With LLMs, we can ask our documents questions. Reading will change: A static wall of text demands effort for diminishing insight. But a PDF piped into an LLM?…I can chat with it. Extract patterns. Mine underdiscussed takeaways. Highlight blind spots. Summarize arguments. It’s like outsourcing the heavy intellectual lifting (Subjective). We moved from the oral…

“Apple’s Strategic Bet on the Post-Touch Future.”Apple’s introduction of Liquid Glass is a calculated strategic repositioning that reveals how the company thinks about the next decade of human-computer interaction. “Corporate Ozempic”. ““AI is trimming corporate America [by]…picking off individual tasks and augmenting teams with more capabilities.” “The value of good management.” Strong managers retain good…

Sources of inspiration for Unknown Armies (Reddit). Unknown Armies is a roleplaying game about modern paranoia, Jungian archetypes, and an occult system that focuses on class. It is, in a word, really interesting. I got a lot of mileage out of this link, which leads to movies and TV shows dealing with the secret intrusion…

The problem that the Vampires’ Castle was set up to solve is this: how do you hold immense wealth and power while also appearing as a victim, marginal and oppositional? The solution was already there – in the Christian Church. So the VC has recourse to all the infernal strategies, dark pathologies and psychological torture…

“20 Albums I’d Save.” The ever-reliable busybody with a list of deep cuts, some I’d never known existed. Conan the Barbarian appears. “Should the Bus be Free?” Sometimes people approach a question from a different angle and find a better result. This article is one of those times. Brings to mind this quote about advanced…

Politics is the Mind-Killer. It really, really is. It activates so many built-in software programs that prevent you from seeing things clearly. There are strategies to keep a clear mind (thinking in bets, developing your own political philosophy) but none of them are easy. “If you want to make a point about science, or rationality,…

The Corrupted Blood incident (also known as the World of Warcraft pandemic) took place between September 13 and October 8, 2005, in World of Warcraft, a massively multiplayer online role-playing game (MMORPG) developed by Blizzard Entertainment. When participating in a certain boss battle at the end of a raid, player characters would become infected with a debuff that was transmitted between characters in…