I like Obsidian but I’m realizing I don’t use any of its unique features really. I only use it for post drafts and simple notes. I cancelled my sync subscription and I’m going to try using Strata instead for a while
Found an old promo copy of The Final Cut at a used record store the other day and I can’t stop listening to it 🫨🎵
NaNoWriMo Says Condemning AI Is ‘Classist and Ableist’
Daniel José Older, a lead story architect for Star Wars: The High Republic and author of multiple series including Outlaw Saints, posted his resignation from the NaNoWriMo writers board
I agree it’s dumb to allow AI in a writing contest but there’s been such an uproar from high profile writers on X. You can’t complain about how bad AI is for the planet and how it’s just a grift when you’re posting from Elon’s hellsite lmao it literally has a LLM built in and it’s ran by an actual supervillain. you’re directly supporting that if you use X
CD Projekt Says Cyberpunk 2077 Will Return to Animation
I’m not big on anime and I never played the Cyberpunk games but I was OBSESSED with the anime! Was really bummed out when they said it was one and done. Would be cool to see a spinoff or something like that
A hate hate relationship
I’m lucky in the relationship department. We rarely ever fight and when we do, we might avoid each other for the rest of the day or maybe a couple days if it’s a particularly bad argument but we always approach it in a diplomatic way once we’ve both gathered our bearings. We work through it and come out of the other side understanding each other a little better than before when it’s all said and done.
Former Riot Games employees leverage generative AI to power NPCs
Retail Mage is a roleplaying game that allows players to take on the role of a wizard working as a salesperson at a magical furniture store. The main goal of the game is to earn five-star reviews by helping customers. But it’s really up to the players to decide if they actually want to work or cause chaos. With AI NPCs as customers and human players being able to say and do almost whatever they want, the possible outcomes should vary widely.
Actually a really cool use for gen ai in games
AnandTech shuts down after 27 years
For the past several years it seems as if there has been a trend away from ultimate understanding in content online and towards the tenets of modern mainstream media (sensationalism and the general silliness you see on US cable TV news).
I never read AnandTech but I definitely feel where its founder was coming from when he said this in an interview with The Verge, all the way back in 2011
When I had covid I never lost my sense of smell or taste completely but now that I’m over it everything tastes… different. Never experienced anything like it before 😳
Walked up to the screen door and this little guy landed right in front of me! I hear that’s good luck 😏
Black mold, flies and roaches, rancid smells: No wonder Boar’s Head caused a listeria outbreak!
Boar’s Head deli meat was recalled last month after it caused a listeria outbreak that killed at least nine people and sent 57 others to the hospital…A black mold-like substance was seen throughout the room at the wall/concrete junction…Inspectors also found “a green algal growth…dripping over product being held.”
Eww. I always thought Boar’s Head was a super high quality brand but I guess not 🤢
This Is Doom Running on a Diffusion Model
the diffusion model is trained gameplay footage of Doom to produce the next frame based on the frames that came before it and player input.
the development process for video games under this new paradigm might be less costly and more accessible, whereby games could be developed and edited via textual descriptions or examples images.
this feels like the worst kind of use case for ai that would directly affect human game devs o_O
Corn sweat: crop moisture amplifies humidity and heat in US midwest
One acre of corn, which is a little smaller than the size of an American football field, can can create 3,000 to 4,000 gallons of corn sweat, Clark said.
Can confirm. Source: am in Ohio
Digital clutter
A messy home can really bring my mood down. I always feel a lot better when the floors are vacuumed and mopped and there isn’t a bunch of junk all over the table.
I feel the same way about my digital life. It almost gives me a stroke when I see someone with five or six home screens packed edge to edge with apps. Especially junk apps they installed to use one time and just left them there like some kind of barbarian.
Former Alaska Airlines pilot who tried to shut down engines in-flight shares his story
On Friday night, the group took psychedelic mushrooms – a drug that can make you hallucinate and typically has effects that last a few hours.
“There was a feeling of being trapped, like, ‘Am I trapped in this airplane and now I’ll never go home?”
One time I ate weed brownies that were too strong and had to call off work the next day. This guy is just fucking crazy lol
COVID made me rethink my career
I’m just getting over a bad case of COVID, so that means back to work. It’s pretty sad to admit, but even with how shitty I’ve felt for the last 10 days, it was nice forgetting about the daily grind. I slept as much as I could every day, I caught up on a lot of good television and I finally got to spend some much needed quality time with my partner.
Man Spills Blue Cheese in Car, Interior Becomes Covered in Mold Overnight
…the closed car doors and lack of ventilation effectively created a greenhouse for the mold to grow, causing it to spread throughout the entirety of the vehicle, coating it in what looks like white film.
This definitely does not make blue cheese any less repulsive to me 🤢