hatter
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lurking | non binary, they/them | autistic | above 25 lvl | non native english
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RE Larian and GenAI: now that we know the physical impact of LLMs and the data centers they require to run, even if trained off in-house data, there is still NO ethical way to use GenAI
January 10, 2026 at 6:27 AM
RE Larian and GenAI: now that we know the physical impact of LLMs and the data centers they require to run, even if trained off in-house data, there is still NO ethical way to use GenAI
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I've not yapped about it but it is really fucking insane that we spent the summer fighting against paypros for our right to buy a videogame with a penis in it
and another megacorp is currently just creating terabytes of CP openly and proudly and working with paypros to do it
and another megacorp is currently just creating terabytes of CP openly and proudly and working with paypros to do it
January 6, 2026 at 8:52 AM
I've not yapped about it but it is really fucking insane that we spent the summer fighting against paypros for our right to buy a videogame with a penis in it
and another megacorp is currently just creating terabytes of CP openly and proudly and working with paypros to do it
and another megacorp is currently just creating terabytes of CP openly and proudly and working with paypros to do it
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A nuance I feel is being somewhat lost in discussion around Larian's use or non-use of genAI is that the way Swen is talking here bears all the hallmarks of a CEO who does not realize that his employees have been Handling him in the way employees have always Handled dumbfuck top-down directives
January 9, 2026 at 11:57 PM
A nuance I feel is being somewhat lost in discussion around Larian's use or non-use of genAI is that the way Swen is talking here bears all the hallmarks of a CEO who does not realize that his employees have been Handling him in the way employees have always Handled dumbfuck top-down directives
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I don't think I've ever seen someone fumble this much good will before. Larian was like THE golden child after BG3. They basically had a golden ticket for whatever they released next to be successful.
Then this dude fucks it by saying this shit. Like it's true what they say. There are no good CEOs
Then this dude fucks it by saying this shit. Like it's true what they say. There are no good CEOs
January 9, 2026 at 6:07 PM
I don't think I've ever seen someone fumble this much good will before. Larian was like THE golden child after BG3. They basically had a golden ticket for whatever they released next to be successful.
Then this dude fucks it by saying this shit. Like it's true what they say. There are no good CEOs
Then this dude fucks it by saying this shit. Like it's true what they say. There are no good CEOs
Disappointed, but not surprised (and I'm not buying Divinity after this).
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
"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 9:47 PM
Disappointed, but not surprised (and I'm not buying Divinity after this).
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we live in a society where it's just kind of casually accepted that advertisements, politicians, cops, textbooks, etc. are going to constantly lie to you and it's on you if you can't keep up. that's not how it works. trying to live like that leads us directly to where we are now.
January 5, 2026 at 7:41 PM
we live in a society where it's just kind of casually accepted that advertisements, politicians, cops, textbooks, etc. are going to constantly lie to you and it's on you if you can't keep up. that's not how it works. trying to live like that leads us directly to where we are now.
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My whole life, advocating war has been fed to me as “the adult position,” akin to drinking your coffee black or reading the business section of the newspaper. Let’s be very clear — war is the childish nonsense of impulsive destructive idiots playing baby-brained video games with real human lives.
January 4, 2026 at 2:02 AM
My whole life, advocating war has been fed to me as “the adult position,” akin to drinking your coffee black or reading the business section of the newspaper. Let’s be very clear — war is the childish nonsense of impulsive destructive idiots playing baby-brained video games with real human lives.
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"international law must be followed" is european for "thoughts and prayers"
January 3, 2026 at 2:08 PM
"international law must be followed" is european for "thoughts and prayers"
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I loved this. And I want to note the whole “there were no autistic people before …” discourse has an answer here: just the people were sent away in the incarceration (yes “care homes” like this), and if they fled, they were just abandoned by society, usually to die.
December 25, 2025 at 4:56 PM
I loved this. And I want to note the whole “there were no autistic people before …” discourse has an answer here: just the people were sent away in the incarceration (yes “care homes” like this), and if they fled, they were just abandoned by society, usually to die.
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Ideas are not a resource that the games industry needs generated. You cannot shoot a nerf gun into a studio and miss someone without a thousand great ideas. It's never been a problem for any of us. Just ask us.
Fuck sake you evil bastards just admit you don't want to pay for staff.
Fuck sake you evil bastards just admit you don't want to pay for staff.
December 20, 2025 at 3:56 AM
Ideas are not a resource that the games industry needs generated. You cannot shoot a nerf gun into a studio and miss someone without a thousand great ideas. It's never been a problem for any of us. Just ask us.
Fuck sake you evil bastards just admit you don't want to pay for staff.
Fuck sake you evil bastards just admit you don't want to pay for staff.
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Great news!
JSTOR now have a free account with an Independent Researcher category. You can access 100 documents per month
www.jstor.org/action/showL...
JSTOR now have a free account with an Independent Researcher category. You can access 100 documents per month
www.jstor.org/action/showL...
September 29, 2025 at 3:27 PM
Great news!
JSTOR now have a free account with an Independent Researcher category. You can access 100 documents per month
www.jstor.org/action/showL...
JSTOR now have a free account with an Independent Researcher category. You can access 100 documents per month
www.jstor.org/action/showL...
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letting networked software, the specific thing whose authoritarian tendencies cyberpunk warns us about, take over the term tech or technology does cause issues
i often wonder the extent to which "tech" being used as a metonym for "information technology" specifically makes it harder to see this
like there *is* technology in the world that isn't information technology (per se) and it doesn't behave (exactly) like this
like there *is* technology in the world that isn't information technology (per se) and it doesn't behave (exactly) like this
Tech isn't about innovation, it's about power and networking chokepoints for power. You can innovate all you want, if you don't control or neutralise existing chokepoints your innovation will almost certainly fail to garner any real market success.
Silicon Valley is about moats not research.
Silicon Valley is about moats not research.
August 27, 2025 at 3:08 PM
letting networked software, the specific thing whose authoritarian tendencies cyberpunk warns us about, take over the term tech or technology does cause issues
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I will remind folks those images of Nazi book burnings aren't burning just any books. They're burning the library of Magnus Hirschfeld; a gay, Jewish doctor who created an institute dedicated to LGBTQ sex education and healthcare. And a man who pioneered gender affirming care surgeries.
US government orders 46 states to destroy trans education materials
https://www.thepinknews.com/2025/08/27/trans-education-us-state-directive/?utm_content=1756312804&utm_medium=social&utm_source=bluesky
https://www.thepinknews.com/2025/08/27/trans-education-us-state-directive/?utm_content=1756312804&utm_medium=social&utm_source=bluesky
US government orders states to destroy trans education materials
The US government has ordered 46 states and territories to destroy education materials referencing trans people.
www.thepinknews.com
August 29, 2025 at 1:23 AM
I will remind folks those images of Nazi book burnings aren't burning just any books. They're burning the library of Magnus Hirschfeld; a gay, Jewish doctor who created an institute dedicated to LGBTQ sex education and healthcare. And a man who pioneered gender affirming care surgeries.
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the other wrinkle in all these "we're banning porn for UK users!" and "bluesky isn't available in mississippi" stories that no one seems to be talking about:
geo-ip is inaccurate as shit, even before VPNs get involved. you can't just detect where people are with any kind of consistency
geo-ip is inaccurate as shit, even before VPNs get involved. you can't just detect where people are with any kind of consistency
August 23, 2025 at 7:00 PM
the other wrinkle in all these "we're banning porn for UK users!" and "bluesky isn't available in mississippi" stories that no one seems to be talking about:
geo-ip is inaccurate as shit, even before VPNs get involved. you can't just detect where people are with any kind of consistency
geo-ip is inaccurate as shit, even before VPNs get involved. you can't just detect where people are with any kind of consistency
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Germany gets 60% of its power from renewables and is shutting down its coal plants. No blackouts. No high bills. Every right wing lie about renewables has been proven false.
August 22, 2025 at 2:23 PM
Germany gets 60% of its power from renewables and is shutting down its coal plants. No blackouts. No high bills. Every right wing lie about renewables has been proven false.
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Another old rowboat I came across on my travels. The lake could definitely use a little more water.
#Iceland #photography #naturephotography #nature #landscape #landscapephotography #abandoned #boat #rowboat #trees #clouds #sky #lake #pond
#Iceland #photography #naturephotography #nature #landscape #landscapephotography #abandoned #boat #rowboat #trees #clouds #sky #lake #pond
August 21, 2025 at 3:11 PM
Another old rowboat I came across on my travels. The lake could definitely use a little more water.
#Iceland #photography #naturephotography #nature #landscape #landscapephotography #abandoned #boat #rowboat #trees #clouds #sky #lake #pond
#Iceland #photography #naturephotography #nature #landscape #landscapephotography #abandoned #boat #rowboat #trees #clouds #sky #lake #pond
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I am fucking begging people to go to this website and do what it says and get rid of the AI summaries tenbluelinks.org
August 19, 2025 at 3:11 PM
I am fucking begging people to go to this website and do what it says and get rid of the AI summaries tenbluelinks.org
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tl;dr: Donald Eastlake knew he'd tested positive, went to Worldcon and the MPC meeting anyway, took off his mask, and explicitly refused to put it back on. If you were at that meeting or at Worldcon in general: you can boost your chances by immediately starting a H1+H2 antihistamine --
Covid Concern Becomes Issue at In-Person WSFS MPC Meeting Held at Worldcon
file770.com/covid-concer...
file770.com/covid-concer...
August 21, 2025 at 2:22 AM
tl;dr: Donald Eastlake knew he'd tested positive, went to Worldcon and the MPC meeting anyway, took off his mask, and explicitly refused to put it back on. If you were at that meeting or at Worldcon in general: you can boost your chances by immediately starting a H1+H2 antihistamine --
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He was very good in person with his trans fans too. Growing up going to SF cons, I met many trans people before I even knew what trans meant. I gave my parents very little they needed to accept in their child, so they had lots left over for everyone else. 😉 www.thepinknews.com/2021/08/06/t...
August 19, 2025 at 9:25 PM
He was very good in person with his trans fans too. Growing up going to SF cons, I met many trans people before I even knew what trans meant. I gave my parents very little they needed to accept in their child, so they had lots left over for everyone else. 😉 www.thepinknews.com/2021/08/06/t...
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where is the “llms as power centralising enshittificators regressing society, knowledge, culture to the mediocre” position cuz that's where i'd fit
www.programmablemutter.com/p/large-lang... Gopnikism, interactionism, structuralism and role play.
Large language models are cultural technologies. What might that mean?
Four different perspectives
www.programmablemutter.com
August 18, 2025 at 2:32 PM
where is the “llms as power centralising enshittificators regressing society, knowledge, culture to the mediocre” position cuz that's where i'd fit
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UNBELIEVABLELY sweet moment between a peacock chick and their parent.
Not sharebait.
I COULD NOT believe my luck.
Last year I had seen the chicks about 3 weeks later, I was determined to get them younger, and this one DID NOT disappoint!
SQUEE - o - meter 10/10, thank you birds! 🥰 🐣 🪶
Not sharebait.
I COULD NOT believe my luck.
Last year I had seen the chicks about 3 weeks later, I was determined to get them younger, and this one DID NOT disappoint!
SQUEE - o - meter 10/10, thank you birds! 🥰 🐣 🪶
August 17, 2025 at 4:28 AM
UNBELIEVABLELY sweet moment between a peacock chick and their parent.
Not sharebait.
I COULD NOT believe my luck.
Last year I had seen the chicks about 3 weeks later, I was determined to get them younger, and this one DID NOT disappoint!
SQUEE - o - meter 10/10, thank you birds! 🥰 🐣 🪶
Not sharebait.
I COULD NOT believe my luck.
Last year I had seen the chicks about 3 weeks later, I was determined to get them younger, and this one DID NOT disappoint!
SQUEE - o - meter 10/10, thank you birds! 🥰 🐣 🪶
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So I'm starting to see posts about how canning can help with these rising grocery store prices and my answer is: it depends
It depends on what you use, how you cook, and what equipment you have.
If you're big on tomatoes and berries, I'd suggest investing in a chest freezer, honestly.
It depends on what you use, how you cook, and what equipment you have.
If you're big on tomatoes and berries, I'd suggest investing in a chest freezer, honestly.
August 16, 2025 at 10:52 PM
So I'm starting to see posts about how canning can help with these rising grocery store prices and my answer is: it depends
It depends on what you use, how you cook, and what equipment you have.
If you're big on tomatoes and berries, I'd suggest investing in a chest freezer, honestly.
It depends on what you use, how you cook, and what equipment you have.
If you're big on tomatoes and berries, I'd suggest investing in a chest freezer, honestly.