If you didn't already know (or forgot in all the ongoing brew ha ha), last chance reminder. More info in the🧵.

indie dev who's been saving pennies for the last 20 years: i will find a way to pay my talented friends what they're worth bazillion dollar AAA studio's CEO, staring longingly at the Stealing Machine 3000: i think we're spending too much on our artists' salaries and not enough on my yachts

➡️NEWS FLASH! Newscaster: ”In Western Hemisphere news, security forces of a peace-loving democracy invaded a neighbouring country & arrested its corrupt dictatorial leader.” Trump, being held by two RCMP officers: “Let go of me! This is a total witch hunt!” Canadian RCMP officer: “Come along, eh!”

Discord wants to know how you feel about AI. Go tell them: discord.sjc1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...

*groans* bsky.app/profile/euro...

Heads up to artists still using Twitter- Twitter is now adding an "Edit image" button under all images posted on the site that allows everyone to feed it into genAI and modify it as they wish with a prompt

Indie Game Awards Disqualifies 'Clair Obscur' Over GenAI Usage https://games.slashdot.org/story/25/12/21/1945258/indie-game-awards-disqualifies-clair-obscur-over-genai-usage?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed

Rumor has it...there may be an ill-conceived 2beans stream in a few days as cue and I put together something we ordered for the fur kids. 📦 We've not yet settled on when, so if you're interested, please stay tuned. 🪛

I don't want gen AI in my browser I don't want gen AI in my pc I don't want gen AI in my art I don't want gen AI in my games I don't want gen AI in my music I don't want gen AI in my movies I don't want gen AI in my books I don't want gen AI in my cart I don't want gen AI in my life

Organizers with students engaged in advancing Texas (SEAT) are suing Texas over the new App Store Accountability law that pushes age verification and now they’ve made a game that shows how school filtering is impacting content. The kids are alright ✨Check it out! www.access-denied.org

...then fucking perish.

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.

Five minutes? *wanders out to put the kettle on*

I just checked, and the Yule Festival in LOTRO seems to be live with this week's update. Feel free to hang out with us tomorrow as we head to Thorin's Hall Inn to help diggy diggy snow to send to places that lack it and chippy chippy ice for frozen treats. lotro-wiki.com/wiki/Yule_Fe...

Someone is napping right now, and I cannot for the life of me find the desire to wake them despite knowing we talked about streaming this eve in roughly an hour and a half. Decisions...decisions...decisions...making decisions were never part of my sidekick expectations.🤭

We dropped by @mortisvt.bsky.social's stream. Their friend SheGhoull has a 'Toys For Tots" type of fundraiser, named "Ghouls For Kindness". If you'd like to donate directly, or simply share this link below around. it'd be much appreciated. Thank you! Here's the link: tilt.fyi/U9C3XjcLUi

Psst... we'll start streaming soon.

Its my birthday!!! As is bsky tradition, I would be so appreciative if people would share some of my art to help celebrate!! 🥳🎉

Thanks to everyone that stopped by our very unplanned stream today. I hope the Fleeting Figments experiment has some nice results in the future. Time will tell!

wikipedia's data shows that AI is siphoning traffic away from the site, which is a danger to its sustainability. ironically Wikipedia is more important than ever to users who want reliable information instead of slop, and to AI companies that need it for training data www.404media.co/wikipedia-sa...

I'm thinking someone needs to make an old fashioned phpbbs type forum and we all go back to that lol

I've heard countless folks say "I can't even draw a stick figure" and let me tell you, that squiggly hand-drawn line will always have more heart and expression than any AI art could ever have.

To artistic freedom: the cause of, and solution to, all of life's problems defector.com/to-artistic-...

With students heading back to the classroom, a group of cognitive scientists and AI researchers has published one of the most forceful and evidence-backed calls yet to reject the "uncritical adoption of AI" in academia:

I am opposed to AI products and services because of the extra power they require... IN A CLIMATE CRISIS. I am opposed to AI results - texts and illustrations - because they've been created unethically, via theft and non-consensual use of the work of others. Share if you agree.

lot of negativity towards AI lately, but consider : are these tools ethical or environmentally sustainable? No. *but* do they enable great things that people want? Also no. *but* are they being made by well meaning people for good reasons? Once again, no. maybe you're not being negative *enough*

Yay! Technical difficulties! They win again! 😅

A good way to help fight this would be to email the relevant people at Valve, and to use Steam support as well, to voice your concerns. www.valvesoftware.com/en/people help.steampowered.com/en/

Valve just updated their Steam rules to ban content that “may violate rules set by payment processors or banks.” Sounds boring. It’s not. It’s the quiet normalization of financial censorship and it’s going to hurt LGBTQ+ games and devs

when you open a service you've been using for a decade only to find it out it caught the virus

Worth a watch: Head of Signal, Meredith Whittaker, on so-called "agentic AI" and the difference between how it's described in the marketing and what access and control it would actually require to work as advertised.

'The Danish government is to clamp down on the creation and dissemination of AI-generated deepfakes by changing copyright law to ensure that everybody has the right to their own body, facial features and voice.' Danes decline to 'turbocharge' AI and turn to copyright protections.

Beware the AI Slop... 📺

@cuebean.bsky.social Just because today...was today. 🫀 www.youtube.com/watch?v=beiP...

One thing that’s probably bad is that, between the transit nature of information on the internet and the the rise of AI, it’s probably going to get a lot harder to actually verify things from the past. Which, is basically the opposite of what the information superhighway promised.

how much energy does your ChatGPT search really use? i wrote about the trials and tribulations of putting a number on AI emissions, & how some of the most powerful companies in the world could clear it up for us — but they're staying silent. feat a peek at new research from @sashamtl.bsky.social !

Do me a kindness! Share this if you love and support your local library & librarians (and remember: that includes your school library & school librarian) 😊📚 Thank you libraries & library workers… for everything ✨💚

People are having very strange conversations with ChatGPT, in which they discover secret cabals or conspiracies or that we are all in fact living in The Matrix. It sends these people into delusional spirals. Then ChatGPT tells them to email me about it. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/13/t...

Who's got popcorrnnnnn? 🍿 This figment sure does! www.reuters.com/business/med...

Someone else said something very similar to this the other day, but. It really burns me that our (millennials') generation was legally terrorized for like, downloading Radiohead discographies But we're supposed to be ok with billionaires stealing human intellectual output in its entirety bc AI

Sorta like how the invention of vaults hurt the bank robbery business.

Stop Forcing A.I. Into Every Fucking Thing!

Every day, this.

Folks call your Senators now!! A ban on any state laws on GenAi for 10 YEARS is gonna do unthinkable harm! For those of you wondering what to say here are two posts you can use to build your own script (use alt script to cut and paste) Need to find your representatives? Here you go: 5calls.org

It's never goodbye, it's always til we meet again. Even though it's only been a moment, I miss you so much already. Lady Silvie 01-20-2005 05-09-2025

give me your typos. your messy drawings. your silly memes. your cringey joys. your little doodles. your rewrites. your second attempts. your better attempts. your years-in-the-making stunning beauties that make you sigh with contentment at having perfected them at last. just give me works by humans

Found elsewhere, sharing here. 64.media.tumblr.com/c5832c27e947...

To the surprise of no one paying attention. *sigh* techcrunch.com/2025/02/21/c...

The part of George Orwell’s 1984 that everyone forgets is how the music and publishing industries have been replaced by a machine that spits out songs and bad novels “without any human intervention.” The goal is to keep you from ever having to think.

‪Rumor has it... Later today on Two Beans and a Mic we'll talk about when a streaming idea goes sideways, and figure out if it's worth salvaging or not.