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Eveline Albers

@aerisnoir.bsky.social

670 followers 690 following 920 posts

Indie gamedev /w AAA bg. Past games: Thief, Tomb Raider 9/10/11/LC1+2, Deus Ex MD, Marvel's Avengers, HZD, Spider-man. Illustr/Colorist. Transformers/robots fan. Opinions = own

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Eveline Albers @aerisnoir.bsky.social · Oct 17

Yo! I'm a hypercharged dev/artist dark horse. I know a lot, do a lot, & like a lot: So I talk about & create loads of different things. Mostly robots and sci-fi.
But really anything goes.

I'm also an expert on self-motivation and persistence in the face of isolation and going at one's own pace.

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Eveline Albers @aerisnoir.bsky.social · 3d

Time to pack up the Bernina 💙🩷 the final beach themed baby cloths are done. 4 small ones and 2 larger ones.

Can move on to digital art things now.

Photo of sand coloured muslin cloth with blue patterned cotton bindings.

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Des Walsh @deswalsh.bsky.social · 3d

Nothing to fancy but fun little detail to consider to you sci-fi and prop artists. Nothing says you can’t be extra and animate stuff like that to add more character and life to something. #reference

This guy built one of the wildest taillight mods ever, his 300ZX flashes "Boost Loading"

YouTube video by G82 Nick

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“Surely, she dies first” Jackson @lioninthetrees.bsky.social · 3d

Kumiho Totem 🦊🔥✨

My piece for the upcoming Giant Robot Store Yokai exhibition celebrating folklore and fables!

My piece will be available tomorrow at 11am PT on their site here:
www.giantrobot.com/collections/...

#art #pottery

A black sgraffito ceramic 3-tailed fox sculpture. There are orange flames and California Poppies carved into it’s body.
It is holding a handmade red tassel in it’s mouth that also has a fortune coin tied into the tassel itself.

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Eveline Albers @aerisnoir.bsky.social · 3d

Eyeing Luxemburg to share me the setlist for Helloween & Beast in Black concert bc I got the Tilburg ticket but... I don't know Helloween at all.

I literally bought the ticket just to see the opening band bc I missed BiB's 2025 tour 😂 I need to update my knowledge.

Eveline Albers @aerisnoir.bsky.social · 3d

Goedemorgen! Won't trust google translate but this random post on my tl taught me 'günaydin', & learning other languages is one of the internet's greatest things.

☕️🌅 have a great day!

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Joe C @joec58.bsky.social · 4d

At some point AI systems start training on more AI regurgitated data and less purely human verified data.

Research shows that will lead to Model Collapse.

www.ibm.com/think/topics...

What Is Model Collapse? | IBM

Model collapse refers to the declining performance of generative AI models that are trained on AI-generated content.

www.ibm.com

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Emanuel Maiberg @emanuelmaiberg.bsky.social · 4d

wikipedia's data shows that AI is siphoning traffic away from the site, which is a danger to its sustainability. ironically Wikipedia is more important than ever to users who want reliable information instead of slop, and to AI companies that need it for training data www.404media.co/wikipedia-sa...

Wikipedia Says AI Is Causing a Dangerous Decline in Human Visitors

“With fewer visits to Wikipedia, fewer volunteers may grow and enrich the content, and fewer individual donors may support this work.”

www.404media.co

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Eveline Albers @aerisnoir.bsky.social · 3d

-looks at Groningen, the Netherlands-

There's a sucker born every minute, but it sucks it's my government, and the EU. So the popcorn is expensive.

Regime Accountant, CPA ☠️🎢 @regimecpa.bsky.social · 4d

The plan for OpenAI is to promise to replace all of labor with a perfect substitute made of capital, use that absurd promise to buy a bunch of data center hardware with the power of finance, and then go bankrupt when the music stops.

Eveline Albers @aerisnoir.bsky.social · 4d

These people don't have the balls to make windows 12 AI-driven and see the sales tank. They gotta keep the inflated bubble whole which is why we get retroactive additions in products people didn't buy for the AI. It's lies.

Tom Warren @tomwarren.co.uk · 4d

This is the future of Windows. Microsoft wants to rewrite Windows to turn computers into AI PCs that you talk to. It's now bringing AI features to all Windows 11 PCs today, in a bid to convince you to talk to your PC and let AI control it. Full details 👇 www.theverge.com/news/799768/...

Microsoft wants you to talk to your PC and let AI control it

Copilot Voice and Vision are now rolling out.

www.theverge.com

Eveline Albers @aerisnoir.bsky.social · 4d

Belgian supermarkets are helping themselves to an AI powered five finger discount on music in their stores. Here's hoping that customers will help themselves to five finger discounts on their products. According to Brico & Carrefour you don't need to pay for works of others, after all. Kill economy.

Eveline Albers @aerisnoir.bsky.social · 5d

It's funny cuz it's true 😂

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Nathan Grayson @nathangrayson.bsky.social · 6d

collar gate is the latest instance of a trumped-up non-issue blossoming into a large-scale psychosis event – and possibly the dumbest. it's also the modern internet doing exactly what it was engineered to do

To be honest, I wouldn’t be mentioning this if not for the fact that it’s a microcosm of how online platforms work today: Somebody makes an accusation based on evidence that’s spurious at best, big names with something to gain (viewership or the downfall of a perceived enemy) uncritically boost it, internet sleuths obsessively piece together supporting evidence by amassing context-free clips and ignoring everything that doesn’t match their intended conclusion, and all of the aforementioned parties spread performatively apoplectic videos across Reddit, YouTube, TikTok, Twitter, and wherever else they can sucker in uninitiated normies.

Some version of this happens every week – every day, on a smaller scale – without fail. It accomplishes nothing aside from giving the disaffected masses a brief glimmer of what feels like purpose, but is actually a bloodsucking waste of their precious time on this dying planet. And of course, it provides platforms with sweet, sweet engagement numbers. As a result, platforms will probably never intervene to disrupt this corrosive dynamic, which has broken the general public’s ability to perceive anything resembling objective reality, even as society collapses around them and people like Piker attempt to identify the real reasons why (hint: they don't involve dog collars).

The internet has been like this at least since the Depp v. Heard trial, which wannabe sleuths similarly feasted on in 2022 while getting pretty much every important detail completely wrong. At least back then they were obsessing over something of consequence. Now they’ve taught viewers to regard every trumped-up non-issue they can surface with similar gravity.

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Eveline Albers @aerisnoir.bsky.social · 7d

Had my official pp obgyn conv today. Casus officially closed, great recovery.

Celebrating the milestone with the same snack they gave me after they saved our lives. Cola freeze pops never tasted so damn good.

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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 10d

Premium: The AI Bubble's promises are impossible. NVIDIA's customers are running out of money, GPUs die in 3-5 years, most 1GW data centers will never get built, and OpenAI's Abilene data center doesn't won't have the power it needs before 2028 - if it ever does.
www.wheresyoured.at/the-ai-bubbl...

The AI Bubble's Impossible Promises

Readers: I’ve done a very generous “free” portion of this newsletter, but I do recommend paying for premium to get the in-depth analysis underpinning the intro. That being said, I want as many people ...

www.wheresyoured.at

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Eveline Albers @aerisnoir.bsky.social · 9d

Went to the bookshop for the 'kinderboekenweek' (kids book week) and picked up this amazing book where each page has a spinnable disk which shows different critters. You don't see this quality and gimmick very often! They're complex to make, I bet.

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Natee (they/them) @himmapaan.bsky.social · 10d

Hen and Wren.
Ink and gouache on Fabriano Medioevalis, approximately 95 × 64 mm.

Drawing in black ink, primarily in silhouette, of a hen and a Wren regarding each other quizzically. The hen stands in a patch of wild grasses whilst the wren perches on a small, leafless shrub in front of her. The hen's comb and wattle are the only touch of red gouache. The drawing is finely wrought and intricate. The piece is roughly the size of a business card.

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Eveline Albers @aerisnoir.bsky.social · 10d

Slowly working towards finishing the 'beach' variant to the 'sea' version of the baby cloths. I couldn't sit on the floor nor do any measuring/cutting of yardage for a very long while so these lagged behind.

Picture of sand baby cloths with a blue binding on the edge.

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Lamora | Miniature Painter @lamora-miniatures.bsky.social · 11d

Hello! Long time no post.

Here’s a recent bust from Mindwork Studio I painted.
The background was a bit of work but I’m pretty happy with how it turned out.

#miniatures #miniaturepainting #paintingminiatures #retroscifi

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Eveline Albers @aerisnoir.bsky.social · 11d

Shoutout to the guy who wouldn't stop yapping throughout a movie and *chased* me when I left to complain to staff (after not having spoken to him at all, could’ve gone for a toilet break. He knew he was an a-hole, it was unbelievable.)

Movies are too expensive nowadays to suffer pigs.

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Big Mek Morker @testuser1.bsky.social · 12d

WIP Primal Shork Veteran from Planet Shark

#planetshark #shark #shork #tabletop #miniatures #miniaturepainting #paintingminis #painting #tabletopmodels #tabletop #ttrpg #wargaming #wargames #wargame #tabletop #barbarian

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Eveline Albers @aerisnoir.bsky.social · 12d

You know they're just gonna wash it through an entire hollywood entertainment industry for a few decades until evil is only done by caricatures and not by people looking just like them. The infallible heroes look like them, of course. Always.

It's what they did with ww2 already.

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Num @numerion.bsky.social · 12d

And blood angel too

#nerdlings #dnd #miniatures

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Eveline Albers @aerisnoir.bsky.social · 12d

This says something about AI helping people 'unlock their creativity', doesn't it? Because you don't get slammed with a warning if you weren't asking the system to mimic others, right?

But we know creative people don't use the slop machines anyway since they don't need it...

Sam Cole @samleecole.bsky.social · 12d

the only thing people want to do on Sora, it seems, is generate images of copyrighted characters. now that they can't, they're crashing the fuck out www.404media.co/sora-2-conte...

People Are Crashing Out Over Sora 2’s New Guardrails

OpenAI’s Sora 2 platform started just one week ago as an AI-generated copyright infringement free-for-all. Now, people say they’re struggling to generate anything without being hit with a violation er...

www.404media.co

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Keith W. Dickinson @keithwdickinson.bsky.social · 12d

Today is a day when arts degrees are worthless, but the product of those degrees is so valuable it would kill an entire industry if they were made to pay for it.

The Verge @theverge.com · May 26

Nick Clegg says asking artists for use permission would ‘kill’ the AI industry

Paul McCartne, Elton John and others signed an open letter.

buff.ly

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Eveline Albers @aerisnoir.bsky.social · 12d

Anyway, good article with insights to Bluesky history.