the ai debate really comes down to whether you want to consume product or consume art. There's nothing new to be discovered in getting the statistical amalgamation of what everyone else has already done.

This is the purpose of data centers. Not ChatGPT that yall keep screaming about. Nobody needs 40,000 acres for a search engine The future of mass surveillance & neo-feudalism (where we are headed) depends on the government AND corporations maintaining a permanent underclass using mass surveillance

Trans people are harming no one. They aren't starting wars, they aren't stealing tax dollars for vanity projects, they aren't destroying democracy, they aren't undoing health and safety standards for corporate cronies. The people making these fucking laws are the ones doing all that.

Photos of newly arrived immigrants at Ellis Island. Augustus Sherman took the photos between 1902 and 1920 when he worked as the Chief Registry Clerk. Striking to me how the outfits all look good because they have a discernible silhouette (shape and drape).

are you just going to do this for every generation

To our dismay, the artist and author Marjane Satrapi has passed away. As she wrote, ordinary Americans and Iranians have more in common with each other than we do with either of our governments, which have far too much in common with each other. We honor her memory and oppose the war.

She opened my eyes to what comics can be, the power and depth they can have, and taught me about Iran. What amazing art, what a great loss.

If you've ever wonder where the art of the best mems have come from, check out this tread & comments!

Respite

As an anthropologist, I endorse this message!

Netflix is pulling KIPO on June 26th which is some real bullshit but also a good reminder to watch it now if you haven't.

Well holy crap. Erin Brockovich (yes, the same one the led the Hinkley, CA toxic groundwater lawsuit in ‘93) launched a website tracking AI data centers across the US and the ecological impacts to the environment and drinking water. MN is riddled with them. www.brockovichdatacenter.com

in case you didn't know, google search is about to go all-AI

AI makes it harder for humans to trust one another, which makes it harder for humans to work together towards shared ends, which is the greatest gift billionaires could ever give to aspiring authoritarians.

GIVEAWAY! Dead Weight is coming out next week and to celebrate I'm giving away two copies that have been personally bitten by Uggi and will be personally signed by me and shipped to the winners wherever they live! To enter just like and share this post and I'll select the winners on May 26th!

Kickstarter has reverted their policy changes on Adult Content! They issued an apology, siting Stripe as the reason. The pressure we put on them worked. This is a step in the right direction. But the threat of Stripe remains. It’d be great to see KS end ties with them & process payments elsewhere.

I think the reason I've been a little ambiently mad all day is because January 6th rioters are statistically the most likely group of pedophiles in the world and they clubbed a guy to death and they're going to be rich from the tax money that I give to the country I live in.

It doesn't even take a minute to fill this out and add a short comment. Please do so. This is censorship and gross.

The craziest thing about the AI boosters is when they say “you can’t do this without AI” “I can’t make an event flyer without AI” when we all remember just 3 years ago how we all got along fine without it.

Omfg. Study after study has shown that the reason 12-step groups work is because of the human connection. Literally community is the treatment for addiction. This “AI AA” bullshit is going to kill people who would otherwise have sought help where it actually exists: IN MEETINGS.

Love this for them #subnautica #videogames #gaming

New prints are arriving 5.18 ✨

Everyone has to deal with Mondays, even Witchers ⚔️

I think I’m traumatized by technology I don’t control and that force things I don’t want into my life. And a VCR never made me spend ten minutes on updates. A VCR never let a stranger steal my personal information.

These scams are even impersonating authors, too! Remember: - agents & publishers should not ask for $ to read your ms - agents should not ask for $ to represent you (they get a cut IF they sell your book) - you NEVER pay the publisher to publish your book!! - authors are unlikely to solicit you

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PORTLAND: the BWPcon guest list is LOADED with amazing creators! BwPCon is a one-day FREE outdoor minicon on June 13th, hosted by Books With Pictures. @bkswpicspdx.bsky.social #pdxcomics

The single most defining thing Elon Musk has ever done is killing untold numbers of people by having DOGE illegally raid and disband USAID. Not rickets, not cars, not even the CSAMbot on X. It’s this, and so many media pundits just choose to unsee it.

Chrome is reaching into users' machines and writing a 4 GB on-device AI model file to disk without asking. It is the weights for Gemini Nano, Google's on-device LLM. Chrome did not ask. Chrome does not surface it. If the user deletes it, Chrome re-downloads it. www.thatprivacyguy.com/blog/chrome-...

Okay folks, because this happens every year: 1. The Met Gala funds the Costume Institute which does not receive any of the money the Met Museum gets from tickets or money from the general donation pool to the Met.

I made this free tool for my creative friends (and me)! BookMaker keeps track of your progress on your comic book or illustration project: www.jensk.net/bookmaker/

Don't forget that today (May 2) is Free Comic Book Day. Head over to your local comic shop for goodies and throw some support their way. (There's a store locator at the link if you don't know where your LCS is). freecomicbookday.com

The fight we’re having over jobs, tech, and immigration already happened. And we know how it ends.

"Joy Is Resistance" if you're part of an actively targeted, vulnerable group. Your public joy defies their destructive power. If you are not being targeted by power, joy is still an essential part of life, but it is not, in any meaningful way, resistance. Keep dancing, but volunteer for something.

A note I found yesterday while walking in Portland.

Ew Moleskine used genAI for their Lord of the Ring collection by mentioning they used it, then entirely removing the claim after some backlash. Incredibly shitty of them for a brand that claims human creativity. cjleo.com/blog/moleski...

Happy Friday, everyone.

Still feel like "Musk and his crew of incels destroyed a bunch of stuff they didn't understand and thereby hastened the deaths of millions of children" did not get the public attention it warranted.

it will never not be funny how they thought bsky was going to be a google campus and instead they got tumblr and they absolutely h a t e it

The First WORLD FENCING LEAGUE is happening April 25th!!! I'M GEEKING!!! Japanese engineers developed this "Sword Tip Visualisation" tracking technology specifically for this event that will make it so much easier for the average person to see what's going on! I MUST WATCH THIS ENTIRE TOURNAMENT

Coachella is trying to wipe all of the footage of The Strokes protest set so I’m gonna post it here. The last images on the screen made me cry.

Oregon just became the first state to let users sue AI chatbot companies directly. Under SB 1546, any “AI companion” that fails to flag itself as a bot or ignores a user’s suicidal ideation owes $1,000 per violation—plus attorney fees—to the person it hurt, not just the state AG.

I cannot even begin to tell you. How fast you will move to the top of my ballot. If you publicly antagonize AI.

A VCR never sold my private info to a nazi

BREAKING: A jury has found Live Nation and Ticketmaster to be an illegal monopoly that overcharges fans. After the federal government settled the case, 34 states kept pursuing the giant ticket and concert company. Now, the states have won.

Escalate the Target boycott.

I don’t even have words for this.

“A crew is inescapably, beautifully, dutifully linked… when we saw tiny Earth,ppl asked our crew what impressions we had.& honestly,what struck me wasn’t…just Earth. It was all the blackness around it. Earth was just this lifeboat, hanging undisturbingly in the universe…Plant Earth:You.Are.A.Crew.”🧪

Welcome back to the Artemis II crew :) Such a huge relief watching them arrive safely!