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Judith Pintar

@judithpintar.bsky.social

Director of Game Studies & Design at the U of Illinois; Sociologist (STS), storyteller, narrative designer, player of harps, digger of gardens, longtime wanderer in LOTRO; fan of Tanith Lee & CJ Cherryh; https://el3.judithpintar.com; judithpintar.com.

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TrekMovie.com@trekmovie.bsky.social · 2mo ago

On his birthday, we remember René Auberjonois, who was Odo for all 7 seasons of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine and directed 8 episodes, guest starred on Enterprise, and played Colonel West in an eventually deleted scene from Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country. He is very missed.

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Judith Pintar@judithpintar.bsky.social · 2mo ago

I'm offering a 5 day Inform Bootcamp, free to all Narrascope Attendees! Online registration is open until June 10! The Game Jam starts tomorrow! If you've got a work if interactive fiction in you that wants out, here's a place to start! itch.io/jam/royal-fl...

Royal Flush Jam (NarraScope 2026)

A game jam from 2026-05-31 to 2026-06-11 hosted by rubereaglenest. The time has come,' the Walrus said, To talk of many things: Of shoes — and ships — and sealing-wax — Of cabbages — and kings — The W...

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Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 3mo ago

GILLIBRAND: How did we bomb 22 schools? COOPER: There's no indication we have G: So how do you explain publicly available information that 22 schools have been hit and multiple hospitals? C: There's no way we can corroborate that G: Have you investigated those claims? C: We have not

Adam Schwarz@adamjschwarz.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Hungary’s parliament sings “Ode to Joy” — the anthem of Europe — after Péter Magyar is sworn in as prime minister. Hungary is once again a proud member of the European Union.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 3mo ago

COLBERT: How dumb do you think it is for people to say that I should run for president? OBAMA: Well, you know, the bar has changed. I think you would perform significantly better than some folks we've seen. COLBERT: Is that an endorsement? OBAMA: It was not

ProPublica@propublica.org · 3mo ago

Alaska vowed to resolve the murders of Indigenous people. But when one nonprofit asked state law enforcement officials for a fundamental piece of data — a list of Indigenous murders they’d investigated — the state said no. (Published Aug. 2025 with @adn.com)

Alaska Vowed to Resolve Murders of Indigenous People. Now It Refuses to Provide Their Names.

When the nonprofit Data for Indigenous Justice filed public records requests with the Alaska Department of Public Safety concerning cases it had investigated, the state rejected them.

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Lorri Hopping ✍🏼 📚🕹️ 🎲@hoppingfun.bsky.social · 5mo ago

YES. They will make stuff up and lie to you, politely and guilelessly, just to please you. An LLM assured a man that he had proven the existence of God with math. Yet, even as he doubted himself and pushed back, the AI convinced him he was a True Genius! The bullshit bubble bursts hard. #ai

Naomi Clark (@metasynthie) 暗悪直美@halfrobot.com · 5mo ago

There are many devils in the dank, latent realm of LLMs. But the reinforcement-learning-human-feedback devil is one of the worst, most craven and conniving of these devils.

And humans prefer AI that can deliver it to them. Another study developed a Bullshit Index to measure the gap between what an LLM internally “believes” (the probability it assigns to a statement being true) and what it actually tells you. After the models underwent reinforcement learning from human feedback (RLHF), the standard process by which LLMs are tuned to be helpful and agreeable, the Bullshit Index almost doubled. In other words: the human-guided training process designed to make AI more pleasing to users also made it dramatically more indifferent to truth.