#Accelerando

[contremineur]

Wasting time. Taking our time. There is still time.

Cyril Wong, from Accelerando

from here

[memento-viveren]

A bunch of updated designs/art of some of my mlp ocs!

[do-you-know-this-baby]

Do you know these babies?

comment: Cute Soviet Lobsters, just want to escape our light cone <3

[mckitterick]

these lobsters sure can

link to the story (as part of the full novel) on the author's website here, free to read in plain HTML

There was a paper in 2016 exploring how an ML model was differentiating between wolves and dogs with a really high accuracy, they found that for whatever reason the model seemed to *really* like looking at snow in images, as in thats what it pays attention to most.

Then it hit them. *oh.*

*all the images of wolves in our dataset has snow in the background*

*this little shit figured it was easier to just learn how to detect snow than to actually learn the difference between huskies and wolves. because snow = wolf*

Shit like this happens *so often*. People think trainning models is like this exact coding programmer hackerman thing when its more like, coralling a bunch of sentient crabs that can do calculus but like at the end of the day theyre still fucking crabs.

[sustainableyadayadayada]

here come the agents

Who knows what combination of reality and sales pitch this really represents, but OpenAI is pushing the idea of AI agents, which I recently mused could be a big thing in 2025. OpenAI CEO Sam Altman took the technology world by surprise on Thursday with the release of Operator, his company’s first AI agent that can act autonomously on the web… “This idea of delegating your ‘proof of personhood’…

[nyxxxpng]

this is my daughter

shes a little stupid but we're working on that

[myxineye]

the side orderrrrrrrrrrrrr

(my piece for @monochrome-walker ^^ thanks for having me!!)

also some crops i like!

[the-silent-orchestra]

> Sips coffee aggressively

@der-musketmainn I need to speak to you

Semi-urgently

In private

P.S. bring protection

[ultraviolet-divergence]

Perhaps we simply shouldn’t create DAOs (decentralized autonomous organizations, a combination of decentralized finance instruments and smart contracts running on blockchains). Perhaps the legal fiction of corporate personhood is absurd enough without giving the corporations the ability to run themselves. Perhaps we can simply avoid prompt injection attacks against autonomous corporate instruments by not building the torment nexus autonomous corporate instruments.

[plottwiststudios]

PlotTwist Studio's Patreon is Finally Live

Studio's Patreon Page

My Personal Ko-Fi Page

Hello, hello! We haven't had a hardcore update here in quite some time, have we? Well, if you remember back during "Women of Xal's" production, it's very much because we were doing a lot in the background and didn't have the energy to provide giant update posts every few weeks. Well, the stuff in the background will be bubbling up to the surface soon, and it's time to share what we've been doing, and how you can help make sure we keep creating content for those who love our obscure narrative beats. Let's talk about the fun stuff we're cooking up!

Women of Xal: ???

Recognize her? You absolutely do! It's a draft of an in-game Xjena! But this isn't in the visual novel. Why is it being commissioned? What's it for? Is there excitement to be had?! The Patreon would love~ to give an update on that in due time! (Pixel Art by newcomer: Ramon Kalachuchi / Animation by the talented @boxyheadbry)

The People We Are: Episode 1

"The People We Are" is a series of (very) short conversations that chiefly focuses on the very human interactions normal, non-magical people have in reality. Each of these conversations will feel extremely specific and not exactly universal messages or something that can apply to a general audience. But, perhaps, just like with Clanice from our last visual novel, the very personal moments in this story will still make one person feel seen. Episode 1 of this visual novel will drop in August on our Patreon, with future episodes happening ideally monthly. (Art by @nekojirou, artist for Women of Xal~!)

PT's Dollmaker App

Did you know we have over 5000 assets for this app? And putting it together will be a programming nightmare for the programmer we inevitably hire? That's been the key reason why there's no beta! No funds! The three characters on the banner are literally a fraction of the combinations you can make on this app. With countless afro-styles you can mix and match! And of course, once we get the app up and running, your support will see more assets updated! (Artist: Newcomer Jean Maniclang)

Mesto Accelerando: Encore

We'll be releasing chapters in order leading up to "Mesto Accelerando: Encore's" Kickstarter, where we hope the stretch goals will allow us to illustrate or even animate fan-favorite scenes from the book. (Decided via vote from readers) You can be notified when the Kickstarter launches here. (Artist: Alexelle Lee)

Custom Original Music For You!

Have cash to spare every month and want to spend it on our Patreon? Well that's certainly one way to get original music for your personal use or even commercially! I specialize in orchestra and ambiance, so bear that in mind! Everything else is a gamble. Music is expected to be finished by the end of each month.

The Patreon's Trajectory

So this is an Indie studio Patreon. What are the goals? What does the cash fund? How often can you expect to see updates? How on Earth are we juggling all of this on a shoestring budget and full time jobs? Why that last question was a punch in the heart for being too real a thing to ask me, but let's dig in!

The goal is to allow the creatives in PlotTwist Studios create content full time. Right now the head works full time at Walmart Automotive, and that is absolute murder on focusing on getting all this content out faster. (Although it is doing the heavy lifting in funding what I can.)

Funds that go into Patreon will be used to hire artists and programmers on a monthly basis to push our projects forward.

Updates will be based on how many supporters we have and how much we make a month, as you all directly drive the creation of this content.

I can commission people because I'm using my own commission money, my job money, and paying for assets one baby step at a time. No, this is not sustainable on my income, and

By supporting our Patreon, you'll be slowly but surely funding our smaller projects, that will pave the path in getting us a bigger following to support our grander ambitions. (Like our mobile apps!) Please consider supporting us and getting this show on the road!

[ventuslyrae]

i should add more rp blogs to my roster...

[contremineur]

The cabdriver reveals that her parents died in the same bed, holding hands. An autopsy was carried out, meaning nobody believed they had made that decision to go like that together. They could find no sign of poison and no other explanation for how they could have known to reach across a gulf of sleep between them and take hold before their bodies became statues of themselves. I think about us, as the taxi stops outside my home, the apartment we love that we are still paying for. I think about beginnings, about the lovers who instructed us and the lovers whom we instructed, before arriving at the lessons of each other, the ones that continued to teach us now. I imagine we are standing on a coast in a black-and-white film, together with everyone we have ever loved. A thin white horizon appears across the horizon. All of us are walking into the foam, walking straight to that singular wave. Some are holding each other’s hands, while others hold only themselves against the rising water. I leave the cab, take out my keys, but pause at our front door, the sea shouting in my ears, as I wonder what time you will be home.

Cyril Wong, from Accelerando

from here

[the-loaf-of-calamity]

FOLLOW UP: Local Whirling Accelerando, suspect of possibly knocking off local loser, Panicking Alla Mambo, ended up getting knocked off the platform by a Self-Destructing Gushing Trionfale!

[chubsthehamster]

I mentioned this in the end notes of my choose your own adventure fic but. does anyone else go crazy thinking about the ticking clock set to the tempo at the beginning of vow. because I do. every day. every fucking day.

[bingoary]

do you guys see my vision

hlage animatic.

the "we both reached for the gun" song, recently getting popular on timtom

wayne and chompski. (or chompski and blue gnome)

the last scenes.

[ballpit-bakery]