A Lyrical Forest of Radiant Bullshit
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I co-write with my wife, talk about World of Warcraft, and sometimes make things in Blender.
So apparently Amazon is just letting their AI run rampant and terminate people's accounts without human review. I can't beat the "indies, go wide" drum any louder. www.youtube.com/watch?v=0nQx...
Amazon just deleted my KDP account. You need to pay attention.
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so The Tragedy of the Commons really was just The Tragedy of You're A Dick all along
By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C)@doctorow.pluralistic.net · 2d agoThe original "Tragedy of the Commons" paper was a racist hoax perpetrated by an academic fraud who wanted to make the case for the expulsion of black and Brown people from America and their mass extermination abroad: memex.craphound.com/2019/10/01/t... 85/
Nothing tells you that the profession knowledge tracks are busywork rather than a sincere effort to add depth to professions, than having a new power infusion for gathering nodes that don't come with an upgrade to our knowledge trees so we can spec into them.
Jesse Watters threatens us with a good time.
Mrs. Betty Bowers@mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 8h agoAOC's best campaign ad ever!
Very important! Please do not ever handle bats, and if you find one in your house always assume you have been exposed and seek medical care.
Washington State Department of Health@doh.wa.gov · 9h agoA rabid bat was found at Staircase Bridge, Olympic National Park on August 9th. If you or someone you know had any contact with a bat near this area, seek medical care immediately.
I volunteer at a food bank. The majority of recipents do work, they just don't get a living wage or they take care of family members. Many are elderly. They are always grateful for a small bit of food. It's not right in the richest country in the world.
If you have enough money that you can blow $100,000,000 on avoiding taxes, you have enough money to pay $100,000,000 *on* taxes that will help your fellow citizens, you self-centered prick.
So has our rotating weekly been entirely replaced by Vareesa's quest, or are we being pushed to the new zone by the main weekly quest being moved there?
My "never trust an LLM" story is that once I fed a document to Gemini with a simple request: Give me a list of the names in this document. Gemini confidently spat back a list in which it had made up surnames for both main characters, including the one named in full in the first paragraph.
John Scalzi@scalzi.com · 2d agoI know for a fact - because I check these things - that "AI" will give you an inaccurate summation of my work as often as it will get things right, because, all together now, "AI" is an autocomplete, not an actual intelligence. It doesn't read anything. It guesses from its training data.
Cis folks, I know it seems all should know, and this isn't a defense tbc: if you care to, check in with your cis people, esp those not online in the same ways you are, & make sure they know about JK's f*ckery. I've had people not know, and when I told them, they were horrified and joined boycotting.
Grimly fascinating thread: The ultimate aim of the AI boom is to fully automate the surveillance & population control systems for the benefit of the winners of the hereditary orifice lottery. AIs can manage the elimination of revolting/uppity peasants on an extremely cost effective basis.
By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C)@doctorow.pluralistic.net · 2d agoIn the summer of 2013, two esoteric, technical, incredibly important texts were published within weeks of one another: the first is the Snowden leaks, which revealed a system of global, pervasive digital surveillance. 1/
Angry at the protagonist of a book I'm not even reading, because my wife told me about a scene in which Protagonist insists that her talking cat needed to eat veggies in his omelette even though he didn't want them. Let the obligate carnivore eat his bacon and eggs in peace.
Why would you make Dragonflight the default leveling campaign, give a bunch of quests to introduce the new profession system, and then lock profession equipment to level 70? I swear I do not understand the reasoning that goes on at Blizzard.
"Indies will save us" No! YOU WILL SAVE INDIES! Go leave a review for that neat indie game you like, share the trailer for an upcoming game you're anticipating, tell your fave developer they did a good job, go tell people about such and such game that's just come out, you can make a difference!
The fact that the same Taylor Farms products sold at Walmart are packaged under different names and sold at Whole Foods proves that Jeff Bezos is scamming you into thinking you get superior produce a his far more pricey Whole Foods.
Looking suspiciously at my bnet launcher trying to sell me on 'upgrading' my WoW subscription when I already have a 12 month sub.
It's just insane that the president tells absurd, easily disproven lies on a daily basis, and at this point we all just expect it.
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 3d agoTrump: "At one year, you should have 5 separate visits for vaccines rather than getting them all in the same day. I've seen proof of where they have a vaccination thing that looks like the size of a bottle of soda and pour it into a little child's body."
I hope Soridormi takes pity on me and gives me another skip for my alts once my main finishes the 12.1 campaign, because otherwise I don't know how my belf pally is keeping his vow of never being in the same room with Arator.
“Maybe if we infect them with salmonella they’ll forget about the cyclospora outbreak! Genius!”
Tyler King@tyleraking.com · 3d agoRECALL: Taylor Farms is pulling pre-packaged salsa and guacamole for contaminated jalapenos.
Playing with Blender's new compositor nodes while I try to figure out what to do as a cover for Soul Flame.
Thanks to Nvidia's own greed and circular financing bullshit, we're now at least three years or more from Windows on ARM becoming viable, and they're the ones who had the most invested in that change to the market! Short term quarter-to-quarter thinking is undercutting Nvidia's long term interest.
Britain’s tiny gaggle of hooting mad elite cranks, who all know each other and relentlessly repeat each other’s idiotic bullshit, are of course not “victims of social contagion”.
Why is the blacksmith's table in Valdrakken hidden behind the mining trainer instead of near any of the smiths actually working on anvils? After 3 expacs I've mostly made my peace with crafting tables and then I run into things like this that make me want the profession designers to step on a lego.
I don't see anything about this being a perk from my delver's journey, so does anyone know why sometimes my Strange Disturbance mobs are already dead when I enter the delve?
I'm really going to miss the Enraged Ultradon nemesis mobs next season. Will not miss the Wrathshell Consumptors so much. But the Ultradons are adorable.
Going to be teaching the IATSE 891 folks an "Intro to Blender" this Sunday, so I just prepped my laptop with a fresh 5.2 install, and made sure my slides were good to go :) Maybe a good time to mention I also do private mentoring online? #Blender #3DModelling
The fucking hypocrisy of saying something like "we should shoot children" and then acting like other people are the "animals" and "savages". Asmongold is a monster. Only a monster thinks like this.
Bits@bitshammer.bsky.social · 6d agoOnly someone with less morality than a wild animal would think of shooting children.
