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Guinea Porg @guineaporg.bsky.social · 1d

Oh damn, I didn’t know they’d been bought. I just heard about their latest game yesterday and had been considering it, so thanks for letting me know. Easy enough to pass on that.

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Guinea Porg @guineaporg.bsky.social · 1d

I made this a few years back, but never had a proper excuse to post it, so I hope this counts.

A still from the seventh episode of Star Trek: Picard (“Nepenthe”). Jean-Luc Picard (Patrick Stewart, left) stands facing Will Riker (Jonathan Frakes, center) and Deanna Troi (Marina Sirtis, right) in Riker & Troi’s home.

The actual dialogue in this scene was intensely boring and I no longer recall it. Instead, I have altered the captions so that Picard is telling the others, “Did you know Cleopatra lived closer the Battle of Wolf 359 than the building of the Great Pyramid of Giza?” (Going by Star Trek canon, this is actually true.)

I just think it’s funny because Picard is a big archaeology nerd; and also because 99% of the time, the writers forget he’s supposed to be traumatized by Wolf 359, so here he is literally trivializing it.

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Guinea Porg @guineaporg.bsky.social · 1d

I’m trying to decide if “LLMs can’t write tests” is because:
a) open source devs generally don’t write enough tests to train on;
b) writing non-trivial tests is just the Halting Problem wearing a fake mustache; or
c) most of them would fail, exposing the con immediately.

Oh wait. I think I decided.

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Guinea Porg @guineaporg.bsky.social · 4d

Shoutout to my first trans roommate (back in ’96 or so) who always dressed up like Marilyn Monroe in Some Like It Hot and did a nonstop “cross-dressing Bugs Bunny hits on you like you’re Elmer Fudd” bit when cis men were around, so they’d look like humorless dicks if they said anything transphobic.

Guinea Porg @guineaporg.bsky.social · 6d

I dunno, it could argued either way; and there’s a case to be made that Kermit and Piggy should be the ones to kiss at the end, which complicates the whole thing.

Anyway, that’s my little ramble; and I think Sam the Eagle should probably be Cypher, since he’s the stick in the mud.

Guinea Porg @guineaporg.bsky.social · 6d

You’d expect the Matrix to be full of Muppets, to imply “low-res people”; or “you *think* this is a normal Muppet movie, but just you wait”. Plus: you’d get Miss Piggy in bullet time.

But I like the idea that Muppets are the rebels; they’re the ones who fully embrace their authentic selves.

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Guinea Porg @guineaporg.bsky.social · 6d

Using this to suggest my pet idea for The Muppet Matrix, which switches between standard and inverse rules depending on whether the scene takes place in the Matrix or the real world.

Neo would be the different one: in the Matrix, he doesn’t “belong”; in the real world, being The One sets him apart.

Punk on Bus Lives!🚍📻 @punkonbuslives.bsky.social · 6d

Inverse Muppet premise: take a movie and replace one character with a Muppet. Everyone else stays human.

Star Trek: The Motion Picture, but have Gonzo be Dr. McCoy.

Malcolm Wood @woodmally1979.bsky.social · 6d

Star Trek First Contact but have Miss Piggy as the Borg Queen.

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Guinea Porg @guineaporg.bsky.social · 6d

Stealth games let me indulge in the fantasy that bending my knees for long stretches of time can be Good, Actually.

Guinea Porg @guineaporg.bsky.social · 6d

I think the original iPhone had enough legit novelty to justify itself, but the App Store opened the floodgates to so much that followed, so I’d go with 2008 (coincidentally, the same year Bitcoin appeared, another major scam vector).

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Coach Jerry (referee 🔵) @gopher33j.bsky.social · 7d

Block the gov accounts

Don’t quote post

Don’t respond

Just block and ignore

Jesus people - they are rage baiting and the blue wave morons are falling for it

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Guinea Porg @guineaporg.bsky.social · 10d

You might have trouble buying stuff online. Some payment processors need to geolocate your IP in order to calculate VAT, and if they see you’re using a VPN, they’ll reject the card on those grounds, rather than declare it fraud.

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DrawPanther @drawpanther.bsky.social · 11d

HOLY GODDAMN BALLS, MY C0MMlSSl0NS ARE OPEN!

>> APPLY: via the "C0MMISSl0NS" LINK IN MY BIO!
(Example art and FAQ is there, too!)

>> DEADLINE: 11pm FRIDAY, October 17th PST

>> PRICES: On my price sheet here!

LET'S FRIGGIN' GO! >=D

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Guinea Porg @guineaporg.bsky.social · 12d

I grew up using GW-BASIC. QBasic felt like the future. Heck, if you could figure out the DOS drivers, QBasic would work with a mouse!

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Guinea Porg @guineaporg.bsky.social · 13d

Rich strikes me as a “listening is women’s work” sort of person.

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A Spooky Goose @anarchygoose.bsky.social · 15d

Itch is not like Wikipedia. Itch is not like a 3.5 star restaurant. Itch is a predatory platform that has almost put friends of mine out on the street.

Genuinely so fucking angry to read this.

Rascal News @rascal.news · 15d

itch.io is more like Wikipedia than Steam

www.rascal.news/itch-io-isnt...

Itch.io isn’t like other platforms

It’s like a 3.5 star Chinese restaurant.

www.rascal.news

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Guinea Porg @guineaporg.bsky.social · 18d

What do you mean “How much?” Just keep chugging until St. Peter says you can stop.

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Guinea Porg @guineaporg.bsky.social · 18d

A not-small part of me hates how correct this is. Prescriptivism was always bad; but I like knowing and using the rules to their fullest; but AI is fascism-coded; and so on.

I love the em dash, but just like everyone uses “lead” to mean “led” and “hung” to mean “hanged”, it is I who must adapt.

lydelle buster @babyshoes4cash.com · 18d

i did it a little bit on purpose here but typing sloppy text such as couldn'y is gonna be how we identify fellow humans for a lil bit i think

lydelle buster @babyshoes4cash.com · 18d

noooo sometimes, especially early on, my posting style was chosen specifically to look like an LLM couldn'y possibly have fucked up that ba d

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The Second Mrs. de ShinyGoth👻 @ghostingdani.bsky.social · 18d

AI functions identically to fascism.

Roland Meyer @bildoperationen.bsky.social · 18d

So-called #genAI means the abolition of the future through the proliferation of endless streams of stochastically rendered generic pasts. Having turned large parts of the cultural archive into training data, it now traps us in a foreverized pastness, a 24/7 nostalgia for a past that never existed

QuoProQuid @quoproquid.bsky.social · 19d

have just come across a YouTube account that has been using Sora to upload reels of fake, AI-generated “90s sitcoms” every few hours

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Graceful Six Humoured 🫦 @saturnexalted.bsky.social · 20d

We really fucked up as a society when we went all in on STEM and let these nerds think they were geniuses for dismissing the humanities.

Every great scientist and inventor of the 20th century was at minimum a hobbyist artist, poet, or musician.

These freaks can't even read a book cover to cover.

Graceful Six Humoured 🫦 @saturnexalted.bsky.social · 20d

One of this woman's first follows was an Ursula K. Le Guin bot, and I think that's the only way she's ever read any literature

Druids weren't bards, honey, and this is the opening of every episode of Are You Afraid of the Dark?

Screenshot of jay.bsky.team describing the scent of a candle of which she posted a photo, after someone asked her what it smelled like:

"A bonfire the druid has tossed incense across, transporting his listeners from the dark forest to where the tale is about to start"

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Guinea Porg @guineaporg.bsky.social · 20d

If this video is any indicator, he probably wrote his own mic driver.

Guinea Porg @guineaporg.bsky.social · 22d

“Computer nerds” were the first fandom I decided I didn’t want to be in anymore due to its endless toxicity.

Guinea Porg @guineaporg.bsky.social · Feb 4

At a con I attended back in 2008, I saw a panel where a nerd did one of those “less of a question and more of a comment” things, but it was a rage-filled rant whose explicit theme was How dare Apple take away his ability to condescend to jocks by letting them do computer shit without his help?

Jessica Price @delafina777.bsky.social · Feb 3

we’re seeing a whole bunch of people who very strongly identify as geeks absolutely, intentionally, trying to wreck as many other humans as they can

even though they can buy the hot girl

even though they can buy as many athletes as they want

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Guinea Porg @guineaporg.bsky.social · 22d

I maintain that the bit at end of the footnote — "making it in the long run harder for users to deal with dedicated or savvy harassers” — was *the* motivating factor behind ATProto. Jack is a free speech maximalist, and expressed frustration with being “forced" to implement moderation at Twitter.

Bruno Dias @brunodias.bsky.social · 24d

I had to expunge my thoughts on Bluesky's current, uh, choppy waters into a proper blog post (which jay can't take down for being too mean or saying 'lol' in a threatening way)

azhdarchid.com/delusions-of...

Delusions of a Protocol

On vaporware as an ideological product.

azhdarchid.com

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Guinea Porg @guineaporg.bsky.social · 26d

Will a labeller work? @skywatch.blue

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Guinea Porg @guineaporg.bsky.social · 26d

Their goal is the complete elimination of “legal immigration” as a concept, including retroactively. That’s a big part of why they want to get rid of birthright citizenship.

(And as awful as Trump is, Biden jump-started this most recent wave with his “fuck asylum seekers” bullshit.)

Joe Sudbay @joesudbay.bsky.social · 28d

Nick Valencia, who has been doing amazing reporting, just wrote about this:

“These Are Abductions.” Newlywed Husband Says Wife Taken During Green Card Interview

open.substack.com/pub/nickvale...

Guinea Porg @guineaporg.bsky.social · 27d

Which is all to say that the Hollywood vision that history turns on a single decision or moment or person is usually wrong. Going back in time to kill Baby Hitler doesn’t wipe out the widespread antisemitism among Germans in the 1920s and ’30s. Most problems are too big to put a neat bow on.