Time to celebrate our cartilaginous chums as today is #SharkAwarenessDay We've chosen this somewhat grumpy-looking but magnificent illustration of the porbeagle shark 📖BL.65/D: The Natural History of British Fishes by E. Donovan 1806  #SharkAndRayAwarenessDay

the bread is $13.50 and all the circuses are subscription based

As a longtime fanfiction reader (and occasional fic writer), I am deeply concerned about the way AI is impacting fandom spaces. @fansplaining.bsky.social was the perfect place to explore this anxious curiosity in the context of the booming Heated Rivalry fandom.

@mangiotto.bsky.social does a great job actually bringing in the source material - one of my favorite comics - into his review. Rereading it after seeing the movie really highlights how cynical a work of adaptation it is. A movie I really wanted to like!

i feel like the "story" of "Tilly Norwood", in terms of the newsworthy thing that's happening, would be a behind-the-scenes report on the company's PR team that keeps getting these articles placed in major news outlets and keeps getting them written with the company's preferred framing.

The way money people treat AI generated work vs the way they treated artists and writers to commission work reveals that 99% of their decisions with drafts and changes with the latter group was motivated by feeling like that gave them power over the person doing the thing they can’t do themselves

Nothing is more depressing than watching young artists give other young artists advice like “only use one colour palette in everything you do to have a more recognizable brand” and “draw everything with a target audience in mind”

Lol lol lol lol lol lol the man is addicted to baddies

A class at my kids’ school put up little statements about the good they want to do in the world and I was over the moon about this one - then I learned they meant to say “teach people in jail” which is also good!

Had a great time watching Kacey Musgraves last night!

the good news is i managed to purchase Enough Warhammer Models before the global economy collapsed, so now i only need to worry about getting food and fuel and other bullshit like that

i did enjoy a lot of Hoppers but the politics felt so needlessly strange and complicated. like so silly to think lgbt inclusion is too complicated for kids but learning about the (debatable) economic benefits of a new highway is fine.

all time photo editor performance

a 3D printer has made me feel closer to living in star trek than any ai based tool has

There is an actual argument that this curse actually worked.

I realize it's beside the point but why call the podcast anything but Gabbin' Newsom

you know this guy is a FOR REAL photographer because he's telling the story of his brutal, unconditional arrest by federal goons and can't help but slip in a gear review

Saw this comment on a video about AI in the wedding industry which felt so bleak. Running your own business is hard enough without the pressure to take shortcuts like this. Nobody is winning here.

Artificial Unintelligence: the government is in full retreat over copyright, and the attempts to make it look dignified only make it funnier. My SKETCH. thecritic.co.uk/arti...

At long last, China has built the megawatt-scale airborne wind system from the classic sci-fi novel "Do build the megawatt-scale airborne wind system to produce 10x more energy".

AI should only be used for one thing: making bad guys in video games take cover behind crates while firing at the player.

My scheming vizier when I start to cough after taking a swig of wine from my goblet

i think what gets overlooked is that part of the humor and charm of edits like these is that you're perfectly aware that someone sat down and spent their own time making it. they chose to do something cool or silly or stupid or genius, regardless of the results that human element elevates the work

They put microplastics in all of nature that bore us. In our blood. Our brains. Our wombs. Out ballsacks. "But how can we put microplastics in the soul?" they asked, and so ChatGPT was born.

Every Warhammer youtuber is always Extremely Based Leftist Comrade or The Most Racist Man Alive with no in-between.

it's a mistake to compare the cost of your newsletter or podcast to a cup of coffee. that cup of coffee is the best treat i'm allowed to have every single day. no podcast is comparable to the beverage that justifies staying alive. instead market your newsletter as two thirds of a sweetgreen salad

I just don't need to know what the Telegraph has written about Dungeons & Dragons. It's a newspaper for people who are frightened of samosas.

This is so funny - of all my art to request a content warning on !!

151. Any time I see regular, round wheels on a Star Wars vehicle I want to throw up. Get that shit out of my face.

Hey guys we need to raise your power bills again because the jackoff material factory needs more power to turn your mom and daughter’s pictures into pornography and we need you to pay for it

nothing chatgpt has done is as impressive as akinator, the mind-reading internet genie from 2007

i don't mean to single out baseball fans here, because you see this in lots of fan communities, but in certain corners people talk as though baseball is real. they think all the players are real people and the stadiums are places you can actually visit. to each their own, but that cannot be healthy

Every part of this is horrible, but what pierced my heart was the unemployed illustrator's parents giving him a birthday card with an AI slop illustration

Do you think unbending Clippy until he was a long piece of metal would be painful for him. Or do you think it would cause him to feel a great sense of relief

What's your secret to being online all the time without contracting computer madness? For me it's being pure of heart

having thought about this for three days, my current status is: what the FUCK are we doing trying to ban social media for kids and not banning AI use? we are literally telling them not to use the computer to talk to their real friends but instead to the imaginary technology monetisable 'friends'.

simulating the stuff that is in theory popular because its real people doing real things feels particularly insidious!

obsessed with this vague notice from the government of Nova Scotia. Like it’s definitely about the new fire restrictions, but it also looks like a poster you’d find yellowed and curled on the bulletin board of a diner in a town where locals won’t talk about their missing kids

This is going around for some reason, just gonna point out that many studies have been done about porn addiction, held by researchers who believed in porn addiction, only to find that porn addiction is not real and never was. Turns out it was religion. www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/wome...

The frustrating thing with the implemenation of age gating the internet is that I would very much like to use an internet that didn't have children on it but I want the "adult" internet to be the default one and not require jumping through hoops to access.

I would rather die than create an account to continue

@lexroman.com asks the right question about the current "indie media" moment: "Are we building independent media or are we building platform-dependent media?" My answer: if you are using #Substack, you are sharecropping for Marc Andreesen. Lex's take: journalistspaythemselves.com/p/why-substa...

i do not share the author's barely disguised fetish but i will defend to the death their right to publish it

Her vibe is so pathetic and the stuff she's saying about Mamdani sounds so cool it took me a minute to realize this wasn't satire and is actually intended as a smear

like... if you have to rely on a network of opaque self regulated ID verification services not even hosted in the UK to comply with this law maybe it shouldn't exist? Trying to force the internet to be child safe by default has done so much more damage than parents actually parenting.

fantastic foreskins

HELP with long body