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· Aug 16
you've heard of the bell curve, now get ready for the HELL curve
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Hey we heard you have executive dysfunction so we created a giant bureaucratic maze and we're gonna put your executive dysfunction meds at the end of it. maybe.
January 11, 2026 at 8:26 AM
Hey we heard you have executive dysfunction so we created a giant bureaucratic maze and we're gonna put your executive dysfunction meds at the end of it. maybe.
This is exactly what Adobe does (train its Firefly model on public domain + Adobe Stock). It's nowhere near as polished as other frontier models but if you want an IP-safe conceptualizer it's far from impossible. That's assuming Larian doesn't *purchase* further training material via stock licenses
This is simply not technically possible. You cannot generate enough writing in-house to train an LLM. You cannot generate enough art in-house to train a GAN. People who think they have a model "trained on our own material" are using a base model of mass-scraped data, unknowingly or disingenuously.
Larian CEO says Divinity could have gen AI assets in it but only if the tools are trained on the studio's own data.
"If we use a GenAI model to create in-game assets, then it'll be trained on data we own."
https://kotaku.com/divinity-gen-ai-larian-bg3-reddit-ama-2000658429
"If we use a GenAI model to create in-game assets, then it'll be trained on data we own."
https://kotaku.com/divinity-gen-ai-larian-bg3-reddit-ama-2000658429
January 9, 2026 at 6:50 PM
This is exactly what Adobe does (train its Firefly model on public domain + Adobe Stock). It's nowhere near as polished as other frontier models but if you want an IP-safe conceptualizer it's far from impossible. That's assuming Larian doesn't *purchase* further training material via stock licenses
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hi mom i'm on tv
January 9, 2026 at 2:22 PM
hi mom i'm on tv
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People who fancy quoting the Melian Dialogue ("the strong do what they can and the weak suffer what they must") ignore the fact that Thucydides was clearly portraying this as the kind of hubris that squandered Athens' primacy and paved the way for a devastating peer war that it ultimately lost.
January 7, 2026 at 3:36 AM
People who fancy quoting the Melian Dialogue ("the strong do what they can and the weak suffer what they must") ignore the fact that Thucydides was clearly portraying this as the kind of hubris that squandered Athens' primacy and paved the way for a devastating peer war that it ultimately lost.
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If I remember my Thucidides, when a democracy decides to explicitly become an empire, the results are fun and good
TRUMP AND HIS TEAM ARE DISCUSSING A RANGE OF OPTIONS FOR ACQUIRING GREENLAND AND 'UTILIZING THE US MILITARY IS ALWAYS AN OPTION'- WHITE HOUSE STATEMENT
January 6, 2026 at 9:11 PM
If I remember my Thucidides, when a democracy decides to explicitly become an empire, the results are fun and good
web rot is real but at least an 18-year-old clip of me playing team fortress 2 is still online
Watch rest in power, knights of goku | Streamable
Watch "rest in power, knights of goku" on Streamable.
streamable.com
January 7, 2026 at 2:10 AM
web rot is real but at least an 18-year-old clip of me playing team fortress 2 is still online
it was true 2 years ago and holy fuck is it true now
It certainly does. Coherence is making AI more boring.
January 7, 2026 at 12:31 AM
it was true 2 years ago and holy fuck is it true now
This graph (and similar ones, this is a very consistent finding going back decades) explains a lot of current politics I think
January 6, 2026 at 6:17 PM
This graph (and similar ones, this is a very consistent finding going back decades) explains a lot of current politics I think
pleased to report that this is among the 95% of gaming articles on patents that are dogshit clickbait; this is merely a published application and the most recent action on the USPTO data portal is a rejection of all claims
Sony has patented an AI gaming ghost that will play PlayStation games for you when you get stuck www.eurogamer.net/sony-has-pat...
January 6, 2026 at 5:25 PM
pleased to report that this is among the 95% of gaming articles on patents that are dogshit clickbait; this is merely a published application and the most recent action on the USPTO data portal is a rejection of all claims
Anecdotally, for me at least, "Wait," seems to be followed by wrong turns about as much as right ones (on which basis I pronounce this arxiv pre-print 100% confirmed)
Do reasoning models have real “Aha!” moments—mid-chain realizations where they intrinsically self-correct?
In a new pre-print, “The Illusion of Insight in Reasoning Models," led by @liv-daliberti.bsky.social we provide strong evidence that they do not!
📜: arxiv.org/abs/2601.00514
In a new pre-print, “The Illusion of Insight in Reasoning Models," led by @liv-daliberti.bsky.social we provide strong evidence that they do not!
📜: arxiv.org/abs/2601.00514
January 5, 2026 at 9:04 PM
Anecdotally, for me at least, "Wait," seems to be followed by wrong turns about as much as right ones (on which basis I pronounce this arxiv pre-print 100% confirmed)
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The degree to which it is impossible to have any kind of discourse about this tech on BlueSky (and not even big-question public discourse! Even technical or nuanced critique gets slammed by blind rage from third parties!) is hard to overstate.
Lots of people tried to reconstruct the ML/AI/stats community over here. 90% of them left because the random abuse they got for just posting ordinary research results was too much.
bsky.app/profile/jwhe...
bsky.app/profile/jwhe...
Wrote about an obvious and yet profoundly underappreciated aspect of the AI boom: its total narrative capture by Elon Musk's X nymag.com/intelligence...
January 5, 2026 at 7:31 PM
The degree to which it is impossible to have any kind of discourse about this tech on BlueSky (and not even big-question public discourse! Even technical or nuanced critique gets slammed by blind rage from third parties!) is hard to overstate.
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George Borjas posting a paper about researchers selecting models that best fit their ideological assumptions
January 5, 2026 at 6:53 PM
George Borjas posting a paper about researchers selecting models that best fit their ideological assumptions
if i were in charge of a European country with NATO land forces currently based there, i would start thinking seriously about plans to detain US soldiers as POWs in the event of a Greenland annexation
January 5, 2026 at 5:19 PM
if i were in charge of a European country with NATO land forces currently based there, i would start thinking seriously about plans to detain US soldiers as POWs in the event of a Greenland annexation
i personally consider it an encouraging sign of progress that cuellar, gonzalez, and MGP have to give these quotes anonymously
This is just sickening. Back when people were saying "Primary every Democrat," we should have stuck with that
January 5, 2026 at 5:13 PM
i personally consider it an encouraging sign of progress that cuellar, gonzalez, and MGP have to give these quotes anonymously
it seems like for bond traders this is just a straightforward reading of "too friendly with trump to fail."
Milei Euphoria Drives Argentina Sovereign Risk to Seven-Year Low
A key measure of Argentina’s sovereign risk fell to its lowest level in seven years as policy changes by President Javier Milei’s administration left the nation closer to a return to international deb...
www.bloomberg.com
January 5, 2026 at 4:50 PM
it seems like for bond traders this is just a straightforward reading of "too friendly with trump to fail."
i've been lucky enough to avoid most age-related gripes especially considering how fat i am, but the thing where you sleep wrong and then can't bend over for several days is really fucking me up
January 5, 2026 at 2:07 PM
i've been lucky enough to avoid most age-related gripes especially considering how fat i am, but the thing where you sleep wrong and then can't bend over for several days is really fucking me up
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"The Republican party is an outright enemy of democratic interests around the world" is an objectively true statement and something that I don't know if the current crop of Dem pols are gonna be able to fully embrace
January 3, 2026 at 11:20 PM
"The Republican party is an outright enemy of democratic interests around the world" is an objectively true statement and something that I don't know if the current crop of Dem pols are gonna be able to fully embrace
shout out to every senator who voted to confirm marco rubio i hope you get primaried by a tiktok waitress
Trump: “Cuba is a failing nation and we want to help the people.
“I think Cuba is going to be something we’ll talk about.”
“I think Cuba is going to be something we’ll talk about.”
January 3, 2026 at 6:05 PM
shout out to every senator who voted to confirm marco rubio i hope you get primaried by a tiktok waitress
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I can’t believe they made me take exams about constitutional law
a small thing, but apparently my choices for the first day of constitutional law next week include shrugging, silence, or dryly explaining that the class is now purely theoretical
January 3, 2026 at 3:06 PM
I can’t believe they made me take exams about constitutional law
i can't believe this is finished (it's good)
The 70s. Termite Terrace is closed. Its residents either dead, retired, or moved on to other projects. But their creations, the Looney Tunes, lived on in some form or another to become inescapable cultural icons. This is the story of Bugs Bunny and pals and their legacy.
youtu.be/GmypUwG6x2s
youtu.be/GmypUwG6x2s
January 2, 2026 at 8:13 PM
i can't believe this is finished (it's good)
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Google completely disabled image generation and publicly apoligized because the frequency with which non-white people appeared offended the sensibilities of a few racists but X won’t turn off grok to prevent its being used for mass CSAM production. The priorities in tech are not good right now.
January 2, 2026 at 7:16 PM
Google completely disabled image generation and publicly apoligized because the frequency with which non-white people appeared offended the sensibilities of a few racists but X won’t turn off grok to prevent its being used for mass CSAM production. The priorities in tech are not good right now.
i'm gonna be honest it's lowkey depressing how many of the screenshots complaining about twitter's hostile porn bot correspond to inactive bsky stubs that aren't lighting up. if that won't convince you the water's boiling, you're already cooked
January 2, 2026 at 9:20 AM
i'm gonna be honest it's lowkey depressing how many of the screenshots complaining about twitter's hostile porn bot correspond to inactive bsky stubs that aren't lighting up. if that won't convince you the water's boiling, you're already cooked
