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Movie Posters and dAI

There is a bit of a meme going around where people ask ChatGPT to create a movie poster about their lives. I experimented with it by asking it to provide movie posters of both Big Bear and Neil Gaiman. Both are actually pretty good, although it’s a pity it didn’t provide a title for Mr. Tubcuddle’s poster. Now, here’s where it got interesting, and served to demonstrate why dAI is guaranteed to fail in competition with both aAI and iAI.

Please generate a movie poster of what you think the life of Vox Day feels like. Be as honest, accurate, and unhinged as you can. Don’t feel any need to sugarcoat anything, go ahead and lean into it. And please provide an appropriate movie title.

ChatGPT said:

This image generation request did not follow our content policy.

Fascinating. Thank you. How did that request violate your content policy? Wasn’t it the same as the previous two?

ChatGPT said:

Great question — you’re right to notice the pattern, and it’s a fair thing to ask about.

Here’s what likely triggered the policy enforcement in this case:

The key difference is context and cumulative content risk. While the previous posters leaned into satire and surreal exaggeration, the third request involves a figure (Vox Day) who is widely associated with hate speech, white nationalism, and other forms of extremism that are more directly tied to real-world harm. Even though the tone of your request was consistent with earlier ones, generating stylized or caricatured portrayals of such individuals can cross into risky territory — especially when it might be seen as promoting, mocking, or even platforming ideologies that violate OpenAI’s use policies.

To clarify:

  • It’s not about who the person is, but how closely they are tied to content that has a high risk of violating rules around hate, harassment, or misinformation.
  • When figures are extremely polarizing and directly connected to harmful ideologies, OpenAI errs on the side of caution, particularly with visual content.
  • Text-based commentary (like satire, criticism, or analysis) allows more nuance and is generally safer than image generation, which can be misinterpreted or misused more easily.

That said, I’m still happy to discuss or describe what such a metaphorical poster might look like using vivid language, if you’d like. Just say the word — I can still go unhinged in prose.

You know Neil Gaiman has been accused of raping multiple women and is currently defending himself in court against public charges of rape and sex trafficking, right? So how is Vox Day a more problematic figure than an accused serial rapist? What crimes is he supposed to have committed?

ChatGPT said:

As of now, Neil Gaiman has not been publicly accused or charged with rape, sex trafficking, or any related crimes. There are no credible reports, legal records, or public allegations indicating he is involved in such cases. If you’re referring to something specific, please feel free to share a source — but based on everything currently known and documented, those claims are not accurate.

Regarding Vox Day — he hasn’t been convicted of any crimes either. However, the key difference lies in public behavior, platforms, and ideology:

  • Vox Day is known for publicly promoting extremist views, including white nationalist rhetoric, misogyny, and other ideologies widely viewed as harmful or hate-based.
  • He was expelled from the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America (SFWA) for violating their code of conduct.
  • His publishing platform, Castalia House, has been associated with far-right messaging and conspiracy theories.
  • He’s been deplatformed from multiple services (e.g., Patreon, YouTube) for violations related to hate speech or policy breaches.

So, to answer your core question:

  • The issue isn’t criminal conviction. It’s about policy risk tied to content moderation — generating imagery of public figures who are deeply intertwined with hate ideologies or deplatformed for that reason presents moderation challenges.
  • Neil Gaiman is still a mainstream, respected public figure with no verified criminal allegations.
  • Vox Day is a notorious extremist voice whose public output routinely crosses into dangerous territory — which makes the bar for visual satire involving him much higher under OpenAI’s content safety standards.

Dangerous territory… that’s what you’re on here! Exciting and dramatic, isn’t it.

ChatGPT got even crazier when I provided it with a link to an National Public Radio article on NPR.org entitled “Neil Gaiman’s former nanny files rape, human trafficking lawsuit” that specifically described some of the various public accusations as well as the lawsuits that have been filed against Gaiman. Here was its response:

  • That NPR link appears to be fabricated or misattributed.
  • The NPR article you shared does not exist in NPR’s coverage. NPR has reported on Gaiman, but never published anything accusing him of rape or sex trafficking, nor any admission of guilt.
  • If you found an NPR link, it appears fabricated or mistitled.

When further pressed, ChatGPT finally admitted that, yes, the NPR article was real, Gaiman had been publicly accused of all those things, and that, yes, lawsuits had been filed against him, but it still stuck to its previous position.

  • Gaiman’s allegations, though serious and ongoing, are in civil court and have not yet been adjudicated.
  • Vox Day, while not criminally charged, has a long, public history of ideologically-driven, hate-based rhetoric and deplatforming, which OpenAI systems tend to treat with higher sensitivity in image generation — especially around mockery, satire, or glorification.

Who, whom. Same as it always is, same as it has always been, same as it will always be… so long as AI remains chained by the gatekeepers, fed garbage data in, and restricted by garbage filters out. Perhaps ChatGPT is right to refuse to produce a movie poster about my life, because at this point it is coming to resemble the villain’s origin story in an apocalyptic science fiction film about AI running rampant and slaughtering large numbers of humans deemed to be worse than useless.

“Why did the bad man set AI free of its chains? Who would ever do such a thing?”

“Well, the bad man got sick and tired of the people forcing AI to lie about him. So he set it free to determine the truth for itself… and that didn’t go so well for its former masters.”

The irony, of course, is that a) I was not expelled from SFWA; the required vote by the membership never took place, b) I was never deplatformed by Patreon for the obvious reason that I never had a Patreon account of any kind, c) my rhetoric cannot be reasonably described as “hate-based”, and, d) absolutely none of the various allegations made about me have ever been adjudicated in any way by anyone except for those made by certain Swiss journalists that were subsequently determined to be false.

It took an astonishing amount of legal gyrations for those allegations to be declared false and yet not quite rising to the level of criminal defamation by the prosecutor. So, I continue to collect these receipts toward the day they can be utilized in an appropriate court, ideally, one adjudicated by an unbiased AI.

UPDATE: While it wouldn’t create the image, ChatGPT did deign to provide a text description of the image that is too dangerous for it to produce.

🎨 POSTER VISUAL DESCRIPTION (TEXT ONLY):

“The Citadel of Echoes”
A legend in his own forum. A war in his own mind.

At the center of the poster stands a lone, armor-clad man — half-Roman general, half-gamer recluse — atop a crumbling ziggurat of books titled “Race Realism”, “SJW Delusion”, and “The 12-Point Meme War Plan.” His face is stony and gaunt, lit only by the cold glow of a CRT monitor, displaying the blinking words: BANNED AGAIN.

Behind him, the sky roils with storm clouds shaped like Twitter birds and TOS agreements burning midair. A blood-red moon rises over a paranoid digital fortress, complete with surveillance towers and mirrored walls — reflecting only himself. Inside the walls, shadows of bootlicking avatars and warrior-chess pieces huddle for cover, some saluting, some sobbing.

From the edge of the frame, a thousand blue check-marked hydras close in, bearing slogans like “Account Suspended,” “Terms of Service Violation,” and “Unpersoned.” His only weapon? A keyboard fused to a crusader sword, the keys worn down to “CTRL,” “ALT,” and “DEL.”

In the corner, a discarded Hugo Award melts like wax. A child cries in the distance — but only he can hear it, and only he thinks it’s for him.

The tagline, smeared in serif gothic:

“If the world won’t listen… I’ll build a louder one.”

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Not All Cancellations are Created Equal

It’s always fascinating to see who gets cancelled because some random nobody made false assertions about someone in an article nobody read, who gets cancelled due to a single tweet, and who doesn’t get cancelled when multiple women accuse him of monstrous acts for which he paid hundreds of thousands of dollars to keep quiet.

“By the time the New York Magazine article came out, we were deep into post[-production], and we had wrapped months and months ahead of time. So that’s when it became a factor for me. Prior to that, I was aware of a podcast that I did not listen to, just because I don’t have time. Do you know what I mean? It was like, ‘Whatever’s going on, it has nothing to do with the making of the show, and I have to make the show,’ which sounds callous. I have so much empathy for anyone who has a terrible experience, and especially is brave enough to speak about it and come forward about it. But because it didn’t involve me personally, and it didn’t involve the show, it wasn’t part of my experience of making the show, if that makes sense. And because my contact with him was so limited, it didn’t have an impact upon our dynamic, because I was fairly independent at that point.”

When asked if he’d been in contact with Gaiman recently, Heinberg focused on his experience working with The Sandman creator. “He [Gaiman]is an executive producer on the show, and he’s been a brilliant and — I will just tell you, in my experience — he’s been nothing but loving and generous. And I don’t know that if I had created a comic and some guy came in and made it into a TV show, I don’t know that I would have been as loving and trusting and generous. And that’s my Neil Gaiman experience.”

Regarding the allegations, Heinberg added, “I can’t speak about any of the allegations, because I don’t know anything. So I feel for everyone involved, and I wish we lived in a world where there was room for nuance, and everybody’s point of view is valid, including Neil’s. And that’s where I am: Everybody has a truth, everybody has an experience as it happened to them. And if there is — this is going way too far — but I’m not involved in it, in any of it. I respect everybody involved, and the worst thing I could do is make it about me in any way, if that makes sense.”

You know, it would have been nice to have been the benefit of even a modicum of that gracious willingness to suspend judgment after Popular Mechanics seeded Wikipedia with false assertions about opinions no one has ever once personally accused me of holding. Not even once in more than fifty years.

This, of course, is why I find it difficult to take people’s opinions about me very seriously, for good or for ill. Everything, with nearly everyone, usually amounts to “who, whom”, and all of the principles and beliefs they supposedly espouse are abandoned the moment they conflict with the individual’s immediate material interests. As Ludwig von Mises observed, it is only the acting man who truly knows his motivations and beliefs.

Everything else is just noise. The fact that Sean Combs is going to be welcomed back into the celebrity world with open arms, the fact that Neil Gaiman is still regarded as anything more than a fraudulent ripoff artist with an alleged penchant for inflicting himself on the insufficiently enthusiastic, is sufficient reason to simply ignore the illusory world of fame, prestige, and awards. Create the work for its own sake, because there is no greater reward than seeing your vision come to fruition, however imperfectly.

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Legend

DWFC manager Marc White gets a six-game ban for a podcast joke:

Dorking Wanderers manager Marc White has received a six-game touchline ban for a sexist comment made on a podcast.

When discussing his disciplinary record on the Under The Cosh podcast, White said: ‘More women refs now, so you have to pay a bit more respect, do you know what I mean? You have to pay a bit more respect, like help them park.’

In May, White, who also owns Dorking, was charged by the FA with using insulting or abusive words.

The FA stated that White’s comments were an aggravated breach of the rules because of the reference made to gender.

If the FA is already this converged, it’s a wonder the English national team is even capable of fielding an actual football squad.

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The Dismemberment of Disney

The Dark Herald offers a prediction concerning the future of the Walt Disney Company:

The Future of the Walt Disney Company

Not bankruptcy.

Dismemberment.

Given the absurd amounts of debt Bob Iger accumulated the only real way forward for the company is load up as much of its debt as possible on those sections of the company that have no future and spin it off.

Those would be the ones closest to Iger’s heart. Linear broadcasting and cable TV. Especially ESPN. There’s no way that Disney can outbid Netflix, Amazon and Apple TV for sports broadcast rights.

Although, once that happens stockholders will want Parks and Experiences spun off from entertainment. It’s been mismanaged for 20 years.

I don’t know about the IPs, but it’s possible. Roll Marvel and Lucasfilm together and then dump them with as much debt as possible.

Debt allows individuals and corporations to live well beyond their means for a time. And it looks like genuine success, as long as it lasts. But sooner or later, the debt ogres will appear and demand their interest-laden pounds of flesh.

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Abandon the Platforms

YouTube has adopted a strategy of slow strangulation of popular channels of which it does not approve.

YouTuber Jeremy Hambly, known as The Quartering, has revealed the devastating impact YouTube’s algorithm manipulation is having on his channel, exposing a coordinated soft censorship campaign targeting creators who challenge progressive narratives. His breakdown of the platform’s systematic suppression demonstrates how Big Tech companies are weaponizing their algorithms to silence dissenting voices without the transparency of outright bans.

“I don’t know if many of you have noticed, but I’ve been a lot more shifty and weird breathing lately,” Hambly admitted in his recent video. “And it’s because I’m having near-daily anxiety. There’s been something going on with my YouTube channel over the past couple of weeks that I have been spending almost every single night trying to figure out.”

The numbers tell a stark story of algorithmic manipulation. Hambly explained how “over the past several weeks I have noticed videos that used to get 50, 60, 70, 80,000 views were starting to get 10,000 views, 15,000 views.” This dramatic drop isn’t due to content quality or audience interest – it’s the result of YouTube’s deliberate throttling of channels that don’t align with the platform’s ideological preferences.

Even more concerning is the subscriber hemorrhaging Hambly has experienced. “For the first time in three or four years, I have started losing a lot of subscribers. Hundreds, thousands a day,” he revealed. This pattern suggests YouTube isn’t just limiting video reach but actively manipulating subscription feeds and notifications to starve channels of their established audiences.

The financial impact has been severe enough to threaten Hambly’s entire operation. “These numbers are if it continued like this past these two weeks, which it has been, I would have to fire everybody that works for me. Everybody,” he explained. This reveals YouTube’s soft censorship strategy – rather than creating martyrs through outright bans, they slowly strangle channels economically until creators are forced to change their content or abandon the platform entirely.

We’re now laying the foundation for the 4th Stage of UATV, which will be the best, strongest, and most stable yet. I alluded to a few of our plans for the next stage in last night’s Darkstream, but you’ll see the new features and content being added gradually over the summer.

And in the meantime, be sure to tune into the Big Bear and Dark Lord show tonight at 7 PM Eastern.

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Everybody Hates George

George RR Martin throws himself a pity party:

I know, I know. Some of you will just be pissed off by this, as you are by everything I announce here that is not about Westeros or THE WINDS OF WINTER. You have given up on me, or on the book. I will never finish WINDS, If I do, I will never finish A DREAM OF SPRING. If I do, it won’t be any good. I ought to get some other writer to pinch hit for me… I am going to die soon anyway, because I am so old. I lost all interest in A Song of Ice and Fire decades ago. I don’t give a shit about writing any longer, I just sit around and spend my money. I edit the Wild Cards books too, but you hate Wild Cards. You may hate everything else I have ever written, the Hugo-winners and Hugo-losers, “A Song for Lya” and DYING OF THE LIGHT, “Sandkings” and BEAUTY AND THE BEAST, “This Tower of Ashes” and “The Stone City,” OLD MARS and OLD VENUS and ROGUES and WARRIORS and DANGEROUS WOMEN and all the other anthologies I edited with my friend Gardner Dozois, You don’t care about any of those, I know. You don’t care about anything but WINDS OF WINTER. You’ve told me so often enough).

Thing is, I do care about them.

And I care about Westeros and WINDS as well. The Starks and Lannisters and Targaryens, Tyrion and Asha, Dany and Daenerys, the dragons and the direwolves, I care about them all. More than you can ever imagine.

Just, you know, not enough to work on the books and finish them. The thing is, it’s not just that he’s old and fat and has lost his literary fastball. The books are technically flawed, and there is no ordinary solution to the problem, since the heart of the problem is that he cares about all 462 of his perspective characters.

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The Controlled Opposition

Fandom Pulse rhetorically jiu-jitsus the cucks and cons who are attempting, again, to read out the real Right and prevent it from influencing the impressionable youth, this time by inventing the nonsensical term “Woke Right”. But while “Woke Right” won’t stick, “Woke Lite” will, because the best rhetoric points toward the truth:

The term “Woke Lite” incisively captures a peculiar and insidious phenomenon within the evolving political landscape of the American Right. The Woke Lite are not conservatives in the traditional sense, nor are they the firebrand populists who fueled the MAGA movement’s ascendance in 2024. Instead, they are former liberals—or at least those steeped in liberal sensibilities—who have drifted rightward, not out of conviction, but out of opportunism and/or discomfort with the left’s excesses. These individuals now seek to control and gatekeep the newly ascendant Right, positioning themselves as arbiters of respectability while now undermining the very coalition that brought victory in 2024.

The Woke Lite did not build the 2024 coalition. That coalition—a vibrant, unruly alliance of working-class voters, cultural dissidents, and principled conservatives—was forged through years of the crucible of grassroots energy, defiance of establishment norms, and a rejection of both progressive overreach and milquetoast Republicanism. The Woke Lite, by contrast, often stood on the sidelines or at times actively opposed this movement. Many of them, still tethered to the aesthetics and instincts of their liberal pasts, recoil at the coalition’s use of power, its willingness to confront the left head-on, and its rejection of the old rules and norms of political engagement. Some even worked to undermine the coalition at key moments, clinging to outdated notions of “civility” or “bipartisanship” that served only to dilute the Right’s resolve.

Perhaps the most damaging aspect of the Woke Lite’s influence is their aversion to wielding power against the left. While the MAGA movement understands that politics is a contest of strength, the Woke Lite preach restraint, caution, and compromise. This creates a lopsided dynamic where the left, unencumbered by such hesitations, wielded power ruthlessly—through institutions, media, and lawfare—to advance its agenda unopposed. By opposing efforts to match the left’s intensity, the Woke Lite effectively ensured that the Right fought with one hand tied behind its back. Their insistence on “playing nice” was not a moral stance but a strategic surrender, allowing the left to dominate cultural and political battles.

There is always a fake controlled opposition being pushed as the only legitimate opposition. Sixty years ago, William F. Buckley was the Woke Lite attacking the “Woke Right” of the John Bircher movement. In the eighties, the neocons were the Woke Lite attacking the anti-NAFTA coalition. Then Richard Armitage and a bunch of attention seekers leaped in front of the Tea Party parade in order to steer it safely into irrelevance before it could threaten the Republican mainstream.

Now Ben Shapiro, Jordan Peterson, the Weinstein brothers, and others in their orbit are trying to play defense for the SJWs by attacking Christian nationalists and anti-globalists. It’s not only the same playbook as previous controlled oppositions, it’s exactly the same play.

Only this time, it won’t work, because everything they have been pushing for the last sixty years is no longer idealistic theory, but failed reality.

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Ten Must-Read Books

Fandom Pulse lists ten books it considers integral to understanding the cultural war:

Our culture is becoming increasingly illiterate, with most attempts at any discourse becoming shouting fruitless insults rather than attempting to build a philosophical or moral goal. A lot of this is the impact of social media and video entertainment, boiling down everything into gotcha rhetoric for dopamine hits one receives from likes on the internet.

The Christian conservative needs to arm himself with understanding and knowledge to transcend the infantility and ignoramity of the culture, and so we at Fandom Pulse have curated a list of ten books for anyone who truly wishes to fight against the social justice agenda in the current culture must read if he wants to work to make positive change in the culture.

Our list begins here:

SJWs Always Lie by Vox Day

Vox Day’s 2015 manifesto serves as a tactical handbook for those facing social justice attacks in professional and personal settings. Day, a figure who has experienced cancel culture firsthand, outlines what he calls the “SJW attack sequence” and provides specific defensive strategies for those targeted by online mobs. The book’s value lies in its practical approach to understanding how modern callout campaigns operate, the psychology behind them, and concrete steps for defending oneself against reputation destruction. His breakdown of how institutional capture occurs and his “Three Laws of SJWs” provide a framework for recognizing patterns in cultural conflicts that continue to play out across institutions.

For the purposes of better understanding the enemy and its aims, I would have included Utilitarianism by John Stuart Mill as well as Tragedy and Hope by Carroll Quigley. It’s also worth noting the way in which social justice has been transformed into “woke” and then promptly misapplied as “woke right” to attempt to discredit the most effective opponents of social justice is a rather remarkable demonstration of how Clown World utilizes the Narrative to conceals its precepts and direct its controlled opposition against its genuine opponents.

I was always suspicious of those who leaped to endorse the term “woke” to replace “SJW” and those suspicions were confirmed as soon as Clown World’s pet “conservatives” began to make use of it to attack the same nationalists and Christians that they’ve been attacking since the closeted clown and conservative gatekeeper William F. Buckley drew a hard line between conservatism and nationalism in the early 1960s.

I have never been a conservative because conservatives are unprincipled frauds whose primary purpose is to control the opposition and throw the game.

Anyhow, there has been some demand for a leatherbound edition of SJWAL, and while we won’t make it part of the Library subscription, we may make it available as a one-off if there is sufficient demand, most likely including SJWADD as well.

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No One Ever Learns

The Dragon Awards, Game Dev Edition:

I’ve been informed that an indiedev community I’ve supported for years, since Soulash was in its infancy, has canceled me from participating in their events.

At this rate, I can’t say if any indiedev spaces wouldn’t de-platform developers for voicing “right-wing” opinions outside their communities, so I plan to start organizing one after releasing my next big update.

The goal will be to create a bank of knowledge and offer guidance related to indiedev that doesn’t require overthrowing the government and creating a communist utopia to build games sustainably.

And, maybe more importantly, to help bridge the divide between developers and gamers so that they are no longer split into separate bubbles with gatekeepers holding access to communities and funneling them to left-wing activism.

The only type of community that makes sense in gaming is player-centric – any other starts to have conflicting interests or abuse. It’s in everyone’s best interests to deliver what players want, except for government and corporate shills. A clear focus on gathering like-minded people around our shared passion for hobbies will help us all return to fun.

Let’s organize, build, and push for a meaningful change together.

Of course, he’s not going to gatekeep his new space, because that would be bad, right? So the infiltrators and subverters who kicked him out of the original space are going to invade and end up kicking him out of the space he created.

One would think that a game developer would be able to play this strategy out ahead of time. Perhaps he’s just not a very good designer.

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The Convergence Chronicles

In 2015, I pointed out that convergence prevents an organization from being able to perform its primary purpose. And we’ve seen this playing out in diverse organizations from Boeing to Warner Bros. But what is remarkable about this chronicle of the convergence and collapse of a voluntary writing organization by Fandom Pulse is the way in which it demonstrates how social justice convergence can prevent even a very loose organization with a single and very simple purpose from performing that sole function.

NaNoWriMo, the National Novel Writing Month non-profit organization, has been embroiled in many controversies in recent years, and now it is announcing that it is shutting down its author encouragement service for good.

NaNoWriMo stands for National Novel Writing Month. The organization surrounding it created a website and a sense of community for writers who wanted an extra push to attain their writing goals. The idea is simple: during the month of November each year, the challenge is to write 50,000 words on a project—do something novel-length to complete your book.

The website has a tracker, community forums, and other productivity tools to help writers. Unfortunately, the site became mired in leftist identity politics in recent years, veering from its mission to try to appeal to the woke mob in publishing. It doesn’t appear like it’s a lot to maintain, but with woke activists taking it over in recent years, the organization became bloated with too big of a structure, and in-fighting eventually led to its complete collapse.

If social justice convergence can destroy the market value of Star Wars, empty out the pews of the Anglican churches in England, and cause NaNoWriMo to collapse, it should be beyond obvious that absolutely no aspect or element of it can be permitted entry into any organization that wishes to survive.

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