#late uc

[irradiate-space]

There's been a lot of work kind of filling in the details around the OYW, but they're all character stories. They set classic story arcs in a Gundam setting, but they can't change the fate of the war. They can't really introduce new mechanics or factions. They can only be about the One Year War, in the same way that paintings of Japan can only be about Fuji-sama.

Now Late UC, on the other hand, that's a setting with possibilities. You've got the Earth Sphere, but also Jupiter and Mars both off doing their own things. By the time of F90 FF, there's at least 6 factions of post-Zeon movements floating around the Earth Sphere, plus two factions of Mars Zeon, plus the Crossbone Vanguard shifting into the Jupiter Empire, and most of these Spheres have very little in the way of communications or trade with each other, so conflicts can be their own thing even as they slot into the setting.

Of course, all that comes home to roost by the time of Victory, but even Victory leaves a lot of room to work with, namely: Why on Earth does the Federation leaving the fight against Zanscare to the League Militaire? What is the Federation up to? What's going on at Venus, Mars, Jupiter, the Belt, and so on?

I don't think the One Year War is oversaturated. I would love more One Year War content tbh.

[sparksinthenight]

Do you shop at Hannaford? Sign this pledge to stand with migrant diary farm workers as they fight for Milk With Dignity and their labour and human rights!

[phantomdimension]

I wake up with a migraine, I check Neopets, and Neopets tells me that my daughter is a Tyrannian Lupe. And then I just go back to bed.

[stellasteris]

"Welcome home, sweetheart! You haven't called in a while."

[karkatcostanza]

karkat but make him a neopet

[lacett]

happy 45th anniversary, gundam!

[leasdoodles]

I imagine Omen doing this pose every time he asks that question

[uc-beepboop]

The lesbians (Robyn and Lyndell) talk through their roles and how they make each other whole.

[wazzuppy]

question: what does rizz mean?

[caffeinatedopossum]

Losing weight unintentionally now 🙃

It's fine this is fine all good and certainly not very triggering

[uc-fan-polls]

Hopkins Williamhead - a loud Gnomish man with big shoes and baggy clothes, he greets Beryl in Glaceria and invites her to his apartment, comes from a long line of Williamheads (Seen in Episode 8)

Ki Lon - former pirate king (Seen in Episode 1)

Maximum Davies - child of Theodrink and Nonaline (Mentioned in Episode 0)

Sharon - goth woman going through Tiffany's library (Seen in Episode 1)

Thorgash - Half Orc teen or early twenties guy befriending Marigold (Seen in Episode 1)

Piper Boomstick* - lead engineer on the Ascendant Engine; Human with red twin braids wearing plain work clothes (Seen in Episode 1)

Scenda - the consciousness inside the Ascendant Engine

[imadeanewventblogagain]

Yeah they drew my sona hhhhh

[little-eye-guy]

i was sooo normal today. you’d be hard-pressed to find anyone more normal than me

[melvinthedepressedrobot]

You have a disabled pass? I didn't know that. Are you ok talking about your disability and what it is?

ADHD and Autism (tho I got it pre-'tism diagnosis, but you can get one for just that too)

[feminist-space]

"Balaji’s death comes three months after he publicly accused OpenAI of violating U.S. copyright law while developing ChatGPT, a generative artificial intelligence program that has become a moneymaking sensation used by hundreds of millions of people across the world.

Its public release in late 2022 spurred a torrent of lawsuits against OpenAI from authors, computer programmers and journalists, who say the company illegally stole their copyrighted material to train its program and elevate its value past $150 billion.

The Mercury News and seven sister news outlets are among several newspapers, including the New York Times, to sue OpenAI in the past year.

In an interview with the New York Times published Oct. 23, Balaji argued OpenAI was harming businesses and entrepreneurs whose data were used to train ChatGPT.

“If you believe what I believe, you have to just leave the company,” he told the outlet, adding that “this is not a sustainable model for the internet ecosystem as a whole.”

Balaji grew up in Cupertino before attending UC Berkeley to study computer science. It was then he became a believer in the potential benefits that artificial intelligence could offer society, including its ability to cure diseases and stop aging, the Times reported. “I thought we could invent some kind of scientist that could help solve them,” he told the newspaper.

But his outlook began to sour in 2022, two years after joining OpenAI as a researcher. He grew particularly concerned about his assignment of gathering data from the internet for the company’s GPT-4 program, which analyzed text from nearly the entire internet to train its artificial intelligence program, the news outlet reported.

The practice, he told the Times, ran afoul of the country’s “fair use” laws governing how people can use previously published work. In late October, he posted an analysis on his personal website arguing that point.

No known factors “seem to weigh in favor of ChatGPT being a fair use of its training data,” Balaji wrote. “That being said, none of the arguments here are fundamentally specific to ChatGPT either, and similar arguments could be made for many generative AI products in a wide variety of domains.”

Reached by this news agency, Balaji’s mother requested privacy while grieving the death of her son.

In a Nov. 18 letter filed in federal court, attorneys for The New York Times named Balaji as someone who had “unique and relevant documents” that would support their case against OpenAI. He was among at least 12 people — many of them past or present OpenAI employees — the newspaper had named in court filings as having material helpful to their case, ahead of depositions."

[chungledown-bimothy]

I cannot overstate how much I love Tom Lehrer's story. It sounds so fake but is entirely real.

He's a goddamn genius- he started studying mathematics at Harvard when he was 15 and graduated magna cum laude. He worked at Los Alamos for a few years before being drafted and working for the NSA, where he claims to have invented jello shots to get around alcohol bans.

He then went back to Harvard for a couple years before starting to teach political science at MIT.

Through all of that, he was writing and performing both some of the funniest shit you'll ever hear (Poisoning Pigeons in the Park, Masochism Tango) and absolutely scathing political satire (Who's Next, Wernher von Braun, Send the Marines). Until the mid/late 60s counterculture gained momentum. He didn't like their aesthetic, so he stopped making music.

Shortly after, he moved to California and started teaching math and musical theater history at UC Santa Cruz for the next 30 years.

I don't know if non-Californians understand just how goddamn funny that is. It's where stoners and math (and now computer science) kids who couldn't get into Berkeley go. Leaving Harvard/MIT for UCSC is peak academic phoning it in. And by all accounts he had a blast.

Plus the whole putting all of his music in the public domain thing. That fucked.