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Q&A with NYU professor Julian Togelius on his recent paper about LLMs' limitations in playing video games, why coding is a kind of well-designed game, and more (Matthew S. Smith/IEEE Spectrum)
https://spectrum.ieee.org/amp/ai-video-games-llms-togelius-2676614974…

Why Are Large Language Models so Terrible at Video Games?
AI models code simple games, but struggle to play them

Using Claude Code and a little ChatGPT Codex, I updated Scantailor for modern-day Silicon Macs. If you have a crummy PDF of a book with yellow pages, give it a try. Free, of course. Things are changing fast.
https://github.com/abandoned-industries/scantailor-spectre

GitHub - abandoned-industries/scantailor-spectre: ScanTailor Spectre is a document scanning tool based on ScanTailor that transforms raw PDFs or image scans into clean, readable pages through an 8-stage workflow with intelligent batch processing and PDF export. For Apple Silicon.
ScanTailor Spectre is a document scanning tool based on ScanTailor that transforms raw PDFs or image scans into clean, readable pages through an 8-stage workflow with intelligent batch processing a...

Detection of C60 Combination Bands in the Near-IR #Spectrum of Tc 1: #Buckyballs Discovered in #PlanetaryNebula: https://aasnova.org/2026/06/24/new-spectral-signs-of-buckyballs-discovered-in-planetary-nebula/

Great blog about the Pope and Trump.
#pope #trump

The Pope Vs Trump
Power is draining from the White House

Something for the US #TTRPG bubble:
https://open.substack.com/pub/exeuntpress/p/im-teaching-free-game-design-cl…

Facebook's silencing of a whistleblower
shines a light on a
private justice system
and a "post-state" future
where tech bros write the rules.
-- Or as we call them, "laws"
https://broligarchy.substack.com/p/silenced?triedRe…

Silenced
Facebook's silencing of a whistleblower shines a light on a private justice system and a "post-state" future where tech bros write the rules. Or as we call them, "laws"

New blog post on the importance of owning physical (and digital) media, when possible: https://spacetimetech.wordpress.com/2026/06/28/the-importance-of-owning-physical-and-digital-media-when-possible

The importance of owning physical (and digital) media when possible
I wrote some about the continued popularity of physical media here in 2024, but I wanted to do one more post on it this year, to also feature some other formats, history, tips and tricks, and outri…

GPT-5.6 system card indicates Sol is well below the level of most worrisome Mythos use cases, suggesting all GPT-5.6 versions could be released without delay (Zvi Mowshowitz/Don't Worry About the Vase)
https://thezvi.substack.com/p/gpt-56-the-system-card

GPT-5.6: The System Card
While we wait for a general release, the system card is the best hint as to what is going on with the new candidate for America’s Next Top Model, GPT-5.6.

Something for the US #TTRPG bubble:
https://open.substack.com/pub/exeuntpress/p/im-teaching-free-game-design-cl…

Must-read blog
"With trillions of dollars of military hardware at his disposal, Trump has somehow conspired to be defeated by a country teetering on the brink of economic collapse and with a government hated by its citizens."
https://chadbourn.substack.com/p/one-n

One Nation Under A Racist
Trump’s prejudice lost the Iran War — and that’s only the start