Pronoiac Trash Panda
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Talks about #vr, #xr, #education, #politics, #games and generally talks a lot about anything really
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“The logical conclusion of a technofeudal oligarchy combining forces with an authoritarian political movement is compulsory enrollment in the security state’s platform architecture of surveillance, indoctrination, and behavioral modification.”
Against Technofeudal Education
Pillars For Protecting Our "Core Infrastructure" From OpenAI
theamericanvandal.substack.com
June 20, 2025 at 10:10 PM
“The logical conclusion of a technofeudal oligarchy combining forces with an authoritarian political movement is compulsory enrollment in the security state’s platform architecture of surveillance, indoctrination, and behavioral modification.”
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Apple is delisting Wheels of Aurelia from the App Store, because it's... "obsolete". Our statement:
July 15, 2025 at 2:04 PM
Apple is delisting Wheels of Aurelia from the App Store, because it's... "obsolete". Our statement:
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hot make brain work bad
June 25, 2025 at 5:32 AM
hot make brain work bad
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Grateful to all who’ve read and supported my AI coverage lately. This is probably the most difficult work I’ve done on the subject to date and I hope it it can be a wake-up call. My profound thanks to Kent Taylor for trusting me with his son Alex’s story.
He Had a Mental Breakdown Talking to ChatGPT. Then Police Killed Him
Alex Taylor believed he had made contact with a conscious entity within OpenAI’s software, and that she'd been murdered. Then everything went wrong.
www.rollingstone.com
June 22, 2025 at 7:40 PM
Grateful to all who’ve read and supported my AI coverage lately. This is probably the most difficult work I’ve done on the subject to date and I hope it it can be a wake-up call. My profound thanks to Kent Taylor for trusting me with his son Alex’s story.
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There is one valid way to mess with them, which I'll do my best to explain.
Consider this: I'm fiercely creative. People have given my work praise and awards. I know that my best work comes from minimal oversight.
However, I am also a consultant and have seen some things...
Consider this: I'm fiercely creative. People have given my work praise and awards. I know that my best work comes from minimal oversight.
However, I am also a consultant and have seen some things...
June 3, 2025 at 7:07 PM
There is one valid way to mess with them, which I'll do my best to explain.
Consider this: I'm fiercely creative. People have given my work praise and awards. I know that my best work comes from minimal oversight.
However, I am also a consultant and have seen some things...
Consider this: I'm fiercely creative. People have given my work praise and awards. I know that my best work comes from minimal oversight.
However, I am also a consultant and have seen some things...
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single use plastics are wild to be fair, like "we've invented this substance with a finite total
quantity which will last 1000 years"
"oh sick what are you going to make with it?"
"bag"
quantity which will last 1000 years"
"oh sick what are you going to make with it?"
"bag"
June 3, 2025 at 12:24 PM
single use plastics are wild to be fair, like "we've invented this substance with a finite total
quantity which will last 1000 years"
"oh sick what are you going to make with it?"
"bag"
quantity which will last 1000 years"
"oh sick what are you going to make with it?"
"bag"
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I tried to put into (many) words something I've tried to put a finger on for years: everything is weirdly sexual now because nothing is allowed to be overtly, actually sexual anymore www.404media.co/egg-yolk-pop...
The Egg Yolk Principle: Human Sexuality Will Always Outsmart Prudish Algorithms and Hateful Politicians
Anti-porn laws can't stop porn, but they can stop free speech. In the meantime, people will continue to get off to anything and everything.
www.404media.co
June 3, 2025 at 1:47 PM
I tried to put into (many) words something I've tried to put a finger on for years: everything is weirdly sexual now because nothing is allowed to be overtly, actually sexual anymore www.404media.co/egg-yolk-pop...
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"Art's not just a pretty picture."
My mum told me this when I was coming up with ideas for my GCSE art piece...and it was the best thing I ever learnt about art. It's the intent, the emotions, the process, the message behind it that matters...and that's something AI art users fail to understand.
My mum told me this when I was coming up with ideas for my GCSE art piece...and it was the best thing I ever learnt about art. It's the intent, the emotions, the process, the message behind it that matters...and that's something AI art users fail to understand.
April 11, 2025 at 2:04 PM
"Art's not just a pretty picture."
My mum told me this when I was coming up with ideas for my GCSE art piece...and it was the best thing I ever learnt about art. It's the intent, the emotions, the process, the message behind it that matters...and that's something AI art users fail to understand.
My mum told me this when I was coming up with ideas for my GCSE art piece...and it was the best thing I ever learnt about art. It's the intent, the emotions, the process, the message behind it that matters...and that's something AI art users fail to understand.
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the first rule of player feedback is that players are not game designers. you are the fucking game designer. players don't know the first thing about game design nor do they know what they actually want until you do the work and give it to them. if we listened to players everything would be fortnite
I once worked on a visual novel game where all the surveys and focus groups said that nobody wanted romance, they only wanted mystery and sci-fi.
Then 75+% of clicks in-game went to stories with explicit romantic or sexy themes.
www.pcgamer.com/gaming-indus...
Then 75+% of clicks in-game went to stories with explicit romantic or sexy themes.
www.pcgamer.com/gaming-indus...
'These kids do not care about romance': Game devs want to know what today's teens want, and surveys say sex and romance isn't it
Young people want stories about friendship more than romance, say researchers and industry execs.
www.pcgamer.com
February 23, 2025 at 5:37 PM
the first rule of player feedback is that players are not game designers. you are the fucking game designer. players don't know the first thing about game design nor do they know what they actually want until you do the work and give it to them. if we listened to players everything would be fortnite
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In honor of National Golden Retriever Day, here is the story about Beaker stepping up to watch over Bunsen when he was recovery. Parts 1-4
February 3, 2025 at 4:28 PM
In honor of National Golden Retriever Day, here is the story about Beaker stepping up to watch over Bunsen when he was recovery. Parts 1-4
It's such a mood honestly
February 3, 2025 at 5:38 PM
It's such a mood honestly
SO THEY DO IT TO OTHER PEOPLE TOO?
Sorry to be a little old school about it but I definitely don’t have ADHD it’s just that the fairies take and move my stuff all the time.
January 27, 2025 at 5:28 PM
SO THEY DO IT TO OTHER PEOPLE TOO?
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Michael Shannon's just great
January 27, 2025 at 5:15 PM
Michael Shannon's just great
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I have a simple motto which I hold myself to:
"Don't look for reasons to be unhappy"
You'll know when you have a real problem on your hands, and it's much more fun to ask how that problem can be solved using your own brain and your own skills rather than an app or a widget.
That's the fun in life
"Don't look for reasons to be unhappy"
You'll know when you have a real problem on your hands, and it's much more fun to ask how that problem can be solved using your own brain and your own skills rather than an app or a widget.
That's the fun in life
January 26, 2025 at 6:40 PM
I have a simple motto which I hold myself to:
"Don't look for reasons to be unhappy"
You'll know when you have a real problem on your hands, and it's much more fun to ask how that problem can be solved using your own brain and your own skills rather than an app or a widget.
That's the fun in life
"Don't look for reasons to be unhappy"
You'll know when you have a real problem on your hands, and it's much more fun to ask how that problem can be solved using your own brain and your own skills rather than an app or a widget.
That's the fun in life
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I do think it’s super important right now and in the foreseeable future to really value moments of joy and to be intentional about making as many of them as you can
January 27, 2025 at 4:50 AM
I do think it’s super important right now and in the foreseeable future to really value moments of joy and to be intentional about making as many of them as you can
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Honor his memory by doing something strange, unraveling a riddle within yourself, and working on your favorite projects.
January 16, 2025 at 6:51 PM
Honor his memory by doing something strange, unraveling a riddle within yourself, and working on your favorite projects.
This is the kind of thing that makes me want to scream in the void. Perhaps the void still has media literacy by some miracle.
On twitter people are talking about whether books from prior to 1970 are too difficult to read. This is what a generation of valuing STEM over the humanities has done to us.
January 7, 2025 at 6:21 PM
This is the kind of thing that makes me want to scream in the void. Perhaps the void still has media literacy by some miracle.
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i want to be clear that i don't believe stories or games have to have giant socially engaged narratives in order to be worthy of people's time (my own game is far from)
what is important is creating a *possibility space* - inspiring a feeling that you, or the world, is capable of more than you see
what is important is creating a *possibility space* - inspiring a feeling that you, or the world, is capable of more than you see
🧵 i'll tell you a secret.
i'm not here because i want to make a video game. i'm here because ever since i was young, i've understood art is how you change the world
i was a writer. i wrote 100s of 1000s of words, practicing what i'd say. & i watched books go out of style among the general populace
i'm not here because i want to make a video game. i'm here because ever since i was young, i've understood art is how you change the world
i was a writer. i wrote 100s of 1000s of words, practicing what i'd say. & i watched books go out of style among the general populace
November 21, 2024 at 5:25 AM
i want to be clear that i don't believe stories or games have to have giant socially engaged narratives in order to be worthy of people's time (my own game is far from)
what is important is creating a *possibility space* - inspiring a feeling that you, or the world, is capable of more than you see
what is important is creating a *possibility space* - inspiring a feeling that you, or the world, is capable of more than you see
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I love bluesky because it's just like twitter except instead of the horrors of humanity I get to witness a bacchanalia of horny little chaos goblins
December 19, 2023 at 8:05 PM
I love bluesky because it's just like twitter except instead of the horrors of humanity I get to witness a bacchanalia of horny little chaos goblins
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This is excellent advice. You can, with a little careful thought and maybe advice from a bookseller, buy books for people you hate that have been carefully calculated to annoy the hell out of them while looking like you were totally TRYING to find a book that would match their interests.
Note: If you're still looking for holiday gifts for loved ones, buy books. You can also buy books for people you hate. The authors will not mind.
December 19, 2023 at 3:08 AM
This is excellent advice. You can, with a little careful thought and maybe advice from a bookseller, buy books for people you hate that have been carefully calculated to annoy the hell out of them while looking like you were totally TRYING to find a book that would match their interests.
Big mood
Excuse me, I'll just be crumbling into a pile of dust over here 💀💀💀💀💀
December 18, 2023 at 7:31 AM
Big mood
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Something that's starting to really annoy me is headlines claiming that AI is "doing" things, like denying people healthcare or detaining sex workers at the border. No, people are still doing that, they're just using AI specifically to avoid being blamed for it
December 4, 2023 at 5:25 PM
Something that's starting to really annoy me is headlines claiming that AI is "doing" things, like denying people healthcare or detaining sex workers at the border. No, people are still doing that, they're just using AI specifically to avoid being blamed for it