“How AI Is Ruining Education, In One Handy Chart”: shout-out to student 22 who seems to be among the few not cheating with AI, and also worked enough to improve their score in the final! Most of the other students: HAHA, YOU MORONS
The Stochastic Game
Ramblings of General Geekery
“Accessibility in GNOME”: “The reality of tech communities is that they are often ableist and elitist. Probably more so than the average population.” Yep.
“Meta’s Teen Safety Case Just Became a $1.4 Trillion Existential Threat”: this is GREAT. Of course, this being in the US, I would be (pleasantly) surprised if it actually stuck the landing, but it’s still great. If the EU had any backbone, this would happen there too.
This talk about Supergirl’s box office failings, and the competing cuts with different songs and so on, reminds me that I dislike “unchecked James Gunn” movies that look like a loose series of partial music videos edited for viral potential and badly cut into a 5-bullet-point story.
Yesterday’s mail call was the Deluxe Edition of the Classic Traveller boxed set. The main 3 little black books, plus some introduction adventure, and a cool-looking map of the Spinward Marches! Yay, maps!
I’ve been doing a lot of research on Rasputin lately and wow, apparently his eyes were a flaming glow, and he was very nice to Muscovite poultry. He preached the bible like a preacher, was a lover of the Russian Queen, plus something about a cat. So interesting. Still lots more to learn about him.
In honour of Bonnie Tyler passing away, let’s re-watch the “literal version” of Total Eclipse of the Heart!
“And they shouldn’t fence at night, or they’re going to hurt the gymnasts” 🤣🤣
Oh hey, Fenris Creations (previously CCP) is open-sourcing a bunch of the code that powers EVE Online. Of course, the engine is more ~25 years old so I expect skeletons in there, but this is pretty cool. Maybe I should boot the game up and see what it looks like these days…
Anthropic: “Making tons of requests to a server in order to extract all its information should be illegal!”
What a bunch of deeply dishonest and selfish people. And now also, shockingly, untrustworthy.
I’m torn on the Foundation TV series. They expanded on the books with some good ideas and great production design. But also, why the fuck are Hari and Gaal still around a century later? Do the writers understand psycho-history at all? Why is there so much fantasy/destiny bullshit in my sci-fi?
