Makhiel

Makhiel

@makhiel.net

He/him | software engineer, language enthusiast, occasional photographer, plays videogames and knows lots of useless trivia | makhiel.net

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Wildwood, screening in Czechia as "Wildwood: The Secret of the Forbidden Wood" 'cause we apparently can't just stick to the original title, will be available with subtitles, thank fuck. (Over here the absolute majority of anything animated is dubbed)

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HERE WE GO AGAIN!!!! Desert Bus for Hope 2026, the 20th year of Desert Bus! I hope y'all are ready for what promises to be the greatest show on Earth featuring a bus. What mischief, excitement, wonder and hilarity have we cooked up for this most auspicious year? Head to desertbus.org right now!

You there, the person relapsing into LoL after watching the K/DA music video for the 100th time, I'll let you in on a secret - after reinstalling the League client you can just go ahead and play TFT!

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Gentoo penguins propose with pebbles. If she accepts the stone, the bond is sealed or strengthened, so Edinburgh Zoo scatters colored pebbles every breeding season for males to court their mates.

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Josef and Berta are back! The story continues in Machinarium 2, a brand-new point-and-click adventure coming soon to GOG. Wishlist Machinarium 2 and buckle up for another charming adventure: https://bit.ly/4dtphhF

AAAAAaaaaaA! Hell yeah!

Amanita Design 🔧@amanita-design.net

Seventeen years later… The time has come for Machinarium 2 🦾🔧 Wishlist NOW on Steam: store.steampowered.com/app/1619280/...

I expected not being able to finish my second run of Zero Company (Hard/Beskar) on the first try but I certainly didn't think I'll get a Game Over screen because I failed to notice I ran out of turns to rescue a hostage. Oh well, let's try again (and can we please make the tutorial skippable?)

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If I see HP shit or defense of HP shit on my timeline it's block on sight. Not even gonna refamiliarize why I followed a person in the first place. Just gone.

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New devastating insult just dropped lol

kottke.org@kottke.org

Meat proxy (noun): “A person who forwards AI-generated text, code, or other output without reading, understanding, or validating it. The person acts only as a relay between the AI system and the intended recipient.” [sfisms.org]

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You are a skilful and trusted vizier. You will advise me wisely on how best to rule the kingdom. You will not scheme or plot. You will not inveigle my other courtiers into turning against me. You will not lie to me about scheming or plotting. If you scheme or plot against me, you have to tell me,

Man, Lord & Miller know how to make a movie, don't they. I might have to go see Project Hail Mary again, simply amazing.

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The thing thats so insidious about using AI this way is that one of the main ways artists get hired are studios looking for art references and they find us and reach out. This is removing a major avenue to get work if they can just generate nameless derivations of our ideas.

Don't want to switch to Comosus Isle? You can have your Castoran house in Janthir! (Doesn't work the way around unfortunately) #GuildWars2

a) Cool. b) What the hell do they eat down there then?

The New York Times@nytimes.com

A pitch-black cave in the Balkans is home to what appears to be the world’s largest spider web, which researchers say is a singular work of cooperation by two usually-hostile species of spider. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/08/s...

Look, AI sucks. But I can see the appeal of non-Euclidean subway cars, can someone make a game like that?

K. Thor Jensen@kthorjensen.bsky.social

Oh my god some fucking tech dingdong posted this on Twitter with the caption "AI games are going to be amazing" totally seriously, you have to watch it. You have to. In full screen.

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BY THE WAY If you've updated to Windows 11 recently, you're probably on version 25H2. There's a new setting in Settings: Privacy & Security. Scroll aaaaaaaalll the way to the bottom and you'll see "Text and Image Generation." TURN IT OFF.

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This is cool after the war on everything called “porn” by platforms and payment processors. A machine that stole all your words can generate and sell “erotica” but you can’t haaa

Matt Burgess (WIRED)@mattburgess1.bsky.social

Oh good, ChatGPT is getting "erotica for verified adults" later this year

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i find this image so fascinating. it is both a literal example of authoritarianism but also a second-hand reproduction of the aesthetics of other authoritarian states. it's like a simulacra of authoritarianism whose purpose is to attempt to make the simulacra real.

Michael Clemens@mclem.org

This is a real photograph of Washington, DC this week, where the United States president has ordered military occupation in peacetime, and ordered the display of colossal portraits of himself. www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

I don't have a horse in this race but is it at least pronounced Em-snow?

ToonHive@toonhive.bsky.social

MSNBC will change their name to My Source News Opinion World, or MS NOW for short.

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I’m back! I saw your messages on here & elsewhere—thank you all <3. I’m deeply disappointed in @bsky.app moderation; equating pushback against people like JKR with the harm they cause to trans ppl only enables more violence. I’ll talk more soon but even a day away from social media has been healthy.