This has to be a sick joke right? Nick Shirley is the farthest thing from an “independent journalist”. He’s just another right wing hack trying to stir up controversy. And it works because people who consume his content are looking for exactly what he is saying not because of any sort of truth.

What else you got? Alex Jones was an independent journalist? Rush Limbaugh? Tim Poole? Crazy.

Something tells me he hasn’t been using a word processor for over a decade.

Regardless of the intended purpose. The most common use case is super dislike.

We know to some degree how to do it. Education helps. Conservatives are the problem. It's been shown over and over again that the grifters target conservatives because it actually works. Similar campaigns against more liberal targets aren't nearly as successful. Conservatives in the US have spent years sacrificing their bullshit detectors for "fuck the libs" policies and yay team Red rhetoric.

I think the success of Marvel vs DC is one indicator that people do care about a more consistent world and story and are less interested in re-introducing the exact same characters over and over again in their own mini series of movies constantly retelling the same origin stories in different flavors.

At the risk of being labeled as racist, I'll take an LLM chat bot either in text or delayed voice to an outsourced Indian call center any day. This isn't an indictment of Indian's and their ability to communicate. But the type of folk Indian call centers tend to fill their worker pool with to keep costs adequately low. I've worked with a ton of amazing folk from India, but they are not the lowest common denominator that call centers tend to hire from.

I think what kills me about this is all the air that D&D sucks up in this space. There are so many better game systems out there. D&D sits in this place of being very rules heavy and opinionated to the point it makes adapting it to other genres awkward at best. It's not rules heavy and consistent like GURPS which easily handles fantasy and sci-fi and just about any sort of genre you'd like to throw at it. And it's not as free flowing as Fiasco or Dread or Powered by the Apocalypse games which really nail genre focused role playing session without all the rules overhead and learning curve.

D&D “rules” are guidelines, suggestions, it can be what you want it to be. Step up that creative a bit and step outside the lines a little.

This is a cop out. D&D’s rules are very strongly laid out; it rule books spend lots of time on combat, looting, and buying. Anything beyond that (specifically incorporating actual role playing and providing you with guardrails for doing so) is left entirely to the player. No rule 0 changes my mind about this.

If you aren’t playing the rules as written, you are playing a different game.

I tend to draw the line at automating the LLM to respond to things. If it's responding to some sort of external source, that source is usually somewhat consistent to the point I'd rather have the LLM create a script to parse the data and do that automatically. I've got a job search tool that I built recently using Claude Code. CC created scripts to scrape certain websites and scheduled them using native OS schedulers. The results get parsed and dropped into a sqlite database. No LLM is involved in the automated portion of this process. I've got some general status scripts which push details about the current health state of my servers and apps and also will alert me when job listings reach some defined threshold. At that point I use the LLM to look through the new jobs and categorize them based on work I'd find interesting giving me a prioritized list.

If all LLM tools disappeared tomorrow, all of my scripts and processes developed with an LLM will continue to work without hiccup. If anthropic went out of business tomorrow, I'd lose nothing switching to another provider because I don't have to "trust" agentic operations in automated processes. They are always overseen by me and they are rarely creating things I couldn't have created myself. It's just much faster to iterate on it with these tools.

> If all LLM tools disappeared tomorrow, all of my scripts and processes developed with an LLM will continue to work without hiccup.

This is a really pragmatic philosophy and I think it's underappreciated. Using the LLM as a development accelerator rather than a runtime dependency gives the best of both worlds.

Ukraine is evidence that you're not a sovereign nation unless you have nuclear deterrents. Giving up their nukes based on a promise from Russia and the US is the stupidest thing they could have done. All the "major powers" keep proving that nukes are required or it's just a matter of time before the land looks ripe for taking or a "strategic regime change" is in order.