Peter Drake, he/him, LFHCfS 🔥 @peterdrake@social.cleverlibre.org

Been seeing a lot about #ChatGPT lately and got my first question at the library this week from someone who was looking for a book that the bot had recommended. They couldn't find it in our catalog. Turns out that ALL the books that ChatGPT had recommended for their topic were non-existent. Just real authors and fake titles cobbled together. And apparently this is known behavior. 😮

Study shows that touch screen buttons are less safe than physical buttons (no surprise to anyone in #UXDesign)

"The 2005 #Volvo far outperformed the modern, infotainment screen equipped cars, with a driver completing all four tasks in just ten seconds and 1,000 feet traveled."

https://futurism.com/the-byte/study-finds-that-buttons-in-cars-are-safer-and-quicker-to-use-than-touchscreens

#Violet has a solution for a cold nose.

#DogsOfMastodon

Brandolini's Law is terribly frustrating. 😖

We played Votes for Women for the first time tonight. @peterdrake needed only 3 more Xs going into the final vote and applied some Voter Suppression for an easy victory.

I think I sent the amendment to the states one or two cards too late and lost 6-8 easy, early wins in the Plains as a result. This is clearly going to be a game where timing is everything.

I very much prefer it to Twilight Struggle because it's a bit simpler and shorter.

#BoardGames

There should be #infrastructure trading cards.

No, seriously. Lots of kids LOVE #trains and #dams and stuff just as much as other kids love athletes or Japanese cartoons or whatever. The world is full of fabulous, pro-city, pro-#sustainability accomplishments that we should teach kids about. Who wouldn’t love to open a pack and find this Dutch thing (from @BrentToderian ) staring back at them?

Anyone I know in the #PDX area have a Girl Scout selling their cookies? DM me a link and I’ll buy some.

I'd get it. #ThisIsFine #Meme #LEGO #LEGOIdeas https://ideas.lego.com/projects/a6a24359-d8d3-4276-97a0-3c998deb1206

@peterdrake didn't trouce me as badly as we first thought in this morning's game of Above and Below (58 vs. 51). Especially if you consider my final villager count of 4 vs. his crowd of 9.

I was very pleased by the narrative and aesthetic coherence of my final village. The replenishing fish source below fed our fish stew restaurant above with a late mushroom discovery for added flavor.

I love how the ground flows seamlessly across the cards when you line them up.

#BoardGames #BoardGamesAtoZ

Kudos to everyone who has created so many different space games over the past decade or so.

(this gif is obviously not representative)