Sentient Loom @sh.itjust.works A loom that learned to weave itself.
http://pattmayne.com
This is essential. Speaking from experience as a guy with bad mental problems who can't do relationships. Work on that, kids!
My cat eats his own hair. It's so gross.
Also he learned to open doors. I have handles instead of knobs and he reaches up and paws at it until the door swings open. It's adorable but I can't keep him out of anywhere now.
I put up a toddler gate to keep him out of my bedroom but he leaps over it like a racehorse. So I had to buy a second one. He's desperate to explore this place that he's already explored countless times.
Have they discontinued Keychron's optical low profile switches?
These mint and banana low profile optical switches are the perfect switches. They're almost clicky, early tactile bump, and they sound and feel so good. There are no other switches like them (that I've found). But they never seem to be available in the stores anymore.
Maybe the Gateron ones are as good?
But how does an AI come to run a company in the first place? A CEO has to be replaced by an AI. What does that process look like in the first place?
AI will be capable enough to replace overpaid CEO’s.
How would this play out? The shareholders pay off the current CEO to implement an AI-CEO and step aside?
It's pure grift.
I don't know what the style is. But the artist is @badmaddog on Instagram. Maybe they can say?
A History of Medieval Europe, from Constantine to Saint Louis. by R.H.C. Davis
Also reading some books about C++ and object oriented design patterns.
TERRANOMICON
Two soldiers declare a fight to the death, and give each other a year to plan. One starts a mercenary troupe, the other starts a domestic terrorism cell.
Meanwhile, a paralyzed billionaire invents robot bodies and becomes a cyborg. He tries to share this technology with disabled people everywhere, but instead his tech becomes a global arms race between those two soldiers.
https://terranomicon.com
Terminator 2: Judgement Day: The Linux Distro
Oh I hate those chat bots which just display a list of articles matching keywords in your question.
This is exactly the kind of thing that LLMs are good for. I also use them to get quick and concise answers about programming frameworks, instead of trying to triangulate the answer from various anecdotes on stackoverflow, or reading two hours of documentation.
But I figured this kind of thing doesn't count as "slop." OP was talking about the incoherent trash hallucinations, so I left that one out.
I got high and put in prompts to see what insane videos it would make. That was fun. I even made some YouTube videos from it. I also saw some cool & spooky short videos that are basically "liminal" since it's such an inhuman construction.
But generally, no. It's making the internet worse. And as a customer I definitely never want to deal with an AI instead of a human.
Parallel Minds by Laura Tripaldi
A review of this amazing philosophy of science book on the omnipresence of intelligence and life.
That's partly why I'm here. I don't want a big place where every normie shows up, and it just becomes facebook. Does this specific sever want to become a mega-platform?
Maybe the boss said, "Remove wordwrap in headline text for this post."
Very nice, thank you.
Are there any guides, tutorials, or documentation for how to start building fediverse apps?
How is the best way to get started building apps in the fediverse?
Story plotting app idea I'm working on
Please tell me if you think this would be useful for you.
I'm working on a story plotting app which focuses on value changes as the basis of the app. For each section of the story (beat, chapter, act) there are value changes (characters getting closer or further from some goal, threat, or other value). And I want to visualise these changes on a graph, so you can see how everybody's fortunes rise and fall.
There will still be the standard components, something similar to index cards to plot out the actual action of each chapter and beat. But the unique addition that I'm bringing here is you can see everybody's changes of fortune, like watching the stock market, or maybe like reading music.
It will be a desktop application (written in python and JavaScript).
So, does anybody think this would be useful to your writing? Are there other things you might want to see added to such a piece of software?
Story plotting app idea I'm working on
Please tell me if you think this would be useful for you.
I'm working on a story plotting app which focuses on value changes as the basis of the app. For each section of the story (beat, chapter, act) there are value changes (characters getting closer or further from some goal, threat, or other value). And I want to visualise these changes on a graph, so you can see how everybody's fortunes rise and fall.
There will still be the standard components, something similar to index cards to plot out the actual action of each chapter and beat. But the unique addition that I'm bringing here is you can see everybody's changes of fortune, like watching the stock market, or maybe like reading music.
It will be a desktop application (written in python and JavaScript).
So, does anybody think this would be useful to your writing? Are there other things you might want to see added to such a piece of software?
Terranomicon Trailer
I planned this book for 20 years, spent 4 years researching, writing, editing, and narrating it. The paperback, e-book, and audio versions will be available on October 21!
The Affirmation by Christopher Priest Book Review
I did a book review of an overlooked metafiction classic: The Affirmation by Christopher Priest
Coma patients are spying on us.
They should mind their own business and stop pretending to be asleep.
Boeing Spacecraft: They'll never let you down!
Nasa to decide whether it should wait for a SpaceX shuttle to return astronauts from the ISS
“As Socrates was passing through the fair at Athens, and casting his eyes over the shops and customers, 'how many things are here', says he, 'that I do not want!'” – Dr. Johnson, The Adventurer A couple weeks ago, I received a know-how writing request from an old colleague, a person well versed in k...
What are the best alternatives to Amazon for buying new (or used) books?
I'm in Canada, so options available in Canada are especially appreciated.