Dr Paris (he/him)
parisba@cloudisland.nz
<p>Narrative games/video game/tool developer at <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.gamedev.place/@thesecretlab" class="u-url mention">@<span>thesecretlab</span></a></span>, historian, photographer, & author. </p><p>Best known for <a href="https://cloudisland.nz/tags/FOSS" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>FOSS</span></a> <a href="https://cloudisland.nz/tags/narrative" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>narrative</span></a> <a href="https://cloudisland.nz/tags/gamedev" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>gamedev</span></a> tool <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://team.yarnspinner.dev/@yarnspinner" class="u-url mention">@<span>yarnspinner</span></a></span> (<a href="https://yarnspinner.dev" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopen
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Having to restrain myself from being a crazy fanboy after meeting Dominic Armato (voice of Guybrush Threepwood, mighty pirate) at #AdventureX! #Advx26
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Any guides on turning all this Apple Intelligence crap off?
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Everything is just slop
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What’s the best way to run a windows vm on Linux these days?
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Why the hell is macOS suggesting filenames with AI now? What fresh hell is this?
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There’s regularly been a guy at my gym lately, at 6AM, eating a supermarket roast chicken out of the bag.
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busted out an old bag
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ordered some RAM on eBay (at like 4-6x the price it should be). this is how it arrived. this is what AI has done to us.
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librarians are always the coolest https://techcrunch.com/2026/07/25/librarians-are-hosting-viral-avoiding-ai-workshops-for-people-who-are-fed-up-with-big-tech/
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Does this make Sylvester McCoy the canonical current Doctor? https://youtu.be/VsGwZlKuhUM?si=y7fWEbREaQS1_3E4
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ahem https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:ogwyns53xduhyolmf7xvbcnp/post/3mnwu4ijuus25
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RE: https://toot.io/@colourfool/116798504224672698 come along!!!
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My lovely wife has told me to stop watching. 😞
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Going to make a website that looks like a chatbot but just tells you you’re great and your ideas are amazing. I’m gonna be so rich.
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Too much bullshit going around.
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In Melbourne for the weekend, if anyone is around and would like a coffee or something, we are free-ish.
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Sorry, correction, “stop being a weirdo on a plane”. https://cloudisland.nz/@parisba/116818450089723415
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He just screenshotted his email client and asked it to analyse the emails.
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I fear society is doomed.
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On the plane and I can see the guy in front of me on his laptop. He is just talking to Claude like it’s some sort of lackey and he doesn’t know how to do anything. “Check my email”, “what could I do for a party”, “how do I gather data” (??) The delusion is very real.
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It is Winter. Thank you for being part of our Summer Sale. https://itch.io/s/193207/summer-sale-2026
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Mildly concerned that the last 3 OTPs I received from Virgin Australia were sequential. I'm sure that's fine.
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got a bit mad about the #AI data centres they're building in #tasmania https://hey.paris/posts/ai-data-centres-tasmania/ #politas
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CW: SA — Imagine an Australian Bank platforming an alleged rapist. https://www.commbank.com.au/articles/newsroom/2026/05/sam-altman-close-ai-gap.html
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on the @itchio and mastercard et al. shenanigans https://hey.paris/posts/werealladultshere/
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Looks like they got to it! https://web.archive.org/web/20260105115129/https://devblogs.microsoft.com/azure-sql/langchain-with-sqlvectorstore-example/
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Marcus compressed all human knowledge into one word. Now he just sits there saying it. Mrs Henderson brings casseroles. https://hey.paris/fiction/signal-to-noise/
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New gender just dropped
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Fedora 43 is pretty good
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Fedora 43 is pretty good