As an artist I cannot recommend @creativecommons.bsky.social ShareAlike enough. It: - Allows normal people to use your stuff in their little youtube videos - Spooks corporate lawyers into paying you (Queer as Folk 2022 licensed our album art even though they might not have had to)

How would they risk losing, though? Well you see: - "Transformational" use of a copyrighted work is considered fair use and a well-paid lawyer could argue a literal "Generative Pre-trained Transformer" is indeed transforming work - OpenAI sure as hell can pay a lawyer as much as Disney could

Been thinking about this and my lukewarm take is: Disney sold out to OpenAI because their entire grift is copyright maximalism. If they go to court, they risk losing and OpenAI setting a new fair use precedent. If they do a licensing deal, there is zero risk. 100 more years of controlling Mickey.

Mawoon 5 - This Wuv

“try water fox or ice weasel” try chill penguin. install flame mammoth. you just download bubble crab. literally just use boomer kuwanger. sting chameleon has a search bar, use it to find toxic seahorse.

Look, still drag Larian but it's kinda telling GenAI is barely useful as references for concept art. It's dogshit for anything you actually care about Every time a new AI thing comes out I'll test it ONCE to be an informed hater. It has never become useful for actual creativity and unlikely to be

is this what the fuck we do like fucken pick heavy things up and then take a picture of your arms and say oh ho they have become rounded is this how we are supposed to live our lives pondering the orbuture of our limbs is it am i doning it corrcet am i

As an OG Baldur's Gate 3 hater I am watching Larian get dragged for their absurd hiring process of narrative designers and now I get it They filtered out anyone with a better idea than picking from 3 identical Charisma checks over and over and calling it the tabletop experience

Again I say: how fucking interesting that remote work technology is bad and not worth adopting despite all research pointing to productivity gains, but genAI which offers NOTHING is so important to adopt and force on people who have no use for it despite all the horrible things genAI does

Hey remember OnLive, the cloud gaming console that was supposed to change the world and kill all other game platforms, and it kinda worked okay but collapsed under its own unsustainable costs and now it's a tiny irrelevant niche propped up by Google and Nvidia Anyway how is AI doing today

Tipping culture makes ordering a coffee into a fucking RPG combat sequence and I am so exhausted

"Mom says it's MY turn to have the autism" - @zekefox.wtf

Ok this shit is getting out of control

the world has changed

This is why my queer spaces are all depraved and cynical by design and they usually end up with more wholesome positivity than any of the tender shit

The only correct video game take is that y'all saw a game called "Clair Obscur: Expedition 33" and decided for some fucking reason to shorten it to the infinitely more boring half of its title

The cool thing about @amtrak.com is that they may not get your train to where it's going with any less than a 30 minute delay but they also do not comply with CAN SPAM regulations and keep sending you marketing emails even if you unsubscribe 3 times

More reliable than Triple A

Trying to go out to dinner at a furry con with 20 furries and we haven't even been seated yet and I could write an entire novel about how complicated this has already become

Having a window into the behind the scenes of midwest furfest has taught me that half the battle is getting midwesterners to communicate with one another

Sorry @fizzyteefs.anthro.place you're doing amazing the a/v staff is all deservedly drunk right now that's why the speakers keep doing all that

Uh oh the DJ at MFF is playing "fuck donald trump" what will this mean for the convention's 501c3 status if you grossly misunderstand nonprofit law

If you had fun at anything on stage at MFF please give some words of appreciation to @zekefox.wtf Zeke was hired as A/V director with 2 months notice to save this con. A year's worth of work was not done. They did the impossible. Y'all have no idea how close this con was to having NO live events

This is technically red beans and rice the way a tomato is technically a fruit

Whoever scattered chanukah gelt at MFF you're a mensch

When you have to be a top all con because you are recovering from ass surgery but you still have to be on bottom diet because you are recovering from ass surgery

I'm sorry wikifur verifying I'm a what

I think, more than ever, these words from Mr. Rogers hold as true as the day he spoke them.

Rich people are so boring, like if you have enough money in the bank to make six figures a year just on interest why not make weird art and give it away for free instead of idk fuckin investing in a company that automates making children cry or whatever

Oh it's a nice balmy, warm day out, an entire 20°F What the fuck has Minnesota done to me

I've seen both and Bad Guys 2 is a tighter overall talking animal sequel than Zootopia 2 though admittedly that was an easier movie to make a sequel to.

"I don't know why making it wet made it so much worse" - @zekefox.wtf

If you want to complain about a furry con remember these people are VOLUNTEERING to WORK THEIR ASSES OFF at jobs they are NOT NECESSARILY GOOD AT because most of the TOP INDUSTRY PROFESSIONALS were not willing to DO THIS TO THEMSELVES

It may seem like the furry community has completely moved over to Bluesky but only on Twitter can you get the latest and greatest up to the minute death threats

treadmills are so cringe like go outside you loser

The show must goon

the government shlluod pay you to draw furry porn /gen /srs /unironic /actualpoliticalposition

Cool we found its niche, can we take it out of the Wendy's drive thru now

Thanks but no thanks

frustrating that this piracy discourse is the same goddamn thing every time, has been for years, while discussion of exploitation of writers by publishers tends to remain very faint. it feels like this is a frequent steam valve for frustration, a group that can be yelled at without risking jobs.

Valve gloryhole

I think why AI music gives me anxiety is that if it catches on it will kill poptimism It has been a relief to be able to be punk rock and still admit Dua Lipa slaps. Being angry at major labels all the time is exhausting If pop music becomes true slop involving no humans we will have no choice

Getting your back blown out by the New York halal cart guy and he nuts in you and says "there ya go, boss"

Honestly though as an AI engineer (I am a web application developer but apparently we all fucking work in AI now) this stuff will get better In 2080 LLMs are a dead end, I predict there is no shortcut to just simulating a brain, you have to do the work If I'm wrong I'll be 90 and won't care

Did you know you can just tell people "I am an AI engineer and this stuff is bad and won't get better" and they can't even prove you wrong Try it It's fun Say computery gobbledegook to back up your arguments, they won't know the difference

Github may be broken but at least Bluesky has firmly supplanted Twitter as the place to complain about it

Somewhere in the late 2010s queer discourse changed to not only do we have to support each other politically, but also all be friends, and want to hang out all the time, and suddenly we're arguing over whether the horse market is inclusive of sex-repulsed ace people instead of things that matter

Every day I work at Big Tech I understand this guy more and more