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Civil rights pioneer Claudette Colvin at age 86. https://www.waka.com/2026/01/13/civil-rights-pioneer-claudette-colvin-dies-at-86/

I misread that the first time, and it reminded me of a bard in one game that fled the party and spread awful rumors about them to places he knew they were planning to go next.

I'm now wondering how this could be used in conjunction with something like 13th Age's Icon system...

Just saw this about Amazon's Mechanical Turk: https://link.springer.com/article/10.3758/s13428-025-02852-7 If you haven't heard of this MTurk before, a post on using it for surveys is at: https://blog.mturk.com/getting-started-with-surveys-on-mturk-e2eea524c73 A Bluesky thread on the "Why you...

It feels like it's rare to find Phil Harris (Little John and Baloo) playing something where he isn't pretty close to his persona on the Jack Benny Show or Phil Harris & Alice Faye radio shows (well, there is much less alcohol in his Disney roles I guess).

My other half - like much of England and apparently almost all US presidents - is descended from King John (whom the Disney film dubbed "The Phony King of England"). I'm a huge fan of the Disney movie (see my avatar), and it was a bit horrifying how much worse my wife's 23G Grandfather was...

I read them lots of times - especially VotDT at #3 - as a youth. Now I find myself having to ignore a lot of the symbolism or they feel really kludgey to me. (I don't know what it says about younger me that I missed a lot/most of it on the early readings even though my mom got them for me at a...

I might have my first Patreon to support...

Attempting to expand my range of sours, and so went for a pineapple one. Snafu Brewing Company's "Pineapple Hole in My Soul Whip" was like someone double concentrated a pineapple soda and put it in a sour. (I had missed that it had pineapple puree, pineapple drink mix, and pineapple Italian...

I am kind of curious about the two respondents who would "buy the product purely on principle", but are not now more likely to buy it (zero respondents) nor view it as being "more valuable" (zero respondents). Is it the wording of "I will buy the product purely on principle" being read in a...

As someone in statistics/machine learning, one of the things that annoys me about this is how "AI" has become synonymous with "a massive data center using LLM trained on everything online without regard to copyright". I agree that there is a big difference between that and a custom deep neutral...

My answer of not liking it assumes AI is equivalent to large language models and their variants (and not the expansive definitions of AI that include seemingly any form of predictive statistical modeling or machine learning) or rudimentary things like spell/grammar checkers or less powerful...