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Video: My Minecraft House

I built a house in Minecraft. On all the gate entrances I put up my banner. It’s a cross, because Jesus, with a red skull over it, because death (lots of plants and animals need killing in Minecraft). I am very dark and poetic, you see. I wish you could see the banners from far Video: My Minecraft House

Photo: Yinz Jagoffs

Looks pretty much tied, but “Jagoff” is playing a little dirty. Taken at the City-Council Building on Grant Street.

Recipe: Keto-Paleo Cheese Soufflé

Ingredients 2 tbsp almond flour 2 tbsp butter 1 cup heavy whipping cream 4 eggs 1 1/5 cups shredded, semi-firm cheese 1/8 tsp cream of tartar or baking powder coconut oil, parmesan/romano cheese, salt, pepper Directions 1. Grease your ramekin or whatever dish with the coconut oil 2. In a pan, melt the butter and Recipe: Keto-Paleo Cheese Soufflé

Sci-fi and Fantasy Movies and Series Reviews, Part 40

The Super Mario Bros. Movie (2023) Two brothers, fledgling plumbers from Brooklyn, are transported to a world where a giant fire-breathing turtle aims to take over the neighboring kingdoms. This could’ve been really bad—worse than the universally-hated 1993 abomination—but thankfully all those involved with writing this did what was expected of them. Some awkward dialog Sci-fi and Fantasy Movies and Series Reviews, Part 40

The Parable of the Shrewd Manager

In all my decades of church going, I’ve never heard a pastor or priest preach on this parable. There are reasons for this: it doesn’t provide the Hallmark feels that parables like the Prodigal Son do; pastors can be lazy, and organizing a sermon with this material requires some work to brush away some assumptions; The Parable of the Shrewd Manager

Fishy Twitter

Here’s a comment I left on one of Ed’s posts, “Surveillance and Censorship” This post reminds me of the Twitter “algorithm” post I saw a few days back. Someone found in the source code Musk made available the parts where political tweets and accounts could be boosted or stifled. There were very obvious a variable Fishy Twitter

Psychopaths In Power

Sure, this is only a British bureaucrat, but there’s no reason to think there are other rulers who have the same “tendencies“: It’s not so much that everyone in government is a psychopath, it’s that governments tend to attract psychopaths. It seems like governments are stuffed full of them. No quite off topic is The Psychopaths In Power

Video: The Last Bastion

I played Overwatch a few times back when my daughter was really into it, but I don’t know anything about the backstory of any of the characters. Regardless, I thought this was a really well-done short movie. I have a soft spot for “silent” stories—anyone in the world can watch it and understand it, regardless Video: The Last Bastion

The Truth Might Be Mythical

A superchat was left recently for one of Ben’s Suspicious0bservers livestreams. I forget which livestream it was, since he does a lot of them, but I do remember it was from a band’s YouTube account: Something to consider folks: you can’t avoid the truth of this becoming a myth, don’t try to hand down the The Truth Might Be Mythical

AI Isn’t

Most everything I’ve read from Vice is either unremarkable or ridiculous nonsense, but that doesn’t mean their writers can have moments of clarity. From “I Had An AI Chatbot Write My Eulogy. It Was Very Weird” (emphasis mine): Machine learning tools like Stable Diffusion and OpenAI’s ChatGPT have been breathlessly covered by the press in AI Isn’t