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sarah zedig 🐐

@hmsnofun.bsky.social

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video essayist, writer, creator of godfeels. keeping an eye on the material conditions. 30s. seattle. videos: https://www.youtube.com/@letstalkaboutstuff podcast: @transquestioning.bsky.social fiction: https://archiveofourown.org/series/1475819

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sarah zedig 🐐 @hmsnofun.bsky.social · 20d

NEW ON MY SECOND CHANNEL: i dig into youtube's genAI features to see what they're capable of, which turns out to be a simply unconscionable quantity of sinkdogs

Exploring YouTube's AI-Generated "Inspiration" Tab

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sarah zedig 🐐 @hmsnofun.bsky.social · 16h

nice of them to have garbage bins handy so they can throw away what few possessions this person has left. that'll show em

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May Leitz @nyxfears.bsky.social · 16h

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daria argento @mommywiseau.bsky.social · 1d

escaped samsara once. wouldn't recommend. boring as shit out there. jumped right back into the pandemonium once I had my fill

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Erica C. Barnett @ericacbarnett.bsky.social · 1d

Interesting that King County Metro (Seattle) is proactively hiring more than 100 new security guards and police on the assumption that they make riders safer, but human service resources are a "maybe" and Metro plans to hold steady but not increase sanitation.

www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news...

Security changes ahead for King County bus riders

King County Metro is seeking money to staff up with more police, guards, behavioral health teams and bus-stop clearers -- all in the name of more safety.

www.seattletimes.com

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Heather Flowers @hthrflwrs.bsky.social · 3d

the strat, as i understand it, involves opening multiple copies of the game simultaneously, and using all of them to manipulate a single save so that eventually you end up with a save that only ever flipped heads

www.youtube.com/watch?v=xHE2...

Unfair Flips Speedrun - Any% 4:36 - Multiple Instances

YouTube video by sysopod

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GP @mousefountain.bsky.social · 3d

"The time of social media is gone; now is the time of emails."

Heather Flowers @hthrflwrs.bsky.social · 4d

This place sucks, let's go back to email

buttondown.com/HTHR

Heather ⬢ Flowers

Welcome to the Heather Flowers newsletter, where I’ll tell you about the games I’ve been working on, including sneak peeks on upcoming projects! The time of social media is gone; now is the time of em...

buttondown.com

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🦇Stale Andy Corn 🎃 @yourlamentablefriends.com · 2d

"Why do you think the Linux move will actually happen this time?"

It won't, but it will be MUCH larger when the dust settles than ever before. A thread 🧵

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sarah zedig 🐐 @hmsnofun.bsky.social · 2d

movies also loving doing this, especially when they're bankrolled by disney. but it's the entire premise of the mario franchise, and the zelda franchise, and hades 2, and probably a dozen other examples i can't think of off the top of my head. there's probably a call of duty in there somewhere i bet

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Caræsten 🇵🇸 @cara.city · 2d

five minutes into an AMC film and your wife gives you that look

Nicole Kidman in the AMC intro, she's backlit by a projector

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sarah zedig 🐐 @hmsnofun.bsky.social · 3d

video games love to be like "and then the estranged monarch returned to their rightful throne and ruled peacefully for a thousand years"

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Eric Ravenscraft @lordravenscraft.bsky.social · 3d

the NYTimes, which is currently suing OpenAI for stealing its content, has advice for screenwriters who want to use AI:

cliche dialogue exists, therefore a bot that steals from writers and regurgitates terrible dialogue is totally fine. in fact, why not abandon your standards entirely!

NYT headline: "I'm a Screenwriter. Is It All Right if I Use A.I.?"

I write for television, both series and movies. Much

of my work is historical or fact-based, and I have found that researching with ChatGPT makes Googling feel like driving to the library, combing the card catalog, ordering books and waiting weeks for them to arrive. This new tool has been a game changer. Then I began feeding ChatGPT my scripts and asking for feedback. The notes on consistency, clarity and narrative build were extremely helpful. Recently I went one step further: I asked it to write a couple of scenes. In seconds, they appeared - quick paced, emotional, funny, driven by a propulsive heartbeat, with dialogue that sounded like real people talking. With a few tweaks, I could drop them straight into a screenplay. So what ethical line would I be crossing? Would it be plagiarism? Theft? Misrepresentation? I wonder

what you think. - Name Withheld

From the Ethicist:

"We're done here." Some years ago, sleepless in a hotel room, I flicked through TV channels and landed on three or four shows in which someone was making that declaration, maybe thunderously, maybe in an ominous hush. "We have nothing more to discuss." "This conversation is over!" Do people really talk like that? Possibly, if they've watched enough television.

My point is that a good deal of scripted TV has long felt pretty algorithmic, an ecosystem of heavily recycled tropes. In a sitcom, the person others are discussing pipes up with "I'm right here!" After a meeting goes off the rails, someone must deadpan, "That went well." In a drama, a furious character must sweep everything off the desk. And so on. For some, A.I. is another soulless contraption we should toss aside, like a politician in the movies who stops reading, crumples the pages and starts speaking from the heart. (How many times have we seen that one?) But human beings have been churning out prefab dialogue and scene structures for generations without artificial assistance. Few seem to mind.

You have no cause to apologize.

Does the entertainment industry? It was hooked on formula, as I've stressed, long before the L.L.M.s arrived. Some contrivances endure simply because they're legible, efficient and easy to execute. Take the one where one character has news to share with another, but is interrupted by the other's news, which gives the first character reason not to share her own news. Then comes the inevitable: "So what was it you wanted to tell me?" Ulp! Writers have flogged that one for decades; why wouldn't a bot cough it up? The truth is that many viewers cherish familiarity and prefer shows, especially soaps and franchise fare, to deliver surprises in unsurprising ways. Still, there will always be an audience for work that spurns the template - for writers who, shall we say, think outside the bot.

That's the bigger story. In the day-to-day life of a working writer, the question is less abstract. If people press you about your A.I. policy, point to the guild's rules. Tell them that every page you submit reads the way you want it to. Then announce: We're done here.

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Aysha @ayshaufarah.bsky.social · 5d

are you looking for the quintessential monsterfucking book for spooky season? lee's got you

Lee Mandelo @leemandelo.bsky.social · 5d

Don’t wanna piggyback someone’s perfectly good post with book promo, but lrp:

Might I suggest The Woods All Black, an historical Appalachian gothic set in the late ‘20s that explores gender, sexuality, and trans/queer bodily autonomy? It’s also (1) horny (2) spooky and (3) a bash-back revenge story

A photo of me holding a copy of The Woods All Black, partly obscuring my face, in front of a brick wall and window

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The Louvre of Bluesky @thelouvreof.bsky.social · 5d

Jay
@jay.bsky.team • 3h
You could try a poster's strike. I hear that works

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Charlotte @fireantprincess.bsky.social • 3h please don't listen to the people who tell you to stop doing this, you should definitely keep this up

T. Eoz @deadhorsephoto.bsky.social • 3h
There was this very cool guy called Richard Kyanka in fact, who won all his spats with his users

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Spooky Tired
@tiredderit.bsky.social
I was married to the guy and I read her post and had some weird body memory reaction and was like, did he possess her? Why are we repeating history?

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Bearhat @fussybabybit.ch · 5d

Charlie Kirk died ????? I didn’t even know he was sick…

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Pookleblinky @pookleblinky.bsky.social · 5d

What stage of posting is it when lowtax's wife is saying you remind her of him

🐈‍⬛ Spooky L.A. 🕸️ @tiredderit.bsky.social · 5d

I was married to the guy and I read her post and had some weird body memory reaction and was like, did he possess her? Why are we repeating history?

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Rabosa al Forn @rabosaalforn.bsky.social · 7d

They’re out there 🦊🐺🦡🐀🐦‍⬛

And there are more and more everyday.

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Ty @tys.work · 7d

Game pass is a suckers game that was never profitable and it still won't be

Kotaku @kotakudotcom.bsky.social · 7d

Game Pass Ultimate is getting more games but will now be $30 a month in the service's biggest price hike yet https://kotaku.com/xbox-game-pass-gets-massive-price-hike-yet-amid-big-changes-2000630604

Xbox Game Pass Gets Massive Price Hike Yet Amid Big Changes - Kotaku

Microsoft is overhauling the Xbox gaming subscription again

kotaku.com

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Alex Degen (Magic Serple 2025) @adactivity.bsky.social · 7d

There’s a certain indescribable feeling of being demoralized in America where you hear the fascists talk about “the radical left” and “the communists/socialists” and they’re describing like Nancy pelosi,

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Alex Degen (Magic Serple 2025) @adactivity.bsky.social · 7d

A funny thing for the last decade on social media is when the fascists explicitly talk about their plans to murder the “left” private citizen liberals and Democratic Party politicians don’t understand that that means them.

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sarah zedig 🐐 @hmsnofun.bsky.social · 8d

It's The 80s And Scientists Are Doing Crimes To Biology

sarah zedig 🐐 @hmsnofun.bsky.social · 8d

THE DIE IS CAST. OUR FATE IS SEALED. IT IS GOING TO BE A GREAT MONTH >:3

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Melissa & Chris Bruntlett @modacitylife.com · 8d

In the heart of Seoul, a ribbon of water now threads through where an expanse of asphalt once stood. The Cheonggyecheon Stream restoration, which replaced a major elevated motorway with an ecological and recreational corridor, has become a powerful case study in placemaking and traffic evaporation.🧵

Nighttime photos of the Cheonggyecheon Stream in Downtown Seoul, a former motorway restored into a linear park with wide footpaths, terraced seating, accented lighting, and abundant greenery.

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Melissa & Chris Bruntlett @modacitylife.com · 8d

Critics initially worried removing a major artery would cause gridlock. But in practice, impacts were mitigated through expanded public transport, traffic control measures, and changes in road usage. Some traffic “evaporated” rather than being displaced. Bus and metro use increased post-restoration.

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sarah zedig 🐐 @hmsnofun.bsky.social · 9d

dear god this one is actually going to kill me

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Alanna Smith @alannamode.bsky.social · 9d

Give folks their flowers

No, I mean right now. Go tell someone you loved their work right now. They're on social media just say it, it has never been easier

"They know how much people love--" no they don't go say it right now to a composer or artist or game dev or writer or anyone AAAAAAAHHHHHHHHH

Murlin @murlin.bsky.social · 10d

From bravewave.net/interviews/t...

Mo: Do you remember the first time you met someone who said they loved your work on Mega Man 2?

Tateishi: You’re the first, in 2013. No one else has.

Mo: Wow. I’m surprised. I don’t even have a follow-up question… how could no one come up and say something.

Tateishi: …

Mo: Now that you know how big Mega Man 2 is outside of Japan, do you look fondly back at the soundtrack?

Tateishi: Yeah, my thoughts have changed since I met you and became more aware of how people felt. But even when I was at Konami, I didn’t even bother telling anyone I did Mega Man 2. So the fact you came all the way to Japan to tell me these things makes me very happy I worked on the game all those years ago.

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