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Ed drops some cold water on AI video hype (Expectations Versus Reality) "These stories only serve to help Sam Altman, who desperately needs you to believe that Hollywood is scared of Sora and generative AI, because the more you talk about fear and lost jobs and the machines taking over, the...

Monster in the mine! "How much is this guy paying you?" Devika asked the henchmen. "I have my checkbook with me." "11,000 [modern] dollars to whomever can capture, kill, or otherwise remove the Copper Mine Monster!" It was the dog days of summer in New York, so Ziegler Security Services made...

"Do you mooks take checks?"

NFTs? Hydrochlorofluorocarbons? Whale oil and leaded gas?

Whenever I feel the need to score points in the argument about AI, I feel it’s best to just talk about the CEOs. Trustworthy products generally don’t come from untrustworthy companies. More from Ed Zitron’s excellent newsletter, Where’s your Ed At: [In March], the Wall Street Journal...

I say this as someone who has won political office as a socialist: The distribution of resources for human welfare is not the same thing as wanting to push a button and get a picture of an elf. Poverty is something that leads to social, moral, physical, and spiritual consequences. It’s squid...

Why does there need to be a level playing field between people who could learn to do good art, or invest in paying people… And those who don’t? Fairness can often be good but it’s not inherently moral to make two sides of things the same. I've put out free RPG products for years, with either my...

My friend...you're on a web forum.

The future of AI is too credulous. Ed adds: There’s seemingly no limit to this phenomenon. When Altman [of OpenAI] says something genuinely, truly insane — like how he wants to raise $7tn, which is the combined GDP of Germany and France, to build up a dedicated AI semiconductor manufacturing...

Fate Core. I'm doing ongoing writeups here!

¡El dedo de la sospecha! The Jade Jaguar enters the serpents’ nest. Mexico City, spring 1935. Tácito Uriel Velasco, attorney at law has gathered reporter Trudy Truman and shutterbug/sniper Javid Kulfi, for a mission outside his lawyerly expertise. His friend, retired judge Gustavo Abelardo, was...

"I can't go, my cookies..."

I love Ed Zitron taking on AI 'promises'. https://www.wheresyoured.at/sam-altman-is-full-of-naughty word/ The second possible explanation — and the most plausible in my opinion — is that OpenAI simply pirated [Johansson's] likeness and then tried to bring her onboard in a failed attempt to eliminate...

A red scare? Really? Are people called in to name AI users?

Amish Boy finds Robot Hand. (Many more than 5 words.) Death in the Living Room! When the lights go out… The pistols pop up. Long-term characters tend to change, and Fate is a great system for it. JP Diamond, undead detective, had the aspect “Gangly”, but it never really...

Amish Boy finds Robot Hand.

I thought it would be a more popular opinion, but I absolutely love running published modules! I don’t run everything I read… Nevertheless, there are a dozen scenarios I’ve run where I couldn’t come up with the concept for if you gave me a pencil, a pad, and a decade. Especially for obscure...

Thanks for the review! Why do you think Reeg donned the mask?

From another forum: The Shadow Over Kafiristan by Gareth Hanrahan The hopheads and juicers seemed far out… And they were. Adapting modules is often a challenge. The default version of this adventure is set in the 2010s in Afghanistan, from a British perspective. In this version, we focused on...