I don't know enough to really judge the technique, but I don't know if I've ever seen an Olympic performer look so relaxed. She is just full of pure joy.

Quite frankly, there’s more great art in the world than any of us could see in a dozen lifetimes. But we’re not exactly swimming in joy out here. If I thought art truly required misery, like some messed-up gallery Omelas, then going a museum would mean I was walking through a sea of human anguish.

This reminds me of a coupla decades ago when the argument du jour was “What if Van Gogh had been medicated for his depression?!” with the implication that he wouldn’t have created art if he wasn’t miserable. A) fuck that noise B) Van Gogh didn’t own anybody his art OR his misery

Whoa

I am very annoyed that people think 'rich' means 'that guy has a mercedes and takes a vacation to italy once a year' and not 'that guy has more money than 40% of the world combined and can decide to start or stop wars based on his personal prejudices' the sums involved are incomprehensible

Artists! Quote with your yellow art!

Well this is definitely a haunted artifact from the beginning of a horror movie.

THis is actually a really good illustration of why LLMs are just...kind of not that good at a lot of the things they're sold as being good at: The thing doesn't fucking understand or know what the question is, it's doing pattern recognition and that breaks down on a long enough timescale.

I regularly see people wondering how it's possible that there are so many musicians and writers and film makers and artists from a tiny nation like Iceland. And the answer is really simple: State funding for art education and artists. I literally get a salary from the government to write books.

This was very fun for color nerds. Can you beat my score? dialed.gg?c=FDLYJZ

The more of these fascist atrocities I see, the more I become an immigration maximalist. Let everyone in, give everyone work permits/green cards. Make it possible to get citizenship within a few months. Make it as easy as getting a driver's license.

The left tried for decades to pass green energy subsidies, passed them, the subsidies worked, and now literally the entire planet's electricity grid is going to convert to solar+battery. It just doesn't feel like "tech" because it mostly produces kinda boring blue collar jobs instead of billionaires

Sure: Light rail, high speed rail, ocean wave generation, solar power generation, wind generation, heat pump tech, geothermal heat pump tech, last mile on-demand transit solutions, better wheelchairs, better wheel chair lifts, better flexible seating on public transit, maker spaces, tool libraries.

The purpose of art is for humans to communicate to each other what it feels like to be human. I can’t imagine anything less worthwhile than watching a computer mindlessly ape that process.

Milt Kahl just having them wiggle their heads around just to show off I swear god damn inhuman god of an artist.

The Covid mRNA vaccines are, singly, the most important medical advance of my lifetime. It's incredibly sad that we may look back at 2022 as the apex year for American medical research and development.

First chick of the kākāpō breeding season has successfully hatched!!!! Look at this grumpy little puff of feathers!! www.doc.govt.nz/news/media-r...

People talk about this stuff in terms of how much it'll suck for gaming and I hate to inform you how many MRI machines, X-Rays, all sorts of other vital machinery are just a Windows IoT Edition PC in a beige plastic box with a big magnet/accelerator/whatever attached.

Zyglowicz looks intimidating but it's just zig-low-its.

This is a CAT checkpoint. Show me the most recent cat image on your phone.

eastern rosellas ✨

Too powerful to not watch.

Polaris the Bear combines the magic of raku with the feeling of first snow on a starry night: crisp air, soft light, and that moment winter asks you to slow down. A small reminder to breathe, wander, and let the season settle in, for soon spring will come. #art #pottery #gaybear #furryart

Flight #kaseyart #penandink

I think a lot about how often you end up with free labor in these games or the mechanics otherwise gloss over the intense labor requirements of a farm/business.

If you are wondering what words the all-male Congress found so "blasphemous" that they felt compelled to literally scrape them off the monument, they were: ''Woman, first denied a soul, then called mindless, now arisen, declared herself an entity to be reckoned.''

Alright bsky science + art community, I need your help. I was p confident we could get a grant to fund our upcoming biodiversity mural in Kensington. Last night, they called to say our partner school is 2 blocks outside of their service area. But ya know what? We're gonna do it anyway.

Science is neat!

V U L T U R E

How many times, in how many contexts, from how many internal and external researchers, or from how many CEO's are people going to have to receive this message before they believe it: "Hallucinations" are an inherent part of the large language model architecture. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Dragonposting 🐉

I went to art school... I had no clue this is what people meant by "warm ups". Like, a whole routine? Each part specific and functional? Dang. Probably would have less "forgot how to draw" days if I did these every time. I'm gonna try it.

It's not the cell phones. It's the evil industries that billionaires have pushed onto them. Ban all that shit; destroy the online prediction market and gambling industries. Also pass UBI and universal health care to thwart this desperate jackpot-to-survive impulse.

Utahraptor for today's #DrawDinosDaily. These guys feel so much like the Cretaceous equivalent of a lion to me - big, powerful, and fast. 🎨 #SciArt #PaleoArt #dinosaurs

Another tiny adventure off to brighten up someone's day! I have over 150 wallpapers ready to download - this one was taken in between a pouring rainstorm in Southampton. ko-fi.com/s/e599f24116 #Photography #Wallpapers

I guess I'm one of the lucky 10,000?

It snowed enough to sculpt a fat little tyrannosaurus today!

Oh goddamnit

I'm glad there has been such a negative backlash, these things have always been creepy surveillance devices. But oh man. Imagine being on the marketing team for Flock, spending absurd amounts on a superbowl ad, only to have it crash THIS hard.

Also I made dinosaur fossil cookies!! With teal icing!! And googly eye sprinkles!! #food

I nicknamed this one 'Toothless and the Light Fury.' Detail from a preparatory study.

god this is the worst

Anyone who had genuine concerns about youth gender medicine would staunchly and wholeheartedly support social transition. Let kids explore their identities to see what works for them! The fact that this movement opposes even pronouns and haircuts shows that it's just bigotry all the way down.

The last wild European bison was shot in 1927. At the time there were fewer than 60 such bison alive in zoos & private parks. Now, the great, shaggy beasts are once again roaming the Carpathian Mountains. And they're helping bring wild lands back to life. Good news story! No pay wall.

This is incredible. Like the previous few years, near all of the electricity capacity added to the grid was clean energy. The Inflation Reduction Act helped this - it made solar & wind cheaper but it also for the first time had a standalone incentive for grid storage. Look at the growth in storage!

I have 2 short-term goals: Get rent paid, and get braced for an incoming emergency. I'm all stocked up on shiny things, now just need to get them in front of people: oishiny.etsy.com Free international shipping (and US tariffs taken care of). #DisabledArtist #Helpsky #💕💸

This is like the owner of a car dealership finding out about car theives and saying “Welp, I’m finished!” Brad Pitt and Tom Cruise both have rights to their likenesses. This video violates their rights, and the machine that created was trained on stolen copyrighted material.

So the question came up recently whether I'm a rat or pigeon. Thing is... both is quite accurate. So I made.... A NEW SPECIES BEHOLD THE RATPIDGE #fursona #furry #rat #pigeon #borb #derp

The thing about ebooks as a substitute is that it ignores two major needs of teen readers: autonomy (the ability to get a book without going through parents) and community (the ability to pass a book around to all their friends.)