Brian Reynolds

Everyone knows that "Preferences" should be found under Edit (because you edit them), under Tools (because they control the parameters of your tools), under General (because they are categorically broad), & under File (because a preference is a 'filing off' from a marble block of possibility)

Easiest way to make a small fortune: start with a large fortune!

He's gonna murder Mrs. White with the Candlestick

My wife can't commit to memorizing how Balatro is pronounced so every time she asks me I say it a little differently which further adds to her inability to memorize the correct pronunciation. So far I have: Baltaro, Balataro, Baladro, Baltarno, Balartro, Baratarlo, Baldarto, Blatro, Balatoro

For ten whole seconds I was approaching this sentence as involving a small airport ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

btw as an invasive species starlings are exempt from the migratory bird act so you can just grab one and put data on it that’s free real estate baby

Starmer is thinking what we are thinking and what most of the world is thinking.

Caves of Qud

Getting married on a Saturday is a new phenomenon. Tuesdays and Mondays were used to be the norm. Source: buff.ly/a4AYyah

Hello. I am an expendable character in an action film. If you shoot me with a regular gun I will scream in pain before I die. But if you shoot me with a silencer I will - obligingly - just let out a quiet gasp.

Hello. I am a character in a space opera. I visit lots of semi-terrestrial planets with alien life forms that try to eat me, but I am strangely immune to all their infectious diseases and parasites and never get dysentery from the local food and water.

I was probably JAD back when I ate such things :)

“I asked ChatGPT” “I asked grok”

Well I asked the military advisor from the strategy classic Sid Meier’s Civilization II and he told me to build city walls and not defend my cities with haystacks.

By the the exact thing happened to me once and I ended up dying before fixing my faction but it led me on quite a fun “quest” actually ;)

At that level you can easily trawl your way up and down every space of the desert or even flower fields looking for legendaries who have “baetyl” faction value. Or if you have found a bookseller visit him every few days looking for a Schrödinger’s page.

I remember going straight from my job as a pop historian into my job as a hard sci-fi writer. It was… a transition.

might drink a redbull and write a short treatise on emigration and migration that drove the saltback roads to qud

the brain that can see a face in a wall outlet was always doomed to hear the voice of God in a markov chain

Fucking Apple ringtones on Fucking TV shows

Does it count if it’s the actual moon that you can just barely see in shadow on certain nights?

Cat Status: Smush Face!

CHI Al shaming is a social phenomenon in which negative judgements are associated with the use of Artificial Intelligence (Al). This includes comparing someone's work with Al-generated work as a means of disparagement, voicing suspicion or alleging that someone has used Al to undermine their reputation, or blaming the poor quality of an artefact on Al use. Common justifications of Al shaming include recourse to Al's societal harms, its technical limitations, and lack of creativity. I argue that, more fundamentally than any of these, Al shaming arises from a class anxiety induced in middle class knowledge workers, and is a form of boundary work to maintain class solidarity and limit mobility into knowledge work. I discuss the role of Al shaming in protecting the privileged class of knowledge work and its attendant harms.

uh oh, things are happening dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/...

did you work on the big "browser saving your password for this website but next time you try to log in, the password is wrong somehow" project? heard that one was a gongshow behind-the-scenes

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Evolution isn't a straight line: Modern humans come from 2 ancient lineages After more than a million years of separation, two branches of humanity reunited around 300,000 years ago, new research shows

bigthink.com/strange-maps...

This is a super cool chart of human genetic history. Apparently group “B” may have given us some key neural processing genes.

Original Wordle answers from source code in alphabetical order. And if you write a solver, here's a leaderboard! https://freshman.dev/wordle/leaderboard Additional allowed guesses: https://gist.gith... Original Wordle answers from source code in alphabetical order. And if you write a solver, here's a leaderboard! https://freshman.dev/wordle/leaderboard Additional allowed guesses: https://gi...

gist.github.com/cfreshman/a0...

My hot Wordle take is that Josh Wardle’s girlfriend contributed the actual *soul* of Wordle - at the end of the day it’s always a word we’ve heard of. Today’s word was NOT on the Original Girlfriend-Approved List! SHAME!!! @nytimes.com

Yeah and I was already legal to drink then…

Seriously. I remember when schools *required* us as parents to let our kids mainline phones and internet - and now oh guess what the numbers for that don’t look too good.