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Fidel Destro

@fideldestro.bsky.social

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Tech artist, writer, anti-establishment agitator, broke anarchist with no friends, and the sovereign Witch King of Mars. I'm using science & art to make magic and fight evil. I don't like your employer and I don't like your party. Foster human excellence.

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Fidel Destro @fideldestro.bsky.social · Jun 19

Back in the summer of 2023, after my cat died, I spent 2 weeks building a particle physics animation engine in Blender Geometry Nodes, entirely on intuition. I also built a system to record animations as curves so they can be played back dynamically.
#Blender #Programming #memoir

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Fidel Destro @fideldestro.bsky.social · 5m

I do! But not often because I spend much of my time alone at the keyboard.

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Fidel Destro @fideldestro.bsky.social · 25d

This stuff that sounds like flavor text from a video game set in the near future is in fact from The Economic Times.

Article extract:
AI Psychosis is piling up the threat
Adding to the unease, Microsoft's AI chief Mustafa Suleyman has warned of a growing mental health crisis field by "AI psychosis." He cautions that users are forming dangerous attachments to chatbots, mistaking them for conscious or even divine beings. Psychiatrists report risings cases of obsession, while critics fear thus blurring of reality could spark misguided calls for AI rights.

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Fidel Destro @fideldestro.bsky.social · 7m

This may surprise you but there are paid bad actors on the internet, and [whispers conspiratorially] some of them may not even be human.

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Grudgie the Whale @grudgie.bsky.social · 2h

It’s important to understand what Republicans mean by this I think.

They mean no one gets any accommodation so if the state is oppressing black voters and privileging white voters, that’s like a natural state and attempts to fix that are UNEQUAL.

Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.bsky.social · 2h

Kavanaugh: "I want to note some common ground bc I think it's important in disputes like this one to identify common ground. Justice Jackson said the goal is equal opportunity for all Americans & I think we all agree on that, completely"

man shut your bitchass up with this conscience assuaging bs

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Fidel Destro @fideldestro.bsky.social · 21m

Oh man, human brains are so fucked.
[joker laugh]

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Nate @thenatewolf.bsky.social · 3h

We trained this AI on the whispers of the dead and that’s why it keeps saying slurs we have no previous written record of.

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Fidel Destro @fideldestro.bsky.social · 48m

"Some people have horrible personalities because it's the only way to be sure they're actually very good looking."

Morning thoughts.

Fidel Destro @fideldestro.bsky.social · 51m

Bruce told you to move like water, but what Bruce didn't know is that water moves just like light. Move like light, friends, and dash away the darkness wherever you go.

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Fidel Destro @fideldestro.bsky.social · Jan 19

When I read the news, it feels strange and comforting to be marching headlong into the cyberpunk dystopia and know exactly which stock genre character I am.

Fidel Destro @fideldestro.bsky.social · 55m

Programmed a gravity simulation last night for laughs. Jogged a half-mile this morning. I have six-pack abs now. This life is strange and unfamiliar to me.

Fidel Destro @fideldestro.bsky.social · 1h

If your opponent is of poor temper, then bait them. And if they are not tempered at all, bait them into destroying themselves.

Fidel Destro @fideldestro.bsky.social · 1h

The thing about the internet, friends, and something which I don't think we've really come to terms with as a society, is that the internet makes it insanely easy to emotionally assault people. Like, if you want to make someone feel bad, it's at your fingertips.

Fidel Destro @fideldestro.bsky.social · 1h

Just thinking about how I insist on being friendly in games, and people sometimes say I'm "ragebaiting." Just think about that, yo, and what it says about our experience of other humans online, that being friendly and welcoming is seen as specifically instigating some population.

Shitheads.

Fidel Destro @fideldestro.bsky.social · 2h

Just saying, if you walk up to the feet of the mountain, see a bunch of climbers scaling the face, and turn away in defeat, don't blame the fucking mountain.

Fidel Destro @fideldestro.bsky.social · 2h

That's part of why I grind all the time about random shit people say about Blender. Here's this fuckin world class tool that you get to have for nothing at all, made with love and dedication over decades, and there's this toxic culture where people think it's cool to talk shit about it.

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Fidel Destro @fideldestro.bsky.social · Jul 28

I used to want to be popular. Now I want to be undeniable.

Fidel Destro @fideldestro.bsky.social · 2h

I've been giving everything away for free for decades now, have written about and given speeches on free software and free culture.

I know that people undervalue free things. I've thought about it nearly every day of my life. But I don't capitulate when people are wrong.

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Fidel Destro @fideldestro.bsky.social · 2h

This one time, my dear sister started to tell me about the well known psychological phenomena that causes people to undervalue things that are free, explaining that if I raised my prices, people would perceive more value in my work and I'd make more money.

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Fidel Destro @fideldestro.bsky.social · 2h

Oh, well I'm recommending one be skeptical first and foremost of any random bots that show up, claim to represent a company, and ask you to DM them with your personal phone number. *psst* there isn't any kind of authentication. Also, I don't think this behavior is acceptable of corporations.

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Fidel Destro @fideldestro.bsky.social · 1d

The fuck

[Bluesky screenshot]
Fidel Destro
Current fitness level: successfully chased down FedEx truck on foot that had just delivered package to wrong address. Pulse lightly elevated.

Daniel FedEx Customer Support Rep
Hello,we apologize for the inconvenience and such an experience with us. We would like to look at the problem raised further. Kindly DM me with your active phone number we reach out and assist.

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Fidel Destro @fideldestro.bsky.social · 3h

Ya like my Daedric hat?

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Fidel Destro @fideldestro.bsky.social · 3h

What are you trying to convince me of?

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Fidel Destro @fideldestro.bsky.social · Dec 2

I've invented the front scratcher, for the distinguished lazy gentleman.

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Fidel Destro @fideldestro.bsky.social · May 1

Sometimes, when you're young and lazy and don't want to figure out UV unwrapping, you inadvertently create the most horrifying thing in the world.

It's a poorly sculpted human head with human flesh stretched over it in unsettling ways. The mouth is around the collar bones meet. Tear ducts. Oh lord... the tear ducts.

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Fidel Destro @fideldestro.bsky.social · 3h

...this feeling I'm left with, that everyone in the world around me is either an innocent whose eyes will glaze over at any mention of my interests, or else someone who actually knows what they're doing, who will scoff at my muddy bog witch ways and charmingly childish programming.

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