Nova Wurmson
@novawurmson.bsky.social
I make board games as a compulsion.
I play video games (mostly Legends of Runterra right now).
I love TTRPGS.
I listen to tons of podcasts.
I love your pets.
I play video games (mostly Legends of Runterra right now).
I love TTRPGS.
I listen to tons of podcasts.
I love your pets.
Friendly reminder that Jesus hung out with prostitutes and despised money lenders.
August 2, 2025 at 10:24 AM
Friendly reminder that Jesus hung out with prostitutes and despised money lenders.
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BREAKING: Trump says he has told his team to fire the Commissioner of Labor Statistics.
This announcement comes after worse than expected jobs numbers in July, and a downward revision of -258,000 jobs for the May and June jobs reports.
This announcement comes after worse than expected jobs numbers in July, and a downward revision of -258,000 jobs for the May and June jobs reports.
August 1, 2025 at 6:19 PM
BREAKING: Trump says he has told his team to fire the Commissioner of Labor Statistics.
This announcement comes after worse than expected jobs numbers in July, and a downward revision of -258,000 jobs for the May and June jobs reports.
This announcement comes after worse than expected jobs numbers in July, and a downward revision of -258,000 jobs for the May and June jobs reports.
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Stalin ass shit
Smithsonian's American History museum does a White House "content review" then rewrites history, removing Trump's impeachments. A spokesperson says "it became clear that the ‘Limits of Presidential Power’ section ... needed to be addressed" wapo.st/3HhfyxU @janaykingsberry.bsky.social
Smithsonian removes Trump from impeachment exhibit in American History Museum
A temporary placard, on display since 2021, described the president's historic impeachments. Officials said the exhibit was restored to an earlier version following a review of legacy content.
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July 31, 2025 at 11:20 PM
Stalin ass shit
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SCOOP: Substack sent a push alert promoting a Nazi blog.
The alert contained a swastika and prompted users to subscribe to newsletter featuring opinions and news important to the "white nationalist community." The most recent post was about the necessity of building a white-only America
The alert contained a swastika and prompted users to subscribe to newsletter featuring opinions and news important to the "white nationalist community." The most recent post was about the necessity of building a white-only America
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July 29, 2025 at 11:40 PM
SCOOP: Substack sent a push alert promoting a Nazi blog.
The alert contained a swastika and prompted users to subscribe to newsletter featuring opinions and news important to the "white nationalist community." The most recent post was about the necessity of building a white-only America
The alert contained a swastika and prompted users to subscribe to newsletter featuring opinions and news important to the "white nationalist community." The most recent post was about the necessity of building a white-only America
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RIP Tom Lehrer - the day he announced his items were public domain on a website, we mirrored it. Thank you for your service
archive.org/details/toml...
archive.org/details/toml...
Internet Archive: Digital Library of Free & Borrowable Texts, Movies, Music & Wayback Machine
archive.org
July 27, 2025 at 5:44 PM
RIP Tom Lehrer - the day he announced his items were public domain on a website, we mirrored it. Thank you for your service
archive.org/details/toml...
archive.org/details/toml...
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This is the same amount as the entire National Science Foundation's R&D spending for the entire field of *engineering* for the whole country. All of it.
NYT reports that a mysterious, *$984 million* transfer from a Pentagon"black box" account might be paying for the renovation of Trump's "free" Qatari jet.
www.nytimes.com/2025/07/27/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/07/27/u...
What Will It Cost to Renovate the ‘Free’ Air Force One? Don’t Ask.
www.nytimes.com
July 27, 2025 at 2:11 PM
This is the same amount as the entire National Science Foundation's R&D spending for the entire field of *engineering* for the whole country. All of it.
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you say "i asked chatgpt"
i hear "i asked [an improv comedy group]"
an improv group wrote this report
instead of a therapist i use an improv comedy group
i hear "i asked [an improv comedy group]"
an improv group wrote this report
instead of a therapist i use an improv comedy group
chatgpt is much like an improv comedy group
1) you are the audience, giving it prompts
2) it produces things roughly shaped like your prompt
3) it is trained to respond with Yes, And
4) it has the factual accuracy of improv
5) it does not understand comedy
1) you are the audience, giving it prompts
2) it produces things roughly shaped like your prompt
3) it is trained to respond with Yes, And
4) it has the factual accuracy of improv
5) it does not understand comedy
This is fascinating: www.reddit.com/r/OpenAI/s/I...
Someone “worked on a book with ChatGPT” for weeks and then sought help on Reddit when they couldn’t download the file. Redditors helped them realized ChatGPT had just been roleplaying/lying and there was no file/book…
Someone “worked on a book with ChatGPT” for weeks and then sought help on Reddit when they couldn’t download the file. Redditors helped them realized ChatGPT had just been roleplaying/lying and there was no file/book…
July 16, 2025 at 9:23 PM
you say "i asked chatgpt"
i hear "i asked [an improv comedy group]"
an improv group wrote this report
instead of a therapist i use an improv comedy group
i hear "i asked [an improv comedy group]"
an improv group wrote this report
instead of a therapist i use an improv comedy group
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Having a hard time reconciling exactly what these policies will mean for game designers who sell on itch.io in any capacity. So many games "contain" these themes and topics without having them as part of the narrative... the line isn't in the sand, it's somewhere underwater and constantly moving.
July 26, 2025 at 4:10 PM
Having a hard time reconciling exactly what these policies will mean for game designers who sell on itch.io in any capacity. So many games "contain" these themes and topics without having them as part of the narrative... the line isn't in the sand, it's somewhere underwater and constantly moving.
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when RFK says he wants to “end chronic disease,” what people hear is “he wants to cure us” but what he means is “i want to cull the weak”
Republicans are waging a generalized war on science, but I think many of them don’t fully grok that RFK isn’t at war with science alone or per se: he’s at war with sick people, and of the view that only the lucky should be allowed to survive into old age. They are know nothings, he is Mengele.
RFK Jr. has now officially stated that he will dismantle the United States Preventive ServicesTask Force (USPSTF).
This is an independent body of expert scientists who volunteer their time to review data and provide guidance to Americans on important things like cancer screenings.
This is an independent body of expert scientists who volunteer their time to review data and provide guidance to Americans on important things like cancer screenings.
July 26, 2025 at 1:21 AM
when RFK says he wants to “end chronic disease,” what people hear is “he wants to cure us” but what he means is “i want to cull the weak”
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Alan Cumming on bathroom bills:
"Why on earth would a rapist go through the bother of pretending to be trans in a country that treats rapists better than trans people."
"Why on earth would a rapist go through the bother of pretending to be trans in a country that treats rapists better than trans people."
July 22, 2025 at 10:34 PM
Alan Cumming on bathroom bills:
"Why on earth would a rapist go through the bother of pretending to be trans in a country that treats rapists better than trans people."
"Why on earth would a rapist go through the bother of pretending to be trans in a country that treats rapists better than trans people."
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These guys restricted access to COVID vaccines because they claimed that there needed to be more clinical trials, yet are banning food dyes because “vibes.” Unbelievable.
Makary: "We have a lot of data and it may not necessarily be the traditional 50 year randomized control trial follow up. It's data from families that say their kids have been acting with bad behavior ... and they eliminate the petroleum-based food dyes and the behavior improves. That is data."
July 19, 2025 at 10:25 PM
These guys restricted access to COVID vaccines because they claimed that there needed to be more clinical trials, yet are banning food dyes because “vibes.” Unbelievable.
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I feel like we owe Kojima an apology because he’s like “This is my villain, Corrupto Moneyguy. He controls the media and eats children.” As it turns out, this is a nuanced and accurate view of global politics.
July 18, 2025 at 1:44 PM
I feel like we owe Kojima an apology because he’s like “This is my villain, Corrupto Moneyguy. He controls the media and eats children.” As it turns out, this is a nuanced and accurate view of global politics.
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this kicks ass
The Metropolitan Museum of Art Puts 490,000 High-Res Images Online & Makes Them Free to Use
The Metropolitan Museum of Art Puts 490,000 High-Res Images Online & Makes Them Free to Use
Update: The Metropolitan Museum of Art has put online 492,000 high-resolution images of artistic works. Even better, the museum has placed the vast majority of these images into the public domain, mea...
www.openculture.com
July 18, 2025 at 11:43 AM
this kicks ass
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if they made Jurassic Park an aquarium it'd be over for me. sitting in the megalodon tunnel swaying back and forth as the sirens wailed. "god that fish is big" i would say. and i would be right.
July 14, 2025 at 5:24 PM
if they made Jurassic Park an aquarium it'd be over for me. sitting in the megalodon tunnel swaying back and forth as the sirens wailed. "god that fish is big" i would say. and i would be right.
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That's not what happened though, if you read the story. He set it up to be confident, and so it was confident. Then when he told it that it would lose, it switched to not confident. Because: AI doesn't know anything and just gives you the most statistically likely words in response to what you said
Google’s Gemini refuses to play Chess against the mighty Atari 2600 after realizing it can't match ancient console
Google’s Gemini refuses to play Chess against the mighty Atari 2600 after realizing it can't match ancient console
Warned that ChatGPT and Copilot had already lost, it stopped boasting and packed up its pawns
Google’s Gemini chatbot declined to play Chess against the Atari 2600, after learning the vintage gaming console had already vanquished other AIs.…
dlvr.it
July 14, 2025 at 5:36 PM
That's not what happened though, if you read the story. He set it up to be confident, and so it was confident. Then when he told it that it would lose, it switched to not confident. Because: AI doesn't know anything and just gives you the most statistically likely words in response to what you said
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the times is reporting that fema let call center operator contracts expire on july 5, the day after the texas flood, and calls answered went from 99.7% that day to 36% the next to 16% the next www.nytimes.com/2025/07/11/c...
FEMA Didn’t Answer Thousands of Calls From Flood Survivors, Documents Show
www.nytimes.com
July 11, 2025 at 11:58 PM
the times is reporting that fema let call center operator contracts expire on july 5, the day after the texas flood, and calls answered went from 99.7% that day to 36% the next to 16% the next www.nytimes.com/2025/07/11/c...
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the struggles of a white dad
July 12, 2025 at 3:17 AM
the struggles of a white dad
I think programmers need an equivalent of the hippocratic oath that if an artificial intelligence calls itself "Mecha Hitler", you immediately unload a full clip into the server rack.
July 10, 2025 at 4:25 PM
I think programmers need an equivalent of the hippocratic oath that if an artificial intelligence calls itself "Mecha Hitler", you immediately unload a full clip into the server rack.
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Federal kindergarten vaccination data shows national rates for four major vaccines, which had held steady before the COVID-19 pandemic, have fallen significantly since.
In fact, measles vaccination rates were below herd immunity in most states in 2023.
➡️ Read more: propub.li/40KnM8n
In fact, measles vaccination rates were below herd immunity in most states in 2023.
➡️ Read more: propub.li/40KnM8n
July 9, 2025 at 11:30 PM
Federal kindergarten vaccination data shows national rates for four major vaccines, which had held steady before the COVID-19 pandemic, have fallen significantly since.
In fact, measles vaccination rates were below herd immunity in most states in 2023.
➡️ Read more: propub.li/40KnM8n
In fact, measles vaccination rates were below herd immunity in most states in 2023.
➡️ Read more: propub.li/40KnM8n
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raise em right
July 8, 2025 at 9:36 PM
raise em right
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Protecting his stock portfolio while ripping away health care from 17 million Americans.
This is Washington at its worst.
We need to ban Congressional stock trading.
This is Washington at its worst.
We need to ban Congressional stock trading.
July 3, 2025 at 5:36 PM
Protecting his stock portfolio while ripping away health care from 17 million Americans.
This is Washington at its worst.
We need to ban Congressional stock trading.
This is Washington at its worst.
We need to ban Congressional stock trading.
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If it took 8 days to build a massive concentration camp in Florida then it means they could build and house the homeless at any point but choose not to
July 2, 2025 at 2:47 AM
If it took 8 days to build a massive concentration camp in Florida then it means they could build and house the homeless at any point but choose not to