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David_j_roth @davidjroth.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
It's too depressing and obnoxious to write about, but virtually all of the doomy/horny AI hyperventilating is transparently displaced anxiety about our fucked climate and political situation. Even rich idiots know it's bad and being permitted to get worse. They're trying to write their own ending.
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Patrick @vectorpark.com · 22/09/2026
Among other things, this post does a great job of disentangling the classic notion of "AI" — how can we use computers to solve problems in smarter and more efficient ways? — from what LLMs are, and do
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🐔 Brian Bucklew 🐔 ₑͤ>∿<ₑͤ ∞🌮 @unormal.bsky.social · 11/05/2026
if you think ai automation will result in ubi you have to say why industrial and then computer automation didnt
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Your Internet Friend Tom Tomorrow @tomtomorrow.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
we've never had much reason to articulate this before a.i., but a reason we enjoy literature, art, music, etc. is that we know it is one human mind trying to express something fundamentally human and otherwise inexpressible to another human mind
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Museum of Twitter @museum-of-twitter.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Mr. Bedtime @InternetHippo

I stepped away from my computer for a moment. When I returned, it was building something. I did not ask it to do this. We're not ready for what's coming

(picture of windows 3d pipes screen saver)
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Erin Roseberry 🔜 SPX B5 @roseberrycomix.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
TRANSFORMATION INTO AN ANIMAL--a new risograph zine and animated flipbook about mythological fantasies--is debuting at @smallpressexpo.bsky.social this weekend! Come see it at SPX table B5--limited copies available!
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Patrick @vectorpark.com · 10/09/2026
My passion doesn't lie in coding but I find a real thrill in working out a solution to an interesting problem, even (especially?) when I could just look up how it's already been solved. I reject the idea of that work being superfluous, not because it's Good For You (tho it is) but because it's fun
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Patrick @vectorpark.com · 10/09/2026
My passion doesn't lie in coding but I find a real thrill in working out a solution to an interesting problem, even (especially?) when I could just look up how it's already been solved. I reject the idea of that work being superfluous, not because it's Good For You (tho it is) but because it's fun
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Xero Reynolds 41/100 on Patreon @artificer-ind.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Still patiently waiting to be "left behind" by AI rather than it chasing me across every damn space like a slasher in a low budget flick.
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Jim Unwin @jimunwin.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
In both writing and drawing, the struggle of capturing an idea on paper (or screen, or whatever) and how that struggle *changes* the idea is the art. Ideas are easy, the final work is an artefact. The struggle is the art.
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Mario von Rickenbach @mariov.ch · 08/09/2026
Try it here. Can you juggle? experiments.mariov.ch/draw/football/ 🦵⚽️
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Patrick @vectorpark.com · 07/09/2026
Cars are famously a great technology to have redesigned civilization around
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Patrick @vectorpark.com · 05/09/2026
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cryptic 🔄 pollinator @magicscience.info · 04/09/2026
Uncanny Valley Ranch
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Patrick @vectorpark.com · 04/09/2026
My theory of why AI sandwiches look particularly horrible: our animal brains are trained to notice if something looks "off" with food (especially meat) and since AI can't get it quite right these images trigger something deeply alarming
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Patrick @vectorpark.com · 02/09/2026
Coyote vs. Acme 👍
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Patrick @vectorpark.com · 02/09/2026
Unless we're just talking AAA: there are far more games than movies or TV shows. Even though most are bad, there is still a surplus of "good" games, most of which are either ignored or never discovered. If you took away the 10 "best" games of the year you could find 10 more that are just as good.
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Patrick @vectorpark.com · 02/09/2026
This is great. Aside from the externalities/ethical issues of AI, we're only just starting to find out what it does to brains and it doesn't look good
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Patrick @vectorpark.com · 02/09/2026
Coyote vs. Acme 👍
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Patrick @vectorpark.com · 01/09/2026
This guy looks Iike they took him out of the oven too soon
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Freya Holmér @freya.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
there's a pretty simple connection here 1. humans become good at what they practice doing 2. outsourcing to an AI or even other people, means you have stopped doing the thing 3. if you stop doing the thing, you will stop improving, and, long term, get worse at it (cont.)
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old roadside pics @roadside.xor.blue · 30/08/2026
stegosaurus statue at town hall, route 64, dinosaur, colorado, 1991
stegosaurus statue at town hall, route 64, dinosaur, colorado, 1991
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Brendan Keogh @brkeogh.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Don't like my chances but is there like a good meaty history of 3D modelling production processes anyone knows about? Something like 'here's how they did it in Battlezone and then here's how they did it in Mario 64 and here's how you do it on a 2026 triple-a game'.
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Patrick @vectorpark.com · 25/08/2026
Tweet by austin_walker: "y'all ever see a take so bad you are
forced to immediately go to sleep?"
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Patrick @vectorpark.com · 23/08/2026
I would sincerely like a content warning for "AI generated food menus"
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Ricky Haggett @rickyhaggett.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
It is once again Sunday, and (somewhat against my better judgement) I have written some more words about using AI to make games: medium.com/@rickyhagget...
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Patrick @vectorpark.com · 14/08/2026
"Certes nat the beste"? I spende my precious ydel houres leevynge behynde invaluable writynges of a passed age, and thou hast the hardynesse to seye it is "certes nat the beste"?? I am so sory for wastynge thy tyme with myn unworthy werkes!
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//VLAD_ @vladpxl.bsky.social · 13/01/2025
the only real conclusion
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Patrick @vectorpark.com · 13/08/2026
These AI images of monstrous sandwiches everyone keeps posting make me feel like I'm staring into the void. I loathe their very existence
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Ernest Penfold @penfoldsfiv.eurosky.social · 12/08/2026
the media when the centrist loses by 1% vs the media when the leftist loses by (less than) 1%
bluesky post by Politico saying "Progressives didn't get the big election night they wanted" referring to Abdul el-Sayed defeating Haley Stevens in the MI Senate primary and linking to their story with that headline.bluesky post by Politico with the text "The far left hits a wall" referring to David Crowley defeating Francesca Hong in the WI Governor Primary and linking to their story with that headline
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Philipp Stollenmayer @kamibox-ph.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
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Patrick @vectorpark.com · 11/08/2026
I honestly think Evil Dead II rivals Jaws as an example of mindblowing cinema on a near-nothing budget www.youtube.com/watch?v=8eg2...
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Evil Dead 2 Mirror Scene
YouTube video by Nello
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Andrew Hinton 😷🧡 @andrewhinton.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
I’ve never seen this Harryhausen quote about why stop motion animation is its own aesthetic form & trying to make it feel like smooth live-action is a category error. ❤️
As Harryhausen summed it up in 1981:

To me, the ultimate aim in making our films has never been the smoothing out of stop-motion animation. To try to duplicate live action in every way seems to me like asking a painter to paint a landscape so it will appear like a photograph. Our pictures are more of a surrealistic experience rather than an excursion into technical perfection. I’m certain technical perfection has its place and its advantages, but could you really make a sequence such as the skeleton swordfight in Jason and the Argonauts … with a computer?
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Patrick @vectorpark.com · 10/08/2026
Years ago I was at the space museum in White Sands, NM, gazing up at a Saturn V rocket engine. Another visitor next to me turned out to be an engineer from JPL. He explained they were studying old rockets to try to reverse engineer how they actually worked. Because the blueprints had been lost.
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Patrick @vectorpark.com · 10/08/2026
It's hard to argue that LLMs aren't genuinely impressive for coding, but imo it's a devil's bargain — seductive short term advantages at the cost of hollowing out critical thinking and problem solving
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lauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 09/08/2026
if they're drinking nounwine it's fantasy. if they're snorting a verb it's sci fi
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Elizabeth Sandifer @eruditorumpress.com · 25/07/2026
Wild that we’re culturally staring at upjumped autocomplete going “is this conscious” while orcas are out there demonstrating that they’re capable of culture and fads.
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Dr. Jens Foell @jensfoell.de · 15/07/2026
*sitting in a world that has been rendered nigh uninhabitable within a century-and-a-half because of the introduction of cars*: haha i bet you fools also would have been against cars smh
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Arno’s Archive @maga-zin.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
Andrey Zakirzyanov- The Tower, ca. 2012 #Art
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Patrick @vectorpark.com · 10/07/2026
As a Nolan-skeptic who loves Tenet I agree with pretty much every word of this
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Animation Obsessive @ani-obsessive.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
From: Wizards (1985), dir. Dóra Keresztes and István Orosz, Pannonia Film Studio
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Jason Rabinowitz @airlineflyer.net · 05/07/2026
A $3 @mta.info subway fare and some good Q train timing can buy you one hell of a view of the July 4th fireworks and the Brooklyn Bridge light show! Huge shoutout to the train operator for slow rolling over the Manhattan Bridge and the conductor for announcing it.
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Patrick @vectorpark.com · 05/07/2026
All I know about AI is that every cool thing I've ever made didn't need it
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Patrick @vectorpark.com · 29/06/2026
My favorite game of 2025!
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Chris Person @papapishu.bsky.social · 28/06/2026
Now that New York has a bunch more socialists can we reintroduce the program that lets citizens give people parking tickets with a bounty for idling in the bike lane? I’d fucking clean UP.
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Patrick @vectorpark.com · 27/06/2026
I can't think of a single artistic profession that I would "recommend" anyone do. Be a painter? A poet? An actor? People choose to do these things because it's their passion and we only live once.
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davemakes🔶 @mixolumia.com · 27/06/2026
hearing "don't get into this industry" is disheartening for many, but please consider the youths who only get fired up when they are acting in opposition to an authority figure. someone has to tell them it's impossible or else they will never build up enough spite to prove the man wrong
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Patrick @vectorpark.com · 26/06/2026
Given all the press/discourse/etc around AI, I'm surprised how little of it engages with the question of why the output itself is so repellent to many (most?) people. Nothing I've read has really improved upon, "why should I bother to look at something nobody bothered to make?"
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Alasdair Beckett-King @misterabk.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
If I were European I would simply solve the heatwave using good old American moxie. But I will not use said moxie to solve the USA's intractable social problems because America is a real country and I am very busy.
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