Posts - page 4

A listing of all long-form posts published to-date. Herein, you'll find my thoughts on concepts, ideas, politics, and more.

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Tim Sweeney is Probably Forcing Epic's Studios to Vibe Code

The man who thinks using Linux is like leaving the United States for Canada, and also refuses to allow Linux gamers to participate in his games (see: Fortnite), also thinks Steam (a platform where Fortnite isn’t listed) should do away with the “made with AI” labeling. Because, nothing says, “We...
published November 28, 2025
#tech #gaming #timsweeney
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[Second Life] Neo Machina is Online

After a lot of deliberating and deciding, since I’m not really capable of just throwing ten years of work in the trash and forgetting about it, and because I’ve had months of work I did in 2023 kind of just … offline, in Second Life: Neo Machina is back online....
published November 25, 2025
#secondlife #neomachina #virtualworlds
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[REVOSA]: Should It Stay, or Should It Go?

I’m at this impasse with my Second Life store, and I just can’t make a decision. If you’ve read my blog at all over the past year or more, even, you already know I’ve shut it down, and then opened it again, and then shut it down, and then opened...
published November 19, 2025
#secondlife #revosa #virtualworlds
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Why is Wafrn Blocking Multiple Trans Fediverse Instances?

In early October, I stepped down from my moderator position over at app.wafrn.net, which also followed me deleting my accounts and moving onward with my own instance/s. I detailed that this was something I felt necessary for multiple reasons, which includes the suspicious moderation response to a trans woman who...
published November 18, 2025
#socialmedia #fediverse #wafrn
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Mozilla's Secret Web Scraper Service

Mozilla this, Mozilla that. The Mozilla corporation hates you. It hates its userbase. Mozilla desperately wants you to stop using the Firefox browser. It seems every single day they’re coming up with some new, egregious way to shove some “AI” feature into the web browser, further peeling back the skin...
published November 17, 2025
#tech #mozilla #ai
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Storage Woes and Almost Catastrophes

Today I discovered something new about Linux, or maybe just Pop!_OS itself, since that’s nearly the only distro I’ve used, besides Debian (on a repurposed Dell). And, let me tell you, this wouldn’t be even half the problem it became for an hour while I was munching on my lunch,...
published November 16, 2025
#thoughts #gaming #linux
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What is Transmisogyny?

Over the course of the past ten years, and … I really can’t believe I’m saying “ten years.” Has it been that long? But, over the years, I’ve been in a lot of different online spaces. I’ve been deep in the discourse. From Tumblr, to Reddit, to Twitter, and back...
published November 15, 2025
#discourse #transcommunity #transmisogyny
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Coming to Terms with AI, or Waiting for the Pop

Lately, and as time marches forward, the AI bubble seems to be inching closer to the pop. What this means for the US economy is … up in the air, I guess. I honestly don’t know if it would change anything for me now, or not. I know everything costs...
published November 14, 2025
#tech #ai #technology
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Hot Allostatic Load, a Rebuttal

The funny thing about the article written ten years ago by Porpentine, aside from it being incredibly long, is that despite it’s message, the only people who ever reference it, are the types of people the author warns against. The abusers, the abusive—The people who refuse to take accountability for...
published November 13, 2025
#thoughts #transcommunity #hotallostaticload
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On Moderation Lists and the Fediverse

For the longest time, I’ve been wanting a way to subscribe to my moderation list from Bluesky, on my bridged accounts that I actually post from, on the Fediverse. This is important, because, aside from the on-going enshitification of Bluesky, there are a lot of bad-faith actors on Bluesky, along...
published November 10, 2025
#social-media #fediverse #bluesky