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@stephendedman
Writer, resting actor, recovering bookseller, extinguished professor. www.stephendedman.com Interests: Sf, horror, urban fantasy, GURPS, Shadowrun, palaeontology, astronomy, forensics, mythology, movies, theatre, cats, travel, weirdness.
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It's been years since I saw a star.
MIGHTY PROTECTORS is V&V3e, the superhero #ttrpg @Jack Herman & I created in 1979. With integrated random & point-buy character creation!
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Despite promising to protect VA healthcare, the Trump admin quietly eliminated 14,400 medical vacancies — including 1,500+ doctors and 4,900 nurses — at a VA already reporting severe staffing shortages at 90% of its facilities. 
If you want to know who the NYT really is, as an institution, I once again encourage you to go to the page for their official PR attack-dog account, @nytimespr.bsky.social, and read their replies
We should be taxing the fuckers into the ground.
War profiteering used to be a bad thing…
www.afr.com/companies/en...
Of course #complicitmedia are all going with “Trump says” rather than stating what @hcrichardson.bsky.social does: He can’t just replace Noem with someone even worse. Senate needs to be involved. A dictator in aspiration only so far.
Working on a q&a lecture for a class today: The story of robots is always a story about slavery. The story of LLMs labeled as AI is a story about class, and which humans pay the cost, including the physical toll on their bodies/minds, and the lack of water and electricity, so data centers can exist.
You're gonna need to sit down for this one, but the side that bombed every school in Gaza, and denied bombing the girl's school in Iran (blaming a misfired Iranian missile), has now admitted it did bomb the girls' school after all. Astonishingly, the cover story was a lie.
Trump’s War now providing a massive influx of cash for Iran’s ally Russia so they can continue to bomb civilians in Ukraine while we ask Ukraine for help against Iranian drones. Trump’s foreign policy in a nutshell.
No War...
#Iran
#Epstein
#EpsteinFiles
From Russia with love for Trump’s good old buddy.
US investigators 'say American strike most likely responsible' for Iranian school massacre - https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/us-investigators-say-american-strike-most-likely-responsible-iranian-school-massacre
Wait. They are releasing Epstein files to distract Americans from the war in Iran now?
The proposed English Language Bill assumes a problem. In reality, English dominates public life while many heritage languages struggle to survive.
Between this and the US courts maintaining that "AI" work is not itself copyrightable, good news for actual humans.
Thread. (TLDR: the House of Lords DCC report on AI came down hard on the correct side of the debate, rather than siding with industry lobbyists.)
A fascinating article about how researchers use Finnegans Wake to assess AI's learning process.
gsas.harvard.edu/news/what-fi...
Two Big Things Trump Doesn’t Want You to Know or Even Think About
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kind of crazy that if you have enough money and don't like what you see in the media, you can just buy up every film studio, news station, and social media app and change it
Marsupials in the news again? Yes! And this time it’s good news | First Dog on the Moon
<I>Kyle and Jackie O Show</i> indulged vulgar impulses
www.thenewdaily.com.au/life/enterta...
LOL, love the headline.
'The Kyle and Jackie O phenomenon thrived on attention and relied on a formula. Be rude, crude, humiliate someone, obsess about sex, take cheap shots at vulnerable people, repeat. Melbourne looked at it and said, “Nah, we’re good.”
'Bottom line: it’s hard to shock an […]
Liberal review explains defeat – not a path back
www.thenewdaily.com.au/opinion/2026...
Chaos as thousands ordered to evacuate Beirut
www.thenewdaily.com.au/news/world/2...
Every time I see that left rendering I think about this guy
I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. ASCII porn in IRC Channels. I watched hamsters dancing to looping MIDI after eons loading on 14.4k modems. All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain.