2025...

It doesn't surprise me that Indiana University is going after the student newspaper. The IDS has played a key role in holding the university administration accountable.

Including by reporting on the administration's investigation and intimidation of faculty 1/

specials.idsnews.com/steve-sander...

The MAGA monocultural revolution is so thorough that Hegseth made it a priority to honor soldiers who carried out war crimes in 1890.

STEPHEN MILLER: you have no idea what you have awakened. we will save the West. we will turn darkness into light. we will rise like a phoenix from the pit of fire and

EVERYONE ELSE AT THE DUNGEONS AND DRAGONS GAME TABLE: ROLL THE FUCKING DIE ALREADY

Word to Chicago protesters: going “floppy” is a tactic that annoys police, wastes their resources, and makes them look bad.

Search LibGen, the Pirated-Books Database That Meta Used to Train AI Millions of books and scientific papers are captured in the collection’s current iteration.

Just a reminder to check for your name in this list of books that OpenAI trained from. If your name is there, they probably owe you several thousand dollars.

OpenAI cried that if everyone eligible author files, the company will go bankrupt, so I'm alerting every author I have ever spoken to.

People from all over are showing up for DC. This is not a moment. It’s a movement. We are united in our demands. We are all DC! #FreeDC

Doctors I trust more than RFK Jr:

#CHICAGO PROUD

#CHICAGO PROUD

Happening now: a large protest is coalescing in Chicago's Congress Plaza against the Trump admin's plans to conduct a month+ long immigration blitz in (and, per Trump's Truth Social post earlier today, implicitly threaten to sic the Department of War on) the Chicagoland area.

The main body of the protest march has returned to Congress Plaza and after a final chant, is starting to dissipate. Still a lot of September to go as Chicago gears up for a month+ long immigration enforcement blitz.

"In a world where those in power are performatively cruel, kindness is punk rock."

Not exactly a quote from the movie because it's something I picked up years ago, but is pretty much the message.

Hawaii 5-O
Mission: Impossible

I'm done

Yeah, too many times the answer to the consent question is a dead giveaway that the project head does not understand how "AI" tools can do what they do.

Of course it’s much worse when a game clearly uses AI, yet they’ve managed to bypass any mention of its use to KS or their backers.

No amount of transparency about use of AI will ever earn you a round of applause.

Just don’t use it.

You want to make work you can be proud of? Don’t use it.

Two pages of a Little but Fierce hero sheet, showing the streamlined rules and simplfied language

LITTLE BUT FIERCE, the child-friendly version of D&D 5E is crowdfunding a fully illustrated hardback release!

Follow for updates:
www.kickstarter.com/projects/dcb...

enshittification | noun | when a digital platform is made worse for users, in order to increase profits

Free Fiction, Round Five — The Chain Story For the fifth story in the Chain Story Project, we’re pleased to welcome Joan Marie Verba and her story, Fragments of a Sorcerous Crown .

The Chain Story Project has just released its fifth round of free fiction.

Please download, enjoy, like and especially share. (Sharing means the world to the Chain Story Project. Thank you.)

www.chainstorycore.com/blog/free-fiction-round-five

Tom’s hardware headline: ChatGPT 5 power consumption could be as much as eight times higher than GPT 4 - research institute estimates medium-sized GPT-5 response can consume up to 40 watt-hours of electricity

Gee whiz this only makes it more amazing how my own brain can manage the same task using just a frozen burrito and Diet Coke for its power consumption

Finland ends homelessness and provides shelter for all in need - scoop.me In Finland, the number of homeless people has fallen sharply. Why? The country applies the "Housing First" concept agains homelessness.

“In Finland, the number of homeless people has fallen sharply. Those affected receive a small apartment & counselling with no preconditions. 4 out of 5 people affected make their way back into a stable life. And all this is CHEAPER than accepting homelessness.”

It costs a lot less to house people.

These open spaces in fictional worlds are probably in better hands with you and your friends and your favorite #ttrpg.

A book titled "Outdoor Pigs: How to Make them Pay."

those damned outdoor pigs can't keep getting away with this

Large-scale processing of within-bone nutrients by Neanderthals, 125,000 years ago Neanderthals intensively processed a minimum of 172 large mammals for grease and marrow fat, 125,000 years ago.

So they found a 125,000 yr old Neanderthal fat rendering plant & I have thoughts.

Knowing that they loved saturated fat SO MUCH that they industrialized to get as much of it as humanly possible?

Makes me feel seen, heard, supported, etc www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

The New Deal and the Popular Front Gave Us Superman The real Man of Steel wasn’t woke, but he was radical.

The original Superman wasn't woke -- he was radical. He attacked arms dealers, slum lords, abusive husbands and exploitive mine owners. www.thenation.com/article/cult...

1. 1st #ttrpg ever played:
Original #DnD
2. First you ever ran:
D&D blue box
3. Played the most:
OD&D/AD&D? D&D 5E? #GURPS?
4. Run the most:
D&D 5E?
5. Favorite:
#Smallville ( #Cortex Plus: Drama)
6. Most recently played:
A homebrew #KidsOnBikes hack.
7. Most recently run:
#MasksANewGeneration

Women are punished more for not forgiving than men are for doing wrong in the first place.

ChatGPT advises women to ask for lower salaries, study finds A new study has found that large language models (LLMs) like ChatGPT consistently advise women to ask for lower salaries than men.

Study finds A.I. LLMs advise women to ask for lower salaries than men. When prompted w/ a user profile of same education, experience & job role, differing only by gender, ChatGPT advised the female applicant to request $280K salary; Male applicant=$400K.
thenextweb.com/news/chatgpt...

This is literally what we reported would happen. www.status.news/p/skydance-c...