Yanick
@yenzie613.bsky.social
Necrohacker. Orchid lover. Mini painter. Slightly bonkers all around. He/him
Slightly diminishing a game:
Adequate Mario Bros.
Adequate Mario Bros.
Slightly diminish a game.
Mac Pan.
Mac Pan.
Slightly diminish a game.
Fades. (rhymes with a greek god)
Fades. (rhymes with a greek god)
January 11, 2026 at 3:39 PM
Slightly diminishing a game:
Adequate Mario Bros.
Adequate Mario Bros.
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Today in "Don't Trust AI to Tell You Facts": How several different "AI" programs messed up the simple fact of to whom I dedicated a book, and what that means for how much you should trust "AI" to tell you the truth about things (spoiler: not much at all):
whatever.scalzi.com/2025/12/13/a...
whatever.scalzi.com/2025/12/13/a...
“AI”: A Dedicated Fact-Failing Machine, or, Yet Another Reason Not to Trust It For Anything
I search my name on a regular basis, not only because I am an ego monster (although I try not to pretend that I’m not) but because it’s a good way for me to find reviews, end-of-the-yea…
whatever.scalzi.com
December 13, 2025 at 5:42 PM
Today in "Don't Trust AI to Tell You Facts": How several different "AI" programs messed up the simple fact of to whom I dedicated a book, and what that means for how much you should trust "AI" to tell you the truth about things (spoiler: not much at all):
whatever.scalzi.com/2025/12/13/a...
whatever.scalzi.com/2025/12/13/a...
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September 27, 2025 at 11:24 PM
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FFS!
Quebec government bans gender-neutral pronouns in all official communications
Quebec government bans gender-neutral pronouns in all official communications
The province says non-binary people will still be able to use the gender marker X on certain government documents.
bit.ly
September 26, 2025 at 2:01 AM
FFS!
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News at 11
A new study, based on a survey of 1,150 workers suggests that the injection of AI tools into the workplace has not resulted in a magic productivity boom and instead increased the amount of time that workers say they spend fixing low-quality AI-generated “work.”
🔗 www.404media.co/ai-workslop-...
🔗 www.404media.co/ai-workslop-...
AI ‘Workslop’ Is Killing Productivity and Making Workers Miserable
AI slop is taking over workplaces. Workers said that they thought of their colleagues who filed low-quality AI work as "less creative, capable, and reliable than they did before receiving the output."
www.404media.co
September 23, 2025 at 3:59 PM
News at 11
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AI being "a stack of consent violations in a trenchcoat" is the best metaphor yet. Adopted
companies make it difficult or impossible to disable ai in their products because it is an authoritarian project made from a stack of consent violations in a trenchcoat
they don't give you a checkbox for "i don't want this and will never use it" because they know many people would check that box
they don't give you a checkbox for "i don't want this and will never use it" because they know many people would check that box
September 21, 2025 at 2:56 PM
AI being "a stack of consent violations in a trenchcoat" is the best metaphor yet. Adopted
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Just in case you need something to read after canceling your streaming service.
bookshop.org/p/books/sant...
bookshop.org/p/books/sant...
Santuario
Check out Santuario - <p>Police teniente Alex Rukow has spent his life trapped on Santuario, his people's isolated home-slash-prison-island. They've been living in poverty under the tyrannical regime ...
bookshop.org
September 19, 2025 at 9:22 PM
Just in case you need something to read after canceling your streaming service.
bookshop.org/p/books/sant...
bookshop.org/p/books/sant...
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The US is currently answering the question of "How could the Germans just let the atrocities of the Third Reich happen?"
"As of the end of August, the whereabouts of two-thirds of more than 1,800 men detained at Alligator Alcatraz during the month of July could not be determined by the Miami Herald."
So…they’re disappearing people. This is all just ticking along as expected. Now I know how the junta in Argentina lasted so long
www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...
www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...
September 16, 2025 at 2:14 PM
The US is currently answering the question of "How could the Germans just let the atrocities of the Third Reich happen?"
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I had no wish for him to be murdered, but I’ll harshly judge anyone who flies their flag at half staff for that hateful extremist or talks about honoring his memory. There was no honor in his life.
September 11, 2025 at 1:47 AM
I had no wish for him to be murdered, but I’ll harshly judge anyone who flies their flag at half staff for that hateful extremist or talks about honoring his memory. There was no honor in his life.
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Well then.
“I think it's worth it. It’s worth to have a cost of, unfortunately, some gun deaths every single year so that we can have the Second Amendment to protect our other God-given rights. That is a prudent deal." - Charlie Kirk
September 10, 2025 at 11:58 PM
Well then.
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Working on the most French Canadian thing i've ever made.
September 3, 2025 at 4:28 AM
Working on the most French Canadian thing i've ever made.
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Man, I so fervently hope they die in that fire.
Exclusive: Meta has appropriated the names and likenesses of celebrities — including Taylor Swift, Scarlett Johansson, Anne Hathaway and Selena Gomez — to create dozens of flirty social-media chatbots without their permission, Reuters has found reut.rs/3JWb00R
Exclusive: Meta created flirty chatbots of Taylor Swift, other celebrities without permission
Meta has appropriated the names and likenesses of celebrities – including Taylor Swift, Scarlett Johansson, Anne Hathaway and Selena Gomez – to create dozens of flirty social-media chatbots without their permission, Reuters has found.
reut.rs
August 30, 2025 at 3:05 PM
Man, I so fervently hope they die in that fire.
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Saw someone upbraiding someone else for having a hobby while the world is on fire, and, my friends:
1. The world is ever on fire, this is today's conflagration;
2. If you don't find time for rest and joy the fire will consume you;
3. Don't let people shame you for being an entire human.
1. The world is ever on fire, this is today's conflagration;
2. If you don't find time for rest and joy the fire will consume you;
3. Don't let people shame you for being an entire human.
December 17, 2024 at 3:21 PM
Saw someone upbraiding someone else for having a hobby while the world is on fire, and, my friends:
1. The world is ever on fire, this is today's conflagration;
2. If you don't find time for rest and joy the fire will consume you;
3. Don't let people shame you for being an entire human.
1. The world is ever on fire, this is today's conflagration;
2. If you don't find time for rest and joy the fire will consume you;
3. Don't let people shame you for being an entire human.
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Have a Happy and Thoughtful Canada Day!
July 1, 2025 at 4:18 PM
Have a Happy and Thoughtful Canada Day!
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I hope America is as lucky as the delta jet - everyone survives but the right wing explodes
February 18, 2025 at 3:49 PM
I hope America is as lucky as the delta jet - everyone survives but the right wing explodes
So.... Took me long enough, but here I am. Hello fellow, uh, blueskies? .o/
February 18, 2025 at 12:24 AM
So.... Took me long enough, but here I am. Hello fellow, uh, blueskies? .o/