Al "Lethosos" Silverscale
@lethosos.bsky.social
Kobold by day, golem by night
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History repeats and rhymes
September 21, 2025 at 1:50 PM
History repeats and rhymes
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Coming soon: Cyberrats in Space
Rats. Mechs. Revenge.
www.kickstarter.com
September 23, 2025 at 4:39 PM
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Ted Chiang:
"The task that generative A.I. has been most successful at is lowering our expectations, both of the things we read and of ourselves when we write [...]. It is a fundamentally dehumanizing technology because it treats us as less than what we are: creators and apprehenders of meaning."
"The task that generative A.I. has been most successful at is lowering our expectations, both of the things we read and of ourselves when we write [...]. It is a fundamentally dehumanizing technology because it treats us as less than what we are: creators and apprehenders of meaning."
December 17, 2024 at 11:50 AM
Ted Chiang:
"The task that generative A.I. has been most successful at is lowering our expectations, both of the things we read and of ourselves when we write [...]. It is a fundamentally dehumanizing technology because it treats us as less than what we are: creators and apprehenders of meaning."
"The task that generative A.I. has been most successful at is lowering our expectations, both of the things we read and of ourselves when we write [...]. It is a fundamentally dehumanizing technology because it treats us as less than what we are: creators and apprehenders of meaning."
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YO! There are playable test rules of the third and final Cyberrats book! Check it out here!
then, critically, follow the kickstarter
www.kickstarter.com/projects/201...
we need all the help we can get
www.kickstarter.com/projects/201...
we need all the help we can get
Coming soon: Cyberrats in Space
Rats. Mechs. Revenge.
www.kickstarter.com
August 28, 2025 at 8:03 PM
YO! There are playable test rules of the third and final Cyberrats book! Check it out here!
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The other thing is that it is impossible to sanitize your own official language to satisfy right wingers, because their goal is to be upset by language. So they will just dig up an old Tumblr or fabricate something to get upset about
Again, the "democrats use too many woke words" thing is completely made up. It's gamergate bullshit that broke containment ten years ago
August 24, 2025 at 1:55 PM
The other thing is that it is impossible to sanitize your own official language to satisfy right wingers, because their goal is to be upset by language. So they will just dig up an old Tumblr or fabricate something to get upset about
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@neomonsterisland.com You come across this one yet? 🤭
August 23, 2025 at 5:08 AM
@neomonsterisland.com You come across this one yet? 🤭
...not wrong.
I also have an interest in geology, so I know there's a LOT of minerals that shouldn't be licked.
Again, not wrong.
I also have an interest in geology, so I know there's a LOT of minerals that shouldn't be licked.
Again, not wrong.
easy litmus test I use for potential kobolds, if you see this rock and your first impulse is to put it in your mouth there's a strong likelihood you're a kobold
August 5, 2025 at 2:45 PM
...not wrong.
I also have an interest in geology, so I know there's a LOT of minerals that shouldn't be licked.
Again, not wrong.
I also have an interest in geology, so I know there's a LOT of minerals that shouldn't be licked.
Again, not wrong.
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I don’t know who needs to hear this, but news / social media—especially when constant, chaotic, and unfiltered—can hit our brains like a DDoS attack: overload attention, flood emotions, and make it hard to think clearly.
It’s okay to step back and curate what you let in. Your mental uptime matters.
It’s okay to step back and curate what you let in. Your mental uptime matters.
June 24, 2025 at 3:50 PM
I don’t know who needs to hear this, but news / social media—especially when constant, chaotic, and unfiltered—can hit our brains like a DDoS attack: overload attention, flood emotions, and make it hard to think clearly.
It’s okay to step back and curate what you let in. Your mental uptime matters.
It’s okay to step back and curate what you let in. Your mental uptime matters.
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'All the mistakes you make are investments in the skill you are mastering' is wild motivational, actually...
June 23, 2025 at 2:34 PM
'All the mistakes you make are investments in the skill you are mastering' is wild motivational, actually...
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Twisted Kaiju Theater #466: Godzilla Got DOGE'd IX
1/3
I hope you got to take time for yourself today. Everything is NOT normal, and that's okay. If you are disturbed by the world burning down around us, you're still human. And I'm here for all of you.
#Godzilla #TwistedKaijuTheater #Kaiju
1/3
I hope you got to take time for yourself today. Everything is NOT normal, and that's okay. If you are disturbed by the world burning down around us, you're still human. And I'm here for all of you.
#Godzilla #TwistedKaijuTheater #Kaiju
May 26, 2025 at 10:03 PM
Twisted Kaiju Theater #466: Godzilla Got DOGE'd IX
1/3
I hope you got to take time for yourself today. Everything is NOT normal, and that's okay. If you are disturbed by the world burning down around us, you're still human. And I'm here for all of you.
#Godzilla #TwistedKaijuTheater #Kaiju
1/3
I hope you got to take time for yourself today. Everything is NOT normal, and that's okay. If you are disturbed by the world burning down around us, you're still human. And I'm here for all of you.
#Godzilla #TwistedKaijuTheater #Kaiju
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CIS is the culmination of almost 5 years of design on Cyberrats. It's the stuff from the first game clarified and refined. It's the best of the BB expansion, extended into razor sharp points just sharp enough to draw blood.
It's a perfect blend of tactics and strong narrative beats, served whole.
It's a perfect blend of tactics and strong narrative beats, served whole.
May 26, 2025 at 10:37 PM
CIS is the culmination of almost 5 years of design on Cyberrats. It's the stuff from the first game clarified and refined. It's the best of the BB expansion, extended into razor sharp points just sharp enough to draw blood.
It's a perfect blend of tactics and strong narrative beats, served whole.
It's a perfect blend of tactics and strong narrative beats, served whole.
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OK but nobody really needs ChatGPT. Just ask me anything and bunneh will happily generate confident sounding nonsense... at a fraction of the resource consumption!
Hell, half the time, I don't even remember to drink water.
Hell, half the time, I don't even remember to drink water.
May 23, 2025 at 9:36 PM
OK but nobody really needs ChatGPT. Just ask me anything and bunneh will happily generate confident sounding nonsense... at a fraction of the resource consumption!
Hell, half the time, I don't even remember to drink water.
Hell, half the time, I don't even remember to drink water.
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Thanks for the reminder, Gazlowe
(Audio is from a clip by Northernlion)
(Audio is from a clip by Northernlion)
May 18, 2025 at 9:28 PM
Thanks for the reminder, Gazlowe
(Audio is from a clip by Northernlion)
(Audio is from a clip by Northernlion)
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If you can't buy from your local artist or support their Patreon or Ko-Fi, share their work or give them an encouraging reply!
May 14, 2025 at 9:49 PM
If you can't buy from your local artist or support their Patreon or Ko-Fi, share their work or give them an encouraging reply!
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It's kind of weird that I'm more eligible to be the next Pope than Trump is.
April 30, 2025 at 11:48 AM
It's kind of weird that I'm more eligible to be the next Pope than Trump is.
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Say it with me:
Fuck AI, Fuck AI Users, Fuck Off.
Fuck AI, Fuck AI Users, Fuck Off.
In case you need to send this to some dingus the next time they bring up how using AI is fine + good, actually.
May 6, 2025 at 4:33 PM
Say it with me:
Fuck AI, Fuck AI Users, Fuck Off.
Fuck AI, Fuck AI Users, Fuck Off.
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This page is not safe for anyone and does not care for your outdated notions of what an artist CAN and CAN'T do.
Artwork/Webcomic Website: www.neomonsterisland.com
Ko-Fi: ko-fi.com/neomonsterisland
Storenvy: neomonsterisland.storenvy.com
OR share my posts.
Artwork/Webcomic Website: www.neomonsterisland.com
Ko-Fi: ko-fi.com/neomonsterisland
Storenvy: neomonsterisland.storenvy.com
OR share my posts.
April 14, 2025 at 5:48 PM
This page is not safe for anyone and does not care for your outdated notions of what an artist CAN and CAN'T do.
Artwork/Webcomic Website: www.neomonsterisland.com
Ko-Fi: ko-fi.com/neomonsterisland
Storenvy: neomonsterisland.storenvy.com
OR share my posts.
Artwork/Webcomic Website: www.neomonsterisland.com
Ko-Fi: ko-fi.com/neomonsterisland
Storenvy: neomonsterisland.storenvy.com
OR share my posts.
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Kicking around thoughts for the cyberrats comic I got permission to make, and there's something that really grabs me about the idea that the average rat-mutant of the corpo future is just personally deeply unpleasant to interact with.
May 5, 2025 at 4:35 PM
Kicking around thoughts for the cyberrats comic I got permission to make, and there's something that really grabs me about the idea that the average rat-mutant of the corpo future is just personally deeply unpleasant to interact with.
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"The fight is not about winning. Instead, it's about resisting the AI industry further decaying the Internet with tech that no one asked for..."
This is good old-fashioned monkey-wrenching as practiced by the Earth Liberation Front, but Online.
This is good old-fashioned monkey-wrenching as practiced by the Earth Liberation Front, but Online.
Basically traps AI crawlers and sends them down an "infinite maze" of static files with no exit links, where they get stuck and thrash around for months. Once trapped, the crawlers can be fed gibberish data, aka Markov babble, which is designed to poison AI models arstechnica.com/tech-policy/...
AI haters build tarpits to trap and trick AI scrapers that ignore robots.txt
Attackers explain how an anti-spam defense became an AI weapon.
arstechnica.com
February 5, 2025 at 10:10 PM
"The fight is not about winning. Instead, it's about resisting the AI industry further decaying the Internet with tech that no one asked for..."
This is good old-fashioned monkey-wrenching as practiced by the Earth Liberation Front, but Online.
This is good old-fashioned monkey-wrenching as practiced by the Earth Liberation Front, but Online.
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Older cartoonists prolly heard of R Cobb, but I’m sure some youngin’s haven’t.
These were all made in the 60s, and yet, are sadly still relevant.
These were all made in the 60s, and yet, are sadly still relevant.
February 6, 2025 at 2:00 PM
Older cartoonists prolly heard of R Cobb, but I’m sure some youngin’s haven’t.
These were all made in the 60s, and yet, are sadly still relevant.
These were all made in the 60s, and yet, are sadly still relevant.