Tech bros are now getting away with doing crazy illegal shit at the start, and then “oops sorry let us fix that moving forward”. Governments need to prosecute these companies for their crimes, past or present. Individuals don’t get this luxury, it’s crazy.
Ramblings of General Geekery
“He was able to get a Republican president elected and, you know, regardless of what we think of that president now, he still got him elected.” Holy shit, no, Charlie Kirk wasn’t an aspirational model to be reproduced in Canada, you morons!
Last four #TTRPG played:
- Pendragon
- Spectaculars
- Dragonbane
- RuneQuest Glorantha
Oh interesting, a 2.5 hours “assembly cut” of the first Gremlins movie was shown in LA recently, featuring a whole bunch of never-seen-before scenes. I’d be interested in seeing that!
Listening to Stu Horvath brilliantly describe what it’s like to get a new phone nowadays: “It used to be about checking out all the cool new stuff. Now it’s about turning shit off”
Oh what? The “screeching sound” of peeling tape might be caused by lots of little tiny sonic booms?
Good news, nerds! You can now cite this study when people tell you they don’t want to hear about your Warhammer miniatures or whatever because they think it’s going to be boring! Science says it probably won’t be!
Not so long ago I was wondering if anybody would do a Molly White-type “genAI is going just great” website, and this one might qualify!
The pre-show hike yesterday was nice! I saw some rabbits, and also possibly Emmanuelle Vaugier (sorry for staring like a weirdo when I’m trying to figure out why someone looks familiar 😅)
I posted not too long ago about Github being increasingly worse, first from its Microsoft buyout (who would have thought!) and second from genAI bullshit… well, someone’s got the data to back that up. As always, if you don’t host it yourself, you’ll have to move eventually.