Idiomdrottning
Idiomdrottning
Sandra
Idiomdrottning demonstrates a new and often cleaner way to solve most systems problems. The system as a whole is likely to feel tantalizingly familiar to culture users but at the same time quite foreign.
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I actually think AI is fun and good. It’s just that if we don’t solve the problems it’s not worth it (if the problems will destroy us all). It’s like cars. I oppose cars but I actually love riding in the shotgun seat on the open road...
I use the word “exacerbate” way too much and unlike some of my other pet phrases (like “a li’l”, “on the cinder”, “the life-changing magic of”, and “probably better known as”) it’s starting to sound weird to me now. It’s too fancy and...
Last night as I was lying in bed I was thinking “wait, wasn’t there some book I was reading that I wanted to continue?” and that thought made me happy but then I became sad because I remembered that I already had finished it that...
Okay, this one was a disappointment. Not that bad but not good either. 3 out of 10. Having an ingenious timeline and a clever solution and an eccentric detective and a very video-gamey setup are all plusses in my book. The meta-stuff...
In my lefty ancom bubble I’m sometimes seeing anti-meal replacemeent rhetoric, but I’m not on board with that. Some brands have a low climate impact per calorie. It’s so much better and more empathetic than the usual “carnivore” trends...
There’s only a decade between Lord of the Rings and Dune but the latter is way more post-modern. Not that LotR isn’t pomo, because it is, but Dune takes it a couple of notches further. It’s so wild to me that this book came out in 1965,...
I’m writing this a few years before Bitcoin’s twentieth anniversary as one of humanity’s biggest mistakes. Bitcoin is three things: The ledger (perhaps useful) The tokens (artificial scarcity) The mining (an unprecedented environmental...
Klimatminister Romina Pourmokhtari (L) vill avskaffa ett av de mest omstridda klimatmålen—det så kallade transportmålet—och i stället införa ett annat mål. Hon dömer ut det nuvarande målet som orealistiskt. Pourmokhtari anser att det...
The other day, someone told me that “Discord is a good product”. And I’m grateful for that phrasing because it helps me explain why I’m having such a cow about Discord. Because it’s not a good product. The worst part about it is how...
In the seventies Frappé popularized an idea that vegetarians should combine protein sources, i.e. eating grains with beans, just like traditional food cultures have done for longer than recorded history, is a complete amino acid profile...
There are situations where the word “NIMBY” applies. It’s short for “Not in my backyard”, like someone might think needle exchanges and refugee housing are great but don’t want them in their own neighborhoods (FWIW, I used to live in a...
Let’s say a land wanted to make burglary illegal. They notice that a lot of people who do breaking and entering wear shoes when doing so. So they make wearing shoes illegal. That’s sort of how many EU laws are. I’m getting a li’l...
I don’t want to paint or write long-form fiction in the age of AI. This isn’t me going on strike or anything. It’s just a report from my soul-crushed inner landscape of not feeling like making art and not having felt like making art for...
One unexpected game design lesson from Rebirth’s Ireland side for me is this: The game has random distribution of “Tower” powers and in a two player game, a random eight of the twelve goals will be public and a random two will be...
When I first got started with Magic I only had one deck, a huge pile of I dunno 120 cards or something (Revised and Fallen Empires), I’m not sure. There were enough lands in there to cover everything too. So my neighbor and I played the...