Clint Ryan

@ghildirthalen.bsky.social has been working for a while to figure out an easy solution for if the Dragon Age Keep goes offline for the last time and I offered to help figure out the playstation side, and good news! We're excited to announce that we did it!

In SILVER LORDS OF NAGASAKI, Timothy R. Romans reveals how pirates, merchants, and political ambitions shaped Japan’s place in a region where Europe, China, and Korea vied for influence during the Tokugawa period.

One more memory from the Bayerischer Wald . Aaaand: this is one of the reasons why we like this region: it's so lush green and vivid and ... not so steep. The vegetation is just different. And so it's simply another kind of experience. And that spot was just […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

it's wednesday, huh #dragonage #bioware

In War, Victory. In Peace, Vigilance. In Death, Sacrifice. #Bioware #DragonAge

My painting LOST COAST Sale ends tonight! All prints marked down. Use code FALL20 for an additional 20% off!

5 potatoes cubed is still 5 potatoes because potatoes are root vegetables

Happy Columbus day, ahistorical nationalist racists!

everyone considering this, have a look at ahmath.org compare and contrast

rokos basilisk except its just future humans looking back and remembering all the creators who worked with ai and then still not to supporting them

Ghent University members are asking for support, so its institution can investigate Cofnas as its regulations require, and because: "appeals to absolutist academic freedom as a guise for pursuing racist and pseudoscientific research threaten the integrity and credibility of research as a whole"

There are dozens of academics signing this open letter to defend the American Eugenicist Nathan Cofnas from the consequences of his own actions. They are calling him a “whistleblower”

Here is Nathan Cofnas’s full suspension letter, which makes incredibly clear he was not suspended for whistleblowing.

gonna put the source here because there is mooooooore www.youtube.com/@Seungjaenim...

Her polite applause is something I have seen from so many women in combat sports.

if this is you you owe it to yourself to read WHERE PEACE IS LOST by Valerie Valdes candleinsunshine.com/books/where-...

yall should get South of Midnight now. it's self-published by Compulsion Games, microsoft is out of the picture. they could use the support! store.steampowered.com/app/1934570/...

ok friends who like games, music, and silliness: my dear friends @valerievaldes.bsky.social and @intenselyeric.bsky.social have 699 followers on Twitch and I would LOVE for them to cross 700! Tonight is Alan Wake which tbh I lurk in bc SCARY but they do many things www.twitch.tv/thekidsareas...

Jane Austen used 'however' at the beginning of a sentence, and so can you.

Tim Hortons is running a Harry Potter campaign. Boycott Tim Hortons. Every penny that JK Rowling makes goes toward destroying the lives of trans folks. retail-insider.com/retail-insid...

I'm proud to announce this morning that I ALSO failed to do basic due diligence to air gap my hacking software and it immediately proceeded to do exactly what it was programmed for the only conclusion to be made is that the singularity has arrived and you should give me large sums of money

Hilariousad, if you know a bit about AI in infosec.

When Democrats participate in attacks on trans folks—from misgendering to entertaining the notion that there are “legitimate” concerns over trans equality and participation in society—they’re helping the right.

Had a delightful time chatting with @wiswell.bsky.social at Greedy Reads last night about The Dragon Has Some Complaints! Thanks everyone who joined us -- despite dire forecasts we did not get swept away by tornadoes (or eaten by dragons). Go read this book, it will fill you with joy!

"But that objection misses the point entirely. The point is... that there are some human functions for which computers ought not to be substituted. It has nothing to do with what computers can or cannot be made to do. Respect, understanding, and love are not technical problems.” ...

Joseph Weizenbaum's 1976 book, Computer Power and Human Reason, has long been out of print - used copies sell for hundreds of dollars. It's wild that this is not more widely available given how much his ideas still apply to the world we're in now. 🧵/

everything said by anthropic should be treated as a marketing campaign unless proven otherwise

Also don’t invest in Space X… Per ig: @/your.richbff

Happy Cover Reveal Day! 🎉 I'm so excited to take part in the cover reveal for The Beckoned and The Bound by @thoughtsstained.bsky.social! This cover is SO gorgeous it makes me even more excited for Nicole's debut romance fantasy 😍 #BookSky #CoverReveal dinipandareads.com/2026/05/20/c...

“My hypothesis is that women will use AI to do more work. Men will use AI to get out of doing more work. And, every argument that is not dealing with the preconditions of this gendered inequality is not thinking seriously about AI” @tressiemcphd.bsky.social bsky.app/profile/lost...

I write a monthly newsletter for my department, and almost every month I find incorrect citations. I remember wasting hours in grad school trying to track down a few citations that simply did not exist, though. "Have honest citations" shouldn't be revolutionary or controversial.

Particularly in the context of (appropriate) crackdowns on LLM-generated papers (e.g., on arXiv) and more and more tales of fabricated citations, two reminders: (1) LLMs do not "cite their sources" (2) Using an LLM to generate, complete, or fix LaTeX code can result in fabricated citations

I'm sorry, what? In writing my first monograph, I spent six weeks trying to track down a citation in TWO languages I didn't know. And good thing too, because the citation was wrong. That's scholarship. That's research. You know, the thing we're trained to do?!?

I realized months too late that Groundhog's Day doesn't have any holiday songs (unless you count I Got You Babe) so I thought maybe we could take some Christmas songs and rework them? So far I've got one. On the first Day of Groundhog's my true love gave to me A partridge in a pear tree!

~SELF-PROMO GIGATHREAD~ I'm author of kind, hopeful, and queer SFF stories, and I have things you can buy! My main offering is THE IMAGINARY CORPSE, a fantasy noir about an ex-imaginary friend battling trauma, anxiety, and the first serial killer of ideas: www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/609709...

Enormously looking forward to this event on April 21 at 6:30pm ET (online!) with the amazing @emilymbender.bsky.social and @alexhanna.bsky.social talking about their new book, The AI Con. Register here: virginia.zoom.us/webinar/regi...