Posts by mrundkvist@archaeo.social
(DIR) Post #B1hbQNGAhiDtWndaDo by mrundkvist@archaeo.social
2025-12-28T06:02:16Z
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The Swedish government has increasingly come to misuse the instrument known as Sw. statlig utredning, the government fact finding committee. Those are intended to make recommendations for what to do about a problem. Instead governments are giving them instructions along the lines of "We intend to do XYZ, now find arguments in support of doing XYZ".Here are five recent cases where the committee nevertheless came back and said "Trust us. Just don't do XYZ".https://etidning.etc.se/p/dagens-etc/2025-12-28/a/ibland-gar-det-inte-som-vantat-fem-ganger-utredare-har-sagat-regeringen/4987/2072664/68583676#svpol
(DIR) Post #B1nlIxR6Txyttsc2We by mrundkvist@archaeo.social
2025-12-31T08:15:56Z
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@Karolina Det är som om vi enbart hade haft enfärgade, omålade plastsmurfar när vi var små!
(DIR) Post #B1sTpU5RnR5H2xdv8q by mrundkvist@archaeo.social
2026-01-02T14:36:03Z
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@Allinrep @Karolina Jag har länge varit förtvivlad och uppgiven över att schersmin och jasmin är olika arter och inte ens nära släkt. Men det tröstar mig lite att rölleka och röllika bara är olika stavningar för samma sak.
(DIR) Post #B1sTpbXi4kqoAdv5fM by mrundkvist@archaeo.social
2026-01-02T14:38:32Z
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@Allinrep @Karolina Ju mera jag tänker på schersmin och jasmin desto mera hånad och kränkt känner jag mig.
(DIR) Post #B1uvh5irgTkaCMmoFs by mrundkvist@archaeo.social
2026-01-03T18:59:10Z
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Hey you guys who think about the Roman Empire a lot. When is it that the Imperial bodyguard usually murders the Emperor?
(DIR) Post #B22To1OnapKwPuucU4 by mrundkvist@archaeo.social
2026-01-07T08:14:27Z
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Lovely animal art design with two antithetical beasts. Early 8th century? #art
(DIR) Post #B26VidfvLZxfvpK62y by mrundkvist@archaeo.social
2026-01-09T09:09:58Z
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My dad had a tricky job of raising his bookish nerdy son who shared his outgoing personality yet so few of his interests. But we both like a good fish dinner. So after my test lecture Wednesday I texted him "Am having some nice rosefish at a place in Bergen harbour. You should be here!" And I got a fond reply. ❤️
(DIR) Post #B2GnyTWcarxBqCGwL2 by mrundkvist@archaeo.social
2026-01-14T07:30:01Z
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Anybody else discovered customer service LLMs that reply to email prompts about *anything*? Not just the company's business? I found one that happily writes metal lyrics and converses in French.#llm #ai
(DIR) Post #B2Go23JA0h5vgjgKB6 by mrundkvist@archaeo.social
2026-01-12T13:11:12Z
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Someone I worked for seven years ago and have barely talked to since agrees immediately to be my reference as a matter of course, asks what kind of job it's about, wants to make sure she praises the right qualities. ❤️ #unemployment
(DIR) Post #B2RpfdFKHoP2s5R0gS by mrundkvist@archaeo.social
2026-01-19T14:59:56Z
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This axe maker realised that they hadn't centered the shaft hole well. So they gave up drilling less than halfway through.#archaeology
(DIR) Post #B2XzQr1gw1YxkvPPO4 by mrundkvist@archaeo.social
2026-01-22T09:06:00Z
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Imagine telling someone in 1950 that train travel across Europe will one day be the expensive alternative chosen by well-off people with environmentalist opinions, while unskilled workers will only be able to afford air tickets, and arrive in a fraction of the time.#trains #climate
(DIR) Post #B2XzQz1zAoYGa9bkxM by mrundkvist@archaeo.social
2026-01-22T14:08:38Z
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Some commenters seem not to have picked up on my main observation here: that people with some money are avoiding a far cheaper, more modern and more convenient service for environmental reasons.One guy was like "It's just like how rich people in 1900 would be surprised to learn that rich people in 1950 would like suntans!" Hello? Where's the analogy here, exactly?#trains #climate
(DIR) Post #B2ad5i0deKu2BwJ9ua by mrundkvist@archaeo.social
2026-01-23T19:36:45Z
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Even if we had no fossils of prehistoric humans, it would be obvious from the #DNA where our species originated. Almost all the genetic variability in Homo sapiens is between populations in Africa south of the desert. Because of ample time to diversify.This means that if there's a population that's genetically less intelligent, then it can't be "Africans". They're way, way too diverse. It's quite possible for "Europeans" though, who are basically a monoclone in comparison.#anthropology
(DIR) Post #B2ad5jOmU3oCV6bxBI by mrundkvist@archaeo.social
2026-01-23T19:44:04Z
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One way to think about it is this: it's impossible to say anything that's true about French wine in general, because there are too many different vintages. But it's possible to speak about Swedish wine in aggregate, because there's only like two of them. (I hear they should be avoided.)
(DIR) Post #B2jmgXkL8NOQP5Vaa0 by mrundkvist@archaeo.social
2026-01-27T08:14:36Z
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Often when I read complicated RPG rules I think to myself, "There is no way that this is actually playable at the gaming table. This is aspirational rules design. People will just forget to use most of this, because there's nothing that triggers an RPG rule beyond what people remember."#ttrpg
(DIR) Post #B2jmgZZQLvqk3oPtqK by mrundkvist@archaeo.social
2026-01-27T09:02:26Z
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@crabsoft Unworkable rules are often the result of simulationist over-ambition. But the combat system in Swords of the Serpentine manages to be both unworkable AND non-simulationist.It's a 2008 rules-lite system that by 2022 had mutated into a hideous bush of exceptions and odd links to the game's skill system, all because the designer wanted to insert hard-coded narrative opportunities into combat. Also unintended exploits...#ttrpg
(DIR) Post #B2jmgbEw94eNEqqZBg by mrundkvist@archaeo.social
2026-01-27T09:21:14Z
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@crabsoft Or it's a yearning to do another kind of work than functional RPG design. Akin to coding a physics engine for video games.
(DIR) Post #B2jmgeweN0OojIK1Eu by mrundkvist@archaeo.social
2026-01-27T08:17:40Z
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A computer can't avoid executing programme code. But an RPG group has endless opportunity to either forget or wilfully ignore code that's too complicated or doesn't work well.
(DIR) Post #B2m29DjKWKG6Lo5XVY by mrundkvist@archaeo.social
2026-01-29T09:36:39Z
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@metin I wonder how this writer classifies animals into those that exist for a reason and those that don't.
(DIR) Post #B2m29FVvt6jLsppru4 by mrundkvist@archaeo.social
2026-01-29T09:47:41Z
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@metin In Sweden you occasionally hear people say that the sheep tick Ixodes ricinus serves no purpose in nature. Apparently they believe that nothing eats it, which is probably not true. But anyway, I always reply, if you have a tick-centric perspective on nature, then no animal is more important than the sheep tick.#environment