Sam does edits

Rest in peace, Acer monitor I got for free during lockdowns because my uncle was going to throw you out. You had a good run.

Just found my coffee from this morning, still in the outside world rather than in my guts.

Explains a lot.

please play WotR please play WotR it's the price of a boba tea it was my GOTY 2021 no contest and Endwalker came out that year please

store.steampowered.com/app/1184370/...

DC statehood is now an imperative. No more dicking around. Next Dem majority, get it done immediately.

I've been dreading this turn for months — the war over AI scraping data is undercutting a load-bearing part of the internet, and it will probably only get worse.

A very pink info graphic about commission prices

A very pink info graphic about commission prices

Taking care of a cancer patient is very expensive, and I'm really feeling it. I'm releasing some reduced commission prices for the foreseeable future. If you're looking for art for APs, blorbos, and gifts, nows a great time to get them!

DM or email lojes1998@hotmail.com for my details!

fucking hysterical to hear the 'poor little genAI industry' crying about being bullied with "copyright law" as if it's some novel, untested area of jurisprudence.

If you don't want to be sued by 7 million people don't steal from 7 million people, that's a pretty simple legal concept

As the TTRPG media sphere contracts, we're expanding -- Rascal is hiring a news writer!

We're running a short 2 week pledge drive, offering a 6 month, 25% discount, celebrating our Diana Jones Award... nomination... in order to support this new hire.

Doing edits that focus hard on character voice and it's changing the way I speak out loud. Oops.

Purple haired elven female with dark grey armor. She has scars and a glowing blue eye.

Female with red bunny hair and bunny ears. She has purple eyes and glasses. She was a purple shoulder covering with gold.

Female with red hair and green eyes dressed in older clothes. She has freckles.

Blue female Tiefling with violet eyes playing the violin.

I decided to go ahead and open $25 bust commissions. Here is the link.

ko-fi.com/c/93283b9f0e

Here are some examples from past sales. These are all commissioned characters. None of them belong to me.

All commission money goes to a family in Gaza.

You need to stop using the AI ChatGPT Gemini LLM shit, even to show how bad it is.

If a tech reporter did a thing, there's no need for you to do it to try to replicate the occurrence. It's been reported on.

This is a case where, "I'm doing it ironically," still has the same effect and impact.

I have friends who have made hobbies out of trolling ChatGPT bots.

Many of them are no longer friends. Some are going to get quite the call-in from me.

I don't care if you're bored: do something else with your time. Also ironic use is still use. Stop willfully being part of the problem.

We get it--new LLM crap machine is still a crap machine. You don't need to keep using it to dunk on it.

I have no idea what I'm doing.

#WriteSky #WipSnips #WritingCommunity #WritingPrompts

He shouldn't have called her Kakarots.

Films that are fucking watchable?

This is the way

You either die a hero or live long enough to become an AI shill

Priority Processing for API Customers This offering is available to Enterprise customers. Please contact our sales team⁠⁠ to learn more. Priority processing offers reliable, high-speed performance with the flexibility to pay-as-you-go. By choosing Priority processing, you can unlock: Predictably low latency: Priority processing generates tokens faster and at a more consistent speed than the Standard processing service, even during peak demand. Easy-to-use flexibility: Like Standard processing, Priority processing can be accessed on a flexible, pay-as-you-go basis instead of requiring advance provisioning.

Priority Processing for API Customers Priority processing offers reliable, high-speed performance with the flexibility to pay-as-you-go. By choosing Priority processing, you can unlock: Predictably low latency: Priority processing generates tokens faster and at a more consistent speed than the Standard processing service, even during peak demand. Easy-to-use flexibility: Like Standard processing, Priority processing can be accessed on a flexible, pay-as-you-go basis instead of requiring advance provisioning.

Hey, remember when I wrote about OpenAI jacking up prices by adding priority processing? And how it was just for the enterprise? Well as of today (or around today), priority processing is now for everyone. The throttling begins!

web.archive.org/web/20250721...
www.wheresyoured.at/subprimeai/

Drawing of a woman wearing a black beanie. She has messy shoulder-length black hair and a smirk on her face. She's wearing a long, brown coat with no sleeves, a black t-shirt with a red Cyberdyne Systems triangle logo on it, baggy light brown pants, and black Doc Marten boots. Her exposed arms are covered in colorful tattoos, featuring flowers, creatures, and a triforce. Her left arm is leaning on a duck-headed cane while she holds a bokken out with her right.

Deep in the editing trenches, but I just wanted to pop in to share this art I commissioned from @iara-art.bsky.social! Meet Lucy Fanshaw, main character of MKRATCATCHER. She's a monster. Okay, bye.

A Chrome browser error page displays the familiar “Aw, Snap!” message, indicating that something went wrong while loading a webpage. A pixelated frowning file icon with Xs for eyes appears at the top left. Below, the error code reads “Out of Memory,” suggesting the browser ran out of system resources. The page includes a “Reload” button in blue on the bottom right

behold the "HTML bomb"

It's a counterattack for AI companies that persistently scrape and rescrape your web site, even when you tell them not to

when a scraper grabs it, it becomes a 10-gig HTML page and 💣 goes the scraper

Item #6 in my latest "Linkfest" newsletter: buttondown.com/clivethompso...

hey TTRPG and AP folks! i'm looking for AP performers who fit two categories for a possible (paid) project:

- historically marginalise/under-represented identities
- based in so-called canada

i know a few, thanks to @pocgamer.com's starter pack and my own network, but will gladly take on recs!

AI filmmaking and storytelling is punk rock. It’s hip hop. It’s counterculture. It’s a new type of creativity. It’s a new medium. It’s hated by the mainstream film and art establishment. It resists ideology. It ignores gate keeping. It’s uncomfortable. It’s scary. It’s viral. It’s accessible. It’s refreshing. It’s welcoming. It’s here.

AI filmmaking is peeing. It’s pooping. It’s throwing up. It’s a new kind of liquid coming out. It’s hated by the establishment. It’s what goes in the toilet. It’s wet. It’s what’s in the bathroom.

Is two obscure, twenty-year-old movie references (well, one movie and one TV) too many for one paragraph?

This week on the program: what do you call a reverse heist? A tsieh? How would you ever say that?

#Pathfinder #ActualPlay #TTRPGS #scifi

Indiana license plate number 999ZZZ with dark blue text and a picture of a covered bridge spanning a stream in a woodland on a cloudy day.

This nonsense only has the Serif font going for it. The covered bridge picture is indecipherable from another car at 70 miles per hour. Also: covered bridges are a New England thing. Never heard of the association with Indiana. Hazy sky gradients are also really overdone.

That's a sold plate right there! Single-word slogan it the top is classy. Bonus points for the super-bold font and the bonkers color scheme. What's up with that tiny B, though?

I saw very few vanity plates. Connecticut drivers seemed to be the biggest vanity enthusiasts, though.

I drove about 1200 miles this week. I was pretty bored. Now I have lots of opinions on license plates.