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Raphael van Lierop 🇨🇦

@raphlife.bsky.social

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He/Him. Get over it. Exploring apocalypses. I founded and lead Hinterland, and created THE LONG DARK. Director, writer, designer, human. Proud Canadian. Just doing my best.

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Raphael van Lierop 🇨🇦 @raphlife.bsky.social · Dec 13

So excited for the fantastic team at @hinterland.bsky.social . We just announced BLACKFROST: The Long Dark 2, at @thegameawardsfeed.bsky.social.

Can't wait to bring you into this new world and a different take on the "quiet apocalypse".

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BLACKFROST -- The Long Dark 2 -- Announcement Trailer

YouTube video by Hinterland

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Raphael van Lierop 🇨🇦 @raphlife.bsky.social · 7h

It's really something.

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Raphael van Lierop 🇨🇦 @raphlife.bsky.social · 8h

Story:

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Animated Antic @animatedantic.bsky.social · 14h

Guillermo del Toro and Netflix have announced plans to form a new stop motion studio that will be both a studio and a school to push the medium forward and will develop plans to make Del Toro's next stop motion project after Pinocchio. I'm very hyped to see what this leads to!

Raphael van Lierop 🇨🇦 @raphlife.bsky.social · 8h

When other big name directors are busy shilling for genAI, GDT constantly works to elevate practical craft and creativity above all else. Truly a filmmaker’s filmmaker and a gift to creators everywhere. ❤️

Guillermo del Toro @realgdt.bsky.social · 8h

Este estudio estara iniciando con talento Mexicano y Latinoamericano para vincular animadores de varios paises y ifrecera estudios a un animador Mexicano por cda ciclo escolar durante una decada entera.

Animated Antic @animatedantic.bsky.social · 14h

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Raphael van Lierop 🇨🇦 @raphlife.bsky.social · 8h

a man in a suit is sitting at a table with his hand on his face

ALT: a man in a suit is sitting at a table with his hand on his face

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Andy Chalk @andychalk.bsky.social · 11h

AND FARTHER BELOW, LAKE ONTARIO
TAKES IN WHAT LAKE ERIE CAN SEND HER
AND THE IRON BOATS GO, AS THE MARINERS ALL KNOW
WITH THE GALES OF NOVEMBER REMEMBERED

The New York Times @nytimes.com · 13h

The Edmund Fitzgerald, immortalized in song by Gordon Lightfoot, sank 50 years ago on Lake Superior. Our reporter spent a week on a Great Lakes freighter that survived the storm.

In the Wake of the Edmund Fitzgerald

The mighty ship, immortalized in song by Gordon Lightfoot, sank 50 years ago on Lake Superior. Our reporter spent a week on a Great Lakes freighter that survived the storm.

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Raphael van Lierop 🇨🇦 @raphlife.bsky.social · 12h

Guess California is part of Canada now.

I’m cool with it.

(Also, the “Canadian flyers” are called the Snowbirds, ok?)

San Francisco Chronicle @sfchronicle.com · 14h

With the Blue Angels sidelined by the government shutdown, a team of Canadian flyers was promoted to a starring role in this year’s San Francisco Fleet Week festivities.

See more photos → www.sfchronicle.com/sf/article/f...

📸: @santiagomejia.bsky.social/S.F. Chronicle

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Raphael van Lierop 🇨🇦 @raphlife.bsky.social · 15h

WYKYK

Raphael van Lierop 🇨🇦 @raphlife.bsky.social · 20h

(unless there's bloodsuckers)

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Raphael van Lierop 🇨🇦 @raphlife.bsky.social · 20h

😂

Raphael van Lierop 🇨🇦 @raphlife.bsky.social · 20h

I'm going in.

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Jeremy Caradonna @jeremycaradonnayyj.bsky.social · 23h

DO NOT GO TO THE US.

The Trump regime has waged culture war on its own people and any visitors who run afoul of the thought police.

The regime now enforces right-wing conformity and Christian nationalism.

The risks are very high. Stay home. Travel domestically. Buy Canadian.

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Jeremy Caradonna @jeremycaradonnayyj.bsky.social · 23h

It was barely reported on, but Trump signed a directive equating “anti-Christian,” “anti-capitalist,” and “anti-American” views with terrorism.

Canadians: your socials and phones can be checked at the US border.

If you’ve questioned “capitalism” or “America,” you are now considered a terrorist.

Ken Klippenstein @kenklippenstein.bsky.social · 11d

FBI's domestic terror watchlist expected to DOUBLE in size as a result of NSPM-7, the new presidential directive targeting "anti-Christian," "anti-capitalism" and "anti-American" speech:
www.kenklippenstein.com/p/trumps-nsp...

Trump’s NSPM-7 Alarms Law Firms While Congress Is Silent

Domestic terror watchlist to double, sources say

www.kenklippenstein.com

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 1d

AI companies are spending billions on deals with each other, which boost their value.

This has helped twenty billionaires tied to AI add $450B to their fortunes in 2025.

Meanwhile, an MIT study found that 95% of companies using AI haven't seen returns on investment.

Be warned.

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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 1d

Well, good for DC

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DC Comics won’t support generative AI: ‘not now, not ever’

“People have an instinctive reaction to what feels authentic.”

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Brendan Keogh @brkeogh.bsky.social · 1d

I still think the most accurate and consistent way to think about generative AI is that, in every instance, people exclusively use it for tasks that they don't have any respect for or give a shit about.

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Raphael van Lierop 🇨🇦 @raphlife.bsky.social · 1d

Jesus what is Macleans even doing. Who paid them to write this?

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Jessica Kant @jessdkant.bsky.social · 1d

One curious thing on this site about speaking out against the encroachment of LLMs is that inevitably you get accused of being anti-tech. I don’t hate technology. I’ve used machine learning in my own code before. But I also recognize that oligarchs are so hellbent on pushing this tech for a reason.

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Paul Byrne @theplanetaryguy.bsky.social · Apr 29

This is a new image from #JWST.

The bright points with spikes are stars in the Milky Way.

Everything else is a galaxy.

Everything. Else. Is. A. Galaxy.

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Nick Harkaway @nickharkaway.com · 1d

I am dealing with a “thorny problem” right now, today. It is hard and scary because IT IS ALWAYS HARD AND SCARY. But it is also where you do your best work. It is where stories go from “meh” to “WOW”. When I fix it - because that is the job - I will be that much closer to something worth reading.

Juno Rylee Schultz @junoryleejournalism.com · 2d

David Simon, creator of ‘The Wire’, being interviewed by Ari Shapiro (NPR)

SHAPIRO: OK, so you've spent your career creating television without Al, and I could imagine today you thinking, boy, I wish I had had that tool to solve those thorny problems...
SIMON: What?
SHAPIRO: ...Or saying...
SIMON: You imagine that?
SHAPIRO: ...Boy, if that had existed, it would have screwed me over.
SIMON: I don't think Al can remotely challenge what writers do at a fundamentally creative level.
SHAPIRO: But if you're trying to transition from scene five to scene six, and you're stuck with that transition, you could imagine plugging that portion of the script into an Al and say, give me 10 ideas for how to transition this.
SIMON: I'd rather put a gun in my mouth.

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perfect knight @shiningknightx.bsky.social · 1d

"we cant uninvent ai" no we cant but we couldnt uninvent nfts either and nobody gives a fuck about them anymore

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Raphael van Lierop 🇨🇦 @raphlife.bsky.social · 1d

Is it bad that I work in a very high-tech industry and I still wish we could go back to this?

qdot @buttplug.engineer · 4d

Boards of Canada's Olsen performed on a PDP-1. Holy shit.

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Boards of Canada "Olson" on a 1959 PDP-1 Computer

YouTube video by Joe Lynch

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Raphael van Lierop 🇨🇦 @raphlife.bsky.social · 1d

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Raphael van Lierop 🇨🇦 @raphlife.bsky.social · 1d

RDR2...................

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Raphael van Lierop 🇨🇦 @raphlife.bsky.social · 1d

Opinion: We don't need the PS6 for at least 5 more years, if ever.

IGN @ign.com · 2d

Sony tech wizard Mark Cerny has teased new graphics features he's excited to bring to "a future console in a few years time," sparking a wave of PS6 release date speculation in the process. https://bit.ly/3KFH3CQ

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Raphael van Lierop 🇨🇦 @raphlife.bsky.social · 1d

Love this so much!