Treat a published work that was later divulged to be AI-generated the same way you would if you found out it was manually plagiarized from a different book. Same situation, just the plagiarism has been automated and averaged out a bit, and the plagiarist is also a scab and a cultural arsonist.

Every artist, get more self indulgent NOW! Draw your ships kissing, draw your blorbos, draw that idea you’ve been putting off (you’re good enough to do it!!!), redraw that old art, draw yourself wearing a cool outfit, draw a better world- just draw!!!

Some absolutely top notch orange cattery here

jesus the Palm Beach Police really sought arrest warrants against underage Epstein victims for coming forward and cooperating, and (purported) admitting to crimes, and it caused the victims to become uncooperative with the federal investigation

get everyone gambling on their phone and then charge them for losing is actually pretty funny

I don't think free speech on campus ought to mean that a young coddled bigot gets to use their ignorance to casually destroy the career of a knowledgeable trans person on a random Wednesday

I mean yeah it’s an authoritarian takeover but can we take some comfort in the fact that the people doing it are INSANELY stupid?

I hate that when AI is wrong people are like "But isn't it amazing that it thinks it's right?" but when I fuck up my taxes it's "a crime." Hypocrisy much?

Flower reporting for #HedgewatchXmas as Senior Santa Tracker. NORAD starts the Santa Cam early in the morning when mom is still sleeping. I will be watching from my window here in the North Country. Rudolph will be in the lead due to the snow since we are in a whiteout.

"It is logically impossible to simultaneously be evil, corrupt, and incompetent" is an absolutely amazing take to have in the year of 2025

“Go outside” they said. “You’ll love the fresh air” they said. Photo from my collection, no date/info.

Just filled out (at length!) this excellent survey about how SFWA should handle LLM/GenAI use in award eligibility. It’s open to readers as well as writers so if you have serious & considered opinions plz fill it out, especially if you have edge cases to share that others may not have thought of.

I went and picked him up from the rescue. He is very very sweet, zero spice in him at all. Found rurally, took himself up to a house and screamed for help. He's had a bath, and is currently purring under my chin.

Here are a couple of the wonderful cats I photographed at the shelter yesterday - only two days left to donate to my fundraiser for them! Let's see if we can get it up to $8,000! givebutter.com/n5l31M

In our actual cyberpunk dystopia, there will remain in the dark nooks and crannies of the world machines which are cognitohazards people must avoid. Young people told "if you see one, don't fucking talk to it. Don't ask it any questions. It will drive you mad and get you to kill yourself."

He looks like he’s trying to stop his dog from leaving him

watch with sound on for a serotonin boost

Merry Xmas! 🎄 Finally finished this Alhaitham fanart! I wanted to try a cozy "Red Hat & Green Sweater" look for him, and the Polaroid aesthetic seemed to fit his vibe perfectly. Hope you all have a wonderful Christmas Eve! ✨ #GenshinImpact #Alhaitham #Sumeru #Fanart #Polaroid #RetroArt #Christmas

"SOMEONE was so lazy to give actual recommendations to a vendor on Treasures Street that they recommended *me* instead. Can you believe the nerve?!" #kaveh #haikaveh

Techbros seem to love Tolkien, so here's an analogy to help you understand what genAI is. GenAI is The One Ring. You think your use is justified, b/c you don't have evil in your heart. But it came from evil, it is intended for evil purpose, & anything you do with it will be twisted to that end.

Happy holidays!!! 🎄⭐️💖 #fullmoonpanic #oc

OH MY GOD THEY DID

CHOTINER: and when you're in water you PARTICLE MAN: don't get wet, that's right. CHOTINER: And this is because PARTICLE MAN: the water gets me instead. It becomes particle-manish CHOTINER: There's been some debate on this point. Triangle Man, for example PARTICLE MAN: I think we're done here

Pencil test and final animation: Tokyo Godfathers (2003), dir. Satoshi Kon, Madhouse This sequence by Shinji Otsuka was the first animation test for Tokyo Godfathers, and it served as a reference for the rest of the team

Things are Terrible, but this isn't. Be weird.

Flower has baked for #kittyloafmonday . Flower is starting to explore the new house more. I found her in the cat tree in the sunroom. I was surprised to find her there, as it is furthest from the bedroom (her safe space). Have a good day. #cats #CatsOfBluesky #gato

James Baxter is one of the only living animators on planet earth that could make a joke about squash and stretch/follow-through animation this good. I lost my shit at the extreme smear bit when Gumball turns around.

#kaveh #alhaitham #genshin #genshinimpact #haikaveh

The Olivia Nuzzi story and the Bari Weiss at CBS story are the same story, which is that the upper echelons of legacy media are absolutely rife with people who worship power and don't feel burdened by any sense of responsibility to their profession or the public.

one day i will post my cat less but not today

Maybe I should just call it Monday Gummitch purr, since I seem to be incapable of getting it posted before noon on a regular basis. #CatsOfBluesky

There are many ways to save time and labor in your artwork that don’t involve using a glorified slot machine that uses as much energy as a small city and poisons the air every time it gets used. Use 3D models, reference photos, whatever. Don’t tell me AI is actually useful

highly recommend @trueref.bsky.social and @adorkastock.com for reference photos!! their refs are super high quality and get very specific, AND by using them you’re supporting real people and learning & referencing *actual anatomy*!!

With those who weren’t smart enough to get the message, I’ve had to be more clear. And I stand on my position. Every adult member of my family knows that if I see them hit their kids, I’m hitting said parent. You don’t like what they did? Well, I don’t like how you responded. Now we all gotta fight.

Members of my family like to tease me about the fact that I don’t believe in hitting kids, but guess what? Nobody plays that mess in front of me. Every kid I know is safer in my presence. You can make fun of me all you want if you’re still gonna give me what I’m looking for. I’ll take it.

really cannot be emphasized enough that bari weiss has literally never done journalism. i don’t mean that in the pejorative sense. i mean that in the “has never performed the job she was hired to do” sense

Parisot (the Director) tells a story about how Tim Allen just started crying after a scene one day "I don't like these feelings i'm having." Says Tim. "I'm going back to my trailor" and walks off. There's silence for a second. "Oh my god." Says Rickman. "I think Tim just experienced acting."

Worth noting, I guess, that inside of a year we've gone from administration officials taking selfies of themselves at CECOT and bragging about how it's hell on earth to now getting their horrible little media worms to kill stories about it

every day this becomes more true

Just a few days left to donate to my fundraiser for our local animal shelter! Let's see how close we can get it to $8,000! 🥳 givebutter.com/n5l31M

You can very clearly see why someone whose job it is to protect war criminals would need this pulled from the airwaves: It’s visible proof the Trump administration is operating concentration camps.

Apparently Paypal is now asking those who commissioned artists through invoices for feedback on the experience, Please never type anything, Its a trap. Just putting both yours and their accounts at risk of bans.

The CBS 60 Minutes Doc confirms what we knew: The U.S. is currently using our tax dollars to imprison brown people with no criminal record in torture camps overseas. It’s no wonder administration shill Bari Weiss pulled this off the air: www.youtube.com/watch?v=tjY7...

CBS NEWS: “We can’t report on the current murdering spree until we get the serial killer’s side of the story.”

call us old fashioned but, if you've built a machine that makes child porn, we really don't care if can do anything else. unplug the machine.

people always laugh when bears run away from housecats because they're so much bigger but like. imagine you were in the woods & you ran into a weird little guy that looks kinda like you but like 1/5th the size & his head is shaped weird & he is running toward you full tilt yelling. what would you do

Wee skrunkleton. Postcard from my collection, 1955.

I just posted this Internet Archive link to Facebook, where the aunts & uncles, grandmas & grandpas who watch 60 Minutes after football games live. It’s important that this story doesn’t just circulate on Bluesky.

this made me so happy