🎄 Evergreen 🎄

Merychippus to all who celebrate!

It’s 1999 again and the ✨family computer✨ has been reinstated! My kiddo (11) has been showing an interest in 3D modeling, animation, coding, and making games. I decided it was time to invest in the proper setup and get this kid started in a field I know she’d excel in. She’s thrilled (I am too)!

can i come over to your house and do this tonight

Merry Pinkmas Eve 💖

🎄 Evergreen 🎄

Nolan be like

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.

iCloud, Mega, and as a torrent. Archivists have uploaded the 60 Minutes episode Bari Weiss spiked.

I firmly believe we're going to survive this era -- broken, hobbled, with decades of rebuilding that will not be finished in my lifetime -- but we are going to survive and every asshole who collaborated in the effort to destroy this country will forever wear the stain of it.

Bringing back Limewire to illegally rip copies of reporting suppressed by the government is definitely some cyberpunk shit

When they ask me what radicalized me

Very good paragraph here from @cstross.bsky.social on LLMs… www.antipope.org/charlie/blog...

"this could have been slop, but it's not" is rapidly becoming a surefire signifier of premium-ness

BREAKING: Instacart is ending all price testing on its platform in the wake of this report.

It's backup day! 📂🎉 Back up your art, your writing... everything! Repost to remind a friend!

Hey I know this is probably obvious but super duper don't use AI marketing tools to attempt to sell or pitch books, are you out of your mind? They're *books.* you sell them to people who *read.* have some respect for their ability to spot slop.

Neither is herpes, but I’ll keep doing my work without either.

Nashville! I’m hosting an open studio and Yule market Saturday 12/20 from 5-8pm! Come check out what I’ve been making, visit the new space , make some crafts, and support local artisans if you have any last minute shopping needs! 🌟 Studio 615 is at 276 Broadmoor Ave at building B. Free parking!

Bringing back my classic relevant mee-may #conceptart #gamedev

"it's time to go"

I spoke to a dozen professional concept artists working in games about whether generative AI image tools have made their jobs easier, even if it's just used in "very early ideation stages." Zero said "yes." Most said it made their job harder. I learnt a lot about concept artists. You should too!

It’s super refreshing when someone I’m dating doesn’t spend most of their free time playing video games and instead, like, reads books.

My professional artists peers! We got a survey request! Researchers at the University of Carnegie Mellon is doing a research to see how generative Al has (or has not) impacted your work and/or sentiments in the industry. Folks in creative fields only, please consider filling this out 👇

My response to anything over the next two weeks

periodically I'll see a backlash that goes a little too far or seems kinda unfair. i never say anything because i think we need to be kinda unhinged and zealous in our response to this shit. I'd take an honest-to-God crusade against this stuff over letting it proliferate.

Reading everyone’s recaps of that speech I didn’t watch:

making a gold foil postcard print :>

I'm keen to speak with any creatives who have lost work because of generative AI, for something I'm writing. If this is you, please DM me. Thank you!

I do not want your AI slop I do not want it in my mop I do not want it in my house I do not want it in my mouse I do not like brain-rotting AI spam I do not want it, Sam Alt-man

Important PSA: I hope you never see other artists as competition. Please take their success as proof that you can also succeed here.

Every writer who generates a slop image for their work is a class traitor. "I can't afford a visual artist" So your solution is stabbing artists in the back? Stealing from them? Furthermore, slop-generated imagery suggests slop-generated writing. That's how you're presenting yourself.

The excuse of using AI to "generate reference" material doesn't hold water as a justification. gAI makes shit up, and gets details wrong all the time. You're at the mercy of their data sets (stolen) and the mushy bias of the output. Why base a delicious meal on subpar processed ingredients

I’m on my couch, still in my pajamas and wrapped up in a soft blanket with my two cats flanking me. Music has been playing for the last few hours while I sip coffee, munch on a pastry, and work on sketches for an exciting assignment. It’s a perfect morning.

Ok, gotta figure out how to get $2K more to pay back taxes by tomorrow *yikes* This thread has a bunch of older originals HUGELY DISCOUNTED. If you are interested please DM me. PayPal/Venmo (US only shipping)

Rob Reiner: “Silence in the face of authoritarianism is complicity. Speaking out is a patriotic act. Democracy doesn’t defend itself. It requires participation, vigilance, and courage from ordinary people."

eBay option to fight the other bidder in the parking lot like gentlemen

One left! www.kellymckernan.com/shop

Zootopia 2 is the highest grossing Hollywood movie of the year & Kpop Demon Hunters was Netflix's most popular movie of all time, but fuck animators, am I right? I hate reading about how huge & beloved this stuff is while knowing how hard creators have it & how it still isn't broadly taken seriously

Thank you soooooo much for your support this season! I can’t believe there’s only 2 mystery gift bags remaining! I’m aiming to get all open orders shipped by Monday or Tuesday, so get any last minute orders in asap! www.kellymckernan.com/shop

My dad is a mathematician and actuary, undiagnosed but 100% autistic. Me? I inherited one of those.

Anti-AI messaging from 1961.

Writers who use genAI for illustrations are class traitors. We all have to fight this beast TOGETHER. We are not just trying to save SOME of our livelihoods.

There’s 4 remaining!

I’m glad I didn’t listen to him.

Hey Nashville! I hope to see you in a week at my open studio event!

“The work was emotionally exhausting, with chat users confiding intimate details about their real-life relationships, as well as their own emotional trauma, falsely believing they were talking to an unfeeling AI chatbot.”

Sam Altman: hey I made a machine that stole literally all your stuff in order to make CSAM of your child actors, sometimes it encourages people to kill themselves Disney: Holy shit here's a billion dollars Altman: the machine loses more than that each week but thank you. Soon it will become god.

Nice one, Spidey.