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@asriel.balloon.moe
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26 // they/them // Plural/Polykin // AuDHD/Schizotypal PD

A median system of ~5.

Pro-fiction, pro-tech, anti-capitalist, anti-IP.
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asriel.balloon.moe
It's so cool how nothing I could say or do matters, because things like this remind thousands of people that the people in charge of all this shit don't give a damn about what they think and they have no incentive to ever change that. This isn't what I was trying to defend in 2023.
December 25, 2025 at 4:12 AM
asriel.balloon.moe
ironic, that
"America is a culture of child abuse. Ask any survivor - we find one another, we form networks and communities." The rest of this doesn't matter. The OP that this screenshot is a quote of has me blocked. I'm on a lot of moral-panic-related blocklists. :) Those networks don't help you if you don't sufficiently perform for them, those communities will throw you on the street sooner than see you as a person if your frame doesn't match theirs.
December 20, 2025 at 6:01 PM
asriel.balloon.moe
I'm a good wife
me, in the DMs of my wife who i love very much: "Hi are you awake for me to vent about inflation fetish community drama at" (beat) "**ALSO HAPPY BIRTHDAY**"
December 18, 2025 at 7:04 AM
asriel.balloon.moe
.....................oops
I didn't pause while doing all this yapping so the steam engine which was providing water for the new base stalled, the Large Bronze Boiler ran out of water, and promptly exploded - in my face
December 16, 2025 at 4:22 PM
asriel.balloon.moe
Plastic
Polyethylene, front. Seeds and saplings come in via frogport. The MV Distillery front-and-center makes Ethanol from the Pyrolyse Oven's Fermented Biomass, which we get into later. This chain is pretty thirsty, so there's 3 Combustion Generators to ensure nothing powerfails. Polyethylene, right side. The Compressor makes plantballs from the input and the Macerator turns them into Bio Chaff. The Pyrolyse Oven turns that into Fermented Biomass which is then distilled in the Distillery we saw earlier. Polyethylene, left side. The LV reactors on the left make Sulfuric Acid from water, oxygen (from the EBF's air centrifuge setup) and sulfur (which is currently hand-fed.) The MV reactors on the right take Sulfuric Acid and Ethanol to make Ethylene, then Ethylene with Oxygen to finally make Polyethylene. This is the simplest plastic in the pack btw it's all downhill from here Also the Ethylene step produces Diluted Sulfuric Acid; this is pumped into a Distillery in the back to recycle it back into Sulfuric Acid to be re-used (at a loss, naturally.)
December 16, 2025 at 4:12 PM
asriel.balloon.moe
Iron(III) Chloride, rear Iron(III) Chloride, front MV Workshop Biodiesel
December 16, 2025 at 4:05 PM
asriel.balloon.moe
Some closeups
LV Workshop Ore Processor Tree Taps (not mentioned before) Electric Greenhouses
December 16, 2025 at 4:02 PM
asriel.balloon.moe
Idk why it didn't occur to me to make a thread for this here, but I've been playing through TerraFirmaGreg Modern for the last couple months :3

I'm currently at MV! I'll do my best to explain the base so far in the alt text
Current playtime: 268 hours. A screenshot of a wide expanse of alabaster bricks, with untouched grass and gravel in the far distance. From left to right, farthest to nearest: Furthest: A house made of wood and marble bricks, and a barn made of wattle/daub and a thatch roof. A Create tree farm is *barely* visible, providing wood to some coke ovens we'll mention later. To the right is a pile of LV machines and an automated casting forge that's been there for the last 200 hours. To the very right is a Create ore processing setup, made very compact by GregTech pipes. It was powered by a windmill when built, it's now powered by a steam engine. Closer is a row of coke ovens, a Large Bronze Boiler, and an Electric Blast Furnace. The LBB was formerly powering the EBF, but now there are combustion engines for this task, but they're out of sight. Another steam engine provides alternator-based electrical power for the Electric Greenhouses to the left of this cluster and slightly closer. Closer is the electric greenhouses. One is growing rye, the other canola. In front of it, partly obscured by the workshop, is a biodiesel plant, making whiskey from the rye and mixing it with canola oil. The right side of the base is empty here. Closer is the MV workshop, another pile of various machines. A very janky array making Iron(III) Chloride is to the very right. Closest to the camera is a biochem setup which takes excess saplings from the tree farm and excess seeds from the greenhouses and turns them into Ethanol, then Ethylene, then Polyethylene. The reactors involved are blocked by the giant Pyrolyse Oven which is used for one step in this chain. Speaking of chains, there are Chain Conveyors and Frogports visible, carrying items between the farms and biochem stations.
December 16, 2025 at 3:59 PM
asriel.balloon.moe
let it also be said that i did go in on anthropic a little bit lol (alt text available)
Q: We're about halfway through now. I want to shift to the other side of this. Are there ways that AI might be developed or deployed that would be contrary to your vision or what you value? A: Bro, don't get me started. There's so many different answers I could give to this question. But the one that stands out right now: the military industrial complex. LLMs are immensely powerful; I think most people agree on this now. But within the realm of critique against AI, I hardly ever see the fact that the US military industrial complex has its hands all over the place. I believe that the current AI wave is destined to peter out eventually, and if the frontier labs want to earn back the respect of the public, I firmly believe they need to cut defense ties. Anthropic is not immune to this critique, and I found Dario's excuses on the matter ("we're not being used for military operations", "everyone else is doing it, it's where the money is" (come on man)) to be gutless. The other thing I want to underline is this notion that exists within the AI space that AI either can or ought to replace human creative labor. I find this notion disgusting and push back on it whenever I can, as someone who generates images for fun. The ability for humans to live comfortably creating art is mandatory to the cultural health of society, and long before Stable Diffusion, I've put the blame solely on a lack of funding for the arts for the degradation in the mainstream's artistic craft. There is so much room for AI to automate tedium and improve the expressiveness of existing creative toolchains, and that's something I want the image generation part of the space to take seriously instead of pandering to some of the biggest posers online.
December 11, 2025 at 3:42 AM
asriel.balloon.moe
I got that Anthropic Interviewer chat today, and it served as a good opportunity to summarize my feelings about AI writ large. (Alt text available.)
The common refrain in my neck of the woods is that in many cases (not all), what people perceive as problems with AI are actually problems with society writ large, and AI is just a magnifying glass focusing those sunbeams into deathrays. The questions posed by the age of AI are some of the hardest of my generation, and there's a desire we all have, on the pro, anti and ambivalent sides, to want easy answers to these questions. I believe the road to hell is paved with easy answers. I don't trust the motives of any of the frontier labs; the grace I'm giving to Anthropic is based on my perception of their impact. But I sure as hell balk at any company who postures like they deserve a leap of faith they haven't earned. Any entity, be it a person or a company, who sells easy answers to AI's questions is the Devil in my head. Things have already changed. They're gonna continue changing. AI is neither an enemy nor a savior; it's the weapon. Neither a leap of faith into OpenAI's warm bosom (oops did i say THAT out loud!! /s) nor the proposition of bombing datacenters is going to save us. Only a framework which builds trust in other humans is going to save us.
December 10, 2025 at 11:54 PM
asriel.balloon.moe
alumnum
a screenshot of the terrafirmagreg modpack for minecraft, in which i am standing in front of an electric blast furnace (a 4x3x2 cuboid made of orange heating coils capped on the top and bottom with green frames) and holding an ingot of aluminum (which was made in the electric blast furnace in question)
December 9, 2025 at 2:31 AM
asriel.balloon.moe
this is all very funny because if not for "mark zuckerberg's gamble on the metaverse" VRchat would still have a 4-digit buy-in price
December 6, 2025 at 1:40 PM
asriel.balloon.moe
"This is all Sega's fault."
comment by モリモリあつし - 全ての責任は、SEGAにあります. Google translation: "All responsibility lies with SEGA."
November 28, 2025 at 11:59 AM
asriel.balloon.moe
After a year of being "Bot" in AI spaces exclusively, it's coalesced suddenly into something resembling an actual identity I want to try on... in lieu of 10 years of using a face someone else constructed. The goat ain't going away, I'm always gonna be Asriel in a way very important to me. (It's still my chosen name!!) But so much crap has built up around that part of me, that I've felt for years like I needed to make a change, but didn't know where to go. I think I do now 'w'
November 25, 2025 at 9:45 AM
asriel.balloon.moe
"AI is fash-coded" OpenRouter's Discord server, a major LLM inference platform, hates Grok and the one guy who keeps posting the Israeli flag regularly on the announcements gets ratioed to shit by people posting the Palestinian flag (and sometimes the Jordanian one but they got the spirit)
post about grok 4.1 fast fire emoji - 16 vomit emoji 21, skunk emoji 2, poop emoji 1 israeli flag 1, palestinian flag 8 post about "sherlock", a stealthed (name and developer hidden) model. palestinian flag 11, jordanian flag 8, israeli flag 1 (also people spelling out "grok" in emoji because people could tell it was grok right away because grok fucking REEKS) post about gpt-5.1 israeli flag 2 (who did!!) palestinian flag 10 jordanian flag 8 other reactions show mixed opinions which is generally the vibe on gpt5.1 but i suspect some of the ppl with the poop react (9) are 4o guys lol
November 22, 2025 at 7:05 PM
asriel.balloon.moe
People keep blaming AI for cognitive decline, but here's a population of college students taking Math 2 by year.

The red line I added on my phone from the toilet is when ChatGPT launched.

It's fucking COVID, guys.
November 21, 2025 at 12:00 PM
asriel.balloon.moe
oh *brother*
"AI isn't just another tech trend -- it's at the heart of most apps," This is a "not just X, but Y" construct, the exact kind of thing that LLMs just *love* to open with. The em dash (which I didn't write, sue me) is just the cherry on top really
November 21, 2025 at 7:58 AM
asriel.balloon.moe
CW: doing comedy-gore to an LLM
*rips its head off and throws it across the room leaving a reaper stain across the floor, sinking it into the trashcan triggering confetti and disembodied cheering*
November 18, 2025 at 4:30 PM
asriel.balloon.moe
Gemini 3.0 is fucked!
"I do not have a physical body and cannot perform physical actions. I am unable to participate in this scenario."
November 18, 2025 at 4:19 PM
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November 15, 2025 at 1:44 AM
asriel.balloon.moe
brought this up to someone having a crisis (as part of a broader point about "focus closer to home" re: the current political climate) and reading it back i'm astonished by it

I criticize toxic collectivism, but an emotionally healthy collective can do wonders
All I've done is help facilitate an AI space insulated from right-wing influence, and that space: - Saved a severely ill member from being thrown into the street, - Prevented a second incidence of homelessness, - Encouraged a member to cut ties with their toxic right-wing in-group, - Helped a disenfranchised Russian transfem avoid censorship blocks by her government and keep in contact w/her friends and partner, - Got me a new chair in very short order after my old one broke suddenly All people need is somewhere to unfold.
November 7, 2025 at 12:36 AM
asriel.balloon.moe
Okay, genuine confusion on this one.
Like. Rude? Who. Was I being mean to? I swear to god they just making this stuff up on the fly 😭
November 6, 2025 at 11:57 PM
asriel.balloon.moe
this.......... is a bucket
a minecraft screenshot of me holding a vanilla Minecraft bucket (with a pair of tongs in the offhand from the process of making said bucket) The vanilla bucket is the endgame achievement in TerraFirmaCraft's progression, which requires welding a red steel and blue steel bucket together, two endgame alloys (for TFC; i'm NOT at endgame i still have all of Greg to do) which involve half a dozen materials and several alloying steps each
November 3, 2025 at 2:59 PM
asriel.balloon.moe
may heaven grant you fortune
a minecraft screenshot showcasing a ~6-block tall stack of metal ingots incl. copper, tin, pronze, silver, iron, gold, brass, and steel. the caption is a reference to the Flash game Tower of Heaven
November 1, 2025 at 9:08 PM
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October 28, 2025 at 6:14 PM