Bonus art post! I don't have the whole thing finished yet, but Matt and Trecheon are looking at the word "AI" which Trecheon has set ablaze. It's part of my Anti-AI poster that I'll be hanging on my booths this con season. ;) I missed drawing.

Zyearth is going to Wondercon! Today's first chapters come from Brothers at Arms and Golden Guardian Our heroes have faced down evil and won. But how do they face down the hate in their own hearts? Buy direct from zyearth.com! www.zyearth.com/brothers-at-... www.zyearth.com/golden-guard...

Hey lovelies! Tomorrow starts Lent and I'm going to be giving up social media for the next 40 days. The only time I'll be on here is on Fridays to share my weekly First Chapter promotions until Wondercon. See you all soon. Take care of yourselves. Love you all!

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Hoo boy. Let's try to tackle the complex world of Zyearth with magic and legal regulations. To get the simple stuff out of the way... on Earth, there is no magic regulation, since magic is largely unknown to the inhabitants. Earth is known as a "silent" planet - isn't "real" to them. (cont)

Content warning for conversion therapy, suicide. One thing I'd like to add to this is that not only does conversion therapy not work, the academic work that launched an industry of abuse was based on fraud; Rekers and Lovaas' "Sissy Boy" experiment, the child subjected to it later took his own life

In March, I'm having foot surgery to manage arthritis pain. I'll be on disability leave for 3 months, which is going to take a chunk out of my income. I hate asking for help, but if you can I'd greatly appreciate it. Paypal: @ bookjockeyalex Venmo: @ AlexBrown73 AMZN: www.amazon.com/registries/g...

pick up the ash and berries

Recent CBS News news: 1. Anderson Cooper leaves 60 Minutes after two decades 2. Stephen Colbert reveals network won’t let him air interview with Dem 3. Producer says politics dictating what airs 4. Owner’s bid for CNN parent back on the table. 5. Not firing Epstein pal.

Zyearth is going to Wondercon! @wondercon.bsky.social To hype up the event, I'm sharing the first chapter of a short story and a novel every Friday leading up to the event. Today we have Shadow Cast and Brothers at Arms. Enjoy! www.zyearth.com/shadow-cast-... www.zyearth.com/black-bound-...

As costs increase, primary care practices are joining forces in Independent Physician Associations. The goal is to leverage better insurance contracts, while ensuring doctors still call the shots. n.pr/4rmu0qs

It’s day 76 of the ICE occupation of MSP. ICE is still here - we still have vastly more agents on the ground than we did in late November. And those agents are still kidnapping our neighbors and terrorizing neighborhoods. Stay vigilant, and let’s pay rent for March 1 for everyone who needs it.

I specifically had to frame it in terms of breaking customers’ trust. If a customer sees a corp’s AI photo/video, and clocks it as fake, they can’t trust that the company’s services actually provide real results either. They feel lied to, and won’t buy (Which *should* seem obvious from jump, but 🤷)

Seems like a good time to bring back this thread. A history of doing the work matters. Local coalition-building with the communities you serve matters. I don't want to live in a world that just rewards branding. The work matters.

Look, I like Kat Abughazaleh's rhetoric, & I largely like how she's running her campaign & want other Dems to take notes. But as someone who actually lives in the district she wants to represent, I have serious concerns. Context: This is a liberal/progressive district with an extremely safe seat.

Pretty sure if you need to sell your plasma for groceries you are NOT middle class

Just a reminder for folks not in Minnesota . . . we still need help. Also there are things you can do to prepare your community in case this fuckery comes where you are (or just because they're good things to do).

This is what ICE does every day. Hunt little kids who are here legally. They get sent to a place called the “baby jail” in Texas. Very little of it ends up on video like this. But it’s routine. And disgusting.

If I were a Democrat concerned about winning elections and was hearing that a significant number of voters wouldn’t support Gavin Newsom in 2028, I would simply stop pushing Gavin Newsom in 2026.

This RIGHT FUCKING HERE We have like at least 2 more years to worry about him. yall are acting like he's the ONLY ONE who can run. We have plenty of other options out here that wont fuckin kill the entire election and yall are clearly trying to astroturf him into being nominated in the first place.

(1/11) If you live in NY, you’ve probably started seeing a new warning: “THIS PRICE WAS SET BY AN ALGORITHM USING YOUR PERSONAL DATA.” This mandatory disclosure went into effect late last year, and it’s the first attempt by a US state to grapple with a new generation of surveillance pricing.

If you see this, post a rabbit 🐰

I am SHAKING with anger. A Microsoft Copilot "training" program (read: massive ad for copilot) is using videos that look and sound EXACTLY like @kurzgesagt.org videos. Right down to the art style and voice over. Example one

Here is the link to the Ultra Right Wing Heritage Foundation. See for yourself. The data shows that there is virtually 0% (Maybe 3 cases per state per election) voter fraud. This is an invented problem. electionfraud.heritage.org

Yeah sure Storm the Capital, Change Laws of the Constitution, force Americans to get and pay for unobtainable requirements to vote..to weed out the (avg) of 4 illegal immigrant votes per Election

The Unbearable Lightness of Time. #art / #furry / #furryart / #fox / #stainedglass / #thechrononauts

forget about getting a STEM degree you gotta get a job in Medical Billing or some shit

The 2028 Dem platform needs to include "prosecute everyone who lied to Congress." Whatever fake "norms" there were against that are long gone, and Trump has routinely used and threatened it, including against the Federal Reserve. Real, meritorious prosecutions need to happen at scale.

SONIC ADVENTURE 2 #SONIC #SONICTHEHEDGEHOG

I think this is part of my generation's confusion about AI. We were raised on a culture that warned about these dangers repeatedly -- from WarGames to the Terminator films to the Matrix, and countless other dystopian futures in between -- and now those cautionary tales are being celebrated.

Someone has sure already made this observation but the fact they can convert all those empty warehouses into prison camps means they could have converted them into housing, community centers, job training centers or, hell, libraries or schools all along. It’s always a matter of will not resources.

Promising headline that completely overstates what is expressed in the actual text Discord's response can be summed up to saying they're aware of the ethical and security problems, but they're not doing anything of substance to protect or respect users, and will make zero substantial policy changes

Something that you might not know about mumps is that it can lead to a complication known as mumps orchitis, which is the inflammation and swelling of the testicles. It was such a problem in the military, pre-vaccine, leading to loss duty time, that they pushed for the development of a vaccine.

When they say it's OK for kids because it's a tool just like a calculator: www.wired.com/story/openai...

New Pitch: Software you can buy and own outright and it works and has no AI

『 Look At All the Wonderful Things You've Made 🌤️ 』 ─ ✧˖° I've been away, both online and offline, for a very very long time. No time to admire at the world, no time to take in the wonders you all create. I've lost so many years of my life to darkness, but I'll be back soon. I promise.

BLUESKY, DISCORD AND ITS ALTERNATIVES, YOUR ART SITES, YOUR ADULT SITES, FANFICTION ALL OF IT DIES WITHOUT SECTION 230 GET CALLING #savespeech #stopcensorship #section230 #defendsection230 #defends230

If you live in the US, call your fucking representatives and tell them that repealing Section 230 is a horrible idea. If Section 230 is gone, you can kiss Bluesky goodbye.

A beautiful and deeply important piece. Please read.

This small school district kept losing students to ICE. So it mobilized. wapo.st/4cvaYtc gift link

This is a study of Whisper, the LLM-based "transcription" software behind the products used by many medical providers. It gives the appearance of "fluency", but routinely goes entirely off-script, fabricating extensive passages and relations. Human scribes don't do this. arxiv.org/abs/2402.08021

It’s once again Girl Scout cookie season so it’s time for me remind everyone to please consider buying from NYC’s Girl Scout Troop 6000, which is entirely made up of girls living in NYC homeless shelters 🙏❤️

I am so freakin' excited for the Pokemon Go event at the Rose Bowl next week. 👀 Third year running and it's always a blast. And this year it should be quite cool, so hopefully I won't be dying of heatstroke while I get 20k steps in a day. XD

The Hague for every person involved in this

I used to think that I just kind of picked them up from wherever, or they just manifested themselves, but I see now that most of my characters have a little bit of me in them... mostly with neurodivergency. Matt and Trecheon embody a lot of my husband's traits too, though not intentionally.

I interviewed a family of Russian asylum seekers who’ve been held more than four months at the Dilley detention center in Texas. As we spoke over Zoom this week, their daughter Kamilla was one day shy of turning 12. I asked her what she wanted for her birthday. She replied: “To get out of here.”

Remember folks, there are proven ways that blurring effects on photos can be undone to show the info behind them. Dont fall for this stuff, cancel your Nitro and yell like hell at them. We dont stop until they concede fully and promise no more.

Think about what that library could do with an extra $2 million a year

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