Indie creators shouldn’t have to turn into emotionless cryptids that appear once in a blue moon to share their works and otherwise have no online presence in order to survive *checks notes* creating a popular cartoon. But I don’t know how else they’re supposed to navigate this bullshit.

Today, May 22, is International Biodiversity Day. I feel that I need to bring attention to something very niche but troubling. TaxonWorks, a developer workbench for taxonomists, now uses generative AI for its branding as well as for at least some of its features.

think i just got the perfect Dwarf Fortress notification.

Ok, Imma explain the admiral neck shadow thing. (Spoilers: it's not a rubber mask, ya weirdos)... 🧵

As a science fiction writer I really fucking resent tech bros for ruining the phrase "artificial intelligence." 80 years of it being all about cool androids and interesting computers destroyed by five years of "Spicy autocorrect making everything shittier for money." NEVER FORGIVE.

Block this shit if you haven't already

How it feels trying to be an artist on the internet

i wanted to try using my new sonic 3 cd-ish tiles

Pollinators are the only thing keeping me sane right now. Seeing them bopping around living their funky little lives in the plants I broadcasted makes me feel like a benevolent giant.

Je viens de voir le logo du parti de Elisabeth Borne. Je m’en remet pas. C’est pas possible que personne dans la chaîne de décisions n’ait pas vu le problème.

Il y a eu 10 plaintes pour violences sexuelles sur des élèves contre lui, un précédent pour agression sexuelle, toutes les enquêtes ont été classées sans suite, pas d'enquête administrative, ses collègues ont fait grève pour le soutenir. Il a été muté dans une autre école du 93, toujours avec des

lmao

I just saw an ad for SHEIN where they misspelled the name of the company on their own advertisement😭😭😭

Sidenote, BAND1T is a long-time shit-stirrer whose previous work involved rallying their following to harass an AFAB artist over "exploitatively high prices" I am frustrated feeling that I'm the only one who remembers BAND1T's thing being attacking random ass artists they hate on for no reason.

When the synth hits [in color]. #quelart #felore #ffxiv #elezen

this is what I mean when I say "don't let orgs and managers see discriminating against trans folk as the path of last resistance". transphobes are persistent and annoying. be just as annoying. show them compliance is going to be a legal nightmare

i once showed valve screenshots of people using our game reviews to send us death threats, one of them about the children of the devs, and they emailed back and went "yeah we're not removing it" so anything after that hasn't felt that surprising

Seren

Aerotitan sudamericanus: a new portrait of the Patagonian azhdarchid pterosaur. Aerotitan is known only from a very fragmentary fossil of a partial rostrum, so this depiction is largely speculative… but was fun to do. #SciArt

Unga (this was good af)

I do not want GenAI in fanart. I do not want GenAI in character design. I do not want GenAI in world design. I do not want GenAI in writing. I do not want GenAI in storyboarding. I do not want GenAI in voice acting. I do not want GenAI, period. If any piece of media uses GenAI, I don't want it.

Homepage Improvements and Gallery Categorization for Mods

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Finally posted here for the first time in a while and I thought my recent art post was doing well, then I notice all the likes are this? I assume none of these are real people. Is this a thing that’s been going on??

This old bobcat has QUITE the legacy and it's been a real pleasure bringing him back to life once more. Bubsy 4D... is OUT NOW on all platforms! Wooooh!~ We hope you have as much fun playing it as we have had making it.

Stronk cockatiel ✨💪

Great day for beetle spotting 🪲 [ #photo • #beetle • #bug • #insect ]

Crystalline: ça coule de source! (sorry) #identityv

Happy to announce that since this article was published, Fortnite raised its rate to $5000 :)

Gamers these days see a coop game that took 3 years to be made and say stupid things like "this is friend slop", see FPS, "Doom slop", they see horror and say, "spooky slop", see porn;"cumslop".

meta will die in the next decade

Yeah, y'all: we told you it would. LLM based "AI" concatenates strings of next-most-likely tokens. It bullshits. It makes shit up. An inventory situation where the systems need to "count" & "report" doesn't *change* that fundamental architecture; so why are these people continually surprised by it??

Harrowing knowing someone has been found guilty, with evidence, of serial harassment and professional misconduct to own students (of minority status). And faced no consequences, just a raise, new position abroad, and a Nature paper. Academia and palaeontology are a hotbed of lawless misconduct.

Oops - someone nearly caused a fire with the Steam Controller Puck #SteamController #Steam #Valve

what's your favorite bug in the final fantasy series? mine is how in ff1 nes, each weapon's crit rate scales linearly with its Weapon ID, because the game never actually uses the weapon ID to index the crit table (which exists in the code but nasir forgot to call it)

Flat Fuck Friday

been playing the wolfensteins again (the recent ones where bj is a great character) and it's really good how they never shy away from the humanity of the nazis, they never monster them. the horror of a nazi is that they let slip their humanity, not that it was never there. we kill them knowing this

Sans oublier non plus la criminalisation des luttes écologistes, le soutien à Total qui s'intensifie, le développement des data centers partout dans le pays, des méga bassines, les grosses oellières quand Nestlé fait de la merde etc. Je pourrai continuer toute la journée à lister ses merdes

"We admire your efforts and talents - The Jackie Chan Group" is hilariously underhanded blurb to put on the cover of your movie. It has to have been on a rejection letter or something similar, right?

People hate AI. In fact the trend is that more people hate AI over time and it's not slow. The numbers are clear: if you think AI is the future then *you're* the one in the echo chamber www.thealgorithmicbridge.com/p/how-americ...

Being an artist is so weird and scary because you have all these huge feelings to make art with but then you are supposed to be very cool and detached with how people might hate it but also constantly be a song and dance man shouting about how great it is and also you have to stay alive??

I cannot WAIT to introduce my ornithology class to the Pfeilstorch. It lives in the same mental category as bowheads with jade harpoons found in them as "someone's shot wasn't quite on target and we learned something cool AF about nature from it"

Fat little sausage baby

McDonald's Japan started running a new ad where they recreate "I can't defeat Airman" to advertise iced coffee, but the video is region locked on twitter so fuck em here's the video with English subtitles.

They showed this version in schools for maybe 15 years and literally no one in my class had any reaction to a black woman being in it, someone yesterday said Eartha Kitt was Helen of Troy in 1950 and I looked it up and it was Orson Welles who cast her because she was a cabaret dancer and was hot!

Laissons les milliardaires nazi-tech fumer la planète, mais interdisons les RS aux jeunes. Et aussi interdisons-leur les rave-parties, imposons-leur des stages en entreprise où ils risquent leur peau, jetons-les en taule pour un joint, changeons leurs écoles en centres de recrutement pour l'armée.

* Femmes témoignent. – « Oui mais y’a pas de plainte contre lui ! » * Dépôt de plainte. – « Oui mais il n’est pas condamné ! » * Justice condamne. – « Oui mais il fait appel ! » * Justice confirme l'appel. – « Oui mais ce sont d'anciennes histoires. » * Témoignages récents. – « Comme par hasard ! »