Out of curiosity, I just ran a few paragraphs from The Butchering Art through an AI checker and it got flagged: 88% AI. This book was released in 2017, and AI machines were subsequently trained off it. How many writers are getting flagged for AI because of the literal theft of their work(s)? Insane.

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Anyone on here knowledgeable about Canva's Affinity and why it keeps chopping the right hand page text right margin for my zine layouts? It is driving me crazy. @meganpiont.bsky.social can you pass it on? Thanks!

Good little thread

Death by design.

mood going into 2k26: @leahsottile.bsky.social's living manifesto for journalism

This is a @multcolib.bsky.social appreciation post. I request stuff on ILL not totally getting how it works & the library has emailed & SNAIL MAILED me the thing because they own it already. Part of the reason I can be a working writer with no institutional affiliation is bc of this amazing library.

People who sympathize with Palestine over Israel voted for Harris by a 25 point margin People who sympathize with Israel over Palestine voted for Trump by a 48 point margin. The competition is fierce but I think "Thanks, Dearborn" has to be the dumbest Dem scapegoating line in modern history

Nothing is jumpier or crankier than an art conservator cleaning an old surface with a laser. Do NOT interrupt them and (should it be your responsibility) do NOT give them the wrong calibration numbers.

btw if y'all don't know already, the 'gram is a really neat feed that shows you photo posts from the people you follow it's mostly artists for me, and I'm trying to use it to catch up regularly bsky.app/profile/did:...

Ok all sarcasm aside, what these white supremacists are really talking about is when they are asked to apologize for doing racist things. Which happens. Because racism is something to apologize for. What they are saying is that no one should have to apologize for racist actions or statements.

In some ways, the clumsiness of this administration can help us see what goes on in corporate boardrooms dadadrummer.substack.com/p/what-is-th...

So I finished @keezyyoung.bsky.social's graphic novel HELLO SUNSHINE which is great – and features one of the only a) realistic and more importantly b) sympathetic depictions of psychosis I've ever seen in fiction?

This is just going to always be my go-to response to this kind of thing anthonymoser.github.io/writing/ai/h...

Does anybody connected w/ the new Speculations special issue of Speculum know where the full HTML text of the bioarchaeology paper is posted? All that displays now is either a PDF or a series of images. The latter are downloadable as individual PPTs, but w/ no way to read the text in the images.

A drawing made today while sketching in the Lloyd Center mall cafeteria with Mindy. We walked around, saw the chess club, bridge club, ice skaters, custom (metal) lightsaber store with fencing gym, a hallway lined with Pokemon sellers, bought some Lego mini-figs, looked at comics in Floating World.

More people should know that the Portland Metro Chamber / Portland Business Alliance hosts these brunches and conferences where a bunch of industrialists and lobbyists sit around whining in a group about how shitty Portland is. They really hate everything that makes the city different and good.

Ich thynke but litel of a Mondaye bleake Tuesdaye grey and Wednesdaye eke Thursdaye Ich care nat for thee Yet Fridaye - Ich am yn love Mondaye thou kanst fall awaye Tuesdaye, Wednesdaye, myne herte slaye No mirthe ys founde upon Thursdaye Yet Fridaye - Ich am yn love

Tonight we're looking at Basic Money Guide For Comic Artists and Other Freelancers by Smart Ren (ie @renstrapp.com) I love, when artists share about the actual business of being an artist, so when I saw this I was all over it.

Plenty of people saying they want to live on a big piece of land w their friends, not enough people moving into the same apartment building as their friends

I made a new sticker

We caught last night's hometown Christmas service, though took a pass on communion. The local pastor is an old Theater Kid, and we are fans who show up in support of his efforts (he had good, serious fun with Luke's Rueben). Also songs are for singing.

“what is DIE HARD about”

A small (personal) example of this book’s intellectual dishonesty: My father-in-law is reading In Covid’s Wake, and excitedly told me he found a passage where I’m quoted. The quote in question is me saying the FBI worked to censor speech on social media. Huh? When did I say that?!

Reminds me of this under-resourced Ukrainian army officer who, nevertheless, described successfully terrorizing a Russian unit for weeks because she "did the math." Someone commented, saying, "yeah, in combat, 'I did the math' beats 'I can do 100 pushups' every time."

On PM: "... but they're not the sort of shoes you'd find in the shop!" Yes, that is exactly my problem with shoe shopping.

The American Federation of Teachers is teaming up with a company under investigation for promoting murder suicides whose product, which it admits is based on stolen work, has been used to create nudes and harass students. And kids are supposed to take ethics guidance from them. Ok!

The publishing world is a nightmare, but we make the best of it! (When I said I have “a misprinted copy” what I actually meant was “2,000 misprinted copies”) #publishing #publishedauthor

Aww.... back home and family members are psyching themselves up for big church night by agreeing to pregame the blood of Christ <3

Back in Western Colorado for a few days. Found two rocks that collaborate very nicely together on drawings of Watson.

I've been meaning to post a thank you to the people who ordered things from me this past month! November ~ January are the leanest income/highest expense months of the year at the farm, and folks buying things from my online store has been lovely and helpful. Thank you! :-) #gratitude

Nice thread about cool new research. Love point at post 9: “All it [an LLM] can do is tell you what researchers have already said on the subject. My job, as a researcher, is to say something new, and give my carefully checked reasons for thinking that new thing.”

All I want for Christmas is an “opt out of AI” button on everything.

To clear the air here, because I am getting a lot of questions and feedback on this, we are cooked. Here is why:

If this is already the normal procedure everywhere, i.e. a google scholar import, universities’ library catalogues will be useless tomorrow.

this is a Canadian petition to uphold charter rights for transgender and minority communities if youre Canadian, please sign it. if youre not Canadian, please share it. www.ourcommons.ca/petitions/en...

Not having to put in the work to do a task means you don't get to see if you like the work. Not learning how to do it means you can't replicate and build on it.

As a visual artist who finally owns a lightbox (instead just an eraser), my drawing process is quickly becoming analogous to this.

My mistake! I wasn't reading — my kid was reading it aloud TO me, and I had to draw this. She has also informed me which Jane Austen (but still, please, WAO this). #JaneAusten250

I need some #KidLitArt pals to please go do this survey. It's not only concept artists/ comic book artists affected, but children's illustrators are often left out studies/convos involving this.

'Mama, you are not doing me justice...' Mrs. Dashwood, Marianne, and Elinor. Illustration for the Bath bicentenary edition of Jane Austen's Sense and Sensibility, published by Palazzo, 2011. Ink on Fabriano hot pressed. #JaneAusten250 #ArtAdventCalendar

I just saw someone yell “they’re just using it to generate ideas!” And I hate to say it But if you work in the ART DEPARTMENT and you need a death machine stuffed with your colleagues’ work to give you ideas Quit.

Nenko Gantchev should still be alive—home with his family. After 30 years contributing to Chicagoland as a small business owner and taxpayer, ICE detained him, ignored his medical needs, and he died in custody. This system is cruel, reckless, and must be held accountable.

Scientists. I want you to think of science communication projects you'd like to make happen in your neighborhood/town/city. Really think about it for a moment. Imagine that you're funding it yourself. How much is the minimum you'd need to make it happen?

Between unreliable hours and varying wages, art models are struggling to cobble together a living, despite the consequential role they play in visual arts institutions across the US.

Medicare For All can be designed to not just protect the rights of disabled Americans, but further independence. Medicare For All can be designed not just to reduce costs for chronically ill Americans, but further health by tearing down barriers to medically necessary treatments.

Today, AG Letitia James of New York responded to the Trump administration's new rule attempting to ban trans youth care in hospitals nationwide. "I will not let the administration come for you." Read the latest from our writer, S. Baum here. www.erininthemorning.com/p/i-will-not...

French publishing house Harlequin decided to use AI translation instead of human translations. All their freelance translators (some of whom had been working with Harlequin for +30y!!!) were told they would no longer receive work from Harlequin

Curses! I have no memory of which Jane Austen novel I was reading when I painted this in my sketchbook! Please tell me! (wrong answers only)