Caliban Darklock
@darklock.com
Professor of badass, world's smartest juggalo, and massive turbo weeb. He/him. Jump up my Discord - discord.gg/wgQrgzkw2A
Tech Bros: Do you love art and music?
Public: Yes...
Tech Bros: Wouldn't you love it if making art and music were ONE-BUTTON EASY?
Public: Yeah!
Tech Bros: Here's a machine we built by stealing from every artist and musician in the world!
Public: FUCK OFF
Tech Bros: Wow why so hostile
Public: Yes...
Tech Bros: Wouldn't you love it if making art and music were ONE-BUTTON EASY?
Public: Yeah!
Tech Bros: Here's a machine we built by stealing from every artist and musician in the world!
Public: FUCK OFF
Tech Bros: Wow why so hostile
December 1, 2025 at 12:59 PM
Tech Bros: Do you love art and music?
Public: Yes...
Tech Bros: Wouldn't you love it if making art and music were ONE-BUTTON EASY?
Public: Yeah!
Tech Bros: Here's a machine we built by stealing from every artist and musician in the world!
Public: FUCK OFF
Tech Bros: Wow why so hostile
Public: Yes...
Tech Bros: Wouldn't you love it if making art and music were ONE-BUTTON EASY?
Public: Yeah!
Tech Bros: Here's a machine we built by stealing from every artist and musician in the world!
Public: FUCK OFF
Tech Bros: Wow why so hostile
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every trans person i see post about the OU suspension knows that the suspended target is trans & a grad student, & has an innate awareness that this is about purging trans employees. every cis person i see thinks the target is a rando professor & that this is about giving conservatives good grades
December 1, 2025 at 12:04 AM
every trans person i see post about the OU suspension knows that the suspended target is trans & a grad student, & has an innate awareness that this is about purging trans employees. every cis person i see thinks the target is a rando professor & that this is about giving conservatives good grades
Show off the range of your music taste.
5 songs you like that are musically as far apart as you can manage.
"Starstruck" - Lady Gaga
"Even Now" - Barry Manilow
"Gates of Babylon" - Rainbow
"Lyrics of Fury" - Eric B. and Rakim
"Lilith Immaculate" - Cradle of Filth
5 songs you like that are musically as far apart as you can manage.
"Starstruck" - Lady Gaga
"Even Now" - Barry Manilow
"Gates of Babylon" - Rainbow
"Lyrics of Fury" - Eric B. and Rakim
"Lilith Immaculate" - Cradle of Filth
Show off the range of your music taste.
5 songs you like that are musically as far apart as you can manage. (Only 5?! Not enough!)
* ”Lola“ The Kinks
* “I Ain’t Goin’ Out Like That” Cypress Hill
* “Annie’s Song” John Denver
* “In the Mood” Glenn Miller
* “Waltz in E Minor” F. Chopin
5 songs you like that are musically as far apart as you can manage. (Only 5?! Not enough!)
* ”Lola“ The Kinks
* “I Ain’t Goin’ Out Like That” Cypress Hill
* “Annie’s Song” John Denver
* “In the Mood” Glenn Miller
* “Waltz in E Minor” F. Chopin
Show off the range of your music taste.
5 songs you like that are musically as far apart as you can manage.
* Pride (In the Name of Love) - U2
* Ooh La La - Goldfrapp
* Symphony No. 40 - Mozart
* Long Time Gone - The Chicks
* Manish Boy - Muddy Waters
5 songs you like that are musically as far apart as you can manage.
* Pride (In the Name of Love) - U2
* Ooh La La - Goldfrapp
* Symphony No. 40 - Mozart
* Long Time Gone - The Chicks
* Manish Boy - Muddy Waters
December 1, 2025 at 12:54 PM
Show off the range of your music taste.
5 songs you like that are musically as far apart as you can manage.
"Starstruck" - Lady Gaga
"Even Now" - Barry Manilow
"Gates of Babylon" - Rainbow
"Lyrics of Fury" - Eric B. and Rakim
"Lilith Immaculate" - Cradle of Filth
5 songs you like that are musically as far apart as you can manage.
"Starstruck" - Lady Gaga
"Even Now" - Barry Manilow
"Gates of Babylon" - Rainbow
"Lyrics of Fury" - Eric B. and Rakim
"Lilith Immaculate" - Cradle of Filth
Showed up. Did some sprite work. KInd of pleased with the results.
Showing Up: Repainting a Sprite
YouTube video by Caliban Darklock
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December 1, 2025 at 12:26 PM
Showed up. Did some sprite work. KInd of pleased with the results.
Some of y'all really need to do some soul-searching about why you can't tell the difference between "cute, pretty" characters and "sexy, horny" characters bc a lot of this stuff you complain about is just a little girl in a dress and when you go "I'll bet people jack off to that" it is a you problem
December 1, 2025 at 10:43 AM
Some of y'all really need to do some soul-searching about why you can't tell the difference between "cute, pretty" characters and "sexy, horny" characters bc a lot of this stuff you complain about is just a little girl in a dress and when you go "I'll bet people jack off to that" it is a you problem
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Because lead being in tampons wasn’t enough, the FDA shot down testing talc in cosmetics for asbestos thehill.com/policy/energ...
thehill.com
December 1, 2025 at 9:39 AM
Because lead being in tampons wasn’t enough, the FDA shot down testing talc in cosmetics for asbestos thehill.com/policy/energ...
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this is all generative tech! almost all the time, it is better to just do the thing yourself than to try to build a monkey with poor cognition that can occasionally, in perfect conditions, do it for you
emergence is only useful in contexts where a random vector is desirable and intentional!
emergence is only useful in contexts where a random vector is desirable and intentional!
I'll say it again -- I'm on my firm's AI committee: every canned demo has had brutal, malpractice-level errors, and every live trial has required more time and care to vet the output than to just do it, like working with an unteachably incompetent associate you'd need to sit down for a Hard Talk.
Loving that AI productivity boost!
"the more artificial intelligence is used within a law firm, the more lawyers are needed to vet the technology’s outputs."
www.afr.com/companies/pr...
"the more artificial intelligence is used within a law firm, the more lawyers are needed to vet the technology’s outputs."
www.afr.com/companies/pr...
December 1, 2025 at 8:04 AM
this is all generative tech! almost all the time, it is better to just do the thing yourself than to try to build a monkey with poor cognition that can occasionally, in perfect conditions, do it for you
emergence is only useful in contexts where a random vector is desirable and intentional!
emergence is only useful in contexts where a random vector is desirable and intentional!
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A writer is a person who cares what words mean, what they say, how they say it. Writers know words are their way towards truth and freedom, and so they use them with care, with thought, with fear, with delight. By using words well they strengthen their souls.
December 1, 2025 at 6:43 AM
A writer is a person who cares what words mean, what they say, how they say it. Writers know words are their way towards truth and freedom, and so they use them with care, with thought, with fear, with delight. By using words well they strengthen their souls.
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Thanks to all who have reposted this thread to help get the word out. The selling of these books "as new" on Amazon is making it more difficult for Unbound authors to rebuild what we lost and move on.
Quick note to anyone thinking of buying my books: please purchase the new Swift Press versions, NOT the relatively small number of Unbound versions still knocking about, & being sold by OOINYA. Unbound stopped paying me for my work early in 2024 and I will never see a penny for these books.
December 1, 2025 at 7:15 AM
Thanks to all who have reposted this thread to help get the word out. The selling of these books "as new" on Amazon is making it more difficult for Unbound authors to rebuild what we lost and move on.
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Starting //// going
December 1, 2025 at 2:58 AM
Starting //// going
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"“OpenAI pays for its chips. It pays for its computers. It pays its programmers. But it steals the raw material for its [AI] products."
www.bostonglobe.com/2025/11/28/b...
www.bostonglobe.com/2025/11/28/b...
Boston Herald, other news outlets sue OpenAI, Microsoft over alleged copyright violations - The Boston Globe
The lawsuit, filed Wednesday in US District Court for the Southern District of New York, seeks more than $10 billion in damages.
www.bostonglobe.com
November 29, 2025 at 12:53 PM
"“OpenAI pays for its chips. It pays for its computers. It pays its programmers. But it steals the raw material for its [AI] products."
www.bostonglobe.com/2025/11/28/b...
www.bostonglobe.com/2025/11/28/b...
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Exactly
I'm always confused when writers change the plot because a reader figured out what was coming. Surely that's good? Surely that means the breadcrumbs have been laid out appropriately?
December 1, 2025 at 6:59 AM
Exactly
Thread.
You have probably guessed that I am rather a fan of Shakespeare, and maybe even that I am particularly fond of The Tempest
You have probably guessed that I am rather a fan of Shakespeare, and maybe even that I am particularly fond of The Tempest
Eleven years ago, I wrote to Tom Stoppard to ask about this coup de théâtre from 1949. It took me down an unexpected rabbit hole - in memory of Stoppard, here's what I found.
December 1, 2025 at 7:18 AM
Thread.
You have probably guessed that I am rather a fan of Shakespeare, and maybe even that I am particularly fond of The Tempest
You have probably guessed that I am rather a fan of Shakespeare, and maybe even that I am particularly fond of The Tempest
I will take this opportunity to remind you that Tim Sweetney is the devil.
SO... I'm pretty much done with Fortnite. There were statements made by Tim Sweeney saying that AI usage doesn't need to be disclosed, and then AI usage was found all over this current season- from art to sprays to in-game songs. Between that, and the upcoming shitty wizard collab... Yeah, I'm done.
December 1, 2025 at 3:29 AM
I will take this opportunity to remind you that Tim Sweetney is the devil.
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tim sweeney should get on here so i can tell him to suck my shit
December 1, 2025 at 3:08 AM
tim sweeney should get on here so i can tell him to suck my shit
Everyone calling customer service wants to talk to a person but a person would be expensive so the implicit goal of all customer service systems is to prevent anyone from talking to a person ever at any time.
Because someone thought it would be smart to make people who are mad at you even madder.
Because someone thought it would be smart to make people who are mad at you even madder.
i sincerely believe that we are officially in an age where “customer service” has gotten so bad that it’s actually better to not ask for help at all in 95% of cases, because you can tell companies are actively building their systems out hoping you never talk to them
December 1, 2025 at 3:02 AM
Everyone calling customer service wants to talk to a person but a person would be expensive so the implicit goal of all customer service systems is to prevent anyone from talking to a person ever at any time.
Because someone thought it would be smart to make people who are mad at you even madder.
Because someone thought it would be smart to make people who are mad at you even madder.
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6 years today the first COVID case was identified in a man in Wuhan marking the beginning of a global pandemic that changed the world. We are way less prepared today to face another pandemic than we were back then. This fact makes me sad.
November 30, 2025 at 10:52 PM
6 years today the first COVID case was identified in a man in Wuhan marking the beginning of a global pandemic that changed the world. We are way less prepared today to face another pandemic than we were back then. This fact makes me sad.
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presented without comment
December 1, 2025 at 2:28 AM
presented without comment
A lot of people don't seem to understand.
CAPITAL is anything you put into a production process: labour, tools, materials, facilities, TIME, and then the capital is EXPLOITED to produce the output.
And every capitalist - provider of that capital - has an ownership stake in the output.
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CAPITAL is anything you put into a production process: labour, tools, materials, facilities, TIME, and then the capital is EXPLOITED to produce the output.
And every capitalist - provider of that capital - has an ownership stake in the output.
1/2
December 1, 2025 at 2:19 AM
A lot of people don't seem to understand.
CAPITAL is anything you put into a production process: labour, tools, materials, facilities, TIME, and then the capital is EXPLOITED to produce the output.
And every capitalist - provider of that capital - has an ownership stake in the output.
1/2
CAPITAL is anything you put into a production process: labour, tools, materials, facilities, TIME, and then the capital is EXPLOITED to produce the output.
And every capitalist - provider of that capital - has an ownership stake in the output.
1/2
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Sure, they've made an environmentally catastrophic mass hallucination disinformation plagiarism Clippy that will destabilize the world, but also their other goal is to replace human workers entirely and let us humans starve. A boycott of AI is the most important boycott of your entire life.
"All of this falls apart if humans don't adopt the tech. This is why you've seen Meta cram its lame chatbots into WhatsApp and Instagram. This is why Notepad and Paint now have useless Copilot buttons on Windows. This is why Google Gemini wants to "help you" read and reply to your emails."
Analysis: OpenAI is a loss-making machine, how can it survive?
Don't call it a bubble! Loss-making monster OpenAI is on the hook for $1.4 trillion (with a T) in compute commitments. How can this go on?
www.windowscentral.com
November 30, 2025 at 9:17 PM
Sure, they've made an environmentally catastrophic mass hallucination disinformation plagiarism Clippy that will destabilize the world, but also their other goal is to replace human workers entirely and let us humans starve. A boycott of AI is the most important boycott of your entire life.
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Randomly remembering one time in English class we were supposed to write Hallowe'en poems, and I wrote about a monster named Snorkeldorf who made the noise "forforf." The teacher circled it in red, wrote "forf-forf" next to it, and I lost points on my grade. I am still offended
November 30, 2025 at 12:58 PM
Randomly remembering one time in English class we were supposed to write Hallowe'en poems, and I wrote about a monster named Snorkeldorf who made the noise "forforf." The teacher circled it in red, wrote "forf-forf" next to it, and I lost points on my grade. I am still offended
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Still wild to me that companies got together and lied about a mass shoplifting epidemic and fundamentally changed things in all stores so that it’s worse for everyone, and then we found out they lied, and no one fucking did anything about it, and this is just life now
November 29, 2025 at 9:26 PM
Still wild to me that companies got together and lied about a mass shoplifting epidemic and fundamentally changed things in all stores so that it’s worse for everyone, and then we found out they lied, and no one fucking did anything about it, and this is just life now