The Stochastic Game

“Sherlock Holmes Villain Moriarty Crime Series in the Works”: superhero movies and stories with “bad guy isn’t actually THAT bad” will continue until billionaires are seen as the people who can legitimately lead society.

“Steven Guilbeault says climate change a generation-defining fight as he quits Liberal Party”: It’s going to be funny when more and more MPs jump the lines and, 10 years later, the Liberals are basically the new Conservatives, and the Greens are the new NDP. Or something.

It’s always annoying when some rare early edition of a well-known TTRPG surfaces, but it goes up for crazy prices on eBay. Hopefully Chaosium can do another “Classic Kickstarter” for that one?

“Search engine DuckDuckGo would withdraw VPN from Canada if lawful-access bill passes”: Right now it’s mostly VPN providers voicing their opposition to the stupid Bill C-22, but make no mistake: it also affects a shitload of other services. I encourage my fellow Canadians to contact their MP about it.

• “Did my wife show up again”?
• “Err, what’s up with your wife?”
• “Well, she’s a bear”

…and other quotes during tonight’s game of Pendragon #TTRPG

Si vous ecoutez le podcast Torrefaction de Geekzone, voila le “Bingo Torrefaction” pour vous amuser pendant l’ecoute! Combien de cases, cette semaine?

“Canada’s Bill C-22 and the security cost of collecting more data”: Tailscale on yet another one of those laws that politicians love to put on the table when they are either corrupt or stupid. I encourage my fellow Canadians to contact their MP about it.

Open source project contains hidden instruction for “AI” agents: delete my code. This is awesome, and there’s a whole unexplored realm of next-level AI-resistance and trolling waiting to be unleashed.

“Alberta’s oil and gas magnates are being outflanked by China”: I think a lot of western countries are getting outflanked by China in general right now. I only we could look past crass capitalism and bigotry…

Many videogaming news websites are angry about the new Steam Deck prices, but none seem to actually blame genAI for it in the title. Rock Paper Shotgun mentions genAI data centres pushing hardware costs up at the start of their article, but leaves it at that. Journalists could frankly go much harder here.