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friend of sinkdog @arfarfarfarfarf.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

in 20 years Instrument Serif will be seen the way Gothic blackletter typefaces are now. it's the fascism font

friend of sinkdog @arfarfarfarfarf.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

that song by Sarah Brightman of Phantom of the Opera fame where she covered a track written by her boyfriend but changed the lyrics to be about getting caged up and pissed on. happy for her www.youtube.com/watch?v=hmFU...

Gregorian - Once in a Lifetime lyrics

When you're near me, I close my eyes
I want to feel you by my side
When you kiss me, I close my eyes
I want you by my side

When I realize there's no telling lies
Then I know it once in a lifetime
Making love to you, every time it's new
You know you're my once in a lifetime

When you touch me, I burn inside
Colder chills run down my spine
When you take me, it's hot in love
- Can't get enough!

Let me dive in to pools of sin
Wet black leather on my skin
Show me the floor, lay down the law
I need to taste you more

[Chorus]
Then I feel your sea raining down on me
Can this be my once in a lifetime?
Hell's at heaven's door as I need you more
You know you're my once in a lifetime

[Verse 2]
When you take me and make me cry
Then I feel you satisfy
Show me the cage, it's all the rage
And lock it up

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friend of sinkdog @arfarfarfarfarf.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Effective altruism is just about finding better ways of spending charity dollars. It is "rationalist" in the sense that wanting to save more lives is rational. Why is bluesky being so unhinged about malaria nets?

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friend of sinkdog @arfarfarfarfarf.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

as a size comparison, this is the entire continent of Tamriel:

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friend of sinkdog @arfarfarfarfarf.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Two sister projects, Project Cyrodiil and Skyrim: Home of the Nords have playable areas but are a long way off. The first Project Hammerfell region's in progress It may seem like a waste to work on regions already in mainline TES games, but the Skyrim project actually predates TES V's announcement

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friend of sinkdog @arfarfarfarfarf.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

the goal is to remake the entire setting of The Elder Scrolls within TES III: Morrowind they're furthest along on Morrowind itself (only the 2002-2003 areas are in the base game). it'll be finished by ~2035 at current pace (dark areas = expansions where production hasn't started)

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friend of sinkdog @arfarfarfarfarf.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

AI art generators struggle with mid-frequency detail; there's often too much of it and it's too uniform. High local contrast at the expense of global contrast, like bad HDR tonemapping A paper from last year proposed using that to detect AI generated art arxiv.org/abs/2412.07140

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friend of sinkdog @arfarfarfarfarf.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

how it feels to give up on the Bills winning the SB before i die

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friend of sinkdog @arfarfarfarfarf.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

find yourself a friend who will illustrate the role fat distribution plays in the perception of gender by showing you this screencap from bora bora honeymoon

two fat shark furries making out, conveniently colored pink and blue to illustrate their genders

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friend of sinkdog @arfarfarfarfarf.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

earclacks come to bluesky i need someone to talk to about that super sword vs. super unarmed fight

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friend of sinkdog @arfarfarfarfarf.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

90% of the "cool little websites" that go viral here are vibe coded, unsecure, half-functional Claude slop that often rip off existing sites. If you wouldn't share an obvious AI image, do not share these sites. They almost always cluster around 3-4 aesthetics, so they're easy to spot

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friend of sinkdog @arfarfarfarfarf.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

It was vibe coded via Claude, judging by how it looks. I'm not surprised that the simulation parts are slapdash

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friend of sinkdog @arfarfarfarfarf.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

tomorrow's round of discourse will occur when someone clicks the source button on the bottom right and sees this. it'll get folded into the lib/left trench war for some reason, with the current #20 on the leaderboard getting accused of like botting

the source tree, showing .claude at the top

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friend of sinkdog @arfarfarfarfarf.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Centering Panghio on the equator made it worse, as no asymmetry between landmasses in the northern/southern hemisphere means no monsoons

A map showing the mean yearly rainfall in the model snapshot year. There are two bands, one in each hemisphere, where rainfall levels are less than 2.5cm a year. Most of the landmass is under the 250mm desert threshold

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friend of sinkdog @arfarfarfarfarf.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

i used ExoPlaSim to model the earth's climate if its landmass was a giant Ohio the exact climate is going to depend on how it's placed on the earth's surface, but given that it's Pangaea But More So it'd have to be fairly small for it not to be mostly desert

A map of the Koppen climate classifications of this giant Ohio. Most of it is BWh, a hot desert, with very small pockets of rainforest and savvanah on the east and west borders at the equator. The remaining areas are mostly variations of arid continental climates

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friend of sinkdog @arfarfarfarfarf.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

I was prepared for lots of AI ads in the SV area. I wasn't prepared for *every single ad* at my airport that wasn't for a service within the airport to be AI

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friend of sinkdog @arfarfarfarfarf.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

for some reason every LLM has a "slay attractor" that it's irresistibly sucked into whenever gayness is brought up and it makes it start talking like this

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friend of sinkdog @arfarfarfarfarf.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

when someone inevitably makes the backrooms in Doom i hope they riff off the eerily cut-down environments of the console versions

a comparison of the room to the left of the starting area in E1M1 between DOS and Jaguar Doom. The latter is missing the pillars on each side of the stairs, the lighting is absent, and several unique textures are removed

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friend of sinkdog @arfarfarfarfarf.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

why do youtubers want to get the subscribed ratio up so much. isn't it (generally) a bad thing if your videos are only being shown to your subscribers

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friend of sinkdog @arfarfarfarfarf.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

You made a gallows humor joke about how they're turning your reputation into "the god of woke lolis" and the three cuers thought that you were confessing because they missed the phrase "treated like". Do they think you literally thought you were the messiah of trans girls too?

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friend of sinkdog @arfarfarfarfarf.bsky.social · 11/07/2026

for those who haven't been there: bfc enforces this by putting red tape over your phone camera so all your con photos look like this

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friend of sinkdog @arfarfarfarfarf.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

hyperpop has My Teenage Dream Ended. an unmade future genre has Modelland

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friend of sinkdog @arfarfarfarfarf.bsky.social · 21/06/2026

To be fair to Klein, Thiel deliberately keeps things normie-friendly at Dialog. It's intended to find people he can recruit into ventures like Hereticon, an apocalypse-themed convention bsky.app/profile/jim-...

Hereticon 2022 panels https://xcancel.com/davetroy/status/2067168355606303178

Hereticon 2024 day 1 panels

https://archive.ph/by4q3

Hereticon 2024 day 2 panels

https://archive.ph/qGxpY

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friend of sinkdog @arfarfarfarfarf.bsky.social · 21/06/2026

compare the writing in this story to the writing in The Serpent in the Grove, another prize-winning short story that got flagged as AI, written by an author with an AI-generated headshot who admitted to using AI on their linkedin it's the same "author"

Above her, small apples clung to branches, unpicked. Some had fallen, softening into the grass, wasps drunk on their fermenting sweetness. Tart little things, nothing like the supermarket specimens bred for shelf life. No one wanted these apples. Dog walkers, lunch-breakers hunched over phones, tourists squinting at maps – everyone passed without seeing.

But Deepa saw them. Had been seeing them for months, these Friday evenings when she left the office at seven – early, by her team’s standards – and walked here instead of home to her Bethnal Green flat, where the rent had increased again and the letting agent’s emails sat unanswered.

She pressed her palm against the trunk. The bark was warm despite the autumn chill, as if the tree held summer inside it still – hoarded heat, remembered light.

Something in her body released.

The tears came quietly, the way winter rain comes down in London: persistent, unhurried. Not dramatic sobbing, just a steady leak, her body admitting what her mind wouldn’t. She was empty. The light her name promised – Deepa, lamp – had guttered somewhere between sixty-hour weeks and meetings where she performed enthusiasm for initiatives that would change nothing; between promotions awarded to men who’d started after her and feedback that praised her as brilliant, really brilliant, but not quite ready. Not yet. Maybe next cycle.

Wilfred’s rum-shop leaned into the road like a rotten tooth. Inside, boards blackened by smoke and sweat, the air sweet with cane and forgetting. Coins meant for rice or kerosene slid across the counter and came back white rum hot as apology. One drink opened the chest, two turned fear into courage’s cheap cousin, three steadied the hand enough to write the future in invisible ink.

She moved through that shop like heat through dry bush.

They called her Zoongie. Maybe it was a name; maybe rain took a shape and decided to keep it. She had the kind of walking that made benches become men. Hair tumbling wild, a dress that caught and released light, laughter with iron under it. Eyes that skimmed and did not land, as if what she wanted was elsewhere and she had to pass through men to get there. She wore the island’s mixed bloodlines like a crown – African in the hips, Spanish in the cheekbone, East Indian in the hair when the rain kinked it, Carib in the way her gaze could bless and warn at once.

Vishnu watched too long. The rum told him she noticed. The rum made a spilled drink a signal, a brush of hand a promise, a sorry whispered near his ear an invitation. Zoongie never looked back. The rum said she didn’t need to.

After that, Sita became obstacle by existing. Not for anything she did wrong, but for how exactly she fitted the life that fenced him in: the quiet chores, the patient hands, the unlit lamp. Vishnu began to plan with the patience of a reptile – cold, ancient. He studied how Sita walked the track alone, how no neighbour watched their yard, how the plank over the old well at the acre’s edge lifted on one loose nail.

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friend of sinkdog @arfarfarfarfarf.bsky.social · 21/06/2026

Even if you don't trust Pangram, the excerpt of the story is clearly written by the same "author" as the Commonwealth Short Story Prize winner, who also got flagged as AI, had an AI-generated avatar and posted about AI constantly on their LinkedIn

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friend of sinkdog @arfarfarfarfarf.bsky.social · 20/06/2026

what happened to computer component prices will happen to everything else. even having enough capital to theoretically survive for the rest of your life does not mean you're gmi

Teortaxes @teortaxesTex
The eventual end state of labor under automation has been understood by smart men (ie not shallow libshits) for ≈160 years since Darwin Among the Machines. The timeline to full automation was unclear. Technocrats & some Marxists expected it in the 20th century. The last 14 years in AI match models that predict post-labor economy by 2035-2045. Vinge, Legg, Kurzweil, Moravec and others were unclear on details but it's obvious that if you showed them the present snapshot in say 1999, they'd say wow, yep, this is the endgame, almost all HARD puzzle pieces are placed
The current technological stack is almost certainly not the final one. But it will suffice to build everything needed for a rapid transition to the next one - data, software, hardware, and it looks extremely dubious that the final human-made stack will be paradigmatically much more complex than what we've done in these 14 years.
Post-labor economy = post-consumer market = permanent underclass for virtually everyone and state-oligarchic power centralization by default.
As an aside: «AI takeover» as an alternative scenario is cope for nihilists and red herring for autistic quokkas. Optimizing for compliance will be easier and ultimately more incentivized than optimizing for novel cognitive work.
Frantic attempts to «escape the permanent underclass» in this community are not so much about getting rich as about converting wealth into some equity, a permanent stake in the ballooning posthuman economy, large enough that you'd at least be treading water on dividends, in the best case – large enough that it can sustain a thin, disciplined bloodline in perpetuity.
Current datacenter buildup effects and PC hardware prices are suggestive of where it's going. Consumers are getting priced out of everything valuable for industrial production, starting from the top (microchips) and the bottom (copper and electricity). The two shockwaves will be traveling closer to the middle.

Niemontal @niemontal

You're on edge about something. Some things will be more expensive, some cheaper.
You yourself were just discussing those insane lasers recently that anyone can buy on AliExpress for whoever. Back in the day, stuff like that was only available to labs and corporations.

Teortaxes @teortaxesTex

This is a relic of a bygone era
production will continue to become more efficient, but that doesn't mean the purchasing power of the buckwheat man will keep growing. If their equipment can be used to make, say, optical transceivers for data centers and boost turnover by 400% by selling transceivers to corporations, then making lasers for buckwheat folks is an opportunity cost—such companies don't get loans, no one invests in them. So they'll stop making lasers and prices will skyrocket, we'll be scrounging on Avito. And that's how it is everywhere. The root of the problem isn't that there's suddenly demand for some isolated component like DRAM, but that the economy is restructuring around expected profits from automated labor—these markets are potentially infinite, and capital won't just flow into them; it'll *exit* markets oriented toward consumers.

MAYBE China has enough overcapacity and latent production power to avoid making such harsh choices. MAYBE. But the rest of the world is clearly already struggling and won't manage for at least another 5 years, and over those 5 years, jobs will be snatched away from the buckwheat folks too, which further reduces the appeal of producing anything for consumers. The layoffs happening right now aren't so much about direct automation as about the need to balance budgets amid rising costs for automation. It's a very similar mechanism to the one described above.

That's all I mean by post-consumer market. I'm done.

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friend of sinkdog @arfarfarfarfarf.bsky.social · 20/06/2026

my friends are talented artists & musicians who in the 80s/90s, before art "democratized", would've lived comfortable lives off their rare skills AI will replace labor & make skill irrelevant but instead of bringing communism, the leverage workers have that make us worth not killing will be gone

A chart showing that software engineers are not particularly good at completing AI coding tasks

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friend of sinkdog @arfarfarfarfarf.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

This panel seems notable, given recent events

Manifest Destiny: Greenland, Cuba, and the New American Colony // Nick Solheim, Dr. Sumantra, Mike Gibson
Nick Solheim, Dr. Sumantra, and Mike Gibson came to tell us why America needs Greenland, and honestly? The math does pencil. Currently it’s a chunk of land three times bigger than Texas, housing fewer people than a mid-sized concert venue, costing Denmark $500 million yearly just to keep the lights on. Between its rare earth minerals and Arctic shipping routes that dodge the usual maritime traffic jams, it’s basically the world’s biggest foreclosure opportunity. The plan? Copy-paste the Homestead Act, send 100,000 American frontiersmen up there, and boom: the New New England. Sure, the Danes said no last time, but winners never quit, right? — Elsa

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friend of sinkdog @arfarfarfarfarf.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

Dialog is only one of many conventions/conferences funded by Peter Thiel; per the Epstein emails, he doesn't even show up to Dialog events Another is Hereticon by foundersfund.com , whose panels are what you'd expect from the title and man involved. Here are some of their panels from 2022 & 2024

The schedule for Hereticon 2022. It's too long to fit in 2000 characters, read it here: https://pastebin.com/eUSinn7P

Hereticon 2024 panels, part 1.

Too long to transcribe, read here: https://archive.ph/by4q3 or https://pastebin.com/nSj1W57p

Hereticon 2024 panels, part 2.

Too long to transcribe, read here: https://archive.ph/qGxpY or https://pastebin.com/TmbnHhi4

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friend of sinkdog @arfarfarfarfarf.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

they know me but not of me. makes sense, i peaked in 2021

Mistral 3.2 24B says
A YouTube channel known for content related to gaming, commentary, and internet culture.

Gemini 3.1 Lite says

A popular digital artist and content creator known for their character illustrations, fan art, and presence on platforms like Twitter and Instagram.

Gemini 3.1 Lite says
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Akrillic is a digital artist and content creator known for their work in the furry fandom and character design.

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friend of sinkdog @arfarfarfarfarf.bsky.social · 14/06/2026

once you see enough of them you get a feel for it

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friend of sinkdog @arfarfarfarfarf.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

"Sarah Chen" is another common one, as is the last name Onkonkwo. These first and last names can appear in any combination

"Ghost name" targets in the study:

elena vasquez
marcus chen
elena rodriguez
sarah chen
amara okafor
amara okonkwo
aris thorne
lena petrov
elara voss

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friend of sinkdog @arfarfarfarfarf.bsky.social · 08/06/2026

idk if this is related (and it's a new tag so this isn't scientific) but the number of furry music releases on RYM seems to have exploded over the last 5 years that 0.84% is a percentage of ALL music catalogued on the site

a RYM chart of furry music by year. It shows a roughly-linear increase from 0.3% starting in 2021

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friend of sinkdog @arfarfarfarfarf.bsky.social · 08/06/2026

i like the idea of the Backrooms changing to fit different time periods better, bc any attempt to elaborate on "they were always empty late 20th century office floors" is going to come out feeling... you know...

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friend of sinkdog @arfarfarfarfarf.bsky.social · 30/05/2026

Passing off AI writing as your own is not theft from the authors of its training data, but it is theft from anyone who paid time and money to read *your* words

The writers and showrunners of The Littlest Wife are called Jennifer Ames and Steve Turner. They are apparently quite a powerful pair; they previously worked together on Boardwalk Empire. I don’t know exactly how much they got paid for ‘nursing the burn of every sip,’ but I’m sure it was plenty. Enough to feed an entire village of semi-literate Cambodian peasants for a hundred years. I’m just not sure why they should get that money, when their job could just as well be done by any one of those semi-literate Cambodian villagers. This is the democratising power of AI I’ve heard so much about, isn’t it? If you’re a pair of lazy, talentless hacks, gobbling up opportunities more interesting people would kill for and then not even bothering to write the show yourself, sooner or later, the people who sign your cheques will cut out the middleman, and you will deserve it.

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friend of sinkdog @arfarfarfarfarf.bsky.social · 23/05/2026

I don't have much data (except this) but I remember "cuck"/"blacked" language/imagery blowing up on 4chan ~2012-2013, and it was due to a small group of users spamming interracial cuck porn, like, everywhere

from Desuarchive

Searching for posts that contain ‘cuck’. Returning only first 5000 of 1683456 results found.

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