Lords:
* Hallie
* Peter
* https://www.paschaefer.com/
Topics:
* Do you know where all your things are?
* How education doesn't melt
* Bebop Bytes Back
* Augustus Gloop by Roald Dahl
* https://allpoetry.com/-Augustus-Gloop...-
Microtopics:
* The Directrix of Cybernetic Security.
* Unity licensing from Unity as Unity.
* Fantasy Book of the Month. (FBOM)
* Part zombie, part ghost.
* Accidentally GenMoing your WriMo.
* A house with a bunch of your things in it, and they're everywhere.
* Knowing someone who knows how to find things and knowing someone who knows where things are.
* Knowing where to put something because it's where you first thought to look for it.
* A person who itches when they see somebody not using a switch statement.
* Having been gradually removing yourself from social media since back when Twitter was Twitter.
* Back when you could get out of a chair without grunting.
* Getting the whooping cough and coughing your disc out. (And you're in your twenties.)
* Whether your dad named you after the murderous robot in 2001.
* Seeing your students cheating poorly and teaching them how to do it well.
* Scaffolding it pedagogically.
* Big boat: hard turn.
* How do we get education to exhibit swarm behavior?
* A brand new exciting way to be bummed.
* Education by Panopticon.
* LLMs exposing how much of people's jobs and education are bullshit busywork.
* When does the salt jump?
* Putting together the 50s and then putting together the tens and then putting together the fours.
* The simplest shallowest version of active listening that exists.
* Doritos hacking the learning loop.
* Continually finding new opiates of the masses.
* Typing hex opcodes into the Beboputer.
* An effective educational tool that has never been less appealing to the youth it's targeted at.
* Steve Jobs coming out of his grave and slitting your throat if you install a programming tool on your iPhone.
* Making the sun wink and realizing that this is the rest of your life.
* Deescalating your LLM partner when it has an anxiety attack.
* Your Socratic Oxford Don persona.
* The Life Cycle of Software Objects.
* There is a mistake, and it is being overcome.
* Steps you can take to avoid Godzilla coming back and nature reclaiming the earth.
* A poem written by a beloved children's author who absolutely loathes fat people.
* Whether the terrible children in Charlie and the Chocolate Factory are all based on people that Roald Dahl knew.
* SwitchBitch, Roald Dahl's famous Typescript library.
* Making sure your weirdness is a kindness.
* Roald Dahl: boy did he do the stuff.
* Penning The Twits in an effort to "do something against beards."
* Why Stephen King?
* The Dollar Babies.
* Whether Stephen King is still on MySpace.
* Walking down the road and hearing Stephen King yelling at cloud.
* The Dave Barry game jam.
* Going into the sewer and solving puzzle platformer problems.
* Group hug vs. forming a blob.
* Tube Hippo is back!
* The game engine sorting hat.
* Coming out of character to talk about Inform 7.
* The year that you fucked around with interactive fiction but never shipped anything.
* Presuming that interactive fiction has continued to be great even after you stopped playing.
* Choosing Twine over Inform 7 because of your absolutely enormous forelimbs.
* LLMs as an extremely fancy Tarot deck.
