I try to intersperse nonfiction in between all the fiction I read. Problem is most of the nonfiction I read is depressing.

Le Guin's The Dispossessed, the amatonormativity brought the experience down for me... A personal problem, I suppose... I hear the Left Hand of Darkness is kind of the opposite in that regard so maybe I'd enjoy reading that next.

Japan has a spotty history with this sort of thing, which is I think one of the reasons I enjoy seeing a positive version of it in Japanese media.

If you have any more let me know!

I quite like the archetype of effeminate men who are are respected as badasses instead of treated like jokes, like Oren Pierre Alfonzo from Kamen Rider Gaim and Sylvando (Sylvie) from Dragon Quest XI. (Although Gaim did have a few moments that leaned into joke-y territory)

"No one is lazy. They grow hopeless from the misery of their present existence, and give up." --Emma Goldman

This is a shot in the dark but I remember reading about a tweakable transparent fediverse algorithm? Does anyone know what I'm talking about and have a link to that?

insider-gaming.com/indie-game-awards-disqualifies-clair-obscur-expedition-33-gen-ai/

come to think of it, everything I post her is a shot in the dark

@fediversereport I see this as an absolute win.

This is a shot in the dark but I remember reading about a tweakable transparent fediverse algorithm? Does anyone know what I'm talking about and have a link to that?

the ai bubble is a soft test for the collapse of capitalism

the one silver lining about Larian using AI is seeing how angry it is making everyone. it has restored some of my faith in humanity.

everyone is 12. except on fediverse, where everyone is over 50.

_goes on twitter to research a topic_

*comments are filled with r-word*

_goes off twitter_

does this mean I can seek assylum?

www.reuters.com/legal/government/bondi-orders-law-enforcement-investigate-us-groups-over-accusations-domestic-2025-12-05/

I hope people do not actually trust AI summaries, AI overviews etc.

akibaranger good show

Jobs advertised to work with AI actor Tilly Norwood As nine new jobs are being advertised to work with controversial AI actor Tilly Norwood - XICOIA CEO, Eline Van der Velden explains what she thinks about the backlash to her creation.

Well I used to use AP as one of my sources of news. Not any more.

apnews.com/video/jobs-advertised-to-work-with-ai-actor-tilly-norwood-2cada278eb7b40369213395bb0daae10

look the only gate I want to hear about is Steins

maybe the amish had the right idea

AI Warning: Google has been caught A/B testing replacing real article headlines with AI-generated substitutes, which are of course sometimes wildly misleading/against journalistic ethics. If you see a blatantly horrible headline in a news aggregator, check whether the site's own page matches […]

The thing that always brings me back to social media is the haunting uncertainty of whether no one sees my posts, or they just don't care.

I'm so tired...

I need an alternative to Bitwarden since they have fallen to the dark side. Any suggestions?

contributing.bitwarden.com/contributing/ai/

At Bitwarden we leverage artificial intelligence tools to enhance developer productivity, improve code quality, and accelerate our development cycles. Our […]

I know it's blasphemy, but I wonder if it's possible that a prebuilt might be a decent deal all things considered.

I've been trying to save up for two months to begin to replace the PC I destroyed via The Spill, but now RAM prices are twice as much as they were when I started. 32GB of DDR5 RAM now costs more than the CPU I was going to get.

Cult classic and critically acclaimed anime Banana Fish gets horrifically bad AI dub Did Banana Fish do this to you? The fan-beloved anime series has lacked an official dub since its release in 2018. There may have been a paranormal primate paw involved, however, since their wish (sort of) came true in the worst kind of way. To call the _Banana Fish_ AI dub “bad” would be a disservice to bad dubbing. I’m personally a great fan of bad dubbing in certain circumstances. Life would be a little duller without _Robot Alchemic Drive_ ‘s infamous bread and water soup, or _Chaos Wars_ ‘ infamous… everything. But those are human failures. There’s a certain something with an unintentionally bad creation that makes many of us want to cheer for it. Something poignant and beautiful in failing so fantastically that it elevates the entire experience. If you’re going to fail, fail spectacularly, as they say. These AI dubs don’t have the same effect. Maybe it’s the context that makes it more sad and frustrating than funny. This is something that people do for a living, who were not hired and paid to do an infinitely better job, or at the very least given the opportunity to do a bad job. Maybe it’s simply the lack of humanity that can be felt even when it can’t be neatly defined or described. Either way, it’s awful and I want it to go away. This may be the outgrowth of Amazon’s AI dubbing initiative launched in March of this year, which started with “12 licensed movies and series.” _Banana Fish_ isn’t the only anime to receive the _Moonbase Alpha_ treatment. The ensloppiffication continues with titles such as _Pet_ and the _No Game No Life_ _Zero_ film, which _already had a dub_. * * * > The only thing less human than these AI dub performances is the decision to sign off on themA company this big can pay human actors a decent wage, not produce slop that intentionally removes the human element. > > — LittleKuriboh (@littlekuriboh.bsky.social) 2025-11-28T23:21:41.034Z > Welp, a second AI dub on Amazon has apparently been found, and it's a show that already had a perfectly normal (albeit non-union) dub: No Game No Life. > > — Brainchild129 (@brainchild129.bsky.social) 2025-11-29T13:51:42.862Z

empty.win/banana-fish-ai-dub/ #ai #anime #manga

If you, too, are anti-AI, make sure you search that git repo before you invest your time into it. Two projects that seemed promising at first were tainted with slop.

what a maroon.

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