James Meyers

YouTube video by Tom Schalk Skull Boy Tells a Joke (The Real One)

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RIBS! SPARE RIBS!

"I DON'T NEED YOU TO FUCKING REWRITE WHAT I'VE JUST WRITTEN!"

A screenshot of a drawing program with lots of boxes containing names and dates of people buried in the cemetery.

First step: Make a box for everyone in the cemetery with their name and birth/death years. This is about 20% of the cemetery. Red for married women, blue for married men, green for people who died in childhood, and white for those that I can't definitively fit into one of those categories yet.

a man in a blue shirt and tie is pointing at a board with papers on it . Alt: Animated image of a conspiracy wall full of paper and red string with a man gesturing at it.

Welp, it's #OnePlaceWednesday and I'm about to start my digital conspiracy board to attempt to connect all 200 individuals in the Mount Gilead cemetery. It's either going to be amazing when it's finished or I'm going to lose my mind working on it. Small chance that it ends up being both.

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"AI is the asbestos we are shovelling into the walls of our society. Our descendants will be digging it out for generations."

"AI cannot do your job, but an AI salesman can 100% convince your boss to fire you and replace you with an AI that can't do your job."

Oof.

pluralistic.net/2025/09/27/e...

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"I went to the Hall of Justice and all I got was this T-shirt and then a train home"

Someone saw the mixed reactions for the new away jerseys and said "Hold my beer."

1. Peace Selfie
2. Cast Iron
3. The Little Yipper
4: There Was An Attempt
5: No, No, My Leg Isn't Broken, I'm FINE

Black pit bull mix dog sleeping with her eyes open and her tongue sticking out.

Same.

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It's ridiculous, and 10x worse when the allergy isn't one of the ingredients that gets all the attention - nuts, dairy and gluten. I had to explain at a sandwich shop that mayo contains egg and "meat, cheese and veggies only" doesn't mean slather it in mayo and stick an "allergen free" label on it.

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Great thread Gil! Leaving myself a note so I can comment later!

Gotta decide on my theme for this year! Two years ago, it was @gdofnc.bsky.social games. Last year it was sci-fi games. Maybe train games this year? What new games were you excited to photograph?

Generative Al is being marketed as a tool designed to reduce or eliminate the need for developed, cognitive skillsets. It uses the work of others to simulate human output, except that it lacks grasp of nuance, contains grievous errors, and ultimately serves the goal of human beings being neurologically weaker due to the promise of the machine being better equipped than the humans using it would ever exert the effort to be. The people that use generative Al for art have no interest in being an artist; they simply want product to consume and forget about when the next piece of product goes by their eyes. The people that use generative Al to make music have no interest in being a musician; they simply want a machine to make them something to listen to until they get bored and want the machine to make some other disposable slop for them to pass the time with. The people that use generative Al to write things for them have no interest in writing. The people that use generative Al to find factoids have no interest in actual facts. The people that use generative Al to socialize have no interest in actual socialization. In every case, they've handed over the cognitive load of developing a necessary, creative human skillset to a machine that promises to ease the sweat equity cost of struggle. Using generative Al is like asking a machine to lift weights on your behalf and then calling yourself a bodybuilder when it's done with the reps. You build nothing in terms of muscle, you are not stronger, you are not faster, you are not in better shape. You're just deluding yourself while experiencing a slow decline due to self-inflicted atrophy.

re: generative AI

I have finally fully and accurately explained my problem with how it’s marketed and used.

And now, you can use it, too.

I considered writing a long carefully constructed argument laying out the harms and limitations of AI, but instead I wrote about being a hater. Only humans can be haters.

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Flipped a coin on yellow and got it wrong the first time.

U.S. CPSC never misses with their posts!

Blue Yeti microphone

FUTURE ARCHEOLOGIST: This curious artifact was widespread in the early 21st Century and could be found in most middle-class dwellings. No one knows exactly what it was, but it was clearly a revered object…every example we've found is pristine, as though only used once or twice.

Living vicariously through all my friends at Gen Con while I'm knee deep in genealogy research.

Those donuts look delicious!

Just a manslaughter.

RuthCon VIII games played:

Rise of Augustus
Welcome to...
Hues and Cues
Riff Raff
Eight Minute Empire: Legends
Hot Streak
Waggle Dance
Harmonies
Dream Home

I think that's everything... #boardgames

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I loved it!

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Got it correct, but accidentally clicked the wrong button when I was doing yellow.