𝙻𝚒𝚘𝚗𝚎𝚕 𝙳𝚊𝚟𝚘𝚞𝚜𝚝 / Wildphinn

𝙻𝚒𝚘𝚗𝚎𝚕 𝙳𝚊𝚟𝚘𝚞𝚜𝚝 / Wildphinn

@lioneldavoust.com

#Auteur d'imaginaire (Critic, Folio, Argyll) | Producteur du podcast Procrastination | #writing | Electronic music producer as Wildphinn | #Electronica | Australian resident in #Melbourne | he/they 🏳️‍🌈

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𝙻𝚒𝚘𝚗𝚎𝚕 𝙳𝚊𝚟𝚘𝚞𝚜𝚝 / Wildphinn reposted

𝙻𝚒𝚘𝚗𝚎𝚕 𝙳𝚊𝚟𝚘𝚞𝚜𝚝 / Wildphinn reposted

How does the industry come back from this??!! Seriously, we are losing so much and gaining nothing.

𝙻𝚒𝚘𝚗𝚎𝚕 𝙳𝚊𝚟𝚘𝚞𝚜𝚝 / Wildphinn reposted

I've mentioned before I've updated my contracts to make sure everything in the production of my books is done by humans and not "AI"; if you're wondering what such a thing looks like, here's a clause covering that from a recent contract.

𝙻𝚒𝚘𝚗𝚎𝚕 𝙳𝚊𝚟𝚘𝚞𝚜𝚝 / Wildphinn reposted

Replying to @kjcharleswriter.com

GenAI is unethical across many axes including environmental, political, and because the industry is based on mass theft from authors and other creatives. It's also incredibly reputationally damaging for people who are being accused of its use. I don't think any publisher has the right to tarnish me.

𝙻𝚒𝚘𝚗𝚎𝚕 𝙳𝚊𝚟𝚘𝚞𝚜𝚝 / Wildphinn reposted

Un procureur a donc demandé un an de prison FERME pour le vol d'une paire de baskets... Un an de prison ferme, c'est aussi la peine que n'effectuera pas Marine Le Pen (cf bracelet électronique), après avoir détourné... 2,8 millions d'euros d'argent public www.liberation.fr/societe/poli...

liberation.frManifestations du 17 octobre : à Paris, un tribunal débordé par un nombre «inédit» de déferrementsPlusieurs jeunes majeurs interpellés ont été remis en liberté. En cause : des procédures mal ficelées et des délais de détention dépassés.

𝙻𝚒𝚘𝚗𝚎𝚕 𝙳𝚊𝚟𝚘𝚞𝚜𝚝 / Wildphinn reposted

Dessin de février 2019. Maintenant, les enfants sont de l'autre côté de la lucarne.

𝙻𝚒𝚘𝚗𝚎𝚕 𝙳𝚊𝚟𝚘𝚞𝚜𝚝 / Wildphinn reposted

Notre coopérative d'édition et de distribution va devenir réalité dans même pas 2 mois ! Aujourd'hui on est quasiment assurés d'avoir le financement qu'on avait prévu. On est plus de 50 sociétaires (personnes physiques et morales). Et il n'est pas trop tard pour en faire aussi partie 💌

TyGAMES@ty.games

Une nouvelle newsletter TyGAMES ! Un point sur les souscriptions, les financements et d'autres sujets du mois. Abonnez-vous ❤️ tygames.substack.com/p/tygames-sc...

𝙻𝚒𝚘𝚗𝚎𝚕 𝙳𝚊𝚟𝚘𝚞𝚜𝚝 / Wildphinn reposted

My debut horror book (it’ll be announced Oct 30th) is an IP novel, and I couldn’t be happier. It let me dabble in a universe I’ve adored for years. It brought me into contact with a band of absolutely lovely creatives. It held me to deadlines that forced me hone my craft. IP projects are amazing.

Kate Tell-Tale Heartfield@kateheartfield.com

There is a doofus currently arguing here that no "creative talent" would choose to write tie-ins, and since I just did a panel this weekend on why creative talents choose to write IP, here are a few reasons. Non-financial reasons, for fun and because frankly it usually doesn't pay that well.

𝙻𝚒𝚘𝚗𝚎𝚕 𝙳𝚊𝚟𝚘𝚞𝚜𝚝 / Wildphinn reposted

Voici le choix qu'ont fait 3 chaînes dimanche. Les programmateurs se sont donc battus pour avoir le raciste en chef. Toutes savent exactement la haine qu'il va cracher. C'est pour ça qu'il est invité. Ne me dites plus jamais "c'est la faute à Cnews". Tout le paysage audiovisuel français a basculé.

𝙻𝚒𝚘𝚗𝚎𝚕 𝙳𝚊𝚟𝚘𝚞𝚜𝚝 / Wildphinn reposted

One last thing about X tonight: noting X has 10x the number of regular users than Bluesky means jack shit when a) a shitload are bots, b) the algorithm boosts right-wing content over everything else so actual engagement there sucks, c) 10 million active accounts is more than enough to hang out with.

𝙻𝚒𝚘𝚗𝚎𝚕 𝙳𝚊𝚟𝚘𝚞𝚜𝚝 / Wildphinn reposted

Replying to @scalzi.com

The idea that we are obliged to save the online fascists and nazis from themselves is not one I subscribe to, I've been online for 30+ years now and the number of right-wing chuds who have ever engaged in "dialogue" for any reason except to waste other people's time can be counted on a single hand.

𝙻𝚒𝚘𝚗𝚎𝚕 𝙳𝚊𝚟𝚘𝚞𝚜𝚝 / Wildphinn reposted

The unproduced Strange New Worlds x Doctor Who crossover Akiva Goldsman: “We really did talk to Russell for a while about crossing over the two shows. Not just, ‘Hey, wouldn't it be a fun idea,’ but how to do it. How narratively it would work. Ultimately, there were too many corporate hurdles.”

syfy.comStar Trek: Strange New Worlds EP Reveals Doctor Who Easter Egg, Why Crossover Never Happened (Exclusive)Star Trek: Strange New Worlds boldly went into the Whoverse.  And their mission nearly included a full-blown crossover between the Enterprise crew and Doctor Who, before settling for an Easter egg in ...

𝙻𝚒𝚘𝚗𝚎𝚕 𝙳𝚊𝚟𝚘𝚞𝚜𝚝 / Wildphinn reposted

No joke. I think this is the most important video I have ever seen about mobile games. This guy breaks down how this game psychologically profiles you, and makes the game harder or easier in order to show you ads

𝙻𝚒𝚘𝚗𝚎𝚕 𝙳𝚊𝚟𝚘𝚞𝚜𝚝 / Wildphinn reposted

Pour éviter un énième anglicisme, je propose l'emploi de "vibrocodeur".

𝙻𝚒𝚘𝚗𝚎𝚕 𝙳𝚊𝚟𝚘𝚞𝚜𝚝 / Wildphinn reposted

i know a lot of people have chosen to leave the poison swamp that inflicts constant tick damage but since the Plague Baron stopped casting Rain of Putrefaction so often its gotten way better. plus all of the important conversations about rot and pestilence are happening there

𝙻𝚒𝚘𝚗𝚎𝚕 𝙳𝚊𝚟𝚘𝚞𝚜𝚝 / Wildphinn reposted

most economically-viable AI company

Jason Koebler@jasonkoebler.bsky.social

New: I pulled the Character ai bankruptcy documents. They show: - They were spending $14 million/month on compute alone at a time their revenue was around ~$1 million/month - Currently losing $9 million a month - They admitted they enshittified & that it didnt work www.404media.co/character-ai...

𝙻𝚒𝚘𝚗𝚎𝚕 𝙳𝚊𝚟𝚘𝚞𝚜𝚝 / Wildphinn reposted

If you need a pickmeup, Ukraine struck and destroyed a Russian data center last night, reducing Russian bot traffic by 50%, dropping online pro-AfD discussion to zero, cratering MAGA traffic, and making Elon big mad. Just in time for the mid-terms. Slava fucking Ukraini.

𝙻𝚒𝚘𝚗𝚎𝚕 𝙳𝚊𝚟𝚘𝚞𝚜𝚝 / Wildphinn reposted

The Dungeons & Dragons and Magic: The Gathering teams at Wizards of the Coast have just announced they're unionizing. In a letter of demands, the union has urged Hasbro and Wizards of the Coast leaders to stop pushing generative AI. https://bit.ly/4hMhPzG

𝙻𝚒𝚘𝚗𝚎𝚕 𝙳𝚊𝚟𝚘𝚞𝚜𝚝 / Wildphinn reposted

Replying to @edzitron.com

"all that data center compute will be used by someone else one day!" Another way that the dot com fiber overbuild analogy is wrong: the usable lifetime of fiber infra is 20-40 years. The usable lifetime of a gpu is ... 2-3 years.

𝙻𝚒𝚘𝚗𝚎𝚕 𝙳𝚊𝚟𝚘𝚞𝚜𝚝 / Wildphinn reposted

Replying to @edzitron.com

The world where neoclouds run out of money and NVIDIA's revenues drop 90%, where hundreds of billions of hyperscaler revenue bookings evaporate, is at this point inevitable. The worst part of it was that the warning signs were always there. www.wheresyoured.at/credit-crunch/

𝙻𝚒𝚘𝚗𝚎𝚕 𝙳𝚊𝚟𝚘𝚞𝚜𝚝 / Wildphinn reposted

Normally a sitting President encouraging a foreign enemy to nuke two strategically critical American cities calling over 4 million American deaths "a small price to pay" while building a bomb shelter into the White House would be, you know, a bigger story.

𝙻𝚒𝚘𝚗𝚎𝚕 𝙳𝚊𝚟𝚘𝚞𝚜𝚝 / Wildphinn reposted

Replying to @opdeatheaters.bsky.social

FBI 302: The woman asked agents to keep her safe, said, “Throughout my life his people have found me, have kept tabs on me.” She said Epstein discussed blackmailing people; Trump knew because she overheard them, and that she heard Trump talking about washing money through casinos. #OpDeathEaters

𝙻𝚒𝚘𝚗𝚎𝚕 𝙳𝚊𝚟𝚘𝚞𝚜𝚝 / Wildphinn reposted

FBI 302: The woman said Epstein introduced her to Trump when she was 13–15: “It was Donald Trump.” She said Trump told her “Let me teach you how little girls are supposed to be,” then raped her. She said she fought back, Trump “pulled her hair and punched her on the side of her head.” #OpDeathEaters

Anonymous@opdeatheaters.bsky.social

Three FBI interviews with a woman who accused Donald Trump of sexually assaulting / raping her when she was 13–15, after Jeffrey Epstein introduced them, were missing from the DOJ’s initial Epstein files release. #OpDeathEaters