palm diner
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Body of a sea lion, head just like a horse | they/he/she/any | crab fan | say no to AI
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The Owlbear. What is it? Did a wizard make one as a prank? The answers are simple: the owlbear is a flightless griffin species adapted to life in dense forests. The forelegs are covered with downy owl feathers, while the creature's sturdy hindquarters are actually those of a giant lynx!
December 26, 2025 at 5:42 PM
The Owlbear. What is it? Did a wizard make one as a prank? The answers are simple: the owlbear is a flightless griffin species adapted to life in dense forests. The forelegs are covered with downy owl feathers, while the creature's sturdy hindquarters are actually those of a giant lynx!
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The holidays are hard when you're estranged from your family, but it gets easier, and you are not alone.
From @sandyernestallen.bsky.social some counter programming for trans people who may be struggling today.
www.assignedmedia.org/breaking-new...
From @sandyernestallen.bsky.social some counter programming for trans people who may be struggling today.
www.assignedmedia.org/breaking-new...
Surviving the Holidays as an Estranged Person — Assigned
You may struggle over the holidays if you’re estranged from your family, but you are not alone.
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December 25, 2025 at 11:40 AM
The holidays are hard when you're estranged from your family, but it gets easier, and you are not alone.
From @sandyernestallen.bsky.social some counter programming for trans people who may be struggling today.
www.assignedmedia.org/breaking-new...
From @sandyernestallen.bsky.social some counter programming for trans people who may be struggling today.
www.assignedmedia.org/breaking-new...
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Today I made a candy glass sugar cookie based on Ellsworth Kelly's 'Austin' chapel (2018) on the Blanton Museum grounds.
December 21, 2025 at 6:12 PM
Today I made a candy glass sugar cookie based on Ellsworth Kelly's 'Austin' chapel (2018) on the Blanton Museum grounds.
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Holy crap, just look at this photo of Mars with one of its moons, Phobos, passing by on its merry way. Taken by Mars Express.
Seriously cool.
Seriously cool.
1/n
2 NEW epic images of Phobos over Mars just released by @esa.int Mars Express
This view is especially striking, with Phobos between the Tharsis volcanoes and Noctis Labyrinthus–Valles Marineris
Full resolution 300MP(!) & info on: flic.kr/p/2rMW4so
Credit: ESA/DLR/FUBerlin/AndreaLuck CC BY 🧪🔭
2 NEW epic images of Phobos over Mars just released by @esa.int Mars Express
This view is especially striking, with Phobos between the Tharsis volcanoes and Noctis Labyrinthus–Valles Marineris
Full resolution 300MP(!) & info on: flic.kr/p/2rMW4so
Credit: ESA/DLR/FUBerlin/AndreaLuck CC BY 🧪🔭
December 23, 2025 at 9:42 AM
Holy crap, just look at this photo of Mars with one of its moons, Phobos, passing by on its merry way. Taken by Mars Express.
Seriously cool.
Seriously cool.
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In a way though, LLM adoption is the natural endpoint of decades of software UX design intended to deskill, demean, and disempower users. Almost no software people use daily has automation affordances or even decent UI customization options.
December 23, 2025 at 1:40 PM
In a way though, LLM adoption is the natural endpoint of decades of software UX design intended to deskill, demean, and disempower users. Almost no software people use daily has automation affordances or even decent UI customization options.
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Mary and Joseph praying over Jesus in the manger, or
TWO T. REXES FIGHTING OVER A TABLE SAW?
Once seen, cannot be unseen.
TWO T. REXES FIGHTING OVER A TABLE SAW?
Once seen, cannot be unseen.
December 22, 2025 at 5:50 PM
Mary and Joseph praying over Jesus in the manger, or
TWO T. REXES FIGHTING OVER A TABLE SAW?
Once seen, cannot be unseen.
TWO T. REXES FIGHTING OVER A TABLE SAW?
Once seen, cannot be unseen.
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My conspiracy theory about genAI in games blowing up more and more by big companies is that they’ve all got a ton of investors insisting they use genAI tools otherwise they(investors) won’t be able to bankroll em anymore
December 22, 2025 at 1:28 PM
My conspiracy theory about genAI in games blowing up more and more by big companies is that they’ve all got a ton of investors insisting they use genAI tools otherwise they(investors) won’t be able to bankroll em anymore
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In general, AI adoption levels are a measurement of to what extent a particular reward system (a corporation, a market, academia as a whole system) has ceased to distinguish between doing a thing and pretending to do a thing
One of many things the pro-AI crowd doesn't seem to understand is the very important distinction between academic scholarship and the production of papers. Of course they can be related but they're not necessarily the same thing
December 22, 2025 at 12:04 AM
In general, AI adoption levels are a measurement of to what extent a particular reward system (a corporation, a market, academia as a whole system) has ceased to distinguish between doing a thing and pretending to do a thing
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I wrote a sappy Christmas story in which Santa rescues a pair of downed aviators during the First World War. It's not the sort of thing that SF/F mags are very interested in picking up, so I'm sharing it for free on my horrible Wordpress site. Enjoy!
thomasdleewriter.wordpress.com/2025/12/20/o...
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Over By Christmas
A Short 184. Art by Stephen Spiteri and Raymond Agius by Thomas D. Lee 24th of December, 1917 Nairn put the kite down in the drink. It was a pretty smooth landing, all things considered. Even on a …
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December 20, 2025 at 10:54 PM
I wrote a sappy Christmas story in which Santa rescues a pair of downed aviators during the First World War. It's not the sort of thing that SF/F mags are very interested in picking up, so I'm sharing it for free on my horrible Wordpress site. Enjoy!
thomasdleewriter.wordpress.com/2025/12/20/o...
thomasdleewriter.wordpress.com/2025/12/20/o...
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December 17, 2025 at 1:34 AM
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I’ve been working hard to try and tell my story. Figuring out how to present it in small bite sized and palatable ways. Bear with me.
December 17, 2025 at 7:16 PM
I’ve been working hard to try and tell my story. Figuring out how to present it in small bite sized and palatable ways. Bear with me.
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Hi, I'm the CEO of Glorbo, the company who enjoys near unprecedented goodwill in our field, I'm here today to talk to you about our pivot to using the Magic 8-Ball powered by children's bones that everybody hates, I've given myself psychosis listening to the 8-ball aaaaeeeeeiiiiooouuuu
December 17, 2025 at 9:06 AM
Hi, I'm the CEO of Glorbo, the company who enjoys near unprecedented goodwill in our field, I'm here today to talk to you about our pivot to using the Magic 8-Ball powered by children's bones that everybody hates, I've given myself psychosis listening to the 8-ball aaaaeeeeeiiiiooouuuu
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the oppression of children runs so deep in our society that one of the primary ways that we disempower people is by assigning them child-adjacent status as adults. license to abuse flows from that
December 17, 2025 at 1:03 AM
the oppression of children runs so deep in our society that one of the primary ways that we disempower people is by assigning them child-adjacent status as adults. license to abuse flows from that
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Again going to bang my drum:
*Even if* gen AI excelled at tasks
*Even if* gen AI had abuse-guardrails
*Even if* gen AI helped the environment & medicine
It’s still built on scraping the world’s creative labour without consent.
Gen AI is poisoned at the root.
*Even if* gen AI excelled at tasks
*Even if* gen AI had abuse-guardrails
*Even if* gen AI helped the environment & medicine
It’s still built on scraping the world’s creative labour without consent.
Gen AI is poisoned at the root.
It seems there are exactly two kinds of stories about generative AI:
1) wildly exuberant stories about what this stuff will do sometime really soon (trust us!), and
2) stories like this about how some actual use of gen AI fails fantastically
oh, wait, I forgot:
3) gen AI is pretty good at fraud
1) wildly exuberant stories about what this stuff will do sometime really soon (trust us!), and
2) stories like this about how some actual use of gen AI fails fantastically
oh, wait, I forgot:
3) gen AI is pretty good at fraud
“Internal tests found that the AI was generating podcasts riddled with errors and bias, with anywhere between 68 and 84 percent of the scripts deemed unpublishable by evaluators across three rounds of testing.”
December 16, 2025 at 1:45 PM
Again going to bang my drum:
*Even if* gen AI excelled at tasks
*Even if* gen AI had abuse-guardrails
*Even if* gen AI helped the environment & medicine
It’s still built on scraping the world’s creative labour without consent.
Gen AI is poisoned at the root.
*Even if* gen AI excelled at tasks
*Even if* gen AI had abuse-guardrails
*Even if* gen AI helped the environment & medicine
It’s still built on scraping the world’s creative labour without consent.
Gen AI is poisoned at the root.
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unlike my old laptop, i have only hostility towards my phone. when it's slow, i get mad... like a manager having to deal with a high employee
December 15, 2025 at 10:59 PM
unlike my old laptop, i have only hostility towards my phone. when it's slow, i get mad... like a manager having to deal with a high employee
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frame: estimates of AI water usage are exaggerated / less than other industries
negation: actually these studies show it's still pretty bad and it's hard to make good estimates when they hide all the data
kirby:
negation: actually these studies show it's still pretty bad and it's hard to make good estimates when they hide all the data
kirby:
how much water does it take to disrupt the careers of millions of people? how much water does it take to make deepfakes of underage kids? how much water does it take to exacerbate people's mental health crises? is there a good number? is there an acceptable number?
December 13, 2025 at 11:42 PM
frame: estimates of AI water usage are exaggerated / less than other industries
negation: actually these studies show it's still pretty bad and it's hard to make good estimates when they hide all the data
kirby:
negation: actually these studies show it's still pretty bad and it's hard to make good estimates when they hide all the data
kirby:
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[RONNIE BARKER VOICE] no, gamer wards. to ward off gamers.
December 13, 2024 at 12:00 PM
[RONNIE BARKER VOICE] no, gamer wards. to ward off gamers.
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"people with renaissance-level art skills don't exist anymore" yes they do their username is something like 03748218_ and they spend all their time drawing pornography so deranged it'd kill hugh hefner a second time
December 12, 2025 at 12:06 PM
"people with renaissance-level art skills don't exist anymore" yes they do their username is something like 03748218_ and they spend all their time drawing pornography so deranged it'd kill hugh hefner a second time
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I guess it's fitting that it's a reimagined, worse version of someone else's artwork
December 12, 2025 at 4:00 AM
I guess it's fitting that it's a reimagined, worse version of someone else's artwork
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