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dillon snook

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#portfolioday

illustration stuff

January 13, 2026 at 8:06 PM

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Dikkii 🔱

@dikkii.bsky.social

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The reason why RAM has become four times more expensive is that a huge amount of RAM that has not yet been produced was purchased with non-existent money to be installed in GPUs that also have not yet been produced, in order to place them in data centers that have not yet been built, powered by infrastructure that may never appear, to satisfy demand that does not actually exist and to obtain profit that is mathematically impossible

January 10, 2026 at 12:05 PM

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Scarlet Magus 💀 Horror Vtuber

@scarletmagus.bsky.social

EVERYONE DO THIS SURVEY

MAKE DISCORD PANIC AND REGRET AND REVERSE COURSE

DROWN THEM IN YOUR HATRED FOR GENAI

"If Discord added more AI featurss, would that change how often you use Discord?"

"I'd consider leaving Discord."

January 10, 2026 at 6:35 AM

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Bruno Dias

@brunodias.bsky.social

This is simply not technically possible. You cannot generate enough writing in-house to train an LLM. You cannot generate enough art in-house to train a GAN. People who think they have a model "trained on our own material" are using a base model of mass-scraped data, unknowingly or disingenuously.

Kotaku @kotaku.com · 10d

Larian CEO says Divinity could have gen AI assets in it but only if the tools are trained on the studio's own data.

"If we use a GenAI model to create in-game assets, then it'll be trained on data we own."

https://kotaku.com/divinity-gen-ai-larian-bg3-reddit-ama-2000658429

January 9, 2026 at 3:39 PM

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Stiv

@stivkun.bsky.social

Code Lyoko monster designs randomly manifest in my head from time to time

January 8, 2026 at 8:00 PM

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Paul F. Tompkins

@pftompkins.bsky.social

The text faded to the paywall at the same rate as my eyes would have glazed over anyway

THE FRONT-RUNNER

Californias Gavin Newsom would rather be wrong than weak.
By Helen Lewis

(Header for an Atlantic article about Gavin Newsom, it features a picture of him looking like a real smart politics guy)

“GAVIN NEWSOM HAS A 30-PAGE FILE of reasons the Democrats lost the 2024 presidential election. Bounding across his Sacramento office, he starts listing them: incumbency, inflation, interest rates, Israel—and that's just the letter I. "Yes, too woke," he adds. "Yes, 107 days, referring to the short campaign after Joe Biden's forced withdrawal.
But the California governor distills his party's problem down to one word. *Weak.*”

(On the last paragraph the text starts to fade from black to gray)

“Newsom slaps his hand on a marked-up hardback of Bill
Clinton's memoir, brought down from the shelf a minute earlier.
"Given the choice," he tells me, summing up a crucial Clinton insight—one many Democrats still can't quite seem to grasp—"the American people always support strong and wrong versus weak and”

(The text gets lighter and lighter until you can barely read it, that’s how huh kiwi you’ve hit that paywall baybay)

January 7, 2026 at 5:12 AM

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Olivia When

@oliviawhen.com

The best season for sleeping. 🌨️

A pale yellow dog is asleep on a yellow couch with only their head resting on the arm next to a quilt. There's a lamp on a wood side table to the left casting warm light. Behind is a window showing snow on trees and a grey sky. The room is a warm brown.

January 6, 2026 at 8:21 PM

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Danielle Froom 🏳️‍🌈

@danifroom.bsky.social

23 days ago Seth Moulton voted to supply $900 billion to the Trump regime's war machine in exchange for segregation laws for trans people.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 16d

Moulton: "When we had briefings on Venezuela, we asked, 'Are you going to invade the country?' We were told no. 'Do you plan to put troops on the ground?' We were told no. 'Do you intend regime change in VZ?' We were told no. So in a sense, we have been briefed, we've just been completely lied to"