A stream of links that I share without comment. They may be things I intend to read later, things I've read, things I find interesting, etc. My blog with actual writing is at: https://stuff.interfree.ca and you can find me on the fediverse @fastfinge@interfree.ca.
ChatGPT will apologize for anything - even advice it definitely didn't give, and stuff it definitely didn't do. It very much regrets its recommendation that we hire a giraffe as CEO.
Timothy Lamont Cranston, a Bank of America employee, is at Universal Studios Resorts and Parks in Florida. A Potterhead, he buys & drinks one of the Felix Felicis good-luck vials. Passing through Knockturn Alley in Harry Potter World, he trips and falls — and finds himself somewhere that looks much more real than the Harry Potter Resort Park — then he sees Hagrid with Harry Potter!
On Call: Righteous mockery entranced execs in ways slideware could not
As they approach graduation, most high schoolers are busy learning, training and planning their futures. But disabled students have fewer opportunities. Experts want more programs made available to help them transition into adulthood.
They’re available in the latest beta.
Adaptation Ventures wants to fill the persistent funding gap for early-stage startups building accessibility tech.
Kaspersky found 7 percent of data compromised between 2019 and 2024 contained information linked to work email addresses.
Leonard Weiss has done his job as a Hero. He should be able to live in peace now that the Incursion has been defeated. Unfortunately, Haylich’s nobles have other plans. Leonard’s life is once again ripped away, but he won’t let the culprits go unpunished this time.
He's suffered the foul presence of slavery and tyranny for too long. It's time to change (...)
Book 1 was stubbed on 3/28/2025 for the upcoming Amazon and Audible release on 4/30/2025.
New chapters are posted at least weekly.
When the President said to immerse ourselves in the project, this was NOT what I had in mind!
I really should’ve taken the publisher’s employment contract more seriously…
Rachel and her best friend Nora never imagined (...)
Harems have become too powerful. Reincarnators fall prey to temptation and poor relationship development, and no woman is truly safe from a life of emptily yearning for one man.
Thus, the Goddess of Reincarnation chooses a new champion, a man whom she hopes will oppose the blight of haremism, emancipate the men of Gaia from their self-deprecating stupor, (...)
Most dogs don't get a System.
But most dogs aren't the Loafblade.The Kingdom of Arwyll teeters on the brink of collapse.
A great evil has awoken. Served by legions of deformed monsters, it is intent on nothing more than the corruption and devastation of all sentient life. It is The Darkseed. The Endbringer. And it will not stop.
There's only one hero (...)
She was the world’s greatest assassin. A silent threat, an unknown knife, the cause of a hundred mysterious deaths, all to feed her cats and pay her rent.
And then she died.
The last thing she expected was to be reborn... as a harmless kitten in the hands of a very strange girl. Now tasked with mentoring the girl in the arts of assassination, Caroline (...)
One goddess. One vote to decide the ruler of the gods. One temple, burned to the ground.... that only Elysia, a washed-up cook, can investigate? Wait a minute! Something's gone wrong! You've got the wrong woman!
Welcome to Paladins of the Pickle Goddess, a mythos-based, tongue-in-cheek adventure. The heroine would rather be making oatcakes, her sidekick (...)
During the endless camping trip in book 7, Ron asks Hermione to tell the story of that "disease sounding" fairy tale to pass the time. This becomes something of a habit, and Hermione tells the boys a series of traditional Muggle fairy tales.
With the new Samsung announcement, it is now confirmed that the Galaxy S25 will be the first Samsung device to receive Gemini image descriptions in its
We don’t live in a purely deterministic world of technology anymore.
Dissecting various compression algorithms.
A new accessibility program based on an app for deaf and hard of hearing users is being tested on the...
Now AU sixth year.Hermione's quest for a quiet place to read leads to the discovery of a remarkable portrait. CHAPTER 18:The Order of Merlin. The living are celebrated, the dead remembered, and it is a new day for the wizarding world. Multifaceted Nominee