Illuminlast
@illuminlast.bsky.social
(M, 20's) People are not machines. Machines are not people.
Hoping to get a B.Sc. in Environment and Energy + start a career in that field.
Learning to use Linux (Mint).
I'm into RPG games, hiking, and art/music. Anti-car dependency. Learning German. ☮
Hoping to get a B.Sc. in Environment and Energy + start a career in that field.
Learning to use Linux (Mint).
I'm into RPG games, hiking, and art/music. Anti-car dependency. Learning German. ☮
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For better or (mostly) for worse, 2025 is almost over.
For all the human creatives out there, artists, writers, musicians, dancers, choreographers, and so many more, thank you for your perseverance and courage.
Happy to announce: ETCH (Ethnical Technology and Computing for Humanity), a nonprofit.
For all the human creatives out there, artists, writers, musicians, dancers, choreographers, and so many more, thank you for your perseverance and courage.
Happy to announce: ETCH (Ethnical Technology and Computing for Humanity), a nonprofit.
December 25, 2025 at 4:11 AM
For better or (mostly) for worse, 2025 is almost over.
For all the human creatives out there, artists, writers, musicians, dancers, choreographers, and so many more, thank you for your perseverance and courage.
Happy to announce: ETCH (Ethnical Technology and Computing for Humanity), a nonprofit.
For all the human creatives out there, artists, writers, musicians, dancers, choreographers, and so many more, thank you for your perseverance and courage.
Happy to announce: ETCH (Ethnical Technology and Computing for Humanity), a nonprofit.
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1/5 Seeing some tech/ai slop accounts online claiming that AI has always been used in games, pretending GenAi is a part of that, when its absolutely not.
Yes, AI has always been a part of games in: NPC behaviors, Data Mining, PCG’s (Procedural Content Generation) etc
All different from GenAi!
Yes, AI has always been a part of games in: NPC behaviors, Data Mining, PCG’s (Procedural Content Generation) etc
All different from GenAi!
December 21, 2025 at 11:07 PM
1/5 Seeing some tech/ai slop accounts online claiming that AI has always been used in games, pretending GenAi is a part of that, when its absolutely not.
Yes, AI has always been a part of games in: NPC behaviors, Data Mining, PCG’s (Procedural Content Generation) etc
All different from GenAi!
Yes, AI has always been a part of games in: NPC behaviors, Data Mining, PCG’s (Procedural Content Generation) etc
All different from GenAi!
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We're half a decade into studies finding that improving airflow in classrooms will reduce disease transmission enormously, and that bleaching surfaces etc. does very little. And yet nothing changes. Waves of flu and colds wash over schools, and the schools pretend it's an act of God.
The relative contribution of close-proximity contacts, shared classroom exposure and indoor air quality to respiratory virus transmission in schools - Nature Communications
The relative importance of close-proximity interactions, shared space and air quality to the transmission of respiratory viruses is not well understood. Here, the authors investigate this question by ...
www.nature.com
December 8, 2025 at 4:23 AM
We're half a decade into studies finding that improving airflow in classrooms will reduce disease transmission enormously, and that bleaching surfaces etc. does very little. And yet nothing changes. Waves of flu and colds wash over schools, and the schools pretend it's an act of God.
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Or better yet: make GenAI about an assault on civics. Because if you are selling a product that necessarily attempts to con one person into believing they are engaging with another person when they are not, you’re not just ruining education. You’re dismantling society’s foundations in social trust.
December 4, 2025 at 11:37 PM
Or better yet: make GenAI about an assault on civics. Because if you are selling a product that necessarily attempts to con one person into believing they are engaging with another person when they are not, you’re not just ruining education. You’re dismantling society’s foundations in social trust.
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Society work ahead? I sure hope it does.
Drew Gooden: "You have to wonder if we've finally reached a point now where the greed has gone too far ... no amount of gaslighting about how the economy is good will convince people who are dying because they can't afford to go to the doctor."
December 3, 2025 at 9:13 PM
Society work ahead? I sure hope it does.
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Starting January 1st, California will mandate that any use of AI-altered real estate photos in listings be disclosed, and that a link to the unaltered image be included.
It will be a criminal offense to fail to make this disclosure.
It will be a criminal offense to fail to make this disclosure.
November 25, 2025 at 1:48 PM
Starting January 1st, California will mandate that any use of AI-altered real estate photos in listings be disclosed, and that a link to the unaltered image be included.
It will be a criminal offense to fail to make this disclosure.
It will be a criminal offense to fail to make this disclosure.
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Happy 20th Birthday Xbox 360
Xbox 360 website in 2009
Xbox 360 website in 2009
November 22, 2025 at 6:24 PM
Happy 20th Birthday Xbox 360
Xbox 360 website in 2009
Xbox 360 website in 2009
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It's inevitable. Someone is going to shit in the pool, so we have to shit in the pool FIRST and HARDEST.
November 21, 2025 at 2:28 AM
It's inevitable. Someone is going to shit in the pool, so we have to shit in the pool FIRST and HARDEST.
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Approximately 30% of all job postings are fake, with millions of ghost jobs making a tough hiring process even worse.
November 18, 2025 at 7:33 PM
Approximately 30% of all job postings are fake, with millions of ghost jobs making a tough hiring process even worse.
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Can we please stop using the phrase "the advent of LLMs"? They are not something that arrived on the scene of their own accord and the religious connotations are also extremely icky.
November 17, 2025 at 3:04 AM
Can we please stop using the phrase "the advent of LLMs"? They are not something that arrived on the scene of their own accord and the religious connotations are also extremely icky.
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Welcome to fam, ya'll!
-Steam Controller
-Steam Machine
-Steam Frame
(Growing our @steampowered.com Hardware Family in early 2026)
-Steam Controller
-Steam Machine
-Steam Frame
(Growing our @steampowered.com Hardware Family in early 2026)
November 12, 2025 at 6:22 PM
Welcome to fam, ya'll!
-Steam Controller
-Steam Machine
-Steam Frame
(Growing our @steampowered.com Hardware Family in early 2026)
-Steam Controller
-Steam Machine
-Steam Frame
(Growing our @steampowered.com Hardware Family in early 2026)
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I considered writing a long carefully constructed argument laying out the harms and limitations of AI, but instead I wrote about being a hater. Only humans can be haters.
I Am An AI Hater
I am an AI hater. This is considered rude, but I do not care, because I am a hater.
anthonymoser.github.io
August 27, 2025 at 5:04 PM
I considered writing a long carefully constructed argument laying out the harms and limitations of AI, but instead I wrote about being a hater. Only humans can be haters.
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Here's the finished fantasy ink drawing of a wizard confronting a dragon. If you'd like to see the full creative process, check out my previous 4 posts.
October 17, 2025 at 3:28 PM
Here's the finished fantasy ink drawing of a wizard confronting a dragon. If you'd like to see the full creative process, check out my previous 4 posts.
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We're so relieved to see Germany reaffirm its opposition to the dangerous Chat Control proposal--the one that would mandate mass scanning of communications. Germany's long been a solid champion of privacy, and the news that it was considering backing mass surveillance was alarming. 1/
October 9, 2025 at 11:40 AM
We're so relieved to see Germany reaffirm its opposition to the dangerous Chat Control proposal--the one that would mandate mass scanning of communications. Germany's long been a solid champion of privacy, and the news that it was considering backing mass surveillance was alarming. 1/
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How to Turn Off AI Tools Like Gemini, Apple Intelligence, Copilot, and More - Consumer Reports
AI features are crowding into Google search, Gmail, iPhones, Windows laptops, and other products. If you're suffering from AI overload, these settings can help.
www.consumerreports.org
October 3, 2025 at 10:02 PM
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Freelance illustration gigs drying up. Ad agencies using Midjourney instead of hiring human artists. Costume design turned over to AI wholesale. Good work vanishing.
These are the stories of working visual artists, who describe losing jobs, wages, and hope as their clients and bosses embrace AI.
These are the stories of working visual artists, who describe losing jobs, wages, and hope as their clients and bosses embrace AI.
Artists are losing work, wages, and hope as bosses and clients embrace AI
Visual artists, illustrators and graphic designers share their stories about how AI is being used to lower wages, degrade work and even replace it altogether, in this installment of AI Killed My Job.
www.bloodinthemachine.com
September 17, 2025 at 5:01 PM
Freelance illustration gigs drying up. Ad agencies using Midjourney instead of hiring human artists. Costume design turned over to AI wholesale. Good work vanishing.
These are the stories of working visual artists, who describe losing jobs, wages, and hope as their clients and bosses embrace AI.
These are the stories of working visual artists, who describe losing jobs, wages, and hope as their clients and bosses embrace AI.
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Weekend sketches
August 31, 2025 at 5:01 PM
Weekend sketches
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My all-purpose AI reform is banning computers from pretending they are human. Having names, saying "I," pretending to have feelings, representing what they emit as "advice," etc. That's where much of the mischief starts.
August 20, 2025 at 12:29 AM
My all-purpose AI reform is banning computers from pretending they are human. Having names, saying "I," pretending to have feelings, representing what they emit as "advice," etc. That's where much of the mischief starts.
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We're going to need journalists to stop talking about synthetic text extruding machines as if they have *thoughts* or *stances* that they are *trying* to *communicate*. ChatGPT can't *admit* anything, nor *self-report*. Gah.
www.wsj.com/tech/ai/chat...
www.wsj.com/tech/ai/chat...
August 7, 2025 at 1:46 PM
We're going to need journalists to stop talking about synthetic text extruding machines as if they have *thoughts* or *stances* that they are *trying* to *communicate*. ChatGPT can't *admit* anything, nor *self-report*. Gah.
www.wsj.com/tech/ai/chat...
www.wsj.com/tech/ai/chat...
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Illinois has banned AI therapy, making it the first state to regulate the use of AI in mental health services.
www.engadget.com/ai/illinois-...
www.engadget.com/ai/illinois-...
Illinois is the first state to ban AI therapists
Illinois Governor JB Pritzker has signed a bill banning AI therapists into law, the first in the nation.
www.engadget.com
August 7, 2025 at 6:55 PM
Illinois has banned AI therapy, making it the first state to regulate the use of AI in mental health services.
www.engadget.com/ai/illinois-...
www.engadget.com/ai/illinois-...
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Shit @rusty.todayintabs.com nailed it www.todayintabs.com/p/we-need-to...
July 27, 2025 at 4:59 PM
Shit @rusty.todayintabs.com nailed it www.todayintabs.com/p/we-need-to...