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Torvus @bigtorvus.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

Consumers also intuitively know that this irrational, ideological, probably investment influenced decision will make for crappy games.

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Torvus @bigtorvus.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

Malicious compliance is the only dignified response to this, short of quitting. Artists and coders know what to do, let them do what they know. They might even use AI when the situation calls for it. It’s the top-down directive that’s objectionable.

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Torvus @bigtorvus.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

An interruption in consciousness like any other. You just don’t remember. Unless you do. Or maybe it was just a dream.

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Torvus @bigtorvus.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

I’m asking because when you’re making stuff for other people, it’s important not to piss them off in the process. I don’t see a disadvantage using AI this way, and prefer local LLMs but again I’m also not here to argue or defend it. If a bunch of people here tell me to stop then I will stop.

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Torvus @bigtorvus.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

I want to know if this is unacceptable. To me, used in this way, it’s not much different from Bing or Google AI that can’t be turned off anyway. I could limit myself to Duck Duck Go with the AI off, or try out that commercial no-AI search engine (forgot the name) depending on your responses.

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Torvus @bigtorvus.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

but as a techy I chose to experiment with it as a “search engine.” I ran DeepSeek locally and used it (along with real search engine results because DS 32b on my system is slow) to help write some batch files to backup my hard drives and user directories. (I’m not here to defend this, bare with me)

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Torvus @bigtorvus.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

I’ve slowly been picking up programming again. Last time I did it seriously LLM AI wasn’t a public thing yet. I’m uncomfortable with it in the IDE and I don’t like the idea of having it complete work for me (“vibe coding” they call it), and I have too much pride to use it in art,

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Torvus @bigtorvus.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

No! But I’d probably be resurrected as an animal, which is nice.

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Torvus @bigtorvus.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

See y’all on mailing lists, IRC, and random self-hosted servers running open source software.

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sephirAmy @sephiramy.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

the lessons we need to take are clear. Dolly said "find out who you are and do it on purpose", and Tim Curry's line is "don't dream it, be it" they would both be disappointed if we wrote that off as corny. so what? it's necessary. we have everything to lose if we are dishonest to ourselves.

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Torvus @bigtorvus.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

AI political cartoons look spammy, probably from all the spam that uses it.

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Haus of Decline @hausofdecline.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

I would rather be harassed in the merciful silence of text, than be "uplifted" by a series of attention hungry strivers doing exaggerated Pixar expressions at me

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Torvus @bigtorvus.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

Modern racists can be racist without realizing it. They’ll get defensive and it might hurt your relationship but it needs to be done. They need to be put on the spot when they do it.

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Torvus @bigtorvus.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

And if you’re a minority, and considered someone’s “<blank> friend”, or if they ever call you “one of the good ones” you’ll have plenty of opportunities to speak up against their racism too. The burden is not just on white allies.

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Torvus @bigtorvus.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

Yeah, there’s a social cost to speaking up when it matters, but a personal cost for not. And the result of that is probably scenes like this. Whether they’re scared or insincere, they aren’t doing what matters. Their sin is really the sin of inaction when it counts.

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Torvus @bigtorvus.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

Aside from history, which I believe shouldn’t factor on the individual level, their insecurity might be born from standing idle while family friends (and coworkers) say and do racist things right in front of them.

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Torvus @bigtorvus.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

Thats my problem with it anyway… What’s helpful though would be confronting present day racism directly, as it happens, particularly in their own circles… and I have no doubt that’s hard.

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Torvus @bigtorvus.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

I may have taken the “original sin” bit the wrong way. We agree that the problem with the statements of the girls in the clip is that they are easy to make and only serve to make themselves feel better.

counts.ht

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Torvus @bigtorvus.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

(Groups being short for ethic groups. There’s only one race, and we’re all in it.)

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Torvus @bigtorvus.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

A crude statement like that could be misinterpreted and would be easy to take issue with. What I said - what I believe - is that out of all peoples, the Irish have the most in common with us. I also said within groups we have people capable of perpetuating that same kind of suffering.

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Torvus @bigtorvus.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

IMO the correct answer is the Irish... but we shouldn’t make a contest out of generational trauma. Everyone has ancestors who were colonized and treated as less-than. Every group has people capable of perpetrating it too.

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Torvus @bigtorvus.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

It’s too much to ask individuals to stand responsible for the moral crimes of their ancestors. It might be why some of them act weird in the first place.

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Torvus @bigtorvus.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

Call it “Reverse Nutty Professor”.

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Torvus @bigtorvus.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

There will always be assholes looking to tear you down the second you make something great, especially if they consider you to be weird. The prospect of being accused of AI use is discomforting, but it's also just more of the same.

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Torvus @bigtorvus.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

I imagine 30+ minutes of aerobic exercise should stave off further damage, but I am not a doctor. If you’re trying to gain weight you’ll probably want to exercise harder than your first guess.

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Torvus @bigtorvus.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

My right one is slightly enlarged “upper normal”, but they said it’s fine w/ “normal systolic function”. The left one is more important, apparently. Internet says the left receives oxygen from the lungs, the right de-oxygenated blood from the body (so both are important really).

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Torvus @bigtorvus.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

Hey that’s a neat idea.

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Torvus @bigtorvus.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

It's either that, or their whole family gets brainered by a microwave gun (the existence which is fully acknowledged but people still won't take you seriously).

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Torvus @bigtorvus.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

It's why some of these guys come out crying or looking otherwise disturbed when they sign the Eat Babies Bill into law.

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Torvus @bigtorvus.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

At risk of coming across a little cringe, I'm imagining Death Note, Light vs L, but with politics and a bit of thuggery instead of a magic notebook. How dirty are you willing to play, Senator?

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Torvus @bigtorvus.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

A billionaire's holdings are so vast and corrupting I question if they can even be governed. You'd see one gunning for you after you try to keep one of their plants from polluting a majority black neighborhood and it will be an open question whether you can get them before they get you.

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Torvus @bigtorvus.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

Your balls, straight to the Phantom Zone…

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Torvus @bigtorvus.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

I imagined this scenario once as a broken shrink ray. Frantic, the user reverses the beam, which works perfectly.

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Torvus @bigtorvus.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

Borg version (sorry): “We are we, we have always been we, even before collective consciousness. All life is one, only the veil of flesh and bone holds the universe back from the grand realization.”

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Torvus @bigtorvus.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

crack baby… definitely grew up with some of those.

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Torvus @bigtorvus.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

Since it’s not our fixation we can use things like that to imagine what other people might see.

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Torvus @bigtorvus.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

I try to imagine it from outside. Think of a person fixated on long beards. It’s all he looks at. His computer & phone are chock full of beard pics, which he hides because he doesn’t want anybody to know he’s fixated on them. He tries to grow one but it takes forever and looks unkempt. People stare.

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Torvus @bigtorvus.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

Sure, but I also imagine overcoming some things. I’m not fit right now. I’ve never been fit, only thin (until a couple years ago) Wouldn’t it be funny if I were to get really fat but also healthier? Imagine being unable to run a mile at 130 lbs, but doing it at 400… I want to confuse my doctor.

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Torvus @bigtorvus.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

It’ll be like living in an old mining town in West Virginia, but everywhere. And like WV, the people will have it no other way because they are being taught to fear solutions.

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Torvus @bigtorvus.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

Meanwhile the robots eat their lunch and there will soon be no place for them, except on minimal welfare and drugs meant to pacify them.

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Torvus @bigtorvus.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

If any one of them gets out of it and tries to change things their peers will hate them. They’ll be seen as uppity, “too good for us”, and with enough time, accused of being a member of the “elite” who’re secretly trying to hurt them.

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Torvus @bigtorvus.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

We are nominally free, but given obstacles to help prevent us from achieving our fullest potential. The system as it is needs surfs of their own supposed making. People aren’t tied to land but their districts are underfunded. They will be local unskilled labor and they will blame themselves.

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Torvus @bigtorvus.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

Activist, social organizer, liberal, are all pejoratives here. Instead, your freedom is meant to be found in robbing others of it. Lording over people while you are yourself lorded over. The only ones losing out completely are on the bottom, and you are supposed to hate them anyway.

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Torvus @bigtorvus.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

Ex: you can discuss incomes with coworkers and start a union - that is a protected right. But you will get constructively dismissed and blackballed out of your industry if you do. People will look down on you and call you a trouble maker. The law won’t protect you fully, even if you have money.

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Torvus @bigtorvus.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

If allowed to reach its ultimate conclusion, conservatism recreates monarchy and feudalism.

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Torvus @bigtorvus.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

How it serves: via ignorance coupled with contrarianism they can feel like the smartest person in the room. If they’re male, they also feel more like a man because it’s a hard-hearted, edgy way of thinking. It’s only when they own something that they can truely profit, and that’s not a guarantee.

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