He/him. Full-time organic market gardener in rural Maine since 2007, plus cows/pigs/poultry.
Enthusiastic computer programmer since I was 13 in 1993 when my family got our first computer, occasionally for profit.
Amateur machine stenographer, unicyclist, pianist, singer (mostly Renaissance stuff, but also shape-note hymns, kids' music, Gilbert and Sullivan).
I'll mess around with just about anything else that I come across too, I guess. Carpentry, a little electronics, knitting, papercraft.
Check out this banger of a game-poem analysis! lavieenmeow takes a 6.4K-word deep dive into the stylistic habits around the text of text adventures, and how Drew Cook manipulates and uses those expectations as a poetic form:
https://the-rosebush.com/2026/06/parser-poetics-in-portrait-with-wolf/
Check out this banger of a game-poem analysis! lavieenmeow takes a 6.4K-word deep dive into the stylistic habits around the text of text adventures, and how Drew Cook manipulates and uses those expectations as a poetic form:
https://the-rosebush.com/2026/06/parser-poetics-in-portrait-with-wolf/
@zarfeblong I thought the color palette might have been "CGA but less eye-searing" but there was a recent interview where he said he's bad at choosing colors and doing visual art so he just looked at Downwell's color palettes and picked his favorite one: that specific quote is at
https://youtu.be/t2keCD-hbYI?t=511
but the question and a little further discussion starts about a minute and a quarter earlier at 7:14.
New blog post: Zines for allotmenters
The beginnings of me making a collection of resources for my #allotment community.
@aetataureate @lunarloony Ah crud. I don't know how to respond to that. What you're saying is pretty different to what I've gotten from lawyers the few times I've had occasion to talk to them about it.
But getting proper legal permission is always going to be the safer option, and I don't want to be (further) obnoxious about it so... yeah. I'll work on that knee-jerk "hang on, hang on, you should check that you're not paying them tribute that they have no right to" reaction. Sorry about that.
@lunarloony @aetataureate In the US it isn't true that all quoting without written permission is illegal, but "fair use" IS a huge gray area that courts decide very inconsistently on, so depending on your degree of risk tolerance... it may be easier to just not risk it, yeah.
The law has four criteria for whether something is fair use:
1. The nature of the re-use (non-commercial uses, or "transformative" re-use like parody *may* get more latitude)
2. The nature of the copyrighted work (factual stuff generally gets less protection than artistic/imaginative, stealing un-published work is really bad)
3. Amount *and* "substantiality" of the portion used (so if you're re-using the heart of someone's work, that's worse)
4. Effect on the market (are you directly competing or reducing the copyright holder's sales?)
@inherentlee Hrmph. I'm not finding the one I remember. I did turn up Mark Reidl's Medium post from last August, which is sorta kinda similar but the article I'm thinking of went both deeper and more understandably into the logit (?) probabilities.
https://mark-riedl.medium.com/the-intuition-behind-how-large-language-models-work-166cf2fb278a
Lauren
