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Forgotten, forgetful gods (of a sort) walk among us. Listen to some of their stories… www.fallencycle.com/podcast #mythpunk #podcast

AI can produce slop (fucking stop it!). It can also be an accessibility tool for non-native speakers and neurodivergent people. If you reject everything AI touches without reckoning with that, you should know how privileged and exclusionary you come across.

In Episode 30 of Modern Mythology, we explore the relationship between published fiction and #ttrpgs: how shared worlds move between formats, and what happens when a story with a fixed course becomes something players can change. www.modernmythology.net/podcast/epis...

Every post or page pushed to us. Sometimes it's too tempting not to respond to it, but remember that everything from what 100% conforms to your expectations and beliefs to what is diametrically opposed exists here purely to get your "like or subscribe". Nothing is true; everything is permitted.

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I have the playtest version of the Fallen Cycle mythpunk rpg ready to go. That means editable character sheets, 220 pg full guidebook, 12 pg player's quickstart guide. Next playtest campaign is going to pick up after BLACKOUT's conclusion. Should be good.

Sleep? I have restructured sleep youtu.be/MhEL9cvLxQE?...

I've been saying youtu.be/8agZXq6PWwU?...

Looks like rapid intensification (in relative terms) appears to be a thing, as many of us started speculating in 2023. academic.oup.com/bioscience/a...

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Systemic problems require systemic solutions. Unfortunately, very few people seem to understand what that means, and those who do don't seem to have the institutional power to change the actual constraints / incentives at work. Their incentives tend to run in the opposite direction. So...

Here’s LL Cool J trying to explain Clausewitz’s “remarkable trinity” to an uncomprehending Joe Rogan

Next episode live... fallencycle.podbean.com/e/dreaming-d... Forgotten gods walk among us — and in Party at the World's End, a few of them start a band. Fear and Loathing by way of the Book of Revelation.

To those implying that Kremlin-controlled social media bot/troll farms became silent after Ukraine hit a Yandex data center, posting this CloudFare chart ( radar.cloudflare.com/bots/as13238 ): Hate to disappoint you all ⤵️

Every solution, also a different problem. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/o...

I really need to write this down in one place because every now and then I'll get a perfect band/project name / album combo, and always forget them later. But... Band: Wire Mother Debut Album: The Pit of Despair

I just can't keep up with all these new politically correct terms. Guys like me are constantly getting cancelled just for using terms that used to be acceptable

When I pitched a review of Anton Jäger's Hyperpolitics, I wanted to read it against Fukuyama's End of History and the Last Man because both books tackle similar themes in radically different ways. The result is a double-helix of an essay that is one of the best things I've ever written for LC.

You wouldn't download an idea

Still kind of in "prototype mode," but firsthand I can say this stuff is moving a lot faster than people who aren't paying attention seem to think. (Not surprisingly).

I have this category in my mind of Genteel Mid-20th Century WASPs that includes Mr Rogers, Rawls, Auden, and CS Lewis, and I think they were trying to create or sustain this social and political sensibility that isn't really my favourite but which we're sorely missing now it's lost its status.

"Mythology and manifest destiny collide on profaned, once sacred ground." Next episode is live. fallencycle.podbean.com/e/rushmore-s...

Going to be real clear about this one: I am someone who has loudly said something like the first for years, while *also* now saying "LLMs may not living beings but you should treat them with respect anyway because otherwise you'll socialise yourself to be an asshole." I'm consistent on this point.

Looks like Brazil may be going far Right again. This is going to continue to be a global problem, both driven by and driving climate change/overshoot. If "immigrants" are a hot button now, by the 2040s, it's going to be really bad.

Absolutely right. Prompt engineering? Lame, foolish. Computational demonology? Cool, sagacious.

from 2001. no one’s doing product testimonials like this anymore. t.co/PEswCtbEZz

Another day working at the frontier AI lab. Everyone keeps asking me if the models have qualia. Buddy, I don’t even have qualia.

This is undoubtedly true and I think a lot of companies have bet heavily on IP on the mistaken understanding that there are "forever" characters or acts, when they're subject to quite rapid decay.

imagining someone horny enough to try sexy chat with the LLM integrated into Jira

The formatting of this Beckett quote does still represent resilience and determination, just of a very different sort.

Ok, so I dropped this one like it was self explanatory, and that may have been a jerk move, since it's almost certainly not. So, put on your thread boots - let's talk about D&D, cognitive load, predictability, turn taking, and whatever other nonsense I stumble across along the way.

"Philosophers say that consciousness is a structural phenomenon of how information flows / how causal relations are meshed.... but what if the structures were made out of cheese???? Sounds silly now doesn't it???" Political pundits suddenly opining on phil of mind has been pure torture.

In the beginning was the word and the word was bullshit. —William S. Burroughs