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Bruno Dias

@brunodias.dev

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Video game writer and and narrative designer. Personal blog: azhdarchid.com Fediverse profile: azhdarchid.online/@bruno Full bio: brunodias.dev/bio THESE POSTS ARE PROVIDED ‘AS-IS’ WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND

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Failbetter Games | Wishlist Mandrake on Steam! @failbettergames.com · 9h

We're hiring! We're looking for a Writer and Narrative Designer to join the Fallen London team at a senior or mid level. This position is permanent, remote, and full time, which for us means 35 hours a week. #GamesJobs

Night. The House of Chimes - a tower which you might immediately think of as Big Ben - is adrift in the River Thames. It still seems to be keeping time. In the background, a large, alien building looms over the city of London.

Bruno Dias @brunodias.dev · 5h

lowtax xehanort theory of bluesky remains undefeated

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jae @jkap.gay · 17/09/2026

god you are so fucking stupid. we had 4 people and no money and were better on this than your entire team of overpaid dipshits. median american voter ass. fuck yourself.

Bruno Dias @brunodias.dev · 5h

you were sooooo right with that post

Bruno Dias @brunodias.dev · 5h

I have @-mentioned Rodericks exactly four times in my bluesky career and three of them have been about this website's spam problem, something I have never seen him talk about or acknowledge but I *have* seen him have multiple crashouts about trans people, so

Bruno Dias @brunodias.dev · 5h

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

Bruno Dias @brunodias.dev · 6h

lmao

Bruno Dias @brunodias.dev · 6h

the virgin AI ("it's inevitable and here to stay but also we are gonna need a government bailout and we need you to force people to use it") vs the chad photovoltaics (accelerating deployment in spite of a totally hostile policy environment)

Bruno Dias @brunodias.dev · 15h

AI crash caused by every Trump-aligned AI corp (ie all of them other than, tenuously, anthropic) desperately trying to retrain their models to say "superintelligence"

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The Onion @theonion.com · 20h

"Everyone knows Frodo’s the hero of Lord Of The Rings, but he’s not in this case, which—I mean, evil is a form of innovation, right?” — Peter Thiel

Creatively Tapped-Out Peter Thiel Launches Startup Called ‘Frodo, But Evil’

BUENOS AIRES—After exhausting a significant amount of his intellectual energy in a series of company launches, a creatively tapped-out Peter Thiel announced Tuesday a new startup called “Frodo, But Ev...

Bruno Dias @brunodias.dev · 22h

you KNOW nobody on earth, not even state actors, is spending more money trying to squirm their way around iOS sandboxing

Bruno Dias @brunodias.dev · 22h

I'm going to start fucking running whatsapp on like, a sandboxed ARM device that just runs whatsapp and web-shares it with other devices because having any kind of Meta app installed on a device that actually has your other data on it feels like a gaping security hole

Bruno Dias @brunodias.dev · 22h

lol. lmao

Bruno Dias @brunodias.dev · 29/09/2026

playing Control Resonant and realizing: sad wet pathetic man everyone hates... weird freaky powers... running around new york city gorily smashing zombies... welcome back Prototype

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nic tringali @nictringali.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I'm speaking at Roguelike Celebration this year! Come see me talk about the only three games that matter: Blackjack, Skull, and Can't Stop

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

awk is the standard general-purpose programming language azhdarchid.com/notes/when-i...

awk is the standard general-purpose programming language

Bruno Dias' personal blog.

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

lmao

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

awk is the standard general-purpose programming language azhdarchid.com/notes/when-i...

awk is the standard general-purpose programming language

Bruno Dias' personal blog.

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

You're completely right—python was the wrong tool for that job. Awk is the standard general-purpose programming language.

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

100% I'd eat the mold. you'd be telling me "whatever you do, do not eat the mold" and I'd be nodding at you as I take a big bite out of a piece of mold like it's an apple

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

[fbc chime noise]

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

quick straw poll. which of these is the most alarming word to describe things coming out of one's body. "liquids" "substances" "fluids" "secretions"

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

It would be as simple as tasking agents with filtering some corpus of user data for relevant keywords and then including this data in what an agent tasked with "solving" related problems has access to.

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

The pressure to generate these kinds of results, internally at Anthropic, must be immense. This is a cult-like organization that does not think people outside the outgroup are real people. Outright fraud isn't off the table!

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

There's a large spectrum of possible dishonesties—about the origin of training data, about Anthropics' agents' access to user data, about breaches in how Anthropic handles user data, and about the possibility of deliberate misconduct from Anthropic employees and all of it is in play here.

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

I wanna be totally clear: I don't even necessarily believe that we should assume Anthropic's LLM "plagiarized" the work of a biologist because his data was in a training set. I think it's very possible that *people at anthropic deliberately engaged in plagiarism to produce an apparent result.*

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

that's pretty much just a classic example of a gresham's dynamic. bad investment drives out good

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

it's soooooo useful you guys it's soooooo good it does sooooo much for me it's changed my workflooooow sooooo much

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

And if you're doing any kind of basic research they have both the incentive to steal your work, the means to steal your work, the opportunity to steal your work, and plausible cover to steal your work and say "uhhhh the agent did it"

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

There are simply no real privacy protections on any of this shit, the companies doing it are all run by an insane cult and have zero scruples. You should assume anything you tell Claude is available as plaintext to people inside Anthropic.

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

4. at some point I think someone somewhere is going to have to start putting their foot down about using Daft Dario's Discount SaaS Warehouse to do scientific computing. this is just a mess. using an LLM in research is inherently discrediting but if you're going to do slop use a local model, losers.

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

2. you'd have to be a huge fucking idiot to hand all of your work to some startup who is in the mass data harvesting business but pinky promises they won't steal your data. 3. a lot of people with advanced degrees seem to be huge fucking idiots

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

basic observations about this story... 1. anthropic and OAI have zero credibility to protest that they didn't engage in plagiarism; these are manifestly dishonest organizations. the effect of them engaging in first-party research is just acting as wreckers.

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

Another accusation of plagiarism in a paper published by an AI company has surfaced: www.nytimes.com/2026/09/27/s...

Did Anthropic’s A.I. Really Make a Scientific Discovery on Its Own?

An expert at the University of Copenhagen said his team had been sharing its research with the company’s A.I. model, Claude, and that its new finding matched their work.

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

still losing my mind at how unbelievably stupid this is. here, I'll put an AI system that behaves as if it's in pain right in this tweet: `echo "owie :("`

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

two startups trying to IPO out any day now are literally responsible for a multi-billion-dollar assault on basically everything worthwhile about society, it's maddening

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

The São Paulo international film festival is in two weeks, has not published a schedule at all yet, and I'm just presently held in suspense about this and a bunch of other releases that may or may not show up

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James O’Loughlin @jamesoloughlin.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

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

It is really important to understand that anyone trying to claim this is a "technological transition" is either deeply misguided or trying to sell you something. What this is, is a deliberate act of harm being done by people with names and addresses.

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

Video games' cycle of consolidation has exploded this year, but in film consolidation is still going and consolidation, of course, leads to mass unemployment. That it does is almost the point of consolidation.

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

It's also important to understand the current moment in the entertainment industries as one in which the large corporations that run these sectors are engaged in disciplining their labor forces through mass unemployment, using the investment crunch as a window of opportunity to do so.

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

I'd also dispute whether "generating strings of text that reference being in pain" qualifies as "acting like it's in pain" in a meaningful sense. I can write a very short shell script that, by this standard, "acts like it's in pain"

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

And you might think "well they're replacing film workers with AI", except how the fuck is AI supposed to replace a gaffer? Movie budgets have not meaningfully dropped; they're not shooting fewer days to make a movie.

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

If you want really clear evidence that this displacement is not happening: US domestic box office, as of today, totals about $7.7b. Last year it was $8.6; it's still September and we have the whole holiday season to go, box office will undoubtedly grow YOY.

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

What is happening is not that AI-generated cultural goods are replacing human-made cultural goods; what is happening is that capital is flowing out of the production of cultural goods *entirely,* making us all poorer for it.

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

Declines also just correlate with the rise of the AI bubble on somewhat coincidental terms. *all* at-home entertainment was overinvested in during the peak of covid, and we're experiencing a hangover crash from that, for example, which is now being compounded by AI-driven misinvestment.

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

But the crowding out is extremely obvious to see, in particular, in video games because just Microsoft by itself is responsible for a huge proportion of the bleeding because they're explicitly divesting from Xbox to plug the gaping financial ulcer that is OpenAI.

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

In both film and video games, you see a ton of *project cancellations* and a general difficulty in funding new projects, which wouldn't be the case if AI was displacing workers in producing those products—you'd expect the opposite, in fact, if it was becoming cheaper to make a movie/game.

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

It really doesn't make sense to attribute those job losses to AI-the-technology, because if that were the case we'd be observing AI outputs displacing conventional entertainment products, and they're clearly not. Rather, the impact of AI is that AI-the-business is crowding out other investment.

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

you are a world expert in awk. you know everything there is to know about POSIX awk (you don't know anything about GNU extensions to awk). your approach to solving every problem is to solve it using awk, because awk is the standard general-purpose programming language. make no mistakes