If you wanna be radicalized against GenAI, try running an online business while these thieving shitbricks try to scrape your site at all hours of the day, creating a looping, endless DDoS. Fuck generative "AI." It's all slop built on wholesale theft.

A study in watercolour, from a trip I did around two weeks ago. Backgrounds have always been difficult for me, but by practicing I’ll surely become better! Plus I haven’t done watercolours in forever, so it’s a win-win for me! ☺️ #watercolour #traditionalart #backgroundpainting

A study in watercolour, from a trip I did around two weeks ago. Backgrounds have always been difficult for me, but by practicing I’ll surely become better! Plus I haven’t done watercolours in forever, so it’s a win-win for me! ☺️ #watercolour #traditionalart #backgroundpainting

I've been getting back into comics while I wait for more info from my concept job, and I thought I'd make a post about something very important to me, which is COMIC PANEL VARIATION and HOW TO THINK ABOUT IT.

If you're doing callout posts about artists creating fictional taboo content, you may not consider yourself a fascist, but you are one. You are their stupid tool at the bare minimum. The good news is you can stop doing that at any time

Just a reminder while this is a victory, it's not over yet until Discord completely gives up on the age verification nonsense. Don't resubcribe to Nitro immediately.

IT HASN'T EVEN BEEN A WEEK!

If you’re worried about the future of games, remember that your $ holds enormous sway. Support companies who actually care about the art and craft of making games, who put people first and value their employees & audiences. Support indies especially. The future doesn’t belong to greedy corporations

So TikTok is using AI to make racist and sexualized ads of people's products without consent, then acting like nothing is wrong. Cool cool, great technology, awesome company.

New Brunswick, NJ just canceled plans for a colossal AI data center after massive pushback from the community. That's a huge win for people power. AI data centers are sucking up communities’ utilities AND draining state resources — while enriching Big Tech CEOs.

hi guys I know I haven't been very active lately, and I don't talk about where I'm from often, but the government made some really scary announcements today so I thought I'd share to let everyone know what's happening. here are some posts from twt for context

AI is the “asbestos of the internet”

Hopecore

there are only two moods as an artist

Oh you mean the company funded by PETER THIEL?

Not surprised that Discord lied, but fucking FURIOUS that they're sending them to a company linked to bloody Peter Thiel. Meaning any data given to Discord is absolutely going to be given to ICE and other similar groups.

Really boggled by some comments I found that were going on about how they stopped watching me because of my 'divisive politics' ah yes, my divisive politics of *looks at hand* wanting people to be treated equally and fairly and not wanting anyone to be killed. Very divisive.

This would've been such an amazing movie. I had the honor to peep it sometime last year and it was very moving and exciting. Sony passed on something great BUT I hear Matt has some other news to share soon so... Something else to look forward to!

Hey y'all. A South African dev released a blackity black game during BHM and it's currently getting the usual suspects in the reviews. Imma grab this up myself anyway, but can we all be some chums and help push the racists out of the reviews? 🙂

While cancelling Nitro is all well and good, just a reminder that age verification itself won't go away as a whole unless KOSA, the SCREEN Act, and tons more are buried and done with. Please contact your reps if you don't want this to spread to other platforms.

The internet is not a space inherently crafted for children and teens. Adults have to maintain the infrastructure and pay for the access to it. I'm extremely resentful of all the companies popping up saying that *I'm* the one who needs to prove that I should have access to the space I pay for.

it drives you insane how much erosion of freedom is justified by concern for kids when the people who actually hurt them will never face consequences

The bouncer at a club doesn't take a picture of my ID to store forever in the back where everyone can get in and take all those identities. It's not about having to show someone you're an adult. They just want to log every fucking place you visit so they can sort you into a profile to influence.

"Why do you care if you have to ID yourself online you have to ID if you go into a bar irl or buy booze or go into a sex shop" Yeah cool but the cashier behind the counter at the sex shop doesn't log my full government name, age, height, gender and birth place if I go in there to buy a dildo.

Spain’s PM: “The time of hiding behind servers is at an end.”

UPDATE: hey, would you look at that. Adobe Animate is staying, and no longer being discontinued. This shows that bullying corporations can always work.

I AM FURIOUS. Adobe Animate remains an industry standard for TV animation. Star Trek: Lower Decks was made in Animate. Haunted Hotel was made in Animate. My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic was made in Animate. And because you can't buy a permanent licence anymore, it'll just be gone.

This. Ultimately, the idea that bad people can't make good art is the old fallacy that beauty equals goodness, just at one remove.

hey remember when I got shit on for years for trying to warn people that GamerGate was just Nazis and not just about harassing women and not just about some “consumer revolt”

I keep seeing the “reminder don’t use Adobe here are the alternatives” image going around and folks, the problem is not just that Adobe sucks, the problem is they’re blocking legal access to decades of art files utilized by individuals and entire teams

Congrats to Send Help and Iron Lung.

"microtransactions in games started by cabal of pedophile elites for the purpose of indoctrinating kids into an economy" Ok. Well, we all knew it was evil somehow but I really didn't expect Epstein to be responsible for why video games are bad now. That's just not what I would've thought.

Yeah so as it turns out the gender critical movement was astroturfed by pedophiles as well

holy FUCK Iron Lung was good Now I want to do animatics………

Hey guys! Drawing extreme angle moufs is the bane of my existence so i made a mouth model for CSP ^_^ see reply for links!

I hate the babyfication and sanitation of language but we gotta bring back squick for something that we acknowledge as harmless or is someone else’s fun but is just smth we don’t vibe with or personally enjoy. say it with me. “it squicks me out”

The people of Minnesota have executed one of the most impressive civil resistance campaigns I can remember: - Organized a city wide general strike - Maintained nonviolent discipline amidst violence - Mobilized 10,000s in subzero temps to protest and watch ICE - Flipped public opinion against ICE

As we grieve for Alex Pretti and Renee Good in MN, please do not forget Victor Manuel Diaz, who died in ICE custody after being taken from here. And all others who have died in their custody.

To delete your TikTok account without agreeing to the new TOS: 1) put your phone in airplane mode 2) open TikTok and go to your profile 3) go to settings and scroll down to delete account 4) turn airplane mode off 5) delete your account Credit to @ kimsaira on instagram for this

TikTok is now under US ownership and their new ToS reads like a guide to giving fascists everything they need to put you on a list. They’re collecting information about immigration status, citizenship, sexual orientation, whether you’re trans or non binary and physical or mental disabilities.

A reminder that GenAI exists solely so that CEOs don't have to pay creative and skilled people for labor. And it's up to us as consumers to generate as much backlash against this shit as humanly possible.

It's weird I was REPEATEDLY told that payment processors "had" to ban all nsfw to mitigate the risk of processing CSAM. So if that's true then why wasn't X immediately dumped by every one of those payment processors when Grok turned into an automated CSAM generator?

I’m usually so bad at taking my own advice, but I’m gonna hang onto this one because I still feel this way. Art by itself won’t save us by itself, but community can. And I think it will.

Lil' comic about hope and longing 💗

Dr. Gladys West, the pioneering mathematician whose work laid the foundation for modern GPS technology, has died. She was 95.

This is from the Vonnegut museum, and apt as ever.

This seems like a maliciously put headline to make people feel a certain way. Wikipedia is not partaking in generative AI. They are making AI companies and scrappers having to pay for training their modules off wikipedia texts. And having an AI (not that ai) tasked with updating dead links.