There have already been 25 data center cancellations or postponements this month, according to @macroedgeres.bsky.social. That's nearly as many as the previous 6 months combined.

@supplydepotmpls.bsky.social and standwithminnesota.com could really use our help in the upcoming days. But hey, how about right now?

At a certain point, social media became such that content creators, performers, and artists all found themselves held hostage by a herd mentality that will happily boost their work one day and then rip them to shreds the next over something so trivial or immaterial. It's been difficult to watch.

It's worth your time to call Hilton to cancel your account with them. 1-800-446-6677. Here's why: They asked me if it was because of the ICE thing. I said it was. Then they suggested I wait a couple days to see if they were going to change course. The pressure is getting to them. Let's keep it up.

Seeing a lot of false postings out there. Despite the Corporation for Public Broadcasting's recent closure, PBS and NPR are still VERY MUCH ALIVE and active. They're just more dependent than ever upon the generosity of Viewers Like You! Please support your local station! pbs.org/donate

So now you can only make sexualised deepfakes if X is making money out of it?

In Canada, call or email Evan Solomon and demand he do his job as “Minister of AI and Digital innovation” to stop the CSAM and non-consensual porn. X should be banned in this country. 📞 416-972-2030 📧 [email protected]

Grok is producing ~6,700 sexually suggestive or nudified images per hour • Twitter (X) is now the top deepfaking site in the world • Women who speak out become targets by users (via business)

IMPORTANT NOTICE 📣 If you are an Equity member who was recently engaged as a performer or stage management on Squid Game: The Experience by Luna Cinema/Luna Entertainment, please contact Equity with a copy of your contract at [email protected]

A Canadiam Heritage Moment

This poster is one of the best on here and I’m so sad we’re losing her because of the appalling harassment she has been subjected to. Of course she must look after herself. And the rest of us need to do whatever we can to challenge and change this cruel, sick, dangerous, culture.

The International Red Cross / Red Crescent orgs are solid. We've worked alongside them in other countries. Support the Venezuelan Red Cross here (confirmed not on sanction list):

I called my rep. I left a message. You can also do this. www.commoncause.org/find-your-re...

Make sure you take some of the anger you’re feeling right now and use it to contact your officials to demand impeachment now. It’s basically the least we can possibly do in opposition to this, which IMO makes it mandatory.

I wrote about how the AI scam is nothing what it promises to be, and exports cruelty, not virtue. open.substack.com/pub/kandist/...

Happy New Year. My body is dead from dancing

Users are noticing Twitter/X has added a Grok-powered AI image editor that lets anyone edit any image on the platform, including other people’s artwork using text prompts. Artists warn there’s no opt-out or consent, raising concerns over unauthorized edits and misuse.

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AI hiring is here. It’s making companies — and job seekers — miserable

Now it's news

Done and done

Reposting this with alt text. Delete your Twitter. Now.

Donald Trump has instructed the entire FBI to prioritize finding ways to bring charges against anti-fascists and other activists. Any FBI agent who wants to advance his career now has an incentive to set up naïve kids for an entrapment case. Please read about entrapment and how to protect yourself.

Don't replace the original cast of Unicorn Academy www.change.org/p/don-t-repl...

bill c12 is canada's worst anti-migrant bill in DECADES has been passed in the house of commons and is now in the senate (final stages before becoming law) please email senators! migrantrights.ca/actionslist/... sc from link and from @harshawalia.bsky.social #stopbillc12

Another great reason to not use AI is the backlash and anger you can't put back in the bottle that comes with using it. Now, all of the writing and art for Divinity will be (rightfully) scrutinized for AI use, and people online will feel generally better criticizing it than they would've before.

We’re not running out of good ideas, but the tech fetishists who have no ideas other than “but I put a lot of money and emotion into this basket” always do, and their narcissism does not allow them to consider that their failed ideas suck, and the flop sweat is palpable.

What if Silent Hill With Tim Robinson?

Before the Game Awards in LA last week, a US video game workers union turned up to protest. "Anyone who works in the games industry can identify that our art form is being sold for parts to make a few people a lot of money." @alyssamerc.bsky.social reports www.theguardian.com/games/2025/d...

AI has actively made life worse for literally everyone - tech is now more expensive - you cannot trust most media of reality anymore - programs barely function - energy prices - literal psychosis - your voice can be literally stolen for evil - more spyware but hey, you can avoid paying an artist.

Welcome to Mt. ICREAMICUS! Did one last Solo Sketch of the year with my Gelatocus character.

CANCEL your Fortnite subscriptions and DELETE the game from all your computers. Choosing—and yes, it is a CHOICE— to license Harry Potter in 2025 sends a message: "We do not care about trans people." No amount of Miku or trans-colored cosmetic items can make up for this. bsky.app/profile/jazz...

Sup. Chat.

Elsa is gonna say the N word

Go see live theatre. Whether it be something grand, a tight 5, or anything in between, it doesn't matter. It's real. It's in the moment. It's truth.

I do think corporations are under the impression that if AI advances enough that eventually it will get “good” enough to where it won’t be mocked. But it doesn’t seem like it’s possible given the limitations.

The Avarice Awards holds a mirror to the hollow glamour of The Game Awards, as workers continue to have their livelihoods upended by mass layoffs. We are speaking truth to the powers ruining the game industry with their greed! Stream begins on December 10th at 7pm PT / 10pm ET on twitch.tv/UVW_CWA

Another excellent video about AI and the broader problems beyond just "it sounds bad lol." youtu.be/tl4mAIBA8jc

I think we need to change the way we talk about SAG-AFTRA. Not a dig at Jeff here (I too would like to see a SAG-AFTRA Amazon Agreement,) but we've got to stop referring to SAG-AFTRA as an organization that can just "step in" and do stuff.

If actors want a tool to fight against AI Dubbing on Amazon's platform, we have to do the actual work. SAG-AFTRA can't step in and fight for us. We ARE the union. If actors want a union Amazon Dubbing Agreement, we have to, at bare minimum, stop working for them non-union.

When politicians are out of ideas, they always revert to a “tough on crime campaign because it’s an easy win for people who support cops or people don’t understand how policing or crime actually works but no one wants to be seen as pro-crime. It also cedes from the public more control to the state.

Oh, hey, another reason to get the fuck away from the site formerly known as Twitter. It just flat out doxxes you now. futurism.com/artificial-i...

🚨Paramount Skydance in letter to David Zaslav: “It has become increasingly clear, through media reporting and otherwise, that WBD appears to have abandoned the semblance and reality of a fair transaction process.”

I'm begging any artists still using Twitter claiming it's integral to their work to just leave. It's been revealed the site works off a made up "credit score" from hell and punishes you for posting like a normal human being. Abandon Twitter for good. It's time. It's been time.

While this article goes very rightly into the disrespect actors have faced in dubbing, underneath that is an entire ecosystem of abused and rushed freelancers doing the timecoding, adapting, directing, engineering, and mixing who Amazon also attempted to cut. www.avclub.com/amazon-ai-an...

SAG-AFTRA's strike might have straightened things out in the US – but in the UK, contract negotiations for game actors are still a mess of exploitation, AI clauses, and non-standard rates. www.gamesindustry.biz/contracts-fo...

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