tinytachyon

tinytachyon

@tinytachyon.bsky.social

queer trans woman who is a communist and makes music. autistic bionicle expert. she/her. resident of naarm/"melbourne"

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survival horror video games need to get a lot less tacticool right now, because i don't want to see the protagonist of the new Hellraiser game (pretty good overall apparently) doing a perfect Harries stance but with the lament configuration cube instead of a flashlight

"deplatforming and social ostracisation of rapists is similar to incarceration" is minimisation of / effectively apologia for both rape and the prison system and it's disgusting to see people act like it isn't

sorry but lots of too-online behaviour boils down to good old GSF #1. you can see yourself in jacob geller because getting shitcanned for rape is a little bit like not being allowed at the cool kid's table. you can't see yourself in anyone taking a principled anti-rape-culture stance because, well,

jacob geller writing a statement acknowledging that he did in fact rape a sleeping woman and attaching the phrase "my continued drive to make myself and the world better" is extremely repulsive to me

do you think tony gilroy knew that "Revanchsim exists in star wars but its named after a guy called Revan" when he decided to make a show about insurrectionary realpolitik where the main realpolitik guy is called Luthen Rael. do you think everybody in star wars starts talking about "Rael-politics"

everyone is being about 170% as incredulous as they should be about the LLM navier-stokes counterexample but also about 25% as incredulous as they should be about LLMs supposedly running US military systems as opposed to being a new wrapper over the existing Project Maven shit

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OpenAI will not be accepting the million dollar Millennium Prize, continuing in the proud tradition established by Grigori Perelman. They are mathematical soulmates, Perelman and OpenAI. Their kinship is that of two strongly philosophically aligned peas in a pod.

followed sasha gusev a while ago specifically because i find his frequent in-depth rebuttals of racist pseudoscience interesting so i think that while its fair to disagree with him about the principle of the thing "this racist is only CLAIMING to be a marketplace of ideas guy" doesnt cut the mustard

that said i dont think cofnas getting fired/suspended because he made a bunch of racist posts demonstrating that he got his idea of how genetics works from assassins creed or possibly mass effect is the end of the world, academic freedom-wise

not ideal that the two positions on Arday appear to be "its fine/good that a washed up substack racist can lead a smear suicide campaign" and "oh so you journalists think it's 'funny' when a public figure lies about running a £5m supermarathon with a broken leg and cancer of the brain and testes???"

when i hear the word "culture" i release the spring catch on my serpa holster, launching my glock into my hand with trigger finger already squeezing, negligently discharging myself in the femoral artery and massively hemorrhaging

listening to an autechre that isnt incunabula and hearing that hihat/crash ktk-cshhhhhh pattern from incunabula's kalpol introl is so awesome, nobody has ever been better at playing touys than autechre

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everyone's making memes about "rishi season 3 arc (picture of spongebob in silent hill hell dimension)" which seems like an interesting direction given in season one every single line he has seems to be derived from the stage direction [RISHI engages in AMUSING LADDISH BUSINESS]

outside of the game Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons Of Liberty and the tv series Person Of Interest, what works of popular art are there where the plot can be boiled down to "the unit€d $tateSS of ameriKKKa has a sufficiently metonymous relationship to big evil computers that you should do 9/11 against it"

wait does that guy who namesearches "chris avellone" on twitter and replies within the minute also do that on here. thats so cool, absolutely nothing better to do than defend a litigious rapey creep

put off all the really finnicky mixing on my album and now there's construction next door so if it ends up sounding bad when i release it before my self imposed deadline please bear in mind it's only like 60% my fault

if you're really into LLMs because you're a humanities person and now the computers can do language, you may be saveable. if you're really into LLMs because you're a tech person and now language can be the domain of computers, it seems you will never produce interesting thoughts for humans again

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After a lengthy appeals process and productive discussion with the Blue Sky safety team I will no loinger be sending George Thorogood lyrics to beautiful women on here via DM. Thank you all

okay so either Wake Up Dead Man is written to tastefully float the possibility of Benoit Blanc and the josh o'connor priest being sexually compatible but never act on it, thus inspiring mountains of fanfic, or watching daniel craig on a big screen after one (1) beer has caused madness in my brainpan