Xythar
@xythar.bsky.social
professional applicator of words to screen. recognized as a member of the primates
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>try to swipe my credit card
>Cashier: “you gotta tap it”
>Okay
>turns card 90 degrees
>gets one mana
>Cashier: “that’s not enough :/“
>Cashier: “you gotta tap it”
>Okay
>turns card 90 degrees
>gets one mana
>Cashier: “that’s not enough :/“
November 30, 2025 at 6:35 AM
>try to swipe my credit card
>Cashier: “you gotta tap it”
>Okay
>turns card 90 degrees
>gets one mana
>Cashier: “that’s not enough :/“
>Cashier: “you gotta tap it”
>Okay
>turns card 90 degrees
>gets one mana
>Cashier: “that’s not enough :/“
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Relying on ChatGPT to teach you about a topic leaves you with shallower knowledge than Googling and reading about it, according to new research that compared what more than 10,000 people knew after using one method or the other.
Shared by @gizmodo.com: buff.ly/yAAHtHq
Shared by @gizmodo.com: buff.ly/yAAHtHq
Learning With AI Falls Short Compared to Old-Fashioned Web Search
In virtually all the ways that matter, getting summarized information from AI models was less educational than doing the work of search.
buff.ly
November 30, 2025 at 3:30 AM
Relying on ChatGPT to teach you about a topic leaves you with shallower knowledge than Googling and reading about it, according to new research that compared what more than 10,000 people knew after using one method or the other.
Shared by @gizmodo.com: buff.ly/yAAHtHq
Shared by @gizmodo.com: buff.ly/yAAHtHq
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The thing about AI anime dubs and AI Actor Tilly Norwood and AI music is just the fucking disrespect, this is what your industry thinks can replace you and it’s not even good. It’s not even a thing you look at with dread at how the computer has replaced Man, it just sucks ass lol it just blows
November 30, 2025 at 5:44 AM
The thing about AI anime dubs and AI Actor Tilly Norwood and AI music is just the fucking disrespect, this is what your industry thinks can replace you and it’s not even good. It’s not even a thing you look at with dread at how the computer has replaced Man, it just sucks ass lol it just blows
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The saddest truth. Valve make much of their money on children gambling for fake guns. Rather than make a pro-civil-rights statement, they gave their staff a stipend to donate to pro or anti civil rights movements as they wanted. Newell owns a fleet of pleasure yachts.
They're still the best option.
They're still the best option.
As annoying as a collective of yacht obsessed libertarians with the worst management structure is, it turns out that they still just hammer any publicly traded company on any practical and ethical level. 🫠
November 30, 2025 at 10:39 AM
The saddest truth. Valve make much of their money on children gambling for fake guns. Rather than make a pro-civil-rights statement, they gave their staff a stipend to donate to pro or anti civil rights movements as they wanted. Newell owns a fleet of pleasure yachts.
They're still the best option.
They're still the best option.
i want to send this to every single person trying to poke holes in the setup for the gnosia anime
November 30, 2025 at 9:38 AM
i want to send this to every single person trying to poke holes in the setup for the gnosia anime
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had to hit a hateful anon with the northern lion summon
November 30, 2025 at 2:19 AM
had to hit a hateful anon with the northern lion summon
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Finally getting some theological clarity on the ethics of reclining in one’s plane seat
November 29, 2025 at 12:13 PM
Finally getting some theological clarity on the ethics of reclining in one’s plane seat
i think something that bugs me about the "clankers" thing (aside from people transparently using it to make light of actual racism) is that it paints machines or "AI" itself as the enemy when they are things that have no agency
it's not "AI" taking jobs away, it's the execs using it
it's not "AI" taking jobs away, it's the execs using it
November 30, 2025 at 7:36 AM
i think something that bugs me about the "clankers" thing (aside from people transparently using it to make light of actual racism) is that it paints machines or "AI" itself as the enemy when they are things that have no agency
it's not "AI" taking jobs away, it's the execs using it
it's not "AI" taking jobs away, it's the execs using it
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When I see LLMs pitched as a guaranteed productivity tool for software engineering, the is the counterweight I keep trying to get people to seriously engage with and not handwave away is the future cost, and “oh everything tech gets cheaper” isn’t an answer. Services don’t and LLMs are a service.
November 29, 2025 at 2:11 PM
When I see LLMs pitched as a guaranteed productivity tool for software engineering, the is the counterweight I keep trying to get people to seriously engage with and not handwave away is the future cost, and “oh everything tech gets cheaper” isn’t an answer. Services don’t and LLMs are a service.
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I'm starting to feel kind of grumpy about how some indie and AA games copy so many of the practices that harm AAA. Like, dopamine loops and such can be compelling in a good way, but when we're implementing fomo shops, daily grinds, etc just like big companies... idk it feels wrong to me.
November 29, 2025 at 3:56 PM
I'm starting to feel kind of grumpy about how some indie and AA games copy so many of the practices that harm AAA. Like, dopamine loops and such can be compelling in a good way, but when we're implementing fomo shops, daily grinds, etc just like big companies... idk it feels wrong to me.
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square is giving away the $59 chip reader for free as long as you log in to your account to order it 👁️👄👁️
November 30, 2025 at 2:47 AM
square is giving away the $59 chip reader for free as long as you log in to your account to order it 👁️👄👁️
my face when I learned the "SR50" strafe running technique in doom speedruns is literally just the "Running was invented by Thomas Running in 1747 when he tried walking twice at the same time" meme
November 30, 2025 at 5:48 AM
my face when I learned the "SR50" strafe running technique in doom speedruns is literally just the "Running was invented by Thomas Running in 1747 when he tried walking twice at the same time" meme
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Here's the good news: though the workers 'making' these AI locs can't do much to stop them, WE, THE CONSUMERS, CAN.
Email them. Cancel your subscription. Call them and complain.
Be a Karen. Tell them they have lost your dollar.
Workers secretly want this. They want consumers to riot.
Email them. Cancel your subscription. Call them and complain.
Be a Karen. Tell them they have lost your dollar.
Workers secretly want this. They want consumers to riot.
November 30, 2025 at 5:05 AM
Here's the good news: though the workers 'making' these AI locs can't do much to stop them, WE, THE CONSUMERS, CAN.
Email them. Cancel your subscription. Call them and complain.
Be a Karen. Tell them they have lost your dollar.
Workers secretly want this. They want consumers to riot.
Email them. Cancel your subscription. Call them and complain.
Be a Karen. Tell them they have lost your dollar.
Workers secretly want this. They want consumers to riot.
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Let me give some insight on this, as a producer in the dub industry who worked with major streamers, who's witnessed first-hand where this push for AI is coming from.
tl;dr: Only CEOs want this. Tell them how much you hate it. Be loud, email, call, @, post. You will kill this.
🧵⬇️
tl;dr: Only CEOs want this. Tell them how much you hate it. Be loud, email, call, @, post. You will kill this.
🧵⬇️
The only thing less human than these AI dub performances is the decision to sign off on them
A company this big can pay human actors a decent wage, not produce slop that intentionally removes the human element.
A company this big can pay human actors a decent wage, not produce slop that intentionally removes the human element.
November 30, 2025 at 4:55 AM
Let me give some insight on this, as a producer in the dub industry who worked with major streamers, who's witnessed first-hand where this push for AI is coming from.
tl;dr: Only CEOs want this. Tell them how much you hate it. Be loud, email, call, @, post. You will kill this.
🧵⬇️
tl;dr: Only CEOs want this. Tell them how much you hate it. Be loud, email, call, @, post. You will kill this.
🧵⬇️
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Headline: "AI can replace 11.7% of workforce"
Actual study: Anthropic paid MIT to use a "labor simulation tool" that said 11.7% of TASKS could be done by AI
Actual study: Anthropic paid MIT to use a "labor simulation tool" that said 11.7% of TASKS could be done by AI
MIT study finds AI can already replace 11.7% of U.S. workforce
Artificial intelligence can already replace 11.7% of the U.S. labor market, across finance, health care and professional services, according to MIT's study.
www.cnbc.com
November 29, 2025 at 9:57 PM
Headline: "AI can replace 11.7% of workforce"
Actual study: Anthropic paid MIT to use a "labor simulation tool" that said 11.7% of TASKS could be done by AI
Actual study: Anthropic paid MIT to use a "labor simulation tool" that said 11.7% of TASKS could be done by AI
gnosia is crazy good this week
November 30, 2025 at 2:05 AM
gnosia is crazy good this week
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We are actually doing something. DON'T STOP CALLING.
Morale at paypros call centers is in the toilet right now. It’s not just normal Black Friday stress, they’re being pounded. Corporate is pressuring bosses to end the paypros call campaigns. Source familiar w/ internals at MC stressed that folks should stand their ground but be kind to agents (1)
November 29, 2025 at 2:08 PM
We are actually doing something. DON'T STOP CALLING.
"let this grieving soul retire" is so fucking funny dude
November 29, 2025 at 4:20 PM
"let this grieving soul retire" is so fucking funny dude
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And I swear, once again, this is not dunking on kids. We are seeing this at all levels--even grad students. AI + social media has had a profound impact on how we think and process our world, and we can't stop to reflect on it, because billionaires keep hurling addictive tech at us.
November 28, 2025 at 10:34 PM
And I swear, once again, this is not dunking on kids. We are seeing this at all levels--even grad students. AI + social media has had a profound impact on how we think and process our world, and we can't stop to reflect on it, because billionaires keep hurling addictive tech at us.
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An issue we're seeing at all levels of university is that many students are simply refusing to do *anything*. They aren't reading the syllabus, aren't following assignment guidelines, aren't engaging with material, ignoring deadlines. And this might seem like old news, but it truly has ramped up.
November 28, 2025 at 10:15 PM
An issue we're seeing at all levels of university is that many students are simply refusing to do *anything*. They aren't reading the syllabus, aren't following assignment guidelines, aren't engaging with material, ignoring deadlines. And this might seem like old news, but it truly has ramped up.
ooh, another eden's doing an FF9 crossover
zidane, vivi, garnet, steiner to be playable (all free)
did they have voice actors before this...
zidane, vivi, garnet, steiner to be playable (all free)
did they have voice actors before this...
November 29, 2025 at 3:41 PM
ooh, another eden's doing an FF9 crossover
zidane, vivi, garnet, steiner to be playable (all free)
did they have voice actors before this...
zidane, vivi, garnet, steiner to be playable (all free)
did they have voice actors before this...
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I walked away from my last job profoundly jaded that the voluntary commitments by tech companies to address violent extemism on their platforms and to collectively hold the industry to account together were at best cynically held, and every day since has hit a new low.
November 29, 2025 at 2:20 PM
I walked away from my last job profoundly jaded that the voluntary commitments by tech companies to address violent extemism on their platforms and to collectively hold the industry to account together were at best cynically held, and every day since has hit a new low.
ngnl0 already had a pretty bad translation so the AI dub on top of that is one more nail in the coffin
no game no life just can't catch a break
no game no life just can't catch a break
November 29, 2025 at 2:05 PM
ngnl0 already had a pretty bad translation so the AI dub on top of that is one more nail in the coffin
no game no life just can't catch a break
no game no life just can't catch a break