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Floris Didden 🇪🇺🌻

@didden.bsky.social

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Art Director at http://karakter.de. Focused on world building for AAA games. Emmy wins for Game of Thrones VFX concept art. Helped build the worlds of Horizon: Zero Dawn & Forbidden West, God of War Ragnarök and many more. http://artstation.com/didden

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The Spaceshipper 🚀 @thespaceshipper.com · 2h

RIP the legendary Drew Struzan (1947-2025) 😩

Even though we were expecting the news any day now, it makes me very sad. What an artist.

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BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 1d

a lot of people read like LLMs generate text: they don't actually comprehend the words so much as make a guess at what they think they are based on a few recognizable terms

pork, cheese, broccoli rabe @garlicbuffalo.gobirds.biz · 1d

so one of the things I’ve started to realize with having a notable following On Here is exactly how much of a reading comprehension problem we have in this country

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Blue Sky Rob- Looking For Work! 🏳️‍⚧️ @senorwoberto.bsky.social · 1d

moomin gets stereotyped as cozy pseudo-ghibli fantasy, but much like ghibli itself it's something born from hardship, what with it starting publication at the tail end of WW2 by a queer author who kept her bisexuality a secret to the public, and the earliest books being blatant post-war allegories

Boo-ly, Li'l Ghost Bull 👻🐮 @bullythelsb.bsky.social · Jun 28

you have a right to be angry

Drawing of Little My, a small girl in a red dress, sliding down a hill. She is drawn by Tove Jansson from the Moomin series. The text reads: "WHEN you're angry, then you're angry," thought Little My, peeling her potato with her teeth. "Sometimes you have to be angry. Every little creature has the right to get angry."

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David Klemperer @dmk1793.bsky.social · 1d

This is such a good article btw - I really buy this as a theory of contemporary US politics

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Floris Didden 🇪🇺🌻 @didden.bsky.social · 1d

😍

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Del Toro, GOBELINS Film School, & Netflix to Form Stop-Motion Studio

The filmmaker pointed out that stop-motion animation is a rare AI-proof art.

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Claire Zagorski, MSc, EMT-P @clairezagorski.bsky.social · 3d

A student on TikTok has been documenting her journey with a professor who “wrote” the anatomy textbook and it’s all a bunch of AI hallucinations.

She’s saying that, understandably, the students are doing super poorly!

Behold what we’re teaching the healthcare professionals of tomorrow:

A diagram of the bones and (some) deep muscles of the hand and forearm. AI says that we only have four digits. It’s also identified a tendon as the median nerve, another tendon as the ulnar nerve, among other issues.

An AI generated diagram of the muscles of the neck. It hallucinated the “ennocleidomasid” muscle, and the “anterior scalpalin muscle”.

An AI generated diagram of the muscles of the lateral thigh. It says that the gluteus Maximus (the big juicy butt muscle) is on the anterior side. It also points to the quadriceps muscle and says “attattment”. It also says that the same structure is the tibia AND the deep fascia of the leg.

An AI generated diagram of the bones of the hand and forearm. This time AI says we have 6 digits. It also says that the radius is the ulnar artery. Among other many issues.

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Des Walsh @deswalsh.bsky.social · 1d

Always love seeing older obscure objects but I can see why this one maybe didn’t last the test of time seeing how effective it is. #reference

🇫🇷 The "Grillon" Electric wall Lighter by Uknown [1930s] 🇫🇷 #collection #lighter #discover

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Floris Didden 🇪🇺🌻 @didden.bsky.social · 2d

My son handed me a wooden sword and said "now do X X X X".

This mf has me doing quick time events

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the babahuck @tylerhuckabee.bsky.social · 2d

In 2004, Parisian police were conducting a training exercise in the french catacombs and found, after moving past a desk and a tape playing audio of snarling dogs, a fully functional movie theater and bar. When they returned 3 days later, the equipment was gone, with a note: “Do not try to find us.”

Members of the force's sports squad, responsible
- among other tasks - for policing the 170 miles of tunnels, caves, galleries and catacombs that underlie large parts of Paris, stumbled on the complex while on a training exercise beneath the Palais de Chaillot, across the Seine from the Eiffel Tower.
After entering the network through a drain next to the Trocadero, the officers came across a tarpaulin marked: Building site, No access.
Behind that, a tunnel held a desk and a closed-circuit TV camera set to automatically record images of anyone passing. The mechanism also triggered a tape of dogs barking, "clearly designed to frighten people off," the spokesman said.
Further along, the tunnel opened into a vast 400 sq metre cave some 18m underground, "like an underground amphitheatre, with terraces cut into the rock and chairs".

There the police found a full-sized cinema screen, projection equipment, and tapes of a wide variety of films, including 1950s film noir classics and more recent thrillers. None of the films were banned or even offensive, the spokesman said.
A smaller cave next door had been turned into an informal restaurant and bar. "There were bottles of whisky and other spirits behind a bar, tables and chairs, a pressure-cooker for making couscous," the spokesman said.
"The whole thing ran off a professionally installed electricity system and there were at least three phone lines down there."
Three days later, when the police returned accompanied by experts from the French electricity board to see where the power was coming from, the phone and electricity lines had been cut and a note was lying in the middle of the floor: "Do not," it said, "try to find us."

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Floris Didden 🇪🇺🌻 @didden.bsky.social · 3d

trying to copy my whatsapp chats from my old iphone to a new android, and I want to destroy things now. How is it 2025 and this is so hard??

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Floris Didden 🇪🇺🌻 @didden.bsky.social · 4d

They're the best

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highly recommended podcast, if you're into this kind of thing

Floris Didden 🇪🇺🌻 @didden.bsky.social · 4d

Obama got one before he did anything, so the bar is pretty low

Floris Didden 🇪🇺🌻 @didden.bsky.social · 4d

When she started popping up on episodes of Decoding the Gurus decoding-the-gurus.captivate.fm/episode/sabi...

Sabine Hossenfelder: Science is a Liar ... Sometimes - Decoding the Gurus

In this highly non-topical episode, Matt and Chris dive into the entertainingly gruff world of Sabine Hossenfelder, the German theoretical physicist and...

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Floris Didden 🇪🇺🌻 @didden.bsky.social · 4d

He could literally have done this

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Doug Mack @douglasmack.bsky.social · 6d

the most delightful version of logging on to see what news you've missed

Dr Ramsdell, whose phone had been on airplane mode when the Nobel committee tried to call him, told the BBC's Newshour Programme that his first response when his wife said, "You've won the Nobel prize" was: "I did not."

To which Ms O'Neill replied that she had 200 text messages that suggested he had.

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Kurzgesagt – In a Nutshell @kurzgesagt.org · 7d

AI-generated content is flooding the internet, and we're entering a new era of information overload. Watch our latest video to find out how AI slop affects the internet and why kurzgesagt videos will always remain human-made: https://kgs.link/AISlop

In the middle, there is an AI-generated picture of a duck. Below it, there is a human-illustrated Duck, looking at the other duck in shock, and saying "Wtf is this?"

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Floris Didden 🇪🇺🌻 @didden.bsky.social · 9d

how your email finds me

morrowind.txt @morrowind-txt.bsky.social · 9d

Groan.

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Justin Hendrix @justinhendrix.bsky.social · 10d

Macron remarks are notable- some quotes: "We have been incredibly naive in entrusting our democratic space to social networks that are controlled either by large American entrepreneurs or large Chinese companies, whose interests are not at all the survival or proper functioning of our democracies."

Defend Democracy @defenddemocracy.bsky.social · 10d

President Macron: “Europeans, let's wake up!

We have been incredibly naive in entrusting our democratic space to social networks.”

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Michael Whelan @michaelwhelan.bsky.social · 11d

NIGHTMARE IN RED (1981)
Acrylic Over Pastels - 25 ½” x 20”

Tales from the Nightside is a collection of macabre stories by Charles L. Grant. I accepted a commission to do the cover art in the gloomy winter of 1980-81. 1/4

Angled view down on a horror montage set upon a red tinted, textured skull topped by a trio of rose blooms. Low in the immediate foreground one orbital reflects the glint of light on an eyeball. Nested low on the forehead a bat opens its maw wide in a scream. Set to the side is a tile with the number 3 and a creeping spider. Opposite rests a small stack of coins, the topmost decorated with a triangle. Smoke wafts out of a crack at the top back of the skull while tendrils of roots grow off the opposite side.

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Floris Didden 🇪🇺🌻 @didden.bsky.social · 11d

I stared at this painting on my Sepultura album for so long. I didn't know it was yours. So cool.

Floris Didden 🇪🇺🌻 @didden.bsky.social · 11d

Why would you tell on yourself like this