PJ Coffey - They/Them @homebrewandhacking@mastodon.ie

This is actually true.

I've had someone think that they scored on me because AI fraud and scams are a use and therefore saying "AI is useless" is wrong.

There's no _legitimate_ uses just wasn't something they were capable of understanding. A disturbing level of amorality.

I understand that we are not allowed to call them leashes or leads, but "reins".

Also, training "one hand on the car until we say go" with treats is good.

And I don't think children under 3 years old can conceptualise "no".

Challenging stuff.

@premeemohamed.com

Stereotypes can be so hurtful 😢

A PhD in self-pwnage?

Wouldn't he have to be more entertaining to deliver a new and original form of cringeworthy behaviour? :-?

This is just low effort slop he's producing. No commitment to the bit, no engagement beyond yammer. Embarrassing but we've seen reply guys of better quality.

Put in different terms: a claim made without evidence can--and should--be dismissed out of hand.

Source: *My* PhD is in Rhetoric.

je pense, donc je suis fatiguée 🤣

You should always be training and fighting as though you're going to wallop someone.

There's shockingly little info on:
- situational awareness
- peripheral vision
- correct balanced stance
- using footwork
- pulling blows at static and moving targets

And most don't understand archery's danger.

And it was Pennington, M, who alerted me to:

A) the need for helmets
B) the use of wooden pole arms

In the eastern parts of Europe.

I'm prepared to believe Nat got beaned with a lagged replica. That's very on brand.

I'd probably use it wrong

"At least she's no Mother Theresa!"

Oh! I heard about that at Curious Pastimes in '99!

This feels kind of 13th Agey? I'd be intrigued to learn more!

@wulfboyraff.bsky.social @sashette.bsky.social @natural20.bsky.social

I wonder if this is like "Polish rules" where you just wrap the longsword in gaffer tape and pipe lagging and call it good?

I'd rather not criticise women for not being perfect at all, if that's ok?

People who live in the real world, those whose actions have irrevocable consequences especially, tend to be less laissez-faire about a slurrification device adding in random confabulations to their work.

The shocking part is that AI goons and billionaires think this is ok to foist onto people.

Most licenced TTRPGs wildly underperform commercially as well.

Avatar did nearly 10 million USD. A lot of money... for TTRPGs. But Avatar the Last Airbender has two animated series, a live action film and TV series.

The Alien TTRPG has a decades long franchise and even then...

I already have a very strong brand of doing "woke" things like being opposed to bioessentialism and being impolite to people who think it's acceptable. Just makes me want to play the Giant robot games more.

And hating on AI and solving moral conundrums are two of my favourite things. 😀

So both!

You can't scope, let alone build something you can't define.

And there's no definition of "general intelligence" not mired in racist pseudoscience.

I've only known that since the 00s.l because I read the mismeasure of man by Gould. Great book.

Nice.

That does sound fun. 😀

Well, that's the issue, people keep assuring me that LLMs have this but that's neither my experience nor the science.

So I don't think people _do_ understand that "general intelligence" does NOT exist.

I'd hope not. Although it would handily tell you that you and that person won't agree on important things, so you can just block them and move on with your life. 😀

Principled moral stands are nice to see in this day and age!

The reification of g for general intelligence (treating an abstract concept as though it had a real measurable IRL existence) has been a problem for decades and has also been thoroughly discredited evidentially. But US racism persists in trying to make it happen.

(It's the basis for IQ tests.)

Collections: Life, Work, Death and the Peasant, Part IVd: Spinning Plates This is the fourth thread of the fourth part of our series (I, II, IIIa, IIIb, IVa, IVb, IVc) looking at the lives of pre-modern peasant farmers, who make up a majority of all of the humans who hav…

Another great blog from Brett Devereux.

This is part of a series looking at how peasants actually lived (and why they made these choices).

Certainly in terms of world- building, I'll now feel obliged to mention the sheer number of people doing spinning. #TTRPG

acoup.blog/2025/09/26/c...

the "it's just a tool" thing is another example of this. Being *just a tool* is to fail as *intelligence*

Anything less than:

request: "do this"
result: "it is done perfectly"

is a failure

Druid has used conjure animals to summon octopi and cast an ink cloud.

Completely blinding our front line.

*sad trombone noise*

But then the enemies swam past which enabled flanking and a wall of coral to be dropped into them.

With a double crit as my last roll of the campaign...

Interesting!

a group of ships in the ocean with smoke coming out of the top Alt: A wedge of battleships steaming straight at ya

😆

Vibes.

IDK, you sometimes come across fellow travellers who communicate the same way, right? 😀

Yikes. Have they _read_ the Bible?