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TwShiloh

@TwShiloh@mas.to

Intel nerd, veteran, Gen X. ‘I didn't spend all those years playing Dungeons and Dragons and not learn a little something about courage.’ #intelligence #intelligenceanalysis #natsec #leadership #extremism #history #dogs #science #nature #books

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TwShiloh, to DnD
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#dnd campaign idea:

high level characters but they’re all over the hill:

Powerful wizard who keeps forgetting what components go with what spell

thief with the trick knee that interferes with climbing and stealth

fighter who might have 18 strength but risks throwing his back out if he uses it

elf becoming near sighted and losing his archer proficiency

They’re finally going after the big score - the nemesis - a high level monster also getting long in the tooth

TwShiloh,
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@bedirthan @gustav for added complexity…they’re in a race against time with some hot shot lower level characters.

Bonus experience when the old timers say “I’m getting too old for this shit!” 😂

TwShiloh, to random
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Closed my BlueSky account today…all of the toxicity of Twitter with only a fraction of the important voices.

TwShiloh, to random
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"The publicist is by the side of stars like Zayn Malik, Alex Cooper and Alix Earle. She’s dating a famous chef. But she’d prefer to keep a low profile."

...by consenting to a front page story about her in the NYTimes. :ablobrollingeyes:

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/04/23/style/cait-bailey-align-pr.html

TwShiloh, to random
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TIL: The former Olympic figure skater Michelle Kwan is the U.S. ambassador to Belize.

TwShiloh,
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@Tim_Eagon She's really did the work, too! This was no throwaway ambassadorship ship whose only qualification was big donor money.
bhttps://bz.usembassy.gov/ambassador-michelle-kwan/

TwShiloh, to UFOs
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“Jacobs suggested to “Emma Woods,” one of his alleged alien abductees, that she buy and wear a chastity belt to block space creatures intent on breeding hybrid babies.”

And that’s not the weirdest thing in this article

https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/leslie-kean-ufo-sightings-aliens.html?utm_source=pocket_reader

TwShiloh, to random
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Ok, BlueSky is awful.

TwShiloh, to Archaeology
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Amelia Earhart's plane may have finally been located. #archaeology #history

https://gizmodo.com/this-sonar-splotch-could-be-amelia-earharts-lost-plane-1851206764

TwShiloh, to random
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Not a good day to be the UN Secretary General. 12 employees accused of participating in the #october7 #terrorism attack

https://www.un.org/sg/en/content/sg/statement/2024-01-28/statement-the-secretary-general-unrwa

TwShiloh, to USpolitics
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Very strange times for a party that claims to be about "law and order". #uspolitics #republicans #maga

"At one point, candidates were asked to raise their hands if they had ever been arrested. Six of the nine candidates onstage raised their hands, to cheers and applause from the audience. Trent Leisy, a Navy veteran and business owner, high-fived Mr. Lynch and Ms. Boebert while their hands were raised."

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/01/25/us/politics/lauren-boebert-colorado-debate.html?smid=url-share

TwShiloh, to sciencefiction
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Any recommendations for good #sciencefiction #audiobooks? I’m coming off a string of monotone narrators and hoping for a compelling story and voice.

TwShiloh, to Scotland
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The mashup you didn't know you needed...

https://youtu.be/X8LsBxJSYGY?feature=shared

TwShiloh, to random
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“Venture investors say that failure is normal and that for every company that goes out of business, there is an outsize success like Facebook or Google.”

If you want to know why so many investors throw away gobs of money, it’s thinking like ⬆️

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/12/07/technology/tech-startups-collapse.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

bedirthan, to DnD
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A list of reasons to give us a sequel to the #DnD movie that aren't just "I liked it" but also I liked it.

http://fullmoonstorytelling.com/2023/11/25/honor-among-thieves-could-get-a-sequel/

TwShiloh,
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@bedirthan and when you think about how movies like Galaxy Quest or Big Trouble in Little China gained large, long term followings but didn’t do well in theaters and so didn’t get sequels...seems like an opportunity here.

TwShiloh, to ai
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AI wIlL mAkE oUr LiVeS bEtTeR!!

"UnitedHealthcare, the largest health insurance company in the US, is allegedly using a deeply flawed AI algorithm to override doctors' judgments and wrongfully deny critical health coverage to elderly patients." #healthcare #ai

https://arstechnica.com/health/2023/11/ai-with-90-error-rate-forces-elderly-out-of-rehab-nursing-homes-suit-claims/

TwShiloh,
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@bedirthan I feel like I can probably write some pretty of the headlines about AI failures that we're going to see over the next couple of years...

And some version of the "You can't make an omelette without breaking some eggs" arguments we'll see defending their use.

TwShiloh, to random
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"Trump just said that the loan we’re talking about is “long since gone.” Wallace, the attorney general's lawyer, asked him when it had been paid off, and Trump admitted that it had been very recently. In fact, Wallace suggests, last week."

:ablobrollingeyes: Lying is embedded in Trump's DNA.

https://www.nytimes.com/live/2023/11/06/nyregion/trump-fraud-trial/0989a66f-e731-57e0-8043-27a35e9cdc5c?smid=url-share

TwShiloh, to animals
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"dog owners generally seemed to care more about their dogs than cat owners did about their cats." #dogsofmastodon
https://gizmodo.com/pet-owners-care-more-about-dogs-than-cats-study-1850958313

TwShiloh, to USpolitics
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All these guys dream of sitting in a room, drawing up proscription lists...always forgetting history shows they’re just as likely to end up on the lists themselves. #ancientrome #uspolitics #authoritarianism

From: @rberger
https://hachyderm.io/@rberger/111161668947596238

DreadShips, to random
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Quarter-scale test model of Vladimir Israilevich Levkov's proposed 120kph "hovering amphibious tank". The inevitable cancellation can be attributed to the usual factors: insufficient political support, a lack of funding, and the cruel and unexpected whims of [checks notes] basic physics.

Looking like a Dalek's commode can't have helped.

#FailureFriday

TwShiloh,
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@nyrath such a good game!

bedirthan, to DnD
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I'm having a lot of fun creating a Philosopher background for 5e #DnD and Level Up.

I have yet to figure out a cool feature

TwShiloh,
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@bedirthan

Sophistry - ability to take any side of an argument and convince listeners to adopt the philosopher’s position

bedirthan, to DnD
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Is there a correlation between #DnD fans that don't get to play regularly and those that want extensive multi-generational multi-book meta plots?

TwShiloh,
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@bedirthan I suspect there is!

rikefranke, to random
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I am on three social media platforms but it’s only here that people keep complaining about paywall articles (btw, I always post gift articles, but they can only be opened so many times). Why does Mastodon feel journalists don’t need to get paid?

TwShiloh,
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@rikefranke In many cases there are ways around paywalls if people really want to read the article (I find saving to Pocket works in some cases) so I wouldn’t worry too much about it. Keep doing what you do! 😁

TwShiloh, to random
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“Why does the CDC downplay or even ignore the glaring gender gap in suicide risk... it’s hard to avoid the conclusion that highlighting any gender gaps that disfavor boys or men is what Ezra Klein called, in his podcast with me, a “narrative violation”. It goes against the grain of certain assumptions about the shape and direction of inequality.”

https://open.substack.com/pub/ofboysandmen/p/by-far-the-biggest-risk-factor-for?r=yzru&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=email

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