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Turhan's Bey Company @turhansbeycompany.bsky.social · 14h

My GURPS historicals touch (briefly) on things like race, gender, sexuality, and ability, not because of "DEI consultants" (there's hardly enough money involved to pay me, let alone a consultant) but because as someone who reads history I know there were lots of not-white, not-dude, not-straight,

Mike Rose @mikerose.bsky.social · 20h

We banned a guy on the Steam forums for repeatedly saying there were “too many women” in our game

So he flipped his positive review to negative

Still totally worth it

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Steven Marsh @stevenmarsh.bsky.social · 12h

I can't even imagine going to THAT many garage sales . . .

The Guardian @theguardian.com · 21h

Experience: I own the world’s largest Monopoly collection

Every set is exciting. I’ve currently got 4,379 different ones. The dream is to hit 4,500, maybe even 5,000

www.theguardian.com

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Steven Marsh @stevenmarsh.bsky.social · 1d

Secret Halloween terror message to all game editors:

dawizard

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Steven Marsh @stevenmarsh.bsky.social · 2d

Yeah, I spent too much time trying to sort it out. :-)

The big "tell" for me is that good modern human writers really like… randomness? Talking about an invading army while engaging a cat in tug-of-war. etc.

The one I suspect trapped you mimics someone who's "to the point," making that harder.

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Steven Marsh @stevenmarsh.bsky.social · 2d

I got three out of three... but I was nowhere NEAR as confident as I felt like I should have been.

Jessica Price @delafina777.bsky.social · 2d

Hey all, I'm trying to get a baseline for how good people are at detecting whether fiction is AI-generated or human-written (most of the research on this is for nonfiction and my hypothesis is we're better with fiction).

If you have time, give it a try?

jlp-experiment.github.io/ai-detection...

AI vs Human Fiction Detection Test

jlp-experiment.github.io

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Jessica Price @delafina777.bsky.social · 2d

Hey all, I'm trying to get a baseline for how good people are at detecting whether fiction is AI-generated or human-written (most of the research on this is for nonfiction and my hypothesis is we're better with fiction).

If you have time, give it a try?

jlp-experiment.github.io/ai-detection...

AI vs Human Fiction Detection Test

jlp-experiment.github.io

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Steven Marsh @stevenmarsh.bsky.social · 3d

Yep! Even wrote it. (Behind a Patreon paywall...)
www.patreon.com/posts/131276...

Scary Elision on the Road That I Must Travel, With HALLOWEEN III: SEASON OF THE WITCH (1982) | Feature of Habit: A Movie a Day

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Steven Marsh @stevenmarsh.bsky.social · 3d

I've only seen one so far, and it was HALLOWEEN III (which I have fond memories of).

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Steven Marsh @stevenmarsh.bsky.social · 3d

ACKtoberfest continues! (Still workshopping…)

Week 41 on Feature of Habit starts tomorrow.

10/8 — Eraserhead (1978)
10/9 — Let the Right One In (2008)
10/10 — The Rocky Horror Picture Show (1975)
10/11 — Hotel Transylvania (2012)
10/12 — Renfield (2023)
10/13 — Sinners (2025)
10/14 — Psycho (1960)

Writing Film Essays

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Anna Meier @annameier.bsky.social · 3d

Just because Pete Hegseth decided to be fatphobic doesn't mean you have to be! Thanks!

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Sean T. Collins @seantcollins.com · 4d

CHATGPT: I understand where you're coming from. You worked really hard to get here, and now it's time to enjoy the fruit of your labors.

ISILDUR: So I should keep it? Elrond says I shouldn't

CHATGPT: The ring is precious. Sometimes friends don't have your best interests at heart.

ISILDUR: true

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rahaeli @rahaeli.bsky.social · 3d

This is going around again and it is not true. Like every site on the internet, Bluesky uses machine learning to do a first-pass approximation of image classification to detect and label content. They have repeatedly confirmed outside services do not use Bluesky user data to train their models.

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Steven Marsh @stevenmarsh.bsky.social · 3d

Check out the project here!

Subversive Sci-Fi Evolution

More Reflections on Futuristic Films That Broke the Rules

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Steven Marsh @stevenmarsh.bsky.social · 3d

Rare video footage of me, plugging SUBVERSIVE SCI-FI EVOLUTION . . .

SSFE: In The Village with Steven Marsh

YouTube video by Ghost Show Press

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Steven Marsh @stevenmarsh.bsky.social · 4d

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Steven Marsh @stevenmarsh.bsky.social · 5d

♫ Discourse is discourse
of course, of course
and no one should dismiss discourse, of course
that is, of course
unless discourse
pertains to Mr. Ed

Go right to the source
of the discourse
They'll give you an essay without remorse
with written force
that they endorse
slaying Mr. Ed ♬

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Steven Marsh @stevenmarsh.bsky.social · 5d

♫ Discourse is discourse
of course, of course
and no one should dismiss discourse, of course
that is, of course
unless discourse
pertains to Mr. Ed

Go right to the source
of the discourse
They'll give you an essay without remorse
with written force
that they endorse
slaying Mr. Ed ♬

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Bill Bodden @b1llz1lla.bsky.social · 5d

My essay is on the 1954 classic THEM!
Kickstarter for Subversive Sci-Fi Evolution is LIVE!
Please, please SHARE this link and PLEDGE what you can!: www.kickstarter.com/projects/gho...
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Jonathan Edward Durham @thisone0verhere.bsky.social · 5d

Sometimes I wonder how we got here but then sometimes I think about when Blair Witch was released and a lot of us were like omg they FOUND this footage that’s so crazy

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Steven Marsh @stevenmarsh.bsky.social · 5d

For real, though, I recently discovered that the 1954 animated version DOES have a happy ending (at least, happier than the books).

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Steven Marsh @stevenmarsh.bsky.social · 5d

Good thread.

It's one reason why I've tried to be more gracious with my FEATURE OF HABIT essays compared with 20-year-old me. Negativity is easy & seductive. Engaging w/ art as what it's trying to do for its intended audience is MUCH more fruitful, even if I still arrive at "I didn't care for it."

Bob Chipman 🔜PAX East @bobchipman.bsky.social · 5d

Something I think about a lot is that when I was growing up "FAMILY CIRCUS" was the universal shorthand among cool comics fans for "cornball mainstream comic that sucks;" and when the author died a journal published a eulogy by an indie comics writer who loved it bc they'd grown up abused...
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Steven Marsh @stevenmarsh.bsky.social · 6d

“You Ain’t Seen Nothin’ Yet” by Bachman-Turner Overdrive.

I almost said “For What It’s Worth” by Buffalo Springfield, and it’d work great, but it’s not “extremely upbeat”…

ɪᴍᴍᴀɴᴜᴇʟ ᴋᴜɴᴛ @soberthots.bsky.social · 7d

question for the timeline

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Steven Marsh @stevenmarsh.bsky.social · 7d

I wanna hear more stories about the Zeitgeist getting stuck in snowbanks and being totaled by running over an egg carton!

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Steven Marsh @stevenmarsh.bsky.social · 7d

Is it just me, or has EVERYTHING Cybertruck-related really dropped off?

Schadenfreude posts, "own the lib" posts, even seeing them "in the wild" . . . they've all seemed to taper off to near-nothing in my neck of the woods.

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Steven Marsh @stevenmarsh.bsky.social · 7d

"Professor Oak? I choose... Otterfly!"

In Otter News @in-otter-news.bsky.social · 9d

Feeling stressed? Here are some otters enchanted by a butterfly.

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