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Nicole
@nikamiden.bsky.social
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She/her. Sometimes writing.
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errant-signal.com
In case you were wondering what it’s like to boot a free to play mobile game in 2025
December 8, 2025 at 3:20 PM
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ani-obsessive.bsky.social
Japan's best stop-motion studio isn't loud about it. But the quiet charm of its work speaks for itself.

We're exploring the specialness of dwarf studios in this issue:
animationobsessive.substack.com/p/inside-dwa...
November 24, 2025 at 10:58 PM
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lizstar.bsky.social
Me, ten years ago: "I love technology! It enables such incredible things, and it's only going to create more wonders in the future!"

Me, now:
Aina from Demonschool saying: "The important thing is we have to smash all technology to bits. That'll prove to you there's demons in there." Also, for some reason, it has an ACTIVATE WINDOWS thing in the corner because even though my Windows is actually activated, Windows is a hell program made out of bullshit.
November 20, 2025 at 11:46 PM
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simonjgane.bsky.social
Nausicaä.
October 29, 2025 at 10:33 AM
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ani-obsessive.bsky.social
In the '70s, Hayao Miyazaki tried to revive the cartoons of his youth. And he kept mentioning Fleischer's Mr. Bug Goes to Town.

He loved its animation and use of "space," and the physical way its characters navigate its world. We look into the story:
animationobsessive.substack.com/p/miyazaki-a...
October 27, 2025 at 11:03 PM
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thethreetomes.bsky.social
"No Turning Back."

The Three Tomes Indie Animatic Pilot is here.

Time for witches, magic books and vampire romance.

The pilot animatic premieres TODAY on YouTube @ 12pm PST

www.youtube.com/watch?v=5fXF...

#indieanimation #thethreetomes
October 24, 2025 at 2:16 PM
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nikk.ca
absolute workhorse of a reaction image from over 100 years ago
elegant woman blasting a suitor in the face with the NO gun
October 20, 2025 at 7:36 AM
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cigaretteliker.bsky.social
The virgin AGI existential risk vs the chad global warming
October 12, 2025 at 6:16 PM
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discountvillain.bsky.social
#BeeandPuppycat
Bee and Puppycat in somewhat matching witch costumes, Bee whimsically wielding a wand pointed towards a potion while Bee stoically holds a broom with its bristles pointed upwards.
October 11, 2025 at 12:43 AM
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hard-drive.net
Anyone who mocks or otherwise doesn’t properly mourn the death of our beloved Dark Lord Sauron will find themselves taken into orc custody and brought to Barad-dûr for questioning. Thank you for your attention to this matter!
September 15, 2025 at 7:24 PM
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hard-drive.net
New Jubilee Video Features Charlie Kirk vs. 20 Screeching Demons in Hell

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New Jubilee Video Features Charlie Kirk vs. 20 Screeching Demons in Hell
EIGHTH CIRCLE OF HELL — Only slightly diverging from their tried and true formula, the latest installment of Jubilee’s hit YouTube series Surrounded features twenty…
hard-drive.net
September 11, 2025 at 12:12 AM
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gothinkdexign.bsky.social
Some wholesome Trek content to start the week right #startrek #tng #voyager #ds9
August 25, 2025 at 6:36 PM
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armormodekeeg.blacksky.app
all the best windows software in history is called something like "joe's thing doer". it does the thing and nothing else and is available on a html website in plain text and takes up under a megabyte of space and uses default windows ui elements and will work until the heat death of the universe
August 31, 2025 at 9:53 PM
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tupped.bsky.social
The U.K. Online Safety Act was (avowedly, as revealed in a recent High Court case) “not primarily aimed at protecting children” but at regulating “services that have a significant influence over public discourse.”
August 15, 2025 at 7:14 AM
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edzitron.com
Generative AI by definition is conformity. It is an averaging of anything you ask of it - quite literally guessing what the most likely version of a thing might be. It is, by definition, mainstream, as is everything it creates old and deeply ideological, as every model trains on similar data.
bencollins.bsky.social Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · Aug 6
AI filmmaking is peeing. It’s pooping. It’s throwing up. It’s a new kind of liquid coming out. It’s hated by the establishment. It’s what goes in the toilet. It’s wet. It’s what’s in the bathroom.
AI filmmaking and storytelling is punk rock. It’s hip hop. It’s counterculture. It’s a new type of creativity. It’s a new medium. It’s hated by the mainstream film and art establishment. It resists ideology. It ignores gate keeping. It’s uncomfortable. It’s scary. It’s viral. It’s accessible. It’s refreshing. It’s welcoming. It’s here.
August 6, 2025 at 2:47 AM
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cabel.panic.com
A remarkable 1987 article about “Q5”, a consultancy that, i’ve now learned, seems singularly responsible for the mass bland-izing of cartoons when i was a kid. I remember the sudden and mysterious Jeanine swap-out in The Real Ghostbusters! this explains so much.

www.latimes.com/archives/la-...
Straczynski expressed the highest regard for Trias and ABC, but he said that he believes "network paranoia" has led them to use Q5. "It is a truly insidious organization, I make no bones about it at all. A lot of their research and theories are strictly from voodoo, Straczynski continued. "I think they reinforce stereotypes--sexist and racist. I think they are not helping television, they are diminishing it." In addition to Janine's new look, described in notes on one DIC character drawing as "generally less harsh & "slutty," she will have a warmer, more nurturing relationship with Slimer, a childlike comic character who sometimes dissolves into slime. The show also will contain less satire and less subtle, sophisticated verbal humor. "I've written a few shows for this season, and they weren't as much fun as last season," lamented "Real Ghostbusters" writer Michael Reaves. As one of numerous examples of this change, the Q5 report notes that some jokes that writers had included about college days and "no intelligent life in New Jersey" would go over the heads of young children. A phrase such as "create the proper ambiance," the report suggests, could be phrased more simply: "Make this room look like a little boy's.
August 2, 2025 at 6:27 PM
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veni.dev
Well this is bad. Google is indexing ChatGPT conversations exposing sensitive user data

I tried a few quick searches. I found someone's chat where I can see their api key

I found some building their resume. Their name, email and phone numbers are exposed.

www.fastcompany.com/91376687/goo...
Exclusive: Google is indexing ChatGPT conversations, potentially exposing sensitive user data
Thousands of shared ChatGPT chats are now appearing in Google search results.
www.fastcompany.com
July 31, 2025 at 8:59 PM
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garethwatkins.bsky.social
July 30, 2025 at 7:04 AM
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garethwatkins.bsky.social
I saw somebody on TikTok using the word 'slopper' as a slur for people who use ChatGPT, and that's a thing we should start doing.
July 24, 2025 at 7:52 PM
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raaleh.bsky.social
July 22, 2025 at 1:11 PM
nikamiden.bsky.social
Saw a theater interpretation of Solaris. Stayed remarkably true to the book while injecting a whole lot of gay.
10/10
June 29, 2025 at 7:11 PM
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insertdisc5.com
theres finally research on chatgpt! spoilers: after 4 months of using chatgpt, brain connectivity collapses by FORTY SEVEN PERCENT
paulginva.bsky.social Paul Graf @paulginva.bsky.social · Jun 18
1/2 Most of the time, the use of over the top words like "terrifying" just makes the author look like a crank, but in this case, it could very well be justified. Memory of what was written was virtually nonexistent and brain connectivity collapsed by 47%. Read the thread.

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This image is a screenshot of a social media post by Alex Vacca on X announcing a new MIT study on the cognitive effects of using ChatGPT. The study, titled "Your Brain on ChatGPT: Accumulation of Cognitive Debt when Using an AI Assistant for Essay Writing Task," suggests that using AI tools like ChatGPT for tasks such as essay writing may lead to reduced brain activity and cognitive engagement. The research, conducted by the MIT Media Lab, indicates that while AI might seem to increase productivity, it could be making users "cognitively bankrupt" by reducing brain connectivity in areas related to memory, executive control, and creativity. The study used dynamic Direct Transfer Function (dDTF) EEG analysis of the Alpha Band to compare brain activity in groups using LLMs (like ChatGPT), search engines, and brain-only approaches for essay writing. Results showed that participants relying on LLMs exhibited the weakest brain connectivity compared to those using search engines or no external tools, suggesting a potential "cognitive debt" associated with AI assistance.
June 19, 2025 at 9:41 AM
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ani-obsessive.bsky.social
This month, a team endorsed by Guillermo del Toro released Mexico's first stop-motion feature. It's 2 hours of pure imagination.

The film is called I Am Frankelda, and we've taken a deep look into how it came to be: animationobsessive.substack.com/p/the-film-a...
June 15, 2025 at 3:24 PM
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jaegerpilotmax.bsky.social
The Flanderization of ghibli in the public mind is just so insane to me. Acting like it’s entirely wholesome and cutesy but is really overtly anti capitalist, depict the horrors of war and environmental decline, and have TONS of body horror and depictions of death and disease. it legit annoys me
June 2, 2025 at 8:18 PM
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scumbelievable.bsky.social
I can't imagine looking at this and feeling anything other than nausea and despair. It's an ad for voluntarily surrendering your humanity in exchange for a low-intensity jerkoff machine.
May 25, 2025 at 6:04 AM