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The Truth Is…

The truth is, that my life is really broken, and has been for quite some time. And the truth is, I have been avoiding dealing with the painful reality that is my broken life, again for quite some time. And the truth is, the ways I have been avoiding that pain aren’t working any more. And, in fact, they might be holding me back. So it’s time to change them. And change is scary, and

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Sandsoft folds three more games into its hybrid-casual mobile roster

Mobile gaming publisher Sandsoft Games announced today that it is adding three new games to its portfolio of hybrid-casual games: Wizario, Potions & Spells and Iza’s Supermarket. These three are the first wave of Sandsoft’s global publishing efforts, with several more titles in development and testing — the company plans to offer support for more third-party mobile developers in order to meet increasing demand. The three games are developed by Latvian Kolka Games, Canadian Rogue

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Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater 3 + 4 is real and adds new levels

After some teasing, Activision has revealed Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater 3 + 4. It will release on July 11 for PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X/S, Switch, PlayStation 4, Xbox One, and PC. It’ll be available for Game Pass Ultimate and Game Pass PC subscribers Preorders of the game give access to a demo in June featuring the iconic Foundry level from Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater 3 and the Wireframe Tony Shader at launch. Preorders for

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Contextual AI’s new AI model crushes GPT-4o in accuracy — here’s why it matters

Join our daily and weekly newsletters for the latest updates and exclusive content on industry-leading AI coverage. Learn More Contextual AI unveiled its grounded language model (GLM) today, claiming it delivers the highest factual accuracy in the industry by outperforming leading AI systems from Google, Anthropic and OpenAI on a key benchmark for truthfulness. The startup, founded by the pioneers of retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) technology, reported that its GLM achieved an 88% factuality score on

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A Thousand Vanities

Over the past couple of months, as a way to relax during a stressful time in my life, I have been slowly cleaning through and reorganizing the inventory of what has become my main Second Life avatar, Vanity Fair (I talk a bit about that here). After almost 18 years, Vanity has almost 900 saved outfits, ranging from old system-layers-and-flexiprim ballgowns dating back to 2008, to modern, fully mesh outfits that I bought just yesterday!

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