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People defending the chatbot NPC situation in Petit Planet insist that you can't expect a writer to come up with appropriate responses to anything a player might ask

I'd argue the NPC chatbot doesn't seem to be able to do this either, contradicting itself and stating generic gibberish.

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You say as Democrats are caving and settling for a "they'll let us vote on it later, they promised" instead of getting literally anything out of the leverage and momentum you actually have.

Fuckin' shame.

Reminder that, unless a creative freelancer has a spouse with a day job that offers health insurance, they likely have an ACA plan. And with the hits to creative industries the past few years, I'm guessing many qualify for subsidies.

Related reminder that comic creators are freelancers.

A painted mini of a big orc holding a massive sword and gun

The same ork from the side

Turns out that if I give one of my D&D orcs a big gun, he works as a Warhammer 40K ork just as well

Call your senators. I don’t care if they’re Republicans, or if a deal has already been reached. Call them anyway, and let them know exactly what you think of what’s happening. Don’t give them a moment’s peace to forget the blood on their hands.

(202) 224-3121

Okay, Ezra is confirming that he's hearing D senators are actually plotting to cave to Trump and end the shutdown WITHOUT any extension of the ACA, just a promise of a vote later down the line.

Call your senators, friends, NOW, and tell them NO DEAL without ACA funding!

Find them here: reps.fyi

Heads up for folx playing Arc Raiders: Embark has openly stated (in an interview with GamesRadar+), that the game uses the same AI voice tech as The Finals, and the CEO has talked about using AI to generate 3D models from YouTube rips.

If you're anti-AI you should not be playing Arc Raiders!

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40 years ago we’d have congressional hearings falsely accusing metal bands of putting backwards messages in their songs that told kids to kill themselves & now we have a planet-killing chatbot that’s all like “bet you won’t commit suicide chickenshit bitch” & the government is like here’s $5 billion

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as a computer scientist, i am BEGGING people to realize that there is no cognition inside of an LLM

no reasoning, no thought process, no self-awareness

I read a lot of arguments (for AND against) LLMs, and both sides seem to think there’s a consciousness or intentionality or even a moral alignment

I need to emphasize what I say down-thread: this is a temporary, procedural move known as an administrative stay issued in haste by Justice Jackson.

Little to nothing should be read into this ruling for how SCOTUS might ultimately rule on SNAP—either way.

W/alt

What appears to be a poorly-painted cardboard cutout of a Space Marine, nothing suspicious about it.

An ork in a purple shirt hidden sneakily behind the space marine cutout

An oddly barrel-shaped but otherwise not suspicious at all Blood Angel.

Yep, definitely a Blood Angel, not a sneaky ork hidden in a red barrel.

"Hello beakiez. We'z beaky gitz too, just like you. Pay no attenshun to us. For da emprah an' Gillyman."

Got these sneaky orks recently, just finished painting them up.

Panera’s moderately caffeinated lemonade was loosely associated with 2 deaths before it was taken off market.

This article alone has 4 examples of ChatGPT encouraging young people to commit suicide, and OpenAI’s own public stats estimate over a million users discuss suicide with ChatGPT each week.

Three days left now.

Help me help a dog.

You get a #Necromunda gang.
Oz gets help with his vet bills.
Everyone feels better.

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One of my favorite pieces that @mariapleasant.bsky.social drew for my D&D mods (aside from all of them) is the Bohemian Rhapsody-inspired piece for "Ice, Ice, Birdie." I liked it so much I got it on a t-shirt back when we published it, so of course we had to make one available for anyone who wants.

Does he? I've never managed to pull one

Wow, that is just infuriating

I have absolutely no interest in middle ground or compromise on any human rights, for roughly the same reasons that I have absolutely no interest in allowing a leopard to eat only *part* of my face.

I’m sure you’d be on a roll

Garfield getting hit in the face with a pie, accompanied by the sound effect “SPLUT”

I mean, obviously “snikt,” “thwip,” and “bamf” are classics, but I have to give credit to the funny pages for Garfield’s “splut.”

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I talk to the press professionally, I'm really, really, really good at it.

So please, please believe me when say you cannot turn this interview request into anything good, it will do only harm. Harm to you, harm to your child, harm to other children.

Photo of NBC’s exit poll data (from my work laptop, lol) showing Mamdani splitting the straight vote equally with Cuomo, but taking the LGBTQ+ vote by more than 5:1. Even though the LGBTQ+ slice is only 14% of the population, they were a LANDSLIDE in his favor.

This needs more attention: Zohran SPLIT the straights with Cuomo. ALL of his margin was from LGBTQ+ voters. Every Dem who ever said “we should abandon the transes” needs this shoved down their fucking throat with a ramrod.