The Stochastic Game

“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.

“Fact check: Did 700,000 Albertans want a referendum on separation?”: obviously they did not and Danielle Smith is a liar and an asshole. It’s amazing to see such obvious foreign interference play out unobstructed, with so many Canadians falling for it.

Since some people asked about this on Discord, this is the Gloranthan card deck that the great Lee O’Connor did last year! It looks amazing. I only used it to play poker a couple times so far but it may be fun to hastily design some Gloranthan card game too? I hear Lee’s doing a Tarot deck next, which is exciting!

Recyclable Starbucks cups never get recycled, apparently. You can always trust corporations to do the wrong thing unless explicitly regulated and regularly audited.