Brandon
@diagoras87.bsky.social
Just a random human. No longer on Twitter, anyone using this handle over there is not me.
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Brandon
@diagoras87.bsky.social
· Nov 9
I just wanted to give a heads up to folks who came here and plan to kill off their accounts on Twitter. I SUGGEST YOU JUST LOCK IT. Don't delete your account. You're at a high risk of having your account title stolen and being impersonated.
I've made this mistake, but sadly it was the only way last year to opt out of their terms of service update. Just note that I am not on Twitter at all, anyone there using this handle is not me.
Good night, and good luck
December 3, 2025 at 6:27 AM
Good night, and good luck
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Seems like Crunchyroll is really going for using AI so I think I will be looking for an alternative way to watch anime and I encourage fellow Crunchyroll subscribers to do the same unless they reverse these decisions.
At least two people have brought up Zeta Gundam's dub on Crunchyroll having used AI closed captions for a while.
I've been rewatching Zeta Gundam dubbed on my phone for a while on the CR app (the PS5 app doesn't seem to offer closed captions). Tried to capture with my laptop camera here.
Line is "Haman, what's keeping you? The AEUG fleet has encircled Gryps II." Been like this for some time.
Line is "Haman, what's keeping you? The AEUG fleet has encircled Gryps II." Been like this for some time.
December 2, 2025 at 6:38 PM
Seems like Crunchyroll is really going for using AI so I think I will be looking for an alternative way to watch anime and I encourage fellow Crunchyroll subscribers to do the same unless they reverse these decisions.
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Welcome to the UK. We've got all the authoritarianism of Singapore but there's no money and nothing actually works.
BBC News - Jury trials scrapped for crimes with sentences of less than three years
www.bbc.com/news/article...
BBC News - Jury trials scrapped for crimes with sentences of less than three years
www.bbc.com/news/article...
Jury trials scrapped for crimes with sentences of less than three years
The reforms are being brought in to tackle unprecedented delays in the Crown Court.
www.bbc.com
December 2, 2025 at 1:16 PM
Welcome to the UK. We've got all the authoritarianism of Singapore but there's no money and nothing actually works.
BBC News - Jury trials scrapped for crimes with sentences of less than three years
www.bbc.com/news/article...
BBC News - Jury trials scrapped for crimes with sentences of less than three years
www.bbc.com/news/article...
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Anti-trans campaign ads and rhetoric have again been deployed in today's special election in Tennessee. Polls close at 7pm. Find out where to vote and if you are registered: www.wkrn.com/news/local-n...
It's election day in Tennessee's 7th congressional district. wpln.org/post/tenness...
Tennessee's special congressional race could be tight. Here's who's running
Tuesday’s special congressional election could be a much tighter race than anticipated. Republicans swept Tennessee’s 7th congressional district by 22
wpln.org
December 2, 2025 at 6:02 PM
Anti-trans campaign ads and rhetoric have again been deployed in today's special election in Tennessee. Polls close at 7pm. Find out where to vote and if you are registered: www.wkrn.com/news/local-n...
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Please for the love of god call your reps and tell them to vote no to KOSA and other bad internet bills otherwise we lose everything we have
You need to do it now, today is the day
You need to do it now, today is the day
Congress is attempting to fast track KOSA and more than a dozen bills that would restrict internet access, censor speech and increase surveillance under the guise of protecting children.
Committee hearings begin tomorrow.
Committee hearings begin tomorrow.
Lawmakers to consider 19 bills for childproofing the internet
KOSA is back, along with more than a dozen other bills that will erode free speech and privacy in the name of protecting kids.
reason.com
December 2, 2025 at 1:04 PM
Please for the love of god call your reps and tell them to vote no to KOSA and other bad internet bills otherwise we lose everything we have
You need to do it now, today is the day
You need to do it now, today is the day
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Speaking of which, I'm getting off Substack for the new year. Probably heading to ghost or beehiiv -- would love to hear people's stories of switching over, good and bad and what's worked out for them or not!
December 2, 2025 at 4:48 PM
Speaking of which, I'm getting off Substack for the new year. Probably heading to ghost or beehiiv -- would love to hear people's stories of switching over, good and bad and what's worked out for them or not!
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I've always bristled at the animosity between artists and 'the suits', as I know so many smart suits. But the AI hype is driving home a legitimate issue; that many bean-counters have no taste or creative awareness whatsoever, resent artists, and need to be vigorously fought against to protect art.
December 2, 2025 at 4:00 PM
I've always bristled at the animosity between artists and 'the suits', as I know so many smart suits. But the AI hype is driving home a legitimate issue; that many bean-counters have no taste or creative awareness whatsoever, resent artists, and need to be vigorously fought against to protect art.
Good night and good luck
December 2, 2025 at 6:54 AM
Good night and good luck
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i’m genuinely so convinced all of this has been a planned operation by the student and her mother (who is commenting on this publicly, and associated closely with the republican party), and big far right propaganda account going all in on it. this is designed to oust trans people from public life
December 1, 2025 at 6:09 PM
i’m genuinely so convinced all of this has been a planned operation by the student and her mother (who is commenting on this publicly, and associated closely with the republican party), and big far right propaganda account going all in on it. this is designed to oust trans people from public life
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When anyone complains about America/UK/Canada, for any reason, Right Wingers are quick to tell them:
"If you don't like it, just leave!"
Today, Right Wingers keep complaining about blue cities, immigration, diversity, culture...
Why don't they listen the their own advice and "just leave!"
"If you don't like it, just leave!"
Today, Right Wingers keep complaining about blue cities, immigration, diversity, culture...
Why don't they listen the their own advice and "just leave!"
December 1, 2025 at 6:04 PM
When anyone complains about America/UK/Canada, for any reason, Right Wingers are quick to tell them:
"If you don't like it, just leave!"
Today, Right Wingers keep complaining about blue cities, immigration, diversity, culture...
Why don't they listen the their own advice and "just leave!"
"If you don't like it, just leave!"
Today, Right Wingers keep complaining about blue cities, immigration, diversity, culture...
Why don't they listen the their own advice and "just leave!"
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Yes, flood CR's feedback line too with requests to
- stop using AI to closed caption dubs
- keep their current subtitling software (Aegisub. Not the one they are switching to)
Please!
- stop using AI to closed caption dubs
- keep their current subtitling software (Aegisub. Not the one they are switching to)
Please!
Good job, guys. See if you can't make similar results happen for No Game, No Life and Vinland Saga.
Getting close to time to start asking for the same kind of fervor for AI generated closed captions as well. You can fight this, it CAN work.
Getting close to time to start asking for the same kind of fervor for AI generated closed captions as well. You can fight this, it CAN work.
BANANA FISH no longer has an English dub on Amazon
December 1, 2025 at 11:53 PM
Yes, flood CR's feedback line too with requests to
- stop using AI to closed caption dubs
- keep their current subtitling software (Aegisub. Not the one they are switching to)
Please!
- stop using AI to closed caption dubs
- keep their current subtitling software (Aegisub. Not the one they are switching to)
Please!
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It's hard to overstate the impact Taylor had as an AIDS fundraiser. $100 million is an estimate that doesn't include nine-figure bequests to AIDS charities.
there’s a scene in the new documentary where Elizabeth Taylor is talking about the stigma of AIDS and how she got involved in the movement and it’s fucking everything
December 1, 2025 at 11:49 PM
It's hard to overstate the impact Taylor had as an AIDS fundraiser. $100 million is an estimate that doesn't include nine-figure bequests to AIDS charities.
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Amazon has seemingly removed the Banana Fish AI dub, likely in response to the vocal outcry
It should be noted that they can remove this AI dub, or all of their AI dubs
But they can’t remove the fact that they chose to try to do it in the first place.
It should be noted that they can remove this AI dub, or all of their AI dubs
But they can’t remove the fact that they chose to try to do it in the first place.
The only thing less human than these AI dub performances is the decision to sign off on them
A company this big can pay human actors a decent wage, not produce slop that intentionally removes the human element.
A company this big can pay human actors a decent wage, not produce slop that intentionally removes the human element.
December 1, 2025 at 10:50 PM
Amazon has seemingly removed the Banana Fish AI dub, likely in response to the vocal outcry
It should be noted that they can remove this AI dub, or all of their AI dubs
But they can’t remove the fact that they chose to try to do it in the first place.
It should be noted that they can remove this AI dub, or all of their AI dubs
But they can’t remove the fact that they chose to try to do it in the first place.
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Ginny Di makes an excellent underrepresented point here in that the secondary damage caused by AI is that so many artists have to defend our own work as organic now. I had to put out a statement that BLACK PHONE 2 contained no AI because assholes decided to accuse us of using it and no other reason.
I love paying human artists and I hate gen AI 🩵
I'm not here to fight about whether or not AI is ethical (I've made my decision and I doubt I'm gonna change yours.) I'm just here to talk about what I and many other artists have been dealing with as we adjust to a new media landscape.
I'm not here to fight about whether or not AI is ethical (I've made my decision and I doubt I'm gonna change yours.) I'm just here to talk about what I and many other artists have been dealing with as we adjust to a new media landscape.
December 1, 2025 at 9:30 PM
Ginny Di makes an excellent underrepresented point here in that the secondary damage caused by AI is that so many artists have to defend our own work as organic now. I had to put out a statement that BLACK PHONE 2 contained no AI because assholes decided to accuse us of using it and no other reason.
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I don't get this as much anymore, thankfully.
But that woman has had six decades and countless second chances to sort herself out. She ain't changing.
She's not my mom; she's banned from my life and staying there.
But that woman has had six decades and countless second chances to sort herself out. She ain't changing.
She's not my mom; she's banned from my life and staying there.
Just a quiet, sad little PSA.
If someone is estranged from their parents, please please don’t give them the ‘but they’re your mum/ dad’
They were their mum / dad when they did the worst imaginable things to their own kids.
It’s not up to the children to make it ok. It’s up to them to live well.
If someone is estranged from their parents, please please don’t give them the ‘but they’re your mum/ dad’
They were their mum / dad when they did the worst imaginable things to their own kids.
It’s not up to the children to make it ok. It’s up to them to live well.
December 1, 2025 at 11:24 PM
I don't get this as much anymore, thankfully.
But that woman has had six decades and countless second chances to sort herself out. She ain't changing.
She's not my mom; she's banned from my life and staying there.
But that woman has had six decades and countless second chances to sort herself out. She ain't changing.
She's not my mom; she's banned from my life and staying there.
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Wrecking young people's reading, writing & analytical skills during their formative years is an economic imperative for AI companies. For many of us who learned these things without AI, slop can't pass for news or entertainment. Destroying standards is essential to the industry's growth & survival.
December 1, 2025 at 10:11 PM
Wrecking young people's reading, writing & analytical skills during their formative years is an economic imperative for AI companies. For many of us who learned these things without AI, slop can't pass for news or entertainment. Destroying standards is essential to the industry's growth & survival.
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what's happening here is a conservative podcaster is using her daughter to start a Dreyfus Affair with a trans instructor who has done nothing but just say "hey you have to follow the rubric for the assignment, we're all adults here"
December 1, 2025 at 7:01 PM
what's happening here is a conservative podcaster is using her daughter to start a Dreyfus Affair with a trans instructor who has done nothing but just say "hey you have to follow the rubric for the assignment, we're all adults here"
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“Don't you see that the whole aim of Newspeak is to narrow the range of thought? In the end we shall make thought crime literally impossible, because there will be no words in which to express it.”
- 1984, George Orwell
- 1984, George Orwell
If anyone is curious about the current list of search terms being used by right wing activist organizations to harass university professors, here's a public records request I received today from Mike Howell of the Heritage Foundation. Not intimidating or meant to curtail by my speech at all, right?
December 1, 2025 at 5:47 PM
“Don't you see that the whole aim of Newspeak is to narrow the range of thought? In the end we shall make thought crime literally impossible, because there will be no words in which to express it.”
- 1984, George Orwell
- 1984, George Orwell
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If anyone is curious about the current list of search terms being used by right wing activist organizations to harass university professors, here's a public records request I received today from Mike Howell of the Heritage Foundation. Not intimidating or meant to curtail by my speech at all, right?
August 6, 2025 at 10:03 PM
If anyone is curious about the current list of search terms being used by right wing activist organizations to harass university professors, here's a public records request I received today from Mike Howell of the Heritage Foundation. Not intimidating or meant to curtail by my speech at all, right?
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Entering the US public domain in 2026: William Faulkner's As I Lay Dying.
More info behind window 1 of our advent-style countdown calendar for works entering the #publicdomain on Jan 1st: https://publicdomainreview.org/features/entering-the-public-domain/2026/ #PDin2026
More info behind window 1 of our advent-style countdown calendar for works entering the #publicdomain on Jan 1st: https://publicdomainreview.org/features/entering-the-public-domain/2026/ #PDin2026
December 1, 2025 at 5:48 PM
Entering the US public domain in 2026: William Faulkner's As I Lay Dying.
More info behind window 1 of our advent-style countdown calendar for works entering the #publicdomain on Jan 1st: https://publicdomainreview.org/features/entering-the-public-domain/2026/ #PDin2026
More info behind window 1 of our advent-style countdown calendar for works entering the #publicdomain on Jan 1st: https://publicdomainreview.org/features/entering-the-public-domain/2026/ #PDin2026
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Let's go, it's JINGLE JAM TIME! We'll be raising money for CALM, because now more than ever, mental health is so important 💚
🔗 Head on over and donate to CALM at tiltify.com/@highrollers...
And we'll be running a chaotic charity one shot this Sunday at 5pm GMT! See you there!
🔗 Head on over and donate to CALM at tiltify.com/@highrollers...
And we'll be running a chaotic charity one shot this Sunday at 5pm GMT! See you there!
December 1, 2025 at 5:10 PM
Let's go, it's JINGLE JAM TIME! We'll be raising money for CALM, because now more than ever, mental health is so important 💚
🔗 Head on over and donate to CALM at tiltify.com/@highrollers...
And we'll be running a chaotic charity one shot this Sunday at 5pm GMT! See you there!
🔗 Head on over and donate to CALM at tiltify.com/@highrollers...
And we'll be running a chaotic charity one shot this Sunday at 5pm GMT! See you there!
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'So much of it is indistinguishable from 4chan, just on a larger, more influential scale than ever before. I worry what that’s doing to the brains of people who don’t realize how little of it reflects reality outside of X.'
It has now been a year since I stopped posting on X. For @spitfirenews.com, I wrote about watching the platform I loved become a conduit for the worst extremism I've ever witnessed. I don't regret leaving. In fact, I wish I'd left even earlier.
spitfirenews.com/p/x-bluesky-...
spitfirenews.com/p/x-bluesky-...
I'm glad I stopped posting on X
A year ago, I abandoned my account. It was the right thing to do.
spitfirenews.com
December 1, 2025 at 4:36 PM
'So much of it is indistinguishable from 4chan, just on a larger, more influential scale than ever before. I worry what that’s doing to the brains of people who don’t realize how little of it reflects reality outside of X.'
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...spent an hour trying to figure out Etsy's new form for submitting a DMCA report, and I'm so sick of having to do this over and over again with different platforms that I think I'll never draw and post any fanart again :I
December 1, 2025 at 4:55 PM
...spent an hour trying to figure out Etsy's new form for submitting a DMCA report, and I'm so sick of having to do this over and over again with different platforms that I think I'll never draw and post any fanart again :I
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It's astounding to me that this never comes up in interviews with Dave or the band. They've memory-holed this whole episode and the hundreds of thousands of deaths their support for this movement caused.
Some sources:
medium.com/the-monthly/...
Some sources:
medium.com/the-monthly/...
The Foo Fighters’ AIDS denialism should be on the record
By Martin McKenzie-Murray in The Monthly
medium.com
September 16, 2023 at 10:21 PM
It's astounding to me that this never comes up in interviews with Dave or the band. They've memory-holed this whole episode and the hundreds of thousands of deaths their support for this movement caused.
Some sources:
medium.com/the-monthly/...
Some sources:
medium.com/the-monthly/...
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The reason why this hurts so much is because every dubbing studio in the Los Angeles area has been hit with at least one wave of layoffs or a significant reduction in the amount of contractors that have been hired.
All that devastation to our economy, for this?
All that devastation to our economy, for this?
The only thing less human than these AI dub performances is the decision to sign off on them
A company this big can pay human actors a decent wage, not produce slop that intentionally removes the human element.
A company this big can pay human actors a decent wage, not produce slop that intentionally removes the human element.
November 30, 2025 at 11:38 PM
The reason why this hurts so much is because every dubbing studio in the Los Angeles area has been hit with at least one wave of layoffs or a significant reduction in the amount of contractors that have been hired.
All that devastation to our economy, for this?
All that devastation to our economy, for this?