The Stochastic Game

This is progress!

For Valentine’s Day, I’m running a CoC scenario set in 1665 colonial French Canada: you play as one of the King’s Daughters, coming to the colonies to find a husband! Horrible things happen, including hopefully my players having to wear a bonnet and a ring if, you know, Temu delivers in time.

“Haunted Hotel” started as a sort-of-vaguely-entertaining animated series, but I grew to like it more as the writers found their stride a few episodes in. By the time you get to that great season finale, it’s funny and spooky and strangely touching. Abaddon of course steals the show.

Since Altman (of OpenAI) claims that AI agents provide you with “PhD-level expertise”, a TA from Cornell University put three major LLMs through a freshman Computer Science class… it went about as well as you might expect, and it’s very entertaining!

Sure it sucks that the only thing we got from the promises of Cyberpunk was the dystopian corporation-controlled society, but hey Trump is going to deliver another batch of tropes soon! What? Oh no, not the flying cars and cyber-arms. I’m talking of the burned down US vs strong Europe and China!

“Inside the Far-Right Push to Influence Canadian Political Parties”: whatever is happening in the US can definitely happen in Canada (and in Europe for that matter), and some people are very intent on making that true.

“He Leaked the Secrets of a Southeast Asian Scam Compound. Then He Had to Get Out Alive”: holy shit, what an absolutely amazing and harrowing story.

Shocking absolutely no one, unsealed court documents show that “teen addiction was Big Tech’s top priority”. Facebook/Meta and Google are basically like the tobacco companies of the 1960s.

“How Alberta Plans to Kill Public Health Care Across Canada”: conservatives always try to privatize health-care as the first step towards a US-like corp-owned society. And once again in Canada, the UCP and Danielle Smith are the first in line to this kind of idiocy.

I obviously have opinions about this whole “age verification” bullshit, but none of the “teen-mode by default” limits will actually impact me? Soooo 🤷🏽🤷🏽‍♂️

Unrelated: when can we go back to good old forums and mailing lists, already?