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

As a keen rock and roller with a passing familarity with West Coast Swing this news disturbs me...

Perhaps even some nice chilli products?

Worth having a look at.

Hosting costs money so there's a limited time.

Makes sense. It sounds like your focus is more the mag at the moment.

Being able to direct people to the website to see the quality and variety of the written pieces could help drive subs.

It's hard doing creative stuff in any case. I find I've bought a load of Wyrd Science as digital files, just haven't had a chance to go through them.

I guess the question is: what would success look like for you?

Makes sense. Paid subscriptions are hard to come by.

Why are you killing the site?

Age happens. But you should take the opportunity to grab yourself a nice bottle of something from one of the other stalls.

Adding alt text to this because this is fucking amazing and everyone deserves to read it.

It was very touristy but I did enjoy the Appleton rum tasting.

I also found the Blue Mountain plantation tour very educational (by which I mean it confirmed my prejudices against Starbucks).

:)

oh! Very nice! Clearly you know your dark rums.

I was at the Wray and Nephew distillery a couple of years ago. That was quite cool.

The only place we could feasibly design this?

The metaverse.

The same people who enthuse over AI also own NFTs which tells me all I need to know about AI.

i used to say the same thing about websites with infinite scrolling, which is still a blight upon the internet, but genAI has completely filled out that hatespace now

Spite is a potent motivator. Ive seen mountains moved in the name of spite. AI will fall.

I can find a way to bitch about how long my ramens taking in the microwave. Best believe I can find epoch spanning hate in my heart for AI.

Used to predict sequences of words? Grand.

Pretty much anything else. Calamity.

With alt text because not all heroes wear capes.

IDK.

Pretty sure the majority (<50%) of adventure buyers read it for the plot with no intention to run.

I'm also pretty sure most games aren't play-tested.

I'm not even sure play testing is necessary. Helpful? Informative? Yes!

Necessary? Unsure.

JFC... I mean good but...

Inane*

Exactly. Better nutrition, better public health, machines taking over some of the really nasty jobs.

It's cool. Just need to sort out some problems.

Oh, it's because the TA is trans. It's about removing trans people from public life.

Hope that helps.

Yikes... It is Apple TV so... I won't dismiss it out of hand.

Average Life expectancy of 50 means that you add up all the ages of people in a population and then divide by the number of people.

So because children were dying before they hit puberty, that really brings the numbers down.

Example:

70, 70, 70, 70, 1

Ave=56.2

70, 70, 70, 1, 1

Ave= 42.4

chart of child mortality in history, roughly 48% for all societies across the globe…until the 20th century, where it plummets to 4%

Currently dorking out over this graph about child mortality with my brother. Just mind boggling to take in.

Well you're wrong. It's been the standard since the late 90s.

They have low paid workers looking at images to do AI training, probably because there's not enough alt text to go round.

a man in a bathtub with the words welcome to the party pal on the bottom Alt: a man in a bathtub with the words welcome to the party pal on the bottom

I know you're super against it, but can you tell me why you think machine generated text is good?

Here's an example of it. Search "welcome to the party".

So the company would have made money and produced garbage like this, is the problem.

* I quite liked these in fairness. Should have visited more.

** I'm actually in favour of quality.

*** this one is to annoy @gamerstavernshow.com :)

Oh yeah, genAI has total staying power, just like:

- NFTs
- blockchain
- memecoins
- cold fusion
- Ricky Gervais
- Clippy
- LAN cafes*
- shell suits
- six sigma**
- tulip bulb prices
- ENRON
- ska***
-polystyrene cups

Leaving only obnoxious waste and crime opportunity behind.