Yes. Using a computer now feels like this at all times.

My review: pluralistic.net/2025/04/23/z...

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IMPORTANT: For any artists/writers/etc etc, using Linktree to point people to their work, from 5 July, they'll be feeding all imagery you use on your landing page into DALL-E by OpenAI. I deleted my account this morning.

Hot take: I dont want to see puppeted corpses in my feature films.

"You don’t have to be part of the grindset or be a girlboss or a sociopath or use shortcuts to be successful. You don’t have to outsource thinking to a machine to demonstrate you understand the future. You will only be and do those things if what you’re actually seeking is power."

Once again, sex workers and porn artista were among the first early adopters of bsky. They built the platform up and brought their audiences with them. Now that they have enough mainstream appeal, they want to exile the very people who made their site worth being on. A tale as old as time.

Tom Gray is amazing at this sort of thing. An impassioned speech to the Ivors Academy. Inspiring stuff.

More gorgeous art to cleanse the timeline 💙

This really is it, this is the part that keeps me raging against the machine. Every day of my career I’m shoulder to shoulder with incredible people, pouring their skill & point of view into the work they do, making choices that amaze and delight me. Frame by frame, drawing by drawing…that’s THE job

Everyone is (rightly) clowning on the Book of Life guy for getting in bed with the AI crowd, but there's a danger that the dopamine hit of outrage overwhelms good news. Like, I've seen dozens of posts about Gutierrez and only one or two about this. We need to be as loud about the good as the bad.

Gonna break up the DEPRESSING DOSE OF REALITY with Lizcreed's BEAUTIFUL BIG BOY TIDDIES

The people who are the most successful in tech are diagnosable sociopaths. It's not just run of the mill narcissists, there are people who find success in tech who genuinely do not believe anyone else could matter as much as they do. To them, other people simply aren't real in the same way they are.

chomp chomp 🦈 #art #sharks

Not to make *everything* about AI but this is a great example of why real art is going to win. Performance enhancing shortcuts won't help if you don't have the discipline to hone your craft. Also AI content, like the enhanced games, is a clown-show for amateurs.

It's a good reminder of how badly crypto has failed on its own terms, delivering its biggest users into an existence of fear and physical peril that rivals the plight of even the most hunted dissidents in the most repressive societies. 44/

Consequently, cryptocurrency has become a scam magnet of unprecedented and unstoppable power, and hardly a day goes by without people being ripped off in the most ghastly ways imaginable: www.web3isgoinggreat.com 23/

(not to mention that the US, the main source of this whole ai bullshit, is actively destroying research on women, gender studies and whatever they don't like, so please shut up about science)

and before anyone comes to me with "but ai i used in science-" first of all there is a difference between machine learning and genai but also I've never heard a single scientist say that they need more ai, what science needs is FUNDING - money, resources and support from the government

friendly reminded that AI is literally the worst invention ever it spreads misinformation, has destructive impact on environment, poisons entire neighborhoods, people are losing jobs because of it, art gets devalued, it's used for war it literally has an influence on EVERY aspect of life

I really didn't want to turn this into a political fuckin' blog. I wanted a safe, creative space where I could just BE and provide an escape for just a BRIEF MOMENT from this hellmouth we all live in. But I couldn't not share what seemed so important. The world feels so broken.

I sincerely beseech you to read this. It is terrifying and important. Repost it, get the word out. Tag media like @npr.org & @nytimes.com @wsj.com and whoever because this is absolutely something that needs to be investigated & reported on ASAP The headline isn't the half of it. READ IT ⬇️⬇️⬇️

also because a bunch of them are like "John and Hanako" or "Sayid and Samira and Zahra" or "Jill and Nancy" like so many families 😭❤️❤️❤️

This is so deeply upsetting. I expected much better from Jorge. I hope everyone sees that nobody is too popular to avoid being blacklisted for using AI. Our community deserves and expects better. Let this be a lesson. What a huge betrayal.

ANNOUNCEMENT: The workers of Dark Horse Comics @darkhorse.com are forming a union. Please read our mission statement below. 👇 #DHWU

"we're implementing AI into this-", yeah but what about implementing a big rock into your ass and jumping into a river

if you are someone who makes anything, anything at all, with your own real brain and hands, I respect you so so much and am begging you to keep doing it.

Hey Alberta - there's a federal petition out right now to bar construction of energy-hungry AI data centres. It aims to mandate and prioritize national environmental protections, public hearings, and First Nations consent. Anyone from Canada can sign: www.ourcommons.ca/petitions/en...

good, fuck em

Fyi the cupcake character is one created by Loryn Brantz, who has this to say about Buzzfeed using it without her permission.

"let people enjoy things" is over. we must want things to be good

“Creative breakthroughs happen when visionary storytellers are given access to transformative tools”-- Actually, creative breakthroughs happen when people don't have to drink brown water from data center waste. This is not cool or accessible, this is disingenuous & disappointing.

Hi, I am Danielle Welch. I am the public defender on the ballot against Tom Suozzi next month. I will not join a Christofascist cult. I will not hide gifts from a Christofascist cult (or anyone). I will not do any of the other terrible things in this article. Wtf, Suozzi? votewelch.com

this whole post is 🔥but this bit is just perfect

great thread about billionaires being uniquely suckers for A.I., this is just one point

This is long and there's linkage to it in essay form, but it dives right into why we're seeing pols and wealthy schmucks embracing AI. "It all makes perfect sense - provided you don't believe that other people are really, truly *real*."

Just a reminder: a set of studies indicating that being rich makes you act evil was described relatively recently in PNAS. www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

"AI [...] does not attempt to germinate a culture, a cuisine, or a language in your sacred soil." I read the entire thread and encourage you to do the same, absolutely riveting - and damning - stuff. There are things I FEEL about AI without being able to articulate quite WHY; dystopianly depressing

yikes :(

Artists, show me the first ever picture of your OC and the most recent one. Conveniently, I drew a very recent Laz'ab onbly days ago! 2012 (first) - 2014 (figured out his stylisation) - 2026 He's still a chaotic murder-goblin, but at least he's mostly retired now #sakart #SWtOR #laz'ab #twi'lek

Still the thottiest Lazzes to exist 💙 You can take the girl out of the yaoi, but you cannot take the yaoi out of the girl THANK YOU for drawing my stupid stick-bug! It was a super fun stream!!

IN 2.5 HOURS LET'S GOOOOOOOOO!!!

A thank you note/love letter/commentary on art for anyone interested

No livestream today, folks. After all the shrieking and screaming yesterday my throat needs a day to recover before doing it all over again Sat! Thanks to everyone for an absolutely UNHINGED and wonderful time! Today will be spent updating www.patreon.com/quartervirus We have a NSFW tier now ....

This Saturday @lizcreedart.bsky.social and I are going TOE TO TOE in a JOINT STREAM!! I'll give her one of my skinny twinks, she'll give me one of her beefy beefcakes - NEITHER of us knows exactly WHO we're drawing until we start! It promises to be a chaotic afternoon and we hope to see you there!

Do you love fantasy?? Do you love good fucking art?? Literally. Do you love wholesome smutty adventures between consenting partners while they take on one of the most beautiful worlds I've ever seen?!? Do yourself a favour - READ I Roved Out. It's free to read on their website. Then buy this book 📚