Braaains Clevinger

#SaveSpeech

starting Nov 1st we're entering the holiday season, which is a big stress point for big businesses like Mastercard and Visa. These Paypros havent stopped cracking down on Adult Content, so we need to jump back into calling them in full force again!

stop-paypros.neocities.org

Toughest choice you have to make every morning when getting dressed.

Oh, I’ve already got my copy saved locally, and would prefer to play this over FFG’s typical systems, but thank you.

A picture of the cover for Fantasy Flight’s rulebook for the DEATHWATCH tabletop roleplaying game. Their entire line seemed more complicated than it needed to be. Similar vein as Shadowrun just not quite as obscene.

Packing for The Big Move. Sad to say I never had the chance to take any FFG 40k game for a spin

I mentioned this stat from Alisa Wood of KKR in a talk I did a few weeks ago, but did you know: There are more private equity firms in the United States than there are McDonald's? (~19,000 vs. 14,000) In 1980, there were 24 PE firms *total* in the U.S. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

You’d never catch one of these coddled kids nowadays “working in the lab late one night.” And the only thing their eyes are beholding is their damn phone

NYT breaking news: "Government Ordered to Pay Food Stamp Benefits During Shutdown" — A federal judge ordered the Trump administration to use emergency funds to pay for food stamps during the federal shutdown

Hard to overstate the lifeline this ruling offers in the face of Trump's calculated cruelty.

It will not only keep tens of millions—half of them kids—fed this month, but will also prevent the evictions and shutoffs that would have resulted from families being forced to pay for food out of pocket.

Every Dracula adaptation that leaves out my boy Quincey is no adaptation to me. He’s the one what does the deed! With a BOWIE KNIFE.

A picture of the HELLPIERCERS RPG book. It’s a lovely hardback all black with wild gnostic art in silver.

Arrived just as I was about to start packing my RPG books for The Big Move. Pictures do not do it justice.

Interesting paper! When you ask people about the most important issue "facing the country," they often say immigration. But when you ask them about issues facing them personally, it doesn't crack the top 10.

This indicates that voters are reacting to media narratives, not their own experience.

A poster that says Did you see: -a tent in the woods? -someone shoplifting? -a person sleeping in their car? NO YOU FUCKING DIDNT people are struggling don't make it worse

You can be a little goth as a treat

I know I will! And it’s always humbling to learn the reach that comic has had.

Hell(piercingly) yeah!

Like, talk of a third term is absurdly dangerous and should be shut down whenever it's brought up, but also there is an amazing reason why this guy ain't gonna run in 2028

we live in a society where we pay police $200k a year to violently assault poor people who aren't able to afford food, and also defunding the police is supposedly the extreme position?

Grandpa Simpson yelling at a cloud

Back in my day, AI used to stand for Adobe Illustrator! And we hated that, too!

Exactly what I was thinking

Yeeeeeeees

I like this a lot. Always wanted to run a Doc Wagon campaign in Shadowrun.

Oh, now this is interesting. And pretty sure I could use Items to replace Aspects as the source of a character's neat abilities.

Damn that’s solid

I’m workin on a modified Boundless thing at the mo. Very fun collection of ideas!

Zohran caught in LIES: Mamdani claims to have "loved Final Fantasy III" when he was growing up. yet research indicates that the game he played was in fact the SIXTH Final Fantasy game

Whenever someone tells us our books got them through a hard time. There’s a Roger Ebert quote about how the best thing you can do in life is to make someone a little happier, and if anything I’ve ever worked on has done that for you in a dark hour that’s worth more to me than anything else

Frictionless brain activity

Experimental evidence of the effects of large language models versus web search on depth of learning Abstract. The effects of using large language models (LLMs) versus traditional web search on depth of learning are explored. A theory is proposed that when

When people learn with ChatGPT instead of following their own searches, they end up knowing less, caring less, and producing worse advice, even when the facts are the same.

Friction is an essential ingredient for learning! Convenience makes us shallow.

academic.oup.com/pnasnexus/ar...

It is hard to overstate the stress produced by the incoherence of academic institutions pumping generative AI when they want to play business and then leaving instructors to deal with the results when they want to play school