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it's been a great year for movies where this guy dies horribly

Bruno Dias @brunodias.dev · 01/10/2026

like this type of argument is just nonsensical, uwu-we're-just-a-little-guy stuff. people are asking rodericks to meet the standards of, like, the mod team of a large subreddit. "bluesky is free, why do you expect us to do all this mod work for you" is like, okay what are you even paid to do?

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Bruno Dias @brunodias.dev · 01/10/2026

knowing who is behind this I feel like a trick was missed not using the slogan "In her. Not in the fluffer."

header of a website called "knockrup.com". Below the text "Raise capital. Raise kids," with the explanation "A directory of elite women seeking sponsors - genetic, financial, or both"

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Bruno Dias @brunodias.dev · 30/09/2026

oh my god he's handed the block button over to claude

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Bruno Dias @brunodias.dev · 28/09/2026

The source for this graph is an AI benchmarking company, so most likely just bullshit data anyway, but I like the implication that either 1. Claude Opus 5 used em dashes roughly 15 times more often than is optimal, 2. Anthropic panic overcorrected and basically beat the em dashes out of it

Graph comparing the em dash frequency of different Anthropic models, showing a decrease of 15.2 per 1000 words on Opus 5, to 0.8 on Opus 5.5

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Bruno Dias @brunodias.dev · 26/09/2026

Sure, why not. Another one of these.

Pirates! Gold, Freelancer, Slouching Towards Bedlam, Link's Awakening DX, Baldur's Gate II, Spider And Web, Sim City 3000, Grim Fandango, Return of the Obra Dinn

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Bruno Dias @brunodias.dev · 26/09/2026

It’s officially a soulslike

Dylan Faden in Control: Resonant standing next to a door. A HUD element says it “opens from other side”

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Bruno Dias @brunodias.dev · 24/09/2026

workwithindies is fuckin wild rn

Double Dagger Studio is hiring a Executive Personal Assistant to join their team in Kirkland, WA

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Bruno Dias @brunodias.dev · 23/09/2026

Fascinating photo of a sectioned skull of a helmeted hornbill, showing the intricate internal structure of the beak and casque. (via tetzoo.com/blog/2026/9/...)

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Bruno Dias @brunodias.dev · 23/09/2026

Your second example is closer to what I'm thinking, yeah, though I am mainly thinking of this in the context of like, commercial illustration rather than cartoons. What raised the question for me is this game, Stip, which uses the technique (but isn't otherwise doing midcentury-modern stuff really)

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Bruno Dias @brunodias.dev · 22/09/2026

Quick little Godot experiment: using the relatively new `offset_transform` feature to progressively add "wonk" to UI elements

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Bruno Dias @brunodias.dev · 22/09/2026

doing gamergater shit for clicks in 2026

disco stu asking you to consult his chart of disco record sales

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Bruno Dias @brunodias.dev · 15/09/2026

the extreme over-emoting turned-up-to-11 facial expressions are so disturbing to me. the artist had this on their artstation as a sort of family-portrait commission and like, who thinks this is a pleasant version of themselves to put on a wall

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Bruno Dias @brunodias.dev · 15/09/2026

Like check out those faces. Those are not "good" faces but they definitely are faces. I presume some of these characters get eaten over the course of the story. Maybe it depends on your choices.

lady with an undercut making a sour face. she has something indistinct in her mouth, perhaps a piece of black licorice

downcast-looking young woman wearing a leather collar with a vaguely heart shaped object attached to it

homely young lady in a 1940s haircut and glasses looking into the middle distance, perhaps thinking about being eaten

rosy-cheeked, blue-haired middle-aged woman smiling at the camera. she has what looks like a tracheostomy scar.

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Bruno Dias @brunodias.dev · 15/09/2026

like I don't really think this is the face of a man who was drawn by hand. But if that was all I would not be posting about it, the thing is that the *story* in question is uhhhh, it's erotic cannibalism fiction?

digital illustration of a man with one of those too-intense expressions that AI people often have

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Bruno Dias @brunodias.dev · 13/09/2026

and speaking of numbers being infuriatingly close but not quite, this is the bug report number

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Bruno Dias @brunodias.dev · 11/09/2026

As far as I can tell nobody associated with the D. melanogaster conectome projects has said a word about "simulating" anything, and if you go look at the C. elegans "openworm" project this is the current state of the art in worm simulation

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Bruno Dias @brunodias.dev · 11/09/2026

like the guy isn't even claiming anything like what people are talking about

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Bruno Dias @brunodias.dev · 09/09/2026

This is how I see their posts lol

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Bruno Dias @brunodias.dev · 08/09/2026

get it twisted: there is no such a thing as truth. you live as simply the sum total of other people's perceptions. you can recreate your reality with every glance get it twisted: the world is utterly and terrifyingly objective. all matters are decidable. every lie is total annihilation of the soul

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Bruno Dias @brunodias.dev · 07/09/2026

sorry your tired jokes about millennials are not going to be worse than what we already did to ourselves

poster in a million different typefaces. it reads: In this house we know this is my hole; and it's always midsommar; we don't tolerate sickos nor maidenless behavior; our outie listens to death grips and mains faust; we love mandy and her color out of space; and when you add kurt angle to the mix; we face god and walk backwards into hell; we keep our blades in the dark; and we do believe it: it's a friday once again; we commit crimes of the future; because our flag means death; we get the wordle in three; we wait for third impact; hitting everything everywhere all at once; 16 feet through the announcer's table; we don't have to do naything any more; ever, never, ever; we always say "ring-a-ding-ding, baby"; because this House always wins; we could make this place beautiful; because it has good bones; and one more thing: we rewatch the sopranos

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Bruno Dias @brunodias.dev · 02/09/2026

This part is also super interesting to me because I am old enough to remember when part of the sales pitch for autonomous vehicles was that they could coordinate, that you'd replace traffic with a "swarm" of vehicles acting in concert to move safely but faster than humans.

So it’s just a massive fuckstorm because they don’t have reasoning in that capacity. The cars don’t talk to each other. If a car sees that there’s 10 cars in front of it that are all trying to move at the same time, they don’t respond to each other. It’s just based on what it as an individual is trying to accomplish, and trying to make sure it doesn’t crash into anything. So it’ll over-yield and sit there waiting for something to get out of its way. Because the main thing with Waymo is they don’t want these things to crash.

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Bruno Dias @brunodias.dev · 01/09/2026

After carefully scrobbling through Nvidia's NBA2k preview video I realized they do show exactly one shot of a woman, an extremely brief shot of Olivia Miles taking a free throw. Her face is visible for like five frames before being obscured by the basketball. Draw your own conclusions

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Bruno Dias @brunodias.dev · 01/09/2026

it's very funny that after all the fanfare, DLSS 5 is arriving as consumer tech on an nba2k game, ie a handpicked environment to sidestep all the problems and weaknesses, and it still looks kinda shit

a wax figure of cade cunningham looking like he's about to fall asleep

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Bruno Dias @brunodias.dev · 01/09/2026

the way I know the AI people are in a cult is that they're mad at me for citing rationalwiki at them

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Bruno Dias @brunodias.dev · 01/09/2026

like this style of design? with the haphazard mix of monospace and serif fonts, the obsession with "cards" as a UI conceit, etc, once again I'm surprised at how consistent the "language" of slop CSS is

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Bruno Dias @brunodias.dev · 01/09/2026

I honestly considered looking into Laravel recently because I supposed that it being popular while occupying that backend framework role that's been kind of abandoned for years was interesting, but like a lot of software these days their website makes me roll my eyes too much

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Bruno Dias @brunodias.dev · 01/09/2026

So it's useful to talk about the specific ways in which this argument is dishonest because I think a lot of liberal and left-leaning people are very vulnerable to this rhetorical bludgeon—the idea that you should "listen to experts". But let's unpack what exactly Giggies here means by "experts".

SE Gyges : this was early enough that it was very insightful and is now sort of transparently true if you think the gizmo isn't useful you're ignoring most major software project and all computer security professionals, you basically have to spit on expertise as a concept

antivax movement but it's left coded and targets machine learning, artificial intelligence, and engineering fields

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Bruno Dias @brunodias.dev · 27/08/2026

I think instead of trending topics, microblogging services should just have an informative dashboard with useful categories

wireframe of a "bluesky dashboard" showing columns for today's main character, engagement bait of the day, recent celebrity deaths, and "not anxious enough? here's Actual News"

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Bruno Dias @brunodias.dev · 27/08/2026

welcome to Bluesky. please familiarize yourself with the following accounts to understand the range of opinions it is acceptable to express

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Bruno Dias @brunodias.dev · 26/08/2026

As a somewhat apples-to-oranges point of comparison, this free-to-play MMO launched not a year ago has fewer players on Steam right now than Destiny 2, a game that has been discontinued by its publisher and shipped its end-of-life update two months ago.

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Bruno Dias @brunodias.dev · 26/08/2026

By the way, talking about the supposed commercial potential of LLMs and "infinite" games? Remember Where Winds Meet, the big new MMO from NetEase that had chatbot NPCs and got some press coverage about it? It is down 90% from its peak concurrent players.

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Bruno Dias @brunodias.dev · 26/08/2026

finally... the formidable offensive boost, from HP Lovecraft's short story "in regards to the matter with the formidable offensive boost"

Screenshot of some text from The Sinking City 2: "Prints made with the silver side were imbued with the essence of the Dreamlands, while prints made with the golden side delivered a formidable offensive boost.

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Bruno Dias @brunodias.dev · 25/08/2026

also @aaron.bsky.team explain to me how this post, which amounts to "don't use the word 'clanker' or you might be harmed or killed in the future by my robot friends", isn't a threat? I thought we had a zero tolerance policy...? Or is it only zero tolerance when it's about protecting your buddies?

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Bruno Dias @brunodias.dev · 25/08/2026

[explaining roko's basilisk to an american] imagine a denied health insurance claim

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Bruno Dias @brunodias.dev · 24/08/2026

it's unfortunate. this used to be cool as shit

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Bruno Dias @brunodias.dev · 23/08/2026

i guess all this sound and fury would be easier to take seriously if you could produce evidence you cared about it before an obscure racist got fired from an unimportant job in Belgium

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Bruno Dias @brunodias.dev · 23/08/2026

You know, I really thought I'd be free of jokes about airag

Screenshot from The Sinking City 2 showing a bar called "the Silver Eel" with a sign advertising that they serve fermented mare's milk

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