Grim, Folkloric Menace
@unseeliegrimalkin.bsky.social
Quinn/Grim. she/her/hers, xe/xir/xirs.
I have the soul of a writer somewhere. Probably hidden on the top shelf. I have a lot of thoughts on a lot of different topics; I’m an amateur folklorist & a gamer. These things interact more often than desired
I have the soul of a writer somewhere. Probably hidden on the top shelf. I have a lot of thoughts on a lot of different topics; I’m an amateur folklorist & a gamer. These things interact more often than desired
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Dusting this off; hi! I’m Quinn (or Grim if that’s easier to remember with the handle) and I’m generally a nerd. Most of my academic training is in dissected literary analysis and Hellenic studies, sometimes taking the framework I had in the latter and applying it to other spheres.
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We are thrilled to announce that our NEW Large Language Model will be released on 11.18.25.
October 1, 2025 at 2:38 PM
We are thrilled to announce that our NEW Large Language Model will be released on 11.18.25.
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The fact Nvidia is investing in OpenAI so it can pay Oracle so Oracle can pay Nvidia is the kind of deal that is hilariously and openly indicative of the AI bubble eating itself - yet tech and business journalists seem absolutely star struck by ✨BIG NUMBER✨
September 24, 2025 at 12:20 AM
The fact Nvidia is investing in OpenAI so it can pay Oracle so Oracle can pay Nvidia is the kind of deal that is hilariously and openly indicative of the AI bubble eating itself - yet tech and business journalists seem absolutely star struck by ✨BIG NUMBER✨
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September 21, 2025 at 4:16 PM
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I love Narnia but Santa as an arms dealer will never not make me laugh.
September 21, 2025 at 2:58 PM
I love Narnia but Santa as an arms dealer will never not make me laugh.
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#Animorphs fans, I'm very happy to share that the first three books in the series are being rereleased next May with brand new covers. 🧊🦎
You can learn more here: thenerddaily.com/animorphs-by...
Cover artist: @creepcaptain.bsky.social
Book design: Cassy Price and Christopher Stengel at Scholastic
You can learn more here: thenerddaily.com/animorphs-by...
Cover artist: @creepcaptain.bsky.social
Book design: Cassy Price and Christopher Stengel at Scholastic
September 21, 2025 at 2:46 PM
#Animorphs fans, I'm very happy to share that the first three books in the series are being rereleased next May with brand new covers. 🧊🦎
You can learn more here: thenerddaily.com/animorphs-by...
Cover artist: @creepcaptain.bsky.social
Book design: Cassy Price and Christopher Stengel at Scholastic
You can learn more here: thenerddaily.com/animorphs-by...
Cover artist: @creepcaptain.bsky.social
Book design: Cassy Price and Christopher Stengel at Scholastic
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"…and Magda Goebbels made a great strudel.”
September 13, 2025 at 3:27 PM
"…and Magda Goebbels made a great strudel.”
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My 2024 book, Practical Archaeogaming (Berghahn Books) was used by Anthropic without my consent. I’ve joined the suit. If you’ve published something, use the lookup tool provided in Alex’s thread 👇
There are tons of graphic novels, academic papers, film and TV scripts, & prose novels/nonfiction on the LibGen list Anthropic used.
As settlement approaches, make it easy for the class action lawyers to contact you! Here’s how
Part 1: is your work in Libgen?
www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...
As settlement approaches, make it easy for the class action lawyers to contact you! Here’s how
Part 1: is your work in Libgen?
www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...
Search LibGen, the Pirated-Books Database That Meta Used to Train AI
Millions of books and scientific papers are captured in the collection’s current iteration.
www.theatlantic.com
August 29, 2025 at 12:19 PM
My 2024 book, Practical Archaeogaming (Berghahn Books) was used by Anthropic without my consent. I’ve joined the suit. If you’ve published something, use the lookup tool provided in Alex’s thread 👇
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When they screamed "States Rights" when debating abortion, those of us with knowledge of history knew it was a lie.
Because the Confederacy had lied the same way about slavery.
The pretense is gone now. But if ever they lose the power they now possess, it will return.
In the name of States Rights
Because the Confederacy had lied the same way about slavery.
The pretense is gone now. But if ever they lose the power they now possess, it will return.
In the name of States Rights
A Trump administration official said the federal government may try to take over Boston's South Station "for more security and cleanliness." Commuters there said they aren't on board with that idea.
Boston commuters aren't sold on a federal takeover of South Station
A Trump administration official said the federal government may try to take over Boston's South Station "for more security and cleanliness." Commuters there said they aren't on board with that idea.
www.wbur.org
August 29, 2025 at 1:14 PM
When they screamed "States Rights" when debating abortion, those of us with knowledge of history knew it was a lie.
Because the Confederacy had lied the same way about slavery.
The pretense is gone now. But if ever they lose the power they now possess, it will return.
In the name of States Rights
Because the Confederacy had lied the same way about slavery.
The pretense is gone now. But if ever they lose the power they now possess, it will return.
In the name of States Rights
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the most useful thing LLMs can is force us to do is to reconsider the way we use linguistic dexterity as a proxy for intelligence
August 26, 2025 at 11:41 AM
the most useful thing LLMs can is force us to do is to reconsider the way we use linguistic dexterity as a proxy for intelligence
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another way in which LLMs make me feel like an alien as compared to their many fans: I find their default fawning conversational tone to be intensely, viscerally repulsive and suspicious.
for my specific style of Totally Normal Brain, a person acting weirdly fawning and inexplicably congratulatory like an llm would make me immediately skeptical of anything they say, so llms emulating that behavior as an intentional design choice is like wow i fucking hate this.
August 11, 2025 at 6:17 PM
another way in which LLMs make me feel like an alien as compared to their many fans: I find their default fawning conversational tone to be intensely, viscerally repulsive and suspicious.
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It honestly keeps reshocking me that the bloke who had a row with the Holocaust museum about his dogshit Holocaust book, the bloke who went TERF after being criticised for writing a similarly awful novel about trans kids, and the bloke who plagiarised Zelda by mistake, are all the same bloke.
August 10, 2025 at 12:48 PM
It honestly keeps reshocking me that the bloke who had a row with the Holocaust museum about his dogshit Holocaust book, the bloke who went TERF after being criticised for writing a similarly awful novel about trans kids, and the bloke who plagiarised Zelda by mistake, are all the same bloke.
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The gold really highlights the fasces above the door…
August 9, 2025 at 2:11 AM
The gold really highlights the fasces above the door…
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All I think about when I hear people say that it’s bad taste to dance on Hulk Hogan’s grave is that Emmett Till’s monument had to be replaced with a 500lb steel bulletproof monument because white people simply won’t stop riddling it with bullets. So now it just has tons of dents. From bullets.
July 28, 2025 at 1:12 AM
All I think about when I hear people say that it’s bad taste to dance on Hulk Hogan’s grave is that Emmett Till’s monument had to be replaced with a 500lb steel bulletproof monument because white people simply won’t stop riddling it with bullets. So now it just has tons of dents. From bullets.
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“You have to use my product or you’ll die,” says a guy whose whole life depends on you using his product
'You can't raw dog it' says Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang: 'If you're not using AI, you're going to lose your job to somebody who uses AI'
'I'll be sure to go home and tell people, you're not gonna raw dog this.'
www.pcgamer.com
July 26, 2025 at 3:52 PM
“You have to use my product or you’ll die,” says a guy whose whole life depends on you using his product
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Something about the way LLMs build in the idea that to find something out, you shouldn't read an already existing text that other people have also read (ew!); you should get fresh text generated just for you. Each time, new disposable text.
July 23, 2025 at 12:29 AM
Something about the way LLMs build in the idea that to find something out, you shouldn't read an already existing text that other people have also read (ew!); you should get fresh text generated just for you. Each time, new disposable text.
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You need to read this incredible testament to power of hating and prepare yourself for what will come once the pathetic fallacy of AI collapses.
Newsletter: This is the Hater's Guide To The AI Bubble: genAI is nothing like Uber or Amazon Web Services, there are no profitable genAI companies, agents do not and cannot exist, there is no AI SaaS story, and everything rides - and dies - on selling GPUs.
www.wheresyoured.at/the-haters-g...
www.wheresyoured.at/the-haters-g...
The Hater's Guide To The AI Bubble
Hey! Before we go any further — if you want to support my work, please sign up for the premium version of Where’s Your Ed At, it’s a $7-a-month (or $70-a-year) paid product where every week you get a ...
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July 21, 2025 at 9:31 PM
You need to read this incredible testament to power of hating and prepare yourself for what will come once the pathetic fallacy of AI collapses.
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Fascism is evil. Fascism is scary. Fascism is awful.
But goddamn it is also so fucking whiny and intellectually vapid and incredibly annoying.
But goddamn it is also so fucking whiny and intellectually vapid and incredibly annoying.
July 9, 2025 at 11:39 PM
Fascism is evil. Fascism is scary. Fascism is awful.
But goddamn it is also so fucking whiny and intellectually vapid and incredibly annoying.
But goddamn it is also so fucking whiny and intellectually vapid and incredibly annoying.
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I am sad to say that as a woman I was just like “Yeah, yeah, standard can’t get laid rhetoric…” and then hit “allow people to borrow against the future income of their children” and my brain did a record scratch. Suddenly I smelled burnt toast.
the silicon valley technofascists are the definition of good times breed weak men
July 6, 2025 at 7:29 PM
I am sad to say that as a woman I was just like “Yeah, yeah, standard can’t get laid rhetoric…” and then hit “allow people to borrow against the future income of their children” and my brain did a record scratch. Suddenly I smelled burnt toast.
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Noisy fireworks, as opposed to colorful fireworks, have consequences.
July 4, 2025 at 5:42 AM
Noisy fireworks, as opposed to colorful fireworks, have consequences.
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REMEMBER: All the "Don't use em-dashes" "don't use rule of three" advice because it makes your writing "look like AI" is because they stole actual writers work, and their "predict the next thing" stuff just simulates what WE FUCKING DO. Keep writing well. Use every style and trick you have. Fuck AI.
July 3, 2025 at 7:43 PM
REMEMBER: All the "Don't use em-dashes" "don't use rule of three" advice because it makes your writing "look like AI" is because they stole actual writers work, and their "predict the next thing" stuff just simulates what WE FUCKING DO. Keep writing well. Use every style and trick you have. Fuck AI.
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*INDIANA JONES AND THE CLOSURE OF THE ARCHAEOLOGY DEPARTMENT*
July 2, 2025 at 5:22 PM
*INDIANA JONES AND THE CLOSURE OF THE ARCHAEOLOGY DEPARTMENT*