"Criticisms of AI must include guidance for responsible engagement with it, not just exhortations to avoid it" good lord, I am so tired of these pieces that are the "sensible AI guy" stance that mostly comes down to "AI is here to stay and I am ready to lick the boot, begrudgingly"

keep making art but just don't delude yourself into thinking that youre engaging in real resistance. Do something so people you will never meet who live on the other side of the planet will be able to relax and engage in their own self care and draw their own pictures in peace too.

here's a thread with a bunch of suggestions for Things-You-Can-Actually-Do. its not the be all end all but its a place to start. As you do things and, ideally, interact with people, you will find additional opportunities to help present themselves to you bsky.app/profile/dist...

Filipino Legend of Zelda for your timeline

Going to do some sketchbook work today. Hands/Feet studies, and OC drawing, etc. Come join me! picarto.tv/blkmkt

Do not cram alt text with keywords just to improve search engine optimization. This will hinder alt text’s true purpose: improving accessibility. Focus on describing the photo's content. Search engine optimization should not be the goal for writing good alt text.

It's my birthday! So we got YOU a gift, free resources for new game developers 🎁 It's free and covers many of our core processes in Dev Pods. Includes our schedule template, playtest form questions, tool to narrow down ideas, and more. Bonus self-care doc by @tybawai.bsky.social ! devpods.gg/box 👈🏼🎁

Switching to NSFW streaming for now. Here are some screenshots of what I managed to get going during the SFW portion of the stream. Still streaming for a while. See you there! www.picarto.tv/blkmkt

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PSA you need to treat bluesky as if it were permanent. always. every post you make goes out to the public firehose and it is probably captured by someone somewhere. the delete button doesn't do what you think it does. every day is shut the fuck up friday, besties 💜

both of these are, needless to say, extremely bad and socially corrosive, and probably not something we should just be putting out there with a dismissive "it won't go away, so you can't just be absolutely oppositional to this"—i'm not sure we're all on the same page of what is being done here

the second of these is that a huge % of AI boosters are basically milennarians who have internalized the logic of Roko's basilisk and that they have a mandate from a Calvinist god they have created to bring about the most absolute version of AI possible or they will suffer eternal damnation

the problem every person saying "AI won't go away" has is that they don't seem to grapple with the two primary reasons companies are making a full-court press on AI. the first of these is an effort to deskill and automate huge swathes of the economy so they can further cut labor and personnel costs

Draw Steel's art description guide isn't just a new approach to alt-text. It synthesizes museum-tested accessibility with an eye towards poetry and metaphor. Lin spoke with @dreamwisp.bsky.social about MCDM's mission-in-progress and creating "more visceral and tactile" descriptions.

Y'all had me excited with Octopath for a minute until I noticed it's just that damn mobile game. Is this the only way I'm gonna get some negroes in this damn thing? Mobile? I don't wanna make a character, just make a JRPG and tell me a story. At least Octopath 3 will probably happen!

Happy Juneteenth! It costs 0$ to Repost a Black disabled queer small business! It could lead to my next sale. I sell pins, knee braces, compression gloves, artist gloves, binders, wrist braces, compression socks, cute bags, compression leggings & more! Store details below!

My workhorse Cintiq has been shattered. I'm going to be taking commissions to allay the costs to repair it if possible - Likely traditional, though I can still do digital character illustrations for the moment. Details to come on my NSFW account first, then here when I figure out what to do.

Hi! I'm Christina-Antoinette, aka castpixel. I'm a veteran pixelartist, animator and indie gamedev.

Whoops, looks like that GIF support didn't quite work right. Do gifs only work here if you post them one at a time? I'll remove the animation post and repost it once I figure it out!

From the Archives: #oc #gamedev #pixel #furry Longtime followers will recognize Rabid, Heyew & BLK MLK. I made these sprites for an RPG I was working on with @storyofsomewheres.com & a small cohort of friends from 2003 until its cancellation in 2009. This project is how I learned to make pixel art!

Back Catalog: Assorted Notable works from my past. I'll continue to update this with other illustrations that folks might recognize me for. [ #art | #oekaki | #vector ]

Still suffering from disordered sleep, unfortunately. I'll post some of my pixel work later in lieu of trying to finish any in-progress works for now.

Looks like #pinksea is still a little rough around the edges, but I am absolutely loving what I'm seeing so far. I only lost one comment drawing so far - I was unable to submit it and had to give up and save it locally! Looking forward to Oekakis being well loved again. [ #blkmkt.oc | #oekaki ]

I've always loved the retro comics look @ghostgribht.bsky.social's work has -- don't miss it!

I use my sketchbooks to think, so the pages are often too chaotic and messy to show. Here are a random selection of OC artworks I was trying to figure out recently. I use my pocket sketchbooks more often, so I'll post some of that stuff in the future. [ #art | #oc | #blkmkt.oc ]

Is it yet possible to amend Alt-text to posted images? My sleep disorder & busy schedule make every image highly involved to plan and post and I haven't been able to participate here. The sketches I manage to do are not in presentable condition, so I end up waiting until I can finish them to post…

From the Archives: #oc #gamedev Artwork of one of my OC's, "Rabid the Radioactive Birthday Bunny" & her occasional adventuring buddy, Heyew. I have been working on little descriptive illustrations of my 9 main OCs. I'll try to get them in sooner or later! Heyew is @storyofsomewheres.com's OC!

From the Archives: "I slide every picture of Rouge the Bat I encounter to my girlfriend like she's J. Jonah Jameson. Peter Parker getting his job to subscribe to his OnlyFans is pretty smart."

I stream, hopefully more regularly in the future, my illustration, animation & other works on Picarto. https://picarto.tv/blkmkt I begin my streams with a drawing drill, usually 100 hands, 100 feet (inked traditionally) & 100 figures (drawn digitally), then go from there. I'd love to see you there!

Introducing: Apparition! He/Him True Neutral Alignment He wished to live on through his art but can't remember what he's good at. His lack of focus makes him mediocre at almost anything he attempts, but his persistence makes him mediocre at almost everything there is. He's my (SFW) art mascot!

I'm Chinua, an artist and gamedev. I teach other artists how to use the tools they have, and previously taught school age students to use the 3DS to make art and music. Work has kept me busy, but I'll be active again. See you soon!