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Phil Sorrell Dec 8, 2024

Any advice on getting started with playing an RPG with my kids? Dungeon & Dragons or something else?

Phil Sorrell Nov 13, 2024

swisslet Nov 13, 2024

I’m finding it really hard not to feel angry and frustrated about the state of the world.

As always, I’ll try to focus on making a difference where I can. Tonight is a trustee meeting. I can’t do anything about Trump and Musk, but I can help a Nottingham-based charity dedicated to the fight against domestic violence. 💪
This weekend, I’ll volunteer at #parkrun again (vol session #232, I think) and do some volunteer #run coaching on Sunday.

Think positive. Act local.

Phil Sorrell Nov 13, 2024

Francisco Tolmasky Nov 12, 2024

All I want in iOS is *simple and predictable* text interactions, not to have to keep “text editing state” in my head. I want the fucking cursor to drop where I let it go, EVERY TIME, not for it to then *animate* to the start or end of a word half the time for reasons I’ve never understood. I want double tapping a word to *only select that word*, EVERY TIME, not two words when it “helpfully” recognizes it’s a name, or because it remembers that it was part of a previous multi-word replacement.

Phil Sorrell Nov 13, 2024

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Paul Cantrell Oct 9, 2024

Once you see the connection between LLMs and psychics / seances / spiritualism, it’s hard to unsee. At the center: people •want• to believe, and that is powerful. Thinking of modern-day SV, listen to some of the stories of how con artists used spiritualism…

…as a business: https://www.history.com/news/ghost-hoax-spiritualism-fox-sisters

…as wartime subterfuge: https://thisiscriminal.com/episode-234-the-seances-9-8-2023

…as almost a kind of therapy: https://thisiscriminal.com/episode-79-secrets-and-seances-11-17-2017