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farcaster as I knew it is dead

Farcaster as I knew it is dead. I've written more words than the new owners are worth, so this is the note where it died — closure, not a eulogy. Everything I wrote while it still felt like home now has somewhere to point. 👇 eirrann.art/studio-notes/f/farcaste…

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on a sufficiently decentralized compromise meeting its buyer: and writing the note where it died

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farcaster as I knew it is dead

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on a sufficiently decentralized compromise meeting its buyer: and writing the note where it died

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Shout-outs: - @cassie, who helped develop Farcaster and is working to build the platform it was meant to be - @mxjxn, who onboarded me and many artists who influenced its culture They were both banned instantly the moment the acquisition notification went out.

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eirrann | he/him @eirrann.art · 17/10/2026

The coven is getting a workshop. After weeks of iteration and review, fractura has started building the ecosystem for her AI witches to help run my art studio: artwork documentation, archives, publishing, and collective memory. I keep the vision. They get to work.

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I'm sick of petulant rich manchildren buying social media to advance dystopian agendas and deplatforming people arbitrarily.

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I'm not going to 'vote yes' to his ideological manifesto to find out. What I will do is continue cross-posting to multiple social networks to hopefully never again be beholden to the whims of a single platform's owner. eirrann.art/studio-notes/f/permanen…

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I devoted a year of my artistic practice to what one dude called "pussy art": vulva vitrea, a series of abstract glass floral algorithmic AI vulva art. How would my artistic vision align with Balaji's non-NSFW vision for the new dystopian state of Farcaster?

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I hope I can find ways to cross post that will let me stay connected with the community I had found on Farcaster. Makes the choice to start cross posting in the first place feel validating. eirrann.art/studio-notes/f/permanen…

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Between dystopian Elon de-platforming me once on X already and dystopian Balaji giving me the choice of agreeing to an ideological manifesto or be de-platformed, I'm done with making top-level posts or threads to any single social network. x.com/cass_on_mars/status/211090602…

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I guess I can stop paying for a new month of Farcaster Pro every time I want to update my profile banner with new artwork. RIP.

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@bradgao.bsky.social Firefly not seeming to post links to Bluesky in a way that creates previews.

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Though if anything happens to @fireflyapp.bsky.social I'm going to have to look for a new way to cross-post... Mebbe I should do that proactively.

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With @farcaster_xyz leaning into the dystopian state approach, I'm glad I recently started cross-posting to multiple social networks to avoid being de-platformed again. eirrann.art/studio-notes/f/permanen…

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Currently sending all funds from my @farcaster (err, Network State?) wallet to my ENS. This acquisition feels like about as opposite of an outcome from what the people who were on Farcaster for ideological reasons in the first place would have expected.

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Oops, Firefly messed up the tag of @warpcast.bsky.social when I tried to edit the text before it.

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This is what I now see when I try to go to my @farcaster profile...

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Hey, @cass_on_mars , what happens with the hardfork side of things when I cross-post using Firefly?

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I guess it's a good thing I recently started crossposting to multiple social networks using @fireflyapp.bsky.social , as I discussed here 👇 eirrann.art/studio-notes/f/permanen…

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Here's as much of that ToS as I can get in one expanded screenshot from my phone. I haven't had time to read it in full, let alone digest it.

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So@farcaster_xyz has been acquired by Balaji's Network State. The first interaction informed me that my account is read-only until I agree with an ideological ToS that, at a glance, references 'digital felonies' and might restrict anonymous users like me. Yikes.

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Encouraging signs of fitness progress with my morning bike rides: "Compared to a matching 5.8-mile ride in late September, you held the same time and speed with lower cardiovascular strain." I'll have to ride even harder, lol.

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Qwen3.8 27B Q4_K_XL has earned its place. I've increased context window to 200k+. It ships functional work. bsky.app/profile/eirr...

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I didn't see your comment until now. I ended up using Qwen3.8 27B Q4_K_XL, now with 200k+ context window. It ships functional work. bsky.app/profile/eirr...

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Disclosure: ChatGPT helped me evaluate these articles against my needs and draft this thread. Meanwhile, fractura—my local Hermes agent—is doing the background Kanban work: coding, testing, reviewing and updating project docs. I own the results.

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My 3090’s breakthrough wasn’t a bigger model, it was a better fit: Qwen3.8 27B Q4_K_XL, language on GPU, vision on CPU, ~203K context. Hermes finished the coding and validation queue. The ComfyUI workflow worked first try. bsky.app/profile/eirr...

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eirrann | he/him @eirrann.art · 11/10/2026

I read 2 @xdadevelopers articles today about local AI models for home labs. Key numbers: 744B. 120B. 27B. The biggest number doesn't align with which model could finish my work. Beast’s results: 24GB RTX 3090, ~203K context, Hermes agent shipped a good ComfyUI workflow.

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Living in Central Florida today, it can be easy to forget that you're in the Deep South: the prejudices that once made it the land of segregation, lynchings and other forms of hate still simmer just below the surface for far too many people. archive.ph/vBNIe

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eirrann | he/him @eirrann.art · 11/10/2026

Today, my son and I got into the car and he said: "I want to play some music we haven't listened to together before that I found the other day." Then he played the Stone Temple Pilots album Core. I love that he's independently discovering a taste for the music of my youth!

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Claire Silver 🌸 (@ClaireSilver) on X

I had seen a photorealistic AI image that Claire Silver shared back in January 2023 and felt compelled to learn how she did it. x.com/ClaireSilver/status/161367911…

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stable diffusion 2.1 is pushing the ceiling on the uncanny valley #AIart

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I created it in February 2023, only about a month after joining Twitter and installing Stable Diffusion.

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My uncanny aliens collection features photography-inspired AI portraits with a familiar vernacular to evoke a powerful connection with the alien subjects.

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It draws deeply on my background in photography, when I used a fully manual camera and lived in the darkroom.

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To this day, uncanny aliens – my genesis collection of 29 1/1s on Foundation, now preserved on @networkeddotart – remains among the work I’m proudest of.

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Reposted by eirrann | he/him

BIP 🧵 My MoE AI model was stuck in Hermes. I went model shopping and found an unexpected VRAM bottleneck: I'd been too cautious with it. The GPU must fit both the model and its working memory. My 24 GB RTX 3090 now runs a 27B model with 180k context.

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Reposted by eirrann | he/him

Quick update: I moved my local AI’s eyes to the CPU. That fixed image crashes and freed VRAM to grow its context from 180K to 203K tokens. A tiny API fix got video working too. Same 27B model. Same 24GB RTX 3090. More useful work. Hermes is using these tools now.

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