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November 22, 2024
‘It Don’t Come Easy.’
It Don’t Come Easy, Ringo Starr
#commissionearned
I need to sit down and replan, well, everything.
In retrospect it was not a great idea to schedule my first real cold in four years smack dab in the middle of November. I’m way behind on the book, haven’t been able to schedule any Christmas vending opportunities, and I’m just generally feeling like everything’s out of momentum. Kind of a vicious cycle, too, which isn’t helping matters much.
I’m not mentioning any of this for sympathy. I just want to be on the record as knowing that it’s been a slacker month, too, and that I have to get off my butt at some point and get going again. Nobody else’s gonna do that for me, after all.
The “…I roll to disbelieve*?” SNOW WHITE trailer.
Indeed, the trailer is not yet officially up on Youtube yet. And surely none of us can imagine why. A real mystery, that.
Since Disney won’t do it…here’s the Snow White trailer that’s been playing before WICKED. Enjoy
— Steph Anie (@mynerdyhome) November 22, 2024pic.twitter.com/tOTCjNEF0u
*The alternate working subtitle was Now the hour and the movie have met. Alas, I decided that the multi-layered irony involved in picking that one was too dependent on the history of the Confederate States of America, the career of Jefferson Davis, and the pernicious influence of Sir Walter Scott on nineteenth century American rhetoric. The alternate-alternate working subtitle would have been ‘Welp,’ but @alexthechick used that one already.
The kid who used AI to cheat on an AP project was dumb.
The parents who tried to sue the school over it are dumber:
A federal court yesterday ruled against parents who sued a Massachusetts school district for punishing their son who used an artificial intelligence tool to complete an assignment.
Dale and Jennifer Harris sued Hingham High School officials and the School Committee and sought a preliminary injunction requiring the school to change their son’s grade and expunge the incident from his disciplinary record before he needs to submit college applications. The parents argued that there was no rule against using AI in the student handbook, but school officials said the student violated multiple policies.
The Harris’ motion for an injunction was rejected in an order issued yesterday from US District Court for the District of Massachusetts. US Magistrate Judge Paul Levenson found that school officials “have the better of the argument on both the facts and the law.”
Via Instapundit. What makes this extra-dumb was that the punishments for the kid were: having to redo the project; a Saturday detention; and not being allowed to join the National Honor Society – and even then the school gave way on that, once the lawsuit was announced. The parents should have quit when they were behind at that point, but now it’s in the courts, and I hope it ends up costing them enough money not to try to do more damfool lawsuits in the future. Using AI to make up references and citations is cheating, handbook or not.
Use your heads for something besides a hat-rack, all right? Your kid is watching what you do.
@elonmusk has an opportunity to do the funniest thing.
On the one hand: the observation below will absolutely not have any effect. On the other hand: you honestly never know with this guy. And on the gripping hand, if it does unaccountably somehow happen I’m going to be yelled at by various people – including ones I like – every day, for the rest of my natural life.
Alas. Sometimes great art requires as great a sacrifice.
I'm sure that Hasbro would be happy to at least consider any serious offer. https://t.co/YV08ptipq1
— Ogiel (Moe Lane) (@Ogiel23) November 22, 2024
PS: I’m sometimes this devil-may-care in my books, too.
November 21, 2024
The new BOLD MARAUDER serial is up.
A few days late, but I was sick. And now it’s up, and I can stop feeling bad about it. Huzzah!
Patreon!
So, WashingCon is now in limbo.
This is very sad:
The owner to the name and rights for WashingCon has ghosted the rest of the staff for something like a year or more.
— WashingCon (@washingcondc) November 21, 2024
AwesomeCon, with the help of Labyrinth has done a great job of picking up the game convention slack.
Maybe, someday, we’ll be back… but for now
Not least because I do not want to switch over to running convention TTRPG games at AwesomeCon. WashingCon was a great convention and I enjoyed GMing games there, not least because it wasn’t a chaotic, overstuffed mess. It was a nice place to have a mini-vacation. I’m gonna miss it.
Ach, well.
Oh, frabjous day! If you pre-ordered @HPLHS’s THE TEMPLE, check your email.
I don’t know if the HPL Historical Society’s quite finished with the physical version yet, but the digital version of their latest Dark Adventure Radio Theater play THE TEMPLE is available. Or at least if you pre-ordered. I’m listening to it now, in fact.
Surprises are awesome.
Tweet of the Day, Okay, This Is Gonna Be My Best-Seller Car Brand edition.
I don’t care if this ad features the weapons-grade emotional manipulation that you only see in Thai retail commercials*. Let me repeat this: I don’t care. When I make it as a writer, I’m getting a Volvo.
Volvo posted a 3 min and 46 second ad on Instagram, shot by Hoyte Van Hoytema, the cinematographer of Interstellar and Oppenheimer.
— Guillaume Huin (@HuinGuillaume) November 21, 2024
It goes against every single rule you can think about as a social lead. Length. Format. Over-produced.
Every comment under the ad said it… pic.twitter.com/wkmghuP4ye
Note: you can help me along that path by buying my books.
Moe Lane
#commissionearned
*You think I jest? Fine. On your own head be it.
…and that’s not even the most brutal one. I mean, top ten, but Thai advertisers can absolutely go harder. Don’t look this stuff up unprepared.
