Proctor Zakharov

I've been vaguely following the Lychi callouts since they began. However, Lychi has now deactivated her account. I'm slowly building an archive of her activities for posterity. If anyone has links to stuff they'd like archived, let me know. This shouldn't slip into oblivion.

@MozzuMuscle I watch a lot of historians. I'll hit you up if any mention it.

I really wanna watch someone rip the new odyssey movie on historical accuracy, but not sure where to look. If any reviews come out that you think are good, hit me up.

I'm approaching my mid-30's now and spending quite a lot of time reflecting on how much I've grown and changed over the past decade. But one of the things I find hard to deal with is just how limited and restricted the imaginations of most people have become by comparison. One of the things I enjoy most in life is creative writing. I would like to call myself very good at it. I like to write a lot; creating science fiction and fantasy settings is a passion of mine. But the problem is that the more I write, the more I realize that what I've written is basically incomprehensible to the vast majority of people around me. My biggest project for the last few years has been stuck in limbo for a while because every time I go back to it, I spend more time thinking about how to present it in a way that is comprehensible to normies than actually writing it. It's a post-post apocalyptic setting that if I were to dumb it down to the most basic elements is a combination of inspirations from works like Warhammer 40K, The Expanse, Serenity, Starsector, the works of Peter F Hamilton, every single Mecha anime I've ever watched, and many others besides. One of my goals for this setting (tentatively called Towards Unknown Skies) was to make every element interact with each other smoothly and consistently. Genetic engineering, A.I, A.I prejudice, religious cults, factions that range from barely industrial to post-scarcity, transhumanists and human purists, etc. Figuring out how all of these elements coexist and play off of each other has been very rewarding. However, this is where the whole 'normie comprehension' thing comes into play. How do you explain complex geopolitics to the current generation? How do you adequately convey a dozen different yet interlocked interpretations of cosmic warfare and technological regression to people who are used to having their opinions told to them by a phone screen? How do you impart the societal experiences of cultures that grew up a hundred lightyears from earth, then were forced to migrate back to it after cataclysms beyond their control? These are all awkward, frustrating questions, because the more I ponder on them the more I feel as if the answer is 'you can't unless the other person has read at least as many psychology, economics and political theory books as you have'. Yeah, maybe that is a bit arrogant to say. But I've always stuck by my principle of never, ever dumbing down what I write to the lowest common denominator. So I'm fairly resigned to just writing for myself with no real expectation of publication in any marketable format.

Honey wake Vshojo 2.0 with extra dose of talent freedom just dropped

Help I didnt expect this to be seen by lots of ppl ;-; But pls trust me when I say not all artists are like this! Infact.. vgen.co/yukibunns I can draw you cute stuff and won't be a stinker about it

Good for you, Kitsu, for apologizing once an actual artist informed you of the real situation; but maybe you WOULD be exposed to these realities if you didn't block people with different views. You don't have to be pro-AI to be a part of the community, but you can't be fake. Guys, am I crazy?! Maybe I just have PTSD from being around these vtubers; but here's my conspiracy theory: What's with all these eurotubers masquerading as chuds for clout lately??? Prior to 2024, there is nothing even remotely based about your content, then in 2025, you start to ride the wave with a post that becomes your most popular: “Men deserve to be loved and treated right.” (~101k likes, millions of views) Now your posts reek of "fellow kids" energy when you ask "what is a chud" and start to give the label to your cats when they do something silly. You are OK with new vtubers purchasing a shitty $30 model from a vgen scammer, but you draw the line if they start to make one themselves with AI? All of this stinks of gatekeeping quango energy. Am I wrong guys?

@luciacrabs You'd change your tune pretty quickly if they dared say whoring out and selling your body wasn't a way to success or disgraceful to the medium. Don't throw stones from inside your glass house.

why’s everyone hating on the idea of a vtuber university 😭 sounds cute and fun to me. if you see vtubing as dramatic and high school, you’re looking in the wrong places. and why wouldn’t you want someone to prove you wrong and create something cool?

Learning some esoteric midcentury stereotypes here

So you're gonna decline my request because I dont have the same think - there goes a close half grand you could've earned but you decided to be unprofessional.

wtf? 20-50mg?? I'm moderately insomniac with ADHD so my sleep schedule is terrible, but 10mg will knock me out like a lightbulb during a powercut. I can't imagine how long and hard I'd sleep on double or triple that.

Andrew Huberman doesn’t hold back on melatonin supplements: he’s not a fan at all. People down 20-50mg like candy, but the animal data shows it can suppress the hypothalamic-gonadal axis and potentially delay puberty/adolescence. Science backs the concern: studies have shown exogenous melatonin can inhibit gonadotropin release and delay pubertal development, especially at high doses. He acknowledges melatonin is naturally in your cells as an antioxidant, but slamming high doses in pill form is a bad idea. Maybe a tiny bit occasionally, but that’s it.

I kind of hate deciding to deep dive into political history for the 20th century. It really brings home how many of the movies and TV shows held up as examples of pre-woke media were actually seething political screeds, simply written using more obscure reference material.

My heart goes out to the SAGA girls. It's a shame someone was given this opportunity just to squander it and shift blame elsewhere. >She debuts late, which is fine shit happens, and it'll obviously set her back on timelines. >But when she's actually debuted she barely streams at all. >THEN she bails on the biggest event the company has ever put on that she likely knew was being set up for quite some time. DOESN'T EVEN ACKNOWLEDGE IT. JUST POSTS SAND CASTLES. Then decides to quit on Lumi's biggest day, absolutely no awareness of what's going on around her, tries to blame management. Class act, Anya. I wish you no success.

On this day in 2003, David Kelly, the man who tried to warn the world about the lies of the British government’s claims that Iraq possessed WMDs to justify the illegal invasion, was found dead. He was one of Britain's most respected weapons experts and raised concerns that the government's case for war had been exaggerated. The BBC reported that the infamous claim Iraq could deploy weapons of mass destruction within 45 minutes had been "sexed up" to strengthen the case for invasion. Dr. Kelly was identified as the source. Just days later, on the 18th of July 2003, he was found dead near his home, the official story was that he had committed suicide. Many do not believe that narrative. No stockpiles of Iraqi weapons of mass destruction were ever found. David Kelly was proven right, as Iraq was smouldering in ruin. 1 million people were killed as a result of George W. Bush’s and Tony Blair’s lies. The entire region was destabilised, and ISIS and Al Qaeda rose as a result.

@ChristianHeiens Wish I could meet up with you. Ireland's a great place, but the old people ruin it for us. Hope you have a decent time during the rest of your trip anyway.

>Walking around Blarney Castle >An elderly Irish man comes up to talk about the history >We have a friendly conversation for a few minutes >He somehow gets off topic and begins talking about Donald Trump >My Dad interjects and mentions I voted for him (thanks Dad, just what I wanted, a political debate with a random foreigner while on vacation) >Irish Boomer goes into full meltdown mode >“You know he’s a rapist right? How could you vote for him?” These people are literal cattle. Every interaction I’ve had with retirement-aged Irish people has somehow resulted in them offering me their unsolicited political opinions about my country, and every single time it’s a level of shitlibery that rivals even the most ideologically indoctrinated resist lib Americans. You can just tell these people watch TV all day long and wait for someone else to tell them what to believe, at which point they accept it without question.

Soooo, is it polite to point out that Anya Nyabyss literally copied Gawr Gura's graduation stream thumbnail and exact wording to announce her own graduation? Not going to lie, this feels about as in poor taste as you can get.

@Nyorune 'I hope this experience will dissuade you from using Gen A.I in the future'. ... How? You just refused to work with them. Now their only option is to use A.I.

Just had to decline a Vgen request because the client sent me an AI generated reference 🥀 How hard can it be...

Man, cats really don't last long in Phase World. Must be an incompatible biosphere.

Ursula von der Leyen has confirmed that everyone in the EU will need to use the EU's app for identity authentication before being able to access or post on social media websites. 🇪🇺 As an expert in online child safety, I am here to expose the misinformation and misdirection in von der Leyen's statements. Today von der Leyen said: "This is not about whether children can access social media, it is about whether social media can access our children". 💡The first part is true. This isn't about children. It's about surveillance and combating political dissent. A state that can't control its own citizens is more dangerous than a state rife with criminals. The second part is a PR soundbite that politicians are using like a campaign slogan straight out of 1984. 🇪🇺"The question is no longer if children face risks online, but what can we do to give children a safer start online". 💡No. You can't give children a "safer start" online any more than you can offline. In the offline world, the government doesn't enforce curfews or ban children from entering liquor stores, bars or restaurants. That's a parent's responsibility. The digital world should be no different. 🇪🇺"The age verification app is one of the tools to get it done". 💡This is a contradiction because she also said "It won't be foolproof". 🇪🇺"It's easy to use, it is privacy preserving and it is open source". 💡The app was compromised as soon as it was released. "Privacy-preserving" age verification is an oxymoron. You can't verify a person's age without verifying their identity. Where or how that age is shared afterwards is irrelevant. 🇪🇺"This is basically about putting back the power into the hands of parents". 💡More from 1984. The EU is doing the opposite. Parents are having their authority stripped by politicians who think they know better. Many parents are capable and unaffected by peer pressure, and they know how to use parental controls to block any app classified as 13+. Some teens are safe, their parents trust them, and the state has no business overruling that trust. 🇪🇺"We don't give our children keys to the car before they have their licence" 💡Comparing an app to a car is a false equivalence used to justify mass surveillance. Governments don't decide when a young person is ready for car keys, guardians do. 💡Forcing every adult and child into a biometric checkpoint just to use an app or website is not licensing drivers. It's the state seizing everyone's keys, locking the garage, and forcing every driver to ask a private company for permission to take a drive. 💡 This is a gross, unethical overreach that strips authority from parents while imposing state sanctioned identity verification on every adult who doesn't even have a child. 💡Additionally, people who pass a test, obtain a licence and drive a car aren't forced to use an app to constantly authenticate their suitability to drive. 🇪🇺"We do not let them buy alcohol until they are legally allowed" 💡False equivalence. We don't force every person to show ID at a shopping mall entrance just because a few people might buy alcohol with a meal at a restaurant. Some parents are okay with their 12 year-old going to the mall with friends while others aren't. Either way, it's their choice. Whatever irresponsible decisions some parents might make, every adult in the country shouldn't be forced to pay the price. 🇪🇺"It won't be foolproof" 💡This is all the proof we need to show that the EU and every government know that banning social media for teens won't protect them. When pressed by journalists about VPNs being used to circumvent a ban, politicians always state the ban isn't a silver bullet and will take time. The Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan went as far as to say "we know it's not the solution". 💡Either age verification works, or it doesn't. As a technical expert in this space, I can tell you there are no additional steps to take and no progress to be made. Either the approach does what it is supposed to do, or it's not fit for purpose. If they claim a bulletproof solution is coming, it can only mean one thing. They intend to ban or restrict VPNs to people who verify their identity. 🇪🇺"It will take time to invite the cultural change that is already taking shape in our society, just as it took time to outlaw drink driving, just as it took time to use seatbelts in the cars. Great change never happens overnight, but when it comes to our safety it is always worth it". 💡Comparing a social media ban and age verification to seatbelts is a completely broken analogy. Seatbelts are a safety feature that protects children while allowing them to travel in a car. A ban doesn't give kids a seatbelt. It kicks them out of the car entirely. 💡Instead of supporting parents who want to guide their own children through the digital world, this heavy-handed law strips away parental authority by banning the apps and websites that many parents are perfectly fine with and actively monitor. 💡Furthermore, enforcing these bans requires biometric age verification, which means forcing millions of adult citizens to scan their IDs, faces or credit cards just to browse the internet. That isn't a common-sense traffic law. 💡It's a digital checkpoint on every street. True safety means teaching kids how to navigate the digital world safely with real guardrails and parental guidance, not burning down digital spaces for everyone under the guise of protection. 🇪🇺☠️ The EU wants to ban teens from social media so every person is forced to verify their identity before they can read, share or post anything online. In their words, this is to protect children from dangerous content. 🇪🇺☠️ The EU wants to enforce "Chat Control" so every app has to monitor everything people say privately inside it, including apps with end-to-end encryption. In their words, this is to protect children from dangerous criminals. 💡Where this ends 🇪🇺 "If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face - forever". George Orwell, 1984.

Reminder that when a content creator commissions a model, it should be THEIR model. If someone spends $2~$5 GRAND on a model, it should be theirs. They should own the IP and the ARTIST should have a limited license to use it for advertising their work Hope this helps 👍

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