Jean T
@indigounicorn.bsky.social
writer, dog wrangler, gamer, and crafter. she/her.
Oh the ways a host can give away they were just given a script and have zero experience with the subject.
Just heard this dude call Howl's Moving Castle 'Ghibli's anti war movie'.
Oh honey.
(all their movies are the anti war movie.)
Just heard this dude call Howl's Moving Castle 'Ghibli's anti war movie'.
Oh honey.
(all their movies are the anti war movie.)
December 28, 2025 at 5:26 AM
Oh the ways a host can give away they were just given a script and have zero experience with the subject.
Just heard this dude call Howl's Moving Castle 'Ghibli's anti war movie'.
Oh honey.
(all their movies are the anti war movie.)
Just heard this dude call Howl's Moving Castle 'Ghibli's anti war movie'.
Oh honey.
(all their movies are the anti war movie.)
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We didn't survive and thrive as a species because we had warriors or hunters - pretty much every omnivore can manage that.
We did so because we developed Grandmothers, and domesticated Dogs.
Community is what defines us as a species, and every "self-reliant" libertarian shitweasel be damned.
We did so because we developed Grandmothers, and domesticated Dogs.
Community is what defines us as a species, and every "self-reliant" libertarian shitweasel be damned.
"my least woke opinion is---"
That's enough. We've had enough people indulging in the "thrill of a little conservatism", as a treat. Of considering reactionary thought to be a salacious and taboo in a world descending into reactionary mania.
Give me your MOST woke opinions. We're bringing it back.
That's enough. We've had enough people indulging in the "thrill of a little conservatism", as a treat. Of considering reactionary thought to be a salacious and taboo in a world descending into reactionary mania.
Give me your MOST woke opinions. We're bringing it back.
December 28, 2025 at 5:00 AM
We didn't survive and thrive as a species because we had warriors or hunters - pretty much every omnivore can manage that.
We did so because we developed Grandmothers, and domesticated Dogs.
Community is what defines us as a species, and every "self-reliant" libertarian shitweasel be damned.
We did so because we developed Grandmothers, and domesticated Dogs.
Community is what defines us as a species, and every "self-reliant" libertarian shitweasel be damned.
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I mean, if you make a series of movies that neither has significant cultural impact nor leaves any residue on the memory track, and yet still reliably convinces audiences to return to the tune of $2 billion per installment, is it possible that "cultural impact" is overvalued/irrelevant as a metric
Avatar makes a lot of money at the box office. Certainly has advanced the art and tech of the industry. But I think relative to its BO dominance its cultural imprint is noticeably small. Never would I bet against James Cameron, but most people don’t remember much other than the aliens are blue.
December 27, 2025 at 5:29 AM
I mean, if you make a series of movies that neither has significant cultural impact nor leaves any residue on the memory track, and yet still reliably convinces audiences to return to the tune of $2 billion per installment, is it possible that "cultural impact" is overvalued/irrelevant as a metric
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I think people today don't understand just how dramatically the night sky has changed - it looked like it does in super remote areas *everywhere* before the invention of electric lighting, and light pollution that obscures the sky has gotten dramatically worse in the last 25 years.
If you ever have the experience of seeing a night sky out in the deep countryside you can understand this; it really is a fundamentally different experience, and I can't imagine it not being formative to people.
December 27, 2025 at 5:01 AM
I think people today don't understand just how dramatically the night sky has changed - it looked like it does in super remote areas *everywhere* before the invention of electric lighting, and light pollution that obscures the sky has gotten dramatically worse in the last 25 years.
Yoooooo!! 🥳
We're getting more Undead Unluck anime!
Undead Unluck Anime Gets 2nd Season
Announced in 1-hour Winter special on Thursday
www.animenewsnetwork.com
December 26, 2025 at 3:38 AM
Yoooooo!! 🥳
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if you want new ideas, you could buy some from *any creative professional* at literally any time, you dinguses
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 26, 2025 at 2:42 AM
if you want new ideas, you could buy some from *any creative professional* at literally any time, you dinguses
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Merry Christmas from Lt. Governor Nancy Dahlstrom. She turned over Alaskans sensitive voting data to the Trump Regime without a whimper while Democrat governors are fighting for their constituents rights. Don’t forget that Dahlstrom who is running for governor will not protect Alaskans from Trump.
Alaska turns over voter data to DOJ after federal request 👉 https://tinyurl.com/3jhhh6rr
December 24, 2025 at 6:03 AM
Merry Christmas from Lt. Governor Nancy Dahlstrom. She turned over Alaskans sensitive voting data to the Trump Regime without a whimper while Democrat governors are fighting for their constituents rights. Don’t forget that Dahlstrom who is running for governor will not protect Alaskans from Trump.
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The news about Harlequin translators getting fired en masse?
You should care about that. They're doing it there because they think nobody gives a shit about romance and so it's fine to experiment with it first.
You should care about that. They're doing it there because they think nobody gives a shit about romance and so it's fine to experiment with it first.
December 24, 2025 at 2:53 AM
The news about Harlequin translators getting fired en masse?
You should care about that. They're doing it there because they think nobody gives a shit about romance and so it's fine to experiment with it first.
You should care about that. They're doing it there because they think nobody gives a shit about romance and so it's fine to experiment with it first.
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Research is about discovery. THE FACEMAKER opens with the story of Private Percy Clare, who's shot in the face in WWI. I found his handwritten diary at the Imperial War Museum, which led me to connecting with relatives of his who were able to provide further documents & details about his life.
Not a historian but like to research. The AI might summarize what I'm looking for, but it doesn't find what I'm *not* looking for. The book on the shelf next to the one I wanted. The insight in chapter 6 based on the quote I needed from chapter 4.
December 21, 2025 at 7:48 PM
Research is about discovery. THE FACEMAKER opens with the story of Private Percy Clare, who's shot in the face in WWI. I found his handwritten diary at the Imperial War Museum, which led me to connecting with relatives of his who were able to provide further documents & details about his life.
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So, SFWA is very much not my circus, not my monkeys, but here are my two general thoughts right now:
1) clear rules excluding AI-created content are important to hold the line, especially for publishers who would want nothing more than to toss their editors into the drink.
1) clear rules excluding AI-created content are important to hold the line, especially for publishers who would want nothing more than to toss their editors into the drink.
December 20, 2025 at 5:29 PM
So, SFWA is very much not my circus, not my monkeys, but here are my two general thoughts right now:
1) clear rules excluding AI-created content are important to hold the line, especially for publishers who would want nothing more than to toss their editors into the drink.
1) clear rules excluding AI-created content are important to hold the line, especially for publishers who would want nothing more than to toss their editors into the drink.
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AI falsely labelled him a sex offender.
This is why we say don’t use AI.
It hallucinates. It gets things wrong. It destroys the environment.
Yet people are relying on it for medical advice, legal advice and more.
It’s dangerous. Stop using it.
This is why we say don’t use AI.
It hallucinates. It gets things wrong. It destroys the environment.
Yet people are relying on it for medical advice, legal advice and more.
It’s dangerous. Stop using it.
New from me: The storied fiddler Ashley MacIsaac wanted to play a show at a Nova Scotia First Nation. It got cancelled because Google's AI search summary incorrectly called him a sex offender. Now he's worried for his safety www.theglobeandmail.com/culture/arti...
Fiddler Ashley MacIsaac has show cancelled over Google AI-generated misinformation
Cape Breton musician was set to perform in Nova Scotia before a search summary incorrectly described him as a sex offender
www.theglobeandmail.com
December 23, 2025 at 9:55 PM
AI falsely labelled him a sex offender.
This is why we say don’t use AI.
It hallucinates. It gets things wrong. It destroys the environment.
Yet people are relying on it for medical advice, legal advice and more.
It’s dangerous. Stop using it.
This is why we say don’t use AI.
It hallucinates. It gets things wrong. It destroys the environment.
Yet people are relying on it for medical advice, legal advice and more.
It’s dangerous. Stop using it.
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Let me just break down the articles title:
Carpetbagger from TX and appointed Alaska AG Steven Cox gives former employer (Wilmer Hale) $350,000 no-bid contract to review Crum's $50 million deal (truck driving instructor and former pet of Governor Dunleavy now running for governor of Alaska) #akleg
Carpetbagger from TX and appointed Alaska AG Steven Cox gives former employer (Wilmer Hale) $350,000 no-bid contract to review Crum's $50 million deal (truck driving instructor and former pet of Governor Dunleavy now running for governor of Alaska) #akleg
December 23, 2025 at 7:48 PM
Let me just break down the articles title:
Carpetbagger from TX and appointed Alaska AG Steven Cox gives former employer (Wilmer Hale) $350,000 no-bid contract to review Crum's $50 million deal (truck driving instructor and former pet of Governor Dunleavy now running for governor of Alaska) #akleg
Carpetbagger from TX and appointed Alaska AG Steven Cox gives former employer (Wilmer Hale) $350,000 no-bid contract to review Crum's $50 million deal (truck driving instructor and former pet of Governor Dunleavy now running for governor of Alaska) #akleg
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they are idiots...
you can copy and paste the text from some of the epstein files to unredact it...
absolute idiots...
you can copy and paste the text from some of the epstein files to unredact it...
absolute idiots...
December 23, 2025 at 6:59 PM
they are idiots...
you can copy and paste the text from some of the epstein files to unredact it...
absolute idiots...
you can copy and paste the text from some of the epstein files to unredact it...
absolute idiots...
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It’s gonna have to start with the people who use automation tools NOT saying “AI.” It’s not gonna start with people who use these tools complaining Bluesky is mean to them for saying “not all AI” or “no true Scotsman.”
Wildly different things, tasks, techniques, subspecialties being lumped into "AI" and then being conflated with each other, doesn't help. Different types of models vs the techniques to train them vs the tasks they are supposed to accomplish, all under "AI".
December 23, 2025 at 8:11 PM
It’s gonna have to start with the people who use automation tools NOT saying “AI.” It’s not gonna start with people who use these tools complaining Bluesky is mean to them for saying “not all AI” or “no true Scotsman.”
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This is better biblical exegesis than any actual sermon I’ve heard AND it cites Alan Moore
I am not a Christian of course but like all Americans I have spent my life marinating in Christian mythography, and so around this time of year I have a lot of thoughts about the Nativity and the part where the innkeeper says there's no room in the inn.
December 23, 2025 at 5:04 PM
This is better biblical exegesis than any actual sermon I’ve heard AND it cites Alan Moore
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Every time someone talks about Avatar, once I realize they mean the blue people and not the Airbender, I remember that 16 years ago, when the first one came out, I was 11. And even then I thought it was a little racist. It wasn’t until years later I realized it was actually a lot racist.
FFC review: AVATAR: FIRE AND ASH (2025), by Walter Chaw (@mangiotto.bsky.social). filmfreakcentral.net/2025/12/avat...
Avatar: Fire and Ash (2025) - FILM FREAK CENTRAL
ZERO STARS/****starring Sam Worthington, Zoe Saldaña, Sigourney Weaver, Kate Winsletscreenplay by James Cameron & Rick Jaffa & Amanda Silverdirected by James Cameron by Walter Chaw I think, for white ...
filmfreakcentral.net
December 22, 2025 at 9:23 PM
Every time someone talks about Avatar, once I realize they mean the blue people and not the Airbender, I remember that 16 years ago, when the first one came out, I was 11. And even then I thought it was a little racist. It wasn’t until years later I realized it was actually a lot racist.
👐 one of my top games is free today on Epic!
Paradise Killer is currently FREE on Epic Games Store as one of their festive free games! 😱
May the Silent Goat walk with you!
💗💜💙
https://store.epicgames.com/en-US/p/paradise-killer-c3ea1c
May the Silent Goat walk with you!
💗💜💙
https://store.epicgames.com/en-US/p/paradise-killer-c3ea1c
December 22, 2025 at 11:24 PM
👐 one of my top games is free today on Epic!
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Racism aside … there’s almost no fanfic about it. There’s almost no cosplay. All three movies are bouncing off fandom hard. Compare this series to something like K-Pop Demon Hunters as far as fandom.
i don’t think everyone needs to like every film but the way people refuse to even take the avatar series seriously in any capacity feels so performative in a way no other series has ever been treated, very odd to me
December 22, 2025 at 7:20 PM
Racism aside … there’s almost no fanfic about it. There’s almost no cosplay. All three movies are bouncing off fandom hard. Compare this series to something like K-Pop Demon Hunters as far as fandom.
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![I felt like I was 130 years back in time watching what the Lakota Sioux might have been saying at a point when they were being pushed and they were being killed and they were being asked to displace and they were being given some form of compensation," Cameron told the Guardian.
"This was a driving force for me in the writing of 'Avatar' — I couldn't help but think that if they [the Lakota Sioux] had had a time-window and they could see the future … and they could see their kids committing suicide at the highest suicide rates in the nation … because they were hopeless and they were a dead-end society — which is what is happening now — they would have fought a lot harder."](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:25jiwzm7tyxhrdmd4mqz3oqn/bafkreia5ly5dihdvo7jahl6ctqiomd5rm5bifjcczu5ejexjqmmya34t54@jpeg)
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another example of AI as tracer dye, exposing an already existing problem (and, of course, significantly worsening it)
I think this post nails the actual problem, for researchers at least—AI hallucinations would simply not be a problem in academic work if we’d not normalized citation-as-signaling rather than actual engagement—you can only cite a fake paper if you’re not in the habit of reading the papers you cite
Do not cite an academic paper unless you’ve read it
December 21, 2025 at 7:11 AM
another example of AI as tracer dye, exposing an already existing problem (and, of course, significantly worsening it)
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And just like that, SFWA capitulates. Keep fighting. It works.
December 19, 2025 at 9:45 PM
And just like that, SFWA capitulates. Keep fighting. It works.
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Update: bsky.app/profile/ceci...
Whoa, that was fast. I didn't even have time to get worked up about the SFWA announcement today about LLMs in the Nebulas before they updated the language to be wholly anti-AI. From the email that just arrived: (copied in alt text)
December 19, 2025 at 10:57 PM
Update: bsky.app/profile/ceci...
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might as well skip the middlemen and give awards directly to the machines that did the work
I'm very disappointed in SFWA's soft stance on LLM and the Nebulas. Any use of LLM, disclosed or not, should not be awards eligible. It's plagiarism and crap, period
December 19, 2025 at 6:56 PM
might as well skip the middlemen and give awards directly to the machines that did the work
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Absolute bullshit, and authors, if Harlequin has your foreign rights, you should also complain.
French publishing house Harlequin decided to use AI translation instead of human translations.
All their freelance translators (some of whom had been working with Harlequin for +30y!!!) were told they would no longer receive work from Harlequin
All their freelance translators (some of whom had been working with Harlequin for +30y!!!) were told they would no longer receive work from Harlequin
December 18, 2025 at 9:55 PM
Absolute bullshit, and authors, if Harlequin has your foreign rights, you should also complain.
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“Hostility to traditional views on religion” can trigger a federal investigation.
Sure, sure. It’s fun to say things.
Sure, sure. It’s fun to say things.
Our new golden age of free speech, where opposition to immigration enforcement can trigger a federal investigation
December 18, 2025 at 11:55 PM
“Hostility to traditional views on religion” can trigger a federal investigation.
Sure, sure. It’s fun to say things.
Sure, sure. It’s fun to say things.