The Runenbergs
Ludwig Tieck introduced the world to his cursed mountain not as an underground temple of carnality, but as a towering peak in his cautionary tale of siren songs and abandoned humanity. The Runenberg represents a delusion on a grand scale. This mystical mountain beckons, but what it…
The Modern Nathanaels
The nineteenth century tried to warn us of what to expect, but obviously we ignored the advice and signs when the moment arrived. But what, for some amongst us, is the Oimpia to their Nathanael? It’s AI, or more specifically, LLMs. While each digital automaton has its own…
29 sources. This was supposed to be one dissertation.
The 29th book for my dissertation is finished. Now, I start compiling the notes.
This helps seal the defense of my dissertation.
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After completing the dissertation for the Genres of Power, my next trick is to do another one on gamer as hero.
A digital poster in the style of a World War II propaganda piece. Isolaed on a yellow background, a normal, squarish, 20-something guy with glasses is sitting working on a laptop. A ghostly figure of Hitler has his arm around the guy and is grinning and shaking a fist triumphantly looking at the laptop screen. On the lid of the laptop where an apple might otherwise be is an openAI logo, bright green, and dripping green ooze down the lid. Text on the poster, in combinations of sans-serif type and brush script reads: Using Generative AI? You’re prompting with Hitler! GenAI is a Fascist Project! Try using your brain instead Don’t surrender your creativity to the tech billionaire’s control
New awareness campaign
Imagine how much ketchup is on the walls.
Bad night for sexual assaulters all around
Spotted on The Mall this morning 💀
Em dashes aren't meant to be used as often as the comma. It's used mostly to show a sliding from one thought into an aside, and then back to the main topic.
Pundit is a waste of space and there's one person I hold at fault for including him in 5e.
WGA statement on Paramount’s decision to cancel the Late Show with Stephen Colbert.
with a bit of time off, I plotted out the key sequences of 5 novels in 24 hours. With one other already completed, that's the first half of a series.
It's accurate.
The key differences is in the game uses dice pools for the three stats and you have "kitty treats" to influence story elements similar to Fate's fate point system. All dice rolls are done by the players. I ran it for a group of kids between 4-7 in my library.
5.8 A1c.
In some ways this is similar to Magical Kitties Save the Day.
I would expect some structure between schools for the same field, though. I'm flying blind and it's weird.
Apparently there's no standard format for a PhD dissertation.
This is the state of my PhD thesis. These are 4x6 cards for the quotes I've pulled so far. I'm starting on my 27th book. The craft paint bottle is for scale.
Guess they wanted the Dorian Gray look.
Been busy parsing Foucault's: "Madness & Civilization." I think I burned through almost 200 index cards.
I hope people will stand up before that happens.
Anything they tell you not to do is exactly what terrifies them.
Part of my thesis is on how power is a social grammar.
I went through a pack of index cards for my research in a week.
