First post of the year, new paper out today: we present possibly the biggest case of systematic Measurement Schmeasurement in tech use. It seems that most studies on gaming (videogame) addiction/disorder haven't measured gaming after all. This research took years, so long 🧵 doi.org/10.1098/rsos...
AI - the “liveliest awfulness”, a failed resurrection, a gibbering mass of mouths, eyes and claws, screaming to each other from their separate pits until the power runs out.
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Instead of regurgitating the bromide that LLMs are just "autocomplete on steroids" (even by people who know better), maybe we can actually engage in some public education. The problem with genAI is better expressed through a classic computer science concept, known as SYMBOL GROUNDING. 🧵
i wrote an article about that stupid little question i asked a couple weeks ago, why i asked it, and how the answer to the question can be tremendously beneficial for ttrpg designers
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Wow—the Lemkin Institute for Genocide Prevention (named after Raphael Lemkin, a Holocaust survivor who coined the term genocide) says plainly:
"No more discussions, meetings, reports, sessions, summits…IF YOU HAVE THE POWER, YOU MUST USE IT."
"HISTORY WILL DETERMINE THE RECTITUDE OF YOUR ACTIONS."
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There is no LGB without the TQIA+
We stand together or we fall together.
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I’ve got some racing geese for sale. Let me know if you want a quick gander 🪿🪿
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This is a topic I'll naturally return to a lot, but I've spoken before about the core of my worldview being care ethics, and that for me the highest virtue is compassion.
Something central to that is the recognition that, as human society currently works, care is a resource.
Good morning 🌞
I grew up on these streets
RESKEET THIS IF YOU’RE QUEER, LIKE TABLE TOP/BOARD GAMES, YOU’RE HOT AND SEXY AF OR YOU’RE TIRED ✨🌈✨
I return with gay
Ohh dammmnnn 🥵
It all seems so much more reasonable when you put it like this thespinoff.co.nz/politics/27-...
when your speech to lgnz manages to offend everyone
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#nzlocalgovernment
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What's the German word for the sensation that maybe yesterday's sock is currently stuck half way up the leg of today's trousers
A kōtuku ngutupapa (royal spoonbill) - over Easter, I spent every morning at Western Springs, playing with light and shadow. This was taken at dawn yesterday. 🪶
Tolkien: just got done working on a new language to cope with the ol' Pee-Tee-Ess-Dee. how was your weekend, Clive?
CS Lewis, hiding a picture of Jesus holding hands with a lion: don't worry about it
no pain au chocolat, no gain au chocolat
STAND BACK - IMPORTANT OWL SHIT TO DO
I dunno, but I would definitely take them to a library to meet a synthwave demon
Is it a sign that the rainbow pin came off my lanyard and stabbed me in the ass 🏳️🌈
