Today Microsoft moved all its GitHub copilot subscribers to token-based billing. If you want to see what happens when people have to pay the actual costs of AI, the day is finally here. It's obvious that every customer sees the deep, meaningful value and isn't angry at all.

it would honor Queer and Transgender New Yorkers if you put that 65 million dollars you promised for trans healthcare in the budget instead of telling everyone in your administration to ignore questions about it.

Happy Pride Month! My name's Alita Diaz, aka "Sen," and I'm what scientists call a Lesbian! You can read my very queer cyberpunk adventure comic for free on the internet or get it in book form in my store! dresdencodak.com

you don’t have to engage with sex work and you don’t have to give money to people who need money but going out of your way to make “no sex workers and no one in need” the sentiment in the header of your online persona is absolute dogshit, buddy. first, shut up; then, fix your heart.

Showing off the Arapaima I made! (Pattern also made by me) This was the test of the new pattern and I love her. 🎏💕

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🏳️‍🌈Happy Pride🏳️‍🌈 I'm Jaws(they/them), a queer artist focusing on queer characters and stories. Supporting me on Patreon directly helps me pay rent. Thanks❤️ 🖼️ jawsstone.com ✉️ [email protected] 👛 patreon.com/only_jaws 📺 www.twitch.tv/jaws_stone 🎙️ @theartofpod.bsky.social

If I were an action hero, this is what I’d say to the bad guy before the kill shot.

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hey just fyi when someone has their whole account labeled you will see "(Account)" after the label. that means it appears on every post. you don't have to say "why was this moderated" on every fucking post in the quotes and/or comments. you can just go turn off the label in settings instead

my favorite kind of kid is one that thinks we use 911 for emergencies in remembrance of 9/11

there is no worse torment than the knowledge that you have to do something later

I was interviewed about Sanctuary Moon and other fake TV shows on TubeTalk: www.tubetalk.media/p/murderbot-...

also this absolutely refused to upload from my phone for some reason. I had to send it to myself on discord and then post it on desktop 🫩

wow cool app glad you keep making moderation worse instead of working on basic functionality

Listen I don't want to see NSFW content on my feed and also I want people to be able to post, discuss, celebrate, and support NSFW content without their whole account being shadowbanned by puritanical tech bros trying to kick us back a century or two. These two positions are entirely compatible.

another platform drops due to AI enshittification. i'd like to say im surprised, but i'm not. get off linktree ASAP. there are alternatives in the comments.

GOOD NEWS! Amivantamab has demonstrated unprecedented results in an international trial for cancer patients whose disease has become resistant to chemotherapy AND immunotherapy. Tumors shrank in OVER a third of participants, with 15 patients experiencing COMPLETE eradication of their tumors.

me pitching my family comics as an animated series: ok it’s about a single dad with three kids and we are poor the producers: cool but could you make it about you guys sitting on a couch doing drugs?

Kyoto University Hospital is running the first human trial of TRG-035, a drug that grew brand-new teeth in mice. Humans grow two sets and stop. The drug aims to give us a third.

I agree. Also want to point out that it’s a platform requirement that users should not be able to trivially acquire achievements through changed settings. This is because of the public score associated with achievements: it’s about not breaking the achievement “economy”

Not gonna shut up about this NSFW stuff any time soon, sorry. This kind of thing cannot be allowed to go forward.

The new bluesky account wide adult content label thing is horrendous, indiscriminately hiding all posts from a person just bc they've posted adult content - they need to reverse this so badly

Heads up for any artists/writers/etc currently using Linktree to point people to their work: from 5 July they'll be feeding all imagery you use on your landing page into DALL-E.

my fave anecdote about this is when bryan fuller wanted to show naked bodies from behind on hannibal, and s&p said he couldn't show butts. so he was like "what if i fill the buttcrack with blood" and they said sure

In theory it's a good idea to collapse all the hidden replies in a thread behind one button, much tidier that way. In practice it means all the people you muted for very good reasons are lumped in with the posts of people bluesky determined are too rude to be shown at all despite no actual labels.

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Lovely evening to paint out in Seattle

dear god just saw how an it looks when someone's hit with the account wide adult content warning and it's fucking MISERABLE blurred icon, blurred banner, every single post is hidden, even text posts, and posts that have images require you to hit unhide TWICE for the text and image, fucking nightmare

If stuff like anatomy and nude figure drawings - taught every day in every institute of higher learning for the fine arts - is subject to censorship, you are not a reliable nor respectable company to any of your users. 🤷

This sucks dude. Labeling a whole account for several weeks effectively feels like punishment for "posting out of line"

Oh hell yeah @amnesty.org comes out swinging: "Amnesty International finds that standalone generative AI systems... are fundamentally incompatible with IHRL. As such, Amnesty International is calling for a prohibition of such systems." www.amnesty.org/en/documents...

The way these "AI checkers" work is very, very simple. It feeds part of the text into an LLM. If the LLM predicts, correctly, the missing text, it scores that as proof the LLM produced the text. And LLM's literally stole *every fucking book and forum post ever fucking written* to train on.

Have you, like me, spent the last 26 years worrying if the Canadian Potato Museum STILL has the display of various potato diseases with potatoes in little coffins? Stop worrying. I checked today. Still there.

GREG DAVIES: seems like a kind of a shit task. Everyone just seems like they're going home normally. ALEX HORNE: well before you say that let's have a look at how Odysseus did. cut to panel of AJAX, MENELAUS, AGAMEMNON, and DIOMEDES who are all staring at ODYSSEUS with his head in his hands

Anti-porn, anti-sex worker, and anti-sex censorship directly corresponds to a tilt downward into a more ideologically conservative and oppressive society. Regardless of your personal comfort with nsfw content on the internet, it's absolutely critical to support it right now.

plato's cave: the video game

I’m losing my entire mind because I’ve been hearing this anecdote for decades and it’s never occurred to me who Uncle Bobby was

Read 'em and weep

we really need to standardize crediting artists. especially in an era where so much ai slop is being put out there if your promo art isn't ai? prove it. give the damn artist some credit. easy fix it even saves the company some small amount of face if it's the artist who used ai. everyone benefits.

The next time a director says bullshit like this, I want the interviewer to ask: "If AI was around when you made your other films, which artists would you have fired?" I mean it. Name real fucking names. Of all the brilliant people you worked with, who do you think doesn't deserve a job anymore?

Here's voice actor David Wald sharing how at the height of lockdown during a pandemic, Crunchyroll banned remote recording in an effort to union bust and also made it nearly impossible for him to work due to refusing to offer medical accommodations in studio.

Lately I’ve been in an indie team making stop-motion animation. It’s just 4 of us (animator, writer, voice actor, sound designer). The show’s called The Tiny Angry Witch. It’s all basically hand made. No AI. It’s tiring, but we love what we do. So, anyway, here’s a Witch making rude noises:

1/ Cuba is out of fuel, strangled by the US fuel chokehold. People are dying, systems are breaking down. This is collective punishment against a people who have done absolutely nothing except live their lives under hard conditions imposed by the US blockade for decades.

Please set your adult content moderation to warn. The auto mod frequently misidentified adult content, appeals are often ignored or denied. If my entire account is labeled adult because I post artistic nudity and your moderation is set to hide you will not be able to see anything from my account