Caliban Darklock

Caliban Darklock

@darklock.com

Professor of badass, world's smartest juggalo, and enormous turbo weeb. He/him. Read my SubscribeStar - https://subscribestar.adult/cdarklock Follow me on Tumblr - https://www.tumblr.com/cdarklock Jump up my Discord - https://discord.gg/wgQrgzkw2A

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Caliban Darklock
@darklock.com

I am legitimately pleased with the way design elements are coming together on my game. I would show them to you but right now they are a bulleted list and a pseudocode draft of what the struct declaration will look like, so it's not very exciting

Caliban Darklock
@darklock.com

Even worse, when they're implemented, they'll be completely invisible and I could show you all the screenshots in the world but you wouldn't see them.

Caliban Darklock
@darklock.com

Which means no matter how pleased I am with them, no matter how cool I think they are, they are worth precisely jack shit to anyone deciding whether they want to buy and play the game. I will need to add other features to do that.

Caliban Darklock
@darklock.com

I say this so often about so many people and evidently the answer is "no" but i keep hoping that will change

AK Faulkner@ravenswordpress.com

Won't someone fucking rid us of this troublesome racist fuck?

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Micro SF/F by O. Westin
@microsff.com

The God of Bad Art gets offerings from all over the world, but in Their temple, They sometimes appear. "Why bad art?" I ask. "It is brave", the God replies. "To try and fail?" "No," the God chuckles. "Any creative work is a defiance of entropy, of Death itself. If you create, you do not fail."

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Caitie
@ghildirthalen.bsky.social

Replying to @ghildirthalen.bsky.social

This post is taking off, so I want to crosspost @kalaelizabeth.bsky.social’s post in response. The save mass effect thing isnt just one person with one bad goal, there are people including the laid off devs too

Caliban Darklock
@darklock.com

I think the thing I dislike most about Shattered Space and Terran Armada is the complete lack of thought-provoking anything. Both of them ask the same butt-simple moral question at the end, "is it okay to commit a genocide now?"

Caliban Darklock
@darklock.com

In Shattered Space, no matter what you say, nothing actually changes. But in Terran Armada, if you say "no," the Terrans will continue to harass you with incursions until you go through the Unity. So I guess TA actually gives your choice consequences, at least.

Caliban Darklock
@darklock.com

And in both cases, what the mission string seems to offer is just "large combat encounters" which are just not that interesting or exciting to me and also TA does a lot of zero-G stuff which is annoying

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✨ Sara ✨ 🦄
@doomsparkler.bsky.social

This is particularly obvious given current trends by conservative evangelicals: Megan Basham posted that most Mainline churches aren’t Christian, and Eric Metaxas claimed that Christian colleges who don’t invite Erika Kirk to speak are fake. They’re chomping at the bit to define the In Crowd.

🗽LOLGOP🗽@lolgop.bsky.social

"If Christian nationalists are allowed to define America as a Christian country in which Muslims are viewed as alien outsiders, it won’t be long until Jews, Catholics, atheists, and anyone expressing political dissent will also be labeled as alien outsiders."

Caliban Darklock
@darklock.com

It has GOT to fuck you up to be scrolling social media of any sort -- let alone a dating site -- and see a picture of someone sitting in YOUR HOUSE

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Garnet Henderson
@garnethenderson.com

Another item from today's roundup: People aren't even clutching their own pearls anymore. They're having ChatGPT do it for them.

Autonomy News@autonomynews.co

NEW: Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier said in an interview with extremist organization Live Action that his intervention in surrogacy cases is about promoting fetal personhood—an argument that could imperil not just surrogacy, but also abortion, IVF, and some forms of birth control.

autonomynews.coFlorida AG Admits Surrogacy Lawsuits Are Vehicles for Fetal Personhood: October 26 News RoundupPlus, what you missed on Autonomy News last week.

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Marisa Kabas
@marisakabas.bsky.social

The only reason I can think of for this news not being absolutely everywhere is that large media orgs don’t want to be seen as putting their thumbs on the scales a week before election day. And that’s cowardly as shit.

Marisa Kabas@marisakabas.bsky.social

Beyond disgusted by even more rape allegations against the President of the United States. "In total, more than 25 different women...have independently accused Donald Trump of rape, sexual assault, or other sexual misconduct." Report w/ new details: democrats-judiciary.house.gov/sites/evo-su...

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*NormalGamer*
@ng480.bsky.social

AOC has two words for Democrats who think defending trans rights is a losing issue www.lgbtqnation.com/2026/10/aoc-... @lgbtqnation.com #consciousness #awakening #awareness #ascension #coherence #transrightsarehumanrights #transrights #midterms #voteblue #importantreminder

lgbtqnation.comAOC has two words for Democrats who think defending trans rights is a losing issue - LGBTQ NationShe also reminded voters what all this anti-trans fearmongering is really about.

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Marisa Kabas
@marisakabas.bsky.social

Replying to @marisakabas.bsky.social

A serial rapist was elected twice as President, a fact we don't reckon with nearly enough. Now one of two major political parties has been molded in his image, run for and by violent sexual abusers who hate women.

Caliban Darklock
@darklock.com

Online advertising is so fucked. During a single video YouTube has tried to sell me lawn equipment from Grainger, some kind of medical services for physicians in private practice, and gel nail polish. None of these make any sense. YouTube is not even trying to show me products I want.

Caliban Darklock
@darklock.com

When I was a teenager we used to joke about Beacon Mall in Alexandria Virginia being the "black mall." But it wasn't THAT black. It was still majority white, from everything I saw. And many years later, I read a book about suburban mall demographics, where they said malls wanted to be under 5% black

Caliban Darklock
@darklock.com

Because if you had 5% black patrons, white people thought the mall was half black, and if you had 10% they thought it was ALL black. And as they looked at it they realised the issue was that at 5%, when a white person saw a black person, they had not emotionally recovered from seeing the last one.

Caliban Darklock
@darklock.com

And at 10%, they could ALWAYS see a black person, so they NEVER recovered. And I have always just kind of looked at that and thought... Do you realise how racist that makes America? Like it is honestly mind-blowing how fucking racist we are over here

Caliban Darklock
@darklock.com

So here's the problem with AI training. If you do not do any curation of the data, your training data looks like this: a standard Gaussian bell curve, familiar to anyone who took statistics in school.

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Caliban Darklock
@darklock.com

Basically, we have begun a feedback loop that will inexorably drive the machine to give dumber and dumber responses. Furthermore, by letting people post machine results ON social media, you dramatically raise the chance of feeding results back into the machine and hastening model collapse.

Caliban Darklock
@darklock.com

And we've done this because there's an inescapable truth about how we train the machine: we need too much data. The training mechanisms are too slow and make too small a difference. But because our data source is hideously polluted, faster training just makes the problem worse.

Caliban Darklock
@darklock.com

So here's the problem with AI training. If you do not do any curation of the data, your training data looks like this: a standard Gaussian bell curve, familiar to anyone who took statistics in school.

Caliban Darklock
@darklock.com

This isn't what you WANT the data to look like. You want it to look like this: that huge peak in the middle is culled and compressed, so there's less "average" result, and the entire bottom third of the data -- the low-quality outliers -- gets chopped off. Now your responses skew above-average.

Caliban Darklock
@darklock.com

But what the tech dumbasses have done instead is curate indirectly, by training on social media: the space where MINIMAL THOUGHT AND EFFORT is put into the data, so it is overwhelmingly in that central peak (which you wanted to REDUCE) and the top end simply isn't there.

Caliban Darklock
@darklock.com

Blue Sky has broken the entire site twice TODAY, and even if you don't think they're a bunch of cuck-coding incompetents, there is no Goddamn excuse for your end user SEEING your stupid fuckups. Changes should deploy onto a test server and roll out after testing. These are not serious people.

Caliban Darklock
@darklock.com

"Remember, while you may be suffering every day from these high prices, the bright side is that my friends and I get to take all your money and keep it because fuck you"

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

Trump: "While oil prices are temporarily high ... the United States oil and gas business is making hundreds of billions of dollars"