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Legacy at any cost

Damn, I really took Sleep Token to task on this.

Skate Wizards don't die. They become posers. Check out the video for "Am I a Poser?" the latest Tasty Jam from the soundtrack to Into the Eye of the Domed City. #ttrpg #osr #skateboarding www.youtube.com/watch?v=bvsj...

Episode 3 is out! First installment of "The Swap" where Bill & John give each other an album to listen to, unheard. 🎧This week: Bill listens to the 1973 album by Shark Move "Ghede Chokra" & John listens to Sleep Token's recent "Even In Arcadia" morethanmetal.podbean.com/e/ep-3-the-s...

Okay LAST ONE the professor asked AI to tell them how to best build their AI readiness and the AI said "use AI".

Literally have "professional development" at my institution where fellow instructors advocate this while getting $10,000 stipends to do so.

I'm sorry I'll stop ranting about this soon but they literally just said a 'challenge' in the new AI world will be how to "stop people from just copying what you do", because if everyone has the same AI, they'll get the same answer, and you'll lose your advantage. *Jim Halpert look at camera*

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Yam seng #TheExpanse

HeroQuest w/ @markjarrellart.bsky.social

I know we're facing important problems like the global rise of fascism and all that stuff but I think it's important that we don't lose focus on the small things, too, like making sure that clancy brown and ron perlman get their own tv show where they play brothers who are bounty hunters in space

Last day to come grab a Skate Wizards OG or a Into the Eye of the Domed City rpg zine at the Culver City Gem & Mineral show. I’ll be doodling on some packets.

If your kids are asking to play D&D and you want to support indie creators, check out my list of modules and rewrites! This list has all kinds of system adjustments, tools, and pre-made adventures for when young players are set on playing D&D with you and/or their friends: tinyurl.com/55nredyr

THE NORTH WOLVES STALK THE BASE OF THE BRIDGE! #miniatures #mordheim

NOT EVEN THE RUINS OF MORDHEIM CAN STOP A DWARVEN DIG TEAM! #miniatures #mordheim

CHAOS DESCENDS AND WE JOIN THE FIGHT! #miniatures #mordheim

MORDHEIM! #miniatures #mordheim

"ChatGPT...is deeply prone to agreeing with users and telling them what they want to hear." Now, consider that very rich and powerful are surrounded by people who perform the same function, and that the tech oligarchs pushing LLMs believe this is the correct form of interaction.

"Tricking" students seems like what more EdTech/teaching professional development tends to be about.

My undergraduate Philosophy program presented me with ideas & in-class engagement with those ideas that had me losing sleep due to existential crises. Couldn't have asked for a better education.

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🧙‍♂️🛹🌯A sage on sage. This burrito wielding Skate Wizard is up in the shop & ready to roll into your hearts. cauldronandtower.bigcartel.com/category/ska...

👣Choose your path TTRPG for ages 2-7 📖Great for early readers to play solo 🖍️Coloring and activities in the story Sign up here on Backerkit to get ready for launch and show your support! www.backerkit.com/call_to_acti... Cover shown here features art from teen artist, Julia Mahoney.

Something I think about a lot: I 100% believe there is good teaching and bad teaching and we should always try to be better teachers. But also, learning hurts sometimes. It just does. You’re changing a mental model. You can’t just slip it into a classroom Jeopardy quiz like veggies in pizza sauce.

This is one of the most common issues when I’m helping students construct a research question: they don’t know which questions to ask. The “inefficient” books are telling them that their initial question is too constrained, too low-level, or misdirected.

Here we go! All set up for the Culver City Gem & Mineral show. Rachel & I are up front and center!

Nietzsche: “If you gaze into the abyss, the abyss gazes into you.” 2025: “What kind of nerd only /gazes/ into the abyss?? You gotta put your whole body in there.”