So this is interesting...
Washington Post reporter Taylor Lorenz @taylorlorenz, who is famous in these circles for being banned from Twitter then reinstated after much outcry, has conducted an experiment to determine if view counts on Twitter are legitimate.
Surprise, she presents proof that they are not, as shown in the Tweet screenshot below.
Many stay on Twitter because they believe that their "engagement" is higher, but now it seems like they can not trust the numbers.
Trump is continuing a long and noble tradition of country-shakers and wreckers.
I can't publish a lot of #dungeon23 content I write because it's GM-only and I'm going to run stuff, so I guess I'll limit myself with handouts and player-facing information and you're gonna have to believe me that there's more stuff behind the curtain.
The river Durance cuts beautifully through the 'barre tithonique' (hard calcareous rocks, Upper Jurassic age) in Sisteron, France. #fridayfold #foldfriday #geology #rocks #france #alps #mountains
QT: https://universeodon.com/@georgetakei/109841159855015495
One thing Sir Pratchett was really off about is his glorification of tyrants. Musk is a real-world Veterinari, putin is a real-world Veterinari, there is to wisdom in tyranny.
Lappi lost six seconds, going from -2.7 to +4.3.
Now this guy has all the chances in the world to extend his lead by a huge chunk! 🍀
I'm never happy about other people's suffering with the exception of fascists, putinists, nazis and other people who break the social contract of tolerance.
That said, a some of computer programmers from the Western countries who used to work for big tech are the very same people who were using commie narrative and trying to make me feel bad about making businesses and hiring contractors to delegate the work I can't do.
Now that they're laid off and they need to adjust their lavish lifestyle to market-average salaries across the industries, I'm genuinely eager to see what will they achieve and what percentage of them will start hiring contractors and delegate as they hustle, trying to stay afloat and/or increase the quality of their lives.
I've started in a poor family in Eastern Europe, my mom had to work two jobs to feed me and pay 60$ a month for a non-shit meritocratic school (which was a great call on her end!), I started working more or less full time when I was 16. I didn't have the slightest chance to go to a reasonable uni (sorry, @latvijasuniversitate, you suck), and I *still* don't own property, nor am I eligible for a loan. I always wanted to tell that to the big tech commies, basking in their privilege, but I never felt it's worth the time.
But now that I see reasonable people being sorry for Facebook, Twitter and Google lay-offs, complaining about Github / Microsoft layoffs, I can't help but to feel like this has to be said. In general, imagine staying in Facebook post-2017?! I feel for people losing their jobs, but it's not a tragedy, for fuck's sake. Companies fuck up left and right in other industries. Job is not a tenure.
This rally is so good. Ott is on top with a slower car, the snow specialist Taka is fighting! Glorious stages. Makes me want to move to #Umea, so pretty it is.
The same industry that wedged a goddamn blockchain into every product that never needed it, then memed layoffs they did not need into papering over their shitty foresight is now just gonna put GPT3 into all things that also never needed them, so we can get the cocksure confidence and guaranteed wrongness of a Musk-alike entity into every facet of our existence.
It only gets better with macro-resource system that can be transferred to any #WestMarches game!
If you run a WM campaign, Out of the Ashes is a must-purchase!
@thull @me@mastodon.benbuhse.com I hope so! Also, let's not confuse activism and politics 🙏
Thanks 🙇
Out of the Ashes by @TheTweedmeister is worth every penny because it combines a setting, a nice rule-set with, and most importantly, well-thought game design.
It has the conceptual depth of #downfallrpg and first-person thrill of some staple #NSR titles while being real and not goind into the realm of #ArtPunk (hated by the #OSR crowd so much it makes me giggle).
Buy it here: https://www.modiphius.net/collections/out-of-the-ashes/products/out-of-the-ashes-pdf
I feel the need to do some self-promotion…please forgive me.
My game, Out of the Ashes is a fantasy game about hope, community, rebuilding, and striking out at the forces of evil. It has plenty of tools for building a campaign, and is the latest iteration of my ideas for mechanics as seen in Liminal. The world is distinct from “standard fantasy” but relatable, and easy to make your own.
You can find it here.
Please share widely. I’m currently on strike, so RPG sales are even nicer than usual!
And leaving Twitter hasn’t helped when it comes to promotion of my lovely things.
For the next few days I will describe this village on the shore of the underground sea, and some of its inhabitants.
I wrote up some detailed notes on how I trained a GPT model from scratch using nanoGPT, exclusively against content from my blog: https://til.simonwillison.net/llms/training-nanogpt-on-my-blog
That https://doma.dev guy
#lean #elixir #typescript #react #nix
In my non-existent free time I design and run #TTRPG
If you use tools made by genocide-apologists, you are a genocide-apologist.
#lemmy users aren't welcome here.