Dlan
@dlan22.bsky.social
He/him
Enjoyer of TTRPGs, nature, and computer stuff
Fuck generative “AI”
My player 2 🩷 @nellie.starts.party
Enjoyer of TTRPGs, nature, and computer stuff
Fuck generative “AI”
My player 2 🩷 @nellie.starts.party
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Dlan
@dlan22.bsky.social
· Mar 20
Updated #promosky ! Let’s be friends!
Hobbies/interests
🌲 TTRPGs
🍂 Leftism
🌲 Programming/CS
🍂 Photography
🌲 Linux
🍂 Sci-fi
🌲 Druidry + Nature
TTRPGs
🌲 PF2e/SF2e
🍂 Hollows
🌲 CoC
Games
🌲 Pokemon
🍂 Cyberpunk 2077
🌲 Disco Elysium
Music
🌲 Post-rock
🍂 “-core” genres
🌲 Jazz
🍂 Blues/desert rock
Hobbies/interests
🌲 TTRPGs
🍂 Leftism
🌲 Programming/CS
🍂 Photography
🌲 Linux
🍂 Sci-fi
🌲 Druidry + Nature
TTRPGs
🌲 PF2e/SF2e
🍂 Hollows
🌲 CoC
Games
🌲 Pokemon
🍂 Cyberpunk 2077
🌲 Disco Elysium
Music
🌲 Post-rock
🍂 “-core” genres
🌲 Jazz
🍂 Blues/desert rock
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In general, AI adoption levels are a measurement of to what extent a particular reward system (a corporation, a market, academia as a whole system) has ceased to distinguish between doing a thing and pretending to do a thing
One of many things the pro-AI crowd doesn't seem to understand is the very important distinction between academic scholarship and the production of papers. Of course they can be related but they're not necessarily the same thing
December 22, 2025 at 12:04 AM
In general, AI adoption levels are a measurement of to what extent a particular reward system (a corporation, a market, academia as a whole system) has ceased to distinguish between doing a thing and pretending to do a thing
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Bring this energy with you int 2026 (yes this is a threat)
December 18, 2025 at 12:43 AM
Bring this energy with you int 2026 (yes this is a threat)
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I can *100% assure you* that if this report found that trans people & "wokeness" tanked the Harris campaign, the DNC would release it in a heartbeat
BREAKING: The Democratic National Committee will NOT release its long-awaited autopsy on Trump's 2024 win. The report is completed but Dem leaders decided it could distract from their winning streak, so it will remain secret. Not good.
Details here:
newrepublic.com/article/2045...
Details here:
newrepublic.com/article/2045...
Dem Leaders Decide to Bury Damning Report on Why Trump Won in 2024
The Democratic National Committee has completed its long-awaited analysis on what went wrong in the 2024 campaign. But in a move that will attract intense criticism, it’s keeping the findings secret.
newrepublic.com
December 18, 2025 at 10:28 PM
I can *100% assure you* that if this report found that trans people & "wokeness" tanked the Harris campaign, the DNC would release it in a heartbeat
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We absolutely are not running out of good ideas, the people controlling large media conglomerates are simply Bad At Art and risk averse and are thus recycling the same 5 ideas because it feels safe
America, you have spoken loud and clear: You do not like AI. But what if AI is the way to restart the world’s idea machine?
We’re running out of good ideas. AI might be how we find new ones.
What if the best use of AI is restarting the world’s idea machine?
www.vox.com
December 16, 2025 at 6:51 PM
We absolutely are not running out of good ideas, the people controlling large media conglomerates are simply Bad At Art and risk averse and are thus recycling the same 5 ideas because it feels safe
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I like that when I joined bluesky it was a place for sickos to not be bothered by Nazis but now it has a reputation for being super libbed up so when I say something like "do you think Wolverine got regular boners or did it pop in and out like his claws" someone will stop by to say "VOTE!"
December 15, 2025 at 11:20 PM
I like that when I joined bluesky it was a place for sickos to not be bothered by Nazis but now it has a reputation for being super libbed up so when I say something like "do you think Wolverine got regular boners or did it pop in and out like his claws" someone will stop by to say "VOTE!"
At ~2:04 on Fxmldr there’s a doubled sax and violin part absolutely drenched in reverb (and a little guitar underneath) and wow what an ethereal sound
Really cool way of making a pad effect
Then later keeping that pad up while the guitar is doing post hardcore lead sweeps is just glorious
Really cool way of making a pad effect
Then later keeping that pad up while the guitar is doing post hardcore lead sweeps is just glorious
Finally listening to Thank You Scientist’s Terraformer and I’m pretty sure this is what middle schoolers think Tally Hall and Will Wood sound like (prog, good, etc.)
December 12, 2025 at 10:29 PM
At ~2:04 on Fxmldr there’s a doubled sax and violin part absolutely drenched in reverb (and a little guitar underneath) and wow what an ethereal sound
Really cool way of making a pad effect
Then later keeping that pad up while the guitar is doing post hardcore lead sweeps is just glorious
Really cool way of making a pad effect
Then later keeping that pad up while the guitar is doing post hardcore lead sweeps is just glorious
Finally listening to Thank You Scientist’s Terraformer and I’m pretty sure this is what middle schoolers think Tally Hall and Will Wood sound like (prog, good, etc.)
December 12, 2025 at 10:17 PM
Finally listening to Thank You Scientist’s Terraformer and I’m pretty sure this is what middle schoolers think Tally Hall and Will Wood sound like (prog, good, etc.)
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This is the PR strategy fb and google have played us (and our elected officials) with since the turn of the century. And it’s worked really well for them and their shareholders. Especially Zuckerberg. Altman is now following the same playbook.
December 12, 2025 at 4:22 PM
This is the PR strategy fb and google have played us (and our elected officials) with since the turn of the century. And it’s worked really well for them and their shareholders. Especially Zuckerberg. Altman is now following the same playbook.
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Undoing years of conditioned shame to embrace being a weird nerd with pride again
December 7, 2025 at 7:49 AM
Undoing years of conditioned shame to embrace being a weird nerd with pride again
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One of the many reasons AI can't produce good writing is it can't hate its own writing. It can't think to itself "Maybe I'm illiterate" during the writing process. And that's essential
December 9, 2025 at 8:45 PM
One of the many reasons AI can't produce good writing is it can't hate its own writing. It can't think to itself "Maybe I'm illiterate" during the writing process. And that's essential
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"Elon’s entire incoherent free speech framework collapses into a single coherent principle: speech I like is protected, speech I don’t like should be punished.
This is what happens when someone who never understood the actual principles of free speech tries to cosplay as a free speech absolutist."
This is what happens when someone who never understood the actual principles of free speech tries to cosplay as a free speech absolutist."
Three Tweets That Capture The Entire Elon Musk Free Speech Con
We’ve spent years calling out what a hypocrite Elon Musk is on free speech. But sometimes the universe Elon hands you a gift: three tweets in the span of a little over a week that demonstrate…
www.techdirt.com
December 9, 2025 at 9:41 PM
"Elon’s entire incoherent free speech framework collapses into a single coherent principle: speech I like is protected, speech I don’t like should be punished.
This is what happens when someone who never understood the actual principles of free speech tries to cosplay as a free speech absolutist."
This is what happens when someone who never understood the actual principles of free speech tries to cosplay as a free speech absolutist."
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One of the wildest parts of the Luigi story is that he didn’t actually do it lol
We’ve been saying that since day one
We’ve been saying that since day one
December 9, 2025 at 7:03 PM
One of the wildest parts of the Luigi story is that he didn’t actually do it lol
We’ve been saying that since day one
We’ve been saying that since day one
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For comparison, every robotic mission NASA has ever sent in its history, from the dawn of the Space Age 65 years ago to today, from Mercury to Pluto and beyond, has cost less than $40B.
I know which one has done more for humankind and which one should be dismantled.
I know which one has done more for humankind and which one should be dismantled.
Mark Zuckerberg’s gamble on the ‘Metaverse’ has cost Meta more than $77B
The company now plans to cut spending on it and shift focus to AI wearables instead
(via WSJ)
The company now plans to cut spending on it and shift focus to AI wearables instead
(via WSJ)
December 7, 2025 at 2:03 AM
For comparison, every robotic mission NASA has ever sent in its history, from the dawn of the Space Age 65 years ago to today, from Mercury to Pluto and beyond, has cost less than $40B.
I know which one has done more for humankind and which one should be dismantled.
I know which one has done more for humankind and which one should be dismantled.
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AI bros calling us "Luddites" like the Luddites weren't right about the textile machinery disenfranchising the workers and all the money going to the wealthy.
Being called a Luddite by an AI bro is like being called an adult-fucker by a pedophile
Being called a Luddite by an AI bro is like being called an adult-fucker by a pedophile
December 5, 2025 at 7:48 PM
AI bros calling us "Luddites" like the Luddites weren't right about the textile machinery disenfranchising the workers and all the money going to the wealthy.
Being called a Luddite by an AI bro is like being called an adult-fucker by a pedophile
Being called a Luddite by an AI bro is like being called an adult-fucker by a pedophile
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Sometimes people pit mainstream queer art vs weird fucked up queer art, but you don’t get the She-Ra unless you live in a society that allows and accepts dozens if not hundreds of way smuttier, meaner, darker, more fucked up works of queer fiction.
The fascists are counting on you finding erotica and porn too distasteful to support. Because they always start here. And even if they ended here, sexuality and erotism are integral components of queer expression. You can't support queer creators without supporting 'nsfw' content.
December 4, 2025 at 4:44 PM
Sometimes people pit mainstream queer art vs weird fucked up queer art, but you don’t get the She-Ra unless you live in a society that allows and accepts dozens if not hundreds of way smuttier, meaner, darker, more fucked up works of queer fiction.
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Obviously this is impossible because Alan Moore looks like he's genetically a wizard, it's simply impossible to imagine what he would look like as a schoolboy oh there he is.
Spot Alan Moore in his 6th form Northampton Grammar School photo, taken two days before he was expelled
December 2, 2025 at 9:06 AM
Obviously this is impossible because Alan Moore looks like he's genetically a wizard, it's simply impossible to imagine what he would look like as a schoolboy oh there he is.
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The thing about AI anime dubs and AI Actor Tilly Norwood and AI music is just the fucking disrespect, this is what your industry thinks can replace you and it’s not even good. It’s not even a thing you look at with dread at how the computer has replaced Man, it just sucks ass lol it just blows
November 30, 2025 at 5:44 AM
The thing about AI anime dubs and AI Actor Tilly Norwood and AI music is just the fucking disrespect, this is what your industry thinks can replace you and it’s not even good. It’s not even a thing you look at with dread at how the computer has replaced Man, it just sucks ass lol it just blows
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If you don't get that the "yucky porn games" are the gateway to censor further media that YOU personally think is acceptable, you need to get your head out of your ass. They're trying to divide people into smaller groups so their collective power is also smaller. Kill the cop in your head.
Already seeing folks say, "Well, HORSES isn't YUCKY PORN like other games are, so..." which is super frustrating.
Now is NOT the time to be throwing the hentai games you happen not to like under the bus. Your rage should be directly at payment processors.
Join the fight
stop-paypros.neocities.org
Now is NOT the time to be throwing the hentai games you happen not to like under the bus. Your rage should be directly at payment processors.
Join the fight
stop-paypros.neocities.org
Stop payment processors from censoring games!
stop-paypros.neocities.org
November 25, 2025 at 10:42 PM
If you don't get that the "yucky porn games" are the gateway to censor further media that YOU personally think is acceptable, you need to get your head out of your ass. They're trying to divide people into smaller groups so their collective power is also smaller. Kill the cop in your head.
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i think tech and ai positive people are going to be in for a big shock when anti tech and anti ai sentiment becomes a major part of leftwing politics going forward especially as datacenters continue to destroy communities and raise electricity bills
Is this platform still massively against AI or has it moved more towards acceptance?
November 26, 2025 at 5:34 AM
i think tech and ai positive people are going to be in for a big shock when anti tech and anti ai sentiment becomes a major part of leftwing politics going forward especially as datacenters continue to destroy communities and raise electricity bills
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these freaks are doing absolutely terrifying stuff on a wholesale basis. probably more horror than anyone will ever really know
ICE deported a woman who owned a home in the US for 30 years. A judge banned ICE from deporting her to Sierra Leone where she had been tortured, so it deported her to Ghana, which kidnapped her and sent her back Sierra Leone anyway. ICE is part of this illegal conspiracy.
November 26, 2025 at 3:17 AM
these freaks are doing absolutely terrifying stuff on a wholesale basis. probably more horror than anyone will ever really know
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A lesser known symptom of agoraphobia is having NO cool pikmin seedlings in pikmin bloom cause you never leave your house and only get roadside sticker decor 🙄
November 25, 2025 at 8:03 AM
A lesser known symptom of agoraphobia is having NO cool pikmin seedlings in pikmin bloom cause you never leave your house and only get roadside sticker decor 🙄
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“The best way to understand the Economy is to think of it as if it’s a unicorn that shits gold, and we need to keep feeding it gold or else it will shit shit. Except it’s not a unicorn that shits gold, it’s a man in a suit and he’s fucking your wife.” - @esopterodactyl.bsky.social, 15 years ago
"The hundreds of billions of dollars companies are investing in AI now account for an astonishing 40 per cent share of US GDP growth this year... In a way, then, America has become one big bet on AI."
America is now one big bet on AI
It’s seen as the magic fix for every threat to the US economy
www.ft.com
October 6, 2025 at 5:42 PM
“The best way to understand the Economy is to think of it as if it’s a unicorn that shits gold, and we need to keep feeding it gold or else it will shit shit. Except it’s not a unicorn that shits gold, it’s a man in a suit and he’s fucking your wife.” - @esopterodactyl.bsky.social, 15 years ago