µblog - archive for 2024-06 🏳️‍🌈

They told me Bubble Shower was nerfed in patch 1.12. Tell that to Flying Dragon Greyll who met my 170+ level Faith character and a +9 Envoy’s Longhorn at the start of NG+ and got deleted in three toots. #EldenRing

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Can’t stop thinking about the hackernews who in a discussion about the recently tabled EU Chat Control 2.0 brought up that other piece of intolerable EU tyranny: plastic caps now have to stay attached to the bottle after opening.

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I did not have a lobste.rs fight about “box plots” on my June bingo card: 5 Reasons Why Box Plots are the Better Default Choice for Visualizing Performance vs I’ve Stopped Using Box Plots. Should You?.

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WWDC ’24: AI! AI! Cthulhu fhtagn!

(h/t Wintre)

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🔗🇬🇧📺 Showtrial

Excellent show that details the work of police, Crown Prosecution Service and defenders in a high profile murder case. The usual British hangups about the involvement of press and social media are present, as well as rank hypocrisy around sex and drugs, but the trial in question is extra spicy because the two defendants are rich kids accused of killing a working-class classmate.

Just like SF, crime shows have a sliding scale of hardness between utterly realistic and fantasy. Hour-long US dramas have half a day between arrest and full-blown jury trial, while this leans very much into realism.

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🔗 An Age of Hyperabundance: At the conversational AI conference

All around me, the booths posed a collective thesis on the future. This was a future without busywork or buttons, a future of bespoke experiences, a future where the internet was an ambient thing we’d call upon with our voices — not a service we would use but a place where we would live. Beneath this promised future, however, was a shadow future, one that suggested itself at every turn. This was a future of screens in every establishment and no way to get help, a future in which extractive algorithms yielded relentless advertising, a future of a crapified internet, too diluted with sponcon and hallucinated facts to be of any use. In this future, if you wanted to use a product you would have to download an app and pay a monthly fee. It was a future of ultra-sophisticated scams and government surveillance, a future where anyone’s face could be spliced into porn. Our arrival in this future would be a gradual surrender, achieved through a slow creep of terms and conditions, and the capitulations had already begun.

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🇸🇪 En mus, flera möss. En musa, flera mössar.

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🔗🎬 After 7 years of rebuilding, TALLY HO SAILS AGAIN!

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