Trillian Eastwood
@trillianeast.bsky.social
Owl pirate queen, (slowly) learning to draw
Pic by @/stefscribbles.bsky.social
Pic by @/stefscribbles.bsky.social
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Techbros seem to love Tolkien, so here's an analogy to help you understand what genAI is.
GenAI is The One Ring. You think your use is justified, b/c you don't have evil in your heart.
But it came from evil, it is intended for evil purpose, & anything you do with it will be twisted to that end.
GenAI is The One Ring. You think your use is justified, b/c you don't have evil in your heart.
But it came from evil, it is intended for evil purpose, & anything you do with it will be twisted to that end.
December 17, 2025 at 8:43 PM
Techbros seem to love Tolkien, so here's an analogy to help you understand what genAI is.
GenAI is The One Ring. You think your use is justified, b/c you don't have evil in your heart.
But it came from evil, it is intended for evil purpose, & anything you do with it will be twisted to that end.
GenAI is The One Ring. You think your use is justified, b/c you don't have evil in your heart.
But it came from evil, it is intended for evil purpose, & anything you do with it will be twisted to that end.
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"he hacked us with a CLAM?"
Invasive quagga mussels are killing off lake ecosystems in the US and Europe, and are now in Northern Ireland.
Yet every time invasives are mentioned, someone says "But it's all just nature."
They're *wrong*: invasive species are one of the worst HUMAN impacts.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Yet every time invasives are mentioned, someone says "But it's all just nature."
They're *wrong*: invasive species are one of the worst HUMAN impacts.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
‘It’s an open invasion’: how millions of quagga mussels changed Lake Geneva for ever
The molluscs are decimating food chains in Switzerland, have devastated the Great Lakes in the US, and this week were spotted in Northern Ireland for the first time
www.theguardian.com
December 18, 2025 at 6:54 PM
"he hacked us with a CLAM?"
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This is legit the plot to the Long Walk. Glad we’re fucking making the god damn Hunger Games, Jesus fucking Christ. We gonna do a god damn lottery to pick the special boy and girl form each district, I mean state?
December 18, 2025 at 7:01 PM
This is legit the plot to the Long Walk. Glad we’re fucking making the god damn Hunger Games, Jesus fucking Christ. We gonna do a god damn lottery to pick the special boy and girl form each district, I mean state?
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Re gender affirming care for youth: They will come for the haircuts and the clothes next. And it won’t stop with kids or trans people. And I’ve been telling people this for a decade and now here we are with lots of cis people shrugging and saying it’s unfortunate. How are you going to save a life?
December 18, 2025 at 6:17 PM
Re gender affirming care for youth: They will come for the haircuts and the clothes next. And it won’t stop with kids or trans people. And I’ve been telling people this for a decade and now here we are with lots of cis people shrugging and saying it’s unfortunate. How are you going to save a life?
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With alt text. Debunking the idea that you need AI to illustrate what your ideas will become—and the idea that words are insufficient.
December 18, 2025 at 6:43 PM
With alt text. Debunking the idea that you need AI to illustrate what your ideas will become—and the idea that words are insufficient.
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All in the name of "protecting kids" 24 hours before we learn exactly how close Donald Trump was with Jeffrey Epstein
Notice how Trump and Republicans were having the worst couple weeks in the administration's history and they decided to pivot to hardcore attacking trans people?
December 18, 2025 at 6:14 PM
All in the name of "protecting kids" 24 hours before we learn exactly how close Donald Trump was with Jeffrey Epstein
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This is the hardest thing for me to express to people commissioning me. You know in your mind better than anyone what looks right, and if you aren't very precise with your words, interpretation by others will vary dramatically. Stick figures disambiguate ideas more than people give gredit.
"they don't know how to express the idea" here's rian johnson's storyboard for knives out
pick up a pencil and a napkin
pick up a pencil and a napkin
December 18, 2025 at 6:00 PM
This is the hardest thing for me to express to people commissioning me. You know in your mind better than anyone what looks right, and if you aren't very precise with your words, interpretation by others will vary dramatically. Stick figures disambiguate ideas more than people give gredit.
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"We don't want to be Luddites --" brother, Luddites were opposed to bosses concentrating wealth by using technology to make inferior product with warehouses fulls of starving exploited child labor. You don't have to wear the team jersey but respect the game.
December 18, 2025 at 5:04 PM
"We don't want to be Luddites --" brother, Luddites were opposed to bosses concentrating wealth by using technology to make inferior product with warehouses fulls of starving exploited child labor. You don't have to wear the team jersey but respect the game.
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Just want to point out how funny/sad it is that the same people who will refuse to refer to a trans woman as "she" have no problem calling ChatGPT "she."
If we are banning cell phones for kids we need to be talking about banning chatbots for boomers
www.persuasion.community/p/my-chatgpt...
www.persuasion.community/p/my-chatgpt...
December 18, 2025 at 3:04 PM
Just want to point out how funny/sad it is that the same people who will refuse to refer to a trans woman as "she" have no problem calling ChatGPT "she."
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The reality is that most of the healthcare needs of trans people are entirely straightforward and routine and there is no medical reason why they cannot be met by their GPs like everyone else's are.
December 18, 2025 at 2:09 PM
The reality is that most of the healthcare needs of trans people are entirely straightforward and routine and there is no medical reason why they cannot be met by their GPs like everyone else's are.
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guy being handed large bags with dollar signs printed on them: well you see, using genAI is simply inevitable,
December 18, 2025 at 3:13 PM
guy being handed large bags with dollar signs printed on them: well you see, using genAI is simply inevitable,
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I hate "it's not going anywhere" and "it's here to stay" inevitability language
It's not brave or bold to latch onto something you've been convinced is powerful, it's cowardly & pathetic
Things don't just happen to you. Surrendering your agency to avoid the fight at all is spineless, not wise
It's not brave or bold to latch onto something you've been convinced is powerful, it's cowardly & pathetic
Things don't just happen to you. Surrendering your agency to avoid the fight at all is spineless, not wise
December 18, 2025 at 2:20 PM
I hate "it's not going anywhere" and "it's here to stay" inevitability language
It's not brave or bold to latch onto something you've been convinced is powerful, it's cowardly & pathetic
Things don't just happen to you. Surrendering your agency to avoid the fight at all is spineless, not wise
It's not brave or bold to latch onto something you've been convinced is powerful, it's cowardly & pathetic
Things don't just happen to you. Surrendering your agency to avoid the fight at all is spineless, not wise
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Oh good this provides me with a chance to finally say this:
Hey did we just brush aside all the weird shit about the devs of KCD aside for the second game? The whole WE ARE SO HISTORICALLY ACCURATE THERE ARE ONLY WHITE PEOPLE IN THIS GAME, IGNORE THAT EVIDENCE THAT POC LIVED IN EUROPE
Hey did we just brush aside all the weird shit about the devs of KCD aside for the second game? The whole WE ARE SO HISTORICALLY ACCURATE THERE ARE ONLY WHITE PEOPLE IN THIS GAME, IGNORE THAT EVIDENCE THAT POC LIVED IN EUROPE
December 18, 2025 at 3:31 PM
Oh good this provides me with a chance to finally say this:
Hey did we just brush aside all the weird shit about the devs of KCD aside for the second game? The whole WE ARE SO HISTORICALLY ACCURATE THERE ARE ONLY WHITE PEOPLE IN THIS GAME, IGNORE THAT EVIDENCE THAT POC LIVED IN EUROPE
Hey did we just brush aside all the weird shit about the devs of KCD aside for the second game? The whole WE ARE SO HISTORICALLY ACCURATE THERE ARE ONLY WHITE PEOPLE IN THIS GAME, IGNORE THAT EVIDENCE THAT POC LIVED IN EUROPE
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A new systematic review & meta-analysis of 2M+ people estimates a ~36% pooled prevalence of reported long COVID after infection.
claiming you "don't know anyone" who's had long COVID is statistically implausible - unless you only know like <3-4 people
www.thecardiologyadvisor.com/news/more-th...
claiming you "don't know anyone" who's had long COVID is statistically implausible - unless you only know like <3-4 people
www.thecardiologyadvisor.com/news/more-th...
More Than One-Third of Individuals With COVID-19 Experience Long COVID
Long COVID remains globally prevalent following COVID-19 infection, with a significant burden of symptoms lasting 1 to 2 years postinfection.
www.thecardiologyadvisor.com
December 18, 2025 at 3:04 PM
A new systematic review & meta-analysis of 2M+ people estimates a ~36% pooled prevalence of reported long COVID after infection.
claiming you "don't know anyone" who's had long COVID is statistically implausible - unless you only know like <3-4 people
www.thecardiologyadvisor.com/news/more-th...
claiming you "don't know anyone" who's had long COVID is statistically implausible - unless you only know like <3-4 people
www.thecardiologyadvisor.com/news/more-th...
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For years, public health bent under pressure to downplay masks. When the same institutions now say “mask up,” it’s not a flip-flop—it’s a warning. If they’re willing to recommend masks again, the airborne threat is serious.
Finally.
A Public Health division released useful public recommendations to helo protect each other from illness spread (including airborne pathogen spread)
www.toronto.ca/community-pe...
A Public Health division released useful public recommendations to helo protect each other from illness spread (including airborne pathogen spread)
www.toronto.ca/community-pe...
December 18, 2025 at 11:44 AM
For years, public health bent under pressure to downplay masks. When the same institutions now say “mask up,” it’s not a flip-flop—it’s a warning. If they’re willing to recommend masks again, the airborne threat is serious.
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Thanks for having me! And thanks to the team from The Take.
Listen here: open.spotify.com/episode/1vQI...
Listen here: open.spotify.com/episode/1vQI...
Imani Barbarin on disability rights, COVID and the war on Gaza
open.spotify.com
December 18, 2025 at 2:22 PM
Thanks for having me! And thanks to the team from The Take.
Listen here: open.spotify.com/episode/1vQI...
Listen here: open.spotify.com/episode/1vQI...
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I do not share the author's barely disguised fetish but their enthusiasm makes the work feel more alive
i do not share the author's barely disguised fetish but i will defend to the death their right to publish it
July 27, 2025 at 12:46 AM
I do not share the author's barely disguised fetish but their enthusiasm makes the work feel more alive
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In 1988 Umberto Eco wrote Foucault's Pendulum.
The plot is: a bunch of guys working at a self-publisher house, for fun, take their huge crackpot and crank slush pile and jam it all together using a simple markov chain program written in BASIC.
They create a Grand Unified Conspiracy Theory.
The plot is: a bunch of guys working at a self-publisher house, for fun, take their huge crackpot and crank slush pile and jam it all together using a simple markov chain program written in BASIC.
They create a Grand Unified Conspiracy Theory.
July 21, 2025 at 8:01 PM
In 1988 Umberto Eco wrote Foucault's Pendulum.
The plot is: a bunch of guys working at a self-publisher house, for fun, take their huge crackpot and crank slush pile and jam it all together using a simple markov chain program written in BASIC.
They create a Grand Unified Conspiracy Theory.
The plot is: a bunch of guys working at a self-publisher house, for fun, take their huge crackpot and crank slush pile and jam it all together using a simple markov chain program written in BASIC.
They create a Grand Unified Conspiracy Theory.
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How to avoid AI audiobooks on Libby
Doing just a little digging keeps AI voices out of your books.
mashable.com
December 18, 2025 at 12:29 AM
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have you considered that for some people this specific fire is the one burning down their livelihood and a lot of those people are on this app
ragging on a top game studio for using LLM placeholder text is maybe not the most efficient use of time with all the fires currently burning
December 17, 2025 at 6:18 PM
have you considered that for some people this specific fire is the one burning down their livelihood and a lot of those people are on this app
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Nothing grates me more than when AI game dudes are like "Don't you wish you could ask an NPC aNyThInG?" Absolutely fucking not. If you don't understand that every piece of writing is made with intention, character, and meaningful choice... you probaby shouldn't be directing a fucking video game.
December 17, 2025 at 6:24 PM
Nothing grates me more than when AI game dudes are like "Don't you wish you could ask an NPC aNyThInG?" Absolutely fucking not. If you don't understand that every piece of writing is made with intention, character, and meaningful choice... you probaby shouldn't be directing a fucking video game.
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"paint me like the Vice Chancellor of a failing UK university"
Absolute masterclass in fuckery from Anderson as photographer.
Particularly like not even waiting for the person on the phone in the background to move. No point when you already know the client is going to stiff you on the invoice.
Absolute masterclass in fuckery from Anderson as photographer.
Particularly like not even waiting for the person on the phone in the background to move. No point when you already know the client is going to stiff you on the invoice.
December 17, 2025 at 6:09 PM
"paint me like the Vice Chancellor of a failing UK university"
Absolute masterclass in fuckery from Anderson as photographer.
Particularly like not even waiting for the person on the phone in the background to move. No point when you already know the client is going to stiff you on the invoice.
Absolute masterclass in fuckery from Anderson as photographer.
Particularly like not even waiting for the person on the phone in the background to move. No point when you already know the client is going to stiff you on the invoice.