Castle Magus

Link to comic.

Oh, so those comments aren't just the pointless wastes of time and space I originally thought them to be? Good to know.

A (re)post (of a Threads post) on John Scalzi's Whatever.

A post on John Scalzi's Whatever.

So, basically, like pretty much everything else Elon Musk has been involved with, Grokipedia is worthless shit.

A post on The Daily Cartoonist.

On display here: Brendan Carr and the Jimmy Kimmel thing, the Comey indictment (and the implication that Kash Patel would be in super trouble if Trump actually cared about lying to Congress more than merely getting revenge on his perceived enemies), how TikTok apparently went from a tool of China to a tool of MAGA, a bit about how Charlie Kirk wasn't the revered national hero that Trumpanzees make him out to be, bribe-accepting Tom Homan being let off the hook because Trump killed the FBI investigation into him, and how the declaration of recognition of a Palestinian state by the UK, Canada, France, and Australia doesn't mean much while Trump and Netanyahu are still in power.

"A Christian Investigation into Digital Idolatry and End Times Deception"


I don't normally post the kind of religious crackpottery/SEO slop like what is found in that link above, but serious or not, real or not, that one was just too good not to share, in a sort of "OMG you guys, you have to see this dumb bullshit" sort of way.

A bit of context here. First of all, I'd never heard of that Truth Terminal thing until right now today. I found the above article via here, which in turn I found via Google News. Just to reiterate, my Google News app did not link me to the actual substack article itself, but to that news.ycombinator page of comments talking about it.

Anyway, if you care at all, here are a couple more slightly less ludicrous articles talking about that Truth Terminal thing:

"The Edgelord AI That Turned a Shock Meme Into Millions in Crypto"

"The promise and warning of Truth Terminal, the AI bot that secured $50,000 in bitcoin from Marc Andreessen"

And it has its own wiki.

And, just for shits and giggles, here is what Google's AI Mode has to say about it, along with some more sources to the right.

Anyway, I'll probably forget all about this shit shortly after I press the "post" button on this entry. (I literally felt the need to go back through my "artificial intelligence" tag to make sure I hadn't already posted about this before, because while I didn't recall ever having posted about it before, that didn't mean I hadn't. But, in this case at least, I actually hadn't. Well, either that or I didn't put the "artificial intelligence" tag on it if I did post about it.)















Also, as an aside, I'm fairly sure that "giving sex toys to priests" would not "destroy the Church."

"Hi. The free speech absolutists on the American Right really love banning books. They want you to think that people and history they don't like don't exist."

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It's an hour long video of Cody Johnston explaining why books bans are stupid loser baby shit, in almost those exact words.

A couple weeks ago, a trailer for an as of yet unreleased pilot for, presumably, a Homestuck animated series was made public, which I only just found out about a day or two ago. Ordinarily, I'd be happy about this. However... I'll just say that I do not have much faith at all that those who are currently in charge of Homestuck[1] will do anything resembling a good job with this, either from a creation or management or delegation stand point.

I will give my reasons for this below.

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The current stuff first, which I only found out about after learning of the existence of that animated pilot thing I linked to up there and which also convinced me to go ahead and finally watch the two below embedded videos.

"The Unofficial Homestuck Collection Takedown"

That was originally posted on August 8, 2025, and is a response to and explanation of why the original version of The Unofficial Homestuck Collection now no longer exists in its original form. (Well, the original now no longer maintained github is still there, for what little that's worth, and it does, technically, still exist in another form, see below.) Just to note, the Unofficial Homestuck Collection de facto has been the only real way to experience Homestuck in its original form for several years now, due to the ongoing fact that the actual, official Homestuck website continues to be fubar.

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Now the older stuff. From four years ago:

A Brief History of Homestuck (originally published on April 13, 2021)

Homestuck Sent Me A Legal Threat, And Then It Got Worse (originally published on June 30, 2021, as a direct follow-up to the previously embedded video)

For what it's worth, I'd known about the existence of the above videos for at least a year or two now, but only as of last night/this morning have I actually, finally watched them, right before making this here post.

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Also, just to note, the GiovanH referenced in the two videos there is the same as the one who used to be in charge of the Unofficial Homestuck Collection, mentioned above, prior to it being... let's just say appropriated by the "official Homestuck owner(s)."[1] And by "appropriated," I am referring to the reader application itself, which is basically just a custom web browser designed specifically to be able to display/run Homestuck-related shit, not the associated asset pack containing the actual Homestuck text/art/music/flash files/etc., which the creators of the reader app never had the rights to and never claimed to have the rights to. Basically, the owner(s) of Homestuck[1] blatantly stole the code for the reader application and threatened the creators of it with legal action if they continued to work on it, even though the owner(s) of Homestuck[1] have zero right to do that. IANAL, but the way it seems to me, this is about the equivalent of the owner(s) of Homestuck[1] trying to sue Mozilla or Google, because Firefox and Chrome are capable of displaying Homestuck (or, at least, they used to be, prior to the death of Flash, though not so much anymore).

It would essentially be like if, instead of simply shutting down Yuzu and Ryujinx (which was already questionable, to start with), Nintendo had actually summarily taken Yuzu and Ryujinx and started using them for their own purposes.

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Just in general, as a result of the above and some other, additional horseshit not relayed via the above that has happened over the years, I simply won't be holding my breath that anything good or worthwhile will ever come out of this animated pilot thing. I may be proven wrong, and if so, that would be great, but... yeah.

[1] - Whether that's still Andrew Hussie or otherwise, I'm not even sure anymore. It's difficult to keep up with how much or how little Andrew Hussie is still involved in Homestuck-related stuff anymore, even though he is still the overall IP owner (as far as I know).

This here is a three-quarters of an hour follow up to the comparatively short bit in the last half of the previous clip. As it turned out, I didn't have to go down that Kendra rabbit hole, because Woolie did it for me, and he is here, now, reporting his condensed findings, with more commentary on it from Pat.

Aside from all that Kendra stuff, I also learned about something else I'd never heard of before: the three Christs experiment.

Also... Pat: "I'm at the point where I'm more willing to believe a random Reddit post that I've found than the top result on Google. Like, that's the level of information damage that has occurred."

I'm just about to that point, too, and that's with my ad blocker hiding all the worse-than-worthless "sponsored" dogshit that would otherwise invariably pollute the top results in any given Google search.

About halfway in, this clip went places[1] I wasn't expecting, but also which were not surprising.

See also.

[1] - I had never heard of Kendra Hilty prior to watching the above embedded clip. Will I now delve into the Tiktok world of Kendra and her ChatGPT boyfriend"confidant" Henry? No. No, I will not.