“We Tracked a Shipment of Rare Books. It Ended at an Amazon AI Training Facility”: genAI is not only built on plagiarism and theft, it is also literally destroying our culture, not just the environment. This shit is evil, I don’t care that it is “useful in some cases” or whatever.

“Tête-à-Tête”: you can include something like this in your Cthulhu By Gaslight game if you want a little levity between eldritch horrors…

You supposedly can’t judge a book by its cover, but you can definitely judge it by reading its first couple pages. “Uncovered” does that using free samples and then lets you reveal the book and save it for purchase later.

I love this article from The Alexandrian showing why Marvel or DC can’t easily sell their comics as “graphic novels” because, well, their catalogue is a giant clusterfuck of a mess.

“Did You Know That US Army Created & Maintains A Fictional World Entirely For Training Purposes With An Insanely Detailed Backstory & Lore?”: yes I did, but I always love learning a bit more about it.

“On The Fuel Efficiency of Launching My Enemies Into The Sun”

I’ve seen a few websites that demonstrate how corporations can extract personal information and track you even without cookies, but this one is definitely the best one so far.

This is what’s going on in the Mitchester Arms TTRPG pub tonight… don’t ask.

These past couple years I’ve been writing “timetables” for my convention one-shots, so I can better manage pacing and not get rushed at the end. Here’s the one I have for Delta Green’s Operation FULMINATE. Comments welcome!

I forgot to watch this but it’s a little bit interesting, at least for fans of Ultima like me: Richard Garriott should be able to get the Ultima copyright back next year. It’s not much (all the juicy stuff is in the trademark, and I think it’s all only for the first game) but it’s still something.