The Stochastic Game

Of course Microsoft Word wants to save your files to the cloud automatically and by default. That’s how they’ll get your stuff to train more genAI, since that’s how public and employee performance are measured these days. The enshittification, and the war against simple local files, continues…

“EU slaps Google with €2.95B fine despite Trump trade threat”: Nice! Maybe that will help Mark Carney find his elbows again and do what he said he’d do.

In last night’s RuneQuest #TTRPG game, our heroes temporarily allied with the Ogre Conspiracy embedded in their tribe in order to take down the local Lunar priest. The plan is to use the Trickster Shaman Assassin in the party plus some Chaos magic. All good, right?

Where did the mountains go? (yes, we’ve been having very very bad air quality here for the last few days)

“I Am An AI Hater”: “Only humans can be haters. I celebrate my humanity.” Sounds good to me.

I love Karren Gillan’s reaction to being cast in the new Highlander… but despite the fancy cast, I doubt it will surpass the awesome unique cheesy/bombastic combination of the original. How can you beat Lambert’s accent, Connery’s mess, Queen’s music, or Clancy Brown?

Network of Time: connecting two people through historical photographs… this is amazing. For instance, you can connect Lovecraft to Taylor Swift in 7 photos! It would be 6 if it had a photo of HPL with Derleth in its archive!

This web API is awesome, this is software development done right. “Never have outdated footer notes again!”

I still need to decide what Delta Green scenario I’m running at KamCon! I usually do either “Sentinels of Twilight” or one of my own — lately it’s “Intramuros” but it needs more tweaking. I guess I should do the tweaking and test it again? That’s what cons are for right? 😅

We are finally back from France… where apparently there’s always someone in our family that’s slightly racist or transphobic or something. On the upside, I’m back to picking up poop several times a day! The fluffy good boy is happy to get his routine back.