I don’t really know what I expect in posting this, but maybe some people see it and can learn from it.
I’ll call it “lessons from an unwilling immigration attorney.”
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What if you tuned out when they started messing with AD&D by introducing a fancy 2e?
I immediately thought of you when I saw this earlier.
This NeurIPS workshop claims that LLMs "provide an important foundation for exploring human cognition, emotion, and social interaction"
This is flawed logic, as @lmesseri.bsky.social and I argue here:
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
I appreciate the work of these authors to show that this problem not only is still here but has grown:
www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-ne...
But it is also quite frustrating 🧵>>
I totally memory holed that they remade Wings of Desire—one of my favorite films.
I immediately thought the same things. Like, is there a film adaptation or option in the works?
New article on Old Men Running the World, where I drill down into what makes me want to run a game and what makes me run a mile. #ttrpg
In social movement studies, we talk about how marches and protests expand the threshold of acceptable risk so that people take more and bigger social risks IN PUBLIC, EN MASSE. This is extremely important for the bourgeois white folks holding signs and building social rapport.
Where Is the Line?
On Ezra Klein, Ta-Nehisi Coates, and the struggle to define the boundaries of what is acceptable in America. If we can’t even agree to hold the line against Trumpism, democracy must perish.
New piece:
steady.page/en/democracy...
The conversation between Klein and Coates showed me that a lot of people who screech about “infighting” on the left aren’t aware of the fact that marginalized people have been forced to learn how to regulate their emotions during conflict, and so, are better able to hear what’s actually being said.
And I guess someone should be making SoM albums…
I’m so confused right now and yet intrigued. Title?
GURPS used a solo play scenario to teach players the game in early editions. Not sure if they still do.
Apparently this is my all time favorites Apple Music playlist… I tend to listen to a lot of albums in their entirety, so there’s a lot of tracks from specific sources.
@iamxofficial.bsky.social / Massive Attack / Recoil / Clint Mansell / Christoph De Babalon / NIN
music.apple.com/us/playlist/...
Awesome! Did you work on the game?
Image of a wizard-type character standing in front of a fount of pink-colored arcane energy.
Carved from Brindlewood Fantasy Adventure Game: Thoughts...
I made a joke on here a few weeks ago about a Carved from Brindlewood fantasy adventure game. It was good for a laugh at the time, but I've been having genuine, earnest thoughts about it ever since. (1/X)
We now need $4825 to publish the first all Black women fantasy graphic novel anthology from @burningphoenixpr.bsky.social We are almost there! Please less than 5k now with 13 hours left #sdcc #comicbooks #Blackbooksky www.kickstarter.com/projects/844...
City of Six Moons is a board game with a rulebook entirely written in an alien language… and it is FASCINATING.
Tom lost his mind a bit, playing this one, and you can watch the results right here:
www.shutupandsitdown.com?post_type=vi...
Fiona Apple
RAtM
Luscious Jackson
(EBtG gave me pause, but that’s mostly because of “Protection” by Massive Attack)
Garbage, PJ, and Elastica
Flyer for Bluesky Boardgame Night. Details below: Tuesday, May 20 from 7pm-10pm Hosted monthly by Mx. Tiffany Leigh No cover + BYOG (Bring Your Own Games) Location: Brooklyn Art Haus; 24 Marcy Avenue (at Metropolitan Av) Subway: L or G train to Lorimer St (5 min walk) *or* J M Z trains at Marcy Avenue (10 min walk) Closest MTA Buses: B24 or Q59 (bus stops less than 1 blk/1 min walk) -There is free open gaming from 7pm-10pm every Tuesday at Brooklyn Art Haus, but on May 20 (and once a month on Tuesdays) Mx. Tiffany hosts in-person and brings/teaches games from her collection. Bsky Game Night is first-come, first-served. There is a communal Lounge space with open tables and couch/bench/chair seating. Folding tables will be set up for games with bigger footprints. Guests are free to set up anywhere in the Lounge area or the connected restaurant/bar area, which has bench and bar seating and (smaller) cafe tables. Food and drink policy: No outside food or drink is permitted. We suggest that everyone who attends Bsky Game Night please purchase something while on site. The Mouth Restaurant and Bar at the venue has a full dinner and bar menu of yummy snacks and mains as well as a coffee bar and non-alcoholic cocktails/beer. There is complimentary water/cups. Menu: https://www.themouthbk.com/menus
🚨 Tuesday, May 20 is my next Bluesky Board Game Night at Brooklyn Art Haus in Williamsburg! 🚨
Free + open to all!
BYOG (Bring Your Own Games) or play something from my own collection!
The inaugural event last month was a blast - we hope to build up & grow this fun new fab game night so join me!
My dear friend, the wonderful @425suzanne.bsky.social, has an outstanding starter pack of board game companies that includes a LOT of companies I didn't know were on bsky.
If you love board games, check it out and follow some great companies! Also follow Suzanne, you nerds! She's awesome!
I just finished rereads of the Blue Ant Trilogy and the Sprawl Trilogy. Need to revisit everything else soon.
LLMs are nothing more than models of the distribution of the word forms in their training data, with weights modified by post-training to produce somewhat different distributions. Unless your use case requires a model of a distribution of word forms in text, indeed, they suck and aren't useful.
A display of Coyote & Crow Games from Connor Alexander, including Coyote & Crow the roleplaying game, Naasii, Wolves and custom dice for the RPG.
If you're looking for great games (including Coyote & Crow) please head over to All Play and support some great publishers. Plus - they have AMAZING deals on shipping. www.allplay.com/board-games/... Your support during this insanity may help save a favorite publisher!
#boardgames #TTRPG #RPG
You involved in the Tabletop Game community in any way? Have a Patreon, or know another creator who does?
Recommend them here!
🧵 THREAD: A federal whistleblower just dropped one of the most disturbing cybersecurity disclosures I’ve ever read.
He's saying DOGE came in, data went out, and Russians started attempting logins with new valid DOGE passwords
Media's coverage wasn't detailed enough so I dug into his testimony:
On that note:
Trans authors (I mean authors who are trans, NOT cis people who write about trans people), drop your book links here and I'll try to repost as many as I can throughout the day.
Cis people: Repost trans authors' book links.
Cis people who want to complain about being excluded: gtfo
