Michael Gruar

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a.k.a. Chappington He/him

Game Developer, Software Engineer, Littleton MA BPAC & TAC, Father of 3, among other things.

Lunar Chippy Gameshttps://www.lunarchippy.games
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YouTubehttps://www.youtube.com/@Chappington
is everyone pumped for No-AI November
just discovered that wikipedia volunteers have a hilariously high bar for what constitutes "unusual death" and had to compile my favorite edit summaries
"Women Deserve Pockets". #SFGraffiti #StencilArt

So a lot of people knew this was coming, and it's genuinely a terrible situation, and if you have any images you uploaded to reddit that you maybe don't want in an AI company's product, maybe go see to that soon…

But I also just want to note that the fact that they reportedly only got sixty million— 6-0 with an M— dollars for this literal treasure trove of data tells me they got shaken down HARD, and whether that was due to desperation and dire straits, an incompetent negotiator, or the AI company in question having dirt on them, I do not know, but WHOA DANG they got took.
https://www.engadget.com/reddit-reportedly-signed-a-multi-million-content-licensing-deal-with-an-ai-company-124516009.html

Reddit reportedly signed a multi-million content licensing deal with an AI company

Reddit signed a deal with an AI company that's "worth about $60 million on an annualized basis" earlier this year, according to Bloomberg. The unnamed...

Engadget

Such evil: “On one occasion, a handful of [Gazan] children, all about ages 5 to 8, were carried to the emergency room by their parents. All had single sniper shots to the head. These families were returning to their homes in Khan Yunis, about 2.5 miles away from the hospital, after Israeli tanks had withdrawn. But the snipers apparently stayed behind. None of these children survived.” #gaza

https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2024-02-16/rafah-gaza-hospitals-surgery-israel-bombing-ground-offensive-children

Opinion: I'm an American doctor who went to Gaza. I saw annihilation, not war

As a surgeon, I volunteered at a Gaza hospital. The conditions were unthinkable. With a ground offensive in Rafah, people have nowhere to go.

Los Angeles Times
In case you were wondering, why yes, the global average daily temperature is still the highest on record, as it has been almost every day since early July 2023. Graphic courtesy U. Maine's Climate Reanalyzer using ERA5 reanalysis. #ClimateChange #ClimateCrisis #Climate
But he was still hungry...

Here's a dev diary I wrote about feature creep, mental health, and a bit about a megacorp: https://www.chappington.net/dev-2024-01.html#diary04

I promise, it is in fact related to my game, but I had some thoughts I wanted to share. (And yes, there are screenshots at the end!)

Iron Village January 2024 Dev Diaries

January 2024 Iron Village dev diaries.

THIS.

Lemme give another example: The CCP has oversaw the largest poverty reduction in history AND also ruled over a police state that violates human rights and oppresses the Uyghurs.

The NEP policy in Malaysia helped reduce bumi poverty AND is also deeply unfair to minorities.

Etc, etc.

Google finds no reason to remove from search results a fake obituary that says I am dead. Several people saw it and thought I really had died.

Fuck you, #Google. "Don't be evil." Right. Oh, they dropped that slogan, didn't they?