Hey, Disney shareholders! Wanna know what’ll get us to start watching Marvel movies or Star Wars or Pixar again? I’ll bet you do! And it’ll be easy.

Just demand the resignations of any person who decided to bow to fascism. Give them all the boot. Show them the door. Then bring in folks who actually give a shit about whether or not this country remains viable as a place to do business beyond this fucking quarter. Oh, and while you’re at it, get some diversity, equity, and inclusion going on.

Who are you worried about losing by doing that? Right-wing conservatives? They already hate you, and watch Veggie Tales instead! Stop trying to cater to people who think your whole business model - depicting strong princesses for kids - is evil incarnate because they’re not barefoot and pregnant in the kitchen.

Ball’s in your court, Disney!

That’s the thing that actively pisses me off the most. The right has been fucking monsters when it comes to their reactions to violence like that. Absolute, psychopathic, proudly hypocritical monsters, willing to joke about an elderly man being assaulted in his home because he happened to be the husband of a Democrat. And silence when asked about whether urging their sick followers to commit violence might be leading their sick followers to commit violence.

And the murders that took place in Minnesota a few months ago? Jokes and silence there, too.

But a late-night comedian says something that isn’t even disrespectful or in any way condones violence, just acknowledges the kind of person Kirk was… and they lose their fucking minds.

Always remember this, folks: It’s all performative. They don’t actually care. They know Kimmel didn’t say a goddamn thing that could be interpreted as support for violence. They know.

Dude, time is stopped. You can keep going until you want time to start again. And I’ve got a list for you:

• Every single kiddy diddler? Suddenly in prison, with piles of evidence of their crimes.
• You can solve every missing persons report where anyone is still alive. It’ll take you a while, but you’ve got the “time.”
• Every bribe of every politician - and especially justices of the Supreme Court - exposed with thorough documentation.
• Go around and erase all medical debt and all student debt. All of it. Use some of Elon’s money to do it.
• Find and reunite families that were split up by Trump’s family separation policies.
• Cut Russia off from the internet entirely. They’ve demonstrated that they’re not ready to join the broader civilized community. Pay special attention to permanently offlining the “Internet Research Agency.”

I’m sure I could come up with more.

40 dollars? That’s all? I’m salaried and can work any hours I want to, so I guess I’m logging in at work and writing a few lines of code or answering some emails.

Twenty minutes will do it. Probably round it up to half an hour just to be safe. And honestly, if I get into the zone, an hour will fly by, easy.

Not even that. If they were pro-birth, they’d at least be in favor of easy access to prenatal healthcare. But they’re always opposed to that, too.

They’re just pro-pregnancy. They don’t give a shit if a woman’s pregnancy is viable or not, let alone whether carrying the fetus to term will kill the woman or not.

With shit like this going on, right-wingers who pretend it’s the left censoring speech can fuck themselves sideways with a pineapple.

17 months, 25 days of fucking around, followed by five days of hurriedly entering prompts into ChatGPT?

After working on a team that uses LLMs in agentic mode for almost a year, I’d say this is probably accurate.

Most of the work at this point for a big chunk of the team is trying to figure out prompts that will make it do what they want, without producing any user-facing results at all. The rest of us will use it to generate small bits of code, such as one-off scripts to accomplish a specific task - the only area where it’s actually useful.

The shine wears off quickly after the fourth or fifth time it “finishes” a feature by mocking data because so many publicly facing repos it trained on have mock data in them so it thinks that’s useful.

In our case, there are enough upper management folks who are opposed to it that I doubt it will last or ever be enforced. For people like me, it really doesn’t make any sense to enforce it in the first place, because all of my teammates are in other states and countries.

Making me go to the office just means you can’t schedule early meetings with me, because I’ll be commuting during that time.

Isn’t that literally an act of war against Qatar?

My office just did the same thing. And the backlash is enormous. No one wants it. No one likes it.

For Palestine’s sake, we really have to hope that it’s not all - or even a majority - of Israelis. I’ve seen the footage of protests there, and heard interviews with Israelis who reject genocide. They give me some hope that the entire country hasn’t lost its mind.

The general Israeli populace needs to come to terms with the fact that their government is now committing a very specific war crime that makes their prisons for Palestinians look like Nazi concentration camps.

There is no positive way to spin this. Starving prisoners is literally what the Nazis did.

The funny thing is that I’m actually an Arch user. I’m just not a dick about it.

Yeah, this sucks. Use the distro you like, people.

I like it, but I don’t nerd out about it.

I’ve read Lord of the Rings a few times. And The Hobbit. And his lesser-known works (e.g., Leaf by Niggle, which is just great). And The Silmarillion. And The Adventures of Tom Bombadil (which, honestly, isn’t his best). And I know what an Istari is (and why Gandalf, being a lesser Ainur, is actually so much more than a mere “wizard”). And I know that while they changed the line from “you cannot pass” to “you shall not pass” for dramatic purposes in the movie, the original line subtly says a whole hell of a lot more about who and what Gandalf is and why the Balrog should have actually been shitting itself.

So you might say I’m passingly familiar with it.

Oh, you need Fate Accelerated. Six stats, five descriptive phrases that define your character (one of which is your character’s “trouble,” giving the GM automatic story hooks) and a smattering of stunts your character can perform, and off you go!

Regarding Traveller, I’ve never had the stomach for it. Me and a group once sat down to create characters, and discovered it was so rules-heavy that by the end of two sessions dedicated to character creation, we still didn’t know for sure that we’d done any of the characters correctly.

I’ll check it out. I’m very much interested in video games that delve into deep topics that way. Have you ever encountered The Talos Principle series? Fantastic games that do surprisingly accessible treatises on philosophical topics while forcing you to think through pretty mind-blowing puzzles. Highly recommended.