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direlog.bsky.social @direlog.bsky.social · 1m

like to think this is a combination of cluelessness, naked greed, and the sudden realisation that everyone is using Chinese models for ERP/erotica

like, sama pasting a ten-page dm from peter thiel ranting about the cosmic battle against atheist communism into chatgpt and asking for action points

Matt Burgess (WIRED) @mattburgess1.bsky.social · 16h

Oh good, ChatGPT is getting "erotica for verified adults" later this year

We made ChatGPT pretty restrictive to make sure we were being careful with mental health issues. We realize this made it less useful/enjoyable to many users who had no mental health problems, but given the seriousness of the issue we wanted to get this right.

Now that we have been able to mitigate the serious mental health issues and have new tools, we are going to be able to safely relax the restrictions in most cases.

In a few weeks, we plan to put out a new version of ChatGPT that allows people to have a personality that behaves more like what people liked about 4o (we hope it will be better!). If you want your ChatGPT to respond in a very human-like way, or use a ton of emoji, or act like a friend, ChatGPT should do it (but only if you want it, not because we are usage-maxxing).

In December, as we roll out age-gating more fully and as part of our “treat adult users like adults” principle, we will allow even more, like erotica for verified adults.

direlog.bsky.social @direlog.bsky.social · 12h

oh come in, come in! cough cough. i was just eating the soup that sick people eat

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direlog.bsky.social @direlog.bsky.social · 22h

gravity's rainbow is based on a specific tijuana bible

Rachel Feder @rachelfeder.bsky.social · 1d

Tell me your most unhinged literary opinion, as a little treat

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direlog.bsky.social @direlog.bsky.social · 22h

where ‘interesting’ is ‘constraint driver’

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direlog.bsky.social @direlog.bsky.social · 22h

a preferred reference frame is narratively interesting and i’m not sure whether anyone’s done this in SF yet though?

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direlog.bsky.social @direlog.bsky.social · 23h

metzingerpilled

Tumblr post by 'teaboot':

My first time operating CCTV cameras I was handed control over what was essentially 50 independently moving eyes that collectively covered an area about the size of a football field and from that
experience I now know that
1. Suddenly having 50 moving eyes can make you disoriented
and barfy and the adjustment period sucks ass
2. It takes both more and less time than you'd think to figure out
what the structure as a whole looks like and where those eyes
ARE
3. After you get used to it the entirety of the structure itself and all of the eyes you can see from feels like an extension of your nervous system in a very bizarre way. Like I have dreams now from the perspective of A Building and I'm not sure how to
describe that.
4. Once you are aware of an unreachable blind spot it nags at you constantly and you can feel it like a hard little lump under your skin you need to poke and scratch at and it's ardghgguychgghhbhhhbhhh

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Tom Cox @dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social · Jan 28

Write the book you would like to see someone pull from a higgledy piggledy pile in a secondhand shop 63 years after your death and say, "This looks fucking weird. I think I will buy it for Joan."

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VERBAroots @verbaroots.bsky.social · Oct 25

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direlog.bsky.social @direlog.bsky.social · 1d

on reflection this is the smallest, the least crime i have committed in the name space

direlog.bsky.social @direlog.bsky.social · 1d

midnight. library computer. starfield screensaver. you nudge the mouse to wake it up. three orphaned browser tabs each with a search for "ladies". all in bing

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direlog.bsky.social @direlog.bsky.social · 1d

like a fresh cutting is being given a new home

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direlog.bsky.social @direlog.bsky.social · 1d

sometimes i think about what's down there, buried deep inside me, like it's a secret garden of memories the therapists cultivated. i don't feel distracted when i'm out on missions but i often get this sharp, almost painfully-clear image of a little garden when i zero a virtue

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direlog.bsky.social @direlog.bsky.social · 1d

i thought it was to prevent dirt or debris from getting in but marnie says it's because we compulsively put things in there. crayons, keys, pistachios, really anything that'll fit. kez says she got her tongue in someone's once and reports that it tasted like electricity

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direlog.bsky.social @direlog.bsky.social · 1d

and just like it says those experiences bleed into reality now. so i usually send two pulses just to be sure even though my handler gives me shit about my energy levels.

they also gave me a silicone shim which fits in my spinal socket when i'm not in the field

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direlog.bsky.social @direlog.bsky.social · 1d

or so it says in the manual ("we disassembled one so you wouldn't have to!"). we're not supposed to read it but they kind of leave it out i think deliberately and then go looking for you in whatever hidey-hole you secrete yourself in to freak out. it's like a game and theraputic for both of us

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direlog.bsky.social @direlog.bsky.social · 1d

during conditioning they gave me electroshock therapy which they say was necessary for learning and adaptation but it made me experience vivid hallucinations, sometimes even entire worlds constructed from "data streams i intercepted"

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direlog.bsky.social @direlog.bsky.social · 1d

typically when i arrive in a new location i send out a pulse, an electromagnetic wave that helps me "see" the surroundings. it also helps me locate nearby objects of interest to my mission, like power sources or communication hubs

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direlog.bsky.social @direlog.bsky.social · 1d

she's, you know, *traces the shape of a t-34*

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direlog.bsky.social @direlog.bsky.social · 1d

forcibly isekai’d by a nation state to establish a beachhead on another world. slaughterhouse assembly line of prisoners, kei truck mounted on a dolly

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direlog.bsky.social @direlog.bsky.social · 1d

vampire who buys player guitars at auction for the life energy

direlog.bsky.social @direlog.bsky.social · 2d

heresiarch excited to announce flexible workplace consciousness policy

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Postcard From The Past @pastpostcard.bsky.social · 2d

HOW I LONG TO HUG YOU WITH MY NEW HUGE MUSCLES.

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direlog.bsky.social @direlog.bsky.social · 2d

accidentally name a character Fichte and now wondering if i should just run with this

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direlog.bsky.social @direlog.bsky.social · 2d

wear a ship as your body for long enough and you don't forget how mirrors work, exactly, your self-image just gets tied up in other things. what, this the first time you seen a girl fight her reflection?

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direlog.bsky.social @direlog.bsky.social · 2d

(eyeing her suspiciously)

Melissa @laneutrina.bsky.social · 3d

The Great War (1964)
by René Magritte

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