Ciaránavirus
@sarklor.bsky.social
Depressed goblin nightmare boy.
Occasional freelance writer: Warhammer 40K: Wrath & Glory, Imperium Maledictum, Warhammer Fantasy RolePlay. I am also a 2019 Hugo Award Attendee. He/Him etc.
https://ko-fi.com/sarklor
https://www.sarklor.ie/
Occasional freelance writer: Warhammer 40K: Wrath & Glory, Imperium Maledictum, Warhammer Fantasy RolePlay. I am also a 2019 Hugo Award Attendee. He/Him etc.
https://ko-fi.com/sarklor
https://www.sarklor.ie/
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@sarklor.bsky.social
· May 6
At a time when some are turning in on themselves – Ireland will continue to engage and to look outwards.
I was delighted to speak to the Global Ireland Summit and to see so many leaders drawn from every section of our society gathered together to discuss our country’s place in the world.
I was delighted to speak to the Global Ireland Summit and to see so many leaders drawn from every section of our society gathered together to discuss our country’s place in the world.
This wretched coward should live his remaining days in fear over his refusal to stand up to the genocidal Israeli regime.
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Still thinking about this quote.
"Our standing rule is: If one of us brings up using GenAI in any of our work, then it's safe to assume we've been assimilated by The Thing and should be burned alive by Kurt Russell," said a game design consultant in the US.
Over 50% of game developers now think generative AI is bad for the industry, a dramatic increase from just 2 years ago: 'I'd rather quit the industry than use generative AI'
The latest GDC survey also found that managers are more likely to use generative AI than their employees.
www.pcgamer.com
February 16, 2026 at 1:37 AM
Still thinking about this quote.
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They really DON'T think the arts involve skill OR dedication.
I know that but it gobsmacks me whenever I see it demonstrated.
I know that but it gobsmacks me whenever I see it demonstrated.
Ah yes artists, famously undedicated to their work, never obsessive, who don’t understand {checks notes} creating things.
This shit right here is why people hate you AI assholes. Myopic and arrogant.
You’re not creating or iterating anything? You literally invented a soulless box to do it for you.
This shit right here is why people hate you AI assholes. Myopic and arrogant.
You’re not creating or iterating anything? You literally invented a soulless box to do it for you.
February 16, 2026 at 12:08 AM
They really DON'T think the arts involve skill OR dedication.
I know that but it gobsmacks me whenever I see it demonstrated.
I know that but it gobsmacks me whenever I see it demonstrated.
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The most insufferable person you know is heading straight for the produce section
In a blind test, audiophiles couldn't tell the difference between audio signals sent through copper wire, a banana, or wet mud
In a blind test, audiophiles couldn't tell the difference between audio signals sent through copper wire, a banana, or wet mud — 'The mud should sound perfectly awful, but it doesn't,' notes the experiment creator
Who knew listening to a banana sounded so good?
www.tomshardware.com
February 15, 2026 at 11:26 PM
The most insufferable person you know is heading straight for the produce section
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Again and again, guardrails are a scam
OpenAI ”acknowledged in its own research that LLMs will always produce hallucinations due to fundamental mathematical constraints that cannot be solved through better engineering, marking a significant admission from one of the AI industry’s leading companies.”
You can’t trust chatbots.
You can’t trust chatbots.
OpenAI admits AI hallucinations are mathematically inevitable, not just engineering flaws
In a landmark study, OpenAI researchers reveal that large language models will always produce plausible but false outputs, even with perfect data, due to fundamental statistical and computational limi...
www.computerworld.com
February 15, 2026 at 8:48 PM
Again and again, guardrails are a scam
Turns out the nearest supermarket has Itsu stuff in the food sections, so I made a big bowl of ramen in red miso with chicken gyoza for dinner. I miss fresh food like this *so much* but this is good enough to make the nostalgia a Good Experience
February 15, 2026 at 7:14 PM
Turns out the nearest supermarket has Itsu stuff in the food sections, so I made a big bowl of ramen in red miso with chicken gyoza for dinner. I miss fresh food like this *so much* but this is good enough to make the nostalgia a Good Experience
Good news: Being asked for a quote for some potential work
Bad News: The Horrifying Ordeal of Acknowledging my Worth
Bad News: The Horrifying Ordeal of Acknowledging my Worth
February 15, 2026 at 5:57 PM
Good news: Being asked for a quote for some potential work
Bad News: The Horrifying Ordeal of Acknowledging my Worth
Bad News: The Horrifying Ordeal of Acknowledging my Worth
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The quality of thought here is somewhere between that of a stone and another, dumber, stone.
Maria Steen, she of the Holy Handbag, argues in the Times that we should introduce a form of marriage with "no possibility of divorce." Maybe she is too young to remember that we already tried this. It ended very badly for some - that's why we introduced divorce.
#FeckOffIona
#FeckOffIona
February 15, 2026 at 4:43 PM
The quality of thought here is somewhere between that of a stone and another, dumber, stone.
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Literally nothing of value is produced by AI agents here. This is all just people making themselves suicidally addicted to APPEARING to work.
You are not even being productive. You are deskillmaxxing. You won’t even be able to produce code without an LLM inside of 6 months.
You are not even being productive. You are deskillmaxxing. You won’t even be able to produce code without an LLM inside of 6 months.
Token Anxiety
i think i mostly echo this for myself. with so much that can be done, i often feel like i *should* be doing something, always
i think i mostly echo this for myself. with so much that can be done, i often feel like i *should* be doing something, always
February 15, 2026 at 5:10 PM
Literally nothing of value is produced by AI agents here. This is all just people making themselves suicidally addicted to APPEARING to work.
You are not even being productive. You are deskillmaxxing. You won’t even be able to produce code without an LLM inside of 6 months.
You are not even being productive. You are deskillmaxxing. You won’t even be able to produce code without an LLM inside of 6 months.
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If you've seen the Sunday Times today you'll know Labour Together were secretly hiring people to investigate journalists.
Sadly you won't know that The National broke this story six months ago, since our work is not credited at all.
Here's the original 👇
www.thenational.scot/news/2550403...
Sadly you won't know that The National broke this story six months ago, since our work is not credited at all.
Here's the original 👇
www.thenational.scot/news/2550403...
Starmer allies hired investigators to look into author of McSweeney book
KEIR Starmer's allies hired private investigators to explore the background of an author whose book led to the resignation of the Prime Minister's…
www.thenational.scot
February 15, 2026 at 12:12 PM
If you've seen the Sunday Times today you'll know Labour Together were secretly hiring people to investigate journalists.
Sadly you won't know that The National broke this story six months ago, since our work is not credited at all.
Here's the original 👇
www.thenational.scot/news/2550403...
Sadly you won't know that The National broke this story six months ago, since our work is not credited at all.
Here's the original 👇
www.thenational.scot/news/2550403...
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"Nnedi Okorafor credits Le Guin with proving fantasy heroes didn't have to be white."
WRONG.
AI is just out here flat out lying about me. I never said this. No disrespect the Great LeGuin but no one ever needed to "prove" such a thing. Mschew. Anyone who knows me knows I don't speak like that.
WRONG.
AI is just out here flat out lying about me. I never said this. No disrespect the Great LeGuin but no one ever needed to "prove" such a thing. Mschew. Anyone who knows me knows I don't speak like that.
February 15, 2026 at 4:34 PM
"Nnedi Okorafor credits Le Guin with proving fantasy heroes didn't have to be white."
WRONG.
AI is just out here flat out lying about me. I never said this. No disrespect the Great LeGuin but no one ever needed to "prove" such a thing. Mschew. Anyone who knows me knows I don't speak like that.
WRONG.
AI is just out here flat out lying about me. I never said this. No disrespect the Great LeGuin but no one ever needed to "prove" such a thing. Mschew. Anyone who knows me knows I don't speak like that.
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weird thing i’ve noticed is that when you say something incredibly racist about someone, they get mad at you
Polanski acolytes incoming, no doubt.
Note that I didn't tag Polanski, yet he pounces within a few minutes. His search history could be interesting.
Note that I didn't tag Polanski, yet he pounces within a few minutes. His search history could be interesting.
Love this guy deciding for me that i've removed myself from my own community.
What a bizarre thing to say.
That's before he even gets on to defending John Mann! 🤣
What a bizarre thing to say.
That's before he even gets on to defending John Mann! 🤣
February 15, 2026 at 2:09 PM
weird thing i’ve noticed is that when you say something incredibly racist about someone, they get mad at you
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"the entire body of anti-trans propaganda was workshopped in emails with the billionaire pedophile guy to facilitate twin campaigns of elimination and sex slavery" being both a.) true and b.) a thing no major news org seems interested in reporting is making me feel like I'm losing my fucking mind
February 1, 2026 at 5:54 PM
"the entire body of anti-trans propaganda was workshopped in emails with the billionaire pedophile guy to facilitate twin campaigns of elimination and sex slavery" being both a.) true and b.) a thing no major news org seems interested in reporting is making me feel like I'm losing my fucking mind
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British journalists are always like "I only had 4 annual european holidays growing up, because my father, the Baron, was a bit of a cheapskate, so really I am working class" then 5 minutes later decree an actual working class person a faker because they drink coffee
February 15, 2026 at 2:56 PM
British journalists are always like "I only had 4 annual european holidays growing up, because my father, the Baron, was a bit of a cheapskate, so really I am working class" then 5 minutes later decree an actual working class person a faker because they drink coffee
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Not to get to deep about it, but a big part of suspects Micheál Martin is getting crankier by the day cause he knows his time at the top is drawing to a close and his legacy will be centred on a smoking ban he introduced 24 years ago
February 14, 2026 at 6:25 PM
Not to get to deep about it, but a big part of suspects Micheál Martin is getting crankier by the day cause he knows his time at the top is drawing to a close and his legacy will be centred on a smoking ban he introduced 24 years ago
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"Ireland’s neutrality is often presented as a settled identity. Shannon exposes it as a performance: a set of words repeated in Dublin while the logistics of American power pass through Clare."
"if you criminalise protest, you can shift the story from what is being facilitated to who is objecting."
"if you criminalise protest, you can shift the story from what is being facilitated to who is objecting."
February 14, 2026 at 9:44 PM
"Ireland’s neutrality is often presented as a settled identity. Shannon exposes it as a performance: a set of words repeated in Dublin while the logistics of American power pass through Clare."
"if you criminalise protest, you can shift the story from what is being facilitated to who is objecting."
"if you criminalise protest, you can shift the story from what is being facilitated to who is objecting."
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Reporters used AI to try and scrape his blog posts for a summary to write articles on it, but his blog can't be scraped...
SO THEY HALLUCINATED QUOTES TO TELL THEIR VERSION OF THE STORY!
theshamblog.com/an-ai-agent-...
SO THEY HALLUCINATED QUOTES TO TELL THEIR VERSION OF THE STORY!
theshamblog.com/an-ai-agent-...
An AI Agent Published a Hit Piece on Me – More Things Have Happened
Context: An AI agent of unknown ownership autonomously wrote and published a personalized hit piece about me after I rejected its code, attempting to damage my reputation and shame me into acceptin…
theshamblog.com
February 14, 2026 at 5:14 AM
Reporters used AI to try and scrape his blog posts for a summary to write articles on it, but his blog can't be scraped...
SO THEY HALLUCINATED QUOTES TO TELL THEIR VERSION OF THE STORY!
theshamblog.com/an-ai-agent-...
SO THEY HALLUCINATED QUOTES TO TELL THEIR VERSION OF THE STORY!
theshamblog.com/an-ai-agent-...
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Jesus Christ this fucking company
Discord advises UK users that they "may be part of an experiment" where instead of their age verification data never leaving their phone, it will now actually leave their phone
www.eurogamer.net/discord-advi...
www.eurogamer.net/discord-advi...
February 14, 2026 at 7:14 PM
Jesus Christ this fucking company
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The Women’s Institute was pressured to exclude trans women by the threat of litigation brought and paid for by JKR’s legal fund.
So now the newly trans-hostile WI groups are haemorrhaging members and many groups are folding, closing opportunities for all women.
Well done JK and the GCs, eh?
So now the newly trans-hostile WI groups are haemorrhaging members and many groups are folding, closing opportunities for all women.
Well done JK and the GCs, eh?
‘Carnage of concern and upset’: Women’s Institute groups close after transgender ban
Members warn NFWI decision has opened up toxic culture that deters younger women from joining
www.theguardian.com
February 14, 2026 at 5:22 PM
The Women’s Institute was pressured to exclude trans women by the threat of litigation brought and paid for by JKR’s legal fund.
So now the newly trans-hostile WI groups are haemorrhaging members and many groups are folding, closing opportunities for all women.
Well done JK and the GCs, eh?
So now the newly trans-hostile WI groups are haemorrhaging members and many groups are folding, closing opportunities for all women.
Well done JK and the GCs, eh?
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Roses are red
Stem held between teeth
I ordered us takeout but it's
Stem held between teeth
I ordered us takeout but it's
February 14, 2026 at 7:51 PM
Roses are red
Stem held between teeth
I ordered us takeout but it's
Stem held between teeth
I ordered us takeout but it's
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This must hit so hard if you're a fucking idiot.
February 11, 2026 at 4:01 AM
This must hit so hard if you're a fucking idiot.
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The thing is, every centrist-ish politician who insists public opinion is entirely static and must be followed-and-neve-shape when it comes to, say, restricting immigration can be found clearly believing precisely the opposite when it comes to, say, rent control
"Democratic politicians urgently need to adopt the GOP view of public opinion—that it’s movable, and it’s their job to move it." newrepublic.com/article/2058...
Instead of Pandering, Democrats Should Try Changing Voters’ Minds
How can the party of liberalism make liberal ideas more popular? By creating a more liberal electorate. Yes, it can be done. Here are five ways how.
newrepublic.com
February 14, 2026 at 4:27 PM
The thing is, every centrist-ish politician who insists public opinion is entirely static and must be followed-and-neve-shape when it comes to, say, restricting immigration can be found clearly believing precisely the opposite when it comes to, say, rent control
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