Jonathan aka RoadBlock
@roadblock.bsky.social
Gamer, podcaster, El Torito & JMM on Distinguished Adventurers! Panelist, photog, diver, golfer, musician, IRL Cleric. #JocksMachina. Pic by Ticcor! Latino, He/Him
I wrote about the triumph of Doing Your Own Research and the stupid, nasty thing that is replacing some very recent history in real time. defector.com/were-just-go...
We're Just Going To Keep Doing 2020 Again Until All The Wrong Stuff Is True | Defector
In a bunch of ways, there is no real percentage in remembering what things were actually like during the worst years of the COVID-19 pandemic. Beyond all the uncertainty and suffering and death, there...
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SpaceX spending 2.5x then what they made in Q1 is just another reminder that this iteration of AI is not profitable. These companies are gonna keep begging for tax breaks to somehow get closer to cutting a profit, but it's not possible.
Let's make something perfectly clear... Alt right and faux red pill shitheads are all welcome to Bluesky. The beautiful thing about it is that everyone else is NOT forced to hear them. Remember, Elon posted that we all had to stop blocking these people because it fudged up his goals.
The Verge@theverge.com · 2d agoBluesky's new CEO Toni Schneider on the platform's reputation for being a liberal bubble: "Yes, we definitely want that to change. It is already changing. It certainly wasn’t designed to attract one specific group of people."
While I didn't go to GenCon myself, some friends who did are coming home very excited about running some Call of Cthulhu one shots! We're going to see if we can do our first bit of in-person TTRPGing in a long time! Looks like I'll have to learn how to be a Keeper! 😈🎉😂
I'm not going to be relitigating COVID lockdowns or mask mandates. Both were necessary measures that saved lives. If you cannot accept the curtailing of even the minor of freedoms in the name of public safety, you have demonstrated that you do not give a solitary fuck about the rest of us.
Finally got the Xenophage catalyst to drop after running Pit of Heresy SO MANY goddamn times this week. It was fun, but I'm glad to be done with that for a while!
We were in the sex panel and there was a tornado so we had to move across the hall to the improv panel.
"A study done in Phoenix done by Arizona State University found data centres can increase air temperatures by up to 4 degrees Fahrenheit in downwind neighbourhoods. The waste heat given off by one data centre as it cooled itself exceeded the amount produced by 40,000 households."
CNN@cnn.com · 6d agoNew research suggests data centers have an alarming and overlooked environmental impact: heat pollution. CNN's Laura Paddison reports.
Ah, this warms the cockles of my cold, dead heart. Wait til you see the price a TERF had to pay for lying about a trans woman. "...also be required to publish a court-approved apology that must remain pinned on their social media channels for three months" www.lgbtqnation.com/2026/07/an-a...
An anti-trans activist lied about a trans athlete injuring cis women. Now she has to pay the price. - LGBTQ Nation
Kirralie Smith admitted in court she didn't have any evidence to back up her claim about a trans woman injuring two cis women.
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Every time I've done a mentorship session in the BIPOC Lounge at GenCon, I've met someone cool who I hope to continue talking with and working with. I wish more conventions had structured opportunities for networking and mentorship like this.
"Being trans is sad Being trans is horrid." Shut up. Being trans is great. Look. I've got inner peace and a fucking scythe.
Jay Hulme@jayhulmepoet.bsky.social · 4d agoToday at the convent: the nuns have been teaching me to scythe.
😑 #Twitch, why? That's all, just why? I cannot imagine the many streamers who, more or less, make your platform what it is… wanted or asked for this. So, just tell us why. I know it's a futile hope that they would communicate with us like adults about their decisions, but honestly, come on, dawg.
Zach Bussey 🍁@zachbussey.tos.gg · 5d agoTwitch and Amazon are apparently planning to use streams to train Generative AI. Multiple sources tell me it will be announced in the coming months, despite some internal friction against it. Creators may be able to opt out of some training data.
this is distressing. as a disabled streamer, my small income from twitch is a big deal for me. hope there's enough outcry to get them to not do this. if not??? I'm honestly not sure what to do, and many people (especially marginalized streamers) will be in a similar situation. fuck this. fuck AI.
Zach Bussey 🍁@zachbussey.tos.gg · 5d agoTwitch and Amazon are apparently planning to use streams to train Generative AI. Multiple sources tell me it will be announced in the coming months, despite some internal friction against it. Creators may be able to opt out of some training data.
Fuck Gen AI store.penny-arcade.com/collections/... #JustSayNo #NotEvenOnce #ForYourHealth #LudditesUnion
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Dexerto@dexerto.bsky.social · 5d agoYouTuber Hank Green has paused uploading on multiple channels after admitting he relies "too heavily" on AI "I need to come to terms with the fact that the level of dopamine I've been getting from interacting with LLMs ... is not healthy for me or good for the world"
It's day 2 of #GenCon and after a morning seeing some lovely friends I'm back at @wizkids.bsky.social photobooth! Pick up a ticket and come to the D&D Tower and get a picture with my displacer beast kitten friend! #WizKidsGenCon26
I try to give a lot of grace, but seeing people post these OBVIOUSLY ai-generated Peanuts "strips" everywhere is getting real old. Worse when the person is an artist or a performer or a writer, etc. But most insulting... this has none of the heart or love of his strips. THE STRIP HAS NO ADULTS.
Barbara Longley Author (no DMs) 📎@blongley.bsky.social · 5d ago
Anthropic is leasing all of the compute here to run Claude Code, if you’re still using that
Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 5d agoThe fact that it’s poisoning Black people is not seen as a negative to these folks.
Even bigger fumble now that they’re doing Ghost Rider. Building toward a Midnight Suns/Sons horror thing is off the table unless they want it to be both rude and wack
Culture Crave 🍿@culturecrave.co · 5d agoMahershala Ali says he’s moved on from ‘Blade’ “I have moved on … I'm good … you had me under contract … if they wanted to do the movie, we would've done the movie. So we're not doing the movie … They didn't want to do it, so they should answer that question” (via GQ Magazine)
who could've foreseen that Donald Trump might put himself over country and could be out of touch with regular people, there was unfortunately no way to know this from the previous 80 years of his life
Greg Sargent@gregsargent.bsky.social · 6d agoTrump absolutely cratering by many metrics in new CNN poll: 66% say he puts himself over country 61% disapprove of ballroom, arch, etc 57% say lacks sharpness to serve (!) 73% say he's out of touch w/regular people (!!) His personalist project is over. New piece: newrepublic.com/article/2137...
What a delightfully fun and insightful watch! Go check this out! Also "Reading Smell" audiobook when? 😜
Dr. Emily Friedman@friede.bsky.social · 7d agoI am unbelievably touched that @dropout.tv titled my @dimension20.dropout.tv Adventuring Academy episode “A Duty of Care” I’m overwhelmed today, but I want to circle back in a while to share the links to everyone & everything I cited. More soon.
I am unbelievably touched that @dropout.tv titled my @dimension20.dropout.tv Adventuring Academy episode “A Duty of Care” I’m overwhelmed today, but I want to circle back in a while to share the links to everyone & everything I cited. More soon.
A Duty of Care (with Dr. Emily Friedman) - Season 7 - Dropout
Dr. Emily Friedman joins Brennan to discuss the history of actual play and the best gaming system. Content Warning: Misophonia (Crunching) - [throughout 54:37-1:01:03]
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