The Stochastic Game

One of my kids is joining the D&D club at his high-school after I thought he was rather uninterested in TTRPGs…. Yay! 🤞🏽🎉

We’ve had a house renovation going on for more than a month, and my motivation for anything creative has been zero during that time, but in the past couple days I managed to gather up enough energy to do some sketching…

“Canada eliminated measles decades ago, but it will lose that status on Oct. 27”

😞

You know that cautionary tale about an artificial intelligence meant to make paperclips that destroys the world in order to maximize paperclips? Well apparently it was actually about humans like Sam Altman and half a dozen other CEOs.

That awkward moment when your dog disappears in the bushes, you call him, and he comes back with a brown tongue and an absolutely horrible breath… 😬

“A hack impacting Discord’s age verification process shows in stark terms the risk of tech companies collecting users’ ID documents.”

Oh noooo, how could anyone have seen this coming? Maybe the UK government is actually full of morons?

“Hacker Laws”: tag yourself on your favourite law or principle!

“Synology Reverses Policy Banning Third-Party HDDs After NAS sales plummet”: nice! Good job everyone! Sometimes, the market just works as intended, somehow.

Ah, the push and pull of centralization vs. decentralization. It always depends on where the biggest concentration of assholes is, the capital or the localities, at a given time. In France we’ve seen this play out back and forth over decades, and it’s currently making a come back the other way.

“We can no longer build what people can afford”, says the Vancouver real estate industry. Someone will have to explain to me why “building costs” prevent lower prices when new condos go for 5 times less elsewhere in the province. Sounds to me more like “we’re unwilling to give up our insane margins”.