Seph De Busser
@sephdebusser.bsky.social
Anodyne Remaster, Autistic, Software Dev@Nokia
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One day someone will pay me to make fun of their product. One day!
November 26, 2025 at 12:19 PM
One day someone will pay me to make fun of their product. One day!
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and all of the arguments we made 5 yrs ago in this paper about why the idea of robot rights relies on faulty assumptions about the nature of human cognition and intelligence still hold
Robot Rights?: Let's Talk about Human Welfare Instead dl.acm.org/doi/abs/10.1...
Robot Rights?: Let's Talk about Human Welfare Instead dl.acm.org/doi/abs/10.1...
November 25, 2025 at 10:54 PM
and all of the arguments we made 5 yrs ago in this paper about why the idea of robot rights relies on faulty assumptions about the nature of human cognition and intelligence still hold
Robot Rights?: Let's Talk about Human Welfare Instead dl.acm.org/doi/abs/10.1...
Robot Rights?: Let's Talk about Human Welfare Instead dl.acm.org/doi/abs/10.1...
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Key takeaway of 2025: Bluesky is an enormous activism force that punches above its weight. The paypros censorship stuff? This site is the one that’s getting us to the 20 yard line. The initial interest in the summer hasn’t returned to Twitter, whereas Bluesky is now the de facto source on this issue
November 26, 2025 at 1:00 PM
Key takeaway of 2025: Bluesky is an enormous activism force that punches above its weight. The paypros censorship stuff? This site is the one that’s getting us to the 20 yard line. The initial interest in the summer hasn’t returned to Twitter, whereas Bluesky is now the de facto source on this issue
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DEI hire is what you call someone who out performs, out qualifies, and out classes you, but isn’t a clone of everyone else in your organization.
November 25, 2025 at 11:19 AM
DEI hire is what you call someone who out performs, out qualifies, and out classes you, but isn’t a clone of everyone else in your organization.
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Sort of a related tangent, I've noticed a thing that tends to happen with tropes conventions:
- Thing happens
- Thing keeps happening, becomes trope
- Trope is overused
- Media subverts trope
- Subversion becomes so popular it's difficult to find the trope played straight
- Thing happens
- Thing keeps happening, becomes trope
- Trope is overused
- Media subverts trope
- Subversion becomes so popular it's difficult to find the trope played straight
there's like... two layers of any given concept
there's "what the thing is" and then there's "the surface stuff"
take a 'western,' right? some people will be like:
1) cowboy
2) this town is too small for you and i, so one of us will have to leave and/or die
3) bandits
4) gunfights
but does it?
there's "what the thing is" and then there's "the surface stuff"
take a 'western,' right? some people will be like:
1) cowboy
2) this town is too small for you and i, so one of us will have to leave and/or die
3) bandits
4) gunfights
but does it?
November 25, 2025 at 6:31 AM
Sort of a related tangent, I've noticed a thing that tends to happen with tropes conventions:
- Thing happens
- Thing keeps happening, becomes trope
- Trope is overused
- Media subverts trope
- Subversion becomes so popular it's difficult to find the trope played straight
- Thing happens
- Thing keeps happening, becomes trope
- Trope is overused
- Media subverts trope
- Subversion becomes so popular it's difficult to find the trope played straight
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I got so stoned at a Mets game once I compared the Jumbotron to the top screen of a Nintendo DS bc it had “a bunch of useful contextual information” and the field to the bottom screen bc “it’s where the game is actually played”
November 24, 2025 at 2:04 PM
I got so stoned at a Mets game once I compared the Jumbotron to the top screen of a Nintendo DS bc it had “a bunch of useful contextual information” and the field to the bottom screen bc “it’s where the game is actually played”
I'm just tired of Everything Going On™ right now.
November 25, 2025 at 7:53 PM
I'm just tired of Everything Going On™ right now.
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the worst people alive are now convinced they're geniuses, and recognition and admiration are just one more prompt away, if only people would listen and agree
we've built a chatbot that causes causes people to act like stephen wolfram in the mildest of cases
and hans reiser in the worst
we've built a chatbot that causes causes people to act like stephen wolfram in the mildest of cases
and hans reiser in the worst
November 24, 2025 at 9:10 PM
the worst people alive are now convinced they're geniuses, and recognition and admiration are just one more prompt away, if only people would listen and agree
we've built a chatbot that causes causes people to act like stephen wolfram in the mildest of cases
and hans reiser in the worst
we've built a chatbot that causes causes people to act like stephen wolfram in the mildest of cases
and hans reiser in the worst
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i’m not crying you’re crying
xkcd: Fifteen Years
xkcd: Fifteen Years
Fifteen Years
xkcd.com
November 25, 2025 at 1:58 AM
i’m not crying you’re crying
xkcd: Fifteen Years
xkcd: Fifteen Years
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"LLM’s output is bullshit in the philosophical sense: statements that are divorced from whether or not they are true or false. The point of a LLM is to output text that looks right given the training data and query, not to produce text that is right" pivot-to-ai.com/2025/11/07/t...
The futile future of the gigawatt datacenter — by Nicholas Weaver
Guest post by Nicholas C. Weaver The AI companies and related enterprises are currently spending huge amounts in capital expenditures (CAPEX) to build “Gigawatt” class data centers for various AI-r…
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November 10, 2025 at 9:58 AM
"LLM’s output is bullshit in the philosophical sense: statements that are divorced from whether or not they are true or false. The point of a LLM is to output text that looks right given the training data and query, not to produce text that is right" pivot-to-ai.com/2025/11/07/t...
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New blog post: "Fifty Shades of OOP." Put in a surprising amount of research for this one!
lesleylai.info/en/fifty_sha...
lesleylai.info/en/fifty_sha...
Fifty Shades of OOP | Lesley Lai
This post talks about the many different aspects under the umbrella term OOP
lesleylai.info
November 24, 2025 at 9:37 AM
New blog post: "Fifty Shades of OOP." Put in a surprising amount of research for this one!
lesleylai.info/en/fifty_sha...
lesleylai.info/en/fifty_sha...
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Alright! Let's actually talk about this waterfall thing. It is an amazing showcase of many things that I adore from late 90s/early 2000s graphics.
I am replicating this in Blender through mere observation, so some things might not be fully accurate to the mind-boggling effects of the PS1.
I am replicating this in Blender through mere observation, so some things might not be fully accurate to the mind-boggling effects of the PS1.
November 22, 2025 at 3:12 AM
Alright! Let's actually talk about this waterfall thing. It is an amazing showcase of many things that I adore from late 90s/early 2000s graphics.
I am replicating this in Blender through mere observation, so some things might not be fully accurate to the mind-boggling effects of the PS1.
I am replicating this in Blender through mere observation, so some things might not be fully accurate to the mind-boggling effects of the PS1.
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AI works* like "I have a friend who knows how to do that, I'll ask her"
you still don't know how
if the friend isn't there, you still can't do it
you won't learn how. why would you, your friend can do it
(ps you have to pay your friend, the cost will go way up it's run at a loss)
*when it works
you still don't know how
if the friend isn't there, you still can't do it
you won't learn how. why would you, your friend can do it
(ps you have to pay your friend, the cost will go way up it's run at a loss)
*when it works
glad to see pushback
learning and skill growth happen when what we knew going into a problem weren't enough to answer and move on. AI flatters you to feel you know enough to get an answer out (often not right, but even if it were!), user doesn't have to become more capable, becomes dependent on it.
learning and skill growth happen when what we knew going into a problem weren't enough to answer and move on. AI flatters you to feel you know enough to get an answer out (often not right, but even if it were!), user doesn't have to become more capable, becomes dependent on it.
‘Study after study shows that students want to develop these critical thinking skills, are not lazy, and large numbers of them would be in favor of banning ChatGPT and similar tools in universities’, says @olivia.science www.ru.nl/en/research/...
November 9, 2025 at 3:01 PM
AI works* like "I have a friend who knows how to do that, I'll ask her"
you still don't know how
if the friend isn't there, you still can't do it
you won't learn how. why would you, your friend can do it
(ps you have to pay your friend, the cost will go way up it's run at a loss)
*when it works
you still don't know how
if the friend isn't there, you still can't do it
you won't learn how. why would you, your friend can do it
(ps you have to pay your friend, the cost will go way up it's run at a loss)
*when it works
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This post is incredible in that IYKYK kind of way
So in Arc Raiders there is a door glitch. You don't need to know what it is, just that the gamers are brainstorming all the "easy" ways to "fix" the doors and it's simultaneously hilarious and horrifying. My two favorite solutions are "add a kill volume" and "put a second door behind the door".
November 21, 2025 at 3:29 PM
This post is incredible in that IYKYK kind of way
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I knew we were in trouble when a person in tech, only a few months after LLMs were launched publicly, told me with a straight face: «and ChatGPT agreed with me that they were inappropriate».
Nobody wants to know what you and your chatbot talked about
November 20, 2025 at 6:21 PM
I knew we were in trouble when a person in tech, only a few months after LLMs were launched publicly, told me with a straight face: «and ChatGPT agreed with me that they were inappropriate».
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My new favorite kind of meme is "here are detailed instructions on how to turn off AI". 🔨
November 19, 2025 at 3:00 PM
My new favorite kind of meme is "here are detailed instructions on how to turn off AI". 🔨
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environmental storytelling
November 20, 2025 at 2:44 PM
environmental storytelling
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Dear Sliders,
Portia's coming out of her well to tell you that Sliding Hero's been approved and is coming out tomorrow!
WL and follow to be ready for the release: bit.ly/SlidingHeroW...
#GameDev #IndieDev #IndieGame #Metroidvania #indiegames #pixelart #ドット絵 #倉庫番 #sokoban
Portia's coming out of her well to tell you that Sliding Hero's been approved and is coming out tomorrow!
WL and follow to be ready for the release: bit.ly/SlidingHeroW...
#GameDev #IndieDev #IndieGame #Metroidvania #indiegames #pixelart #ドット絵 #倉庫番 #sokoban
November 19, 2025 at 10:49 AM
Dear Sliders,
Portia's coming out of her well to tell you that Sliding Hero's been approved and is coming out tomorrow!
WL and follow to be ready for the release: bit.ly/SlidingHeroW...
#GameDev #IndieDev #IndieGame #Metroidvania #indiegames #pixelart #ドット絵 #倉庫番 #sokoban
Portia's coming out of her well to tell you that Sliding Hero's been approved and is coming out tomorrow!
WL and follow to be ready for the release: bit.ly/SlidingHeroW...
#GameDev #IndieDev #IndieGame #Metroidvania #indiegames #pixelart #ドット絵 #倉庫番 #sokoban
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"Microsoft warns that Windows 11's agentic AI could install malware on your PC: 'Only enable this feature if you understand the security implications.'"
bro what--
what are we doing here, exactly, how can you--anyone be okay with this?
bro what--
what are we doing here, exactly, how can you--anyone be okay with this?
November 18, 2025 at 3:42 PM
"Microsoft warns that Windows 11's agentic AI could install malware on your PC: 'Only enable this feature if you understand the security implications.'"
bro what--
what are we doing here, exactly, how can you--anyone be okay with this?
bro what--
what are we doing here, exactly, how can you--anyone be okay with this?
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you know what we call software that autonomously installs malware?
Malware.
Malware.
November 18, 2025 at 4:25 PM
you know what we call software that autonomously installs malware?
Malware.
Malware.
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Why am I so against generative AI in games?
Because I simply do not want my initial reaction to art to be one of suspicion and scrutiny, AI slop is fundamentally damaging my relationship to art and artistry, and I am deeply resentful that it is forcing me to be guarded when I should be wowed.
Because I simply do not want my initial reaction to art to be one of suspicion and scrutiny, AI slop is fundamentally damaging my relationship to art and artistry, and I am deeply resentful that it is forcing me to be guarded when I should be wowed.
November 17, 2025 at 6:54 PM
Why am I so against generative AI in games?
Because I simply do not want my initial reaction to art to be one of suspicion and scrutiny, AI slop is fundamentally damaging my relationship to art and artistry, and I am deeply resentful that it is forcing me to be guarded when I should be wowed.
Because I simply do not want my initial reaction to art to be one of suspicion and scrutiny, AI slop is fundamentally damaging my relationship to art and artistry, and I am deeply resentful that it is forcing me to be guarded when I should be wowed.
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and my apologies for obviously not using the superior version
November 17, 2025 at 8:13 PM
and my apologies for obviously not using the superior version
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Nestlé worried AI will destroy world’s water supply before they do
Nestlé worried AI will destroy world’s water supply before they do
VEVEY, SWITZERLAND - Nestlé executives gathered from around the world to announce their grave concern regarding the impact that artificial intelligence’s water consumption will have on their own abili...
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November 15, 2025 at 4:34 PM
Nestlé worried AI will destroy world’s water supply before they do
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oh. well that's that, then! www.theverge.com/column/82066...
November 14, 2025 at 4:20 PM
oh. well that's that, then! www.theverge.com/column/82066...