@hallenbeck@lastwordonsport@bookstodon Excellent list These are books that stay with you. Just finished The Salt Path last week. It was a celebration of courage and determination in the face of injustice and bad luck.
CHIVALRY by @neilhimself, adaptation and art by me, Medieval lettering by me, lettering by Todd Klein, now nearly 40% off. Published by @darkhorsecomics. https://amzn.to/3vZL0uS
Not all! My arch Linux install definitely has the original vi – the one where when you cw it doesn’t delete the word until you go back to normal mode to save on screen refresh. Plugins? Custom commands? Multiple buffers? Forget it!
On Tim Ferriss' show guest storyteller and master Penabler @neilhimself recommends #fountainPens to the uninitiated.
I have a few Lamy Safaris and started with one myself.
Good taste in #notebooks too (#Leuchtturm1917)
I'm quoted in this article. Things were a real mess last year. I am very happy the 2024 Worldcon in Glasgow has already committed to transparency and openness regarding the Hugo Awards this year. It's nice to see things on the path to being corrected.
Players: How does the writing in a videogame affect your overall enjoyment? Has anything ever made you quit a game - unclear wording, poor translation/localisation, inconsistencies, typos?
@PiecesOfKate The writing can absolutely make or break a game for me. For instance, I despise Bungie's monetization practices with the last few expansions of Destiny 2, however I keep giving them my money in spite of that, because I love the writing of the game and I'm invested in that story.
On the flip side, I love the tactics-style gameplay of Fire Emblem, but didn't even make it to the time-skip in Three Houses because all the character dialogue was so terrible that I couldn't stand playing it any further and never got to experience the full game.
Hockey is a funny game. Before the puck drop, my D said to me "You're going to see a lot of shots.". And it did look like the other team had 3, maybe 4, of the best players on the ice. But instead, we crushed them, 7-1, and the lone goal I gave up was a bouncer from the second line I should have had. We worked hard, but still, I would have never guessed. I wasn't even stressed too often. Funny how that works out sometimes.
@jda@bookstodon@books You know more than me, having read the bio, but I understand that Dickens started as a police reporter and his early works: Sketches By Boz, Oliver Twist and Pickwick Papers, all benefit from some "reading between the lines" as he alluded to things he knew that he couldn't write straight out. Thomas summarizes long works like Mayhew's London Life, reports of vice committees and so on that illustrate the congested, abusive and creative London Dickens found so fascinating.
🤖⚔️ @fnieser.bsky.social und ich haben #ParzivAI gebaut. Ein #llm, das auf Mixtral-8x7B-Instruct-v0.1basiert, und das mit mittelhochdeutscher Literatur finetuned wurde.
Bisher noch Proof of Concept, aber demnächst vllt im Schulunterricht?
"Since April 2021, the FDA has received more than 116,000 MDRs, including 561 reports of death, reportedly associated with the Phillips CPAP machine foam breakdown."
Cory Doctorow @pluralistic : Companies like Tesla, Amazon and Cruise that claim to have replaced human workers with AI are often outright lying. Often, they’re instead replacing local employees with remote workers paid peanuts in India and other developing countries.
“So much AI turns out to be low-waged people in a call center in the Global South pretending to be robots that Indian techies have a joke about it: ‘AI stands for “absent Indian.”’”