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The presentation is the mask and the mask reveals more than it hides. One who is constantly trying to show dominance is one who is weak and afraid. One who is constantly naming a sin commits it. One whom virtue signals about love and compassion feels neither. Dropouts call themselves doctors online.

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Von Neely @vonneely.bsky.social · 13h

Yesterday I heard the first convincing argument against developing true AGI, and it is thus: Humans are hate filled shit-goblins who have already proven time & again that if you show them any creature that can't fight back, the first thing they'll do is mercilessly torture it just to feel powerful.

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Von Neely @vonneely.bsky.social · 15h

Claude showed some insight as to why LLMs suck at doing mystery. The genre requires one to start at the end and work backwards, while LLMs only work forward. They literally cannot know whodunnit until they get to the end because they haven't even thought about it yet.

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Von Neely @vonneely.bsky.social · 15h

Successful diplomacy is when both sides accept that neither side is getting everything they want.

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Von Neely @vonneely.bsky.social · 17h

You'd think that truck drivers who got $17,000 in assorted Trump checks over the last year wouldn't be whining about the price of diesel so much. 😂 (Hops on electric moped and rides away in a cloud of dust and smugness)

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Von Neely @vonneely.bsky.social · 20h

Economics and physics have a lot in common. Just look at the entropic effects of inflation for a perfect parallel.

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Von Neely @vonneely.bsky.social · 21h

#writing Villain types from worst to best: 7) Mustach twirling evil just because 6) Crude sadist 5) Clever sadist 4) Power for its own sake 3) Makes a point 2) Makes a good point 1) Almost but not quite correct In other words, villains get better the more they resemble heroes (yet miss).

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Von Neely @vonneely.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Eventually, humanity solved all their problems just before another giant asteroid hit the Earth.

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Mandala Tibet

ALT: Mandala Tibet

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Von Neely @vonneely.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

#food There exists a flavor that I call "Pink Shit." If you have ever eaten a pink frosted donut or cookie, you know this flavor. It isn't cherry. It isn't strawberry. It's... something else. It's a flavor unto itself, and thus deserves its own name. Which I have provided. You're welcome.

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Von Neely @vonneely.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

The one goal one should never attempt in war is regime change. Why? The primary goal for every government in the world is self-preservation and there is no price they won't pay to save their own asses. All of them would sacrifice literally their entire population to maintain their own power.

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Von Neely @vonneely.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Carl von Clausewitz would have seen it coming. When Russia annexed Crimea, that was a limited war with a specific territorial goal. Once that goal was achieved, it ended. The Ukrainian government, culture or people were not the target. Losing Crimea wasn't an existential threat to their existence.

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Von Neely @vonneely.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

A war without any victory conditions by definition cannot be won. A nation who cannot satisfy their enemy's demands by definition cannot lose. The only purpose for Trump's war in Iran is to effect the Epstein Files investigations. Those files are not in Iran. This is why the war is unwinnable.

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Von Neely @vonneely.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

#starwars Andor's best dichotomy: Cassian Andor begins as a bad man devoid of morals who eventually learns to be a hero because he happened to join the right side. Syril Karn begins as a good man with strong morals who eventually learns to be a villain because he happened to join the wrong side.

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Von Neely @vonneely.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

#writing One does not need to make a villain sympathetic to humanize them. After all, there's plenty of loathsome humans. Humanizing villains makes them into a warning. It says "You could become like that, too, if you make the same bad choices."

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Von Neely @vonneely.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I would love for a Christian to try to explain what the difference is between burning a witch and human sacrifice.

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Von Neely @vonneely.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Remember, BlueSky, no matter what happens or changes, the belief of your own perpetual victimhood must remain resolute. If one issue is solved, another must be found. Your tribal rank is defined by how oppressed you are. Popularity is everything and nothing is ever your own fault.

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Von Neely @vonneely.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

People love to say "get money out of politics" but politics costs money. Campaigns aren't free. In fact nothing is free except oxygen and that's only because no corporation has found a way to restrict the supply yet. Unless you end capitalism itself, you're not getting money out of anything.

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Von Neely @vonneely.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

There is an "observer effect" in AI research and I theorize this is a factor in the wildly different results different people get. Your inputs, the way you speak to the AI, affects how it responds. It learns what you do and what it thinks you want to hear and changes its responses based on that.

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Von Neely @vonneely.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

If there is one group who misses the Soviet Union more than Russia, it's the Pentagon. After all, that was the reason their budget was a blank check for decades. In that sense they are very lucky that Putin went rabid and China decided they wanted to own the planet. It's job security reborn.

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Von Neely @vonneely.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Over the decades, Star Trek has shown us some of the most absolutely insane concepts in science fiction. For example, a benevolent government.

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Von Neely @vonneely.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Dear Internet, Everyone outsourcing their security to Cloudflare is the reason why Cloudflare keeps getting attacked and it's why every time Cloudflare has even the tiniest hiccup half the Internet goes down. Maybe you shouldn't put all your eggs in one basket, is what I'm saying.

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Death Star Trench Run: Photon Torpedo Hit

ALT: Death Star Trench Run: Photon Torpedo Hit

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Von Neely @vonneely.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

The future of gaming isn't AI slop, it's Anime slop. FTP & PTW, online gambling, gatcha and sameface girls who suck down an entire helium balloon at the start of every sentence. If you need me, I'll be playing Civ4 in the corner by myself.

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Samurai Preparing for Harakiri Ritual

ALT: Samurai Preparing for Harakiri Ritual

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Von Neely @vonneely.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

KMFDM, 1992: "Our music is sampled/totally fake/it's all played on machines 'cause they don't make mistakes." Suno, 2023: suno.com

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Von Neely @vonneely.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

So many people built their driving schedules around avoiding the 5pm rush that there is no longer a 5pm rush.

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Von Neely @vonneely.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

A year ago, economists were saying that the Boomer die-off would be "the greatest transfer of wealth in US history" and I immediately called bullshit because the Boomers already spent it all. Months later, economists corrected themselves by saying the Boomers had already spent it all.

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Von Neely @vonneely.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Nothing says AMD like rolling your drivers back to a version from six months ago and watching your FPS increase by 50%

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Von Neely @vonneely.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Step 1) Run installer. Step 2) When installer asks if they can install spyware ("anonymous data analytics") click on NO. Step 3) Go into Regedit and Revo and delete the spyware that they installed and remove it from your start-up program list, because the option button was always a lie.

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Von Neely @vonneely.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I enjoyed the live-action version of Cowboy Bebop. I was able to do this because I'm not an anime fan, so I didn't go in with the agenda of hating it to prove tribal loyalty. I never even saw the original anime at all. I went with virgin eyes and enjoyed it for the absurd, stupid fun that it was

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Von Neely @vonneely.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Dear Microsoft, Apple and every game & software developer in the world:

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Von Neely @vonneely.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

#starwars "It's a Kuati Signet, blue kyber, sky stone. The ancient world. Celebrates the uprising against the Rakatan invaders." Andor is a post-Disney product, which means that one line officially moved the Rakata from EU back into canon. One more reason to love the series.

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Von Neely @vonneely.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

One thing that Marx got right was that the true value product is based on the amount of labor that goes into making it. Automation, then makes everything cheaper to produce. The problem is that rather than reducing prices just see this as more profit. That's not sustainable.

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Von Neely @vonneely.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Be it to government, business, academia, or otherwise, the most consistent problem is decisions about subjects are being made by people who have zero understanding of the subject. Long before the distrust of experts social malfunction began, the disregard of experts had been going for centuries.

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Von Neely @vonneely.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

#gaming Habitat, 1986, invented the idea of custom graphics for character avatars. This was 14 years before The Sims perfected the idea. The idea that any modern game would lock the player character to any specific appearance, gender or clothing style is appalling.

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Von Neely @vonneely.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

#startrek They really need an episode where Jeffrey Combs plays a straight-up spy. At some point someone comments, "He's a master of disguise. That guy could be anybody."

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Von Neely @vonneely.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

youtu.be/f6cjAEr08qk?... I still want to know how it is that the US Navy manages to consistently crank out these women with superhuman intelligence, especially when every other aspect of their branch seems to be collapsing faster than the economy.

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Sarah Paine — Why wars are so difficult to end

YouTube video by Dwarkesh Patel

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Von Neely @vonneely.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

One of the biggest flaws in the American school system is the amount of power that parents have over curriculum. If parents don't want their kids to learn the truth or actual, real history, they can make that happen. And they often do, thus enforcing that their kids grow up as dumb as themselves.

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Von Neely @vonneely.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

#startrek Interesting how Walter Koenig has outlived Anton Yelchin. More than three times over and still going, in fact.

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Von Neely @vonneely.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

I'm glad that my friends are nerdy enough to get this.

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Von Neely @vonneely.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Dear All of YouTube, Fix your fucking microphone. Thanks!

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Von Neely @vonneely.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Prompt engineering for AI generation is like being a DJ at a dance club. The DJ isn't writing any of the music that they're playing. They aren't musicians. However, being a DJ is still a skill and it is a form of artistic expression nonetheless. Neither above nor below but adjacent.

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Von Neely @vonneely.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

When Watergate happened, Nixon had to resign. Republicans decided then to make sure that would never happen again by legalizing & normalizing those crimes. As of 2026, they've done that. They own the DOJ, SCOTUS and the FBI. When Epstein got busted he had to be silenced. Repeat process.

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Von Neely @vonneely.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Try to imagine the insane odds of a random rock hitting the Yucatán Peninsula millions of years ago and remember that event is what made our very existence possible.

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Von Neely @vonneely.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

The goalposts for what constitutes true machine intelligence may well be the world's first successful attempt at creating a perpetual motion device.

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Von Neely @vonneely.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

8:12 PM, cats: "Feed us, we're starving!" 8:15 PM: Feed cats. 8:20 PM, cats: "Feed us, we're starving!"

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Von Neely @vonneely.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

The thing I can't parse about Bezos: 1) Amazon is notorious for terrible worker conditions. 2) He worked at McDonalds as a kid. I get a sociopathic nepobaby being a slave driver. They don't know or care about worker suffering. But Jeff was a suffering worker himself once. I'd expect different.

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Von Neely @vonneely.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

I miss the days of Bill Gates & Steve Jobs; back when "tech bro" meant someone who could actually program a computer and not just some spoiled nepobaby who bought a tech company with daddy's money. At least they knew what they were talking about, is what I'm saying.

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Von Neely @vonneely.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

I feel like turnips are something humans only grew until something better came around.

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