I'm designing a board game (first time!), and the process of refining mechanics and balancing in playtesting is something I find really satisfying- trying to keep the ruleset as straightforward as possible but shave off all the little gameplay potholes and unsatisfying situations!
December 1, 2025 at 6:33 PM
I'm designing a board game (first time!), and the process of refining mechanics and balancing in playtesting is something I find really satisfying- trying to keep the ruleset as straightforward as possible but shave off all the little gameplay potholes and unsatisfying situations!
Is this cheese grater conscious? Many users feel they're talking to a real person. Scientists say it's time to consider whether they're onto something.
November 25, 2025 at 8:21 PM
Is this cheese grater conscious? Many users feel they're talking to a real person. Scientists say it's time to consider whether they're onto something.
love how the system was "convinced" to do something nefarious by being told it was one of the "good guys"- surely no parallels to real-life human rubes!
We are now seeing the first long-anticipated use of AI for semi-autonomous cyberattacks.
"This approach allowed the threat actor to achieve operational scale typically associated with nation-state campaigns while maintaining minimal direct involvement" www.anthropic.com/news/disrupt...
November 13, 2025 at 8:55 PM
love how the system was "convinced" to do something nefarious by being told it was one of the "good guys"- surely no parallels to real-life human rubes!
A Colorful Poster Appears! Selling my CSS color voronoi map as a print-on-demand poster so it actually exists! I ordered a test print and they did a good job. get yours! potch-dot-store.printful.me/product/css-...
A Colorful Poster Appears! Selling my CSS color voronoi map as a print-on-demand poster so it actually exists! I ordered a test print and they did a good job. get yours! potch-dot-store.printful.me/product/css-...
i hope this election cycle empowers everyone the next time a centrist liberal says to drop pro-trans and pro-immigrant rhetoric to enthusiastically tell them to shut the fuck up
November 5, 2025 at 2:33 AM
i hope this election cycle empowers everyone the next time a centrist liberal says to drop pro-trans and pro-immigrant rhetoric to enthusiastically tell them to shut the fuck up
couldn't sleep last night so spent an hour or so thinking in extreme detail what it would look like to open a burger shack including researching unit economics. didn't help me fall asleep
October 23, 2025 at 6:14 AM
couldn't sleep last night so spent an hour or so thinking in extreme detail what it would look like to open a burger shack including researching unit economics. didn't help me fall asleep
This was driving me bananas -- on the iOS app, Firefox removed the "Reader" button that allows you to actually read a website in plain simple text, with a bullshit AI "summary" button. But you can restore Reader! andycarter.dev/blog/how-to-...
This was driving me bananas -- on the iOS app, Firefox removed the "Reader" button that allows you to actually read a website in plain simple text, with a bullshit AI "summary" button. But you can restore Reader! andycarter.dev/blog/how-to-...