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Art Director at Cephalofair Games (we make Gloomhaven!) 🐏 Legendary Creature 🐏 Moonlighting Record Store Boy 🐏 Probably a Warlock 🐏 He/Him 🏳️‍🌈 Opinions my own! 🐏 More: archxilla.net

Overnight I received an email from somebody, and then, a few hours later, an email that contained what appears to have been the AI prompt for that first email. It's just little dystopias all the way down.

Every now and then someone takes a run at me along the lines of "I don't understand why you, a scifi writer, don't appreciate 'AI'," and I'm all, motherfucker, it's *because* I'm a science fiction writer I have the positions I have, how many times do we have to fucking yell "torment nexus," my dude

So, I can now call myself an Ennie winning Author and consultant!! Huge congratulations to the Crooked Moon team for winning Product of the Year as well as a sweep of others!! The fact I could contribute by including Desi inspired folk-creatures especially feels so meaningful to me!

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I work at a public library. People who want to use AI seem to have no trouble doing so. People who don't want to use AI have a harder time. I crowdsourced and then finalized this document "How to disable or avoid intrusive AI" and then gave it a short URL: notoai.org Please pass along if it's useful

An aircraft passenger oxygen mask: a drop down passenger mask with air bag and yellow plastic mouth and nose cover, oxygen tube has been cut; Demonstration model used by flight attendant crew for passenger instruction. Has text on the side indicating that it's non-functional.

I won’t personally be at #GenCon but I’ll be at Cephalofair’s booth in spirit through the projects I’ve been working on this past year. Stop by to take a peek at a new Buttons & Bugs expansion, Gloomhaven RPG (currently in production!), and maybe even a new upcoming game announcement.

A sketch of a Vermling from Gloomhaven doing a sick parkour handstand and conjuring ice magic. This rat like little guy has big eyes, sharp claws and a big grey mane of fur.

I won’t personally be at #GenCon but I’ll be at Cephalofair’s booth in spirit through the projects I’ve been working on this past year. Stop by to take a peek at a new Buttons & Bugs expansion, Gloomhaven RPG (currently in production!), and maybe even a new upcoming game announcement.

A sketch of a Vermling from Gloomhaven doing a sick parkour handstand and conjuring ice magic. This rat like little guy has big eyes, sharp claws and a big grey mane of fur.

Putting up trade barriers for things made with forced labor is good, but this is likely an attempt to circumvent the Supreme Court's ruling on Trump's tariffs. Trump has also slashed funding for watchdogs like WRC, which hampers our ability to know when there are labor abuses in our supply chains.

A BBC headline says: US imposes tariffs on dozens of trade partners over "forced labor" imports. The article was published today and written by Michael Race, Francisco Velasquez, and Jemma Crew.

Hypothetical situation. You go to Dairy Queen to get a Peanut Buster Parfait but accidentally ask for a “Penis Buster Parfait” Do you 1 - Run away 2 - Double down and demand your Penis Buster 3 - Start a fire