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Fable MacGrath @geyratte.bsky.social · 16h

more #pronounpalace fic. This one's gonna go for a bit longer than the last one. Also it's an Ace Combat ass fighter pilot AU because no one can stop me. archiveofourown.org/works/947325...

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Peach Gobbler @00himesaurus00.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

if it was really a useful technology it would be callrd “chatBBL” and it would give. you one

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ShayDa @shayda.bsky.social · 26/02/2024

Tail wrap meanings

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yaoi gagarin @mel.bzky.team · 01/10/2026

all-time heavyweight champion

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Fable MacGrath @geyratte.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Late capitalism produces nothing but entropy machines, forces that accelerate decay and waste rather than reduce it.

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Fable MacGrath @geyratte.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

And they are out there every fucking day on this shit. Crews of a dozen guys, eight plus hour shifts. Multiply that for every suburban neighborhood in the US that has grass to mow. How many gallons? That could be used to run ambulances or tractors or trucks carrying groceries?

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Fable MacGrath @geyratte.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

most minor of peeves that’s the result of several catastrophic societal ills: landscapers in every neighborhood in my town using gas powered lawnmowers and leaf-blowers during a fuel crisis to maintain the smooth green desolation of suburban lawns.

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Fable MacGrath @geyratte.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Not entirely true, a lot of them also use the most racist misinterpretation of Islam this side of the FOX news desk

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GuileWinQuote @guilewinquote.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

Front Mission 2's window color configuration menu is still the most romantic thing i've ever seen in a video game

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Fur Affinity 🏳️‍⚧️ @furaffinity.net · 02/10/2026

GONDOR CALLS FOR AID FA Announcement: Support Fur Affinity’s Community Funding www.furaffinity.net/journal/1143... gofund.me/8126f11cb

Fable MacGrath @geyratte.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

We had a truly trans positive genderbend art trend with Petra Parker earlier this year and the feds tried to hit the Uno Reverse Card with Harold Fucking Porter himself. Shameful display.

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Kaban! @kaban.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Terrifying whispers from the Capital

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Laffodile @laffodile.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Original Xbox games not named halo all have the vibe of a fake game you'd see in the background of a TV show.

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Zac Thompson @zacthompson.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Skirting the razor thin line between pleasure and pain by making another Hellraiser shitpost.

a shitpost showing pinhead and the puzzle box from hell. It reads in bold text: DUDES BE LIKE "DON'T TORTURE ME" MY BROTHER IN LEVIATHAN YOU OPENED THE PUZZLE BOX

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Talia al Ghoul 🏳️‍⚧️ @usili.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

Can you see any genders from here? What has gender ever given us? We're going to start over from scratch, that's what HRT is for.

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Fable MacGrath @geyratte.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

you have to admit it’s better than the name for Mastodon posts, which is deadass ‘toots.’ logging on to a federated instance run by trans furry hackers on the no fly list like “I need to shit ass”

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The Elder Memes @theeldermemes.bsky.social · 22/07/2025

> the year 2035 > every game dev has been fired > no AAA games have been made in years > shareholders make billions speculating in a theoretical games market > youtube full of ai slop trailers for fake games > i am crossing the canadian border with a whole sega genesis up my ass

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Foucault's Pudendum @kaitave.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

I'm telling you guys, you gotta put killcodes in the games you make now and hold them hostage. Day 0 patch set to automatically apply and delete everything if you aren't there to manually pause it. Go full Pandora Tomorrow. Your bosses don't know anything about coding, they can't fix it!

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Fable MacGrath @geyratte.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

And it probably goes without saying, but BDS, fuck MS and their genocide-profiteering asses, Billy G and all his epstein island billionaire buddies are gonna get what’s coming to them in this life or the next.

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Fable MacGrath @geyratte.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

The games industry has laid out two paths for major studios in 2026: fight tooth and nail against your shitbird management for a union contract, or get axed. God willing the devs that made all these studios great are able to reform and make games on their own terms.

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Fable MacGrath @geyratte.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

But this isn’t about making better games or even selling more games, it’s about control. MS wants absolute authority over their employee’s lives, to be able to rob them of wages with unpaid overtime and temp contracts before axing entire studios to save on the few pennies left over for labor.

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Fable MacGrath @geyratte.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Blizz may be one of the only XBOX subs still able to make games people actually wanna buy. They just announced a sequel to WOW, the most popular MMO ever made, and put out a new expansion to WC3, one of the most popular RTS ever made. Unionization makes you better at game dev.

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Fable MacGrath @geyratte.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

One of the few XBOX subs to not he utterly wrecked by this shit is Blizzard, because as of very recently that entire company is unionized. Their staff had to fight for that unionization for literal years in order to prevent XBOX (and before them known epstein pal Bob Kotick) from pulling this shit

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Kasey Gifford @kaseygifford.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

This is my new favorite thing.

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Fable MacGrath @geyratte.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

You can tell the exact type of trans woman I am with this shit

Ace Combat 7, Space Station 13, Nier Automata, Minecraft, Deltarune, Hearts of Iron 4, Infamous 2, Ultrakill, & Sunless Skies are the 9 games that shaped who I am.

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lilly @lillypanda.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

i've lost gallons of cum to this tweet

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Dieselbrain @dieselbrain.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

LRP; you do not have to entertain rightwingers who are manufacturing literally any excuse to justify killing trans people. Trans people making art-you-find-gross arent justifying people hating us: theyre doing that on their own. You GOTTA deprogram that kinda kneejerk reaction out of yourself

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Erika Chappell 🏳️‍⚧️ Stop Asking For STLs @opensketchbook.bsky.social · 28/10/2025

with the new expansion, i had to finally formalize this presenting the first roleplaying game to use Hearts of Iron 4 as a resolution system to properly model fascist dysfunction it is not cooperative or competitive, but a secret third thing docs.google.com/document/d/1...

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True Imperial Japan Experience

True Imperial Japan Experience A Hearts of Iron 4 Game This is a counteroperative roleplaying game. The resolution system is a game of multiplayer Hearts of Iron 4 and a number of discord chats. Requi...

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Squidrot @squiddied.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

spent 9 hours animating this creature

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Fable MacGrath @geyratte.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Chiang attempted to embody Mr Moustache and Bald at the same time but lost the mandate to Mao who was Pure Bald. Subsequent chairmen have dutifully maintained the cycle.

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Brian Barrish @brianbarrish.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

MALALA SAYS GO BIRDS

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Olivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ @olivia.science · 08/05/2026

Preprinted! Been working on this for ~1 year w wonderful coauthors Nancy & Mark: > Understanding Artificial Neural Networks: Mysterianism about Known Mechanism is Mysticism doi.org/10.5281/zeno... Have you noticed many experts say they don't understand AI? What's going on? 🤯 Let us tell you... 1/

Understanding Artificial Neural Networks:
Mysterianism about Known Mechanism is Mysticism
Olivia Guest1,2, Nancy Abigail Nuñez Hernández3, and Mark Blokpoel1,2
1Department of Cognitive Science and Artificial Intelligence, Radboud University, The Netherlands
2Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition, and Behaviour, Radboud University, Nijmegen, The Netherlands
3Facultad de Estudios Superiores Acatlán-Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Mexico
Mysterianism is the idea that human cognition, mind, cannot be understood. Taking this
concept and applying it to known mechanism — such that claims are made that we do not
know how engineered systems, such as artificial neural networks (ANNs), work, or that they
constitute black boxes that we can only open with difficulty — is inappropriate at best and
malicious at worst. We do know the mechanistic structure of such models because we designed
and built them. We also do know their functional role (what they are for) as well as the
mathematical function they are asked to approximate (map inputs to target outputs). Because
mysterianist beliefs about known systems, such as ANNs, are often expressed, scientists need
to sit up and take notice. We provide an error theory as to what is going on to help unpick
this metatheoretical blunder. Ultimately, the problem is that ‘understanding’ is not a technical
term in these cases: the word is co-opted for a specific narrative to sell ‘artificial intelligence’
through mystification. All computational systems, from pendulums to databases, will behave
in ways we cannot predict or control — this is not a unique property of ANNs — and experts
do indeed grasp the computational properties of these systems nonetheless.
Keywords: artificial neural networks; mechanism; black box; epistemology; artificial
intelligence; understanding

4 GUEST, NUÑEZ HERNÁNDEZ, & BLOKPOEL≈
ANNs are equiva-
lent to or inspired
by humans.
α
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ANNs are a black
box or unknowable,
even if opened.
β
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Humans are a black
box or unknowable.
γ
Figure 1
Three co-occurring (latent) assertions in the context of con-
temporary reasoning on AI and cognition. While they may
appear to hang together in “reflective equilibrium” (Elgin 2017),
their metatheoretical examination brings their contradictions to
light. Starting from the top, and moving clockwise: 𝛼) represents
the typical assertion of so-called cognitive, neural, or otherwise
biological plausibility or inspiration presented for ANNs; 𝛽) is
the claim we tackle head on here — both in terms of analysing
the constituent terms and in how it relates to the other two
assumptions; and 𝛾) exemplifies a type of mysterianism, which
while not always explicitly expressed, plays a background role
and importantly comes into conflict with the other two claims
in important ways

MYSTERIANISM ABOUT KNOWN MECHANISM IS MYSTICISM 11World
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Data?Si
ANN
Figure 3
Not all systems, 𝑆𝑖 relate to their relevant data, 𝐷𝑖 and world
phenomena this way, but ANN models (as many inferential
statistical models) do when used without scientific understand-
ing of the data-generating process or without verbal or formal
theory to match (Guest and Martin 2025b, 2021, 2023). As we
move from left to right above, we move from full understanding
of engineered systems, 𝑆𝑖 to less or even possibly none of the
data, 𝐷𝑖 to the world which can be thought of as the set of
phenomena to be understood.

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

What they mean when they say these things is "I need the government to make it illegal to compete with me", it has nothing to do with actual harms caused by these companies. They want to divert anti-AI sentiment into vague concern about fake sci-fi bullshit.

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