It's really reassuring that, when you look at a nice-looking piece of human-made art on Bluesky, it's got, like, 40 reposts. 100 likes. And the stuff that self-identifies as genAI? No reposts. And two likes, from two other genAI accounts. It's not being rewarded, and it's not being normalized.

White supremacy: so committed to the idea that life is only for those who have earned it, they'll spend a million dollars to prevent a single dollar from falling into undeserving hands, in the name of eliminating 'wasteful spending.'

No Tim, you fucking clown, employers will not see a “stream of resumes” because they’ll be impossible to pick out from the TSUNAMI of resumes you and your fellow corpos have flooded the job market with. How dare he? How dare Tim portray layoffs as anything other than corporate indulgence?

Sometimes a kobold’s gotta get serious! 😤 🎨 @navliciouss.bsky.social

RT if $3000 would literally change your life

When the series ended, a lot of people were mad at the last book; Applegate responded with a letter that went *incredbly* hard, that showcased the respect she had for her readers. It follows, below, in full.

Gosh, perhaps there are fewer campus protests because schools, as The Atlantic urged them to do, aggressively went after protestors. Columbia suspended, expelled, and retroactively revoked degrees in proceedings that were so arbitrary and capricious they were overturned by a NY state judge.

Boat Ride 🛶🌳 #furryart #furryanimation #furry

MAKE A SMALLER GAME

wisdom from a youtube video

These motherfuckers called me, an author, a "dying breed," and in the proud tradition of every author who came before me and was told that exact thing, it's my duty to be extremely goddamn smug about being right.

haha

I read all of HP to each of my 2 kids. I bought a fancy set-in-a-trunk in anticipation of one day reading them to grandkids. I also read every last one of them for myself, several times. I loved them. I can tell you exactly why I'm Gryffindor. That woman will never get another dime from me. Ever.

Sure, Sora AI may now be dead, but that means it's probably split into Roxas AI and Venitas AI

Protip: tell them about the time you got arrested for littering. Easy out.

Poppity pop, there goes the bubble! :3

fun reminder: the reason why they make these fucking pointless "live action" remakes is because since it's "live action", the animation is considered "vfx" and not character animation, so they can pay these non-unionized satellite studios fuck-all and make a cool few million for essentially nothing

Hey remember last summer when that whole wave of censorship and debanking started? Now this is your chance to fight back! Spread the word, give feedback!

"bro is this fetish art 😭" anything and everything you will ever interact with is someone's fetish. someone wants to fuck clouds. someone's horniest thought is to be a branch on a tree. someone's going to fuck a salt shaker. someone wants to fuck math. someone did. his name was albert einstein

look at this baby beaver and feel better briefly (@ wildheartrescue on TT)

“we’ve been trying to reach you about your car’s extended warranty“

It’s been aptly demonstrated that derivative AI exists for no other reason than to be invested in. That’s literally the entire point of it. It kills jobs, hogs resources, and makes the very products it’s shoveled into unattainable as a combined result of the harm it does. It’s not for us.

as a culture we have really given "ideas" way too much credit. ideas are a dime a dozen. they happen all the time. the magic is way more in the doing, and the doing's diminished stature is linked to lack of respect for labor and, more recently, skill and expertise.

If games use gen AI at ANY stage of development: I don’t want it, and will likely never buy from that dev/studio going forward.

Or just… cancel any trips to the US. Even if it’s for work, most civilized countries have labour laws that allow you to refuse unsafe work. Being at risk of getting assaulted/groped/detained/disappeared sounds like extremely apt reasons to refuse any work travel to the country.

This war is really showing in high relief the inability of powerful people across the political spectrum to grasp the motivations or even the basic agency of the opponent. Just substituting magical thinking for an attempt at analysis and assuming Iran is the military equivalent of Grenada.

One of my weirdest video game hills to die on is "fortnite is best understood as neopets" and it sounds like goose teeth until I both unpack how they're childrens spaces with amusement park design and metaplot lore leveraging their position to illegally scrape marketing data off kids.

In many ways one of gen AI's most interesting and least-discussed features in game development is how it turns final assets into placeholder assets that were always going to be replaced at the exact moment that the studios get yelled at by the fans 😏

speculative dragon behavior

bwoot bwoot

I hate how often Democrats will walk into the most obvious traps. Like, just find someone else. The Democrats are doing this to thenselves, the second it was found out he had a nazi tattoo, the party should have told him to hit the bricks.

Some digital practice!

Took a break from comms to work on my magnum fucking opus ( labeled suggestive just in case)

haha what are we even doing here can we stop calling them cops and start calling them Billionaire Militias

So I saw a meme and felt inspired. #htp #HunterTheParenting #HTPMemes

help keep your micro pals clean!

Ayayayayaya

LIGHTSABERS!!!

Remember when the mice in Fievel Goes West built their own demise in the form of a giant mousetrap because they trusted the cats in charge? This is somehow dumber than that.

Like the last decent person alive

If you were someone pinging critics with ‘it’s just lighting cleanup’ a few days ago, I need you to use this as a jumping off point to thinking about your susceptibility to talking points and marketing rhetoric more generally. It was right there in front of all of our faces.

*remembers all the acidification events in the mass extinctions throughout the fossil record due to disruption of the carbon cycle* "uh-oh"

Some chee studies

If this sketch looks familiar, it later became the full portrait illustration 'Remember...Breathe'; I'm proud of the finished painting, but remain quite fond of the drawing's comic-like aesthetic 🤔