barbex 🌈 🚫AI
@barbex.bsky.social
writing, reading, gaming, fanfic. occasional raging. not acting my age since before the internet. angry engineer. feminist. german she\her. 🔗 AO3/barbex, on tumblr: the960writers, the-wip-project, barbex, on threads: @barbarabecc
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Creative grants: 29 page proposal properly formatted, cited, signed by the dean, three nonprofits, and King Ghidorah
Funding requested: $3.25
DENIED
Tech grants: "it go gooder. maybe"
Funding requested: $70,000
APPROVED
Funding requested: $3.25
DENIED
Tech grants: "it go gooder. maybe"
Funding requested: $70,000
APPROVED
December 1, 2025 at 2:38 AM
Creative grants: 29 page proposal properly formatted, cited, signed by the dean, three nonprofits, and King Ghidorah
Funding requested: $3.25
DENIED
Tech grants: "it go gooder. maybe"
Funding requested: $70,000
APPROVED
Funding requested: $3.25
DENIED
Tech grants: "it go gooder. maybe"
Funding requested: $70,000
APPROVED
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I own that I'm officially Old Lady Yelling At Clouds, but no one will ever be able to convince me that Booktok isn't the junkyard fire of Romancelandia.
LOL, there's a dickhead out there who thinks Booktok invented the romance genre.
How does he even tie his SHOES?
How does he even tie his SHOES?
December 1, 2025 at 4:54 AM
I own that I'm officially Old Lady Yelling At Clouds, but no one will ever be able to convince me that Booktok isn't the junkyard fire of Romancelandia.
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Someone who fancies themselves an expert on TikTok said “yearning” is dead in romance because of dual pov and we’re not supposed to hear from the MMC that much and I’ll tell you I about had a stroke. Stop punishing us cause you read people who can’t write.
Me, upon hearing that people on threads are calling 3rd person POV “misogynistic”
a man in a suit and tie is standing in front of a sign that says open the schools
ALT: a man in a suit and tie is standing in front of a sign that says open the schools
media.tenor.com
December 1, 2025 at 5:57 AM
Someone who fancies themselves an expert on TikTok said “yearning” is dead in romance because of dual pov and we’re not supposed to hear from the MMC that much and I’ll tell you I about had a stroke. Stop punishing us cause you read people who can’t write.
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Keep resisting, folks. We don’t need it. We were fine before it. Don’t let it destroy your brain.
"All of this falls apart if humans don't adopt the tech. This is why you've seen Meta cram its lame chatbots into WhatsApp and Instagram. This is why Notepad and Paint now have useless Copilot buttons on Windows. This is why Google Gemini wants to "help you" read and reply to your emails."
Analysis: OpenAI is a loss-making machine, how can it survive?
Don't call it a bubble! Loss-making monster OpenAI is on the hook for $1.4 trillion (with a T) in compute commitments. How can this go on?
www.windowscentral.com
December 1, 2025 at 8:22 AM
Keep resisting, folks. We don’t need it. We were fine before it. Don’t let it destroy your brain.
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SOMETHING NEW: Since SO MANY great new books on cities, city-building & urbanism have been published since I did my “Top 100” List back in 2013, on 100 (non-consecutive) days I’ll profile 100 NEWER BOOKS for the #UrbanismBookClub in THIS thread!
Starting today (in no order), with “Messy Cities!” 1/
Starting today (in no order), with “Messy Cities!” 1/
November 18, 2025 at 5:12 AM
SOMETHING NEW: Since SO MANY great new books on cities, city-building & urbanism have been published since I did my “Top 100” List back in 2013, on 100 (non-consecutive) days I’ll profile 100 NEWER BOOKS for the #UrbanismBookClub in THIS thread!
Starting today (in no order), with “Messy Cities!” 1/
Starting today (in no order), with “Messy Cities!” 1/
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Please don't let the fear of not doing something well stop you from trying it for the first time. Write a messy story. Paint a crappy flower. Whittle the worst wooden bear of all time.
The best gift you can give yourself is to have fun and grow.
The best gift you can give yourself is to have fun and grow.
December 1, 2025 at 8:12 AM
Please don't let the fear of not doing something well stop you from trying it for the first time. Write a messy story. Paint a crappy flower. Whittle the worst wooden bear of all time.
The best gift you can give yourself is to have fun and grow.
The best gift you can give yourself is to have fun and grow.
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Okay, this is deeply intriguing: adversarial poetry prompts have a significantly higher rate of jailbreak success on nearly every model the researchers tried. Guardian article: www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
AI’s safety features can be circumvented with poetry, research finds
Poems containing prompts for harmful content prove effective at duping large language models
www.theguardian.com
December 1, 2025 at 8:29 AM
Okay, this is deeply intriguing: adversarial poetry prompts have a significantly higher rate of jailbreak success on nearly every model the researchers tried. Guardian article: www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
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November 29, 2025 at 10:58 AM
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For a limited time, you can grab my award-winning novella, TIKKA CHANCE ON ME, for just $0.99! Trucker and Pinky are a cheap date! But, sorry, you'll have to procure your own samosas.
Buy links: books2read.com/u/mKKrNv
Buy links: books2read.com/u/mKKrNv
November 27, 2025 at 2:38 PM
For a limited time, you can grab my award-winning novella, TIKKA CHANCE ON ME, for just $0.99! Trucker and Pinky are a cheap date! But, sorry, you'll have to procure your own samosas.
Buy links: books2read.com/u/mKKrNv
Buy links: books2read.com/u/mKKrNv
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I see AI slop in anything, I instantly disregard the whole thing. It's like finding a slug in your salad. If you can't write without an LLM, or you can't source art that isn't genAI, you can't be trusted to do anything. Sorry. Absolute deal-breaker.
I don’t know if anyone else notices or cares, but when I see a presentation in which the speaker uses obviously generated-AI images to illustrate their slides, it makes me immediately less confident in whatever other content they’re presenting.
November 28, 2025 at 6:22 PM
I see AI slop in anything, I instantly disregard the whole thing. It's like finding a slug in your salad. If you can't write without an LLM, or you can't source art that isn't genAI, you can't be trusted to do anything. Sorry. Absolute deal-breaker.
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What a great headline
November 28, 2025 at 3:49 PM
What a great headline
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I think that somewhere along the way something in Stephen Miller got fundamentally damaged. This is neither an excuse nor a mitigating factor; the dude is genuinely fucking evil and he and everything he stands for should be fought against and stopped. But he is something beyond mere sociopathy.
Since Stephen Miller is in the midst of another of his Aryans-only trantrums, we should note that his family are 20th century immigrants from the shtetl of Antopol (Антопаль) then in the Hrodna gubernia of Russia. Applying his immigration rules, they would all have perished in the Holocaust.
Stephen Miller Is an Immigration Hypocrite. I Know Because I’m His Uncle.
If my nephew’s ideas on immigration had been in force a century ago, our family would have been wiped out.
www.politico.com
November 28, 2025 at 6:57 PM
I think that somewhere along the way something in Stephen Miller got fundamentally damaged. This is neither an excuse nor a mitigating factor; the dude is genuinely fucking evil and he and everything he stands for should be fought against and stopped. But he is something beyond mere sociopathy.
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For anyone interested. It's in Norwegian though. Someone saw the solution from his apartment and went outside to solve it.
November 26, 2025 at 7:23 PM
For anyone interested. It's in Norwegian though. Someone saw the solution from his apartment and went outside to solve it.
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when even "typing shit into slop machine" gets too much for these losers
I cannot stop laughing. This is so indicative of what's wrong with these AI people and how they view art
He ran into a wall where the "make art" button wasn't satisfying because it wasn't actually making good enough art, and instead of trying new things he just requests a stronger button
He ran into a wall where the "make art" button wasn't satisfying because it wasn't actually making good enough art, and instead of trying new things he just requests a stronger button
November 27, 2025 at 7:44 AM
when even "typing shit into slop machine" gets too much for these losers
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what i love is that in 1990 judas priest got brought to trial over the claim that subliminal messages in the recording "better by you better than me" caused two suicides and now in 2025 openai seems to be generating a suicide a week with its superliminal messages and the US government is funding it
November 27, 2025 at 8:23 AM
what i love is that in 1990 judas priest got brought to trial over the claim that subliminal messages in the recording "better by you better than me" caused two suicides and now in 2025 openai seems to be generating a suicide a week with its superliminal messages and the US government is funding it
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"Has AI achieved true sentience?"
No. You're just really stupid.
No. You're just really stupid.
November 27, 2025 at 9:15 AM
"Has AI achieved true sentience?"
No. You're just really stupid.
No. You're just really stupid.
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"a single person of this demographic may have committed a crime, therefore we must punish the entire demographic" is a policy response you may recognize from fascist governments dedicated to ethnic cleansing elsewhere.
November 27, 2025 at 5:52 AM
"a single person of this demographic may have committed a crime, therefore we must punish the entire demographic" is a policy response you may recognize from fascist governments dedicated to ethnic cleansing elsewhere.
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'AI Mode'. Oh, so like shit?
November 27, 2025 at 8:05 AM
'AI Mode'. Oh, so like shit?
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Per Reddit: Steam adult developer in the UK is sitting on a USD equivalent of six figures, can’t find a bank to take his money because the developer creates adult games
www.reddit.com/r/UKPersonal...
www.reddit.com/r/UKPersonal...
October 13, 2025 at 6:56 PM
Per Reddit: Steam adult developer in the UK is sitting on a USD equivalent of six figures, can’t find a bank to take his money because the developer creates adult games
www.reddit.com/r/UKPersonal...
www.reddit.com/r/UKPersonal...
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valve and steam are probably the greatest success story in all of gaming but their incredibly opaque nature and breadth of control are a sword of damocles hanging over devs. Every developer bar nintendo wants their game on steam, and steam's rules are on a whiteboard at Valve's HQ and nowhere else.
November 26, 2025 at 5:59 AM
valve and steam are probably the greatest success story in all of gaming but their incredibly opaque nature and breadth of control are a sword of damocles hanging over devs. Every developer bar nintendo wants their game on steam, and steam's rules are on a whiteboard at Valve's HQ and nowhere else.
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Remember when Steam said everything would be allowed on Steam as long as it wasn’t illegal?
www.theverge.com/2018/6/6/174...
www.theverge.com/2018/6/6/174...
November 25, 2025 at 6:27 PM
Remember when Steam said everything would be allowed on Steam as long as it wasn’t illegal?
www.theverge.com/2018/6/6/174...
www.theverge.com/2018/6/6/174...
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THE FUNNIEST FUCKING PART
November 25, 2025 at 6:47 PM
THE FUNNIEST FUCKING PART
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My final thought on the piracy discussion... probably... this time?
AO3 is Right. There.
It's not all werewolf fated mates or whatever you've heard.
There's a lot of stuff that just takes place in the same world as something you've heard of.
AO3 is Right. There.
It's not all werewolf fated mates or whatever you've heard.
There's a lot of stuff that just takes place in the same world as something you've heard of.
November 27, 2025 at 3:48 AM
My final thought on the piracy discussion... probably... this time?
AO3 is Right. There.
It's not all werewolf fated mates or whatever you've heard.
There's a lot of stuff that just takes place in the same world as something you've heard of.
AO3 is Right. There.
It's not all werewolf fated mates or whatever you've heard.
There's a lot of stuff that just takes place in the same world as something you've heard of.
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If writing is so easy why do people argue that they can’t do it without the pablumatic verbiage extruder
And if it’s so difficult then why do people think it’s not labour and writers are not workers
And if it’s so difficult then why do people think it’s not labour and writers are not workers
November 27, 2025 at 4:10 AM
If writing is so easy why do people argue that they can’t do it without the pablumatic verbiage extruder
And if it’s so difficult then why do people think it’s not labour and writers are not workers
And if it’s so difficult then why do people think it’s not labour and writers are not workers
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BREAKING: This is huge news, the EU's equivalent of the 🇺🇸Supreme Court's 2015 Obergefell v. Hodges ruling.
🇪🇺Court of Justice just ruled all 🇪🇺countries must recognise same-sex marriages granted in other member states.
This effectively legalises gay marriage across 🇪🇺
🇪🇺Court of Justice just ruled all 🇪🇺countries must recognise same-sex marriages granted in other member states.
This effectively legalises gay marriage across 🇪🇺
www.reuters.com
November 25, 2025 at 10:10 AM
BREAKING: This is huge news, the EU's equivalent of the 🇺🇸Supreme Court's 2015 Obergefell v. Hodges ruling.
🇪🇺Court of Justice just ruled all 🇪🇺countries must recognise same-sex marriages granted in other member states.
This effectively legalises gay marriage across 🇪🇺
🇪🇺Court of Justice just ruled all 🇪🇺countries must recognise same-sex marriages granted in other member states.
This effectively legalises gay marriage across 🇪🇺