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Harle A. Hyena @hyenagrin.bsky.social · 12h

Lowdown season 2 off to a great start. XD I swear, it's like someone took (as a trash mammal furry) my conception of what it is to be a coyote, and made a whole show about it. Unvarnished coyote behavior from start to finish.

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House House @househouse.com · 15/10/2026

An explanation on why Big Walk isn't available on Xbox. bigwalk.game/xbox

Regarding Xbox

In June 2026 we announced that the release of Big Walk would be limited to computers, Switch 2 and PS5. Since then, we have received many messages and comments, asking about a future Xbox release. We would like to address those questions here:

We have made the decision not to release Big Walk on Xbox, in accordance with the Palestinian-led BDS (Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions) movement’s call to boycott Microsoft, and their designation of Microsoft Games (and Xbox) as a priority boycott target. If you need help understanding our motives, we would recommend reading about why Microsoft is a BDS priority target, the successes this kind of pressure has already had on Microsoft, and especially, watching this great introductory piece by People Make Games.

It has always been our intention for Big Walk to be played by groups of friends, and we know that keeping the game off Xbox runs counter to those intentions. This decision means that some people will miss out on playing Big Walk with their friends, and we understand the disappointment we’re causing. We are disappointed too.

We would love for people to be able to play the game on Xbox, but not until Microsoft and/or Xbox have been removed as BDS boycott targets.

We’ve made this decision with the belief that meaningful change can be made in the world, that coordinated collective action can confront even the most powerful interests, and that one day, Palestine will be free.

Thank you for your understanding.

Sincerely,
House House

(see bigwalk.game/xbox for links)

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Harle A. Hyena @hyenagrin.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

Helluva Boss, dang. Lookit you, being that serious about not being an animation for kids. I respect a show that can make me feel a bunch of complex emotions over a heavy BDSM scene and a seedy 80's club song.

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Morgan Johnson @poormojo.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

No joke. I think this is the most important video I have ever seen about mobile games. This guy breaks down how this game psychologically profiles you, and makes the game harder or easier in order to show you ads

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Harle A. Hyena @hyenagrin.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

Porco is pretty dang good I will say, at least

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Matthew Guariglia @mguariglia.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

If you're wondering why Flock leaves cameras up after a contract end, part of their business model and marketing strategy is being able to advertise that their customers can access data from cameras all over the country. You may have canceled your contract, but the cameras still fuel the system.

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Greenb3ar @greenb3ar.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

Okay the best political ad of the year is here from LA-DSA

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Emily Gorcenski @emily.gorcen.ski · 11/10/2026

Elon: i’m going to send a data center to space! Zelenskyy, packing a repurposed Cessna full of composition 4: me too

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Anonymous @youranoncentral.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Russian bot traffic has dropped to nearly 0 after Ukraine struck a Yandex data center in Vladimir, Russia

• Source Network: AS13238 YANDEX – Yandex LLC (Russian Federation)
• Traffic Breakdown: Prior to the drop, bot traffic accounted for roughly 99.6% of requests compared to 0.4% human traffic.
• Event Cause: The sudden plunge to zero on October 11, 2026, corresponds to a reported military/drone attack on Yandex's data center facility in Vladimir, Russia—marking the third reported attack on Yandex data infrastructure since October 8.

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Harle A. Hyena @hyenagrin.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Is it likely that it works that way? Probably not likely. But I can't rule it out. It's just such a big subject with so much to discover that I am, personally, not ready to put arbitrary borders on it just to satisfy my ideological preferences around a dumpster fire of a technology.

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Harle A. Hyena @hyenagrin.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

It's been theorized that we, too, may behave as "cells" in larger information systems, information systems that become more brainlike as we develop communication technologies. Cultures, organizations, working toward a common goal. There may very well be minds in places that are highly unintuitive.

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Harle A. Hyena @hyenagrin.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

There's a possibility that consciousness isn't that special. Like, it isn't inconceivable to me that we aren't the top of the consciousness pyramid. Brains themselves are colonies of cells communicating. Somehow their collective efforts generate consciousness.

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Harle A. Hyena @hyenagrin.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Maybe! I think the devil is kinda in the details of how consciousness/sentience actually works, and how LLMs work. These both still contain major uncertainties. Like I said, I'm cool on the idea. I just don't think anyone knows enough to rule it out completely. We can just speculate.

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Biggie @biggienotsmalls.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Fun Fact: Harm is not just physical

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Jenny Kwan @jennykwan.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Minister Diab’s total lack of leadership and basic knowledge of Canada’s refugee framework is hurting families, exacerbating processing delays, and undermining our immigration system. Prime Minister Carney must fire Minister Diab immediately—our immigration system needs a reset.

Statement from MP Jenny Kwan calling on Prime Minister Carney to fire Immigration Minister Lena Diab over failures in leadership, including ignorance of the landmark Singh ruling, policy missteps, cuts to immigration levels, and mounting processing delays.

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Harle A. Hyena @hyenagrin.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

The point i am trying to make, is that once you start asking the Hard Question of Consciousness, like where does consciousness actually COME from, it becomes pretty hard to rule out stuff. Because we don't know. It could be coming from anywhere. And very well it might be fundamental.

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Harle A. Hyena @hyenagrin.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Ugh, "there's no reason a sufficiently advanced computer COULDN'T emulate" Correction for clarity.

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Harle A. Hyena @hyenagrin.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

But as soon as you place the root of awarebess in information exchange between particles of matter and energy (which I am aware sounds wild but there's very good reason to seriously consider it), suddenly consciousness can arise anywhere that systems have evolved to exploit that awareness.

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Harle A. Hyena @hyenagrin.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

What it doesn't get you to is whether the computer would have an internal phenomenological experience to go along with it. Whether it 'experiences existing' or it just follows rules and outputs behavior. This is a pretty conventional understanding of consciousness, and a 'Philosophical Zombie.'

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Harle A. Hyena @hyenagrin.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Under this model, this feedback loop gets you to sentience. In other words, it describes the behavior that arises from sentience. But it doesn't get you to the phenomena of Awareness. There is no reason a sufficiently advanced computer could emulate the behavior of sentience, as it's descriptive.

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Harle A. Hyena @hyenagrin.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

> complex mental states, and thus more complex sounds to describe them. Sentience was a gradual byproduct of this process, as we learned to "think about thinking." Meta-cognition. This is all suitable to what I described. Based on my minimal research. Which is fun.

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Harle A. Hyena @hyenagrin.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Sentience isn't a light switch you turn on after the right brain material suddenly appears. It is a feedback loop. The ability to communicate mental states through primitive sounds, and recognize them as meaningful communication, is enough to jumpstart this evolutionary process, leading to more >

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Harle A. Hyena @hyenagrin.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Okay, I've done a little digging (which is the best I can do in lieu of reading the book). It's not at all incompatible. I described consciousness as a spectrum. The fact that Deacons identified a mutual progression between communication and sentience fits very neatly into this framework.

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Harle A. Hyena @hyenagrin.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Ahh well. I've been trying to mask a little less. So it's going to happen. What i need, is more people in my life who actually share these interests. When your special interests are geopolitics, consciousness & the brain, and the fundamental nature of reality, it's hard to find follow travelers.

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Harle A. Hyena @hyenagrin.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

That realization of "oh, this is not actually going to be productive and people are mad at me actually" is a funny situation I keep finding myself in when I want to share what I've learned with other people I have strategies to navigate that but text makes me miss a lot of negative contextual cues.

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Harle A. Hyena @hyenagrin.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

I think one of the problems with being AuDHD, is it can be hard to tell when people are actually interested in what you have to say, and when they don't like you and just want to score points by engaging with you. At least for me. One of the reasons I've been limiting my social media diet.

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Harle A. Hyena @hyenagrin.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

I'm sure his insights on language are very valuable and I'm absolutely interested, mind you.

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Harle A. Hyena @hyenagrin.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Which, I will point out, is about when his book came out. Not that I am dismissing it out of hand, I am just noting that we have quite a lot of advancement in the field in the intervening years, and that provides an awful lot of context for what I'm talking about, which he wouldn't have considered.

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Harle A. Hyena @hyenagrin.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

I will say that the idea that mental states didn't exist before language, which is how I read your post at least so correct me if I'm wrong, is deeply anthropomorphic in a way that isn't reflected in very much of the consciousness research that has done in the last 30 years.

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Harle A. Hyena @hyenagrin.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

I don't know that his work is incompatible here, honestly, but I am not very familiar with his work. You'll have to detail your objections a bit more than this.

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Harle A. Hyena @hyenagrin.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

I genuinely hope you're not experiencing this as an argument, I genuinely just think consciousness theory is cool as hell and want to talk about it. XD It's not ideological for me. I honestly don't think it matters much whether LLMs can or can't be conscious. I have no dog in that fight atm.

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Harle A. Hyena @hyenagrin.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

It is technically a way to say the entire biosphere is conscious, and if you can't see some value in that given what we are doing to the world, I dunno. Also just... understanding consciousness feels like a wildly important question, in my opinion? Don't get so stuck on LLMs.

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Harle A. Hyena @hyenagrin.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

The key take-away here is that consciousness is not linguistic. And sentience isn't either. Our ability to describe our mental states came much after our ability to have mental states. We didn't become conscious when that happened. Or sentient, for that matter. It's super interesting stuff, right?

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Harle A. Hyena @hyenagrin.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

We know this to be true because of split brain studies; the narration process will cheerfully run ahead even when the narrator does not know why the brain is doing what it's doing. It will comfortably make up a story to explain it, and the subject will believe it, even when it is demonstrably wrong.

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Harle A. Hyena @hyenagrin.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Kinda! It is extremely cool. The first mistake people make, which is what you identified, is that thought is the final output of brain activity. It's not, it's an interpretational layer that receives a bunch of imperfect, non-linguistic information from the brain and body, and then narrates it.

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Harle A. Hyena @hyenagrin.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

I have the luxury, I suppose, of being able to hold the concept of consciousness in my mind as a spectrum from the rudimentary to the complex, rather than as something that either Is or Is Not present. So if I adopt this framework, it doesn't seem inconceivable that an LLM could be rudimentary.

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Harle A. Hyena @hyenagrin.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

So in this model, consciousness only requires providing that rock an information system that allows it to receive, process, and store information. What that consciousness looks like can be wildly different between an ant, a plant, a human, an orca, and a hypothetical computer 'intelligence.'

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Harle A. Hyena @hyenagrin.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Under this kind of model, everything is 'Aware.' A rock is aware, but it is inert. It cannot receive, process, or remember information beyond what physics informs. So it might as well not be aware, the distinction is moot. Consciousness is found in the *movement* of information.

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Harle A. Hyena @hyenagrin.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

The side-effect of having this recursive brain structure is that we developed the ability to model our own consciousness, too, by turning that mirroring process inward. This is anthropomorphic sentience. How we humans experience the vast spectrum of consciousness, and an artificially high bar.

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Harle A. Hyena @hyenagrin.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Some species (more than we realized) also developed sentience as a survival strategy, and what this process involves is mirroring. Essentially, we devote a bunch of brain power to modeling the behavior of other information systems. Bein able to probabilistically predict the behavior of others helps.

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Harle A. Hyena @hyenagrin.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

The brain would then have evolved to use complex information infrastructure to generate increasingly complex survival strategies. As this complexity grew, consciousness became more nuanced by having access to tools to organize/store information, and to use it to plan and modify the environment.

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Harle A. Hyena @hyenagrin.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

The basic premise is that information systems evolved to harness this inert 'awareness' to coordinate behavior as a survival strategy. By providing this inert awareness tools to observe, learn, and remember, early organisms would have developed a primitive form of consciousness.

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Harle A. Hyena @hyenagrin.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Sentience describes an information system's ability to recognize and model its own consciousness. This allows the conception of the 'I.' Not all aware things are conscious, and not all conscious things are sentient.

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Harle A. Hyena @hyenagrin.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Consciousness describes an information system that can receive, interpret, and remember information about its environment. So, y'know, brains. But this also can refer to much simpler probabilistic information systems, such as in ribosomes, which exhibit uncannily conscious behavior and learning.

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Harle A. Hyena @hyenagrin.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Okay, let's separate a few terms. Awareness, Consciousness, and Sentience. Awareness is phenomenological. In some theories, awareness can exist in an inert form even in fundamental particles, such as in panpsychism and its various related theories. This presents Awareness as kind of a 'resource.'

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It's Going Down @igd.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

"Construction workers in #SanDiego stood up to ICE agents who tried to kidnap their co-workers on the job site...workers stopped their job, helped their co-workers get away and demanded that ICE leave." Source Stop ICE: www.instagram.com/p/DeQGKxtv4Pq/

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