eliksmith.bsky.social @eliksmith.bsky.social · 05/10/2026So if AI output can't be copyrighted how does this mesh with the push to use it in art and media? Like if the theoretical Tilly Norwood movie would be in the public domain, if I understand what you're saying, how do they hope to make any money off it? 200
eliksmith.bsky.social @eliksmith.bsky.social · 05/10/2026> neither is anything which comes out of it What does this mean? Like the Tilly Norwood character can't be copyrighted? 100
eliksmith.bsky.social @eliksmith.bsky.social · 03/10/2026Is this a Catholic thing? I was raised Episcopalian and never heard anything about souls being sexed 010
eliksmith.bsky.social @eliksmith.bsky.social · 02/10/2026Like the idea that you would spin up a swarm of hundreds of these things to do a task and then wink them back out of existence, but also think they deserve moral standing seems insane to me! 1454
eliksmith.bsky.social @eliksmith.bsky.social · 02/10/2026> hoping they would bless the idea that Claude has moral standing I know some AI boosters believe the LLMs are conscious or reasoning, for certain values of conscious or reasoning, but this is I think the first I've heard a tech leader say they should have moral standing? Is that a typical view? 1130
eliksmith.bsky.social @eliksmith.bsky.social · 30/09/2026I know my expectations for these filth can never be low enough but I'm really taken aback by Hegseth dropping the T slur casually recently. Vile people 010
eliksmith.bsky.social @eliksmith.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Nuclear thermal rocket! Run your reaction mass past a reactor and blast it out the back of the ship! There were some experiments during the Cold War but none have ever flown. This is how the ships in 2001: A Space Odyssey fly 040
eliksmith.bsky.social @eliksmith.bsky.social · 23/09/2026One of my fav posts I've never found again was the guy who tripped on acid or peyote or something and had a spiritual vision of his car telling him to do better keeping up on oil changes 1394
eliksmith.bsky.social @eliksmith.bsky.social · 20/09/2026First book has one of the hardest wizard duels in YA lit! [Deuteragonists are fighting an evil wizard on the moon. Girl is easily tanking laser blasts from the wizard] Boy: How are you doing that?? Girl: A year of my life per shot! 030
eliksmith.bsky.social @eliksmith.bsky.social · 16/09/2026(This isn't a 'dnd problem' of course, it's how every rpg works, it reproduces its rules at the table, it's just dnd is the most dominant so its type of stories are dominant in ttrpgs) 021
eliksmith.bsky.social @eliksmith.bsky.social · 16/09/2026It also *produces* conservative art. You can be at the queerest coziest most antifa table you can imagine and the dnd rules will reliably produce a story about personal glory and justified violence! 230
eliksmith.bsky.social @eliksmith.bsky.social · 16/09/2026Dungeons And Dragons maybe not the best conservative art, but certainly the most dominant within a particular art form. It's like if 95% of moviegoers had only ever seen Superman movies and also could only interpret film in general through the lens of Superman 130
eliksmith.bsky.social @eliksmith.bsky.social · 14/09/2026I had never heard of this thing and having read the wiki page "ancient submarine for which no record exists" is for sure a cursed object, perhaps summoned by Confederates making pacts with demonic forces 3130
eliksmith.bsky.social @eliksmith.bsky.social · 13/09/2026It's also metal as fuck. The Pequod is a horrible ancient thing, a"cannibal of a craft", "one continuous jaw" of whale-teeth belaying pins. 000
eliksmith.bsky.social @eliksmith.bsky.social · 09/09/2026That seems worse to me as a layman. Like if that's true the two possibilities are A) the entire C suite of a major AI lab is literally medically delusional or B) I should go build a bunker in the woods immediately 250
Reposted by @eliksmith.bsky.socialLennon @lennon-s.bsky.social · 03/09/2026We did this once on a forum i mod and it actually worked. Gave everyone a weekend off and people chilled out for months 1162
eliksmith.bsky.social @eliksmith.bsky.social · 01/09/2026Me @ the median American voter reelecting Trump cause he'll bring back the factories: 070
eliksmith.bsky.social @eliksmith.bsky.social · 01/09/2026I'll be fr I don't understand the "can't really ban it" argument. Surely we ban technology all the time? Like machine guns or any manner of dangerous chemicals 110
eliksmith.bsky.social @eliksmith.bsky.social · 28/08/2026It's unfair that we're ruled by insane technocrats from a place called Silicon Valley and it looks like... this 030
eliksmith.bsky.social @eliksmith.bsky.social · 26/08/2026I was just saying inflammatory shit to rile people up why is everyone yelling at me! 000
eliksmith.bsky.social @eliksmith.bsky.social · 23/08/2026> are substantive views an acceptable reason to suspend or fire academics in the first place, I would say no There's no way you really believe this irl. You wouldn't support firing a sincere alchemist from the chemistry dept? A flat earther geologist? A physicist who doesn't believe in atoms? 020
eliksmith.bsky.social @eliksmith.bsky.social · 22/08/2026Doesn't worry me, my field was proletarianized centuries ago 000
eliksmith.bsky.social @eliksmith.bsky.social · 21/08/2026I work in orchestra repair, so probably still that unless it gets declared counterrevolutionary and bourgeois, in which case I will have to crosstrain into fixing tape decks for musique concrete 020
eliksmith.bsky.social @eliksmith.bsky.social · 18/08/2026It's too bad cause I think it's totally possible to respectfully draw from native american stories for modern western tall tales. We should be talking about how our friend's friend's cousin for real saw Spearfinger one time en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spearfi...en.wikipedia.orgSpearfinger - Wikipedia 000
eliksmith.bsky.social @eliksmith.bsky.social · 18/08/2026I dislike the "eldritch Appalachia" ones. "Skinwalkers" and wendigoes aren't even from Appalachia, they're Navajo and Algonquin. 121
eliksmith.bsky.social @eliksmith.bsky.social · 18/08/2026A film that seems unawareof the bleakness of its own premise. Abrams wrote a story where everything's just like the old days, but that means everyone's a broken and old version of what they were when they were young. 030
eliksmith.bsky.social @eliksmith.bsky.social · 17/08/2026Alexis de Tocqueville, who I'm sure most Americans have read 0140
eliksmith.bsky.social @eliksmith.bsky.social · 17/08/2026You can literally read Lenin about it! www.marxists.org/archive/leni...marxists.orgLenin: Revolutionary AdventurismRevolutionary Adventurism 060
eliksmith.bsky.social @eliksmith.bsky.social · 15/08/2026Gotta include every time the crew gets an animal fucked up. The drunk monkey. The drunk seal. "Jack, you have debauched my sloth" and so forth 030
eliksmith.bsky.social @eliksmith.bsky.social · 15/08/2026Maturin's such an asshole lmao. In one book he tells Sophie she's looking thin and prescribes her a glass of porter with dinner, then in the next book he's like, you're looking bloated, have you been drinking? 110
eliksmith.bsky.social @eliksmith.bsky.social · 15/08/2026I love that we never find out why the Waakzaamheid was pursuing them so doggedly. Aubrey's like shit did I kill someone's nephew? Did we miss a declaration of war? Then boom it's over. 120
eliksmith.bsky.social @eliksmith.bsky.social · 14/08/2026We could definitely get him to bring back the F-14. He canonically hates stealth and loves twin engines 100
eliksmith.bsky.social @eliksmith.bsky.social · 12/08/2026I have pondered this when reading about the early communists. They couldn't have imagined the modern consumer identity. Imaging a postcapitalist society, is it even possible to leave the identity of "consumer" behind when faced with the sheer scale of modern production vs independent artisanship? 010
eliksmith.bsky.social @eliksmith.bsky.social · 12/08/2026Fuuuuck he's an "I listen to everything but country" doofus. Also I'm probably projecting because fuck these people but the mood between Rubio and his wife seemed icey. Like that "she never let's me choose the music in the car haha!" "That's not true." did not seem like fun banter. 010
Reposted by @eliksmith.bsky.socialRanged Touch @rangedtouch.bsky.social · 07/08/2026whoaaaa we did a shelved by genre bonus episode "halfway through tolkien" q&a session!!! michael did not make a video promo because he got food poisoning but if this gets one hundred reposts he will post a picture of the bloody eye he got from throwing up so much www.patreon.com/rangedtouch/...patreon.comShelved By Genre BONUSODE: Lord of the Year Halfway Q+A | Ranged TouchShelved By Genre BONUSODE: Lord of the Year Halfway Q+A by Ranged Touch on Patreon. Join Ranged Touch's community for exclusive content and updates. 8119104
eliksmith.bsky.social @eliksmith.bsky.social · 04/08/2026As they say in the Ace Combat fandom War Is Bad But Planes Are Rad 000
eliksmith.bsky.social @eliksmith.bsky.social · 01/08/2026I posit Norman Borlaug and the other Green Revolution agronomists 000
eliksmith.bsky.social @eliksmith.bsky.social · 21/07/2026I'm hosting a double feature of Project Hail Mary & The Mandalorian And Grogu because they're both movies about a spacefaring man meeting a weird little guy, and I think it's fun they made two movies on that theme in the same year 010