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Ersatzsapience
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Formerly a wandering automaton. NSFW artist. Dtoid refugee.
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Ersatzsapience @ersatzsapience.com · Jul 22
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edzitron.com
I don’t know how anyone can still talk about “the AI revolution” with a straight face. Reuters story about a railroad company that has sunk $300,000 into “developing AI products” and appears to have made…a chatbot that doesn’t work?
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Companies have also struggled with Al's lack of consistency. Jeremy Nielsen, general manager at North American railroad service provider Cando Rail and Terminals, said the company recently tested an Al chatbot for employees to study internal safety reports and training materials. But Cando ran into a surprising stumbling block: the models couldn't consistently and correctly summarize the Canadian Rail Operating Rules, a roughly 100-page document that lays out the safety standards for the industry. Sometimes the models forgot or misinterpreted the rules; other times they invented them from whole cloth. Al researchers say models often struggle to recall what appears in the middle of a long document. Cando has dropped the project for now, but is testing other ideas. So far the company has spent $300,000 on developing Al products. "We all thought it'd be the easy button," Nielsen said. "And that's just not what happened."
December 21, 2025 at 3:14 AM
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samthielman.com
I mean, things are tough all over. If rude criticism stops you from making art, you should probably not be making art.
There's a discourse that basically goes: Alice: But I want to use Al to do art Bob: Just do it yourself Alice: But I am not good at it Bob: Just be bad, and post it on the internet, it's fine! And Bob is lying, it sucks, you will get savaged as anyone who has taken a picture of their dinner knows. 12:17 PM • Dec 19, 2025
December 20, 2025 at 2:01 AM
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dieselbrain.bsky.social
this is a Canadian petition to uphold charter rights for transgender and minority communities

if youre Canadian, please sign it. if youre not Canadian, please share it.

www.ourcommons.ca/petitions/en...
December 20, 2025 at 3:20 AM
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eddysmash2407.bsky.social
Samus doing maintenance on her ship 🚀

#Samus #SamusAran #ZeroSuitSamus #Metroid
December 19, 2025 at 12:05 PM
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phineas.bsky.social
Guess I'll post this again
A digital poster in the style of a World War II propaganda piece. Isolaed on a yellow background, a normal, squarish, 20-something guy with glasses is sitting working on a laptop. A ghostly figure of Hitler has his arm around the guy and is grinning and shaking a fist triumphantly looking at the laptop screen. On the lid of the laptop where an apple might otherwise be is an openAI logo, bright green, and dripping green ooze down the lid. Text on the poster, in combinations of sans-serif type and brush script reads: Using Generative AI? You’re prompting with Hitler! GenAI is a Fascist Project! Try using your brain instead Don’t surrender your creativity to the tech billionaire’s control
December 18, 2025 at 7:55 PM
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parkermolloy.com
David Brooks, who wrote in the NYT last month, "The Epstein Story? Count Me Out" is... in the latest Epstein photo dump published by @oversightdemocrats.house.gov.

He should absolutely be fired by NYT for this. Major conflict of interest that he didn't disclose.
David Brooks: The Epstein Story? Count Me Out. David Brooks in the epstein photos
December 18, 2025 at 5:35 PM
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mcbride.house.gov
I was a kid once. And my biggest regret in life is that I never got a childhood without pain.

Politicians should never insert themselves into the personal health care decisions of patients, parents, and their providers—and that includes trans Americans.
December 17, 2025 at 11:17 PM
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victoriamaderna.com
A gouache commission I just finished, loved loved painting this one! 🦊
Painting of a fox with a hooded cloak, a grimoire and a D20. A scroll reads "The sly dungeon master". By Victoria Maderna.
November 13, 2025 at 6:48 PM
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stephstephking.bsky.social
Are these the same companies that told us the robot could do it?
Wall Street Journal headlines that says Companies Are Desperately Seeking ‘Storytellers’
December 17, 2025 at 1:31 PM
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lukeplunkett.com
There's an unsurprising tendency across leaders in the tech world (games included) to see art as merely part of something's production line, a box that needs to be ticked before copies can be sold. It's why AI is often justified as something that saves time, or saves money. But with art, that process is the point. The themes and ideas artists draw on, the way they iterate through those ideas with sketches, the work itself is what creates art. There are no shortcuts.
December 16, 2025 at 9:55 PM
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nickjcal.bsky.social
Excited to finally launch Beyond the Pixels today.

A new games industry focused podcast where I'll cover a variety of topics with industry guests on every episode.

Kicking it off with Jamie Trimmer and Sarah Blackburn, two of the 34 developers fired from Rockstar last month.
Even At Rockstar, You Can Be Just Another Cog in the Machine | Beyond the Pixels Podcast
YouTube video by Second Wind
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December 16, 2025 at 11:02 PM
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jeffgerstmann.com
Early Access and the way they managed their community across all their updates helped humanize that team in ways that only helped Baldur’s Gate 3, weird for the studio to be so willing to throw all that goodwill away.
fionnthebrave.bsky.social Josh Broadwell @fionnthebrave.bsky.social · 5d
I think it's nice when concept art shows the evolution of people's creative processes instead of a prompt, but what do I know
December 16, 2025 at 3:54 PM
ersatzsapience.com
Absolutely disgusting. If your Senator is on this list, let them know they suck. Here's my email:
fascistdemtracker.bsky.social Fascist Dem Tracker @fascistdemtracker.bsky.social · 9d
Here are the 28 Dem Senators who voted to advance the first federal ban on trans athletes & a federal definition of sex that would make trans & intersex people non-existent: Angela Alsobrooks (MD), Tammy Baldwin (WI), Richard Blumenthal (CT), Lisa Blunt Rochester (DE), Chris Coons (DE), ->
fascistdemtracker.bsky.social Fascist Dem Tracker @fascistdemtracker.bsky.social · 9d
By a vote of 76-23, S 1071 passes the motion to proceed to the motion to concur. Won't know who voted for this until the roll call is uploaded, but safe to say it passed with the support of at least 24 members of the Democratic caucus. (Rand Paul probably voted nay and Steve Daines has been absent).
December 16, 2025 at 4:59 PM
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radleybalko.bsky.social
This also happened during Trump’s first term. That 2024 dip? That’s when Democrats went on the defensive, and let Trump and MAGA dictate the immigration narrative.

Why, it’s almost as if political leadership (good and bad) can actually drive public opinion, instead of always following it.
mollyjongfast.bsky.social Molly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social · 5d
This is extremely important
December 16, 2025 at 3:30 PM
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quatoria.bsky.social
Wow. I was a huge fan of Brigador when it came out, and really excited for the sequel, until I learned some new information about Jack Monahan, lead dev and cofounder of the studio, Stellar Jockeys.

Do with this what you will, I guess.
December 15, 2025 at 11:48 PM
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dieselbrain.bsky.social
#SaveSpeech

Netchoice won their legal battle against Age verification in louisiana! This follows similar rulings in AK and OH!

This is huge!

These laws can be stopped, they can be overturned. Do not give in to dooming! Keep calling your reps and support orgs that fight these laws in court!
NetChoice Wins Permanent Block of Louisiana Age Verification Law, Protecting Free Speech and Parental Rights - NetChoice
BATON ROUGE, La.—Today, the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Louisiana granted NetChoice’s motion for summary judgment in NetChoice v. Murrill, striking down Louisiana’s Act 456. The cou...
netchoice.org
December 16, 2025 at 12:53 AM
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victoriamaderna.com
The Opossum's Song.
Gouache and watercolor on paper.

Prints: inprnt.com/gallery/vmaderna/the-opossums-song
Gouache painting of an opossum playing music for other animals by Victoria Maderna
November 8, 2023 at 11:06 AM
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gamehistoryorg.bsky.social
As part of our project to preserve the history of Sega Channel, we have recovered OVER 100 new Sega Channel ROMs, including the legendary lost game Garfield: Caught in the Act - The Lost Levels.

Read more: gamehistory.org/segachannel/
December 15, 2025 at 7:00 PM
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akaharriet.bsky.social
we can kill them all if we just work together and ✨believe💫
Headline: "Microsoft Scales Back AI Goals Because Almost Nobody Is Using Copilot" by Jan Martindale Dec. 10 2025
December 15, 2025 at 5:11 PM
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unburntwitch.com
PSA: there’s been an exploit for Signal and WhatsApp released that can be used to silently track you.

Temp fixes for both can be done in your settings:

For WhatsApp: Settings>Privacy>Advanced>Block unknown messages.

For Signal: Settings>Privacy>Phone number>Who can find me by number>Nobody
December 15, 2025 at 1:28 AM
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felicitriste.bsky.social
December 13, 2025 at 2:55 AM
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indiegameawards.gg
The Indie Game Awards air on Dec. 18th, streaming on IGN, GameSpot, and Six One Indie.

It’s not a night for new trailers, but a night to celebrate global devs who swung for the fences with unrestricted creative freedom.

🕐 IGAs Countdown: 6:30 PM ET
🏆 Ceremony: 6:50 PM ET
🔗 www.indiegameawards.gg
December 12, 2025 at 3:00 PM
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fieldexplores.bsky.social
Douglas (Part 3/3) - Gator Days
Panel 1 Douglas has been drawing at the park with Gustopher but it's time for him to leave. Ben: Douglas, we're leaving. Douglas: I have to go. Gustopher: Bye, I had fun drawing with you. Panel 2 Douglas admits to himself that he did have fun with drawing but he still feels sad about how his dad reacted to his picture. He's lost a lot of his motivation to make art. Douglas: It was fun. I'm just bad at it. Gustopher: Having fun is a good reason to draw. Panel 3 Douglas is at home in his room. He's thinking about drawing. He did have a lot of fun drawing with Gustopher but he just keeps wishing he could be better. Panel 4 Douglas begins to draw again. He draws a picture of himself with Gustopher in a forest with blue trees. He had briefly considered making the trees green but he likes making them blue. In this moment, it doesn't matter how good he is or what anyone else thinks. He's just enjoying what he's doing.
June 27, 2025 at 5:45 PM
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roninyorch.bsky.social
Anti-A.I. stamps!

For illustrations, comics, photos and all your creative works, printed and digital!

You can download the transparent file for free here: ko-fi.com/i/IT6T718NAKF (but consider donating please 😘)
January 7, 2025 at 7:28 PM
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mikedrucker.bsky.social
yooooooo I outsold Olivia Nuzzi in my first week and I'm a fucking nobody who's never sexted a source
December 12, 2025 at 12:28 AM