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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 05/10/2026

This is your occasional reminder that generative "AI" in particular could have been developed on public domain materials and/or licensed and compensated works but the major players intentionally, methodically and systemically chose to steal labor from working creative folks instead

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nohyphen @nohyphen.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Mediocre and biased. That's the output of large language models.

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nohyphen @nohyphen.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Why didn't I try storing materials as Tool recipes any earlier? This solves the issues with editability I was having while trying to force a USD workflow.

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nohyphen @nohyphen.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Attempting to make an incense stick. After some hassle with the grains sim, I think I'm getting somewhere. #WIP #3D #Vellum #Houdini

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nohyphen @nohyphen.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

Anyone: "Given some text, the model approximates the most likely word to follow as a function of its training data." Anthropic: "Claude takes your text, sits down, and begins to ponder the most suitable word to follow, under the solemn weight of centuries of accumulated human knowledge."

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AI Imagery Labeler @aimod.social · 27/07/2026

ANNOUNCEMENTS AND UPDATES! Thank you for your patience, everyone. Yes, we are back.

Hello everyone!

Sorry we’ve been gone so long, we know you all have missed us. Your support has meant a lot to us, truly.

As some of the more perceptive of you have noticed, we are back up! We need a little time to crank up the engines again, but we’re moving as fast as we can.

First, to address some concerns: No, we weren’t banned, and no we weren’t in any trouble. We paused the service ourselves, and it was always meant to be a temporary hiatus. It just took a bit longer than intended.

To put it simply, AIMod had gotten a lot bigger than anyone on the team ever thought it would. We decided that we needed to take a breather and figure out how to best address some of the concerns we’d been hearing from the community as well as implement some extensive technical overhauls.

In short, we put things on hold while we made some big changes under the hood.

Updates:

In pursuit of complete transparency, we have added a ton of information to our handbook about who we are and how we work. There is also now an extensive section on AI detection for anyone who wants to know what methods we use to make our labeling choices.

We have added a query system so you can check if you have any AI labels on any post on your account, all without subscribing to the service.

Our honorable founder, @davis.social, has stepped down from their role and will no longer be taking an active role in running the service. This is an amicable departure - he just has a lot on his plate and, to be completely honest, people were being very mean to him.

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nohyphen @nohyphen.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

Finally! Now it can cycle through more than 2 nodes, which I'm not sure was possible before. #Houdini

22.0.387 Fixed a bug where the display flag didn't cycle through selected nodes on repeated R. Mon. July 20, 2026

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nohyphen @nohyphen.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

Dang. It looks like Google's SynthID watermark has been cracked.

"The breakthrough in Round 06 came from treating the Gemini app's own published failure-mode list as an attack specification:

"When an AI-generated image is part of a complex collage, layered behind other elements, or has many different textures and patterns placed over it, the detector may struggle to isolate the specific signature from the overall file." — Gemini app, SynthID detection help text

The elastic deformation stage simulates this effect at the pixel level: a smooth, low-frequency random warp field gives every ~50-pixel neighbourhood its own independent sub-pixel offset, fragmenting the watermark's spatial phase consensus without introducing any visible distortion."

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nohyphen @nohyphen.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

Implementing LLM "chatbots" for customer support is a great way to automate pissing off customers at scale.

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nohyphen @nohyphen.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

Tried carrying an APEX rig in a USD attribute, and using it with an APEX Scene Animate SOP inside a SOP Modify LOP. It works, but it's a bit clunky. There has to be a better way...

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Ryan Moulton @moultano.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

I spent the last month obsessed with finding colors that can't be displayed on a conventional screen. This is what I found. moultano.wordpress.com/2026/06/19/w...

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Where to Find the Colors Your Screen Can’t Show You

An atlas of the vibrance of the real world

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nohyphen @nohyphen.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

Came across an account (read: a bot) on @criticker.com posting LLM-inferred reviews in the hundreds. What could even be the point?

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nohyphen @nohyphen.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

Whoever chooses the music for Houdini sneak peeks, they always hit the mark.

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nohyphen @nohyphen.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

We don’t usually see each other’s headers. Here’s mine. Quote post with yours (if you feel like it)

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Emily M. Bender @emilymbender.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

"Even if the Microsoft Office team employed a philosopher who said you shouldn’t be so certain, because consciousness is not well understood, that would not be sufficient reason for you to take this idea seriously." www.theatlantic.com/philosophy/2...

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No, Artificial Intelligence Is Not Conscious

Taken to its logical conclusion, this line of thinking is absurd—and damning.

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nohyphen @nohyphen.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

Hm, I think a "Sprite" Marker Visualizer could be useful.

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Nia Soler @niasoler.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

He firmado esta petición para solicitar al Parlamento Europeo que no se construyan centros de datos (IA) si no cumplen con los objetivos de desarrollo sostenible, y para que las tecnológicas cumplan con la transparencia exigida en cuanto al consumo y las emisiones reales de estas infraestructuras.

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¡Que los centros de datos en la UE utilicen energía 100% renovable!

Se están construyendo miles de centros de datos por toda Europa, con un consumo energético enorme. Nuestras facturas dependen de que funcionen con combustibles fósiles caros o con energía renovable lo...

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nohyphen @nohyphen.bsky.social · 24/05/2026

Oh, so it's been possible for a while to navigate around a scene by double-clicking on geo? Found it by chance, but it's documented since at least Houdini 19.0.

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nohyphen @nohyphen.bsky.social · 24/05/2026

Just had some Houdini licensing issues, which made me begrudgingly install the Launcher. What I didn't realize is that it's possible to keep both the local and SideFX license servers enabled, so now I have one license on the local server, and the other on SideFX's. Maybe this will be more stable.

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nohyphen @nohyphen.bsky.social · 13/05/2026

It looks like (with caveats) Pangram is decent at identifying LLM-generated text. Unfortunately, it's too expensive, at 5¢/1k words. We need a more efficient, local solution to check and filter pretty much all text shown in the browser.

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nohyphen @nohyphen.bsky.social · 10/05/2026

Dumb of me to overlook the Labs File Cache and its wedging functionality.

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nohyphen @nohyphen.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

Very serious and trustable software. One would be a fool not to place their critical processes in the hands of these systems.

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nohyphen @nohyphen.bsky.social · 25/04/2026

Parece que el bloqueo de LaLiga también afecta al servicio de Fastmail.

Captura de una ventana del navegador Firefox mostrando una alerta de seguridad al intentar acceder a la web de Fastmail.

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nohyphen @nohyphen.bsky.social · 23/04/2026

#Tip: In many areas of #Houdini, MMB-clicking on a scrollbar jumps it right to that position.

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Paul Byrne @theplanetaryguy.com · 03/04/2026

This image of home just came down from the Artemis II crew. Taken after their translunar injection burn, there are aurorae at top right and lower left, and zodiacal light at lower right. Credit: NASA/Reid Wiseman

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Rafael Grohmann @grohmannrafael.bsky.social · 10/03/2026

We just launched a tracker on workers' mobilization around AI in arts, culture and media. It aims to document strikes, protests, campaigns, and other mobilizations. It currently maps 107 unions, associations, collectives, across 25+ countries. creativelabourcriticalfutures.ca/resource-fil...

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ivyteas @ivyteas.bsky.social · 03/03/2026

requiem for vanished birdsong

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srrrse @without.boats · 21/02/2026

If we actually want to get serious about software we need to specify the behavior adequately to satisfy our requirements. Then we can throw the inference engines at it and not look at their output. Until then, vibe coding is dereliction of duty.

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srrrse @without.boats · 21/02/2026

One thing we keep hearing about why LLMs can write code is that we have an objective function for determining the correctness of their output. We actually don’t! This bizarre belief is at the root of the problem with how these tools are being deployed.

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Simon Russell ☀🤖 @simonfarussell.bsky.social · 24/02/2026

I’ve been experimenting with visualising different kinds of audio, human voices and animal calls. This one’s a thrush. I analysed the recording in Spear, then rebuilt the spectral data inside Houdini with Python. More here: sunmachine.io/work/acousti... #houdini #audiovisualization #mograph #3d

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Jon Juarez @harriorrihar.bsky.social · 19/02/2026

Here's a small portion of an animated bumper I made to promote a video game from @owlcatgames.bsky.social (Blind Descent). Seeing the latest advances in generative AI and how they've invaded space, I feel lucky to have at least produced this little piece from start to finish 🥲.

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nohyphen @nohyphen.bsky.social · 12/02/2026

Looks like the issue with Karma XPU crashing is fixed, at least on Windows 10, with update KB5075912. I can no longer reproduce it -- hope it stays that way.

[Graphics] Fixed: A stability issue affecting certain graphics processing units (GPUs) configurations.

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Vincent Ledvina @vincentledvina.bsky.social · 07/02/2026

The aurora last night in Beaver, Alaska was just incredible. This is a real-time video (not sped up) of the crazy motion I saw. Also, look how BRIGHT it is, wow!

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Avery Alder, Buried Without Ceremony @lackingceremony.bsky.social · 07/02/2026

Democratizing the arts looks like universal income, low-barrier grants for both emerging and working artists, well-funded municipal arts & recreation programs, vibrant third spaces, and a well-funded public school system with progressive curriculum. Not a free pass for corporate-owned slop engines.

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The Spaceshipper 🚀 @thespaceshipper.com · 05/02/2026

Haven't watched For All Mankind yet? Then watch For All Mankind. ☝️ You have 52 days left to watch 40 episodes before season 5. And the rather optimistic vibe of this alternative universe, though obviously imperfect, may be just what you need right now. 👍

Krys Marshall aka astronaut Danielle Poole in a cockpit on the Apple TV series For All Mankind.

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nohyphen @nohyphen.bsky.social · 02/02/2026

Managed to connect RS Texture path properties so they can be edited with a Material Edit Properties LOP. While it works, it's a bit clunky, as it requires following a node naming convention, and adding a couple of Python LOP and RS OSL nodes at material creation.

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nohyphen @nohyphen.bsky.social · 17/01/2026

Finally got around to building a TOP graph to render material thumbnails from Solaris.

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nohyphen @nohyphen.bsky.social · 06/01/2026

Noticed that the Inspector in the Render Gallery shows the EV relative to middle gray (0.18). Very handy when adjusting lights or camera exposure. #tip #lighting #3d #Solaris #Houdini #SideFX

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nohyphen @nohyphen.bsky.social · 22/11/2025

RMB on the ➕ icon: handy little menu to manage Visualizers. I wish I had known this sooner! #tip #UI #Houdini #SideFX

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nohyphen @nohyphen.bsky.social · 17/10/2025

Trying out OpenDRT. I'm very pleased with it. Even in the viewport it offers benefits! Look at how much better it renders the color brightness in this visualizer, making it easier to read. #ColorManagement #UI #3D #CGI

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nohyphen @nohyphen.bsky.social · 25/08/2025

From GeoTIFF to a mesh with real-world distances and orientation, using the Python libraries rasterio and pyproj. ⛰️ #terrain #3d #techart #SideFX #Houdini #Python

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