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Vitaemachina 🎃 @vitaemachina.bsky.social · 1d

Lancer?

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Emily Dare @strangetree.maenad.club · 7d

I know I've said this before, but I remain utterly shocked and very disappointed that we are in an "AI Renaissance" that has me, a full-on machine intelligence pervert, wanting to go full Sarah Connor.

a close up of a woman wearing sunglasses in a desert .

Alt: a close up of a woman (Sarah Connor from Terminator 2) wearing sunglasses in a desert .

media.tenor.com

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Vitaemachina 🎃 @vitaemachina.bsky.social · 7d

I just. Every day a new low.

Adam Weinstein @adamweinstein.bsky.social · 7d

So the president of the United States plans to meet with Putin in Hungary, and when a reporter asked where that plan came from, this was the reply of the United States government www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-...

In response to HuffPost’s query about who suggested Budapest, White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt responded, “Your mom did,” and White House communications director Steven Cheung replied: “Your mom.”

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Vitaemachina 🎃 @vitaemachina.bsky.social · 7d

The downside of the new laptop is that it won't have all of my stickers on it.

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Vitaemachina 🎃 @vitaemachina.bsky.social · 7d

Work finally got a new laptop delivered to me after 6 weeks, and I'm not allowed to do anything with it until I get instructions, which of course I don't have, so.

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Vitaemachina 🎃 @vitaemachina.bsky.social · 12d

"We still use SEU"

Marjorie James Keenan @unenthusiast.com · 12d

In honour of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand.

rm -rf ~/

hammancheez @hammancheez.bsky.social · 12d

"The chancellor approved it"

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Ify Nwadiwe @ifycomedy.com · 12d

I think we really should stop using antifa and just fully say anti-fascist and get them saying they are against anti fascism. Using antifa is giving them some distance and I genuinely think some of their base don’t even know that’s what it stands for.

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BJ Colangelo @bjcolangelo.bsky.social · 17d

Zelda has been sounding the alarm on the dangers of AI for YEARS, long before the technology got to where it is now, because she's:

1) brilliant (go watch Lisa Frankenstein).
2) ridiculously smart.
3) experienced first-hand how fucking WEIRD people are about her Dad.

Dr Kat Day (she/her) @chronicleflask.katday.com · 17d

Daughter of Robin Williams, Zelda Williams 💔

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Please, just stop sending me AI videos of Dad. Stop believing I wanna see it or that I'll understand, I don't and I won't. If you're just trying to troll me, I've seen way worse, i'll restrict and move on. But please, if you've got any decency, just stop doing this to him and to me, to everyone even, full stop. It's dumb, it's a waste of time and energy, and believe me, it's NOT what he'd want.
To watch the legacies of real people be condensed down to 'this vaguely looks and sounds like them so that's enough,
, just so
other people can churn out horrible TikTok slop puppeteering them is maddening. You're not making art, you're making disgusting, over-processed hotdogs out of the lives of human beings, out of the history of art and music, and then shoving them down someone else's throat hoping they'll give you a little thumbs up and like it.
Gross.

And for the love of EVERYTHING, stop calling it 'the future. Al is just badly recycling and regurgitating the past to be reconsumed. You are taking in the Human Centipede of content, and from the very very end of the line, all while the folks at the front laugh and laugh, consume and consume.

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Vitaemachina 🎃 @vitaemachina.bsky.social · 18d

Unfortunately for pretty much everybody, AI seems to actually stand for "All In".

Justin Hendrix @justinhendrix.bsky.social · 18d

"The hundreds of billions of dollars companies are investing in AI now account for an astonishing 40 per cent share of US GDP growth this year... In a way, then, America has become one big bet on AI."

America is now one big bet on AI

It’s seen as the magic fix for every threat to the US economy

www.ft.com

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Chloé Stawski (Spooky Edition 🎃🦇) @chlowski.bsky.social · 22d

in sync 💚💜

my fanarts of Melinoe and Nemesis from Hades 2, side by side, doing almost the same gesture of tying her hair with a hairbband of each other's color

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Stellaween? @antlervel.vet · 22d

Once again: Hegseth is the exact type of guy The Art of War was written for, which means he will never read it

Stella Sacco
@antlervel.vet
It's really funny that The Art of War is treated as this like alpha male book when it's clearly meant to be read by ancient Chinese failsons because it's all "please don't forget you have to feed your troops" and "if someone asks if you're going to attack them consider lying about it"

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JB_AU @jbau.bsky.social · 25d

This whole section really.

Finally: AI cannot do your job, but an AI salesman can 100% convince your boss to fire you and replace you with an AI that can't do your job, and when the bubble bursts, the money-hemorrhaging "foundation models" will be shut off and we'll lose the AI that can't do your job, and you will be long gone, retrained or retired or "discouraged" and out of the labor market, and no one will do your job.
AI is the asbestos we are shoveling into the walls of our society and our descendants will be digging it out for generations:

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Vitaemachina 🎃 @vitaemachina.bsky.social · 25d

I'm just using most of the Signalis OST and calling it good.

Vitaemachina 🎃 @vitaemachina.bsky.social · 25d

Finding the right music for battles is one of the most frustrating and time consuming things I do as a GM. It's such a bummer finding a song that has the right vibe but it has lyrics/vocals.

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Vitaemachina 🎃 @vitaemachina.bsky.social · 25d

Combats are complicated enough without my brain getting distracted by singing!

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Vitaemachina 🎃 @vitaemachina.bsky.social · 25d

Finding the right music for battles is one of the most frustrating and time consuming things I do as a GM. It's such a bummer finding a song that has the right vibe but it has lyrics/vocals.

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Vitaemachina 🎃 @vitaemachina.bsky.social · 26d

Hell yeah!

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Ash and Gold 🔜 Iphigenia at Midnight coming 2026 @ashandgold.bsky.social · Sep 21

Iphigenia at Midnight's Kickstarter is now live! 🧵
Designed for the #LancerRPG, IaM will take players through three missions from License Levels 6-9, going from a city under siege to boarding actions in the stars above against a fearsome foe from Union's past.
www.kickstarter.com/projects/ash...

Iphigenia at Midnight

A narrative campaign and rules supplement for the LANCER TTRPG

www.kickstarter.com

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Vitaemachina 🎃 @vitaemachina.bsky.social · 27d

I just backed Iphigenia at Midnight on Kickstarter www.kickstarter.com/projects/ash...

Iphigenia at Midnight

A narrative campaign and rules supplement for the LANCER TTRPG

www.kickstarter.com

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Nash @radiodeadair.com · 27d

Essentially everybody involved in "AI" owes everybody else involved in "AI" like a trillion dollars in investments that no one will ever collect on.

Kameron Hurley @kameronhurley.com · Sep 23

Been trying to explain why economy increasingly feels like it's running wholly on rich people passing each other same bag of money - innovation is stalled, unemployment is rising, but stock tickers are still somehow going up. This example captures the current state of our economy perfectly.

Tweet:

So let me get this right. Oracle says openai committed 300b for cloud storage. Oracle stock jumps 36% Oracle runs on Nvidia gpus. Has to buy billions in chips from Nvidia. Nvidia just announced they're investing 100b in openai. Openai using that money... To pay oracle. Who pays Nvidia. Who investa in open ai

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Vitaemachina 🎃 @vitaemachina.bsky.social · 27d

It's depressing when the best hope for what could be a seriously concerning action under "normal" circumstances is "Maybe he's just a vain fucker that thinks this meeting makes him look strong and commanding", but here we are!

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Vitaemachina 🎃 @vitaemachina.bsky.social · 27d

Give me the mecha, I need it

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Vitaemachina 🎃 @vitaemachina.bsky.social · 27d

The most unkindest cut of all? The meeting, once rescheduled, clearly could have been an email.

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Vitaemachina 🎃 @vitaemachina.bsky.social · 28d

They never showed up, never emailed.

Vitaemachina 🎃 @vitaemachina.bsky.social · 28d

That feeling when you realize you just missed the start of a meeting, feel bad and scramble to join, only to be sitting there waiting because the other person hasn't even started the meeting yet. It's a specific kind of indignation.

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Vitaemachina 🎃 @vitaemachina.bsky.social · 28d

That feeling when you realize you just missed the start of a meeting, feel bad and scramble to join, only to be sitting there waiting because the other person hasn't even started the meeting yet. It's a specific kind of indignation.

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Vitaemachina 🎃 @vitaemachina.bsky.social · 28d

I think security is important, like really really important! But also I am just one dude* and I have so many other things I am already responsible for.

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