Yeah, it’s rather exhausting to hunt down information about some of these things. Like, I can usually find info on who owns a news site, but sometimes I don’t have the context to know if they’ve been doing shady shit. Keeping track of things is (purposefully) difficult. Like, I found this resource but it is out of date. I am using ublocklist to slowly add to a list of news sites to make it so that I check them as I see them. If anything comes of that, I’ll post here or something?

Do we have any good resources on what isn’t in this situation. My current research is turning up very little that doesn’t suffer from this problem- I think all I have right now is AP.

After doing some cursory research, I’ve identified uBlacklist as a potential tool for curating your search results. I have seen some reassuring things about it. If anyone else has suggestions or comments, they are welcome.

Wanted to add to this as well: In 20 US states, the minimum wage is 7.25 an hour. If someone is working minimum wage, this represents almost three weeks of work- more, because of income taxes. It would represent the consumption of, like, 20% of your gross income?

So that’s going to kill people, either directly or by overwork.

The source for the data is from the Tax Foundation, which is ostensibly non-partisan, but their president and CEO worked as policy staff for three different Republicans, so YMMV.

Time to find more tools to blacklist specific news sites.

Bill proposed by Senator Cassidy, and cosponsored by Cruz and Loeffler, what a surprise. Link to Bill

Yeah, asymmetrical horns are not my jam in helms. 😆 I’m glad you’re having fun with it, I really enjoyed the parts I played. I’m just really scared of water monsters- can’t play subnatica, can’t deal with terrors of the deep.

Yeah! What’s your gear looking like? In curious about what end-game stuff is like. I remembered that I hit the dweller in the water and kind of decided it wasn’t something I wanted to struggle with on my ownsome.

I played Return to Moria for a while on my partner’s (more powerful) PC, since my laptop isn’t exactly in fighting shape. I thought it was fun and very good at getting me in the vibe of the game. I particularly liked navigating the confusing warren of the Mines. I did fall off a bit when I did a lot of prep-work for the Orctown and found out it was kind of tiny.

If I had the PC and time, I’m sure it’d be very fun to play with friends.

How’s the GITS game? I’ve never heard of any tie-in games from that series and I’m fascinated about what the game is like.

I’m playing Dungeon Drafters, a deck-building, turn-based, tactical rogue-like. (What a mouthful) It’s been very fun, the emphasis on positioning reminds me of some of the fun aspects of other tactics games I’ve played; and, the deck-building is pretty fun.

The game has some interesting tweaks on the formula, like you graveyard not being shuffled back into your deck except at special shrines in the run, so you have to deploy cards more tactically and individual cards are allowed to be much more impacfcul as a result. Status conditions are amazing in this game and I love using them.

The art style is charming and I really enjoy how clever I feel when my careful positioning and shuffling allows me to efficiently take out opponents.

My bingo-board didn’t have, “replacing actual research with a liar-box,” but here we are. I’ve noticed, to my increasing discomfort, trends with using ChatGPT (and similar) to replace actual research into topics, or people using them to “summarize” articles. As someone with actual research training it’s pretty alarming to realize how little people understand about what research is.

I’ve seen how badly these things mangle my area of academic interest, because they can’t write reasonable citations.