Some heartbreaking animation news today from people who have been some of my animation heroes. It’s up to us to hold the line and build a better future for animation.

Cloud flare is now blocking e621.net in Korea stating "we got a request to block all traffic to this domain" so I want everyone to remember this when they say "we *have* to service Nazis and pedophiles!"

This is exactly it🤞🤞🤞

Actually you know what, let me just

Some people have misunderstood this. We literally saw how Claude itself, coded by Claude, turns one API call into a DOS of thousands upon thousands of API calls done in the sloppiest fucking way possible. This postmortem shows Bluesky vibecoded a function to DOS itself, in a similarly stupid way.

Oh so now copyright matters.

"I don't know why you hate ChatGPT so much" idk maybe because it stole from me and all my friends, it's terrible for the environment, it's driving up energy prices, it's quantifiably making people worse at using their brains, it's a tool of fascism, and also it doesn't even do what it says it does??

just this week: -- OpenAI killed Sora -- Disney subsequently cancelled its investment in OpenAI -- Wikipedia is now banning LLM-generated content ...tell me again how this is all "inevitable" and you have to "get on board or get left behind"?

I will dance on that app's tomb. What was stolen by it isn't art, isn't even anything remote of "made" by someone. It's slop. Good riddance, and hopefully this is the first of many genAI slop machines to fall.

a) Some video games are genuinely better without voice acting (see: Undertale) b) Voice acting is so much cheaper than people realize. I'm directing an indie game and even at SAG rates, with as much voiced dialogue as Hades, we're probably not going to break even $30k. One session is like $500.

I had neighbors back in the US who let their cats out basically every day arguing "but they want to go have fun outside!" so I asked "yeah and if your kids wanted ice cream for every meal, would you give it to them or tell them it wouldn't be good for them?"

I was asked to give my thoughts on generative AI usage in games - here they are!

So with Subscribe Star making their ToS worse for creatives (again) I have to ask (again): why do we need everything on one platform? Here's a hypothetical: a Patreon or Subscribe Star alternative which does not host content, just offers an API for other platforms to check access with.

People should read the actual summary of the proposal. It's a good first step, but it doesn't require anything of payment processors, it just says the government can't tell them to block something - they would still be able to block things just because they wanted to.

People who "just want to ban one kind of kink art" ALWAYS have a longer list in mind and conceding in any way will just embolden them to go after more. They're fascists looking for the easiest target that will meet the least resistance.

Succint response I got on Cohost

It’s funny if you call PayPal or visa lines and bring this up asking why they claim “adult illustrations” is against their regulations but betting on the death of kids is totally fine. They don’t have an answer. In fact yall should call them at least once a day with this :)

Better yet, use a fork like Waterfox or LibreWolf which removes it all by default!

This simple pleasure is what vibe coding steals from you.

Every instance of "AI democratizes the arts, you're classist and ableist and a gatekeeper for trying to stop it" is a slap in the face to the literally centuries of poor, disabled people making art on the margins and a crass lie in service of a machine that strips down and regurgitates dreams

It's not enough to look down upon AI: we also have to give praise and credit where credit's due to those who are stepping up against it.

HEY WASHINGTON FURRIES WANT TO GIVE FURAFFINITY YOUR CREDIT CARD INFO? WANT TO SHOW ID FOR FUCKING *BLUESKY*??? CALL YOUR FUCKING REPS I SWEAR TO GOD HB 2112 WILL FUCK YOU UP app.leg.wa.gov/pbc/bill/2112 app.leg.wa.gov/memberemail/

hey so this is blatant false information punishing people for doing the right thing. no, it was not a "grabber". it was a reputable survey site that discord has used previously for limited surveys. nothing can """grab""" information if you dont provide it, which an anonymous survey didnt ask for.

Hey remember how all of Mississippi was blocked on BlueSky due to an age verification law?! They're going to try to do that in Washington State! COMMENT and CALL on this one! www.wired.com/story/bluesk...

Washington State residents: they’re trying to pull online age verification bullshittery here too. This bill would require people to upload their ID/credit card to view online adult content. You can complain to your reps here: app.leg.wa.gov/pbc/bill/2112

Discord wants to know how you feel about AI. Go tell them: discord.sjc1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...

Pillowfort and Mastodon both come to mind as good options.

"This doesn't affect you because you animate, so you are fine." No. This sucks and this is really dangerous. In solidarity with all artists, Please be cautious. I know many will remain on Twitter because they have mostly everything here but be aware this time it's worse than the other times.

I'm begging any artists still using Twitter claiming it's integral to their work to just leave. It's been revealed the site works off a made up "credit score" from hell and punishes you for posting like a normal human being. Abandon Twitter for good. It's time. It's been time.

#SaveSpeech With Black Friday/Cyber Monday done, its best to settle back into 'marathon' call routines rather than the 'sprint' we had for the weekend. if you did participate in calling Visa and MC this past weekend though, thank you! We have to keep going, but every call matters!

AVOID. Fuck the GenAI slop that they use. There's many other games with furry protagonists that are made by real people and use real artwork by real people.

Bad Art is the first step toward Good Art 👍👍

Wrote to all of my representatives. Raise your voices, fellow EU folks

Ever since Musk bought it, Twitter has been a revolving door of him doing something stupid and then going "oh, I guess they had a good reason for doing that" 3 months later

This is very fun software strudel.cc#LyoKICBAdGl0...

I think I want to spend some time this week working on a visual novel template project in #GodotEngine. The main focus would be on making it very easy for non-programmers to make interactive stories with synced art, sound, and animation.

“Does it pass the harkness test if-“ I don’t fucking care the harkness test is fake and the media is NOT REAL go touch grass. Touch it. Touch the grass. Does getting fucked by balto make the grass wither? No so move the fuck on and let people do what they want with their fiction shut the fuck up

If they’re not gonna see you as human might as well try being a dog

I'm happy to take this opportunity to share this awesome pamphlet made by @xerxes.gay If my memory serves these have been distributed since at least well over a decade ago. "Fandom" has always rubbed me the wrong way in relation to furries. The distinction does matter.

Just a reminder to check for your name in this list of books that OpenAI trained from. If your name is there, they probably owe you several thousand dollars. OpenAI cried that if everyone eligible author files, the company will go bankrupt, so I'm alerting every author I have ever spoken to.

I actually had to explain to someone recently that the AI that tells enemies in video games how to react to player inputs is NOT genAI and has existed for literal decades. they genuinely had no idea there was a difference. this shit has poisoned the well so bad.

firefox users, don't forget to disable mozilla's new anti-features if you haven't already!

I know you're tired of hearing it I am tired of saying it But please, if you care AT ALL about queer or adult content, make the calls. Keep the pressure up

‘Visa and Mastercard’s adult content clampdown is a battle they can’t – and shouldn’t – win’

I wanted the apron that Susie wears in #Deltarune chapter 3, so I made one! :3

the calls are working.

VISA CAN'T HANG UP ON YOU UNTIL YOU STOP TALKING. YAPPERS, THIS IS YOUR TIME TO SHINE. Talk in circles! Loop back to the same points! Take a minute to "remember" a word! Your goal isn't to change their minds, it's to keep talking for as long as possible to waste their money and clog call centers.