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Syogren

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29, any pronouns, white, I guess I'm here now, yippee :/ I write Heart of Crystal and contribute to Unified Dissonance! Please check them both out they're awesome I promise :D My comics: https://comicfury.com/profile.php?username=Syogren

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Syogren @syogren.bsky.social · Mar 14

Huh? Heart of Crystal updated to page 3? That's right, I actually uploaded a page! We're back! We're actually back! My pride and joy is finally back! Yippee!

Go read it go go go!

#SpriteComic #ComicFury #WebComic #HeartOfCrystal

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Heart of Crystal

A Little Bit Every Day

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Jessica Kant @jessdkant.bsky.social · 1d

They’ve waged entire wars just to drive down gas prices. Imagine what this administration will do when Oracle and Amazon say they need to double their energy expenditure tomorrow.

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Jessica Kant @jessdkant.bsky.social · 1d

Short of a revolutionary new power source, in order for big tech to fulfill all the shareholder promises already made they have to choke us all to death with emissions. But even if cold fusion was a reality tomorrow, fossil fuel giants would still oppose it because global geopolitics run on oil.

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Jessica Kant @jessdkant.bsky.social · 1d

Consider that most of the investment is not in current usage, but as of now theoretical products which will require exponentially more electricity once they have a user base. In order for the $1.2T of investment not to evaporate overnight, they have to build new data centers and for each of them.

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Jessica Kant @jessdkant.bsky.social · 1d

Energy requirements for AI mean that the only way for the bubble not to burst would require companies to multiply their carbon footprint to an unimaginable degree. Right now, while AI is barely functional and mostly a novelty for the lazy, it requires so much energy that data centers rival cities.

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Xenosbreed Monster Girl Vtuber @xenosbreed.bsky.social · 2d

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Xenosbreed

The official website and shop of Xenosbreed. Find the latest content, buy merch, and support your favorite creator.

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Jessica Kant @jessdkant.bsky.social · 1d

To be candid, I want the bubble to burst. Because it will eventually and inevitably, but the longer the current charade goes on the more our planet and communities are decimated— and the more dependent we become on the few powerful people left who control those resources.

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Jessica Kant @jessdkant.bsky.social · 1d

So when I hear of students being encouraged to use GPT in college I don’t hear innovation. I hear cognitive atrophy, the inability to think critically for oneself, and total dependence on vulnerable centralized repositories of data for knowledge without ever understanding how knowledge is generated.

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Jessica Kant @jessdkant.bsky.social · 1d

The more we use this technology, the more we necessarily turn over not only our data and our privacy but the basic things we need to survive. Meanwhile, reality is totally reshaped by LLMs as increasingly authoritarian media is pumped out as training data. Nothing could be more useful to them.

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Jessica Kant @jessdkant.bsky.social · 1d

Imagine for a moment a world so dependent on data centers that every aspect of municipal infrastructure must be reshaped. Not around human need, but maintaining GPU farms that use exponentially more power and water with each build. Models are only growing, and our resources are only diminishing.

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Jessica Kant @jessdkant.bsky.social · 1d

It should strike people that the stock market isn’t crashing despite the shutdown. Like sub-prime mortgages, it has yet again totally detached itself from economic reality while they speculate on how many workers they can fire to replace with AI. It is helping a failing economic strategy save face.

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Jessica Kant @jessdkant.bsky.social · 1d

It’s a material reality that right now the AI tech bubble is holding up the empire. It increasingly powers all commerce, and is central to the most invasive surveillance apparatus the world has ever seen. Predictive analytics trained on our data have allowed billionaires to track us like wildlife.

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Pop @popxdtart.bsky.social · 2d

🧡🎃QRP your Pumpkin Art!🎃🧡

This pumpkin witch from last year's streamink ✨

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Pop @popxdtart.bsky.social · 2d

Finished my first Vgen commission!! <3 Thank you so much @bridgybun.bsky.social for your support! I hope you love it as much as I do!

if you want your own and help a little artist out getting verified on Vgen! You can go here: vgen.co/popxdtart

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A floating head of a redheaded femme presenting elf character. Right eye is green and left is blue. Has triangle facial markings around her eyes. She is gazing off screen with a daydreamy expression and red tinted eyes.

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Tektite Migration Service by Blacksky @tektite.cc · 1d

tektite.cc updated!

- Improved handle & PDS resolution that uses @bad-example.com's slingshot service
- and a tweak to improve memory management

Thank you @baileytownsend.dev for pointing out this slingshot feature. This resolves a pesky corner case issue with some custom domain handles + CORS

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Xodanix3 @xodanix3.bsky.social · Apr 28

Columbus worship is yet another example of "convivial" mobilizing of beneficiaries of empire.

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Xodanix3 @xodanix3.bsky.social · 1d

How you end up with settler idioms like "too many chiefs not enough indians"

Xodanix3 @xodanix3.bsky.social · 1d

The festishization of children continues to be colonial as it was/is ageist. (Esp when reinforcing anti Indigenous noble savage tropes. Which is what happens when various gender roles associated with Native leadership are relegated to being "play suits."

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Xodanix3 @xodanix3.bsky.social · Nov 21

I want to destroy the pillars of respectability that celebrate human trafficking and classism as "convivial bonding" for colonizers.

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Xodanix3 @xodanix3.bsky.social · Apr 28

"but why is genocide and poverty the norm" colonizers managed to make "convivial"atmospheres that relish on suffering.

Xodanix3 @xodanix3.bsky.social · Apr 28

Necro politics is convivial.

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Xodanix3 @xodanix3.bsky.social · Nov 28

The act of "celebrating" holidays, the Gregorian calendar. Parades, masquerades. "Convivial gatherings"; All collective moments of sympathetic relation.

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Pop @popxdtart.bsky.social · 1d

Fall weather is officially here for me 🍂 so here's this cute mushy elf from a couple halloweens ago 🍄

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Blonde, elf girl standing away from the viewer in a shy manner. She's wearing a red mushroom dress with a matching mushroom hat and red thigh high socks. She is looking over her shoulder, back at the viewer with her hands outstretched in front of her. Holding on to the edge of her dress.

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Xodanix3 @xodanix3.bsky.social · Apr 28

Comradery*

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Xodanix3 @xodanix3.bsky.social · Apr 28

Reclaim convivial to mean comradely, equality and class consciousness, instead of escapism for wealth hoarders.

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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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Xodanix3 @xodanix3.bsky.social · 1d

When settlers appropriate the war bonnet and other Native symbols, it's like they try to supplant the initial meaning with more malicious associations until it becomes a simulacra or pop culture artefact that defiles and ultimately supplants its traditional cultural substance.

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Xodanix3 @xodanix3.bsky.social · 1d

"that's just cowboys and Indians" < one example of a social script that classifies western tropes as nostalgia worth preserving.

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