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Isengrim

@isengrim.bsky.social
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Avid Reader and mediocre video game player. Gets paid to write code Posting entries from my game of For Small Creatures Such As We at captainjuniperslogs.blogspot.com

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Isengrim @isengrim.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Section 230 is basically irrelevant to the issues in our information environment. All it does is allow websites to moderate user content without being liable for everything. We should be working on antitrust enforcement in media so that each channel, station, and paper is independent.
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Isengrim @isengrim.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
As I recall, it was a report from an unnamed Rohirim on the state of the battle after the orcs had forced the Deeping Wall which separated the Hornburg from the forces, including Gimli that had retreated into the caves.
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Isengrim @isengrim.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
The book included reports of "blasting fire" that blasted a hole in some passages that had been walked up.
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Isengrim @isengrim.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
That is the marketing, though I suspect it is untrue for folks that aren't already wealthy. After all, most things take resources that have to be paid for, and they aren't offering a real UBI.
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Isengrim @isengrim.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
It's different if Gandhi starts it, maybe.
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Isengrim @isengrim.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
The paper bag test is an older meme for how US racists decide who gets rights. If you're as dark or darker than a brown paper bag they'd say you're "colored". See the family guy skin color chart meme for a modern example.
Family guy Skin Color Chart Meme.  A person is holding a chart next to Peter Griffin's face.  The chart has "Okay" written next to color swatches of white, cream, and pinkish white.  A red line separates that from the bottom section.  In the bottom half "Not Okay" is written next to color swatches for light brown, brown, and black.
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Isengrim @isengrim.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Anthropic going bust is likely to cause investors to flee AI investments for a bit. That will break OpenAI if they aren't already profitable. Grok depends on Musk's bs. Gemini is Google so it wouldn't go bust, but I wouldn't be surprised if they dropped it as unprofitable.
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Isengrim @isengrim.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
One of the few Silicon Valley startup ideas is "Pretend Doing Thing with a Computer Means it is a New Thing in order to Duck Regulations". The betting sites claimed they were a sort of future or commodity trading and got investors and politicians to go along.
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Isengrim @isengrim.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
MAGA is also a White Supremacist movement, it claims to protect the social status of the white working class from non-white groups.
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Isengrim @isengrim.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
If the doc&spreadsheet version of the journaling RPGs count, I'll be fine since I'm either in magical 1500s Scotland with magic healthcare or on a giant Independent Research University ship in a Star Trek type world. If it has to be an actual video game, I'm on the Island of Myst.
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Isengrim @isengrim.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
He's based in LA and tech folks like him at least. I know he's been hired for other tech adjacent cons, including an AI show that he apologized for accepting.
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Isengrim @isengrim.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
I dunno, Afghanistan was landlocked with even bigger mountains and the US military was able to collapse it's government pretty thoroughly. Which isn't to say the US could win in Iran.
Topographical map of Afghanistan.  There are lots of mountains.
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Isengrim @isengrim.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
The problem is most of the elections are independently scheduled by the States.
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Isengrim @isengrim.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
I get it in my feed, and it's been working fine for me.
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Isengrim @isengrim.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
That would take 1 in 8 people on earth playing an Xbox every day. There's no way they manage it without releasing an Xbox phone, and even then it's probably still a delusional goal.
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Isengrim @isengrim.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
Different look and feel mostly. There's enough money in the system that the two or three top games can be profitable even though it follows the "superstar" distribution pattern as long as they're properly distinct for players.
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Isengrim @isengrim.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
Does Predicate logic have a syntax for assumptions? It's been a few years since I looked at formal logic, but assumption or assume are the terms I recall for statements that are defined as true.
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Isengrim @isengrim.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
Yes, and magic is a technology in as much as people can use it to do things.
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Isengrim @isengrim.bsky.social · 03/04/2026
It also looks like arguing in bad faith since the times has also argued that free services are paid for by taxes.
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Isengrim @isengrim.bsky.social · 02/04/2026
This appears to be the app they created to allow developers to easily use LLMs rather than the LLMs themselves. It is likely to disrupt an income stream for Anthropic, which might be a problem if investors stop giving them money.
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Isengrim @isengrim.bsky.social · 27/03/2026
The details in this report are basically the same as a type of "UFO" report. Including the sighting happening while the military is worried about enemy attacks. The long-term repeated station keeping is most consistent with misidentifying stars as drone lights.
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Isengrim @isengrim.bsky.social · 19/03/2026
In fairness if GWB hadn't blown up Iraq, Iran wouldn't have been able to take a run at regional hegemony.
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Isengrim @isengrim.bsky.social · 16/03/2026
Summon leviathan from the vasty deeps since anyone can.
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Isengrim @isengrim.bsky.social · 06/03/2026
It would risk causing fuel shortages and lines at gas stations
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Isengrim @isengrim.bsky.social · 05/03/2026
Yeah, it looks like the expectation is to always build new rather than try to maintain existing software.
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Isengrim @isengrim.bsky.social · 03/03/2026
So they're using a tactic that already failed catastrophicly once, on Oct 11, and is sure to perpetuate the damage? This is a case of a tactic turning into a shit strategy. It assumes perpetual war is the only option and it treats the Iranians as a sort of hive mind that can't be changed.
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Isengrim @isengrim.bsky.social · 03/03/2026
This doesn't look like a strategy it looks like a tactic a country might use to weaken an opponent. If there isn't a strategy to take advantage of that weakness it looks like just an expensive way to buy a few years and make bitter enemies. Which makes making a peace harder.
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Isengrim @isengrim.bsky.social · 03/03/2026
I suspect the reverse is true. If a company has an employee create art with an AI the company also won't have a copyright. Because the art isn't covered by a copyright that can be assigned to the company.
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Isengrim @isengrim.bsky.social · 02/03/2026
It's lots of fun. Everyone ought to check it out
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Isengrim @isengrim.bsky.social · 02/03/2026
At a guess, it serves Netanyahu's short term political aim of presenting as defending against the "monster outside" and sets him up to have new monsters in the medium term. I agree it doesn't serve Israel's interests.
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Isengrim @isengrim.bsky.social · 13/02/2026
Probably unexpected ASCII or formatting characters in the data, especially if the data source is a word or rich text file. When this is uploaded these invisible nonfunctional characters are stripped out to improve performance. Which shrinks the file and fixes the data in the pivot table.
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Isengrim @isengrim.bsky.social · 12/02/2026
They're bad at enforcing traffic violations, too. Mostly enforcing it to generate revenue.
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Isengrim @isengrim.bsky.social · 04/02/2026
The concern isn't that the camera will steal their soul The concern is that photos identifying leaders will be used to target people for extrajudicial execution by government forces. And they point to real deaths as proof this is happening.
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Isengrim @isengrim.bsky.social · 04/02/2026
The crew began the work of putting together a survey of this dangerous world while being filmed. This begins the saga of the Documentarian that will commit any crime to get the shots he wants. captainjuniperslogs.blogspot.com/2026/01/star...
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Star Date – 1035.9.14
Location – B2,R7 – Midgard We have 16 veggie packs, 12 bamboo packs, and 8 tasty rocks. We’ve begun producing the Atmo report.  The documen...
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Isengrim @isengrim.bsky.social · 03/02/2026
Agreed, and if they need to make it a little less expensive it is much more efficient and flexible to add a tax to collect the money afterwards than to determine eligibility up front.
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Isengrim @isengrim.bsky.social · 01/02/2026
The crew finished investigating the thief and they're off to their first exploration job. It's an eyeball world with the dayside so hot there's a metal cycle rather than a water cycle. captainjuniperslogs.blogspot.com/2026/01/star...
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Star Date – 1035.9.13
Location – B2,R7 – Midgard (Amended with name as of 9.22) We have 18 veggie packs, 13 bamboo packs, and 9 tasty rocks.  The Algae Vats have...
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Isengrim @isengrim.bsky.social · 01/02/2026
This is, and worse. It's 9 months to the midterms. Can these Republicans avoid doing something obviously corrupt and evil for 9 months? They couldn't manage 9 weeks last year, so I have doubts.
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Isengrim @isengrim.bsky.social · 31/01/2026
A bit of excitement for the crew as they ask about to find where the thief went and avoid the flying monkeys. captainjuniperslogs.blogspot.com/2026/01/star...
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Star Date – 1035.9.12
Location – B3,R8 – Progress We’ve decided to wait a few cycles to try and find the info that Whinshin wants. I’m asking amongst the researc...
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Isengrim @isengrim.bsky.social · 30/01/2026
Made it to Progress and promptly picked up two research jobs and a bit of detective work trying to figure out where a thief calling themselves "The Lupon" went with the experimental rice they stole. captainjuniperslogs.blogspot.com/2026/01/star...
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Star Date – 1035.9.11
Location – B3,R8 – Progress We have 14 veggie packs, 10 bamboo packs, and 8 tasty rocks.  We have 56 fuel. We made it to Progress and lande...
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Isengrim @isengrim.bsky.social · 30/01/2026
If it was a ponzi scheme Musk would have to give early investors money. Sort of similar to penny stock scams in that it trades on Musk's PR but it adds Musk being able to borrow against the inflated values as long as the greater fool scam doesn't collapse.
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Isengrim @isengrim.bsky.social · 29/01/2026
The robot is much easier to fake.
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Isengrim @isengrim.bsky.social · 28/01/2026
A quiet cycle as the Celestial Diviner approaches Progress. captainjuniperslogs.blogspot.com/2026/01/star...
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Star Date – 1035.9.10
Location – B3,R7 We have 16 veggie packs, 12 bamboo packs, and 9 tasty rocks.  We have 58 fuel. We’ll make it to Progress next cycle.
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Isengrim @isengrim.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
The journey started quietly with algae vats covering the fuel spent and time to watch the stars go by. captainjuniperslogs.blogspot.com/2026/01/star...
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Star Date – 1035.9.9
Location – B2,R6 We have 18 veggie packs, 13 bamboo packs, and 10 tasty rocks.  We have 60 fuel. Terranova and I shared a nice stretch on t...
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Isengrim @isengrim.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
Crew picked up a research job. The xeno's want a study on asteroid fleas that might be related to the fleas in the ruins. captainjuniperslogs.blogspot.com/2026/01/star...
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Star Date – 1035.9.5
Location – B2,R2 – Ruin There were 9 missions posted, but only two were at all plausible.  We considered a cargo run to Wavecrest, but it w...
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Isengrim @isengrim.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
The crew finished the research. Next cycle they'll be checking for more work in preparation for getting outbound. captainjuniperslogs.blogspot.com/2026/01/star...
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Star Date – 1035.9.4
Location – B2,R2 – Ruin We pushed hard today and were able to finish up the research work.  Bo tried to get our costs reimbursed, but they ...
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Isengrim @isengrim.bsky.social · 21/01/2026
Another cycle of collecting measurements and some noodling about ways to do the work more quickly. captainjuniperslogs.blogspot.com/2026/01/star...
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Star Date – 1035.9.3
Location – B2,R2 – Ruin We completed another 16 observations today.  I think most of the crew is getting bored of this.  After Yeratel move...
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Isengrim @isengrim.bsky.social · 19/01/2026
The historians and xenoarcheologists are getting excited by the scans. Apparently, the think it maps a large ruin beneath the ones they already know about. captainjuniperslogs.blogspot.com/2026/01/star...
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Star Date – 1035.9.2
Location – B2,R2 – Ruin We got another 10 fuel from the Algae vats.  We were also able to collect another 10 observations.  The historians ...
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Isengrim @isengrim.bsky.social · 17/01/2026
Since the sandstorm has finally blown itself out the crew was able to get back to the gravimetric scans. This time without having to save anyone from ancient delvings. captainjuniperslogs.blogspot.com/2026/01/star...
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Star Date – 1035.9.1
Location – B2,R2 – Ruin We headed out to get another set of observations along the same line as the last few.  We were able to get 13 obser...
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Isengrim @isengrim.bsky.social · 15/01/2026
It was another two cycles before the weather folks reported the sandstorm was abating. captainjuniperslogs.blogspot.com/2026/01/star...
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Star Date – 1035.8.30
Location – B2,R2 – Ruin Finally the sandstorm is coming to an end.  We’ll be able to go out to collect more readings tomorrow.
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Isengrim @isengrim.bsky.social · 14/01/2026
On the third cycle of the sandstorm the crew met a sales mule from Pottery Bruin that tried to get them to become salespeople. They turned them down. captainjuniperslogs.blogspot.com/2026/01/star...
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Star Date – 1035.8.28
Location – B2,R2 – Ruin We met a sales mule that was desperate to get us to join him as a salesman for Pottery Bruins Unlimited.  Absolutel...
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