San Diego Comic-Con will no longer allow AI 'art' to be displayed at their event "Material created by AI either partially or wholly, is not allowed in the art show" This follows backlash from artists after SDCC initially indicated AI-generated work would be permitted

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There are so many, tho. Post a perfect album from the 90s that isn’t Nirvana, Soundgarden, Pearl Jam, or Alice In Chains.

"You have to use AI." ...why?

Woooooo deleted instagram after 14.5 years. Whole thing is gone! 👋🏽

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heads up, gmail has a new setting automatically on that allows their a*i to be trained on your emails so make sure to turn off the 'Smart Feature' checkbox in your settings

This one’s important. If you donate and feel like showing me your receipt, I’ll send you a Dropbox link full of PDFs of all my comics. gofund.me/7ca702cb7

ChatGPT is about making you pay a subscription for thinking.

Doing one of those earnest posts where we kindly remind you that we lost half our operating budget over the summer, and that we're looking for ways to keep this whole thing going, and that if you like what we do or that we exist, the best thing you could possibly do to support us is to subscribe

"Yorkshire Water was privatised in 1989 under the Water Act, launched debt-free and promoted as the start of a new, efficient era. What followed was anything but. Today, the company carries almost £7bn in debt. Our rivers are polluted, our bills keep rising, and we’re told to pay still more..."

Amazon is helping fund a $300 million build of a ballroom for the White House. Independent bookstores are donating to food banks and organizations that help with food insecurity. They are not the same.

Okay, good: "Dislikes are private and the signal isn’t global — it mainly affects your own experience and, to an extent, others in your social neighborhood." Because public dislikes would be TOXIC AS HELL. bsky.social/about/blog/1...

Change one letter, ruin a candy. Gummy beard

GOP state senators in North Carolina have answered Trump's plea to gerrymander congressional maps to maintain their U.S. House majority in 2026. The redistricting—if adopted, as expected, by the state House—would oust one of the state’s three Black members of Congress. trib.al/aiIUOAs

I'm sharing this photo from the great Stephanie Williams because honest to god if I saw this collection of talent in one spot at a con I believe I would pass out.

@ddayen.bsky.social on how paywalls and the privatization of information corrupted politics journalism: "Obviously the tenor of coverage changes when the core audience is investors, lobbyists, and political professionals." talkingpointsmemo.com/tpm-25/dcs-a...

“Average musician makes $12 a month on Spotify. The fact that they are not even able to sell a record and it’s taken from them by rich motherfuckers on streaming platforms who get paid royally by record labels,Ticketmaster, merch companies. They’re all fucking getting paid, except for the musician.”

Zelda Williams: “And for the love of EVERY THING, stop calling it ‘the future,’ AI is just badly recycling and regurgitating the past to be re-consumed. You are taking in the Human Centipede of content, and from the very very end of the line” variety.com/2025/film/ne...

NEW: November general elections are around the corner, so it’s time to launch my cheat sheet of what’s on the ballot this fall! I guide you thru the *185* elections I'm watching, & why: lawmakers, governors, judges, DAs, mayors, school boards, & dozens of ballot measures. Explore, share, save:

Who’s your favorite Jedi? Wrong (“wrong”) answers only.

The dismantling of the US Forest Service is imminent [via @highcountrynews.org]

Lift as you climb.

Concern over low birth rates was what the theocracy in Margaret Atwood’s Handmaid’s Tale used to come to power.

I love the smell of consequences in the morning. Thank you, @dragoncon.org

Another excerpt. This follows a brief history of Thatcher and her goals. "Thatcher’s version of individualism—which involved shrinking the social safety net and weakening organized labour—left people even more atomized and scrambling."

While Meta allows its chatbots to engage in explicit roleplay with minors and X has an AI that will describe the sexual assault of a journalist in detail, that Bluesky is the one getting attacked says all you need to know about the union between the tech elite and fascism.

You opted out of sharing your data & tracking. Zuck said F that. Apple should drop every Meta app from its store. "Meta is said to have found ways to identify Apple users even after they refused consent for app tracking, in order to avoid an estimated $10 billion loss of revenue …" 🧾 is.gd/oY66ra

Having been raised by a librarian, I have so much love & respect for these invaluable public spaces. My 1st job was working the front desk at my local library. Please get a library card & go learn just how many resources libraries can offer. Patronage helps keep them open, & it’s free.

He couldn’t remember “The Naked Gun” so he said “the one with Qui-Gon and Barb Wire” and I cannot continue this conversation. 😂

Here’s our CEO’s statement. Factually, I just want people to understand that you can still help a lot if this is something you care about. And because at this very hard moment I am not in a position to answer for the network, I’m going to keep this closed. (3/3) www.npr.org/2025/08/01/g...

embarrassing myself

Tariff Doom Loop sounds like a punk band.

IMPORTANT UPDATE: @dylanreeve.com has noticed that the language including the "machine learning" and "publicly display" phrases are NOT in the US TOS - just in the TOS for folks OUTSIDE of the US. See below for a link to the US TOS. bsky.app/profile/dyla...

If this is accurate, WeTransfer is unusable for professional creative work. Would violate most work-for-hire contracts to share copyrighted material with a third party like this.

Currently trying to self-soothe a bit, I still think Voodoo is a perfect album. One of the best tour concerts back in the day, too. 🎶

Folks call your Senators now!! A ban on any state laws on GenAi for 10 YEARS is gonna do unthinkable harm! For those of you wondering what to say here are two posts you can use to build your own script (use alt script to cut and paste) Need to find your representatives? Here you go: 5calls.org

SINNERS. That is all.