Wednesday, October 07
Daily News Stuff 7 October 2026
- Girl With The Gat Edition
Top Story
- French AI company Mistral has unveiled - not released as yet, but announced - its latest open-weight AI model, Mistral Large 4. (CNBC)
At 1 trillion parameters it is aptly named.
- Codename: Le Chonk. (Mistral)
I'm not even kidding.
Tech News
- Cable lobby groups have announced plans to sue the FCC for (checks notes) not staying bought. (Ars Technica)
Are they supposed to say that part?
- The Canadian Medical Association has published research claiming that permanent daylight saving time will cause earthquakes, tidal waves, irrevocable damage to the ozone layer, and orf. (Sci News)
But not nearly as much as they plan to do.
- Number one: The larch. (Signore Galilei)
Oops. Gave that one away.
- Anthropic's Claude plans are the best value if you use AI a lot - like for example you're developing an entire suite of fantasy emulators - but not so much that you need more than a single plan offers. (The Register)
Volume-based usage via their API costs up to 25 times as much, so don't do that.
Musical Interlude
Disclaimer: That time I got reincarnated as a goblin with the weakest class and cheat skills and my fiance wants to murder me, so what?
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So in some versions of fantasy roleplaying rulesets, Druids get a spell that revives a deceased character as another race.
Related, in the real world mythology, a Japanese Oni is maybe pretty similar to a European ogre archetype.
There's a Korean critter that at times gets translated goblin. However, in translating lore to fantasy roleplaying mechanics, one could argue for being closer to an ogre, or an ogre mage.
So I am kinda segueing to some sort of awakened novel bullshit plotline, perhaps involving Chaebols and an obscenely greedy nepo baby. but, mostly I have not had enough good quality sleep, and am really bad at creative writing.
Related, in the real world mythology, a Japanese Oni is maybe pretty similar to a European ogre archetype.
There's a Korean critter that at times gets translated goblin. However, in translating lore to fantasy roleplaying mechanics, one could argue for being closer to an ogre, or an ogre mage.
So I am kinda segueing to some sort of awakened novel bullshit plotline, perhaps involving Chaebols and an obscenely greedy nepo baby. but, mostly I have not had enough good quality sleep, and am really bad at creative writing.
Posted by: PatBuckman at Thursday, October 08 2026 12:31 AM (6eVrQ)
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The larch? Well, I was close - I guessed it was the fat between the ears of our Left Wing overlords.
Posted by: Joe Redfield at Thursday, October 08 2026 02:59 AM (KOtXO)
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Based on the niggling, specious, and self-congratulatory specification of the last 60 or 80 years, I'd be more interested in which Genus, or maybe even Family.
Posted by: normal at Thursday, October 08 2026 05:39 AM (LDKo5)
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