R. Lupmet

We should keep the traditions.

Jag har jobbat mycket i internationella projekt och ibland tänker jag hur jag guidar en utländsk kollega genom staden och släpper anekdoter från historien. Roligast har varit att ”fantasiguida” kinesiska kollegor och ”råka” berätta om #demokrati och #männskligarättigheter. 😆

They need to get this corrected, it will delay 🇺🇦 🔜 🇪🇺, and that would be sad.

I commute by bike, yesterday morning it took 42:43, but today 43:42. Should I be disappointed, alarmed, or proud?

On any clear October evening, you can get a pretty good buzz just from licking the edges of the night sky.

A really good overview, I think there is a need for more ”what distinguishes this category of game?” analysis.

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Set the goals right.

Our racist minister of migration (who's son was in Nazi Active Club) is getting his fascist policy blasted throughout the nation.

Which #ttrpg has good mechanism for reputation, and what is the mechanism and what is good with it?
Many have a straight value from 0 to N and ”roll below to be recognised”, while Western have two values (reputation and fame), roll below fame. The good are the tables on how to interpret reputation.

It doesn’t bode well for a book series when the next books is introduced as ”X has solved impossible tasks before, but this time the stakes are higher than ever” – and it is the second book. How to crank it up even further in the book after? 🤔

Normaltid innebär att solen står i söder kl 12 men jag lutar emot sommartid ety Asien då inte är lika många timmar före – vilket gör det lite enklare att boka möten och allmänt snabbare att kommunicera med dem. Jag ser mycket hellre att europeiska företag gör affärer med asiatiska än amerikanska.

Those without bookshelves?

From Africa to Eastern Europe, I’ve listened to many people talk about the brutality of Russian fighters who’ve committed human rights abuses in these areas. It doesn’t matter where it happens, the stories are similar. We can’t be quiet. We betray our friends when we stay silent.

I’ve used ad-blockers since the end of the 90ies, the first one I used was called Muffin. It was a proxy written in Java which filtered the HTML using regexp you had to write yourself. The bonus was that you could remove ”font size=1”.

Vad jag fått höra fanns det för länge sedan en uppgörelse om hur och när SVT & SR kunde rapportera om nyheter – för att inte konkurrera med bl.a. gamla A-pressen. Jag antar att det avtalet upphörde för något decennium eller två sedan men någon som vet säkert om vad den innebar och innebär?

Med tanke på vad som händer i USA undrar jag – hur bekämpar man en fascistisk regering? Motståndet måste vara organiserat men finns sådan organisation i Sverige? Vi har val nästa år och sannolikheten är större än noll.
(Jag håller den för mycket låg men för freden behöver en förbereda sig på krig.)

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/me from the other side of the Atlantic Moat

I saw a similar summary on TikTok, and is happy to find it in writing as well: this is very important to realise; they cannot go back, the old US has been destroyed, just like the White House!

I hate watching the US having actually read history and studied political science. I want to shake every American and tell them they can't vote their way back to normal. The institutions have been compromised, there is no going back.

The elephant! 🐘

Alltför många satsar på kvantitet i den eviga jakten på "långsvansen" men ingen lär sig att det inte är kvalitét. Se på SF-bokhandeln som nischar sig, håller på kvalitét och överlever som fysiska butiker!

No, because it is nothing but a clay golem, it is a shiny tool which will fail to deliver – in those areas we think about now, but as with any tool, we have not forseen the areas it will change. Others will remain exactly the same.

Without the need to work we will focus on our hobbies, but I think that is for those with imagination and motivation, those without will become hedonistic. My view of humanity is pessimistic. But will AI create such an Utopia?

On AI and the golem Recently I, like a lot of people who make their living by creating things, have been thinking a lot about so-called AI. I have been forced to do this because so many companies have been stealing th…

Another scholar ( @goingmedieval.bsky.social ) rebukes AI by stating that "to work is to be human" – I like the golem angle! – but I think we should look to TITAN by Mado Nozaki to see what would happen to society if such Utopia would exist.
going-medieval.com/2025/10/21/o...

'When we realised these jewels were only stolen to inflate the share price of a company whose entire value relies on the wholesale theft of other people’s art, we had no choice but grant these scamps immunity,” confirmed French prosecutor Alain Barbier.'

This actually made me a bit happy; I know Emacs is an OS, and always been, but it makes this old-time-lurker of alt.religion.emacs happy to see someone break out Emacs of its prison under lesser OSes. 🥹 (And now I found a use for that emoji! 😆)

I think you are in for the long haul. The next president will probably be a democrat, but the one after? My bet is that those the fuel MAGA ranks won't stop, they will continue to come until you repair your country and not only smack on some plastic padding. Every second president will be MAGA.

Photo orientation is a piece of magic on its own. I think there are at least n competing standards on how to to communicate orientation and the interpretation of the flag(s), where n ∈ ℂ. It might depend on which file format each app actually got (jpeg, heic) and which api it used. Might differ.

Om jag gillar alla inläggen i tråden, vilket de högeligen är värda, kommer jag bli klassad som en bot då? 😰🤔
Jag är fascinerad av att media i många år utelämnat sådan här fakta, att inte komplettera bilden, det borde vara så självklart om man vill rapportera i en fråga, eller?!