Cat Rambo

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@HAPENG1 It's Dungeons & Dragons; our characters were fighting monsters in a desert.

@Catrambo Is this a sandbox game?

D&D tonight, here comes the big encounter!

🚨 BREAKING: You asked AI to improve your writing. It changed what you were actually saying. New research just proved it. In a controlled study, heavy AI writing assistance led to a 70% increase in essays that gave no clear answer to the question being asked. Not unclear writing. Neutral writing. The kind that sounds polished but commits to nothing. Here's what makes this worse: Researchers took essays written in 2021 — before ChatGPT existed — and asked an LLM to revise them based on real expert feedback. The instruction was simple: fix the grammar. The model changed the meaning anyway. Every time. It can't help it. The training pushes toward inoffensive, agreeable, averaged-out text. That's not a bug they can patch. It's the objective function. And then there's the peer review finding. 21% of reviews at a recent top AI conference were AI-generated. Those reviews scored papers a full point higher on average. They also placed significantly less weight on clarity and significance — the two things peer review is supposed to evaluate. So we're not just talking about your email sounding a little corporate. We're talking about AI quietly flattening scientific discourse. Laundering opinions into non-answers. Replacing your voice with the mean of everyone's voice. The industry keeps asking: is AI-written content detectable? Wrong question. The right question is: what are we losing when a billion people let the same model edit their thinking?

please get a library card even if you won’t use it because cities will look at library statistics and use that to decide to keep libraries open and properly funded

Foe has morphed from skeletal elven child to a floating skull shooting beams out of its eyes. #dnd5e

@penderbook I believe you do!

@Catrambo I do think I spot a HeroQuest throne.

My Druid just did massive damage but now the necrotic energy is flying in retaliation. #dnd5e

A crucial part of the night. #d&d5e ⁦@DragonsMilk⁩

The encounter has begun! #D&d5e

@marketgeniusx @dieworkwear Or you could just say capitalism broke the Internet. Shorter.

@dieworkwear Zero interest rates broke the internet's business model. When capital was free, growth at all costs made sense. Now with rates at 4.5%, every platform needs to extract revenue from users. The financialization of attention was inevitable.

2006 internet: RSS feeds, forums, communities of hobby blogs, where people post about interior design, fashion, and music for free 2026 internet: sponsored content, buy my merch, try my supplements, invest in my crypto, click link in bio to unlock the secrets of life for $30

A 5% wealth tax on billionaires IS the compromise. Elon Musk Wealth 2012: $2 billion 2026: $825.5 billion Jeff Bezos Wealth 2012: $18 billion 2026: $234 billion Mark Zuckerberg Wealth 2012: $44 billion 2026: $218 billion Minimum Wage 2009: $7.25 an hour 2026: $7.25 an hour

Once again, ChatGPT proves itself not reliable: 404media.co/ceo-ignores-la…

Wow, this is alarming. @facebook, no comment?

why aren't other countries helping us with the strait of hormuz after we started an unjust war, cut off trade, and insulted our allies for a year?

@Richard_Kadrey Right?! The Midwest is frickin' weird.

It was 70 degrees here yesterday and now it's snowing. Welcome to 2026, a totally normal and not at all terrifying time to be alive.

I wish people would wake up and see how Trump is stuffing his and his family's pockets on a daily basis. But I guess "woke" is too scary a state.

Big blustering winds today, which I hope are sweeping out the last remnants of winter. But this is Northern Indiana, and there could still be snow in the future.

You don’t have to write a perfect chapter today. You don’t have to solve every plot hole. You don’t have to feel inspired. Just show up to the page. One paragraph. One sentence. One idea.

My best tip for anyone trying to get back into reading is to remember that you can read books to avoid other responsibilities in your life, and it can become a vice if you play your cards right.