Sweet Corm
@cormorants0.bsky.social
Figure I should try to be on here. Might post art, or rave about my ffxiv character. May also weigh in on politics: I am a socialist. Aught else is moral failure. My Game: https://cormorants.itch.io/jockey-real-horsemanship
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Sweet Corm
@cormorants0.bsky.social
· Nov 22
I think this should be the first thing people have to witness when they attempt to interact with me. #art #sonicthehedgehogandivantheterriblefollowasharednamingconvention #sonicman
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EVERYONE GET MORE PASSIONATE AND SELF INDULGENT ABOUT CREATIVITY AND BEING HUMAN NOW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
December 16, 2025 at 9:35 PM
EVERYONE GET MORE PASSIONATE AND SELF INDULGENT ABOUT CREATIVITY AND BEING HUMAN NOW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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The thing that makes me insane about this and Vincke’s comments is why would you trust AI to make a reference? They’re notoriously bad at doing that and produce banal results! Go buy some art books, they’re great. How is it empowering concept artists to have them not do that?
December 16, 2025 at 8:28 PM
The thing that makes me insane about this and Vincke’s comments is why would you trust AI to make a reference? They’re notoriously bad at doing that and produce banal results! Go buy some art books, they’re great. How is it empowering concept artists to have them not do that?
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I hate to e-beg, it's embarrassing and I feel pathetic, but all I want for the holidays is to help my disabled mother with her medical bills so she can continue getting the care and treatments she needs. Please donate or share, I appreciate it so much!
LINK:
gofund.me/15682d815
LINK:
gofund.me/15682d815
Donate to Holiday Help for Nico's Disabled Mother, organized by Nico Colaleo
Hey everyone and Happy Holidays 2025-
This is Nico Colaleo (creator of Ollie &… Nico Colaleo needs your support for Holiday Help for Nico's Disabled Mother
gofund.me
December 12, 2025 at 6:42 AM
I hate to e-beg, it's embarrassing and I feel pathetic, but all I want for the holidays is to help my disabled mother with her medical bills so she can continue getting the care and treatments she needs. Please donate or share, I appreciate it so much!
LINK:
gofund.me/15682d815
LINK:
gofund.me/15682d815
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This is why ID verification laws are bad. No website can truly have the security it needs to keep ANY information safe. Not a single one.
Porn User Data Stolen—Pornhub ‘Search, Watch And Download’ Activity
Porn User Data Stolen—Pornhub ‘Search, Watch And Download’ Activity
Pornhub user data now in criminal hands — are you affected and what happens next?
www.forbes.com
December 17, 2025 at 4:30 AM
This is why ID verification laws are bad. No website can truly have the security it needs to keep ANY information safe. Not a single one.
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This is going to be a catastrophic loss, and all because a handful of people refuse to accept reality.
Exclusive: The Trump administration is moving to dismantle the National Center for Atmospheric Research in Colorado, according to a senior White House official, taking aim at one of the world's leading climate research labs.
Trump moves to dismantle major US climate research center in Colorado
The Trump administration is breaking up the National Center for Atmospheric Research, taking aim at one of the world's leading climate research labs.
bit.ly
December 17, 2025 at 2:20 AM
This is going to be a catastrophic loss, and all because a handful of people refuse to accept reality.
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This tracks with my experience. DHS made up stories like this in Chicago, too. Every story ICE told about being attacked by community members was debunked in court. To assume anything they say is even potentially credible is irresponsible and out of touch with reality.
Re: the ICE actions in south Minneapolis Monday. DHS said "rioters" attacked officers with rocks and pepper spray. Note: I received lots of evidence and didn't see any rocks, the only pepper spray I saw was ICE agents sometimes spraying each other. I did see snow and possibly ice being thrown. (1)
December 17, 2025 at 4:00 AM
This tracks with my experience. DHS made up stories like this in Chicago, too. Every story ICE told about being attacked by community members was debunked in court. To assume anything they say is even potentially credible is irresponsible and out of touch with reality.
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“As with the illegal so-called Department of Government Efficiency—which cost us billions of dollars, and killed hundreds of thousands of people, and will almost certainly kill millions more—the desire is never to eliminate waste, but to eliminate people who have been deemed a waste.”
Back in the days when I was still going to church, the pastor who eventually persuaded me to stop going to church had a phrase that he liked to say a whole lot, and for all I know he still likes to say it.
The phrase was "we're creating victims and villains."
www.the-reframe.com/stories-we-t...
The phrase was "we're creating victims and villains."
www.the-reframe.com/stories-we-t...
Stories We Tell
Recognizing victims and villains is not creating victims and villains. A series on living in a culture of repair, against a culture of abuse.
www.the-reframe.com
December 17, 2025 at 12:15 PM
“As with the illegal so-called Department of Government Efficiency—which cost us billions of dollars, and killed hundreds of thousands of people, and will almost certainly kill millions more—the desire is never to eliminate waste, but to eliminate people who have been deemed a waste.”
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TW: Sexual violence and child exploitation
I hate this so much. I feel sick.
280 images of toddlers & children. HUNDREDS. Accessing these has an impact on demand, therefore creating more harm to the children and others.
This man is a monster and is getting an easy ride.
I hate this so much. I feel sick.
280 images of toddlers & children. HUNDREDS. Accessing these has an impact on demand, therefore creating more harm to the children and others.
This man is a monster and is getting an easy ride.
Disgraced former top cop Jevon McSkimming avoids jail over objectionable material
Former Deputy Police Commissioner Jevon McSkimming sentenced to nine months home detention in Wellington District Court.
www.stuff.co.nz
December 17, 2025 at 4:56 AM
TW: Sexual violence and child exploitation
I hate this so much. I feel sick.
280 images of toddlers & children. HUNDREDS. Accessing these has an impact on demand, therefore creating more harm to the children and others.
This man is a monster and is getting an easy ride.
I hate this so much. I feel sick.
280 images of toddlers & children. HUNDREDS. Accessing these has an impact on demand, therefore creating more harm to the children and others.
This man is a monster and is getting an easy ride.
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I am not trying to fearmonger but if one of these people is your representative please call them and tell them to vote no on "Protect Children’s Innocence Act, H.R. 3492"
December 16, 2025 at 10:43 PM
I am not trying to fearmonger but if one of these people is your representative please call them and tell them to vote no on "Protect Children’s Innocence Act, H.R. 3492"
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My cardiologist: You have to stop supporting LGBT, it'll kill you
Me: How dare you, this is a moral obligation
The LGBT:
Me: How dare you, this is a moral obligation
The LGBT:
December 17, 2025 at 2:55 AM
My cardiologist: You have to stop supporting LGBT, it'll kill you
Me: How dare you, this is a moral obligation
The LGBT:
Me: How dare you, this is a moral obligation
The LGBT:
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The thing thats so insidious about using AI this way is that one of the main ways artists get hired are studios looking for art references and they find us and reach out.
This is removing a major avenue to get work if they can just generate nameless derivations of our ideas.
This is removing a major avenue to get work if they can just generate nameless derivations of our ideas.
December 17, 2025 at 12:32 AM
The thing thats so insidious about using AI this way is that one of the main ways artists get hired are studios looking for art references and they find us and reach out.
This is removing a major avenue to get work if they can just generate nameless derivations of our ideas.
This is removing a major avenue to get work if they can just generate nameless derivations of our ideas.
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So the guy himself is saying they arent really even seeing productivity gains? He said they are just using AI because they are afraid of being left behind. He is inviting this public scorn by repeating techbro talking points for no benefit at all. The mind of a CEO is fascinating.
If I had known the two paragraphs about genAI in my article today would be so controversial, I would have expanded them a bit! Here's a rough transcript of the relevant portion of my interview with Swen Vincke, so everyone has all the context. (Full article here: www.bloomberg.com/news/newslet...)
December 17, 2025 at 12:16 AM
So the guy himself is saying they arent really even seeing productivity gains? He said they are just using AI because they are afraid of being left behind. He is inviting this public scorn by repeating techbro talking points for no benefit at all. The mind of a CEO is fascinating.
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for the boys
December 16, 2025 at 4:00 PM
for the boys
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is there a way to avoid the scourge of ai being forced on us? like is there a single consumer facing good that will actually stand up for its users, i’m just so sick of this
December 16, 2025 at 9:26 PM
is there a way to avoid the scourge of ai being forced on us? like is there a single consumer facing good that will actually stand up for its users, i’m just so sick of this
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Crazy that Sven wants Larian to use AI for "placeholder text" when they put writers through this intense unpaid writing test (that I've heard a *lot* of criticism about out in the wild).
I know this because they tried to recruit me and I strongly considered it but they’re also a “do an unpaid writing test where you have to also make it playable” company so that’s not something I vibe with
December 16, 2025 at 5:53 PM
Crazy that Sven wants Larian to use AI for "placeholder text" when they put writers through this intense unpaid writing test (that I've heard a *lot* of criticism about out in the wild).
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"we USE ai, but our game wont CONTAIN it" is a clarification that no one has ever cared about & now CEOs are using it as a wedge to get their foot in the door as a part of a long term plan into normalizing AI, just like how 'it's just placeholder' was used with E33. dont cede even an inch of ground
December 16, 2025 at 9:12 PM
"we USE ai, but our game wont CONTAIN it" is a clarification that no one has ever cared about & now CEOs are using it as a wedge to get their foot in the door as a part of a long term plan into normalizing AI, just like how 'it's just placeholder' was used with E33. dont cede even an inch of ground
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Mozilla has a new CEO and he just announced that Firefox will evolve into a modern AI browser. This is a good example of how management doesn’t understand its own user base and why they go out of their way to install Firefox on Windows, Android, iOS and other devices blog.mozilla.org/en/mozilla/l...
December 16, 2025 at 8:00 PM
Mozilla has a new CEO and he just announced that Firefox will evolve into a modern AI browser. This is a good example of how management doesn’t understand its own user base and why they go out of their way to install Firefox on Windows, Android, iOS and other devices blog.mozilla.org/en/mozilla/l...
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Every major news organization should be writing about how insane this is and how, if he takes this country to war (tomorrow?), it is the act of a madman.
Trump: "Venezuela is completely surrounded by the largest Armada ever assembled ... It will only get bigger, and the shock to them will be like nothing they have ever seen before — Until such time as they return to the USA all of the Oil, Land, and other Assets that they previously stole from us."
December 17, 2025 at 12:11 AM
Every major news organization should be writing about how insane this is and how, if he takes this country to war (tomorrow?), it is the act of a madman.
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govt spends $750 per road cone to appease people who think $5 per road cone is excessive
just normal everyday NZ shit now.
just normal everyday NZ shit now.
December 17, 2025 at 12:36 AM
govt spends $750 per road cone to appease people who think $5 per road cone is excessive
just normal everyday NZ shit now.
just normal everyday NZ shit now.
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I know many things are awful but here is one genuinely useful and helpful thing you can do. No matter their party, your representative needs to hear that trans people and our families are not alone and this bill is an unjustifiable and extreme threat to criminalize the health care we need to live.
Tomorrow, the House of Representatives will vote on a bill that bans gender-affirming medical care for any transgender person under 18, and threatens any medical professional providing this care to youth with 10 years in prison.
Tell Congress to protect trans youth and vote NO.
Tell Congress to protect trans youth and vote NO.
Protect Trans Care Now
As wave after wave of extreme measures to criminalize and strip trans people of rights and safety continue, tell Congress to act.
action.aclu.org
December 16, 2025 at 9:40 PM
I know many things are awful but here is one genuinely useful and helpful thing you can do. No matter their party, your representative needs to hear that trans people and our families are not alone and this bill is an unjustifiable and extreme threat to criminalize the health care we need to live.
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December 17, 2025 at 1:47 AM
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I don't know who made this, but I love you
December 17, 2025 at 2:12 AM
I don't know who made this, but I love you
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will every NFL game have a moment of silence or is that only for white supremacists who were presenting a racist rationale for our unfettered gun massacre culture when shot
I'm having trouble finding the "America Mourns Rob and Michelle Reiner" piece from the NY Times Editorial Board.
December 16, 2025 at 10:58 AM
will every NFL game have a moment of silence or is that only for white supremacists who were presenting a racist rationale for our unfettered gun massacre culture when shot
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