Van Derance
@vanderance.bsky.social
"Not all those who wander are lost."
Translator. Writer. Musician. Master in Language Studies/Comparative Literature. 🇧🇷🇬🇧
Translator. Writer. Musician. Master in Language Studies/Comparative Literature. 🇧🇷🇬🇧
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Van Derance
@vanderance.bsky.social
· Oct 21
In honor of her birthday, today I'm starting a thread of my favorite quotes from my favorite author (I had an old one over on the other place).
"The direction of escape is toward freedom. So what is ‘escapism’ an accusation of?"
— Ursula K. Le Guin, No Time to Spare
"The direction of escape is toward freedom. So what is ‘escapism’ an accusation of?"
— Ursula K. Le Guin, No Time to Spare
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Sometimes the scroll is startlingly on point.
December 22, 2025 at 12:36 AM
Sometimes the scroll is startlingly on point.
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Pq a Anatel finge demência e a gente é bombardeado de ligação de robô.
December 21, 2025 at 6:06 PM
Pq a Anatel finge demência e a gente é bombardeado de ligação de robô.
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when I say 2025 had many bangers, this is what I mean
thank you so so much to everyone who supported me in any way, you all made this year really special to me
(also the selfie is kinda old but 2025 was a constant bad hair day)
#artvsartist #ArtVsArtist2025
thank you so so much to everyone who supported me in any way, you all made this year really special to me
(also the selfie is kinda old but 2025 was a constant bad hair day)
#artvsartist #ArtVsArtist2025
December 19, 2025 at 2:58 AM
when I say 2025 had many bangers, this is what I mean
thank you so so much to everyone who supported me in any way, you all made this year really special to me
(also the selfie is kinda old but 2025 was a constant bad hair day)
#artvsartist #ArtVsArtist2025
thank you so so much to everyone who supported me in any way, you all made this year really special to me
(also the selfie is kinda old but 2025 was a constant bad hair day)
#artvsartist #ArtVsArtist2025
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please let “bugs bunnying” become the slang for manipulating an LLM into ignoring its guardrails, i have never seen a more succinct and evocative term for it
Highly amused by the stories of companies using agentic AI chatbots to run their internal company stores, only for their employees to immediately Bugs Bunny the chatbot into giving them free stuff www.aiweirdness.com/when-a-chatb...
When a chatbot runs your store
You may have heard of "agentic AI", which is basically the idea that you can hook up a large language model to controls that do real things. The controls might run internet searches, run commands to o...
www.aiweirdness.com
December 21, 2025 at 4:20 PM
please let “bugs bunnying” become the slang for manipulating an LLM into ignoring its guardrails, i have never seen a more succinct and evocative term for it
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"I wish you wouldn't just use the blanket term 'AI' when you mean LLMs"
OK, well I wish people who were trying to get away with using a single buzzword for their technology would have the language to better explain what the use case is and what they're actually doing instead of making that my job.
OK, well I wish people who were trying to get away with using a single buzzword for their technology would have the language to better explain what the use case is and what they're actually doing instead of making that my job.
December 10, 2025 at 4:55 PM
"I wish you wouldn't just use the blanket term 'AI' when you mean LLMs"
OK, well I wish people who were trying to get away with using a single buzzword for their technology would have the language to better explain what the use case is and what they're actually doing instead of making that my job.
OK, well I wish people who were trying to get away with using a single buzzword for their technology would have the language to better explain what the use case is and what they're actually doing instead of making that my job.
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Querida a comida na geladeira vai estragar pq estamos a duas semanas sem luz e está cada dia mais difícil de respirar, mas IA veio pra ficar e não podemos ser luditas
December 21, 2025 at 2:58 AM
Querida a comida na geladeira vai estragar pq estamos a duas semanas sem luz e está cada dia mais difícil de respirar, mas IA veio pra ficar e não podemos ser luditas
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it's my birthday today! here's some art i'm pretty fond of from this year ◡̈
December 21, 2025 at 7:34 AM
it's my birthday today! here's some art i'm pretty fond of from this year ◡̈
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This is depressing.
Professional bodies that take this position legitimise the use of LLMs — not forbidding the behaviour is as good as condoning it.
Professional bodies that take this position legitimise the use of LLMs — not forbidding the behaviour is as good as condoning it.
Another Nebula Awards nomination cycle is in full swing, and the addition of poetry and comics, along with the presence of LLMs in industry, required careful consideration.
Read on, and vote well!
We trust our voters & look forward to what they choose to celebrate.
www.sfwa.org/2025/12/19/p...
Read on, and vote well!
We trust our voters & look forward to what they choose to celebrate.
www.sfwa.org/2025/12/19/p...
December 19, 2025 at 9:12 PM
This is depressing.
Professional bodies that take this position legitimise the use of LLMs — not forbidding the behaviour is as good as condoning it.
Professional bodies that take this position legitimise the use of LLMs — not forbidding the behaviour is as good as condoning it.
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I’m reading this book. It’s wonderful to me that we can know that more than 5,000 years ago in Uruk, Mesopotamia there was an inventory administrator of a barley and malt warehouse named Kushim, and he was bad at arithmetic.
December 19, 2025 at 10:51 PM
I’m reading this book. It’s wonderful to me that we can know that more than 5,000 years ago in Uruk, Mesopotamia there was an inventory administrator of a barley and malt warehouse named Kushim, and he was bad at arithmetic.
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Final Fantasy II (1988) by Square for Nintendo Famicom. Key art by Yoshitaka Amano.
December 13, 2025 at 12:32 PM
Final Fantasy II (1988) by Square for Nintendo Famicom. Key art by Yoshitaka Amano.
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Things don't have purposes, as if the universe were a machine, where every part has a useful function. What's the function of a galaxy? I don't know if our life has a purpose and I don't see that it matters. What does matter is that we're a part.
December 12, 2025 at 12:35 PM
Things don't have purposes, as if the universe were a machine, where every part has a useful function. What's the function of a galaxy? I don't know if our life has a purpose and I don't see that it matters. What does matter is that we're a part.
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Lembra que a Sony tentou enterrar Kpop Demon Hunters por migalha pq não encaixava na tal da planilha de projeção. Não era "o que o público quer".
Fica calmo e faz sua arte.
Celebra suas coisas, faz do jeito que vc gosta. Esse é o nosso poder.
Fica calmo e faz sua arte.
Celebra suas coisas, faz do jeito que vc gosta. Esse é o nosso poder.
December 11, 2025 at 8:12 PM
Lembra que a Sony tentou enterrar Kpop Demon Hunters por migalha pq não encaixava na tal da planilha de projeção. Não era "o que o público quer".
Fica calmo e faz sua arte.
Celebra suas coisas, faz do jeito que vc gosta. Esse é o nosso poder.
Fica calmo e faz sua arte.
Celebra suas coisas, faz do jeito que vc gosta. Esse é o nosso poder.
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Esse é o grande problema da IA. Esse é o grande problema de pra onde esse mercado tá indo.
Sabe esse monte de remake? Ninguém aguenta mais - pq foi tudo feito baseado em planilha e projeção de lucro.
Não é assim que se faz arte boa.
Sabe esse monte de remake? Ninguém aguenta mais - pq foi tudo feito baseado em planilha e projeção de lucro.
Não é assim que se faz arte boa.
December 11, 2025 at 8:12 PM
Esse é o grande problema da IA. Esse é o grande problema de pra onde esse mercado tá indo.
Sabe esse monte de remake? Ninguém aguenta mais - pq foi tudo feito baseado em planilha e projeção de lucro.
Não é assim que se faz arte boa.
Sabe esse monte de remake? Ninguém aguenta mais - pq foi tudo feito baseado em planilha e projeção de lucro.
Não é assim que se faz arte boa.
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Galera, segura minha mão
Sente:
Fazer arte baseado em estatística e número de mercado, o que "o público quer", é dirigir olhando só pro retrovisor.
Quem sabe fazer arte é o artista, não o público. Se o público soubesse o que ele quer, ele mesmo faria a arte.
Sente:
Fazer arte baseado em estatística e número de mercado, o que "o público quer", é dirigir olhando só pro retrovisor.
Quem sabe fazer arte é o artista, não o público. Se o público soubesse o que ele quer, ele mesmo faria a arte.
December 11, 2025 at 8:12 PM
Galera, segura minha mão
Sente:
Fazer arte baseado em estatística e número de mercado, o que "o público quer", é dirigir olhando só pro retrovisor.
Quem sabe fazer arte é o artista, não o público. Se o público soubesse o que ele quer, ele mesmo faria a arte.
Sente:
Fazer arte baseado em estatística e número de mercado, o que "o público quer", é dirigir olhando só pro retrovisor.
Quem sabe fazer arte é o artista, não o público. Se o público soubesse o que ele quer, ele mesmo faria a arte.
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They're nitpicky because they want to FEEL like their input was an important part of the result. And they get that feeling when the slop machine gives them their customized slop.
December 9, 2025 at 1:39 PM
They're nitpicky because they want to FEEL like their input was an important part of the result. And they get that feeling when the slop machine gives them their customized slop.
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“I’m dying.”
His tone was matter-of-fact and his expression perfectly serious, but Karys had the feeling he might be making fun of her—exaggerating, or telling a strange sort of joke at her expense. Her mistrust mounted as she scrutinised his face.
“You talk a lot for a dying man,” she said.
His tone was matter-of-fact and his expression perfectly serious, but Karys had the feeling he might be making fun of her—exaggerating, or telling a strange sort of joke at her expense. Her mistrust mounted as she scrutinised his face.
“You talk a lot for a dying man,” she said.
December 8, 2025 at 7:13 PM
“I’m dying.”
His tone was matter-of-fact and his expression perfectly serious, but Karys had the feeling he might be making fun of her—exaggerating, or telling a strange sort of joke at her expense. Her mistrust mounted as she scrutinised his face.
“You talk a lot for a dying man,” she said.
His tone was matter-of-fact and his expression perfectly serious, but Karys had the feeling he might be making fun of her—exaggerating, or telling a strange sort of joke at her expense. Her mistrust mounted as she scrutinised his face.
“You talk a lot for a dying man,” she said.
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December 2, 2025 at 6:24 PM
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Over on Whatever, I'm doing a series on movies I consider "Comfort Watches" - not the greatest movies of all time, necessarily, but some of the most rewatchable. I'm starting the series with easily the most rewatchable movie of 2025: K-Pop Demon Hunters!
whatever.scalzi.com/2025/12/01/t...
whatever.scalzi.com/2025/12/01/t...
The December Comfort Watches 2025, Day One: K-Pop Demon Hunters
A couple of years ago I did a series of movie reviews about the movies I enjoy rewatching — not the best movies of all time, or the most important movies, but the ones I’m happy to spen…
whatever.scalzi.com
December 2, 2025 at 4:37 AM
Over on Whatever, I'm doing a series on movies I consider "Comfort Watches" - not the greatest movies of all time, necessarily, but some of the most rewatchable. I'm starting the series with easily the most rewatchable movie of 2025: K-Pop Demon Hunters!
whatever.scalzi.com/2025/12/01/t...
whatever.scalzi.com/2025/12/01/t...
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Leopards, faces, etc.
Major AI conference flooded with peer reviews written fully by AI
Controversy has erupted after 21% of manuscript reviews for an international AI conference were found to be generated by artificial intelligence.
www.nature.com
November 30, 2025 at 5:08 PM
Leopards, faces, etc.
Kpop Demon Hunters é absolutamente fantástico e merece todo o hype.
December 1, 2025 at 2:41 PM
Kpop Demon Hunters é absolutamente fantástico e merece todo o hype.
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Twin Peaks - Fire Walk With Zine já tá lá no meu instagram, quem quiser conferir e puder dar uma força agradeço muito! Tô muito orgulhosa do resultado, muito feliz com todas as sincronicidades que me trouxeram até aqui
#TwinPeaks
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#TwinPeaks
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December 1, 2025 at 12:10 AM
Twin Peaks - Fire Walk With Zine já tá lá no meu instagram, quem quiser conferir e puder dar uma força agradeço muito! Tô muito orgulhosa do resultado, muito feliz com todas as sincronicidades que me trouxeram até aqui
#TwinPeaks
www.instagram.com/raisupon/ree...
#TwinPeaks
www.instagram.com/raisupon/ree...
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Hey, I'm free to do some landscape commissions!
DM me to talk about it if you're interested.
Shares help a lot! 🤍
DM me to talk about it if you're interested.
Shares help a lot! 🤍
November 30, 2025 at 8:22 AM
Hey, I'm free to do some landscape commissions!
DM me to talk about it if you're interested.
Shares help a lot! 🤍
DM me to talk about it if you're interested.
Shares help a lot! 🤍