There used to be an old sign by the path, warning passers-by of the local sleeping willow, which would trap the unwary with fatigue, engulf them while they slept, and release them a hundred years later.
There was a new sign:
"This sleeping willow is full."
And a map of other locations to try.
Powerful oped, not just about public health but the state of our democracies:
"That’s real progress. Not GDP going up 0.1% or Rachel Reeves forecasting an extra couple of billion in fiscal headroom – but whether you live or die, are well or sick"
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
My guess is you keep across the news. You know Andy Mountbatten-Windsor has just had the worst birthday ever; that tall hotels in Dubai don’t make for a great holiday right now; and that Keir Starmer’s engagements diary for 2027 will be remarkably clear. Still, there is one headline I’ll bet you haven’t seen, even though it directly affects your life. It’s about your life, and mine, and those of our families and friends and neighbours. I didn’t spot it either, until a few days ago when the Guardian ran a reader’s letter. It came from Alan Walker, a retired professor at the University of Sheffield. Why, he asked, hadn’t this newspaper made more of the latest “shocking” figures on healthy life expectancy? I looked up the report from the Office for National Statistics, and he’s absolutely right: the findings are indeed “momentous”, and they should be on the front pages, because they expose a serious truth about the state we’re in
The intro is also damning about our media ecosystem and its complicity in the death of democracy (or anything vaguely resembling it)
If you're doomscrolling, guess what? So far there are 51 kākāpō chicks hatched and thriving this season, the same number of birds as we had in TOTAL in the 90s! Only one chick has died and there are still fertile eggs waiting to hatch!
Noooooo
joking aside, it's also part of the charm of Kiryu in the Yakuza Games. A punchy man who is beautiful and sweet, but seemingly oblivious to the fact that that isn't normal.
(see also MY HUSBAND)
Leon Kennedy from Resident Evil 9 is shirtless and sitting in a chair with a ridiculously chiselled physique.
I play games for the plot Dan!
The plot.
I am very much here as a safe space for everyone’s incredibly bad experiences with idiots applying CBT worksheets at them.
I think every clever/sensitive/both person I know in the UK has had some experience like this. It is proper medical harm.
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We're making a game where you play a courier rider in 13th century Mongolia
No combat, just you, the horse(s) you've tamed, bred and trained and the vast wilderness.
Would you play this?
![The creator of ChatGPT is named "Altman," as in "alternative to human" and he leads OpenAI, which is completely closed.
His main opponent is the company Anthropic, meaning "human-centered" is led by "Amodei," as in "loves gods".
Then there's "Gemini," meaning "two-faced," from a cmpany that says it will do no evil.
Brilliant work as always Kojima!
[picture of kojima, watermark of @mediocre_mason on tiktok]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:6j56qexq7l7e7q65nonywav6/bafkreiaittv7ft67swewle5ugn5endzc32gj3fdxq44jjpr6o3ja5pimei@jpeg)
The creator of ChatGPT is named "Altman," as in "alternative to human" and he leads OpenAI, which is completely closed. His main opponent is the company Anthropic, meaning "human-centered" is led by "Amodei," as in "loves gods". Then there's "Gemini," meaning "two-faced," from a cmpany that says it will do no evil. Brilliant work as always Kojima! [picture of kojima, watermark of @mediocre_mason on tiktok]
Frustrating how being childfree gets ignorantly painted as either hating the concept of kids, or being maniacally career-driven, or deeply selfish, while MOST of us just want to focus on living as an underwater witch making contracts to overthrow the king of the sea and that's👏completely👏valid 👏
We're so fucked. (Society, humanity. Not like just 'writers')
I'm so tired. I was rage crying on Sunday. I wasn't meant to contain all this.
New Zoombombing scam just dropped www.linkedin.com/posts/martha...? sigh
Well, when AI nonsense kills my job, I'll have plenty of time to hang out there. We can keep each other company.
At 4pm UK time (8am PT, 11am ET) I'll be playing MyVoiceZoo, a zoo management game that has you voice all the animals using a microphone. I absolutely cannot be trusted with that kind of power. youtube.com/live/FLG91F_...
Mine actually seems to believe similar stuff to me, and seems to care. But also seems to have no power to influence anything. Not sure I get the point of MPs if they can't do anything.
What. The. Fuck.
"If I was to use ChatGPT for my designs rather than our designer Sean, that's taking money out of the local area into the hands of a multibillionaire ... removing value from the local community and local artists [and] into the hands of some of the richest people in the world."
#AIslop #refuseresist
me: it's okay to be a person struggling with productivity during a prolonged crisis my brain: not u though me: not me though
FYI for fellow narrative designers/game writers: the studio in question is Sentona Games and it’s my understanding they are currently interviewing to replace me. Be very careful with them. They were very nice to me and easy to work with right up until I needed the money I was promised.
AHH SOME JOY
When a company in an industry built on hype tells you that a use case is a bad idea—and actually dangerous—that means it’s a *catastrophically* bad idea.
Sometimes I think about the fact that we have less wildlife than at any point in human history but it is more photographed / documented than at any point in human history.
16.25kg on one side of a squat bar
Some ridiculous amount of weight on one side of a squat bar. Double it and add 20kg.
Me vs my husband
I swear, getting the right weights at the gym can feel like a tower of Hanoi puzzle. With added ‘I can only lift 25s to the middle and lowest holder’ so I have to plan with care. No take backs.
Ooh! If the shop no longer exists th then that’s the way. thank you!
