Monthly Archives - June 2024

How Elon Made the Bot Problem Worse

Hats off to this guy. Gothic Therapy has done some truly world-class citizen journalism here. After Elon made his tender off for Twitter, he tried to back out of it, (not in any serious way, it was a negotiating tactic), stating that the value was false due to the number of bots. X.Com has always had a problem with bots since it costs nothing to set up an account. If you were a corporation and someone who was trying to...

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The Dark Herald Recommends: Dead Boy Detectives

Watching this I began wondering something. How much of her career does J.K. Rowling owe Neil Gaiman?  The most obvious is Tim Hunter.   Back in 1989, Neil Gaiman was tasked by DC Comics to create a series that tied all of their magic characters together into a story.  For a protagonist, he modified Wart from The Once and Future King and put him in a modern setting but his destiny instead of being Arthur was to be Merlin, the greatest wizard...

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