If there’s one thing I learned from Juicero, it’s that you could absolutely get millions in funding for an AI ice cream scoop startup.

"Democracy demands wisdom and vision in its citizens. It must therefore foster and support a form of education, and access to the arts and the humanities, designed to make people of all backgrounds and wherever located masters of their technology and not its unthinking servants."

A special treat this year was being able to attend a post-MAG concert with the absolutely incomparable @discocactus.bsky.social! Incredible musicians with technical chops and artistic flair, a phenomenal sense of ensemble, unafraid to challenge themselves and have fun doing it.

Also of note, @geeknights.frontrowcrew.com’s metacontextualism talk, building on last year’s stellar postmodernism talk. I would take this college course in a heartbeat.

Many highlights this year, including some great games in the indie showcase, artists in the marketplace, and the community orchestra (a 350-strong orchestra from everywhere get a concert together in two days in the middle of a con! always blows my mind)

What you're doing is the equivalent of asking a StarWars addled 10 year old for design ideas on your scifi game

I'm not joking that's literally how these models work

Can you argue him off StarWars? Sure. But do you know enough Extended Universe lore to catch when he sneaks back into it? You don't.

Looks like they're up on the Internet Archive: web.archive.org/web/20201030...

Hope the move went reasonably smoothly! Look forward to seeing you around again when things settle down :-)

Giraffe is either the best or the worst. I’m not sure which. Maybe it depends on the party.

I like this idea a lot!

FYI (as it were), the links to individual articles on grahame.leaflet.pub seem to be broken - redirects to grahame.fyi and that either doesn’t have SSL configured correctly or closes the connection unexpectedly, depending which browser I’m using.

Never experienced it personally, but I’ve definitely heard of occasional issues with resources getting messed up (especially resources that use other resources). Curious to hear more if you get it resolved/figure out what happened!