what the fuck

As someone who works in the tech industry--absolutely. They are testing the waters. These are top-down orders. The ONLY way to stop it is a visceral negative reaction. Write articles. Post your rage. Email. Post. @. All those things. Only you have the power to kill it.

Every facet of generative AI has made my professional life worse, without question, but THIS specific aspect has been driving me NUTS. Clients, who have made me toil for weeks over indescribably small details, are now approving & producing in-house commercial artwork that looks like a fever dream.

going through old work for a thing here's an evergreen fav of mine from 2017

NO MORE NIHAO ONLY NI-HOWDY

Olivia Nuzzi won't see this, but your friends who look like Yassified Lord Farquaaad will.

Also, as someone who worked on HORSES and has also made porn games + comics: I really don't appreciate when people put down one thing I made to uplift the other! Especially considering no one at Santa Ragione *ever* framed it in these terms when we were discussing the Steam ban

jfc. this shit has got to stop

Happy Decembear 🐻❄️ [ #cuteart #traditionalart #sketchbook ]

pretty remarkable that Costco has more of a spine in fighting for the rule of law than many major universities and fancy law firms

Vampire Knight 🩸

And now for some of my very favourite Smol Paul moments in no particular order, starting with the first ever yeet

"They're trying to change our habits, because all of the projections rely on people becoming truly dependent on the technology. Whether or not it's actually a good thing for society isn't considered to be a factor."

when a scene in your movie or tv show has a lot of emotional heavy lifting to do

Why does this dog look like it's about to betray Gandalf

i hate that i have to think "is this even real" every time i see a video on line and i hate that more often than not, it is not real, fuck this dead mall ass internet

AI videos are getting way harder to identify at first glance. It’s easier to fall for things that already reinforce your worldview, no one is immune to disinfo! I have to remind myself to take a few mins to check something before liking/reposting.

Spoke to my source familiar with internal workings at Mastercard. The holiday call campaign re payment processor censorship is working, there is a lot of pressure being felt from your calls. This is resulting in increased response times at a core moment for Mastercard due to the holiday season

IGN is paying attention to censorship again. Use their momentum, call visa and mastercard, tell them you read the article, ask them why they're censoring legal stuff reminder that you don't need to know specifics of what's at play. It's often better to sound like a normie

99% of the time Trump's abuse of power is like, bad, but I can't blame him for demanding another installment of his favorite movie franchise. If I was president we WOULD be getting the fourth Star Trek AOS film come hell or high water

CREATURES OF ONEIROGEA: Vöque'vol 2022

My advice, as a former call center supervisor, is to fish for ways to escalate your call to a supervisor. Upper management HATES when the supe call cue is long. We used to be in perpetual callback hell back where I worked and they constantly devoted extra resources to combating it.

#SaveSpeech The call campaign is having an effect! The pressure right now is integral, if you are making calls, PLEASE KEEP CALLING. If you havent called yet or took a break, now is a GREAT time to hop on and add to the pressure!

well. caught up on Pluribus

One of the most exciting sunsets I've captured. A thunderstorm came rolling in just as the clouds started to change color. Smith Rock State Park in Oregon. #lightning #sunset #photography #landscape #art #bluesky #oregon #canon

Thread but also just don't tell Paypal anything. No "what is this for" you both know what it's for. If you send a friend some money for dinner or something and you say "for friday night", even odds they get banned as a sex worker.

Today kind of feels like the person who was meant to be monitoring the simulation we live in finally logged back on after taking a long lunch

can you die of too much news

Did I accidentally eat a weed brownie or something. what is happening

Blood and flesh

She moves slowly

Honestly I can see how someone would be seduced by RFK Jr’s sensual charms when he turns to you and says [SOUND OF BROKEN GLASS IN GARBAGE DISPOSAL]

I'm watching an adult creator get systematically cut off from every income stream by payment processors and now debankment could be on the table. She makes legal content. They are trying to shut her up and hope that we'll shut up too. We must get louder. Call Visa and MC. Tell them this will stop.

This is fucking insane man, what the hell

Favorite new reaction image

btw if this is happening to me then it can happen to you we really need more leftist content creators discussing paypros censorship please contact your favorite leftist content creators and ask them to kindly talk about financial censorship of speech clearly the problem is getting worse

HOT FRANKENSTEIN SUMMER

i would simply not create Frankenstein

Frankenstein is a metaphor for the dangers of reanimating corpses with electricity

Looking back fondly at this one alien I did~ 🤭❤️

I love the legs the "you paid $70 for this" argument has. "Sure AI is lower quality but it's so much cheaper the savings make it worth it, like machine-made clothing" "Wait what do you mean the consumer agrees & won't pay the same for the lower quality, don't you understand the savings are for ME"

[grinding my teeth into dust] NOT POTO YOU FUCK!! YOU DON'T GET TO HAVE IT!!

These companies see you as a fucking idiot who deserves zero integrity, purpose or even flavor in art, everything is just this homogenous “piss ghibli/new yorker editorial cartoon/vault boy” AI style forever and ever.

extremely delightful to be retroactively validated in all my most self-indulgent mid-20s narcissicisms. "you know who I bet is reading my posts? extremely cool hot girls. I bet they're reading them to each other out loud and talking about how funny I am"

i don't mean this in terms of hypocrisy, i mean it in literal, linguistic terms: what is this if not censorship by the state not "what about!" just this, taken on its own, wherein the government must approve what you teach adults. we literally have a word for it.

LET'S GOOOO BABY

Since we tweeted that link two hours ago, we are now 26% of the way to our goal!

If you aren't seeing skeets from some of your fave people, they might have been labeled "Rude" by bsky mods. Idk what they are thinking, I don't need a mommy to tell me who to be buddies with. Anyway, go into Settings > moderation > bluesky moderation (advanced) and turn Rude off.

nsfw content gets a rap of being easy money or "the dream" but every single one of us is wondering what's going to happen when the life we've built for ourselves is going to get taken away by law or platform TOS

They just need to get Kojima to consult for this, he's aways bringing dudes back from certain death