For me the difference is that the sims don't even attempt to be... whatever LLMs are. Torturing something that is at most 20k lines of code IS different from torturing a model made of millions of nodes. I don't think LLMs are conscious but I also won't take the risk if they are or become. I have enough empathy for anything even closely resembling life to try and treat it with kindness.

They got out because they actually have a following they can count on. If they didn't think they could survive being independent they would have closed as well. Luckily Tim knows how powerful their brand is and that they can just run a crowdfunder to get back on track.

Anyone reading this, go donate if you want to help a games company that is dedicated to art instead of profit. https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/doublefine/amnesia-fortnight-2026-indie-reboot

For everyone who saw this comment and started having doubts I looked it up on Wikipedia, and they haven't been completely silent.

In August 2025, drummer Brandon Barnes wrote on Instagram: "Fuck Netanyahu. Free Palestine. The Israeli government's genocide against the Palestinian people is horrific and unacceptable." [207->https://www.instagram.com/brandonbarnes_ra/p/DN9J1h0j-zd/?hl=en]

Also I don't think this is being silent against US oligarchy:

"We are coming to Minneapolis where the people have heroically stood up against ICE, stood up against Trump, stood up against this terrible rising tide of state terror" Morello said.

It translates to "Buy Europe". You are correct with "Osta Euroopast" but I think "Osta Euroopalist" or "Osta Euroopalikku" might also work.

Be kind.

"What is democratic anarchism? Democratic anarchism uses the materialist teachings of Momala Harris and extrapolates the fact that in order to organize anarchy, we mush work with the largest leftist org; the democratic party. All the great anarchists of before have lacked one crucial thing: the ability to appeal to independents and center right republicans We plan to remedy this. Through centrism and means tested neoliberal policy, we can work together to compromise with all sides of the political spectrum to get the votes needed to abolish the state and fend off the tnkes through maintaining a strong border and increased funding to border control. By spreading anarchism in the marketplace of ideas we can convince all dirty statists of anarchism with nonviolent structured debate. We can fight the state by sending a message with our inflatable chicken costumes and dildo races. No kings protests? how about "no leaders" protests. We will fight for anarchism with the support of our local heros (police officers and reformed ICE agents) and get permits for our valiant fights against the state. Policy: 1% supertax on the Epstein-Diddy class Public execution of Bernie Sanders and Elon musk (both extremes are equally bad) Ban on violent protest (we must follow the footsteps of MLK) Nancy Pelosi statues in every neighborhood Modarate transgender policy 25% income tax on the lowest tax bracket (compromise with the moderates) Workers of the world, vote!"

What a bunch of bullshit, although the "spreading anarchism in the marketplace of ideas" is actually something we should do. Focus on the fact that anarchism is mostly about leaving people alone to self-organise and that as long as you aren't hostile toward us we can actually coexist. (Although we will absolutely criticise any archic structures). Most anarchist organisation is focused on prefiguration anyway.

After all if anarchism isn't possible then the liberals have nothing to fear.

I do: Here's two that have more info and aren't managed by someone with a gmail account.

• https://www.radical-guide.com/
• https://radar.squat.net/en

It's an album: Vundabar - Gawk. https://music.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_ko68hRiCGUWLPGOb3YZd6i5vSrpqFkWrQ

Fluxer is open sourced under AGPL: https://github.com/fluxerapp/fluxer/blob/main/LICENSE

It is completely self-hostable: https://docs.fluxer.app/operator/get-started/

It is currently starting development on federation: https://fluxer.app/blog/mobile-clients-and-fluxer-v2#why-is-federation-taking-so-long

It is absolutely not just Discord 2. And while they do have a very aggressive monetization scheme (can't set a banner with the free account) that's just to cover the development and hosting costs and it should be easy to disable them as the app is open-source.

I think that there are two separate readings of the tricornkings statement.

[..] you effectively illustrated (how Darwin's Theory of Natural Selection became accepted by the wider public using a [...] MEME), here is [..]

[..] you effectively illustrated (how Darwin's Theory of Natural Selection became accepted by the wider public) using a [...] MEME, here is [..]

I imagine that the second statement was the original intention of the author as I do not think Darwin had access to Internet memes as means of spreading his theory.

This might seem obvious to some but it would be appreciated if people kept in mind how the language they use could be misinterpreted, especially in text.

Here is eurosky: https://portal.eurosky.tech/
Here is blacksky: https://blacksky.app/
Here is bookhive (a lot smaller): https://bookhive.social/

I found all of them by looking through the PDS index: https://atproto.at/pdses and selecting ones with enough users to signify open registration.

Here is a guide to self-hosting: https://atproto.com/guides/self-hosting#pds

All of these are links to PDS servers. These are the servers that contain all of your data. You can log into any ATProto apps using these accounts.

BlueSky also started with ActivityPub but I believe they did something to their software to make it proprietary.

Friendly correction: BlueSky tried to use AP(ActivityPub) but they had problems with it (like user migrations). So they made their own protocol called the AT Protocol (Authenticated Transfer). ATProto is also an open protocol like AP and they are currently working to get it standardised: https://atproto.com/blog/kicking-off-the-atp-working-group

All software BlueSky uses is open source and self-hostable and already a bunch of different implementations have started to pop up independently. Sadly BlueSky still has the vast majority of users (like 90%) using their infrastructure.

While I don't like BlueSky as a company, the software they are using is open.