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  • Commented on A Wonky Experience
    my national guard unit had a 'portable' TRS-80 in the supply room. As I was studying computer science at the time, I thought I'd ask if I could take it. Nope. Some joker had sharpied "SFC [name]'s laptop" onto it,...
  • Commented on A Wonky Experience
    The US National Archives are looking for volunteer cursive readers to transcribe Revolutionary War pension documents: https://www.archives.gov/citizen-archivist/missions/revolutionary-war-pension-files...
  • Commented on Same bullshit, new tin
    Effective altruism is a cult but I'm inclined to think that they're better off keeping the jobs and using their money politically. Because without their incomes, they're really no more effective than the rest of us....
  • Commented on A message from our sponsors: New Book coming!
    Looking forward to the computational demonology explanation for what THAC0 really stands for...
  • Commented on Same bullshit, new tin
    Well, there was a study published in the last two years in which the autistic participant did not lie, cheat, or steal in a scenario nudging them to do so. The researchers did frame this as a mental deficiency in...
  • Commented on Made of lies (and more lies)
    In lighter? news: Elon Musk's deliberately 'politically incorrect' AI twitter bot has unfortunately, 'gone woke'. https://twitter.com/edzitron/status/1733341212831269348...
  • Commented on Made of lies (and more lies)
    The LLM has the resources to know its making shit up No, it doesn't. It doesn't know anything....
  • Commented on Made of lies (and more lies)
    Representations of AI as representing a "real danger" like HAL or Skynet or "AGI is imminent" or whatever are marketing by AI corporations like OpenAI to make their shitty autocomplete sound more powerful than it really is. However, the danger...
  • Commented on Do my Laundry
    Did Johnny McTavish lose his knives at the end of The Apocalypse Codex? Did he ever get new ones? Persephone still keeps a yawara in her hair....
  • Commented on Pushing it back
    How do yall plan to domesticate emus when you list a war against them? With machine guns?...
  • Commented on Do my Laundry
    Deep Seven has been said to be in the same or better weight class as the Elder Gods and is perfectly happy to leave us completely alone. Getting that relationship from neutral to allied would be nice, except that humanity...
  • Commented on Do my Laundry
    Is there a Labour party under the New Management? How about the Greens and Sinn Fein?...
  • Commented on Do my Laundry
    The Mandate, at least Delirium Brief on, appears to be post-singularity smart but that doesn't necessarily mean all the Elder Gods are. Dread Cthulhu could just be a dumbass....
  • Commented on Do my Laundry
    Oh, it's worth noting that Persephone Hazard is very concerned about either K-syndrome or some other side effect of ritual magic in The Apocalypse Codex; at one point she casts a spell and is like "this will take a year...
  • Commented on Do my Laundry
    In I think The Apocalypse Codex Bob looks up from the Pyramid and sees structures in space. Is this because of a similar plan as the OPA's in The Labyrinth Index or have multiversal humans achieved advanced spaceflight before getting...
  • Commented on Do my Laundry
    Has Bob ever actually taken a wrong turn in hotelspace and ended up in Abu Dhabi or something?...
  • Commented on Do my Laundry
    https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2023/09/private-equity-simon-and-schuster/675261/ BOOK PUBLISHING HAS A TOYS ‘R’ US PROBLEM A private-equity acquisition will saddle Simon & Schuster with $1 billion in debt. What could go wrong?...
  • Commented on Do my Laundry
    Obligatory "low average human lifespan was due to high child mortality not comically short adult lifetimes"...
  • Commented on Do my Laundry
    Re: the last thread. Haven't done a magical girl/mahou shoujo story yet, I don't think...
  • Commented on Do my Laundry
    Crossover where every lesbian cop from a Stross novel team up...
  • Commented on Do my Laundry
    From the same conversation, a little more about the events? of Shoggoth Gap and the necromantic cold war? Presumably a reference to the Fulda Gap, where fortunately nothing actually happened?...
  • Commented on Do my Laundry
    Oh no I was wrong, the character that says 'Blue Hades and Deep Six' is the Senior Auditor, page 227 of the Labyrinth Index of my big river ebook in a conversation with Mhari. Not a low information character at...
  • Commented on Do my Laundry
    In no particular order, Some character in either Labyrinth Index or NM mentions DEEP SIX, they are a low information enough character to have made the mistake. How did Persephone get so goddamn cozy with PM? What exactly is their...
  • Commented on A fistful of tropes
    I heard recently on a podcast that in the period immediately before the one you're talking about: French fur traders in the Ohio Valley were far less survivalists than slumming on their girlfriend's couch: they were practically required to marry...
  • Commented on A fistful of tropes
    Large milSF sections in Glasshouse too...
  • Commented on Go away, Muse, you're drunk (again)
    https://popehat.substack.com/p/thats-not-how-recusal-works-thats Popehat is also very skeptical of the chances of obtaining a recusal from Cannon, forced or otherwise....
  • Commented on Go away, Muse, you're drunk (again)
    A friend of mine (Wales) was afraid to even speculate on the fishwife's guilt, saying another friend (in Scotland) would be in even greater danger of being held in contempt. This was in a discord server of roughly 35 people....
  • Commented on Go away, Muse, you're drunk (again)
    Oh hell. It's Aileen Cannon? She's not just a trump judge, she's the one that was bending over backwards to delay this very investigation, allowing a completely bogus out of jurisdiction lawsuit and practically writing the defense's briefs for them....
  • Commented on Shrinking the world
    Is there going to be a spoiler thread for Season of Skulls?...
  • Commented on Read an Excerpt from Season of Skulls
    Welcome to the sunlit uplands of the twenty-first century! One Britain, One Nation! Juche Britannia! Long live Prime Minister Fabian Everyman! Long live the Black Pharaoh! Iä! Iä! Charlie your blog is leaking!...
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