We are live! Celebrating 20 years of Dwarf Fortress! ⚒️ Witness Tarn and Zach travel back in time to the original build of the game! With special guests and more! You won't want to miss this. 🥳 www.twitch.tv/kitfoxgames 👈️
Valjurai
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INFJ, supposedly. Perl/Python/R/JS/SQL, APIs/DataScience, et cetera. Should be writing. Might be coding up a facebook replacement and/or modeling civilization itself, looking for improvements.
Tech companies getting bigger and building apps I don't need while I'm just over here wishing for software that works right.
Good morning, patrons! Tonight is the 20th anniversary of Dwarf Fortress, so we'll be discussing tonight's DF news, looking at one of the older forts I have in my archives to this day! Then we'll resume our current fortress! #Vtubers #Vsky #DwarfFortress
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Everyone is on watch for McConnells completely unpredictable tragic relapse occurring in the next few days, yes?
The #ClimateChange crisis is also a #PublicHealth crisis. Warming temperatures affect health on a global scale. #MedSky
"There is no one more cowardly, vile, and utterly pathetic than Putin." A resident of Vladivostok called on Russians to appeal to the Ukrainian government and to anyone "who can help free Russia from the despicable regime that has seized the country and held onto power for a quarter of a century."
Scottish actor #BrianCox, best known for playing Logan Roy in HBO’s Succession, isn’t afraid to speak his mind. In an interview with TRT World’s Ghida Fakhry, Cox explained why he refuses to stay quiet despite concerns about Hollywood backlash......” #AllHeroesDontWearCapes 🇵🇸
🚨 After 40 years of research, Brazilian scientist Dr. Mariangela Hungria wins the World Food Prize for pioneering a $2 nitrogen-fixing bacteria treatment that replaces costly fertilizers, saves farmers $25 billion annually, and cuts 230 million tons of CO₂ emissions.
“Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.” Margaret Mead
These cockroach kids in India (I'm very old) are so badass.
From blocking ICE facilities in Pennsylvania to rising up against Jared and Ivanka’s resort in Albania and challenging Modi in India—everyday people are taking on authoritarian power. In this Next Com...
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Rima I Anabtawi@rimaanabtawi.bsky.social · 5d agoIndia's 'cockroach' protesters have wounds consistent with pellet-gun fire, say experts www.bbc.com/news/article...
One of the things that bother me about all this 'great filter' stuff is that it presumes that a successful, galactically-enabled race is going to just keep making the same mistakes we're making now, whenever and wherever they go, thus leaving obvious singnature.
New from 404 Media: Google Earth has introduced an AI feature that lets anyone fabricate completely bullshit satellite images. In our own tests, we added a “bomb blast and crater” to an area of Los Angeles. This is a misinformation time bomb, will 100% be abused www.404media.co/google-earth...
Happy Friday, patrons! Tonight at 7:30pm Central, it's a bonus Dwarf Fortress stream! We've got cool plans to enact, and no doubt all sorts of things that'll challenge those plans along the way! #Vtubers #Vsky #DwarfFortress
A moment of humor is necessary
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The Fauci hearing was a disgrace. Here are some reminders of how it really went down in 2020. Never forget.
GOOD TROUBLE: We could be a couple days from Judge Sullivan making a bombshell ruling in the Epstein Files redactions case brought by @katiephang.bsky.social. Everyone call your senator and tell them to VOTE NO on Blanche, or at least WAIT for Judge Sullivan.
I reread 'cat pictures please' by @naomikritzer.bsky.social ... a few times a year, at least.
Seeing Dr. Anthony Fauci in the news reminded me of Herman Cain.
We should, as a nation/world, impose regulations on all services that charge by the month or the year... if their service goes unused for more than 3 months, they should reduce the rate to like a buck and send a notice warning that services will cease after another 3 months, with no more payments.
Having been involved in agent-based models (not to be confused with agentic llms, btw), its becoming pretty crystal that awareness is crucial to good decision making. To wit, liberal arts studies may be a world saving endeavor and should be built into all education even before higher ed.
Time to be dismantling some corporations... if they're going to exit, they're going to exist in service to the people; not the other way around
Trades Union Congress@tuc.org.uk · 6d agoAI company Anthropic secretly bought millions of rare and out-of-print books to train its Claude AI model. They used a hydraulic-powered cutting machine to remove the pages for scanning before destruction.
Writing aggressively good code IS being lazy... in the future.
Let’s be clear: what these bastards are doing to these books isn’t digitizing. Digitizing is about preservation and access to the original material. They’re gutting and destroying to make Soylent Green. Don’t let them get away with pretending to do this for humanitarian reasons.
Vaccines work. If there’s a vaccine for it, I have been vaccinated. So has my entire family. None of us has developed the diseases we’ve been immunized against. That’s exactly what vaccines are designed to do. Dr. Fauci was a scientist working in an environment hostile to science. Nobody wins.