The Stochastic Game

Ooooh shit it’s happening! “B.C. to end time changes, adopt year-round daylight time“

I strongly suspect that Canada not giving a fuck about the US anymore played a small part in finally deciding on this.

“A $10-billion AI data centre races ahead in a rural Alberta town, population 9,679”: the project would include a dedicated natural gas facility that produces 1.4 GW per day, equivalent to the daily demand for the entire city of Edmonton.

“A Sober Look at Alberta’s Separatist Surge”: a good primer by the Tyee on what’s the deal with the losers and traitors in Alberta.

By the way, the funny thing about that “Silent Night, Deadly Night” reboot is that if you stick to a three-sentences description of the story, it really sounds like a Stephen King book. Of course, the actual movie treatment and writing style couldn’t be further from it.

Silent Night, Deadly Night (2025) was great fun! It somehow includes a lot of elements from the (rather mediocre if you ask me) 1984 original, but completely and pretty brilliantly re-contextualizes them with a different overarching premise. Plus: a cathartic mass-killing scene for our current times.

“One hundred accounts are behind the majority of conspiracy theory content in Canada”: of course a minority of mostly-Twitter/X users are behind most of the bullshit. We should ban all social media for everybody, frankly, not just minors.

OK, this is the day, I’m finally watching The Beastmaster! And…. holy shit, WTF, I have SO MANY EMOTIONS. And NOT ALL OF THEM POSITIVE.

Then again, it makes sense given this was made by the “Phantasm” guy.

Tonight we are close to the end of our RuneQuest campaign’s main story arc, and I don’t know if the Alone Confederation will survive! I somehow managed to bring cosmic-horror into our Glorantha, with elder gods fleshed out of the Celestial Court! My Call of Cthulhu is showing! 😅

I was recently made aware of “Angine de Poitrine” and it’s absolutely amazing. Of course, “instrumental microtonal math rock” isn’t gonna be everybody’s cup of tea, but it’s definitely mine!

And I know you should usually never do it, but this time do read the comments under the video, they’re fun!

Diane, 11:30 AM, February 24th.

Entering the town of Twin Peaks.