CALL YOUR REPS NOW! SPREAD THE WORD! HR 2616 was snuck onto the calendar for a vote TOMORROW. This is a pro book banning bill which seeks to ban ALL books by or about trans individuals.

Shoutout to the very senior professor in HCI who gave a talk last month about how AI can do qualitative data analysis better than people now.

NEW: Sen. Richard Blumenthal (D-CT) offered amendment to block Trump’s newly-established $1.776 billion taxpayer-funded pot of money from "making any payments to convicted child predators" Multiple pardoned Jan 6 rioters have been accused of child abuse Amendment was blocked

lol any way 💅

Dems are polling crazy high based on the flaming catastrophe that is Republican fascist rule, so primarying as many of the bad weak complicit Democrats in favor of good determined angry ones has rarely if ever been more crucial

For the record, this proposal specifically targets gender identity. You have until May 22nd to submit a comment

Not sure what the Eisners should do about the current AI predicament they find themselves in, but this petition requesting that guidelines be updated for the future saying any comic using AI will be disqualified from the Eisners seems like a no-brainer. c.org/8N5Ydf8GVS

Generative AI can not help you and will only be a detriment to you in general. Using it for legal things is just asking to get fucked over.

If you're a writer, write "I waited" without saying it. "My email had gone out long ago enough that I'd grown impatient for a response, but not so long ago that I could send a follow-up. Exactly how long that time frame lasts always varies, but inevitably ends right as I'm ready to call it a day."

Hey apparently we have till the 22nd to tell the FCC not to create ratings specifically for “transgender and gender non-binary programming.” This is so gross. Labeling identies like violence or cursing. Please leave a comment against this. ❤️

I’m begging all of y’all to actually support Laika and go see this film in theaters. I need this beauty to break box office records so badly 😭

it's hard to name one thing I resent most about how AI has broken our society, but the fact that trust in reality is so shattered that we're just spending all day whispering "are you human?" at everything we stumble across with no real idea how to tell either way? fuckin' exhausting

California-based artists and creatives, the California government is asking for public input on AI's impact on our work. Please fill out this survey, it'll just take a few minutes: join.engaged.ca.gov/en/projects/...

im doing chibis to help pay for my doggo's vet bill I take this type of commissions and more on my VGen! vgen.co/demonatemu

folx, I’ve been working on AI "ethics" for almost a decade now & hate to tell you there’s no such thing as "ethical AI" the only "ethical principle" that works is regulating the shit out of the industry & to take back control of our autonomy, fundamental rights, freedoms & right to exist w/out AI

What I meant to write in a work article: Records What my typo was: ecords What autocorrect changed the typo to: Escorts This could have lead to a very awkward conversation if I didn't catch it.

I love this and I hope everyone who has the opportunity boos billionaire-owned, consumer facing "A.i." in public at every opportunity. We don't have to pretend it's cool if we don't think it's acceptable!

Subtext is for cowards.

I've been dealing with tendinitis for the past several weeks, which has made mini painting difficult, but my wrists are on the mend. So I painted up this Psycho Red miniature to see if I’m recovered enough to do some painting.

Hi, I'm still on the job hunt! Recent grad w/ a BFA in Illustration. Worked QA in the game industry for 4 years, focusing on data collection, streaming services, and compat testing. Good for art or office work! Willing to relocate wherever work takes me. DMs open! portfolio: melanthia.carrd.co

"none of us can cancel everything but everyone can cancel something" is the heart of this. Sometimes it feels like folks on here are more interested in yelling at each other over the ways we're all struggling to navigate this system instead of figuring out what parts we can do.

The U of Nebraska, site of the National Quarantine Unit, the only federally funded such unit, is staffed & ready to receive Americans who were aboard the cruise ship that had the hantavirus outbreak. "We are prepared for situations exactly like this," said Dr. Michael Ash, CEO of Nebraska Medicine.

This is good information, and a reassuring follow-up to my recent "we're so fucked" post.

We are so fucked. Who’s ready for another pandemic lockdown?

Keshet and the Hebrew Free Loan Society have an interest free loan program to help LGBTQ people who need to move out of red states with loans of up to $10k. You do not need to be Jewish. However this is a loan and not a grant. www.keshetonline.org/movetothrive/

Here we go again. Saphier lies about vaccines, hawks supplements on the internet and tells you that your health is your "personal responsibility" (get sick: it's your fault). Write to your senators now and oppose this nomination. actionnetwork.org/letters/tell...

Here’s how the AI Boom, such as it is, has impacted my life: it has been used as an excuse to lay off my friends for bot equivalents that never came. It has made mass culture and art immeasurably worse. I have a stalker with AI psychosis. So, no, I don’t more data centers. I want less of all that.

In 2012 I took a comp ling course that went deep into language models as AI. The professor dropped a quote that I think about probably once a week now: “building a computer model of language and expecting intelligence is like building a computer model of the ocean and expecting to get wet”

yup, i just did this on my machine. sharing to save a life.

I called Adam Schiff to let him know all the reasons why I'm opposed to this and why AI should stay far away from kids in school. Well, actually, I told him as much as I could, then I reached the end of the allowed message length. Y'all should do the same.

Okay, it's May the Fourth, time to share my controversial Star Wars take: It's pronounced "AT-AT," not "AT-AT."

Kids should be learning that AI output isn’t trustworthy, where it really comes from, and how it’s disrupting our ability to tell what’s real. They shouldn’t be learning that AI will make them more efficient or do their work for them because it can’t. That would be propaganda, not education

Okay, I am sufficiently hyped for the Magic: The Gathering/The Hobbit set, but as a bit LotR fan, that's no surprise. Let's see if the Reality Fracture preview can be just as hype (and I hope it is)

Okay, we've seen the Warhammer 40k 11th edition unboxing, now it's time for MagicCon panels to start streaming. Let's see which news is the most hype today.

Bring back the ancient knowledge

Due to AI *costs.* This is what journalism promoters of AI don’t want to say out loud: the costs of implementing and constantly policing for AI problems, misuse, policy violations, and fake stories and people. Also that people not wanting to use AI to produce slop are losing jobs and livelihoods.

AI rots your brain. Writing with ChatGPT is worse than writing shitfaced after a pub crawl.

If you're upset about the SCOTUS VRA decision and live in Colorado, Minnesota, New York, Oregon, Wisconsin, New Jersey, Maryland, Illinois, or Washington state, watch this video. There's stuff you can do to directly fight back! youtube.com/shorts/vhuAL...

Alan Moore on now.

Please sign this United Wizards of the Coast MTG Arena union petition!!!! Make Hasbro and WOTC recognize their union!! actionnetwork.org/forms/uwotcl...

We must understand that the Voting Rights Act was not merely about ensuring Black Americans rights, it was about democratizing America. This ruling is not just a decimation of Black rights and Black Americans’ ability to have representation, it is a fatal blow to multiracial democracy.

Apparently the new gacha game Neverness To Everness features AI generated artwork in the full release - including a cinema you can go to that shows genAI animated cinematics. Consider not playing or promoting it.

People often frame this as "cigarettes will kill you" which yeah. True. But first they'll attach you to an oxygen tank and leave you gasping and barely able to walk, a pale half-alive zombie for your last decade while all your friends who didn't smoke live and laugh and sing and climb mountains.

Honestly, if you want to see a prime example of this, just look at how The Pitt fandom has been crashing out about Dr. Mohan not coming back for season 3 and acting like Noah Wyle personally killed their dog and called them a slur about it.

Whenever I hear these pitches from AI proponents, I'm reminded of the pitches for NFT games where they said "what if you could own Mario?" and how they fundamentally didn't understand the medium or its appeal, and I know this is from an older interview, but you'd think the Russo's would know better.

C’mon, burst that bubble already…

Going on vacation means looking at the phone on a Saturday night and going "Wait, what the fuck just happened?"

"AI is viewed not only as a normal technology, but an elite political project to be resisted … a thing manufactured by out-of-touch billionaires and pushed onto an unwilling public.” trib.al/pqdVQ79