Snapai @Snapai@dragon.style

For most of my life, when I found something like this, I assumed that it was an Anomaly.

I would think to myself: Surely no other organization has flaws this fundamental being papered over by human labor.

But I spent the last five years jumping from Fundamental Flaw to Fundamental Flaw at a 20+ Billion dollar company, filling gaps like this while "automation" was built.

In *every* case, the automation solves ~95 or so percent of the problem, and leaves a rare but possible set of circumstances that will require a human to clean up.

In most cases so far, the only humans with the experience to clean things up have left, have been pushed out, or will leave soon.

And things will bubble up. And things will break. And 10+ engineers will have to waste 3 - 5 days investigating the problem, because every corporation is built on the backs of the knowledge of employees they do not value.

Art for Tara's flashback/dream from my Witchlight campaign. Handouts of Damh (korred archfey) and Milil (Faerunian Lord of Song), the map of a woodland party setting where all sorts of magical creatures were celebrating, and the token for a young faun that Tara met there when she was a kid.

What Scientific American had to say about homework in 1860

✨ Post editing in @pixelfed

I'm finished the UI/UX aspects of post edits, and am nearly finished the federation logic!

Should be ready in the next day or two 😉

"Corporate consumption of medical care keeps growing...'They are trying to run it like a business, but it's not a business,'" said one doctor.
Same for education, prisons, and any number of other services abandoned to the merciless maw of the market: https://is.gd/6PefSD

Last night on my #dnd5e game, I got to introduce this character I came up with from scratch! Meet Tessa! She's an #eladrin #paladin of #Milil, and is gonna be tagging along with the party to, effectively, amplify the PC's decisions, for this chapter.

Throwback to my old vengeance paladin, Skala. She’s a firbolg/ice genasi hybrid who was abducted from her village as a child by a folkloric ice monster, and found miles away, cursed and half-frozen, with no memory of the event ❄️

#ttrpgart #dndcharacter #dnd #firbolg #johannamation #characterdesign

"Give me one good reason to move to Europe."

Moment of clarity recently about the terrible search experience these days

I searched for a specific method from a library. I didn't mention the library at all, just the method. All results were related to the library, but none to the method - so it clearly knew what I was searching for, but chose not to answer my question.

It finally clicked that if they show you what you want, you leave. But if they show closely-related stuff, you keep digging deeper, increasing engagement and ad viewership

The future

🧐⏳⌛️🔁

So, when we ultimately have some budget to put in to media funding, I'd like to commission some things.

I don't want to own them, I want them to be released CC-BY-SA, or less preferably, for them to remain All Rights Reserved but for NETV to be granted a perpetual nonexclusive right to broadcast/distribute them.

Short films, TV episodes, cartoons, talk shows, features.

Our ongoing budget won't be huge, but it will exist (and, with any luck, it will grow.)

Hey, from now on, I'll be totally inactive on Twitter.
Goodbye Blue Bird.

Blog-post: https://www.davidrevoy.com/article964/goodbye-blue-bird