Kirklin (he/him)
Kirklin (he/him)
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10/19 1st day of early voting in TX. I know enough to know I have no real idea how much I don't know, but I'm working on it.
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Yes there are. Most important being the continued proof that ice cream is a panacea.
I got slammed by my flu shot/covid booster, and I usually have no reaction at all, so I was really surprised by how much I was feeling it this morning. I felt a little better after taking a long nap, but a LOT better after eating a big bowl of ice cream. There's lessons here, clearly
Add Waffle House, though its "probably minus the war crimes." Same expected quality performance on a full and memorized menu regardless of circumstances.
Tangential to the Cheesecake Factory talk is that their workers are genuinely elite tier 1 operators in the food service industry. I have a friend who manages bars and restaurants and he will instantly hire anyone with Cheesecake Factory experience. They are like the Marines minus the war crimes
Double? What, are you a vampire trying to survive? Where it says clove substitute head. Use tablespoons instead of teaspoons and lose count a few times over. There is such a thing as too much garlic but that threshold is far higher than you think.
Today I'm reminded that however much garlic you're supposed to use in a recipe, double it. 🧄
If you are in Texas the polls are open for early voting today and tomorrow this weekend. If you don't know where your voting location is I've got the link to the state's poll finder here. goelect.txelections.civixapps.com/ivis-mvp-ui/...
My rebuttal to point 1 bring to ask how much of the fundraising fees are going to consultant selected agents in which the consultants just happen to have an interest. I am to recall that being a thing.
1. That chart says only 2% are going to consultants per se 2. Yes, most of the expense of an organization goes to building out that organization & executing its mission 3. Imagine how much of this we could do without if we constitutionally limited campaign spending & shortened election seasons
One of my AI apocalypse examples is AI getting into bank accounts and changing balances leading to bank runs on all banks that use AI agents Which would be pretty much all of them. There just isn't enough cash on hand, especially if businesses get involved.
“Executives reportedly recognize that a growing demographic of banking clients are interested in using their own AI agents to perform financial tasks and transactions.” What on earth? Why? Regardless, AI companies that release products capable of unauthorized bank transactions should be liable.
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If you self-host and run PHP on it (which is very likely) you NEED to update it later today, ASAP. A major vulnerability that affects PHP versions since 5 has been found, which allows remote code execution (very bad). You MUST retweet and share with friends who self-host. THIS IS CRITICAL. ⚠️
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"When you tax something, you get less of it." You say that like fewer billionaires is a bad thing.
Most billionaire wealth isn't in yachts or jewelry — that's just a few percent of it. Most is productive business capital: companies that employ people, build things, and fund research. Tax that wealth and you're taxing the businesses that employ us all. Cato's Adam Michel explains.
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I believe it was Eric Flint who pointed out in one of his novels that mass education is a core requirement as well as the inevitable driver of democracy. People think. Education helps people have the tools to think more effectively, and good education is even more effective.
Yes. The conservative scheme for education is a three-way split: high-priced academies for the children of the wealthy, religious instruction to brainwash the middle class, and a rump of prison-like public schools to discipline the lower class into obedience.
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Public schools in Utah banned a best-selling Jodi Picoult novel and ordered all copies destroyed. So ... Picoult arrived at a Salt Lake City high school this weekend with 600 copies of the book. And she gave them all away, for free. "Applause and cheers erupted." www.sltrib.com/news/educati...
Which rather proves David's point as i find performance be a pleasant bonus but not anything close to being a significant component of a ttrpg.
I personally think "play" is a subset of the activities involved in TTRPGs, and "performance" (although likely still not comprehensive) encompasses a wider range of TTRPG activities than "play" does.
And most recently the Political Director for Philip Sarnecki's failed run at being the GOP candidate for governor of Kansas.
SCOOP: 'Tommy' from the now-viral exchange with Abdul El-Sayed is Thomas Teepell, a former staffer for Republican Senator Josh Hawley with close ties to Christian Nationalist Sean Feucht. He's the son of a former Bobby Jindal staffer whose consultant work was instrumental in getting Hawley elected.
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Over on Whatever today I go over @subvert.fm's "AI" policy and tell you why I think it's a really good version of such a policy, and why other organizations looking to create such a policy of their own would be well served to give it a look: whatever.scalzi.com/2026/10/18/w...
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