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RE: #CSUNATC sale is still going!
Because if the conference will give another

UK delivers 350 ASRAAM air-to-air missiles to Ukraine as part of record £4.5 billion aid package: https://benborges.xyz/2026/01/17/uk-delivers-asraam-airtoair-missiles.html

Another installment of the AI Hater's Guide to Code with LLMs https://aredridel.dinhe.net/2026/02/15/an-ai-haters-guide-to-code-with-llms-the-how-to/
This time, how to actually use the tools competently. Some theory and how they actually work, and some practical instruction.

This is absolutely my next wizard character.
(Which, incidentally, will be for Love in the Age of Gongfarmers for #DCCRPG.)
#ttrpg https://

Project Gutenberg (@gutenberg_org@mastodon.social)
Attached: 1 image The Cross-Dressing Marquess Who Made Arthur Conan Doyle Turn Detective "Henry Paget, the fifth Marquess of Anglesey, who loved expensive costumes and jewelry, turned to Arthur Conan Doyle when his jewels mysteriously disappeared" https://www.thecollector.com/henry-paget-arthur-conan-doyle/ Books by Doyle at PG: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/69 #history #books #literature #lgbtqia

Nvidia says game developers have full "artistic control over DLSS 5's effects", following backlash alleging that the AI upscaling tech altered source material (Tyler Wilde/PC Gamer)
https://www.pcgamer.com/soft…

DLSS 5 clearly overwrites game characters with AI beauty standards, but Nvidia says devs have 'artistic control'
The first demo for Nvidia's new AI rendering technique doesn't do much to combat the perception that generative AI homogenizes artwork.

In the end, the Guide concluded that Sol-3 was another datapoint in resolving the Fermi Paradox, revising the Drake Equation L down further.
Ford's notes read "mostly harmless" but Arthur found a Dick's Burgers napkin in a glovebox, with a scribbled note saying "the self-fulfilling DFPC is a particularly nasty bug."
"What's DFPC?", Arthur asked.
"Dark Forest Pareidolaic Collapse", said Zaphod.
"We see faces in t…

I have at least two more converts to The Story Graph in the last couple days, yanking them away from Amazon’s Good Reads.
I use it:
https://app.thestorygraph.com/profile/aardrian
Not perfect but definitely *not* Amazon. Just sayin’.

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A year since I cautioned about using APCA and calling it WCAG3’s next contrast algorithm:
https://toot.cafe/@aardrian/113801092971854851
As recent as last week, it seems WCAG3 contrast is still an open item:

The 2025 Web Almanac mistook me.
I did *not* say LLMs provide better image descriptions. I cited SeeingAI and Be My Eyes as tools for undescribed IRL uses.
I said LLM-generated captions could be better than craptions. I mentioned abstracts / reading-level changes, which could be summaries?
But “better” image descriptions is right out.