Unfortunately, that ship has sailed.

The corporate social media algorithms do two things: Convince users that everything they believe is correct, no matter how crazy it is, and also keep them as pissed off as possible. We were never sophisticated or intelligent enough to discern truth from fallacies, and that’s much harder to do now that fake information has become so sophisticated.

It will be interesting to see how the EU AI Act works out, because that will apply to external companies that have users in the EU, and therefore may force some of the bad actors to self-regulate. That said, I have zero faith that people themselves will decide to make better choices.

LOL, that’s a good one.

I mean, it did happen in the Oval Office, not unlike Trump’s decision to monetize the Resolute Desk for ad space.

These sorts of books are great fun. I have one of Guns n Roses and KISS. Now that both bands are either done or way past their prime, it’s nice to pull those books out and take a walk through my memories.

I’m shocked that the guy who has handlers to make sure he doesn’t wander off had a sub-par debate. /s

These two candidates are there because they’re useful idiots for the billionaire class. Neither of them give a damn about anyone, and it’s probably past time to stop pretending Trump 2.0 isn’t happening and have an exit strategy.

Meh.

John Roberts is worth $25,000,000.

That’s all he cares about. We’re really going to find out how awful all of these people are after November, I imagine.

Fun!

I’ll probably pick it up in a few weeks. I’m having a lot of fun with BG3 right now.

I picked Baldur’s Gate 3 back up two weeks ago.

Last summer I played Act 1 of the game and found myself thoroughly satisfied, and decided to wait to play the rest.

Act 2, like Act 1, is just as awesome. We’ll see if I decide to take another break before the third act, haha! This game is nothing short of a masterpiece.

Other than that I’ve been taking a lot of 10-15 minute breaks while working from home and enjoying the minigames on Meta Horizons.

Henry Neff, author of the Tapestry series, Impyrium, and as of this week, Witchstone.

Awesome writer. Awesome illustrator, and in 2020, he made my year. I DM’d him on Twitter asking if he had a physical copy of his 5th book in the Tapestry series that I could buy, because at that time you could only get it in e-book format. He sent me an inscribed and signed special edition as a Christmas present with a bunch of neat swag. That book is my prized possession.

www.henryhneff.com

(Honorable mentions: Christopher Farnsworth and Christopher Buehlman)

I dunno, man. I keep telling people to stop voting capitalist, and every election it’s 99% Democrat and Republican, so this is what happens.

Whipped a doodle up over lunch: https://www.instagram.com/stories/artbyflashmob/3394812415645811438?igsh=M3FqNnpwbHFrdzg2

Thank you!

No, I didn’t draw them up, but now that you mention it I probably should. They’re very holiday themed.

El Pollo Diablo - Looks like a chicken with a flame aura. Invulnerable except to laugh-based magic (Vicious Mockery, Wounding Whispers, Tasha’s Hideous Laughter, etc.) or can be killed via elaborate practical jokes. Wields high level charm magic and powerful fire attacks. (Hence the name)

Turkeybear - Very similar to the owlbear except fatter and with much more indulgent plumage. Attacks with “gravy” (poison spit/breath weapons), sonic attacks, and heralds its presence with the dread cry “Gawwwww-buuuuullll!”. I made him resistant to magical weapons and most slashing attacks, though coincidentally, is weak against cleavers specifically.

That’s amazing, and just as it should be. Sex work is work.

Reminds me of how vociferously the Right raged against Obama when his DOJ released its report on domestic terrorism and rightly attributed to right-wing interests. Obama, as the good corporate lap dog that he was, apologized for saying the correct, factual things, which is weird, because that report’s one of the few good things Obama ever did.

Not awesome.

Dad’s in the hospital for the umpteenth time.

Kid brother died yesterday morning, and even better, may have inadvertently hung himself during autoerotic asphyxiation. (Though, objectively, that seems like a decent way to go, truly.)

Israel keeps pounding murdering people in Gaza as Palestinian death toll in hostage rescue raid rises to 274.

That feels a tad more honest.

If I’m understanding you correctly, Brave Browser does that.

I’m about 2/3 of the way through backing up my ‘Liked’ songs to MP3 files, at which point I’m ending my sub.

It’s a bummer because I actually really like Spotify’s algorithm and it suggests great music for my tastes, but, I can have that for free without feeding their stupid insatiable greed.

LOL

US agencies will take their bribes and do jack shit. As with everything else, Europe will lead on the regulatory front.

The billionaires are enshittifying everything.

I love that half of my feed is Israel stories, all of them negative, and both presumptive US presidential candidates support Israeli genocide 100%.