When prices drop it’s because privatization is the best and nothing else but privatization! When prices skyrocket it’s because of unforseen external market factors but still somehow record profits.

Magit is fantastic!!

That’s a constant across all of digital technology. So the only way to avoid it is to not use the technology.

But if you do, buying Apple means you are supporting the base level slave labour in China + support for Trump + a locked in ecosystem + a cycle of planned obsolescence. There are other products you can buy that subtract from this equation and may add in some benefits.

We have such limited agency, and nothing will change instantly, so we have to make the best choices we can to push people to do better.

Very cool! Looks like the paper is here: https://arxiv.org/abs/2504.17033

Trying to complete a Battletoads bike level is the only game you need. 😆

I don’t think it’s necessarily just a checklist of things, but rather the way an LLM’s output resembles these techniques that puts it into an uncanny valley of writing. As a writer, you use these techniques deliberately and thoughtfully. LLMs can’t do that, so the output just feels off.

Wow! I still have my Dragon Dice in a box somewhere. A few of my friends had it and we played about 4 games before we got bored. Still something nostalgic about it for me though.

I also agree about Tsuro. Great fun!