That a dude with a couple cameras and a plate of appetizers can make something worth $82.5 million and a media company looks at that and goes "couldn't we make even more money if we had AI do it?" tells you exactly how stupid these people are

I see some of you are still looking at other artist and comparing yourself to them. Really you need to stop looking at other artist, their numbers or whatever. Most of art success is about luck, getting your work seen. Don't be discouraged and start celebrating your successes, no matter how small.

96% of children in Gaza feel that their death is imminent and almost half want to die as a result of trauma. 92% of the children in the survey were “not accepting of reality”, 79% suffer from nightmares and 73% exhibit symptoms of aggression.

They actually published this David Mamet character screed verbatim like it's a bad thing anyone reasonable might disagree with.

Nothing funnier than when conservatives, who have put all their chips on "being the most hateful smirking assholes possible" for a decade now, try to do a pearl-clutch for sympathy

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Take a minute or less from your day to show solidarity with your trans brothers, sisters and partners and sign this petition campaign to get BlueSky to ban a known and documented creep from its site and enforce its ToS. His active presence here makes this app unsafe for everyone.

A word.

I bought a Christmas Furby to do pass the parcel at my friend's Christmas party! Hopefully it gets here on time

The AI generated subtitles on Crunchyroll are almost worse than no subs at all.

I like how this loops back into Bluesky's current safety failures. There's no "this is new ground" for this. People know what does & doesn't work in social, & silence in the wake of failure is a co-sign of that decision, just via the childish cowardice of not claiming it for fear of direct response.

A lot of things suck in this lifetime, but I remember when the thought of this was incomprehensible. This is beautiful.

@bsky.app @safety.bsky.app @support.bsky.team @moderation.bsky.app Also this

on that note, if @safety.bsky.app is thinking "but how will we achieve legitimacy if we ban "big names?" please note that even MEDIUM names *stop using social media* when you don't moderate harassment. letting assholes, however "big", do whatever they want, will lose you *hundreds* of bigger ones

@bsky.app @safety.bsky.app @support.bsky.team @moderation.bsky.app | | | | | | | | | vvvvvvvvv

stop acting like protecting marginalized people from harassment is going to cut into your bottom line, for fuck's sake

something that @safety.bsky.app needs to realize is that when it comes to social media, marginalized people are both targets, and a vast majority of your userbase, because ALL women are marginalized, and when you add in men of color, and queer men, and disabled men, etc.? it's not a contest

I love comics people, and I hope we all make it, and I bet there’s things to do to help that hope along.

If you’re cleaning out your bookshelf for the holidays, consider donating your comics in good used condition to our Comics Drive! This year we are donating YA and middle grade books to LAUSD middle schools and adult books to Heavy Manners Library. Drop them off in our donation area at the show.

What if you worked on investing in the things people like

Jimmy’s choices of seating in Mouthwashing are very telling. 1) The captain’s chair in the cockpit (eval and crash) 2) The head of the table (usually where the person in charge or “man of the house” tends to sit traditionally). 3) Curly’s seat at the table when they discuss opening the storage unit.

Why do you not mention the fact that this "ban" does not apply to cis children with precocious puberty, thus demonstrating that this is not a matter of safety but rather a discriminatory act aimed at trans children who do not want to go through a traumatic puberty that goes against their identity?

Fuck yourselves, you utter shitrag. It's not banned for all under-18s - it specifically targets trans people. Kids requiring puberty blockers that aren't trans are still gunna be prescribed them and it's gunna have exactly the same amount of medical impact on them. Cunts. The lot of ya.

Fuck Labour into the Sun.

Daniel Kahneman wrote about this phenomenon, "narrative fallacies arise inevitably from our continuous attempt to make sense of the world." People tend to rely on narrative coherence over statistical reasoning when making decisions or forming beliefs. 1/2

Banning puberty blockers for trans kids but still allowing them for cis kids feels very much like discriminating against a set of patients based on their protected characteristic.

Editors in publishing that are cool with using A.I. for covers and marketing assets, A.I. for summaries of the book and other copy, ChatGPT for whatever, pushing authors to allow A.I. companies to use their books--babes you are next. You're being used to dig your own grave. Pish back now or perish.

I understand that every platform wants to grow, and I generally think that the growth of bluesky has been good because it's important to get people away from what twitter has become but we can, and should, be better than pre-Elon twitter, and if that means limiting growth, so be it

and this should extend further than just Singal - I think the site should look at other prominent bad actors whose main goal on the internet is to bring harm to marginalized people and say, we don't want them here including folks like LoTT and, yes, JK Rowling

the man has a very long track record at this point of causing harm to the trans community and of harassing trans people specifically, often to the point of trying to get them fired I think that should be taken into account when you judge whether you want him on your platform

I understand not wanting to just ban people because of who they are, especially if they have not broken your rules on your own platform (leaving aside the question of whether he has or not for now), and not wanting to do policy by being yelled at but you don't have to ignore someone's history

some thoughts on the Singal situation, as it seems to be moving towards "nobody says anything and he stays on the platform": I think this is a mistake, and I think it risks losing much of what made bluesky special and taking away one of the few safe-ish spaces trans people have left on the internet

I also think "this person is prominent so we cannot enforce our policies against them" is a bad precedent to set and contributed greatly to the toxicity of twitter even before Elon's takeover the amount of toxicity that can be traced to individual bad actors who serve as a hub is enormous

Micah is 100% right here. It’s a shockingly small group of people out there who act as the primary originators, disseminators and amplifiers of conflict & disinformation on social platforms. It doesn’t have to be like this. We don’t have to let bluesky become another vector for their hate & nonsense

Into the fire pits with you

in premier pro, you can hold alt and then drag something elsewhere to copy it faster Also if you animate shakes for graphics or text, you can copy and "past attributes" to apply the same keyframes. Just move it via the anchor point so you dont mess with the key frames (or nest it)

Whether they fled or stayed behind, the survivors of Israel’s scorched-earth campaign in northern Gaza have experienced untold horrors. Here are some of their stories.

I’ve reported on homelessness for years and met many, many people who have found themselves in awful situations Every single one of them had more decency and integrity than this privileged plutocrat

goin thru some old files, found this evergreen comic

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#didthistoday Emailed my reps to support the Telehealth Modernization Act. Reminded my lame duck senator of his constituents who spent hours of their lives curing ballots for his sake.