The Stochastic Game

You know what time it is? Yeah it’s RHUBARB PIE TIME AGAIN MOTHERFUCKERS. No time to make it pretty because I’m HUNGRY

Thom Holwerda often cherry-picks his sources in the same way that, say, John Gruber does, so take this with a bit of salt, but it’s good news that the European DMA is possibly working out. I’d love for Canada to have strong laws like this too.

As I’m making the last changes to my “King’s Daughters” scenario for Call of Cthulhu before it goes to editing/layout/art, I learn that a horror movie is in production to tell the story of the (very bad) boat trip of the first group of women! Definitely looking forward to this!

My pet peeves about Star Trek TNG (based on season 1 so far) are (1) inhabited planets that are just one solid colour and (2) all the “unique” cases on the Enterprise (Worf and Data are unique, Wesley is an exception, Geordi is at least rare, etc.)

A bit more on my first watch of Star Trek TNG. Did they have a show bible? There seems to be very inconsistent communication and transporter ranges, travel times, etc. It’s a bit of a mess from one episode to another.

I’m continuing my first watch of all things Star Trek, now about 2/3rds into TNG’s first season. I love it! It’s in line with TOS, but with more 3-dimensional characters, expanded lore, and hints toward some story arcs. Why were fans ever upset about this?

Who’s fluffy, hates crows, and is racist against German Shepherds? THIS GUY

“Software Developers Say AI Is Rotting Their Brains”: Yep… and especially this: “We’re building a rat’s nest of tech debt that will be impossible to untangle when these models become prohibitively expensive”.

“Québécois dubbing of The Simpsons saved after outcry from fans”: I discovered the French Canadian version of The Simpsons when I first came to Montreal as an exchange student and OH MY GOD IT’S SO MUCH BETTER THAN THE EUROPEAN FRENCH ONE.

My knee-jerk reaction is to say “fuck no” to building “AI data centres” in BC, but it’s maybe a bit more interesting than I thought: it’s about building access to compute infrastructure to various Canadian companies, involving cool stuff like medical research. Mmmh.