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Basil
@basilthecreator.bsky.social
390 followers 420 following 110 posts
Building playful interactions @lauflauf
Writes about creative life and politics.
He/Him, Zürich

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Basil @basilthecreator.bsky.social · Sep 10
hey! I am basil, creative director @lauflauf.bsky.social I make playful interactions and talk about the intersection of creativity and politics.
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vortexegg.com
A screenshot from Adam Curtis’ documentary Hypernormalisation, the premise of which is essentially the quoted post.
November 7, 2025 at 4:25 PM
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vortexegg.com
I can’t be the only one who just straight up isn’t interested in incorporating anything we learn from synthetic “social” science experiments conducted on LLM facsimiles of human text because I simply don’t think the epistemology of it has any bearing on the world, regardless of any similarity
pettertornberg.com Petter Törnberg @pettertornberg.com · 4d
LLMs are now widely used in social science as stand-ins for humans—assuming they can produce realistic, human-like text

But... can they? We don’t actually know.

In our new study, we develop a Computational Turing Test.

And our findings are striking:
LLMs may be far less human-like than we think.🧵
Computational Turing Test Reveals Systematic Differences Between Human and AI Language
Large language models (LLMs) are increasingly used in the social sciences to simulate human behavior, based on the assumption that they can generate realistic, human-like text. Yet this assumption rem...
arxiv.org
November 7, 2025 at 2:40 PM
basilthecreator.bsky.social
I wrote another newsletter for @lauflauf.games this week about our approach to items, health and building, check it out: mailchi.mp/10762bb7e711...

#gamedev #indiegames #gaming
November 6, 2025 at 2:10 PM
basilthecreator.bsky.social
Opt out of linkedin ai scraping now!
nellucnhoj.bsky.social John Cullen @nellucnhoj.bsky.social · 13d
Here's a direct link to the setting:

www.linkedin.com/mypreference...
October 29, 2025 at 1:32 PM
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astrokatie.com
When a chatbot gets something wrong, it’s not because it made an error. It’s because on that roll of the dice, it happened to string together a group of words that, when read by a human, represents something false. But it was working entirely as designed. It was supposed to make a sentence & it did.
June 19, 2025 at 11:28 AM
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astrokatie.com
Chatbots — LLMs — do not know facts and are not designed to be able to accurately answer factual questions. They are designed to find and mimic patterns of words, probabilistically. When they’re “right” it’s because correct things are often written down, so those patterns are frequent. That’s all.
June 19, 2025 at 11:21 AM
basilthecreator.bsky.social
Human artist - use one piece to convince other humans to follow you
October 22, 2025 at 2:29 PM
basilthecreator.bsky.social
"Eight Sleep runs on the cloud and when the servers go down or the customer’s internet goes out it bricks the bed. There’s no offline mode" no words
October 22, 2025 at 2:21 PM
basilthecreator.bsky.social
We wrote another newsletter yesterday :) hear us talk about interactive story writing with INK and also a link to playtest enqueue!!

Read it here:
mailchi.mp/7a8d5ca31067...

Sign up for the future:
lauflauf.games/en/simple?op...

#gamedev #indiegames #gaming #games #art
October 22, 2025 at 1:14 PM
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rollinbishop.com
I spent a delightful couple of hours with Henry Halfhead this week and can heartily recommend you do similar.

And if you figure out how to make toilet spaghetti, let me know.
There's nothing quite like Henry Halfhead, a possession puzzle sandbox where you can grow a tree, boil eggplant, and (allegedly) make toilet spaghetti
Indie Spotlight | I said what I said
www.gamesradar.com
September 19, 2025 at 7:15 PM
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doriantaylor.com
i'm not saying anything new but what's already happening is it's getting harder to trust information you can't verify because it's trivially easy to produce innumerable quantities of bullshit

it was already bad before this was possible; any unsigned/untraced information will be suspect
hypervisible.blacksky.app Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · Oct 8
Cyberlibertarianism.
He positioned the launch’s speed bumps as learning opportunities. “Not for much longer will we have the only good video model out there, and there’s going to be a ton of videos with none of our safeguards, and that’s fine, that’s the way the world works,” Altman said, adding, “We can use this window to get society to really understand, ‘Hey, the playing field changed, we can generate almost indistinguishable video in some cases now, and you’ve got to be ready for that.’” Altman said he feels that people don’t pay attention to OpenAI’s technology when people at the company talk about it, only when they release it. “We’ve got to have … this sort of technological and societal co-evolution,” Altman said. “I believe that works, and I actually don’t know anything else that works. There are clearly going to be challenges for society contending with this quality, and what will get much better, with the video generation. But the only way that we know of to help mitigate it is to get the world to experience it and figure out how that’s going to go.”
October 8, 2025 at 1:37 PM
basilthecreator.bsky.social
"[...]users can specify how their cameo is used via text instructions[...], such as [...] “don’t let me say this word.”

opt out of ALL eventualities lol, surely that is gonna work
theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/795171/openai-devday-sam-altman-sora-launch-copyright
OpenAI wasn’t expecting Sora’s copyright drama
It felt “more different to images than people expected.”
www.theverge.com
October 8, 2025 at 1:06 PM
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wendyxu.bsky.social
every ai bro who has reduced miyazaki to empty gentle aesthetic should no exaggeration get the judas cradle bc this man's markmaking & passion about telling WAR STORIES
three panels from the nausicaä manga depicting ohmu & giant insects
October 8, 2025 at 4:06 AM
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lauflauf.games
Our second newsletter dropped today.

All about adding more visual fidelity and tool making.

#indiegame #progress #grass

If you want it on your inbox too:
lauflauf.games/en/simple?op...
October 7, 2025 at 3:03 PM
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bildoperationen.bsky.social
So-called #genAI means the abolition of the future through the proliferation of endless streams of stochastically rendered generic pasts. Having turned large parts of the cultural archive into training data, it now traps us in a foreverized pastness, a 24/7 nostalgia for a past that never existed
quoproquid.bsky.social QuoProQuid @quoproquid.bsky.social · Oct 6
have just come across a YouTube account that has been using Sora to upload reels of fake, AI-generated “90s sitcoms” every few hours
October 7, 2025 at 12:32 PM
basilthecreator.bsky.social
So our fresh newsletter went out, this time I wrote about Castle Come developments and also some other things:

mailchi.mp/3ef484a194fc...

#gamedev #indiegames #gaming
October 7, 2025 at 2:01 PM
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bouletcorp.bsky.social
Rogatons Rediffusions - 24/01/2025 - "Chifoumi"
Source: www.bouletcorp.com/rogatons/202...

LES LIVRES !
Tome 1: www.exemplaire-editions.fr/exemplaire/l...
Tome 2: www.exemplaire-editions.fr/exemplaire/l...
Une paire de ciseaux, entourée de petits bouts de papier, annonce fièrement: "Je suis ciseaux ! Le papier n'a pas la moindre chance !" Un rocher arrive et pulvérise la paire de ciseaux d'un coup de poing. Il crie: "Je suis PIERRE ! Les ciseaux ne peuvent rien contre moi !" Une feuille de papier se plaque sur la pierre en criant: "Je suis PAPIER ! Je recouvre la pierre !" Pierre est perplexe, avec papier collé sur son visage. Pierre: "C'est censé faire quoi ? Parce que ça ne fait pas très mal." Papier: "Chut. J'ai gagné." Pierre: "Mais... Je vais bien ?" Papier: "Lààà... C'est fini. Laisse-toi aller."
October 6, 2025 at 6:08 AM
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nellucnhoj.bsky.social
the things we love
A 6-panel comic parodying both Garfield and the Simpsons, starring Homer-Jon & Bart-Garfield mashups. P1: Title panel, showing "Barfield" on a grassy hill, eating a pair of shorts. P2: Hojo is on left of frame, while Barfield is on the right. Howjo says: "Boy. We should allow new generations to build & create new forms of culture, rather than recycling & repackaging the old for them, ad-nauseam. We should let the things we love die." P3: the same image, complete silence. P4: Barfield speaks: "Ay, lasagna." P5: Hojo closes his eyes in exasperation, letting out a breath before he does what must be done. P6: A closeup of Hojo --tears in his eyes-- as he chokes & throttles Barfield by the throat.
November 23, 2023 at 5:19 PM
basilthecreator.bsky.social
Tomorrow our next newsletter is coming!
Sign up here: lauflauf.games/en/newsletter

#games #gamedev #indiegames #gaming
October 6, 2025 at 9:50 AM
basilthecreator.bsky.social
Unity making me take down my Gamejam games ugh. Maybe i will bother to update them once

flatt.tech/research/pos...
CVE-2025-59489: Arbitrary Code Execution in Unity Runtime
Introduction Hello, I’m RyotaK (@ryotkak ), a security engineer at GMO Flatt Security Inc. In May 2025, I participated in the Meta Bug Bounty Researcher Conference 2025. During this event, I discovere...
flatt.tech
October 3, 2025 at 2:57 PM
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tonygowland.bsky.social
Good morning from Unity, I guess. If you’ve released a Windows/Linux/macOS game in Unity recently, might be worth patching unity.com/security/sep...
Security Update Advisory
A security vulnerability was identified that affects games and applications built on Unity versions 2017.1 and later for Android, Windows, and macOS operating systems. Unity has provided fixes that ad...
unity.com
October 3, 2025 at 7:06 AM
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bruzzeseonline.bsky.social
Making up stories is literally what humans have done since we could talk to each other. It defines us. This, more than anything I've come across in the last few years, makes me feel like we're in the process of breaking something integral to our species.
milesklee.bsky.social Batman or halo @milesklee.bsky.social · Oct 2
the bedtime thing rips my heart in half. i would not have a fraction of the creativity i possess without my dad not only reading us books but literally making up stories on the spot every night. cannot express how lucky i was and how sad i am for children being raised by chatbots
joolia.bsky.social Julia Carrie Wong @joolia.bsky.social · Oct 2
Some parents are letting their kids talk to ChatGPT in the guise of characters. Some are using it to tell bedtime stories or create coloring books.

"My son thinks ChatGPT is the coolest train loving person in the world. The bar is set so high now I am never going to be able to compete with that.”
October 3, 2025 at 2:56 AM
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tanatb.housefuckinggame.com
friends Henry Halfhead is such an absolute delight
September 30, 2025 at 2:33 PM
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segyges.bsky.social
realizing that the internet not only decontextualizes what you say in social space, it also decontextualizes it in time, and so many years from now i may be called on to answer for anything i said or did not say now

oh well

dear future: i was trying
September 25, 2025 at 7:05 AM
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gretchenleigh.zone
A new addition to the list of Games with Perfect Cover Art
The cover for the Sony Playstation game J-League Prime Goal EX by Namco. It features a circular shape that is half a soccer field populated by soccer players in the middle of an active game and half a CD-ROM.
September 25, 2025 at 3:53 AM