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Steve @stevelikesrobots.bsky.social · 6h

See, the mole men were trying to stop us from taking our oil and we hired the aliens. See, aliens love the taste of mole man flesh. Win win, right? So that’s why I’m bullshitting you. Imagine if I actually believed this shit

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Steve @stevelikesrobots.bsky.social · 6h

They pinned them on the Girl Scouts back a while ago but that’s not actually true. It’s actually the aliens that the government hired to take care of the mole men, hidden beneath subterrerea.

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Steve @stevelikesrobots.bsky.social · 6h

So I was looking at how various things are connected, the media, the government, and our socioeconomic environment. You know crop circles?

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Steve @stevelikesrobots.bsky.social · 6h

I was chatting with Claude and now bear with me here, I know this might sound crazy, but just hear me out, okay?

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Steve @stevelikesrobots.bsky.social · 7h

I was thinking of using ratings but ai systems might stop optimizing for completion and instead aim for knee-jerk high ratings then phone in the rest of the game. Not sure how you’d go about fitnessing for new ideas. Web research whether or not the idea has been used before?

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Steve @stevelikesrobots.bsky.social · 7h

I’m not sure. Retention might not necessarily be desired because if folks latch onto an earlier game and never try your later games then you lose them as data sources. Then again, if retention is the goal, mission complete?

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Steve @stevelikesrobots.bsky.social · 23h

I know how I can metaphor some stuff. Trans woman was obvious to me for reasons. Other stuff, I dunno

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Steve @stevelikesrobots.bsky.social · 23h

Oh, I think I was a tad bit unclear with my intentions. My question is not “how can I avoid doing fascism?” My question is “how can I code folks so readers can reasonably argue I’m doing representation?”

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Steve @stevelikesrobots.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Or a racism. Or white supremacy. Or allocentrism. Or whatever else.

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Steve @stevelikesrobots.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

I want, say, black trans girl readers, for instance, to have very justifiable reasons for head canoning characters as black/trans/girl. I don’t want to be explicit though. Main reason: the idea is to focus on “superhero stunt driver schlop” but without accidentally doing a Fascism

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Steve @stevelikesrobots.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

I’m not sure how I want to write that.

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Steve @stevelikesrobots.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

I **know** that fandoms default to that with minimal variation “cis and gay but still white”, for instance

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Steve @stevelikesrobots.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

I’m a tad bit silly. “Straight cishet” bruh, “straight + het”? A touch redundant, nah? lol

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Steve @stevelikesrobots.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

I’m aiming for a “superhero stunt driver schlop” vibe but I don’t want the characters to only be perceived as straight cishet allosexual white men, y’know?

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Steve @stevelikesrobots.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Other electric vehicle drivers might call Wheeler a fake EV driver who switched purely to get in with the EV crowd. Many [Organization] EV drivers do accept Wheeler, however. I’m sure you can parse this example’s underlying metaphor. Other stuff though, I dunno.

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Steve @stevelikesrobots.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

My intention is to make heavy use of metaphor. For instance, Agent Wheeler drove muscle cars for their entire tenure with the organization but it never fit quite right. They experiment with electric vehicles and folks say that it’s a big change and folks might not treat them well.

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Steve @stevelikesrobots.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

How would y’all approach this? Are there any works of fiction you’ve seen handle this particularly well (or badly)?

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Steve @stevelikesrobots.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

I don’t want to fall into the trap of making someone “Stereotype McStereotype” just so readers can figure out what demographic they belong to. But I also don’t want characters awkwardly announcing personal information for the audience’s benefit.

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Steve @stevelikesrobots.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

The problem is figuring out how to communicate any of that naturally when the audience can’t see what they look like and mostly only encounters them on the job.

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Steve @stevelikesrobots.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

I want the characters to be a diverse bunch of people. Different races, ethnicities, nationalities, genders, sexualities, religions, cultures, backgrounds, etc.

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Steve @stevelikesrobots.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

They wear full-body concealing suits, and readers never see them without their suits. Not because their identities are necessarily secret, but because I’m not writing scenes about their home lives.

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Steve @stevelikesrobots.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

For context, I’m writing about an organization of stunt drivers who basically do superhero stuff through ridiculous vehicular acrobatics.

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Steve @stevelikesrobots.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Question for y’all: How do you communicate a character’s identity, background, or other personal characteristics when their appearance is completely concealed, without resorting to stereotypes?

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brennan @brennan.computer · 09/10/2026

okay, this is exactly what I've always wanted

custom spotify client with dials for shuffling next-up tracks with wider artist search, detuning repeats, etc

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mr. TIM @timkellogg.me · 09/10/2026

this will go mainstream soon

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Julia Serano @juliaserano.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

JFC WHY MUST Y'ALL TURN EVERY JAB AT TRUMP & GOP INTO A BACKHANDED JOKE ABOUT TRANS PPL?!?

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Demigirlboss @demigirlboss.win · 09/10/2026

Ooh love the little pinch of casual ableism in the last line, really livens up the whole place.

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max power 🌌 @sneptech.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

possible? darling, you have no idea what's possible

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words @words.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

vibecoding is killing software industry profits

a tape that says hometaping is killing software industry profits we left this side blank so you can help

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cee @cee.wtf · 09/10/2026

I’m worse than the humans in wall-e

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werewolf ver mitzvah 🗿 @ver.ooo · 09/10/2026

gm just tried to read the word "molest" to mean "the most mole-like"

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Steve @stevelikesrobots.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Only if it’s a person. If it’s “Claude but good at many things” then I think we’re in the clear

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Only mid @cuddlebitch.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Man, like, just fundamentally I do not like Harry Potter bullshit in my line of sight. Don't really need to see a bunch of cis people opining on it.

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Jane Ball (living dead girl) @jane.inurhead.lol · 09/10/2026

personally i think all calls for indiscriminate killing should be condemned, not just the ones made by factional rivals

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Steve @stevelikesrobots.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Don’t they have a lil flashlight that indicates when they’re turned on?

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Steve @stevelikesrobots.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

But does doll touch grass? Checkmate :p

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Steve @stevelikesrobots.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

I wonder if it would be possible to evolve a video game? Like setup an AI agent to make a video game every week, publish it, and use user ratings/comments/feedback to make the next week’s game. Pause, am I suggesting this as a serious endeavor? Do I look like I’m about to open a Steam publishing?

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lumi, dollthing ⎔ @do.llth.ing · 07/10/2026

so we made a gpt2-based vpet that lives in your browser and it's super cute 🥺 tokenling.bnuuy.systems

tokenling.bnuuy.systems

tokenling

A tiny virtual pet whose brain is a fine-tuned GPT-2 that runs entirely in your browser.

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Ted Underwood @tedunderwood.com · 07/10/2026

Huh, there ARE no science-fiction novels written about largely inert and harmless AI. Guess we don’t have real AI yet! Let’s consult our map of SF-plot-worthy AI and emulate that:

The inverse survivorship bias plane, which has dots only on the fatal parts of the chassis.

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Old Butstillkicken @oldbutstillkicken.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Anyone else see the new Jaguar EV? My first thought was that the Cyber Truck got a girlfriend!

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Steve @stevelikesrobots.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

I’m so glad I never had the “you like X? Name five of their Y” brainworms. It’s fun to instead “you like X? What’s your favorite Y? :)”

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Steve @stevelikesrobots.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

I love it when women are into the same things I’m into. Just found out a friend is into military history :)

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