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Steam Sketches

@steamsketches.bsky.social

Hi I'm Dakota I like to draw ★ DM for Comms 💸 Made in 1995 No AI/NFT 🚫

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Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg@theradr.bsky.social · 4w ago

NEVER FORGET the debt we all owe to the Miccosukee Tribe, without whom it would still be open. And never forget that Indigenous sovereignty and all our safety and flourishing are forever intertwined.

“Alligator Alcatraz” May Close After Months of Tribal Resistance in the Everglades

The controversial immigration detention center dubbed “Alligator Alcatraz” could soon shut down — a dramatic reversal following months of resistance led by the Miccosukee Tribe, Native advocates, and ...

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Tyler King@tyleraking.com · 4w ago

After a cost of more than $1 billion, the Everglades concentration camp has been removed from the airstrip where it once stood.

Cartoon Brew@cartoonbrew.bsky.social · 2mo ago

'The Amazing Digital Circus: The Last Act' did the unthinkable, cracking the global top five at the box office over the weekend, earning $26.5 million. Adding in Thursday screenings, the indie finale has grossed $35.5 million worldwide. www.cartoonbrew.com/box-office-r...

‘The Amazing Digital Circus’ Cracks Global Top 5, $26.5M Weekend

Adding in figures from impressive Thursday preview screenings, the film's global total sits at $35.5 million according to Comscore estimates.

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Robert Yang@radiatoryang.bsky.social · 2mo ago

cool paper arguing LLMs can be implemented as a shitload of goats in Age of Empires II... thus it'd be silly to assume / project human-like consciousness onto it

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Matthew Sheffield@matthew.flux.community · 2mo ago

This paper doesn't use the term "intentional stance," but it does really expose that imputation of consciousness is an act by the observer that's usually not based on dispassionate analysis of the observed's internal structures. It's just vibes, and those aren't sufficient. arxiv.org/pdf/2605.31514

Much research has been carried out on large language models (LLMs) and LLMpowered agentic workflows. However, many works within the field state emergence of, ascribe to, or assume, generalised anthropomorphic attributes to them (e.g., morality or understanding of natural language). Our goal is not to argue in favour or against the existence of these attributes, but to point out that these conclusions could be incorrect. For this we build and train a simple neural network on the videogame Age of Empires II, and note that any entity in a sufficiently-powerful substrate, such as LEGO or the Greater Boston Area, could also present such attributes. Hence, the purported anthropomorphic attributes of LLMs are empirically non-unique: although some properties (e.g., responses to prompts) could remain constant, others, such as the interpretation of their perceived behaviour, might change with the substrate. Thus, any empirically-grounded discussion requires explicit measurement criteria; otherwise the interpretation is left to the representation. We then show that assuming that these attributes exist or not in a system, independent of the substrate and in a generalised way, leads to either circular or uninformative conclusions, regardless of the experimenter’s viewpoint on the subject. Finally we propose a ‘null’ assumption, where one assumes LLM non-uniqueness instead of assuming anthropomorphic attributes to set up an experiment, along with examples of it. We also discuss potential objections to our work, briefly survey the field, and prove that Age of Empires II is functionally- and Turing-complete.
Steam Sketches@steamsketches.bsky.social · 3mo ago

I'm not trying to only draw Digital Circus stuff. I'm just having such an easy time leeching dopamine out of it rn and it's keeping my pen moving, so I'm gonna ride this wave for as long as it'll carry me

Uncut Femmes@juliagiantrat.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Genuinely like 75% of the issues in your town/city are likely to be traced back to the fact your local elections probably have a participation rate of maybe 40% and the leadership has been entirely Corrupt Boomers for the past 50 years straight

Uncut Femmes@juliagiantrat.bsky.social · 4mo ago

in the end though tragically this all boils down to Boring Local Government and the reality that the average american is kinda upset bc every city/town in America for the past 50+ years has been ruled over by Boomer land-owning ghouls who own a majority of the wealth and are the only ones that vote

Zelda Zenz@zeldazenz.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Starting September 2026, Google will block any Android app whose developer hasn't registered and provided government ID. This affects all apps, not just Play Store apps. F-Droid calls it an "existential threat." @keepandroidopen.bsky.social #KeepAndroidOpen keepandroidopen.org

Keep Android Open

Your phone is about to stop being yours. In September 2026, Google will block every Android app whose developer hasn't registered with them.

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