The thing thats so insidious about using AI this way is that one of the main ways artists get hired are studios looking for art references and they find us and reach out. This is removing a major avenue to get work if they can just generate nameless derivations of our ideas.

AI has actively made life worse for literally everyone - tech is now more expensive - you cannot trust most media of reality anymore - programs barely function - energy prices - literal psychosis - your voice can be literally stolen for evil - more spyware but hey, you can avoid paying an artist.

is this a bit!? why does firefox think people use firefox!? god dammit I guess I'm switching browsers yet again

lol @ the alt text

That old stick about the Roman Empire, and how the actual sign of the collapse was a bridge falling down and nobody coming to fix it.

Sen. Chris Murphy said Hegseth + Rubio admitted to senators yesterday that no fentanyl is coming out of Venezuela -- despite Trump’s misleading efforts to tie the country to the deadly drug so he can justify bombing boats. The boats have cocaine, bound for Europe. www.huffpost.com/entry/chris-...

very few people can truly understand just how cathartic this is @kaijubigbattel.bsky.social 6abc.com/post/wife-cr...

This is the sweetest kind of love.

Morning

>designs the most Nazi esque car of all time to please the billionaires >gets fired anyways

seeing this kinda thing makes me so happy haha i loved this trend when it was going around

“Oh you should be online to try to provide value to your political side” fuck that that’s nerd shit you should be online because you’re unwell and need to tell people about weird animals you saw

Got inspired

*blocks fireball* *blocks fireball* *blocks fireball* *blocks fireball* *dashes over to dog* *pets dog* *attempts to recruit dog* *fails* *immediately gets hit with fireball and dies*

*fires off a single fireball towards you that slowly tracks you* *fires off a single fireball towards you that slowly tracks you* *fires off a single fireball towards you that slowly tracks you* *fires off a single fireball towards you that slowly tracks you*

God, I'm trying to remember if it was Vinny or Mike that killed himself with his own gorilla.

is there a way to avoid the scourge of ai being forced on us? like is there a single consumer facing good that will actually stand up for its users, i’m just so sick of this

Adding to this, the idea that concept art is some sort of tedium you can cut corners on is genuinely insulting. Concept art is the bedrock to a setting's entire visual identity, and cutting corners on it is akin to shooting yourself in the foot to win a race.

this could be support for trans rights too but Important Groups would rather lay low than fight for us (like Human Rights Campaign)

I’ll never understand the placeholder text argument for AI. if you need AI to write “uhhh some line about a fucking clue or something” then you don’t deserve any of those braincells rattling around in your brain. and before you know it they’ll be dying off anyway

Everyone is more or less okay with it” dude you make people emigrate to work there because you don’t do remote work, they risk having to change countries if they disagree with it

Some Dems have told themselves only ~1% of the population is trans so they can dip their toe in the anti-trans filth and come out clean. I don't have any trans family members—but it still makes me irate. I see it as a huge red flag, a sign you are unprincipled and untrustworthy. And I'm not alone.

We are parents of a trans kid and our family takes this very, very personally. If you intentionally make life harder for our beloved daughter, it’s EXTREMELY hard to think of you as an ally, to say the least. @amyklobuchar.com - you still send us requests for money, while hurting our kid. Disgusted.

Whether it’s trans rights, or genocide funding, or all sorts of corrupt corporate laws, there’s only so many times you can fuck over your voters before you make yourselves our enemy. It’s madness to think you deserve unconditional support just for sometimes being a bit better than actual Nazis.

consider my feedback: i loved working at @larianstudios.com until AI. reconsider and change your direction, like, yesterday. show your employees some respect. they are world-class & do not need AI assistance to come up with amazing ideas.

The purpose of blaming any and every tragedy on trans people is convincing each other "wouldn't life be so much better if we just got rid of all the trans people"

Mick Foley parting ways with WWE over politics 💓🤌

This right here is what I mean when I say we're going to get the same treatment that queer people got after Nazi Germany fell: left to rot in the prisons they created because the so called opposition actually agrees with them

Top interview. Staggeringly cutting. Nobody comes out well.

Love reading this and seeing: - Minimal efficiency gains - Devs are generally against it - Seems like the practical application is nothing that the staff care about, they're just being told to use it - And most importantly, it's just offloading brainstorming which is a juvenile application at best

This kind of sentiment is why I absolutely hate the term "content creator" particularly when it comes to human-produced works. It's so dehumanizing, insulting, and implies that artists, writers, and so on are just cogs in a machine making the mass-produced filler that OP is referring to.

The US tech sector continues losing jobs—overall, employment decreased by 400 last month and is down 6k over the last year That's not as bad as the worst of the 2024 tech-cession, but extremely bad compared to the 2022 boom or even pre-2020 norms

> Victims of communism memorial > Look inside > Hitler, Mussolini

These two posts tell such a story.

ICE Accidentally Publishes A ‘Watch List’ Of Immigration Lawyers, Which Is Definitely A Normal Thing For The Government To Do

The older I get, the more my politics mature from childish, naïve beliefs like "the world is complicated and leaders have to make hard decisions" to more serious, adult principles like "hurting people is bad and helping people is good."

Rian Johnson saw this tweet

Hey you! Stop playing Fortnite!

we can kill them all if we just work together and ✨believe💫