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Lallemand said he borrowed his friend’s boat and was fishing near Venise-en-Québec, which is roughly 15 kilometres north of the U.S. border at the northern tip of Lake Champlain. He says he has been fishing for decades and is adamant that he was in Canadian waters when the Coast Guard showed up and told him to turn off his engine, to which he complied. The three officers told him he was in U.S. territory. “I said, ‘No, I’m very sorry, I’m in Canada.’ And I said I’m polite enough to talk to you guys but you cannot arrest me. ‘You can’t come across the border and pick me up’ but they did,” he recalled. Lallemand started his engine and said he wanted to talk with the officers by the shore, but the Coast Guard followed and tried to push him into the U.S., which is what caused him to go overboard. “They’re tying my boat to their boat. They’re not even taking care of me. The third time I went down, coming out with water in my mouth, spitting it out, I said throw me a buoy,” he said. Once on their vessel, he said he was aggressively put in handcuffs. “I never saw somebody so angry,” he said. He was then handed over to U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers, who fingerprinted him, put him in a jail cell with his clothes soaking wet, and gave him a “dirty” blanket.

A Quebec fisherman who was fishing 15 kilometers north of the US border was essentially kidnapped by US Border Patrol, who capsized his boat and dragged him to an American prison cell.

In any normal time this'd be quite the international incident, y'know?

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Jason ✨👾SaaStr.Ai✨ Lemkin (@jasonlk) .@Replit goes rogue during a code freeze and shutdown and deletes our entire database

This thread is incredible.

Jason ✨👾SaaStr.Ai✨ Lemkin (@jasonlk) Vide Coding Day 10: So I’m up, I’m thinking about vibe coding — but I’m not starting today. The spring is no longer in my step. I’m staying in bed. Why? There is no way to enforce a code freeze i...

Source control and CI pipelines are a mythical creature to this guy... No, we must run this with full access to production, and let it bypass all security! What do you mean it actually bypassed security?
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Pretty sure the idiot-in-chief recently signed a law saying AI can't be regulated, which would override any consumer protection laws in this case...

July 6th - 12th "The Calm before the Storm" Tuesday, July 8th (7:00PM EDT, 11:00PM UTC, Wed 1:00AM CEST) Zenless Zone Zero: Helping our Tiger Senior Thursday, July 10th (6:00PM EDT, 10:00PM UTC, Fri 12:00AM CEST) Music Writing: Voices of the Machine

Another Week, Another Stream Schedule.
This time I'm going to do the Fufu character story I've been putting off until now, and then trying to get my computer to talk to me in this week's one hour music challenge.

June 29th - July 5th "Hello darkness my old friend" Wednesday, July 2nd (7:00PM EDT, 11:00PM UTC, Thu 1:00AM CEST) Honkai Star Rail: An Aedes Elysiaen Realm Thursday, July 3rd (6:00PM EDT, 10:00PM UTC, Fri 12:00AM CEST) Music Writing: Phrygian but Dominant?

Late schedule is late, but I'll be playing some HSR tonight, and hopefully making a good dent on the new story, before playing around with the Phrygian Dominant scale tomorrow.

June 22nd - 28th "Where did June go?" Tuesday, June 24th (8:00PM EDT, Wed 12:00AM UTC, Wed 2:00AM CEST) Dwarf Fortress: Year 5, Autumn: Getting Hot? Wednesday, June 25th (6:00PM EDT, 10:00PM UTC, Thu 12:00AM CEST) Music Writing: Verdi's got me Enigmatic

Getting back into the swing of things, but its also getting hot here, which has messed up my sleep schedule...
This week I'll be heating up the dwarves with a magma forge, and then experimenting with scales again, this time on Wednesday due to potential conflicts on Thursday.

Don’t send me an unsolicited picture of your peewee cocktapus unless you want me to…
A: find your mom’s Facebook
B: find a picture she uploaded of you reminiscing about what a nice young man you were
C: badly photoshop that into a locket
D: convince you I’m your daughter.

Happy Father’s Day Daddy.

Turns out the ZZZ update doesn't come out until late tomorrow, so moving that stream to Saturday around noon.

I played Oregon Trail on the family computer growing up in Australia in the 90s. I'm not sure it got everywhere, but it definitely escaped North America.

June 1st - 7th "June's Here Already!?" Tuesday, June 3rd (7:00PM EDT, 11:00PM UTC, Wed 1:00AM CEST) Dwarf Fortress: Year 5, Summer: Unlocking Perpetual Motion Wednesday, June 4th (7:00PM EDT, 11:00PM UTC, Thu 1:00AM CEST) ZZZ: The Way of the Proxy Thursday, June 5th (6:00PM EDT, 10:00PM UTC, Fri 12:00AM CEST) Music Writing: Searching for Jubilance

It's June!? Already!?
Guess that means I should get around to building a perpetual motion machine in Dwarf Fortress, before exploring the v2.0 story in Zenless Zone Zero.
Finally, I'll be trying to write something jubilant for this week's Music Thursday...

What does jubilant sound like?

I mean, a lot of graphic design in those games depended on the physical characteristics of CRT (i.e. semi-transparent dialogue boxes) which don't work on LCDs, so I get it, but on the flip side I remember CRTs; They always gave me headaches.

Dwarf Fortress stream last night had to be cancelled due to not feeling well and having a bad headache. I'm considering rescheduling it for Saturday afternoon, but if not it will be back next week.

May 18th - 24th "Why am I busy?" Monday, May 26th (7:00PM EDT, 11:00PM UTC, Tue 1:00AM CEST) Honkai Star Rail: To the Sky! Tuesday, May 27th (7:00PM EDT, 11:00PM UTC, Wed 1:00AM CEST) Dwarf Fortress: Year 5, Summer: Unlocking Perpetual Motion Thursday, May 29th (6:00PM EDT, 10:00PM UTC, Fri 12:00AM CEST) Music Writing: What is tonality?

Last minute schedule for this week's streams.
Going to be continuing the most recent Star Rail story quest tonight (in about an hour from now), and then continuing my Dwarf Fortress Relay game on Tuesday.
Finally I'll be mixing tonal and atonal music together for this week's Music Thursday.

Ah yes, the strike situation has been brutal

I mean, I knew something bad would happen when they said "We're almost done with the Flame Chase" at the half-way point of the Amphoreus Arc.

That and this arc is just tragedy after tragedy

May 18th - 24th "The Dwarves Return" Tuesday, May 20th (7:00PM EDT, 11:00PM UTC, Wed 1:00AM CEST) Dwarf Fortress: Year 5: Discovering Literature Wednesday, May 21st (7:00PM EDT, 11:00PM UTC, Thu 1:00AM CEST) Honkai Star Rail: The End of the Flame Chase? Thursday, May 22nd (6:00PM EDT, 10:00PM UTC, Fri 12:00AM CEST) Music Writing: There's a crater in this scale...

3 streams this week, with a dwarven library (as well as maybe a perpetual motion machine), and then we start the next arc of the Amphoreus storyline, before trying another new scale for this week's Music Thursday.

The Thin Line Before Insanity Written on stream on 2025-05-15 for my weekly track in an hour challenge. This time the plan was to move even further away from comfort, using the LIXian scale, a hexatonic (6 tone) scale named as pa

I should not be allowed near theoretical scales that are named according to an algorithm.

But I was, and so I discovered the LIXian scale...

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I wouldn't say AI is inherently evil (most of it is just statistical models, and it is a large blanket term) but a lot of people like to use it as a hand wave, which if they ban AI regulation then a company can avoid regulation by saying their algorithm is "AI"

Me pretending to debug while contemplating switching careers to alpaca farming.

Pushing tonight's stream back an hour as I was late leaving work and I need time to unwind

May 4th - 10th "Back to Impact" Tuesday, May 6th (7:00PM EDT, 11:00PM UTC, Wed 1:00AM CEST) Honkai Impact 3rd: Lost Girls & Murder Maids Thursday, May 8th (6:00PM EDT, 10:00PM UTC, Fri 12:00AM CEST) Music Writing: More odd time signatures

Going to be getting back to the regular stream schedule this week (The cold is gone), including getting further into the Honkai Impact 3rd story, and then practicing working with odd time signatures for this week's music challenge.

I realize I should probably announce this—YES I AM DOING PROFILE PIC COMMISSIONS!!! Prices range from $20-25 depending how complex it is. You may DM me if interested :> #art #commissions #artist

/2 I have never accidentally filed something secret but I have accidentally sent a Crusader Kings III save game file to, if memory serves, the client

Fortunately (1) the client had no idea what it was and (2) I wasn’t scheme to kill the pope or anything

April 20th - 26th "Zenless Dreams" Wednesday, April 23rd (7:00PM EDT, 11:00PM UTC, Thu 1:00AM CEST) ZZZ: Sacrifices and Investigators Thursday, April 24th (6:00PM EDT, 10:00PM UTC, Fri 12:00AM CEST) Music Writing: Gotta go fast

Easter has come and gone, and it's time to stream again. Going to be playing the new ZZZ story update on Wednesday (tomorrow) before trying to write some fast paced music on Thursday.

Stream done, and a piece of music produced, despite Reaper crashing once, and freezing another time.
Enjoyed playing with the new instrument library, but there is still so much to explore there. Hopefully I can figure out the performance issues in the future.

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Twitch Twitch is the world

It's Thursday, which means it is time to write some music. Going live and trying our a lo-fi sample instrument I recently acquired.
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