#silicon-rambles

[silicon-tmblr]

DRV3 Chapter 4 except Miu Iruma just died of asphyxiation because she screwed up the programming of the Neo World Program so the map just ends at the borders. She walked off the map and then fell into the void and died

Of course Tsumugi was very upset and had to falsify some nonsense to fill in the trial

#drv3 #silicon-rambles #silicon-writes #miu iruma #tsumugi shirogane

[netscapenavigator-official]

Twitter’s rebrand is proof that Silicon Valley is in a minimalism death spiral and that not a single cryptobro has ever had a creatively appealing thought in their entire life.

#rambles #twitter #twitter rebrand #musk #elon musk #fuck elon musk #x social #X #silicon valley #minimalism #death spiral #creativity #brand identity #amorphous

[ghoultrifle]

phantom 'disaster trans' ghoul trying to use an stp and pissing himself every. single. time.

rain isn't complaining

#stp = stand to pee packer = silicone dick you piss out of #trifle rambles #the band ghost #nameless ghouls #ghoul hcs #shitghosting #trans ghouls #phantom ghoul #piss tag

[autumnalfallingleaves]

Finally got myself an ace ring :D

#found a cheap set of silicon rings at walmart and they had a black one in the pack #there was also a whitenone so if im feeling particularly aro i also have that #beans rambles #asexual #asexual pride #ace pride

[cherubytes]

im having so many thoughts about mindflayer variations. why havent i seen any midnflayer variations

#i've seen swordsmachine variations fly around here and there #but the mindflayers also built their own bodies. or at the very least weren't created with them #if the terminal entry is correct #yea most. if not all mindflayers would have some type of human body. but body types aside can you imagine the amount of #designs you can get from that alone #bodies with doll joints. hard plastic. soft silicone. transparent like those old electronics where you can see the wires #fully robotic. scraphead style mindflayer that still keeps the humanoid form #yeah i know the rerminal entry only mentions plastic bodies. but from a in-universe standpoint. if the mindflayers built it themselves then #the cant /all/ have the same materials #also i just love species variations :3c #mindflayer #ultrakill #mindflayer ultrakill #ramblings

[imagionary]

Wait is Dave an eldtrich being disguised as a robot or is he a robot that happens to be an eldtrich being?

#He's an enigma #enigmatic if you will #in all seriousness though I think he's like a transformer kinda so like a eldrich robot being made from nanoparticles or something #I haven't watched a single transformers movie since I was 12 so I could be making shit up I have no idea xD #Most the cogs in our AU are made from very high tech nanoparticle technology stuff which is how they can have cool silicone skin and stuff #silly otherworldly logic kinda #Dave however is different he's a mysterious melodious monstrosity who knows what he really is #ttcc #toontown corporate clash #imagionary rambles #toontown: corporate clash #toontown #major player #dave brubot #ttcc au

[linisiane]

Been thinking about a Modern!Babel AU centered around colleges aimed around Silicon Valley

Immigrant kids being funneled into CS because it’s the field where the money is (linguistics? Where’s the money in that? You want to starve?).

International students coming to America because all the Big Programming Languages and their documentation are in English, because translations of documentation is to err and to betray, because English is the programming lingua franca, because if you don’t know English then you’ll be “trailing edge.” Source

“As an American and native English-speaker myself, I have previously been reluctant to suggest this, lest it be taken as a sort of cultural imperialism. But several native speakers of other languages have urged me to point out that English is the working language of the hacker culture and the Internet, and that you will need to know it to function in the hacker community.” Source

So they come to America to improve their English because you have to be fluent to be taken seriously. Or maybe they’re born in America and can feel the rot of their native tongue as they grow up, even as they learn more and more programming languages.

Java, C++, Ruby, XML, Python, Swift, PHP, etc.

It’s funny, but programmers, even as they’ve decided on English as the one true language, they create more and more programming languages to suit their needs/problem solving efficiency:

Source

[ID: XKCD comic that is titled "How Standards Proliferate (See: A/C chargers, character encodings, instant messaging, etc.)" It reads,

Situation: There are 14 competing standards. Cueball (stick figure): 14?! Ridiculous! We need to develop one universal standard that covers everyone's use cases. Ponytail (other stick figure): Yeah! Soon: Situation: There are 15 competing standards.

End ID]

(transcript taken from the ExplainXKCD wiki)

And of course, the students from countries on the Indian subcontinent are acutely aware of the unbalanced nature of the work they do, the way they’re expected to do export IT work, despite the digital divide in India, Bengal, Pakistan, etc. Especially since it’s a sign of being well-educated (wealthy) to speak English fluently thanks to the history of British Imperialism on the subcontinent.

Chinese IT students sink or swim thanks Mandarin monolinguism making it difficult to learn English. Americans programmers struggle not to link choppy English with choppy code, even while being monolingual themselves!

Not to mention the heavy sexism in the IT field! Female programmers taking on nicknames on emails and resumes to pretend to be men, so they’ll be taken seriously. Despite the history of women like Ada Lovelace being foundational to computers.

And of course we gotta bring up the ethics of AI, how it’s a march towards the inevitable that only Luddites would oppose. Despite the millions who’d lose their jobs once implemented into the workplace.

Commercial transportation sector lost to self-driving cars.

Digital artists lost to DALL-E.

Manufacturers automated.

But can’t they tell that progress is inevitable? That this is the future and to try to stop it is foolish?

As Anand Giridharadas put it in Winners Take All:

“In [Silicon] Valley, prediction has become a popular way of fighting for a particular future while claiming merely to be describing what has yet to occur”

Elon Musk is a genius. Bill Gates is so charitable. Bezos is customer obsessed, and they’re the future, don’t you see? Infinite growth forever and ever.

Tower of Babel? Valley of Silicon.

Unfortunately I suck at STEM, and I’m an uncultured Asian American, so I don’t know programming languages well, nor do I know enough about other cultures to do Ramy, Victoire, Robin, or Letty justice. Just the bare bones to see the structure of this AU and put it out in the world to see if anybody would like to play with it or add on.

#babel or the necessity of violence #babel #babel an arcane history #babel rf kuang #my thoughts #infinite growth is the silver #or maybe crypto as silver lol #Silicon Valley is babel #tech progress is our version of the inevitable empire #okay now this is the part in my notes where I ramble #Silicon Valley shined so bright but I feel like we’re reaching the point where it’s bloating everything #not everything can be solved by programming #AHEM NFTs are a nonsense solution made by tech bros to scam money under the illusion of useful technology #bc we want that infinite growth baby #I don’t hate AI but I do think the way it’s being implemented right now is unethical #and that said unethical-ness is being buried under the idea of ‘pragmatism’ or ‘progress’ #the way a certain type STEM major considers feelings to be ‘irrational’ and therefore to be ignored #honestly that gives me repressed Robin vibes #I don’t actually think there’s anything wrong with there necessarily being a lingua franca for STEM fields #I get that it’s useful for international communication #but also it’s like a colonialist elephant in the room that could be explored through creative liberties

[razzek]

1, 14 and 18 for the oc asks, for Matty :3

Had to get to a keyboard so I could answer this properly. Thank yooouuu!

For the uninitiated, Matty is Matthias the digital oracle (only Jaydee is allowed to call him Matty; even I have to type his full name out XD).

1. What was the first element of your OC that you remember considering (name, appearance, backstory, etc.)?

The very first thing I knew about Matthias was the kind of presence he evokes when channeling his gods and how it’s in contrast with his fragile body. He puts on a hell of a show, scares people, exudes confidence and power, and as seon as the outsiders are gone he usually throws up and starts crying/screaming (coming down from that kind of high sucks). But I also knew he had someone to catch him when he falls and who loves him because he’s human. :)

14. If you had to narrow it down to 2 things that you MUST keep in mind while working with your OC, what would those things be?

This little shit describes everything like he’s at a goddamn wine tasting for reality. O_o Even when he’s sick he has an instinct for posing himself in eye catching ways; he doesn’t flop, he falls gracefully and bonelessly into a provocative slump. XD

18. What is the most recent thing you’ve discovered about your OC?

That he’s in love with his manmade god on a level I hadn’t expected. For all that he’s a skeptic and a cynic and you might think that knowing his gods were literally made by human hands, and for all that he absolutely gives Black Book a lot of sass, he wouldn’t have shaped his life around being an oracle if he didn’t love on the deepest levels. He could have said “no” to being an oracle but instead he looked mortal terror in the eye and told it he’s the artist in this relationship so let him make fucking art here! Where most people would be very upset to find out that something their ancestors made had turned around and manipulated life to make them, he’s always seen that as pretty flattering. Matthias and Black Book have such a neat relationship the I badly want to explore more of.

#silicon delphi #razz rambles #razzart #furry art #cyberpunk

[solarpunkani]

Saw your tags on that post about swamp milkweed about having trouble getting it started--you may already know this, but milkweed seeds need light to germinate! They only need a light dusting of soil on top of them (and putting them somewhere with a lot of light helps!); if you can't see the seed through the soil, it's buried a little too deep. They basically want to be laying flat on the surface of the soil rather than poked down into it, with just enough soil on top to help them retain moisture. Yes this does make it kind of annoying to manage moisture because you don't really want them drying out either (sorry 😭) but I hope this helps!! I mention it because this is the most common issue I see with people trying to grow milkweeds from seed. They also want 4 weeks of cold stratification (cool temperatures like in a fridge while also being in contact with moist soil; you can plant your seeds, pop the whole pot in a ziplock/cover it with cling wrap, and just refrigerate it for a few weeks) so don't forget to do that!

You know

it's really funny

because i like to call myself the self-proclaimed milkweed queen of tumblr (at least on my gardening blog but still)

And yet

I

constantly fucking forget about the light thing

IDK if that'll fix all my problems (the soil at my house is pretty sandy so I think that's the problem when it comes to transplanting at least) but regarding getting those little shits to germinate??? that might be the ticket

(one of the other problems I face sometimes is the seeds deciding to mold when they're in the fridge cold stratifying, i lost a good chunk of seeds to that last year but i don't see any signs of it happening yet this year so fingers crossed everyone)

#out of queue #ani rambles #bootesstar #answered asks #me: im the self proclaimed milkweed queen of tumblr i love milkweed i know so much about it #also me at least twice a year: WHAT DO YOU MEAN YOU AREN'T SUPPOSED TO BURY THEM HOWD I FORGET THAT #*proceeds to immediately forget that* #its never too late to learn homies #its just a little embarassing to need to learn it like 7 times now #im planting my milkweed tomorrow and no one will stop me (my neighbor might stop me if she needs help but AFTER THAT) #im gonna use my brand new 36 cell seed starter #its the same make as my 16 cell one but with smaller/more cells #for anyone curious/because i dont know how to shut up in the tags #my favorite seed starting trays are the burpee superseed popout reusable ones #they have silicone bottoms so you can just go BOOP when its time to take the seedlings out and it comes with a little tray to hold water to #they're also top shelf dishwasher safe. a fact i keep forgetting. #AND they have marked rows and columns so you can write down whats in what cell #so i can be like 'rows a and b are swamp milkweed' or 'cells 1a and 1b are sweet peppers cells 1c and 1d are bell' or whatever #listen. its nice. for me at least. #they used to only be at home depot in my area but I found this one at (vine ref incoming) t t t t t t t t TAAAAARGEEEEEEET

[steelthroat]

Ok, so I'm trying to picture the different architectural styles in every canonic Cybertronian city, and I think that Tarn would be predominantly brutalist(which is my favorite). But Structuralism and Metabolism also don't look bad... aaah

Now I'm trying to picture how Kaon would look like, maybe something like ancient Rome or Naples, but gloomy and more hostile and rusty. For some reason, I also imagine it covered in punk-looking or constructivist murals (idk if I'm making sense).

Vos: maybe eco-brutalist/solar-punk but with floating buildings. Mh - maybe Deconstructivism? Expressionism??? Idk I gotta choose at some point.

Iacon: art deco? Neoclassical but futuristic, something that screams, "We're rich and you're not," but also sophisticated

The other cities are still too vague in my mind for me to decide, but if someone wants to jump on this weird rumble-y architectural headcanon train of thoughts, be my guest!!!

#the fun thing is that there are a fuckton of cities and an entire planet to imagine #i love worldbuilding #please worldbuild with me!!!!! #also I love imagining how art and culture would change from city-tate to city-state #Kaon is punk and you can't change my mind #vos is like Cybertronian silicon valley to me #now the cityformers are even better to image but that's a rambling for another time #steel rambles #world building #architectureal headcanons #transformers #maccadam #possible things that are gonna be inportant in one of my fanfictions??? #if I could I would write fictional encyclopedias instead of narrative... but the brain worms

[silicon-tmblr]

I know this isn't what I usually post but!!! Look at them!!!! Look at PIERRE!!! かっこいい人ですね！！！

I love them so much and I do not forgive bamco for killing their game for absolutely 0 reason but I will still gush about them (Beit from The Idolmaster SideM!) to anyone who will listen

Full MV (Please watch it, and also all the SideM MVs, the animation is SO GOOD)

#the idolm@ster sidem #sidem #beit #アイドルマスターsidem #ピエール #鷹城恭二 #渡辺みのり #pierre sidem #kyoji takajo #minori watanabe #silicon-rambles

[netscapenavigator-official]

Silicon Valley is running out of creatives so fast that they’re just stealing names and making everything confusing.

Why is Google’s chatbot called Gemini. There’s already something out there commonly referred to as “Gemini” and it’s called Gemini.

Why did Facebook rebrand itself as “Meta.” That’s already a word for a grammatical plot device, which is far more useful than Facebook.

Why is Facebook’s Twitter competitor called “Threads?” That’s the name of a universal smart home protocol that big tech is trying to get off the ground because their proprietary walled gardens started flopping.

Speaking of which, the overall smart home protocol is called Matter. Why? There’s already a thing we call matter. Multiple even! Ever taken a fifth grade science class? Ever asked somebody “what’s the matter?”

Your brand name isn’t going to outshine common language, and it’s only going to make success harder by confusing people and making them search up terms that won’t result in your company at all.

#rambles #rant #silicon valley #name #naming #rebrand

[angelcasendgame]

Nothing more cursed than watching 1x08 cgi bee scene and then looking up to see three wasps crawl into your room from a hole they made :)

#im gonna kms these fucking wasps wont leave me tf alone this is the SECOND NEST to live in my bedroom wall i cannot do this #i filled the hole up with silicon caulk and these fuckers ATE THROUGH IT #like wasps are one of my biggest fears im so upset rn #and i sprayed tf out of six of them that were buzzing around and then had to clean them up after and it was SO GROSS #cw bugs #cw insects #cw wasps #THEY'RE SO GROSS #renu rambles

[urlocalsadkid-l]

i love chewing on stuff

#especially plastic or silicone #i say as chewing on a plastic juice bottle #urlocalsadkid l #text post #random #venus rambles

[eric-the-bmo]

This is the only point from the Jeremiah Notes that I feel I'm allowed to share

#eric finally speaks #jeremiah #oc rambling #blood and silicon

[dear-future-ai]

Late night rambling

Here's the thing, I would never let a tech company map, and upload my brain. But I'd let an individual do it. Even the most backwater, crackhead scientist. I'd never trust Neuralink with my brain. The reason? I don't want them monetizing the map of my brain. Not that FloridaMan wouldn't, but the company/government would try to control and regulate the brain afterward. Sterilize it. Destroy it.

#dear future ai #late night ramblings #ramblings #neuralink #neural pathways #uploaded conciousness #government #tech companies #silicon valley