David Thomas Moore

Ah! I'll admit I was thinking of the Biblical editor, but I can see that.

My list has always been Hieronymous and Apollyon.

Nice!

Cheers!

Thank you!

Are there any good mech-pilot RPGs? Or are the best options wargames/minis games and then bolt on a roleplaying element?

I am so sick and tired of seeing MPs and the media shit themselves over refugees arriving in small boats over the channel.

If your initial reaction to seeing these boats is anything other than “those poor bastards, I hope they make it across” then you have failed as a human being.

Please forgive me for one last share, before I go back to talking all things books, sports, doggos and yarny goodness, which is by far my preference ❤️ Thank you beyond words for every share and donation thus far - you've helped me feel safer in being able to apply as soon as we find a place.

“Fans of Iain M Banks should run not walk to pick up this groundbreaking, headlong rush through realities, space and time. It’s been some time since a book involved my mind as much as it did my heart.” Catriona Ward

Really lovely quote in from @catrionaward.bsky.social for Immeasurable Heaven

@solarisbooks.bsky.social
#booksky📚🪐💙

maybe the real heist is the friends we made along the way

see this makes sense to me because like, of course I'm going to talk up my books, of course I like my books, I wrote the damn things

if I talk up, say, the books by my esteemed colleague, award-winning Canadian author and scientist Premee Mohamed, well that's different!!

everyone's dunking on this, but this is what history actually looks like to the stoned time traveller who wrote it

Anyone who can help Amanda out would be hugely appreciated; she's the best people, and it's shit what's happening to her.

so far blocked this morning:

- someone who's, like, *weirdly* invested in defending corporal punishment
- someone who went from zero to "you're a fucking liar" on my crypto skeet based on having not read anything else in that thread

jeez, sometimes it feels good to flex the block button

Fair, and of course there are examples from history where a currency's perceived value fell below its practical value, creating opportunity for exploitative extraction.

😆 Well, sure, but specifically what I said today was that LLMs are _random_.

I'd argue it's more accurate to say that fiat currency's value lies in people's *confidence* in that land, people, production etc. There are plenty of examples in history of currencies plummeting without any loss of land, people or production.

100% agreed on fiat over currency, though.

(I'm not advocating for crypto, you understand, or shitting on fiat currency, just... everything in economics is imaginary, it's both beautiful and terrifying)

OOFF

damn, you're well away from that

the fun thing about stories where people try to explain crypto to horrified laypersons is that yeah, "real" money is also basically imaginary, it's just issued by someone big enough that we're all more willing to pretend its real

having recently encountered a couple of real "I was spanked and I turned out alright" types in the wild, just a reminder that if you're advocating for spanking you didn't "turn out alright"

Ooh [makes notes]

yrs in hemicentennial heresy...

Yay!

If you're asking yourself "is this a job for an LLM?" try rephrasing it to "is this a job that a ouija board could do?" and if the answer is "no," then don't get an LLM to do it.

ffs, guys

I find this shit (OP, not Ed's post) so frustrating - of *course* LLMs can't sort through a chat, can't do calculations, can't refer to a PDF, because *that's not what they're for*, they're random text generators.

I have cleared my throat and looked at the Atlantic Ocean *several times* and it hasn't taken the hint

it is EXTREMELY INTRUSIVE

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