Ray Dawdy
@raydawdy.bsky.social
working on little games (probably with js/twine) and blogs (probably about games or zines)
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I think the use of chatbots for stuff like this is intended to train people to use it to avoid everything that’s painful or hard. It can write the obituary, the breakup text, the complaint letter. It’s meant to separate humans from their difficult feelings. Seems bad.
New: A few weeks ago, when my father-in-law died, the funeral home asked if we wanted to use AI to write his obituary. So I dug into it and found that it's the biggest new trend in "death care." Tens of thousands of AI obits have been made already. Often the families don't even know wapo.st/4okuxIg
The rise of AI tools that write about you when you die
Families and funeral directors are using AI obituary generators to more efficiently memorialize the dead. What happens when they get it wrong?
wapo.st
August 3, 2025 at 2:28 PM
I think the use of chatbots for stuff like this is intended to train people to use it to avoid everything that’s painful or hard. It can write the obituary, the breakup text, the complaint letter. It’s meant to separate humans from their difficult feelings. Seems bad.
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God damn, Stella. Absolutely savage.
May 22, 2025 at 1:06 AM
God damn, Stella. Absolutely savage.
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Holy shit. This is sick. I was not prepared.
Make sure your RPG battle transitions, scene composition, and attack animations are at least as cool as this Taiwanese DOS RPG from 1995
May 14, 2025 at 4:12 PM
Holy shit. This is sick. I was not prepared.
as a user I love to turn off all notifications once a brand has annoyed me with even just a little bit too many - once I'm in the settings they're all going off not just the banner ones; I'm so sorry
May 9, 2025 at 9:40 PM
as a user I love to turn off all notifications once a brand has annoyed me with even just a little bit too many - once I'm in the settings they're all going off not just the banner ones; I'm so sorry
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The Sopranos is probably the Rosetta Stone of modern American reaction: it consists of people who bemoan the loss of an imagined past they mainly got from movies, claim victimization based on identity but hate when others do it, and view the people who build the society they prey on as suckers.
April 3, 2025 at 9:27 PM
The Sopranos is probably the Rosetta Stone of modern American reaction: it consists of people who bemoan the loss of an imagined past they mainly got from movies, claim victimization based on identity but hate when others do it, and view the people who build the society they prey on as suckers.
I’m pretty sure iPhones aren’t good anymore; there’s been like a decade of cludged friction and the apps keep changing even though the problems and taste haven’t. The entire experience of a phone seems played out unless you can sacrifice some UI sacred cows or bust open the App Store.
May 7, 2025 at 11:00 PM
I’m pretty sure iPhones aren’t good anymore; there’s been like a decade of cludged friction and the apps keep changing even though the problems and taste haven’t. The entire experience of a phone seems played out unless you can sacrifice some UI sacred cows or bust open the App Store.
Matt Damon has three modes that make his career: questioning, bluffing, and exasperated yelling. No one touches his anxious bluff game.
May 7, 2025 at 7:55 PM
Matt Damon has three modes that make his career: questioning, bluffing, and exasperated yelling. No one touches his anxious bluff game.
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Reading this and gears turning
- clerics are just warlocks with better PR
- divine magic should be transactions with extraplanar beings
- the extraplanar beings should have an interest in changing our world
- clerics are pawns in a proxy war between forces they don't understand
- this is a spy movie
- clerics are just warlocks with better PR
- divine magic should be transactions with extraplanar beings
- the extraplanar beings should have an interest in changing our world
- clerics are pawns in a proxy war between forces they don't understand
- this is a spy movie
Clerics shouldn’t just feel like wizards in a different type of robe. I write about how to make clerical magic feel more divinely inspired
#osr #ttrpg
#osr #ttrpg
Divine Magic Works in Mysterious Ways — Prismatic Wasteland
I’ve spilt so much digital ink about making a wizard’s magic feel more arcane, but now it is time to think about how to make a cleric’s magic feel more divine.
www.prismaticwasteland.com
May 7, 2025 at 7:46 PM
Reading this and gears turning
- clerics are just warlocks with better PR
- divine magic should be transactions with extraplanar beings
- the extraplanar beings should have an interest in changing our world
- clerics are pawns in a proxy war between forces they don't understand
- this is a spy movie
- clerics are just warlocks with better PR
- divine magic should be transactions with extraplanar beings
- the extraplanar beings should have an interest in changing our world
- clerics are pawns in a proxy war between forces they don't understand
- this is a spy movie
interested to see if small toy brands, hobby product companies, especially individual artists making handmade stuff that can’t touch price on pass produced toys will have new opportunities. Hasbro probably feeling great about the digital end of the Wizard’s lines.
Mattel CEO says toy manufacturing won't come to America, but price hikes will
Mattel CEO Ynon Kreiz says toy manufacturing will not come to America, but price increases will.
www.cnbc.com
May 6, 2025 at 5:17 PM
interested to see if small toy brands, hobby product companies, especially individual artists making handmade stuff that can’t touch price on pass produced toys will have new opportunities. Hasbro probably feeling great about the digital end of the Wizard’s lines.
i feel like wittengenstein is spinning right now
No one knows what the hell an AI agent is | TechCrunch
AI agents are all the rage. But no one knows exactly what an agent is, partly because companies define them radically differently.
techcrunch.com
March 20, 2025 at 3:35 AM
i feel like wittengenstein is spinning right now
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(trying not to think about how state capacity can be destroyed instantly yet takes decades to rebuild) video games are all about using four fiber to make cloth
February 15, 2025 at 4:30 PM
(trying not to think about how state capacity can be destroyed instantly yet takes decades to rebuild) video games are all about using four fiber to make cloth
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Someone get the Firelock 198X guy on Bluesky , ASAP. This shit rules.
drive.google.com/file/d/1QMfU...
drive.google.com/file/d/1QMfU...
December 3, 2024 at 2:47 PM
Someone get the Firelock 198X guy on Bluesky , ASAP. This shit rules.
drive.google.com/file/d/1QMfU...
drive.google.com/file/d/1QMfU...
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It's gonna take me awhile (may do a post daily), but this inspired me to do a thread on why each of Yemen's twenty-one diverse governorates is awesome and cool to show a different side of the country
August 21, 2024 at 10:35 PM
It's gonna take me awhile (may do a post daily), but this inspired me to do a thread on why each of Yemen's twenty-one diverse governorates is awesome and cool to show a different side of the country
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Yeah, Burger King sounds cool and all until you say the words Hotdog Emperor
April 24, 2024 at 3:21 PM
Yeah, Burger King sounds cool and all until you say the words Hotdog Emperor
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The moment when you realize the song that was playing when you lost your virginity is now being used to sell life insurance
April 23, 2024 at 5:34 PM
The moment when you realize the song that was playing when you lost your virginity is now being used to sell life insurance
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Y2K, the Ozone Hole, and Acid Rain should be constantly highlighted as models for successful coordination to solve a shared problem.
We learned the wrong lesson from Y2K.
We should have learned that if we anticipate a crisis then coordinate and work hard, we can avert that crisis.
Instead we learned, "why are these people freaking out? It's no big deal."
We should have learned that if we anticipate a crisis then coordinate and work hard, we can avert that crisis.
Instead we learned, "why are these people freaking out? It's no big deal."
April 22, 2024 at 1:06 PM
Y2K, the Ozone Hole, and Acid Rain should be constantly highlighted as models for successful coordination to solve a shared problem.
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How are you going to be using AI for work, as an information professional, and not understand that what you put into the platform gets gobbled up and you can't pull it back out?
But also: if library workers don't get it, our patrons definitely don't get it.
We are failing on so many levels.
But also: if library workers don't get it, our patrons definitely don't get it.
We are failing on so many levels.
April 19, 2024 at 7:43 PM
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Seeing so many people claim "Bluesky is dead" when they only come here like only once a month, to post art, then hop off. And not engage at all. Or use hashtags.
You gotta follow people, engage with the community, follow feeds, etc.!
Bluesky is definitely not dead. You gotta give to receive!
You gotta follow people, engage with the community, follow feeds, etc.!
Bluesky is definitely not dead. You gotta give to receive!
April 15, 2024 at 6:45 PM
Seeing so many people claim "Bluesky is dead" when they only come here like only once a month, to post art, then hop off. And not engage at all. Or use hashtags.
You gotta follow people, engage with the community, follow feeds, etc.!
Bluesky is definitely not dead. You gotta give to receive!
You gotta follow people, engage with the community, follow feeds, etc.!
Bluesky is definitely not dead. You gotta give to receive!
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"Bluesky is dead"
Ways to not make it dead:
1.) Follow people.
2.) Engage in other people's posts.
3.) Follow a bunch of feeds and pin them.
4.) Use hashtags. They don't demote posts here.
5.) Browse hashtags.
6.) Post more often! (PostyBirb is a great tool for posting art to multiple sites)
Ways to not make it dead:
1.) Follow people.
2.) Engage in other people's posts.
3.) Follow a bunch of feeds and pin them.
4.) Use hashtags. They don't demote posts here.
5.) Browse hashtags.
6.) Post more often! (PostyBirb is a great tool for posting art to multiple sites)
April 15, 2024 at 6:43 PM
"Bluesky is dead"
Ways to not make it dead:
1.) Follow people.
2.) Engage in other people's posts.
3.) Follow a bunch of feeds and pin them.
4.) Use hashtags. They don't demote posts here.
5.) Browse hashtags.
6.) Post more often! (PostyBirb is a great tool for posting art to multiple sites)
Ways to not make it dead:
1.) Follow people.
2.) Engage in other people's posts.
3.) Follow a bunch of feeds and pin them.
4.) Use hashtags. They don't demote posts here.
5.) Browse hashtags.
6.) Post more often! (PostyBirb is a great tool for posting art to multiple sites)
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I'm sorry, what? trump has a mood fluffer that just prints funny stuff off the internet for him to read?
April 15, 2024 at 8:13 PM
I'm sorry, what? trump has a mood fluffer that just prints funny stuff off the internet for him to read?
currently listening and recommend:
Letta Mbulu - Sweet Juju (Official Audio)
'Sweet Juju (Official Audio)' by Letta Mbulu.Download or Stream here: https://Legacy.lnk.to/InTheMusicMusic video by Letta Mbulu performing Sweet Juju (Offic...
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April 15, 2024 at 7:14 PM
currently listening and recommend:
It really seems like the lesson of the current internet is to not trust platforms of any kind, only yourself, especially if your income is based on traffic. Search is a platform too.
Google will reduce some users access to California news sites
Google announced Friday it would remove links to California news sites from its search results for some users as it continues to push back against a pending state bill that would require the compan…
ktla.com
April 13, 2024 at 3:55 AM
It really seems like the lesson of the current internet is to not trust platforms of any kind, only yourself, especially if your income is based on traffic. Search is a platform too.
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We all said this would happen with the big AI push. A system that is unaccountable and one that not even its creators understand. The only way you're going to get this to approach anything remotely functional is if you hold the principals liable for the actions of their AI agents.
New: Independent investigation by Kansas Reflector finds Meta censorship was likely the result of "overzealous and unreliable AI" that even Meta itself probably can't interpret.
“Welcome to AI, and why it isn’t as ‘ready’ as some people make it out to be."
“Welcome to AI, and why it isn’t as ‘ready’ as some people make it out to be."
Facebook's AI failure wiped out Kansas Reflector links. Even Facebook may not know what went wrong. • Kansas Reflector
Facebook's unrefined artificial intelligence misclassified a Kansas Reflector article about climate change as a security risk, and in a cascade of failures blocked the domains of news sites that publi...
kansasreflector.com
April 12, 2024 at 1:27 AM
We all said this would happen with the big AI push. A system that is unaccountable and one that not even its creators understand. The only way you're going to get this to approach anything remotely functional is if you hold the principals liable for the actions of their AI agents.
Hockey logos vary in quality so wildly. The best and worst logos and team themes in sports are in the same league.
April 12, 2024 at 1:49 PM
Hockey logos vary in quality so wildly. The best and worst logos and team themes in sports are in the same league.