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Last Notes npub1tef9l9qzawwlslemyaaaqlwv5x45vzm62kad4xdnuuph27lvcrxsyx865f Legit_SpaGHOULtti New video from KrimsonRogue is out about The Age of Scorpius, and it's a doozy. Almost 10 hours. The book is a complete trainwreck, but the review is endlessly entertaining. I don't know why watching someone get increasingly exasperated by a terrible book is so spellbinding, I just roll with it. https://youtube.com/watch?v=bdnF-UDQPtY #Bookstodon #Books npub1tef9l9qzawwlslemyaaaqlwv5x45vzm62kad4xdnuuph27lvcrxsyx865f Legit_SpaGHOULtti My ideal political platform? Glad you asked: Prosecute the entire current administration. Increase the top tax rate to 95%. Universal healthcare. Give Ukraine whatever they ask for. Ban fracking, drilling, and coal mining. Universal childcare. Pack the Supreme Court. Abolish the DHS. Universal basic income. Prosecute everyone in the Epstein files. Overturn Citizens United. Universal college education. Drop the 2nd amendment. Decriminalize all drugs. Criminalize cryptocurrency. Crazy, right?! npub1tef9l9qzawwlslemyaaaqlwv5x45vzm62kad4xdnuuph27lvcrxsyx865f Legit_SpaGHOULtti @nprofile…4xpq Ooooooh, Fireteam Elite is such good fun! It's fine solo, but really shines when playing with friends. If you're an Aliens fan, you may also really enjoy Aliens: Dark Descent. Think X-Com but in real time and set in the Aliens franchise. The game captures the tension of the first half of Aliens exceptionally well, and worth a playthrough. npub1tef9l9qzawwlslemyaaaqlwv5x45vzm62kad4xdnuuph27lvcrxsyx865f Legit_SpaGHOULtti [steps up to the lectern, shuffling some papers] Good evening.TAX THE RICH. Thank you. npub1tef9l9qzawwlslemyaaaqlwv5x45vzm62kad4xdnuuph27lvcrxsyx865f Legit_SpaGHOULtti @nprofile…a6hr A study 1,488 workers That's, uhhh, a peculiar number. Nobody looked at this and thought, "Fuck, we should find like at least 2 more people to include in this data set." npub1tef9l9qzawwlslemyaaaqlwv5x45vzm62kad4xdnuuph27lvcrxsyx865f Legit_SpaGHOULtti I was right.l: this projector is one of many, many devices that are affected by the BADBOX 2.0 botnet. Had I followed instructions and connected this device and installed their apps, I could have compromised our whole network. Someone less cynical would have walked right into their trap. The people distributing all of this malware are getting smarter every year, to the point where the typical user is always just one bad decision away from getting their shit infected. Stay paranoid, folks. 2/2 npub1tef9l9qzawwlslemyaaaqlwv5x45vzm62kad4xdnuuph27lvcrxsyx865f Legit_SpaGHOULtti Cynicism and Vigilance My wife got me a cheap digital projector as a gift, with the intended use as a way to project TTRPG maps onto the table. It was a really nice, thoughtful present, and it set off every single alarm bell in my head. The website she bought this from screamed "scam." The hardware we received is flimsy and cheap. The projector asked to be connected to our wifi and to install apps on our phones. This all is sketchy as fuck. So, I looked into this device. 1/n npub1tef9l9qzawwlslemyaaaqlwv5x45vzm62kad4xdnuuph27lvcrxsyx865f Legit_SpaGHOULtti Welcome to America, the country where the facts are made up and the laws don't matter. https://s3-us-west-1.amazonaws.com/mastodo-neoliber-al/media_attachments/files/116/105/550/003/330/970/original/8467eaf461f0ab87.jpg npub1tef9l9qzawwlslemyaaaqlwv5x45vzm62kad4xdnuuph27lvcrxsyx865f Legit_SpaGHOULtti I said this would happen. I fucking SAID this would happen. All of it. I said it in a meeting room full of very nice white people up in Redmond on the campus of a very large tech company in early 2024. I fucking said this would happen. They looked at me like I was being hyperbolic. The death camps. The violence against children. The killing. WE. FUCKING. TOLD. YOU. SO. And with everything on the line, people still stayed home in 2024. Fucking disgusting. npub1tef9l9qzawwlslemyaaaqlwv5x45vzm62kad4xdnuuph27lvcrxsyx865f Legit_SpaGHOULtti The man was on the ground. A whole gang of ICE agents was on top of him. They had him restrained. Then they shot him. How much more death is it going to take before people realize what they've done? npub1tef9l9qzawwlslemyaaaqlwv5x45vzm62kad4xdnuuph27lvcrxsyx865f Legit_SpaGHOULtti Simply put, free and open-source software is the means of production in the information age. That's why the monied class is doing everything they can to destroy this ecosystem and replace it with tools controlled by the ultra rich. They hate the fact that we have seized the means of production. Cloud architecture, SAAS, centralized social networks, Ai, it's all class warfare. All of it. npub1tef9l9qzawwlslemyaaaqlwv5x45vzm62kad4xdnuuph27lvcrxsyx865f Legit_SpaGHOULtti Alright, so I'm looking into options to protect against a collapse of the US dollar, and none of them sound great. Bitcoin: Nope. Nope nope nope. Nnnope! Invest in Stocks: We're in an Ai bubble that could pop any moment. Bank in Euros in the EU: Requires residency, and I'm not there yet. Invest in Gold: I guess? Maybe? Seems odd. Are y'all doing anything proactively to hedge against the dollar, or is everyone pretty much just holding on to their butts and hoping for the best? #Finance npub1tef9l9qzawwlslemyaaaqlwv5x45vzm62kad4xdnuuph27lvcrxsyx865f Legit_SpaGHOULtti Anytime I see a photo of one of those fascist losers, I can't help but think, there goes someone who hasn't felt the loving embrace of another human being in a long, long time. npub1tef9l9qzawwlslemyaaaqlwv5x45vzm62kad4xdnuuph27lvcrxsyx865f Legit_SpaGHOULtti @nprofile…rtl5 Aside from radio waves, there are atmospheric markers from chemical compounds that don't occur naturally and require industrial activity to be present. If the little green men are deliberately trying to stay quiet, though, they very well could remain undetected. But I don't buy the Dark Forest hypothesis. It really comes down to whether we find life on Mars or Enceladus or elsewhere in our own solar system. If we did, that'd be concerning, because it'd mean life is abundant. npub1tef9l9qzawwlslemyaaaqlwv5x45vzm62kad4xdnuuph27lvcrxsyx865f Legit_SpaGHOULtti @nprofile…rtl5 The argument goes something like this. Intelligent life will, if given the opportunity and the means, try to spread beyond its home star. We assume this because it's what we'd do. If intelligent life could travel between stars, then it would spread rapidly across the Milky Way, in mere millions of years. If intelligent life has spread across the Milky Way, we should be able to detect it. Radio signals are one possible sign out of many. So far, we've heard zilch. npub1tef9l9qzawwlslemyaaaqlwv5x45vzm62kad4xdnuuph27lvcrxsyx865f Legit_SpaGHOULtti @nprofile…tlff No way to use a Promise instead? https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Guide/Using_promises npub1tef9l9qzawwlslemyaaaqlwv5x45vzm62kad4xdnuuph27lvcrxsyx865f Legit_SpaGHOULtti @nprofile…mfuv If I had to solve that worldbuilding problem, I'd probably approach it from an angle like once all the 'mech factories were destroyed, every House that survived the Succession Wars had some voice of reason holding back a portion of their vast, crazy stockpile in anticipation of a post-war future. So everything does get thrown into the grinder until the war planners realize, "Holy shit, we're going to run out of 'mechs at this rate, better figure out how to stall out this war." npub1tef9l9qzawwlslemyaaaqlwv5x45vzm62kad4xdnuuph27lvcrxsyx865f Legit_SpaGHOULtti @nprofile…mfuv I get why they moved away from the "lostech" concept, but I wish they'd stuck with it. Could've explained the continued availability of 'mechs to blow up by saying that the different Houses just built an insane number of 'em in the run-up to the Succession Wars, and even after centuries of war we still haven't depleted the entire stockpile. Woulda also made the Clans even scarier than they already were, because they still did know how to make brand-new kinds of 'mechs. npub1tef9l9qzawwlslemyaaaqlwv5x45vzm62kad4xdnuuph27lvcrxsyx865f Legit_SpaGHOULtti @nprofile…mfuv Oh man, BattleTech's fiction is way, way underrated. The whole concept of "We don't need aliens, because humankind can destroy itself just fine" is so god damn grim. I also love the whole idea of "You're piloting a 'mech into battle that's literally older than you by a couple of decades because we have literally lost the knowledge of how to build new ones." I need to paint a few more miniatures when I'm all settled. npub1tef9l9qzawwlslemyaaaqlwv5x45vzm62kad4xdnuuph27lvcrxsyx865f Legit_SpaGHOULtti @nprofile…mfuv Elite: Dangerous taught me the term "lithobraking." That's one way to come to a quick stop. 😁 I'm working on a VR space combat game right now that's HEAVILY inspired by The Expanse. Your ship has a main thruster that accelerates your ship, plus maneuvering thrusters that rotate the ship and also offer lateral movement with much weaker acceleration than the main thruster. If you want to slow down, you have to flip your ship around and use the main thruster to brake. Very fun! npub1tef9l9qzawwlslemyaaaqlwv5x45vzm62kad4xdnuuph27lvcrxsyx865f Legit_SpaGHOULtti I never trusted the cloud, so I frequently do offline backups of all my stuff. I don't get fancy with it, just double copies on two separate USB drives, in addition to the "live" copy on my computer. Apparently that's weird and most people just keep all of their most important digital assets in places where their access can easily be revoked at any time, for any reason. Baffling. npub1tef9l9qzawwlslemyaaaqlwv5x45vzm62kad4xdnuuph27lvcrxsyx865f Legit_SpaGHOULtti Jokes aside, the law offers a lot more protections and opportunities to the ultra-rich than to the average working stiff. The fact that they're actively trying to corrode, undermine, weaken, and hollow out the very thing that's been protecting them is utterly incomprehensible to me. Like, what do these nimrods think will happen? How are they expecting this to go for them? You really have to be a phenomenal idiot to become a billionaire. npub1tef9l9qzawwlslemyaaaqlwv5x45vzm62kad4xdnuuph27lvcrxsyx865f Legit_SpaGHOULtti The most unrealistic thing about that movie The Purge is that people wouldn't just band together and hunt billionaires for sport. npub1tef9l9qzawwlslemyaaaqlwv5x45vzm62kad4xdnuuph27lvcrxsyx865f Legit_SpaGHOULtti Lice! My kids brought home lice so now we're waging war against a microscopic follicular menace. This god damn year. npub1tef9l9qzawwlslemyaaaqlwv5x45vzm62kad4xdnuuph27lvcrxsyx865f Legit_SpaGHOULtti On February 4, 1912, inventor Franz Reichelt leapt from the Eiffel Tower, wearing a parachute of his own design which he (incorrectly) believed would allow him to land safely. Instead, his parachute almost immediately wrapped itself around him as he plummeted. His body struck the frozen ground at full speed, killing him instantly. This tale about a delusional man confidently trusting in faulty technology with disastrous results is about company leadership trying to replace workers with LLMs. https://s3-us-west-1.amazonaws.com/mastodo-neoliber-al/media_attachments/files/115/662/708/029/551/566/original/ae3d2f9de4840ab1.jpg npub1tef9l9qzawwlslemyaaaqlwv5x45vzm62kad4xdnuuph27lvcrxsyx865f Legit_SpaGHOULtti I don't want a lot for Christmas There is just one thing I need I don't care about the presents underneath the Christmas tree I just want this for my own More than you could ever know Make my wish come true All I want for Christmas is the full, unredacted Epstein files https://s3-us-west-1.amazonaws.com/mastodo-neoliber-al/media_attachments/files/115/642/308/694/657/336/original/6ed10bb6b0d3f504.jpg npub1tef9l9qzawwlslemyaaaqlwv5x45vzm62kad4xdnuuph27lvcrxsyx865f Legit_SpaGHOULtti @nprofile…tlff I get that this is a well intentioned joke, but it's kind of on the borderline. npub1tef9l9qzawwlslemyaaaqlwv5x45vzm62kad4xdnuuph27lvcrxsyx865f Legit_SpaGHOULtti I love it when the dog is dreaming and her legs are going like she's running. It's both wild and wonderful that animals dream. What a shame it'd be if our kind were the only ones who did. Sweet dreams, little one. #DogsOfMastodon https://s3-us-west-1.amazonaws.com/mastodo-neoliber-al/media_attachments/files/115/572/255/861/269/382/original/d5eafa3eb6e17d44.jpg npub1tef9l9qzawwlslemyaaaqlwv5x45vzm62kad4xdnuuph27lvcrxsyx865f Legit_SpaGHOULtti There's this sinking feeling that between the Panama Papers and the Epstein Files, such a large part of the monied élite is embroiled in monstrously evil shit that a complete and utter rejection of the entire fucking apparatus of power is the only sane response. It all makes a pretty god damn convincing point in favor of taxing wealth above a certain threshold at 100%. npub1tef9l9qzawwlslemyaaaqlwv5x45vzm62kad4xdnuuph27lvcrxsyx865f Legit_SpaGHOULtti I think the most shocking thing about the Epstein emails (aside from the, you know... gestures vaguely at the horrors that man inflicted on his victims) is how these people used email. Like, who emails like that. Have these people never heard of an instant messenger? Or a spell checker? What the fuck? npub1tef9l9qzawwlslemyaaaqlwv5x45vzm62kad4xdnuuph27lvcrxsyx865f Legit_SpaGHOULtti Taught my 10-year old how to play a #TTRPG using the 2d20 #Fallout game, and now he's sitting on a chair theorycrafting his Ghoul mercenary character. Fucking perfect. 😁 npub1tef9l9qzawwlslemyaaaqlwv5x45vzm62kad4xdnuuph27lvcrxsyx865f Legit_SpaGHOULtti @nprofile…2y2x I worry about the situation where by some miracle we succeed in dislodging this authoritarian regime and people immediately go back to not caring. So I focus on the near term and let the future be the future. npub1tef9l9qzawwlslemyaaaqlwv5x45vzm62kad4xdnuuph27lvcrxsyx865f Legit_SpaGHOULtti Washington sends "poll watchers" to "watch polls" in California, so California deploys state observers to observe the poll watchers. LITERALLY quis custodiet ipsos custodes. Clown country. https://www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/california-to-monitor-trumps-doj-poll-watchers-amid-concerns-of-voter-intimidation-and-election-interference/ npub1tef9l9qzawwlslemyaaaqlwv5x45vzm62kad4xdnuuph27lvcrxsyx865f Legit_SpaGHOULtti "Our numbers stink like donkey piss. We need to do layoffs." "Because we sunk all that money into A.I. and it's turning out to be just an overblown fad that's never going to be profitable?" "I see you've read my secret internal memo." "But if we come out and say that our whole A.I. strategy is built on sand, that'll tank our stock." "What if we say we're doing layoffs because A.I. is so great that we don't need those folks anymore?" "Oh clever, I like it! Copilot, draft an email for me..." npub1tef9l9qzawwlslemyaaaqlwv5x45vzm62kad4xdnuuph27lvcrxsyx865f Legit_SpaGHOULtti @nprofile…scce "Nah bro, this tech is only going to get better bro, just trust me bro, everything's going to be A.I. bro, you're not gonna hafta lurn anithung brah, computors r guna mak gams fr brah" npub1tef9l9qzawwlslemyaaaqlwv5x45vzm62kad4xdnuuph27lvcrxsyx865f Legit_SpaGHOULtti When someone who doesn't know shit about ass weighs in on a discussion with unsolicited advice that's derived from an LLM text extruder, that's called Altmansplaining. npub1tef9l9qzawwlslemyaaaqlwv5x45vzm62kad4xdnuuph27lvcrxsyx865f Legit_SpaGHOULtti picture of an Xbox - "This is an Xbox." picture of a Windows PC - "This is an Xbox." picture of a PlayStation - "This is an Xbox." picture of a Steam Deck - "This is an Xbox." picture of a cellphone - "This is an Xbox." picture of a landline phone - "This is an Xbox." picture of an automobile - "This is an Xbox." picture of a smart fridge - "This is an Xbox." picture of a sandwich - "This is an Xbox." picture of a Linux PC - https://s3-us-west-1.amazonaws.com/mastodo-neoliber-al/media_attachments/files/115/435/581/504/790/805/original/fb0ba7ccf9807a16.jpg npub1tef9l9qzawwlslemyaaaqlwv5x45vzm62kad4xdnuuph27lvcrxsyx865f Legit_SpaGHOULtti Yay, California secedes to form it's own country! A finger curls on the Monkey's Paw... A country run as a monarchy, ruled by Peter Thiel and his "Dark Enlightenment" Yarvinist ghouls. @nprofile…59g0 npub1tef9l9qzawwlslemyaaaqlwv5x45vzm62kad4xdnuuph27lvcrxsyx865f Legit_SpaGHOULtti So Facebook is cutting 600 heads in their A.I. division. I'd be surprised if this is how the bubble pops, but it is a pretty good indicator that Facebook's A.I. plans aren't coming together. Outside looking in, I imagine they've concluded that everyone is racing towards a cliff, and that Facebook can't burn the kinds of cash Microsoft, Google, and others are burning. And it literally is taking cash and setting it on fire. So, the Euphoria stage of the bubble is closing. Next: Profit-taking. npub1tef9l9qzawwlslemyaaaqlwv5x45vzm62kad4xdnuuph27lvcrxsyx865f Legit_SpaGHOULtti @nprofile…f5ux @nprofile…7s9x It worries me sick that the gop is fully acting like they don't expect to face any future elections. Like, they're not behaving like people who consider the possibility that they might get voted out. This all feels very wrong. Their fucking guy did a dance-a-thon instead of a town hall during the campaign where he wordlessly swayed back and forth for 45 minutes while Nisti Kroem looked on in abject horror, AND HE STILL WON. npub1tef9l9qzawwlslemyaaaqlwv5x45vzm62kad4xdnuuph27lvcrxsyx865f Legit_SpaGHOULtti There are a lot of popular themes in post-apocalyptic storytelling that you see over and over: "War never changes," "People are the real monsters," "Man's hubris will be our undoing," "Civilization is defined by people, not laws," etc. I think a theme we need to explore more in times like ours is "Nobody is coming to save you." It's up to us. We can't sit and wait for a hero to swoop in and save the day. We each have a part to play, and every little thing helps. All we have is each other. npub1tef9l9qzawwlslemyaaaqlwv5x45vzm62kad4xdnuuph27lvcrxsyx865f Legit_SpaGHOULtti https://archive.ph/6zZwo So Nvidia funds a "special purpose vehicle" venture with $2bn, and said SPV will use that equity to borrow even more money from banks ($12bn in debt), then they'll use THAT money to buy A.I. chips from Nvidia, which the SPV will then rent to that idiot from Pretoria's xAI, which will not make enough profits to pay those rental fees. So xAI won't be able to pay the SPV, and the SPV will default on its debt. The bank will then own old and outdated A.I. chips. #AI npub1tef9l9qzawwlslemyaaaqlwv5x45vzm62kad4xdnuuph27lvcrxsyx865f Legit_SpaGHOULtti The 2014 RoboCop reboot was whatever, but this scene is seared into my brain. I think about this a lot when people talk about all the ways how we could use technology to live forever. ⚠️ CONTENT WARNING: Super unsettling body horror ⚠️ https://youtube.com/watch?v=UFuxiZFwDPs #SciFi #Movies npub1tef9l9qzawwlslemyaaaqlwv5x45vzm62kad4xdnuuph27lvcrxsyx865f Legit_SpaGHOULtti So, uhhh, we have a dog now? She's a rescue. A schnauzer poodle mix, her fur was pretty matted and flea-bitten, so one of the first things we did was get her groomed and washed. That trim produced a pronounced mohawk, so my wife thought it might be cute to dye her mohawk pink. Turns out dyeing a dog is not trivial, so now she's got a pink mohawk and slightly pink fur overall. She doesn't seem to mind, but people (especially kids) are delighted to see this pink dog. #DogsOfMastodon https://s3-us-west-1.amazonaws.com/mastodo-neoliber-al/media_attachments/files/115/347/979/560/028/461/original/96f8c7fd6121ae6a.jpg npub1tef9l9qzawwlslemyaaaqlwv5x45vzm62kad4xdnuuph27lvcrxsyx865f Legit_SpaGHOULtti I didn't intend to model and animate a torpedo pod, yet here we are. https://s3-us-west-1.amazonaws.com/mastodo-neoliber-al/media_attachments/files/115/324/392/586/693/951/original/b410acf131e0cda6.mp4 npub1tef9l9qzawwlslemyaaaqlwv5x45vzm62kad4xdnuuph27lvcrxsyx865f Legit_SpaGHOULtti @nprofile…sqxk The Fediverse apps are all built on a set of rules called the ActivityPub standard, which is a little like HTML had sex with a calendar invite. Perfect, no notes, 10/10 npub1tef9l9qzawwlslemyaaaqlwv5x45vzm62kad4xdnuuph27lvcrxsyx865f Legit_SpaGHOULtti @nprofile…d2rl Like, the people who voted for trump obviously want to burn this place to the ground, hoping that from the ashes they'll build a new nation, with people like them at the top. But the people who threw away their votes on a third party or by staying home also seem to want the system to end rather than get marginally better each election. And history has shown that great resets never end up like those people think they will. It's always mass death and pointless suffering. npub1tef9l9qzawwlslemyaaaqlwv5x45vzm62kad4xdnuuph27lvcrxsyx865f Legit_SpaGHOULtti @nprofile…d2rl I was listening to a podcast about Pol Pot, and something occurred to me. A key part of the atrocities carried out by the Khmer Rouge was the idea that they needed a big reset to bring about their utopia. They wanted what they believed was best for everyone, and to get there required destroying all that had come before. Which in practice meant killing A LOT of people. I see similar ideas for a great reset in America. And that scares me. npub1tef9l9qzawwlslemyaaaqlwv5x45vzm62kad4xdnuuph27lvcrxsyx865f Legit_SpaGHOULtti When the moon hits your eye like a big pizza pie, that's amore When a fish bites your thigh so hard you fear you'll die, that's a moray When you think you might try something different this time, that's a foray When a passage is wide with a slab made of pine, that's a doorway When an elk in the wild flips your car on its side, you're in Norway npub1tef9l9qzawwlslemyaaaqlwv5x45vzm62kad4xdnuuph27lvcrxsyx865f Legit_SpaGHOULtti "Aside from the intellectual property theft, the psychological harm, the destruction of our biosphere, the constant fuckups and errors, the scams, the lies, the erosion of a skilled workforce, the inevitable collapse of the global economy when the bubble pops, the empowerment of the worst fucking people, and the poisoning of the labor market, what has A.I. ever done to us?" https://s3-us-west-1.amazonaws.com/mastodo-neoliber-al/media_attachments/files/115/104/969/853/769/580/original/bcf580cd98eeab54.jpg npub1tef9l9qzawwlslemyaaaqlwv5x45vzm62kad4xdnuuph27lvcrxsyx865f Legit_SpaGHOULtti @nprofile…39ss Aliens, but that's just because it's the best action movie, period. When a platoon of marines is ambushed and slaughtered by hostile aliens, it's up to a space trucker with a traumatic past to get everyone to safety and end the alien threat. npub1tef9l9qzawwlslemyaaaqlwv5x45vzm62kad4xdnuuph27lvcrxsyx865f Legit_SpaGHOULtti @nprofile…d2rl They couldn't take L.A. with thousands of troops, they're not going to take Chicago either. What they'll do is terrorize the city, wreck people's lives, embarrass themselves, then run away with their tails between their legs while proclaiming victory. It'll suck. But they'll fail at this like they fail at everything else, because these autocrats are, ultimately, incompetent people. npub1tef9l9qzawwlslemyaaaqlwv5x45vzm62kad4xdnuuph27lvcrxsyx865f Legit_SpaGHOULtti @nprofile…z5wd I may be biased, but I 100% support this culinary exuberance. npub1tef9l9qzawwlslemyaaaqlwv5x45vzm62kad4xdnuuph27lvcrxsyx865f Legit_SpaGHOULtti MWUAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA! https://gizmodo.com/another-billionaire-hears-the-siren-call-of-the-titanic-2000645069 https://s3-us-west-1.amazonaws.com/mastodo-neoliber-al/media_attachments/files/115/057/231/329/954/586/original/be278a4dd66f0c69.jpg npub1tef9l9qzawwlslemyaaaqlwv5x45vzm62kad4xdnuuph27lvcrxsyx865f Legit_SpaGHOULtti @nprofile…wjfe Meanwhile in Russia, government thugs are literally stuffing ballots into the ballot box. No, seriously, they literally walk into voting locations with bags of ballots and stuff them in the drop boxes. npub1tef9l9qzawwlslemyaaaqlwv5x45vzm62kad4xdnuuph27lvcrxsyx865f Legit_SpaGHOULtti @nprofile…s24g @nprofile…z5wd Second that. Lots of makers on the fediverse. Might very well find someone who can just make a replacement. npub1tef9l9qzawwlslemyaaaqlwv5x45vzm62kad4xdnuuph27lvcrxsyx865f Legit_SpaGHOULtti Between January 2, 2024 and January 2, 2025 I lost over 90lbs, and I've maintained the weight loss since then. It's nice to go from obese to nominal weight, five stars, highly recommend. Know what sucks though? I have ZERO cushion to sit on. Always feels like I'm sitting on my tailbone. Not the most comfortable thing in the world, lemme tell ya, especially on chairs without padding or cushions. npub1tef9l9qzawwlslemyaaaqlwv5x45vzm62kad4xdnuuph27lvcrxsyx865f Legit_SpaGHOULtti Today, I released my implementation of The Expanse for the Roll20 virtual tabletop. This has been a long time in the making, and I'm stoked to finally be able to share this with people. https://www.get-frosty.com/2025/08/08/playing-the-expanse-on-roll20/ I've been creating my own roleplaying content for decades. It's wild I'm only now sharing my stuff widely. Benefits of not having to jump through my employer's side projects hoops anymore, I suppose. #ttrpg #scifi #TheExpanse #Gaming https://s3-us-west-1.amazonaws.com/mastodo-neoliber-al/media_attachments/files/114/996/581/865/552/410/original/71ad1fccc6f440fb.jpg npub1tef9l9qzawwlslemyaaaqlwv5x45vzm62kad4xdnuuph27lvcrxsyx865f Legit_SpaGHOULtti What kind of maniac launches their website on a Friday?! Hi, hello there, it's me. I'm that kind of maniac. How you doin'. Today, I'm excited to launch the place where I'll be putting my energy where my mouth is, the website where I'll show (AND tell) you what I've learned. It is my great honor to invite you to check out www.Get-Frosty.com This is just a sample of what I've got cooking; there's more to come. Stay, and I cannot stress this enough, tuned. #TTRPG #Gaming #3dPrinting #Writing npub1tef9l9qzawwlslemyaaaqlwv5x45vzm62kad4xdnuuph27lvcrxsyx865f Legit_SpaGHOULtti Part of my upcoming blog release is gonna be a series I'm calling "Mini Madness" where I'll showcase some of the tabletop miniatures I'm designing, with free .STL files for download. Made some renders today. Turned out pretty good! #TTRPG #Gaming #Blender3d https://s3-us-west-1.amazonaws.com/mastodo-neoliber-al/media_attachments/files/114/978/900/435/163/777/original/7bf7eb7c53a03d9f.webp https://s3-us-west-1.amazonaws.com/mastodo-neoliber-al/media_attachments/files/114/978/900/434/114/873/original/2f021ed60cfccc54.webp https://s3-us-west-1.amazonaws.com/mastodo-neoliber-al/media_attachments/files/114/978/900/443/066/725/original/b4b079729e2e9224.mp4 npub1tef9l9qzawwlslemyaaaqlwv5x45vzm62kad4xdnuuph27lvcrxsyx865f Legit_SpaGHOULtti @nprofile…7klc I've worked in Contentstack, Drupal, Confluence, SharePoint, Steam CMS, WordPress, and some others I'm forgetting. This would be a fun exercise. And require years of therapy to recover from. But still, I'd read that. npub1tef9l9qzawwlslemyaaaqlwv5x45vzm62kad4xdnuuph27lvcrxsyx865f Legit_SpaGHOULtti @nprofile…36ju Oh did some new blueanon conspiracy hogwash arrive? I saw one article a while ago where I was all "Hold up, did they actually steal this election?" But it turned out to be complete nonsense after like 5 minutes of checking who was making those claims. I could have fallen into a conspiracy rabbit hole, but didn't. I wonder what factor makes the biggest difference in who does and doesn't get got. Would be nice if we could protect people more efficiently from this junk. npub1tef9l9qzawwlslemyaaaqlwv5x45vzm62kad4xdnuuph27lvcrxsyx865f Legit_SpaGHOULtti In times of crisis, I'm relieved that American voters made the right choice and put a competent woman in charge instead of a 34 times convicted felon who, according to everyone he's ever worked with, is apparently the dumbest and most incompetent motherfucker to ever walk the Earth. I mean, can you imagine how screwed we'd be otherwise? Haha, so glad we don't live in that timeline, that would suck! Anyway, looking forward to season 23 of Firefly. npub1tef9l9qzawwlslemyaaaqlwv5x45vzm62kad4xdnuuph27lvcrxsyx865f Legit_SpaGHOULtti @nprofile…92y4 So, this thread right here is an interesting examination of how this administration's use of law enforcement is crippling the healthy functioning of a lawful society. Apparently the co-pilot was arrested because of a CSAM-related arrest warrant. That sounds legit. But because of all the ICE antics, we're now assuming that any overt show of force by LEO is authoritarian overreach. We've become unable to distinguish police brutality from legitimate policing. And that's the whole point. npub1tef9l9qzawwlslemyaaaqlwv5x45vzm62kad4xdnuuph27lvcrxsyx865f Legit_SpaGHOULtti I suspected this video was coming, but I'm still pleasantly surprised to see it. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TMoz3gSXBcY How I wish we could force every tech exec to watch this, A Clockwork Orange-style. @nprofile…3k8q is on Mastodon, sort of. #AI #Physics #Tech npub1tef9l9qzawwlslemyaaaqlwv5x45vzm62kad4xdnuuph27lvcrxsyx865f Legit_SpaGHOULtti There's an exercise they teach you where you go from "Well, this shit fucking sucks" and reframe it into "What would it take for this shit to not suck so fucking much?" I feel like we all would like shit to suck a little less. If your shit's fucked, think of what can be done to start the process of unfucking it. Everyone is fighting a hard battle. In a world that sucks ass, being kind is the most punk thing you can do. That includes being kind to your own dumb self. npub1tef9l9qzawwlslemyaaaqlwv5x45vzm62kad4xdnuuph27lvcrxsyx865f Legit_SpaGHOULtti The Sandbox Paradox: Greatly relaxed decision space actually decreases player agency instead of increasing it. Huh, I should plot that on a curve. npub1tef9l9qzawwlslemyaaaqlwv5x45vzm62kad4xdnuuph27lvcrxsyx865f Legit_SpaGHOULtti In the early days of generative A.I., there was an urban legend about a strange, eerie woman who would show up unexpectedly in generated images even if the prompts didn't ask for any people. Like a ghost haunting the large language models. I'm not saying there's a malevolent entity that somehow got enmeshed in these machines and is now using its sinister powers to drive LLM users insane. But I'm also not NOT saying that. #AI #GhostStories npub1tef9l9qzawwlslemyaaaqlwv5x45vzm62kad4xdnuuph27lvcrxsyx865f Legit_SpaGHOULtti I HAVE FIXED THE DISHWASHER! Turns out the reason our dishwasher wasn't draining was that the drain line into the sink was completely blocked. Whatever was blocking it smelled VILE. I never smelled anything as awful as this, and I've smelled some truly disgusting things. What a satisfying ending to this nightmare. npub1tef9l9qzawwlslemyaaaqlwv5x45vzm62kad4xdnuuph27lvcrxsyx865f Legit_SpaGHOULtti [OpenAI] also previously told us that it had hired a full-time clinical psychiatrist with a background in forensic psychiatry to help research the effects of ChatGPT on its users. And I'm sure their findings will be well publicized and their recommendations will be listened to. Just like tobacco companies immediately sprang into action to warn people after the first suggestion that there might be a link between cigarette smoking and lung cancer. https://futurism.com/openai-investor-chatgpt-mental-health https://s3-us-west-1.amazonaws.com/mastodo-neoliber-al/media_attachments/files/114/876/274/535/529/479/original/444a9369f074b1bc.mp4 npub1tef9l9qzawwlslemyaaaqlwv5x45vzm62kad4xdnuuph27lvcrxsyx865f Legit_SpaGHOULtti I am beyond hyped. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iKZyYdwS3Wg #StrangerThings #Scifi #Netflix npub1tef9l9qzawwlslemyaaaqlwv5x45vzm62kad4xdnuuph27lvcrxsyx865f Legit_SpaGHOULtti #3GoodThings ONE: Had a lovely birthday party for our daughter. Six years! Incredible. TWO: The basil's coming along nicely. THREE: Friends are organizing our next boardgaming weekend. https://s3-us-west-1.amazonaws.com/mastodo-neoliber-al/media_attachments/files/114/849/197/598/305/025/original/66790e226dbe4526.jpg https://s3-us-west-1.amazonaws.com/mastodo-neoliber-al/media_attachments/files/114/849/197/947/863/696/original/03429b2f5adf69d1.jpg https://s3-us-west-1.amazonaws.com/mastodo-neoliber-al/media_attachments/files/114/849/202/038/023/611/original/3d8f5482369728ba.jpg npub1tef9l9qzawwlslemyaaaqlwv5x45vzm62kad4xdnuuph27lvcrxsyx865f Legit_SpaGHOULtti Bears are evolution going, "Okay, what if I created unstoppable murder hobos with both the will and the capability to carry out absolutely ludicrous acts of violence and brutality, but also made them impossibly cute?" npub1tef9l9qzawwlslemyaaaqlwv5x45vzm62kad4xdnuuph27lvcrxsyx865f Legit_SpaGHOULtti @nprofile…psrp Hi, one of those 9,000 here. There are no use cases that justify the billions of dollars that have been invested in this technology. On top of that, there are more reports of people who talk to these things and then succumb to LLM psychosis. Anyone caught in this layoff and then leaning on an A.I. to get through this moment is putting themselves in grave danger. And I worry that cases of deep LLM psychosis can be found among tech industry leadership. Would explain a lot. npub1tef9l9qzawwlslemyaaaqlwv5x45vzm62kad4xdnuuph27lvcrxsyx865f Legit_SpaGHOULtti This year brought to you by the letter FUCK! npub1tef9l9qzawwlslemyaaaqlwv5x45vzm62kad4xdnuuph27lvcrxsyx865f Legit_SpaGHOULtti PRO TIP: Don't wait TWO FREAKING DECADES to update your resume. This, uhhh, is a lot to catch up on. npub1tef9l9qzawwlslemyaaaqlwv5x45vzm62kad4xdnuuph27lvcrxsyx865f Legit_SpaGHOULtti Welp, after 21 years with Blizzard Entertainment, I was laid off today. What an incredible journey. I got to be part of challenging, exciting projects, and I played a part in shaping the company's voice for over two decades. One thing you learn living in California is that the most intense growth usually follows after a wildfire. Some plants even require fire to release their seeds. So we'll see what comes next. If you need an editor on your team, hit me up. #GetFediHired npub1tef9l9qzawwlslemyaaaqlwv5x45vzm62kad4xdnuuph27lvcrxsyx865f Legit_SpaGHOULtti @nprofile…2hrv Holy shit... Icarus was an inside job! Daedalus did his son dirty! npub1tef9l9qzawwlslemyaaaqlwv5x45vzm62kad4xdnuuph27lvcrxsyx865f Legit_SpaGHOULtti @nprofile…x38x They need a Fenton. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3GRSbr0EYYU npub1tef9l9qzawwlslemyaaaqlwv5x45vzm62kad4xdnuuph27lvcrxsyx865f Legit_SpaGHOULtti @nprofile…x759 At this point, I only use LI as a cover in case anyone demands to see my social media accounts. It's where I post all my anodyne, inoffensive shit. npub1tef9l9qzawwlslemyaaaqlwv5x45vzm62kad4xdnuuph27lvcrxsyx865f Legit_SpaGHOULtti My wife got a call back from the doctor after her recent mammogram. It was the dreaded "We'd like you to come in and get some more scans and then we'll have a radiologist look at it" call. I'm struggling, y'all. We both are. The weight of this uncertainty is crushing. I didn't need a medical scare like this to remind me of how much I love that woman; we make sure to tell each other every day. Still. This fucking year. I'd like something to go right for once. #Cancer npub1tef9l9qzawwlslemyaaaqlwv5x45vzm62kad4xdnuuph27lvcrxsyx865f Legit_SpaGHOULtti https://grognardia.blogspot.com/2025/06/retrospective-shadowrun.html?m=1 Listen, if someone has an opinion on #Shadowrun, I'm gonna chime in. The reason Shadowrun remained relevant while other cyberpunk #TTRPG titles faded is that Shadowrun has always been woke. Racism and class warfare weren't just adjacent to the setting, they were the whole point of the game's world. Punk is about the empowerment of the individual in the struggle against authoritarianism. Shadowrun always nailed the punk in cyberpunk in ways few other games did. #Gaming npub1tef9l9qzawwlslemyaaaqlwv5x45vzm62kad4xdnuuph27lvcrxsyx865f Legit_SpaGHOULtti RISING LION AND MIDNIGHT HAMMER Stop Giving Military Operations Porn Names Challenge [IMPOSSIBLE] npub1tef9l9qzawwlslemyaaaqlwv5x45vzm62kad4xdnuuph27lvcrxsyx865f Legit_SpaGHOULtti @nprofile…9hsm Oh fuck yeah! Whatchu got? npub1tef9l9qzawwlslemyaaaqlwv5x45vzm62kad4xdnuuph27lvcrxsyx865f Legit_SpaGHOULtti It's 1991, and a republican president is embroiling us in a bullshit war in the Middle East. It's 2003, and a republican president is embroiling us in a bullshit war in the Middle East. It's 2025, and a republican president is embroiling us in a bullshit war in the Middle East. https://s3-us-west-1.amazonaws.com/mastodo-neoliber-al/media_attachments/files/114/724/351/125/667/689/original/f0e2d799577256e0.jpg npub1tef9l9qzawwlslemyaaaqlwv5x45vzm62kad4xdnuuph27lvcrxsyx865f Legit_SpaGHOULtti @nprofile…z5wd On one hand, I want a human-sized one of these. On the other hand, I'm certain that if I had one of these, I'd manage to trip and fall in the most undignified way imaginable within moments of stepping into the contraption. npub1tef9l9qzawwlslemyaaaqlwv5x45vzm62kad4xdnuuph27lvcrxsyx865f Legit_SpaGHOULtti Someone with Swiss cheese brain should not have the power to order a nuclear strike. It wasn't cool when Reagan was in office, and it's even less cool now. npub1tef9l9qzawwlslemyaaaqlwv5x45vzm62kad4xdnuuph27lvcrxsyx865f Legit_SpaGHOULtti "We're pro-life. But we're not gonna act to reduce gun-related deaths. And we'll needlessly withhold healthcare from everyone. And we'll poison the air, the water, and the soil. And we'll send our young people to die on distant shores in pointless wars. And we'll burn the planet. And we'll kill research into cures for common causes of death. And we'll ban medicines that prevent disease. And we'll deny food to starving children." "So you're actually pro-death." "We'll, we're all going to die." npub1tef9l9qzawwlslemyaaaqlwv5x45vzm62kad4xdnuuph27lvcrxsyx865f Legit_SpaGHOULtti A propos of nothing... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VLbWnJGlyMU #NoKings npub1tef9l9qzawwlslemyaaaqlwv5x45vzm62kad4xdnuuph27lvcrxsyx865f Legit_SpaGHOULtti Back in '21, after we had the vaccine, there was a subreddit with a very simple premise: find social media posts of people who were anti-mask, anti-vaccine, anti-lockdown, then find the social media posts from when those exact same people caught COVID and died. Even as they were dying, most of those people couldn't admit where they'd gone wrong. Even death wasn't enough to open their eyes. In case you were wondering if we'll ever be able to reach some of the people who got us into this shit. npub1tef9l9qzawwlslemyaaaqlwv5x45vzm62kad4xdnuuph27lvcrxsyx865f Legit_SpaGHOULtti TFW you're trying to start a race riot at Home Depot but accidentally galvanize the people across the nation into a unified resistance movement against your ugly Nazi shit instead. #LA npub1tef9l9qzawwlslemyaaaqlwv5x45vzm62kad4xdnuuph27lvcrxsyx865f Legit_SpaGHOULtti Newsom's in a really strange place, electorally. Platforming those alt-right shits on his podcast and casually barfing out some pretty heinous transphobia isn't something people who were upset about it at the time (including yours truly) will forget anytime soon. He's pushing back against the administration's invasion of L.A., which is good. He's obviously going to run for the White House in '28, and he's teeing this crisis up as fuel for a campaign that hasn't started yet. Still though. Ew. npub1tef9l9qzawwlslemyaaaqlwv5x45vzm62kad4xdnuuph27lvcrxsyx865f Legit_SpaGHOULtti @nprofile…8t0c Getting real Josef Fritzl vibes from that idiot from Pretoria's dad. That would explain a lot about that family. npub1tef9l9qzawwlslemyaaaqlwv5x45vzm62kad4xdnuuph27lvcrxsyx865f Legit_SpaGHOULtti https://s3-us-west-1.amazonaws.com/mastodo-neoliber-al/media_attachments/files/114/656/373/789/561/306/original/2c2a2cec1e72d7e9.jpg npub1tef9l9qzawwlslemyaaaqlwv5x45vzm62kad4xdnuuph27lvcrxsyx865f Legit_SpaGHOULtti Trying to fuck with California seems like an astoundingly terrible idea. The kind of stupid shit a guy who ran a casino into the ground would come up with. npub1tef9l9qzawwlslemyaaaqlwv5x45vzm62kad4xdnuuph27lvcrxsyx865f Legit_SpaGHOULtti Alright, let's talk about #AI. Again. In the face of rampant abuse of LLM tools by students, some teachers are responding by switching to hand-written essays and quizzes done in class, plus oral exams. I am biased towards this method of instruction because that's how I was taught, and I thrived. But this change will be good for many students, and devastating for some. Not everyone is able to write by hand. Not everyone can deliver a verbal presentation. This is an accessibility nightmare. npub1tef9l9qzawwlslemyaaaqlwv5x45vzm62kad4xdnuuph27lvcrxsyx865f Legit_SpaGHOULtti RUMORS: The idiot from Pretoria is high on drugs. ME: "I think that guy might be high on drugs. Would explain a lot." IDIOTS: "That's just a rumor!" CONFIRMATION: The idiot from Pretoria is high on drugs. RUMOR: The idiot from Pretoria had a botched penis surgery. ME: "I think that guy's dick is kaputt. Would explain a lot." IDIOTS: "That's just a rumor!" And now we wait. Ever so patiently. npub1tef9l9qzawwlslemyaaaqlwv5x45vzm62kad4xdnuuph27lvcrxsyx865f Legit_SpaGHOULtti @nprofile…9hsm Chuffed, eh? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o4fHlldbRHo npub1tef9l9qzawwlslemyaaaqlwv5x45vzm62kad4xdnuuph27lvcrxsyx865f Legit_SpaGHOULtti @nprofile…fv4z I think the most important word in that sentence is "need." It's fine to create more opportunities for people to make a living as software engineers; it's a fun career! But it's probably true that if we make it so more people "need" to become programmers because the world we're building "needs" more programmers to keep going, we're probably doing something very wrong. npub1tef9l9qzawwlslemyaaaqlwv5x45vzm62kad4xdnuuph27lvcrxsyx865f Legit_SpaGHOULtti 1996: A Game of Thrones 1998: A Clash of Kings 2000: A Storm or Swords 2005: A Feast for Crows 2011: A Dance with Dragons 20??: The Winds of Winter 20??: A Dream of Spring If you ever feel anxiety and worry about your struggles with procrastination, take comfort in the fact that you'll never, EVER reach the levels of struggle George R.R. Martin is operating at. #Writing #Anxiety #Fantasy