Jafeth van Elten
@jafethve.bsky.social
Software engineer, gamer, amateur medieval history enthusiast.
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The original Let It Die was famous for its absolutely amazing soundtrack. Akira Yamaoka went and got in touch with a HUNDRED of his favourite indie bands and commissioned each to do a track named 'let it die'. The result was borderline mystical.
They're AI-generating the music here.
Fuck that.
They're AI-generating the music here.
Fuck that.
The Let it Die sequel - Let it Die: Inferno - which is coming out next week (4th December), seems to have been built using a considerable amount of generative AI. https://bit.ly/4ol7lIA
November 28, 2025 at 9:14 PM
The original Let It Die was famous for its absolutely amazing soundtrack. Akira Yamaoka went and got in touch with a HUNDRED of his favourite indie bands and commissioned each to do a track named 'let it die'. The result was borderline mystical.
They're AI-generating the music here.
Fuck that.
They're AI-generating the music here.
Fuck that.
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November 28, 2025 at 7:45 PM
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Exciting news! We added AI to your browser.
-I didn't want it.
Well, we added AI to your editing software.
-I don't want that.
Er, we added AI to your TV?
-Nor that.
Fine, we added AI to your phone! You like your phone.
-I switched that feature off.
(Sweating) we added AI to your... ahhh
-I didn't want it.
Well, we added AI to your editing software.
-I don't want that.
Er, we added AI to your TV?
-Nor that.
Fine, we added AI to your phone! You like your phone.
-I switched that feature off.
(Sweating) we added AI to your... ahhh
November 28, 2025 at 8:48 PM
Exciting news! We added AI to your browser.
-I didn't want it.
Well, we added AI to your editing software.
-I don't want that.
Er, we added AI to your TV?
-Nor that.
Fine, we added AI to your phone! You like your phone.
-I switched that feature off.
(Sweating) we added AI to your... ahhh
-I didn't want it.
Well, we added AI to your editing software.
-I don't want that.
Er, we added AI to your TV?
-Nor that.
Fine, we added AI to your phone! You like your phone.
-I switched that feature off.
(Sweating) we added AI to your... ahhh
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Why don't we like "AI?"
You try to put it into everything in nonsensical ways.
It doesn't work the way you claim it will.
You don't pay for the work you use to generate it.
Your intent is labor reduction without a contributory return.
You know it's unpopular so you try to hide it.
You lie about it.
You try to put it into everything in nonsensical ways.
It doesn't work the way you claim it will.
You don't pay for the work you use to generate it.
Your intent is labor reduction without a contributory return.
You know it's unpopular so you try to hide it.
You lie about it.
November 28, 2025 at 6:16 PM
Why don't we like "AI?"
You try to put it into everything in nonsensical ways.
It doesn't work the way you claim it will.
You don't pay for the work you use to generate it.
Your intent is labor reduction without a contributory return.
You know it's unpopular so you try to hide it.
You lie about it.
You try to put it into everything in nonsensical ways.
It doesn't work the way you claim it will.
You don't pay for the work you use to generate it.
Your intent is labor reduction without a contributory return.
You know it's unpopular so you try to hide it.
You lie about it.
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gofund.me/dbd60eb45
Y’all, things are dire since my car has been stolen a week before our move. We were counting on having it. Things have been really rough & being on disability, which I’ve been on since my lymphoma diagnosis, limits my budget drastically. If you can help or share I’d be grateful.
Y’all, things are dire since my car has been stolen a week before our move. We were counting on having it. Things have been really rough & being on disability, which I’ve been on since my lymphoma diagnosis, limits my budget drastically. If you can help or share I’d be grateful.
Donate to Charlie’s Urgent Relocation Fund, organized by Kristen Maloney
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gofund.me
November 19, 2025 at 2:07 AM
gofund.me/dbd60eb45
Y’all, things are dire since my car has been stolen a week before our move. We were counting on having it. Things have been really rough & being on disability, which I’ve been on since my lymphoma diagnosis, limits my budget drastically. If you can help or share I’d be grateful.
Y’all, things are dire since my car has been stolen a week before our move. We were counting on having it. Things have been really rough & being on disability, which I’ve been on since my lymphoma diagnosis, limits my budget drastically. If you can help or share I’d be grateful.
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One of the reasons I've never bought into AI doomerism, is that to believe "it's here to stay, get used to it!" you have to buy into the idea that AI generated elements are so hardcoded or integral as to be permanent, when they really aren't.
You can simply remove it, and it's gone just like that.
You can simply remove it, and it's gone just like that.
November 28, 2025 at 7:27 PM
One of the reasons I've never bought into AI doomerism, is that to believe "it's here to stay, get used to it!" you have to buy into the idea that AI generated elements are so hardcoded or integral as to be permanent, when they really aren't.
You can simply remove it, and it's gone just like that.
You can simply remove it, and it's gone just like that.
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This is similar to the logic that the Nazis used to justify mass deportation and murder of Jews, Romani, and other people.
They’re not Nazis, though!
They’re not Nazis, though!
Stephen Miller is now arguing that assimilation is fundamentally impossible and that certain cultures are not compatible with Western civilization
November 28, 2025 at 4:25 PM
This is similar to the logic that the Nazis used to justify mass deportation and murder of Jews, Romani, and other people.
They’re not Nazis, though!
They’re not Nazis, though!
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Yes, yes, misdirection and all that.
Or:
Or:
November 28, 2025 at 12:08 PM
Yes, yes, misdirection and all that.
Or:
Or:
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The basic policymaker mental model for climate action assumes:
- maintaining status quo is a win
- we have plenty of time
- electricity is the only source of pollution
All 3 are false, to the benefit of the wealthiest enterprise in human history, at the expense of all life on earth (including us)
- maintaining status quo is a win
- we have plenty of time
- electricity is the only source of pollution
All 3 are false, to the benefit of the wealthiest enterprise in human history, at the expense of all life on earth (including us)
Mark Carney has had to 'step forward and backwards and it all sort of cancels out' headspace on climate for quite some time.
It's the logic of carbon offsetting: if you operate a coal plant, but you also build some renewable energy, the latter cancels out the former 🫠
medium.com/lobbywatch/n...
It's the logic of carbon offsetting: if you operate a coal plant, but you also build some renewable energy, the latter cancels out the former 🫠
medium.com/lobbywatch/n...
November 28, 2025 at 6:28 PM
The basic policymaker mental model for climate action assumes:
- maintaining status quo is a win
- we have plenty of time
- electricity is the only source of pollution
All 3 are false, to the benefit of the wealthiest enterprise in human history, at the expense of all life on earth (including us)
- maintaining status quo is a win
- we have plenty of time
- electricity is the only source of pollution
All 3 are false, to the benefit of the wealthiest enterprise in human history, at the expense of all life on earth (including us)
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people using genAI have a deeply rooted hatred of artists because the narrative has been shifting to "artists don't contribute meaningfully to society" for decades, as capitalism continues to backslide into the shit pit, but this (incorrect) attitude cannot mask the cultural significance of creation
November 28, 2025 at 7:12 PM
people using genAI have a deeply rooted hatred of artists because the narrative has been shifting to "artists don't contribute meaningfully to society" for decades, as capitalism continues to backslide into the shit pit, but this (incorrect) attitude cannot mask the cultural significance of creation
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Look, if you're not an expert you wouldn't know, but this chart is bullshit. They could not possibly measure this as 1. How can you tell for sure? There's no reliable automated way. 2. You're not counting the many sites that are blocking crawlers now.
But there's an even more important reason...
But there's an even more important reason...
November 28, 2025 at 12:47 PM
Look, if you're not an expert you wouldn't know, but this chart is bullshit. They could not possibly measure this as 1. How can you tell for sure? There's no reliable automated way. 2. You're not counting the many sites that are blocking crawlers now.
But there's an even more important reason...
But there's an even more important reason...
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I'm devastated, if I don't find an alternative that works with argentinians I'm contemplating the worst, I can't do regular jobs, art was my job for around 15 years
I don't do nsfw even when people insist me to
my life was already crumbling and now I don't know what to do
I don't do nsfw even when people insist me to
my life was already crumbling and now I don't know what to do
November 28, 2025 at 1:31 PM
I'm devastated, if I don't find an alternative that works with argentinians I'm contemplating the worst, I can't do regular jobs, art was my job for around 15 years
I don't do nsfw even when people insist me to
my life was already crumbling and now I don't know what to do
I don't do nsfw even when people insist me to
my life was already crumbling and now I don't know what to do
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Please keep putting pressure on PayPal. Stories like this are becoming more and more common. Artists don’t deserve to lose their source of income over payment processors being puritanical/anti-small business.
I'm devastated, if I don't find an alternative that works with argentinians I'm contemplating the worst, I can't do regular jobs, art was my job for around 15 years
I don't do nsfw even when people insist me to
my life was already crumbling and now I don't know what to do
I don't do nsfw even when people insist me to
my life was already crumbling and now I don't know what to do
November 28, 2025 at 1:35 PM
Please keep putting pressure on PayPal. Stories like this are becoming more and more common. Artists don’t deserve to lose their source of income over payment processors being puritanical/anti-small business.
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if you think that ao3 needs a dislike button, block me. we have nothing to say to one another. I'm honestly done being nice about this. there is no algorithm to teach. it's an archive. wanting a dislike button is just a request for the ability to be hateful with no consequences
no way people are asking for a dislike button on ao3 bestie that’s the back button your browser
February 9, 2025 at 2:07 AM
if you think that ao3 needs a dislike button, block me. we have nothing to say to one another. I'm honestly done being nice about this. there is no algorithm to teach. it's an archive. wanting a dislike button is just a request for the ability to be hateful with no consequences
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in 1st century Judea, the corners of every field had to be left for the poor to pick crops for themselves, every seventh year *all* of the crops from fields and vineyards and orchards belonged to the poor, and all debts of all types were cancelled every 50th year.
November 28, 2025 at 11:21 AM
in 1st century Judea, the corners of every field had to be left for the poor to pick crops for themselves, every seventh year *all* of the crops from fields and vineyards and orchards belonged to the poor, and all debts of all types were cancelled every 50th year.
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"Minutes leaked to North West Bylines confirm that NHSE has “no provision” to continue prescribing puberty blocking medicaction to U16 trans patients currenty at WellBN."
northwestbylines.co.uk/news/health/...
northwestbylines.co.uk/news/health/...
Is NHSE forcing young people to detransition?
The minutes of a meeting, leaked to NWBylines, strongly indicate NHSE does not want the prescribing of puberty blockers at WellBN to continue
northwestbylines.co.uk
November 28, 2025 at 7:45 AM
"Minutes leaked to North West Bylines confirm that NHSE has “no provision” to continue prescribing puberty blocking medicaction to U16 trans patients currenty at WellBN."
northwestbylines.co.uk/news/health/...
northwestbylines.co.uk/news/health/...
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i know WHY this is but that just makes it even more of a kick in the pants lmao
November 28, 2025 at 3:28 AM
i know WHY this is but that just makes it even more of a kick in the pants lmao
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Three weeks ago I marked nine years on Testosterone.
I didn't celebrate it then because I was in the middle of a multi-month battle to be allowed to stay on it, despite not producing my own hormones and simply wanting to remain on the exact prescription I'd had for nine years without any problems.
I didn't celebrate it then because I was in the middle of a multi-month battle to be allowed to stay on it, despite not producing my own hormones and simply wanting to remain on the exact prescription I'd had for nine years without any problems.
November 28, 2025 at 10:53 AM
Three weeks ago I marked nine years on Testosterone.
I didn't celebrate it then because I was in the middle of a multi-month battle to be allowed to stay on it, despite not producing my own hormones and simply wanting to remain on the exact prescription I'd had for nine years without any problems.
I didn't celebrate it then because I was in the middle of a multi-month battle to be allowed to stay on it, despite not producing my own hormones and simply wanting to remain on the exact prescription I'd had for nine years without any problems.
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I love all those things that Labour fans say Labour have done but actually haven't, are being dropped one by one. Truly the party of business.
November 28, 2025 at 12:01 AM
I love all those things that Labour fans say Labour have done but actually haven't, are being dropped one by one. Truly the party of business.
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Thinking a lot about “cancel culture” & how we need more precise language to describe what happens to influencers (short-term, usually goes away) vs, like, trans women kicked out of housing / jobs / support systems
Thinking how Natalie Wynn makes WAY more now than she did in 2020, for example
Thinking how Natalie Wynn makes WAY more now than she did in 2020, for example
November 28, 2025 at 12:29 AM
Thinking a lot about “cancel culture” & how we need more precise language to describe what happens to influencers (short-term, usually goes away) vs, like, trans women kicked out of housing / jobs / support systems
Thinking how Natalie Wynn makes WAY more now than she did in 2020, for example
Thinking how Natalie Wynn makes WAY more now than she did in 2020, for example
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the status of the trans person in the terf brain is some Ur-Fascism deal: every trans person is so clockable that their very existence is ridiculous and offensive, but also anyone could be trans and you'd never know it
November 27, 2025 at 9:17 PM
the status of the trans person in the terf brain is some Ur-Fascism deal: every trans person is so clockable that their very existence is ridiculous and offensive, but also anyone could be trans and you'd never know it
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Sorry to do this, I have enough money for rent but food might be a bit hard for me in the next few weeks, anything helps.
paypal.me/ashleyminor
paypal.me/ashleyminor
November 27, 2025 at 10:49 PM
Sorry to do this, I have enough money for rent but food might be a bit hard for me in the next few weeks, anything helps.
paypal.me/ashleyminor
paypal.me/ashleyminor
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It is Thanksgiving Day, make certain your call center workers can get pizza and ice cream
Spoke with a source who told me the call volume is so high, a call center for both Mastercard & Visa is bringing out pizza and ice cream so agents don’t quite amid the rush. Long waits are causing dropped calls.
What you’re doing is working. Call MC & Visa.
What you’re doing is working. Call MC & Visa.
November 27, 2025 at 10:23 PM
It is Thanksgiving Day, make certain your call center workers can get pizza and ice cream