Today is a day when arts degrees are worthless, but the product of those degrees is so valuable it would kill an entire industry if they were made to pay for it.

For those of you just coming in after the news on the Irish artist funds: UBI is a concept that empowers EVERYONE to exist in a way that doesn't require being born lucky or constantly have the threat of death looming over them. It works by giving the populace a set of funds, meant for things such as

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Ever since i was introduced to the concept of a computer at a very young age, one of the first things i was immediately taught was to be afraid of every advertisement and pop-up. Nothing that has happened in the previous 20 years of my life has changed my mind, and has only reinforced this fear.

No surprises here. Phil Vischer rules.

This x 100000 = mood #ADHDAwarenessMonth

When @aceottorney.bsky.social first told me about this I said "this could change people's lives and stop developers from getting exploited" and having seen the final resource, I think I was not wrong. I'd call it a must-bookmark for indie devs.

I am Jewish. Israel is a country where sexual assault and child murder are core tenets of the culture. This country should not exist. They act with such extremity because they know when you tell people what they actually do, it's so bad it registers as unbelievable.

Artists do NOT accept payment. Always send an invoice. DO NOT ACCEPT PAYMENTS

Who likes jevin #sprunki

Viewers like you #art #fanart

really awesome that there's legit just no online safe space for trans people en masse. it feels like every single time one is *about* to be, the mod team bends over backwards to protect the people who hate us and something fucking stupid like this happens

Wild idea. I think consumers should be able to opt out of sharing an electric grid with data centers. I had the choice to pay a little extra on my bill to use clean energy years ago. I opted in, and the difference was minimal. Yet I wasn't given any choice about propping up a water guzzling Ai mill

tbh I wonder what would happen if we made Jay one of the most blocked users on the site, so it can be seen in the top 5 blocked on clearsky. Like nothing is stopping us from blocking her or any other mod en mass.

We need these fuckers buried is what we need. Their Gen AI is dangerous towards people who aren't savvy enough to detect it. Examples of its use showed Style accurate SpongeBob as a Nazi and fake footage of a robbery, this is actually a problem now.

Robin Williams' daughter has some quality thoughts on AI slop

Greta Thunberg has arrived in Greece following her deportation from Israel, after the Gaza aid flotilla was intercepted #GlobalSumudFlotilla She said: “I could talk for a very,very long time about our mistreatment and abuses in our imprisonment. Trust me, but that is not the story.” #Athens airport

if you love your OCs so so so much but you dont like making comics i PROMISE you can just keep posting bullshit forever and ppl will still love them. you do not need to hold out for your Official Comic That Will Take Ten Years To Finish JUST POST!!!!!!

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people who built bsky: -trans women (bsky protects jesse singal) -Black users (bsky allows rampant antiBlack racism) -SWers (bsky to implement hostile age verification in UK) -organizers and activists (bsky autodeletes anyone in gaza with a pulse) -artists (bsky dev says AI has rights lmao)

Some fan art for a really cool Sprunki mod, Adventures in Melodia! Be sure to check out the mod here: topswormsly.itch.io/sprunki-adve... #sprunki #sprunkiadventuresinmelodia #fanart

"The AI can make sexy Tony the tiger! Not sure you could-" Who do you think I am? :>

Democracy dies in dullness

Nintendo reportedly lobbying japanese government to push back against Generative AI www.resetera.com/threads/13...

THE RODENT!! HE IS ALIVE!!! 🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨 I HATE THAT HEDGEHOG!!!!!! #art #cartoon #sonicthehedgehog #animation

like, the main purpose of generative AI is to simply override the inconveniences of humans – boundaries, consent, and wages. thats what it does at its core

Found this on the AO3 subreddit, and I'm about to let it change my whole life (or at least work really hard to internalize it wrt my writing).

Playjay animal crossing 🌳 #inanimateinsanity #jackii #ojii #paperii #evilpaperii #osc #payjay #playjay

Burger Becky, a trans elder in game development, was recently diagnosed with cancer. When she sets up the inevitable fundraiser to help pay for treatment i hope people will consider giving.

It'll never be lost on me that a particular subset of the liberal commentariat in both North America and Western Europe were deeply infatuated with this woman up until the very moment she decided to talk about that one issue you're still basically not allowed to talk about lol.

1-866-952-4456 to tell Netflix that in no way do you want Elon fucking Musk determining what you watch. I just called, got through in about 15 seconds, and told them that I strongly support queer inclusion in their programming and that I will cancel my subscription if they cave.

bsky ceo's crashout shows they can not handle simple criticism, so keep doing it. bsky wants the marginalized people that built this site to shut up or leave, don't give them an easy way out

Seems that U.S. “intelligence officials” are so sick of Israel’s shit that they’re leaking to the news that Netanyahu personally ordered drone strikes on the Sumud Flotilla in Tunisia

On a more serious note, one of the VERY few times Mr. Rogers got angry and sued someone was when the KKK created voice recordings (using a human impersonator) pretending to be him and saying homophobic and racist things to children.

I've posted a new & rather important post to my YouTube Community!! I genuinely hope a satisfying solution will come sooner than later, as this is bullshit for all of you & affects not just US-Citizens, but everyone in some way, shape or form just from losing that connection. #BoycottYouTube

AI flaw fact of the day Do you wonder why a lot of AI videos look like low quality camera footage? This is because it's easier to make low fidelity videos look believable. Some artists add degradation to their work to make it look old and authentic. AI uses it because it has to.

i think people often make the mistake of thinking that rightwingers meltdown at different things like netflix not because they want the approval of mass culture, but they actually just want total top down control of the flow of information

here's a reminder that discord has adopted a new arbitration policy, which means you have under 30 days to opt out of it

I saw a thread on here recently commenting about how much FNAF embraces satirical humor, something which most mascot horror games don't use at all (and if they are humorous, it's more surreal or meme/reference based humor that doesn't really fit the setting as much)

The 'WAFFLES' thing is even more upsetting when you realise Jesse Singal came into a place where people didn't hate Trans people and he started yelling 'WHY DON'T YOU HATE TRANS PEOPLE' like he's literally the 'WAFFLES' person in the analogy ffs

🤔What the heck is a partnership system? 🏡Obtaining a partnership certificate makes it possible for same-sex partners to be recognized as family and enjoy the same administrative services as their heterosexual counterparts, such as being able to apply for public housing together.

I don't give a shit so I _will_ name and shame here

Every artist and animator should know, OpenAI has deemed your work fair game to feed to SORA unless you use their "Opt-Out form".. That they claim exists, but doesn't appear to exist. We need new ways to fight for our creative rights - www.cartoonbrew.com/tech/openai-...

It's that day again! [ #meangirls | #october3rd ]

Seeing some posts about Bluesky "safety" requiring people from certain states (I saw MS and OH, so far. Not sure if there's others) to enter their ID, credit card info, or SSN to see nsfw?? which is?? insane?? Like obvious fascism aside, this is not safe at all??? wtf are we doing???

It's too bad that Dodge Greenley dabbled with AI because the Darkness in Pibby could have EASILY been an allegory for Generative AI. AI learning models will add noise to images then remove them in order to learn how to create things. You could have convinced me that the Darkness IS Diffusion

It’s really not hard. I’m sorry yall have to go through so much shit on a daily basis. 🏳️‍⚧️💙

You can subscribe to PBS for a few dollars a month. Cancel Disney, Paramount and Amazon. Vote with your dollar and give to the people and organizations who are still fighting back. Who are trying to make a difference. Who aren’t owned by billionaires.