Finally! 🤩 Our position piece: Against the Uncritical Adoption of 'AI' Technologies in Academia: doi.org/10.5281/zeno... We unpick the tech industry’s marketing, hype, & harm; and we argue for safeguarding higher education, critical thinking, expertise, academic freedom, & scientific integrity. 1/n

A quick note for tonight , we will be streaming this eve on Twitch www.twitch.tv/tau_of_the_sun at 10pm eastern, At 11pm we will have @karisauria.bsky.social with her new Avatar they have just released jinxxy.com/Karisauria/i..., We will be visiting some of my favorite worlds, all the love!

Check out this absolutely stellar paleoartist. Beautiful art!

Fantastic creative palaeoart by a Japanese palaeoartist. Evoking traditional styles. (Shane_Sandnan on IG)

My Irispaw VRChat Avatar is finally up for sale! It's a 2000s inspired furry avi, taking inspiration from some of my favorite design elements of 2000s furry art, mixed in with my own flare. Get it on Jinxxy: jinxxy.com/Karisauria/i... #furry #vrc #vrchat #2000s

About to go stream again , tonight I will be showcasing a couple of worlds and talking about The Awesome work By @purpzie.com @karisauria.bsky.social and @manyblinkinglights.bsky.social we will be doing some flying this eve! 9pm eastern

gay paleoart! nature is queer!! 🏳️‍🌈

I forgor that nobody will dig into my older posts for more info - model created and owned by @karisauria.bsky.social - unity setup/animations by me - this avatar is a private trade

there's almost no better feeling than this

thread of wonderful photos by @nekon118.bsky.social

Just making thy sky yours for a moment .. ladies and gentlemen, Here be dragons. @purpzie.com @karisauria.bsky.social Come join the Quadrupedai collective as the challenges in IK and flight are addressed in VRC. Love you all bsky.app/profile/purp...

WIP final IK setup for @karisauria.bsky.social! She created and owns the model and character. (THEY'RE SO PRETTY???)

👻🎃👻🎃👻🎃👻🎃👻 🎃 ˗ˏˋ IT'S OCTOBERˊˎ˗ 🎃 👻🎃👻🎃👻🎃👻🎃👻

And that's how you integrate digital elements into an exhibition. Part of the temporary "China's Dinosaur World" at the Shanghai Natural History Museum, China. Closing this November. Video source: Shanghai Let's Meet

Does it happen to you?

You should try it

Turn your suffering into something beautiful with art.

DAZECON: a free online convention about Kagerou Project! 🐍💕 Join others from all over the globe as we meet up in a Discord server where you can meet fellow Kagepro fans, attend panels, and peruse our Artist Alley! JOIN @ discord.gg/dazecon ✨ [ #カゲロウデイズの日 #kgpr_FA #kagerouproject #dazecon ]

The silhouettes were watching for this kind of me #kagerouproject #kagepro #fanart #mekakucityactors

Before Pride Month ends, friendly lil' reminder about the lesbian crow couple!

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Aori, the main protagonist for my dream project "NationNET". A bold, witty, relentlessly determined figure, with a somber and melancholic side when she's not fronting as a hero. #nationnet #gamedev #indiedev #character #3d

Varanius. #dragons

At Stage Flight you really can fly! #vrchat

He's here! #Toothless #HowToTrainYourDragon #HTTYD #httyd #dragons #fanart

Birthday gift for my friend @karisauria.bsky.social - wanted to try something different this go around. Happy birthday dawg!

Commissions are open! Pricing sheets will come in soon, but feel free to DM me for info! Portfolio: www.artstation.com/karisauria #artist #comsopen #commission

Biscuit here seems quite alarmed! Never before has he encountered another bird as handsome as he!

Silesaurus for facts.app! www.artstation.com/artwork/Bk5y86 #dinosaurs (Not a dinosaur, I know, tags help tho) #prehistory #paleoart

I had a dream that someone selectively bred hissing roaches to look exactly like tiny dogs, and I remember buying a pair, holding them in my hand, and showing them to my friends over discord saying "you will never guess what these actually are, they're not actually dogs they're actually cockroaches"

Have you ever heard music in your dreams or nightmares? Especially with deep meaning? Heard a song in my dream last night, one I have a very significant emotional connection with: Iris by Lexycat. The context attached to it left me feeling chills. Has anyone else had an experience like this?

from "Classical Studies memes for Hellenistic teens" on FB

Generative AI's promise of convenience & efficiency sprouts from a wickedly corporate perspective. In its goal to remove menial tasks, it eliminates works of interest and passion; assumes that there is no point to spend effort when all can be achieved with a single click. It disrespects contribution

Oh fuck off. I'm removing my images and deleting my account. I REFUSE to contribute to the further destruction of our planet for horseshit like this. Whoever let this go ahead should be ashamed. Nature will not forgive you.

Over the next 6 months, iNaturalist will be participating in the Google.org Accelerator: Generative AI program to help build tools to improve the identification experience on iNaturalist. Learn more: www.inaturalist.org/blog/113184-...

Please reconsider. WE DO NOT WANT THIS. Any platform free of gen AI has become a safe haven and each time a platform opts in you lose our support! Nobody asked for this. We don't need to continue fueling corporate juggernauts power by spoonfeeding data. Please leave identification to people.

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Amazing gibberish. I need this.

MAGA people apparently are already trying to exploit this whole fake "dire wolf" story as an excuse to push for the elimination of all conservation programs. This is extremely sad and dumb.

Maaaaaybe it's not a great idea to piss off women/BIPOC/queer/disabled people when you try to sell software to artists. Not only do they force IA down your throat, ask you for more and more money, but they genuinely hate you.

It brightened my day to see so many users work together to bully a corporation.

Can't share this list enough 😊