Google AI Studio has a massive token window. I’ve tested it out using a setup where I feed a templated prompt into Gemini 2.5 pro along with a PDF of any particular campaign (courtesy of Anna’s Archive), and the campaign actually plays out really well.

Here’s the prompt and a readme I put into google drive Just be sure to change the {character name/race/class} for your character in the prompt before you submit it.

Since it’s a large model, a 50 response session might have an equivalent energy cost of running a microwave for 7 minutes (or more – and of course that doesn’t count the energy used in the training of the model as well), so make of that what you will.

I know we have some King Gizzard and the Lizard Fans on Hexbear…

I’ve been working on an extended remix of their most recent album, Phantom Island. The original album has been met with mixed reviews, and one of the major issues with it was that it was artistically pulled between two dissonant directions: a broody orchestral rock album, and a fun and flippant country rock thang.

I wanted to put something together that was more focused and which took seriously the interesting orchestral rock angle, so I spent some time editing and rearranging the existing tracks and throwing in some original orchestral arrangements as interludes/segues. The final product has about 10 minutes of original stuff.

If anyone would like to give it a listen, here’s a youtube link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eOJOFxk1cog

what makes you think this is ai?

It’s on scihub: https://sci-hub.se/https://doi.org/10.2307/2539272

https://xcancel.com/TechnicallyRon/status/1813502080557932942

Excellent recommendations! Thank you!

The Class Struggle in the Ancient Greek World,

This looks excellent – thank you!

Thank you for your response!

What I meant was that their analysis felt like it complicated traditionally marxist positions, eschewing the deterministic trajectory of history (not a bad thing) and being concerned more with the characteristics of individual freedom within early societies rather than more causal ‘class-like’ elements that constrain or enable that freedom. While their problematization of centralized hierarchical states does seem to echo the more utopian visions of a post-socialist, communist society, in our given time and in the context of problems of a global scale, it seems appropriate to be skeptical when these past observations start to turn into present prescriptions for adopting ‘flexible and creative’ forms of organization that have, in the last century, been ineffective at challenging power or ushering in meaningful and lasting alternatives. If you do have a chance to read it, though, I would recommend it.

Michael Hudson

I thought he only wrote about contemporary economics; I’m now looking into his book on debt forgiveness in the bronze age, which looks a bit ‘over-specific’ but nonetheless quite relevant to the era I’m asking about – thank you for the recommendation!

Couldn’t have said it better myself!

With the recent surge of hype around AI Music and sites like Suno and Udio, I thought I would make a post discussing AI music, some tips, and critiques to be had. It also showcases some genre-mixed music that sounds alright.

Not really sure if this will have major implications for mainstream pop music… everything already feels derivative and focus grouped to shit lol

Also, the Suno wiki is a decent source for prompt guidance.

soundcloud link

They were Chinese! This is a six hundred page report that outlines that we just don’t know the level of nefariousness the Chinese are capable of. Also, no, we don’t have any evidence of actual violations or transgressions. They didn’t cause or create an actual threat to our national, but they could’ve!

Absolutely ridiculous paranoiac stuff that will only fuel surging sinophobia in the Canadian public.

Jacques Pauwels has a good book detailing both how the Allies’ second front was indeed an attempt at capitalizing off of an inevitable Soviet victory (and mitigating Soviet influence in Western Europe in the aftermath), and also how little resistance the Allies faced on the Western Front because German soldiers were terrified of the Soviets and fled west to surrender/be protected by to the allies.

The pandemic is class warfare

strawman?

Another good one is this counterpunch piece which describes the Soviet rationale around the build up towards the Nazi invasion of the USSR, the millions of Polish lives saved from occupying eastern Poland, and also the wholly justified Winter War up in Finland.

It’s funny how weak the propaganda coming out of the west is and has been for the last fifty years. Oh, leader x’s actions don’t seem rational? That’s because they’re insane, not because we’re lying to you as if you were children.