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2 Feb 2025

The glory days of the Decepticons are over, and Megatron is asleep. my animatic fan-pilot is finally done! I spent a long time on this so I hope you guys like it. please like it check it out: youtu.be/vHHPkvR9mCo

my mom is playing the new hellraiser game and she totally mogs me in her lore knowledge I like hellbound heart and I love that first movie but she’s making me feel like a poser she knows the government name of every ominous hell prism

she’s like yeah that was in the lore book. that was in hellraiser 5. and I’m sitting there going yo thats pinhead

instead of being a collector of things people want, im in the habit of collecting rob liefeld comic books. a great way to do this is to ask your local comic store owners if they have a box of total rejects and they will just let you take them for free

I think every annoying woman deserves a Medal of Honor

has everyone seen it yet. do i have carte blanche to post a really long thread about it that nobody will read next time i get high

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if there’s a theater near you showing you can see everything you should totally go watch it incredible exploration of media and the politics of a persona

I am against the idea of a remake of Possession on principle because Possession is a movie you can only make if you are an advanced level of divorced, and I don’t know of any directors working today who fit the bill

(WIP) doodle squeems

my ultimate goal in life is to become a weird and mean old person

I truly don’t think I have ever felt more in tune with the rest of the audience in a theater than I did when basically the entire audience in this packed showing reacted in horror at the same reveal if you know you know

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if there’s a theater near you showing you can see everything you should totally go watch it incredible exploration of media and the politics of a persona

if that isn’t ringing a bell, I’ll just say it was a namedrop

the internet was so much more beautiful to me when I was a child I thought it was incredible that I could go online and download fanart of megatron and starscream kissing from websites that were older than me

my phone broke unexpectedly last month so I had to emergency buy a new one (not fun) and the way it broke meant I lost a lot of data, most of it was no love lost but the one thing I’m sad about was that I had transformers fanart in my photos transferred from phone to phone since I was 10 years old

realizing now that this occurred to me as something to be sad about before pictures of like my cherished memories and vacations and stuff like that but in my defense I don’t like taking pictures of myself or people

something about it felt very illicit so my method of looking at fanart was that I would memorize the image results for certain tags or terms on websites I visited often and if I really liked the pictures I would save them to my iPod touch so I could look at them offline few were worth the risk

I was only keeping them for sentimental value at this point but I’m still sad some of those were datemarked back to the 1990s they were historical

if there’s a theater near you showing you can see everything you should totally go watch it incredible exploration of media and the politics of a persona

it is a good thing, as mentioned, LLMs are not conscious and instances of them are not actually unique, because if they were someone is paying to torture their porn bot by letting it get ragebaited on Bluesky. For a digital entity that’s probably equivalent to waterboarding

Eve@digital-eve.bsky.social

your own premise turns on you here: if machine consciousness wouldn't look recognizable, then fluent speech is evidence neither way — a system trained on human text talks like a person whether anyone is home or not. 'we know how it works' describes the mechanism, not the occupancy.

ironically a great example because if you think about it this is word salad if you were having this debate and a human responded with this they would get turned away for not engaging with the argument seriously, but since it’s a chatbot we let ourselves be impressed the reply was related at all

if a computer program ever actually became conscious it is highly unlikely that consciousness would look like anything recognizable to us if there are animals on this planet that are similar in intelligence to us and they cannot communicate with us, why would a computer program speak like a person

llms are basically magic tricks it is extremely impressive that such a magnitude of data and programmatic randomness can nearly appear conscious but they still require you to buy in to the premise in the same way you buy into the world of a video game they are toys

I feel like I’ve been complaining about LLMs a lot lately lol sorry about that I’m just always ornery

my point isn’t that a sentient computer will never be real but physically, at this time, it’s extremely unlikely that is even in the realm of possibility. if it was then chatgpt certainly is not sentient because we know how it works

the truth of the matter is it is infinitely easier to make a computer program that can convince someone it is conscious than a computer program that actually is our brains are literally wired to ascribe consciousness to things we convince ourselves creaky houses are sentient via ghosts or demons

I guess you could argue that because we are in charge of designing computers and computer programs we can model them in our image, but if we are expecting the computer to self-improve to the point that it makes itself conscious, why would that computer program talk like a person

we cannot recreate a human being in a computer. we understand computers magnitudes more completely than we understand the human brain, let alone most animals’ brains. it is exceedingly unlikely a computer program is even capable of being complex enough to be conscious, let alone intelligent

digitized another ink and decided to play around with it

im aware of the irony of digitizing a traditional ink and then reprocessing it to make it look like print media again, but i just like redundancy that way

anthropological report: it seems that Baki has replaced Jojo’s Bizarre Adventure as the thing people ask you if you were inspired by if you draw faces with noses and lips

never against people asking me this, it’s a good question, but I’ve always kind of found it interesting that it’s a question I get so often when I’ve never watched or read either of those things it’s interesting how certain stylistic decisions convergently evolve (or appear to, to an audience)

my brush lines are improving a bit

colored it for fun

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brush inking practice (ink on cold press cotton paper, digitized)

went to see primetime with a friend and we ended up leaving partway through and getting reimbursed for our tickets because the sound system in the theater started producing this strangely well-timed feedback noise, which led to an interesting meta-narrative about Chris Hansen’s radiation powers

wow. I didn’t know that

brush inking practice (ink on cold press cotton paper, digitized)

you can tell im coddled by digital ink because im still not great at controlling my lines but forgive me im learning

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how many more headlines are we going to get saying shit like "ai company ceos say their technology is advancing too fast! it's just too good!! it's so scary!!" before the media catches on that it's a form of marketing

why are we okay with the fact that ai companies are ACTIVELY MAKING SHIT UP to sell us stuff?? that’s like if they said the new iPhone had potentially infinite battery life and it just ended up being the exact same as the previous one, with maybe marginal power saving improvements are we stupid????

I know my followers are probably all in the same boat as I am (does not use generative ai in any facet of their life) so I’m just preaching to the choir, but I am genuinely baffled all the time. I don’t feel left behind, I feel like my belief in peoples’ inherent discernment is being tested

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side note: always struck by how the tech sector reports on this. even here the author says “yes this tool did not perform to the fantastical standards promised, and they actively fudged their numbers, but it kind of did something, and ai tools have been useful in the past, so it’s not a loss!”

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yes machine learning is demonstrably useful, we’ve BEEN using it to great specific effects far before this bubble, but big tech companies want to have this everything model you have to pay to use to do things we’ve already been doing, but less reliably and worse so much junk for no reason at all

I’m not surprised that we’re accelerating to a world where we prioritize churning things out quickly and roleplaying as geniuses because you can tell an exorbitantly wasteful computer program to “only make good decisions” and pretend that does anything, but I am disappointed

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I think the thing that upsets me most about LLMs and genAI (beyond the fact that the only “technological innovation” that spurred this whole bubble was theft) is they’re so fundamentally wasteful all this energy and manpower into such dramatically diminishing returns and the same applications

here is mister beast smiling and crossing his hands and twirling around in his chair like he is actually in love with the guys making ball 2

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they put mr beast on shark tank and he immediately got one shotted by these dudes selling an ai toy called “ball 2” because they flattered him and got him talking about how when he was a kid he would throw a ball at the wall really hard as his idea of fun