Like a shitty clock, all governments keep coming back to “regulating encryption” every few years, and frankly I don’t know how many times we need to push back on that crap. Anyway, fellow Canadians, we have to explain basic things to our politicians again.
The Stochastic Game
Ramblings of General Geekery
So it sounds like Google is going to give its search engine even more AI bullshit and less, you know, actual search results. If you haven’t switched to DuckDuckGo or Startpage or whatever, now’s the time. Over here I’m paying for Kagi and very happy with it.
The price of the Lifetime Plex Pass is soon increasing by… a LOT. So if you ever wanted to grab one, you’ve got until end of June. It’s crazy that I got my lifetime membership probably more than 10 years ago? For about $75 or something?
My next Glorantha scenario:
“We’ve found the location of one of the God Learners’ secret texts, detailing forgotten mythic paths to great powers!”
“Awesome, let’s get it! Where is it?”
“Far-Right Speakers Given a Perch at Vancouver’s Web Summit”: I know a lot of people leaving the tech sector, in part because of shit like this. This industry is increasingly populated by bad people, and people enabling bad people.
So they want to build AI data centres in the middle of Vancouver? When real-estate is already crazy, and city infrastructure is strained? That seems… bad. Like, “this ends with brandishing signs in the street and broken Telus windows” bad.
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.)
