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Tristan Gray

@eidyngray.scot

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🏳️‍🌈 author and activist in 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 Software engineer, TTRPG GM, and author of dark fantasy books (he/they) 💜💗💙 https://linktr.ee/tgraywrites

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Tristan Gray @eidyngray.scot · Oct 17

I'm the author of 'Call of the Black Wing', a dark fantasy tale steeped in the folklore of Dark Age Scotland.

Featuring creatures from Gaelic mythology and Scots-language-speaking characters. For fans of Lucy Holland's 'Sistersong' and H.M. Long's 'Hall of Smoke'.

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Cover of Fall of the Black Wing by Tristan Gray, two corvids battling in flight over a flaming background containing flames in the shape of cats and foxes

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Katy Derbyshire @katyderbyshire.bsky.social · 1h

Sorry to use you as a dumping ground, but I just talked to a guy who’s thinking about getting into literary translation by “using software” and post-editing. Because it would be too time consuming the long way. He was also unimpressed by my suggestion that good translation takes practice.

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Jess O'Thomson @jessothomson.co.uk · 1h

It cannot be made clearer.

If you continue to support the Harry Potter franchise in any way, you are directly funding the removal of trans people's human rights in the UK.

JK Rowling pledges to keep up fight against SNP trans policies

Author vows to bankroll campaigners after Scottish government fails to pay group's legal fees in Supreme Court equality case

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Tristan Grayford @tristangrayford.scot · 2h

As discord suffers a massive data breach of people's personal data and ID documents congrats to the UK Government for bringing in the undercooked law that made it absolutely inevitable this would happen, repeatedly

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Sam Cole @samleecole.bsky.social · 20h

the only thing people want to do on Sora, it seems, is generate images of copyrighted characters. now that they can't, they're crashing the fuck out www.404media.co/sora-2-conte...

People Are Crashing Out Over Sora 2’s New Guardrails

OpenAI’s Sora 2 platform started just one week ago as an AI-generated copyright infringement free-for-all. Now, people say they’re struggling to generate anything without being hit with a violation er...

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Stephen Totilo @stephentotilo.bsky.social · 16h

SCOOP: Last year, Ubisoft cancelled an Assassin's Creed game set during Reconstruction. Was to feature a Black Assassin who, among other things, fought the rise of the Klan

Sources: Leadership nixed it over concerns re: U.S. political climate, backlash to Yasuke

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Scoop: Ubisoft cancelled a post-Civil War Assassin’s Creed last year

Company leadership deemed the project too controversial for the moment, sources tell Game File

www.gamefile.news

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Lin Codega @lincodega.com · 13h

also fyi i'm open to freelance work! i can write games, articles, and stories. 🫰

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Tristan Gray @eidyngray.scot · 12h

Ooooo

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Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 is getting a whoole free update with a new location, boss battles and threads

Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 developers Sandfall Interactive have announced the RPG is getting a free update with a new location, boss battles and threads.

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Existential Comics @existentialcomics.com · 19h

The fact that everyone totally ignores C3PO when he says stuff like this makes a lot more sense if you think of him as a ChatGPT type computer who just says plausible sounding sentences without any real analysis behind them.

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Tristan Gray @eidyngray.scot · 1d

I'm sure we don't need to be in any way concerned that the US economy is currently propped-up by a handful of AI corps just passing $1trn in cash around, burning $bns every day, whilst gold rushes to a record high price as investors free market vulnerability...

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Naomi Alderman @naomialderman.bsky.social · 1d

feels like yet again time to mention that the *videogames* industry (that's a creative industry, which people do creative degrees in) brings in more than twice the amount to the British economy as the fishing and steel industries *combined*

Naomi Alderman @naomialderman.bsky.social · 1d

I cannot understand what these people think the purpose of human life is?

It is *not* "pursue joy, deal justly, love well, try to understand as much and see as much of this beautiful world and of the deepness, richness and variety of human culture and experience as you can before you die"?

Tim Worthington @outonbluesix.bsky.social · 1d

How is this repeatedly made into a policy issue - by *all* parties - when the blunt fact of the matter is that grown adults who are obliged to pay for their own education, and relentlessly pursued to repay their loans, should be able to study whatever the fuck they want.

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Fourth Crown War FPV Drone Operator 🇺🇦🇱🇹🇵🇸🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @dov.bsky.social · 1d

Deleting English literature degrees would actually be a really interesting case study in whether the UK can destroy its own understanding of its own culture on an almost micro level. Worry not, sceptred isle, heir to Shakespeare, Byron, the Shelleys and Tolkien, you dont need to know who those are.

Paul Connolly @thepaulconnolly.bsky.social · 1d

Badenoch wants to eliminate ‘rip off degrees’ like English. The usual philistine crap that a degree is just about work. The mission to create the stupidest nation on earth. And counterproductive. Young people will work for years. They’ll retrain endlessly. A degree can help them learn how to learn

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Tristan Gray @eidyngray.scot · 1d

Dolly Parton's sister asking for prayers for her because she has a cold and could do with a pick-me-up and panicking the entire internet into praying for her life is objectively pretty funny

Tristan Gray @eidyngray.scot · 1d

Every "AI" company currently tearing up our economy and creative industries could collapse tomorrow and thousands of use-cases for machine learning would continue doing useful things as if nothing happened.

Tristan Gray @eidyngray.scot · 1d

Part of the problem with "AI" being used as shorthand for "GenAI" is that all of the perfectly valid use cases of AI going back a decade or more are being pulled into the valid backlash to GenAI.

I think the Bluesky team are screwing up a lot, but using machine learning for moderation isn't one.

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 1d

Libs of Tiktok, Elon Musk, and Robbie Starbuck put everything they had into trying to push a boycott of Netflix over LGBTQ characters in their shows.

Netflix ignored them and the stock is back up. Turns out bots don't actually cancel accounts.

Screenshot of Netflix Inc. (NASDAQ: NFLX) stock summary on October 7. The closing price is $1,191.06 USD, up +27.75 (2.39%) for the day. The day’s trading range shows a low of $1,177.46 and a high of $1,201.36. Previous close was $1,163.31. Market cap is $506.11B, P/E ratio is 50.75, with no dividend yield. The 52-week high is $1,341.15 and the 52-week low is $677.88. A line graph shows intraday stock price movement, peaking above $1,190 before settling at the closing price.

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Tristan Gray @eidyngray.scot · 1d

I am not a Henry Cavill defender, but he only had such an easy time having his PR team paint him as a poor put-upon champion of the source material because there was a core truth to the complaint - the writing was increasingly dismal.

Tristan Gray @eidyngray.scot · 1d

In which the writers, incomprehensibly, have Geralt shout "let's fucking move!" and then put it in the trailer as if it isn't extremely jarring

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The Witcher: Season 4 | Official Trailer | Netflix

YouTube video by Netflix

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Tristan Gray @eidyngray.scot · 1d

It would be good for her to chase the people she encouraged to leave further 1* reviews, as there's still a dozen from her time encouraging her followers to do so

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Libro.fm @libro.fm · 1d

Your reminder that 29.3% of all revenue from indie bookshops immediately recirculates in the local economy 😊

That's 4x more than Amazon.

When you buy audiobooks through Libro.fm, you're supporting not only your indie, but your local economy.

*American Booksellers Association + Civic Economics

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Tristan Gray @eidyngray.scot · 1d

"Confidently incorrect - AI is so bad at this"

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AI Slop Is Killing Our Channel

YouTube video by Kurzgesagt – In a Nutshell

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Tristan Gray @eidyngray.scot · 2d

I have yet to come across a case of "I'm only following them to keep an eye on them" from the dying era of Twitter that didn't turn out to be "well actually I think they raise some legitimate concerns..." with enough time

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Tristan Gray @eidyngray.scot · 2d

I can see this - the story is an absolute marvel and incredibly written but it doesn't have *perfect* narrative structure that fits a video game, as most evident in Act III where most players have no idea what to do next to progress the story best

www.rockpapershotgun.com/clair-obscur...

Clair Obscur: Expedition 33's lead writer had apparently never played a video game before writing it

Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 obviously drew from Final Fantasy, but one of its writers had never even played a video game before writing it.

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Tristan Gray @eidyngray.scot · 2d

"That’s just assholery. It’s one thing to allow people with different opinions to express themselves on a free social platform; it’s another to mock those who feel marginalized by that decision."

www.pajiba.com/news/the-blu...

The Bluesky Waffles Controversy Explained

Because it always bears repeating: Shutting up is free!

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Tristan Gray @eidyngray.scot · 2d

I think he peaked in 2018/2019 and has been on the decline ever since.

Loads of people point at Black Adam but I think the "yeah I could run for President" comments in 2021 were probably the beginning of the end driven by his stratospheric ego

Tristan Gray @eidyngray.scot · 2d

You'd have thought that a musician that made artistic integrity and ownership of their art a core part of their stated values would have a bit of a firmer hand on her marketing making a joke of that idea

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Taylor Swift, Defender of Artist Ownership, Allegedly Uses AI in Videos

Taylor Swift (AI Version)

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