At 42 Fold, our artists deliver professional-quality work, don't use genAI & care about your projects as if they are their own✨ If you are a writer, an author, an indie creator, or an editor, & need art, we are excited to work with you! Contact us with all your art requests 💙📚🌈📚🌶️ 🌐 42fold.studio

Rosalind Franklin died at 37 of ovarian cancer attributed to radiation exposure from the methods she & her assistant used to photograph a cross-section of the DNA double helix. Meanwhile, Watson won a Nobel off that work & survived to the ripe old age of 97 by simply: stealing those notes!

It is with great joy that we can announce that the amazing @meganlevens.bsky.social is part of the 42 Fold roster! 💟 No matter your project or the genre of your story, our artists are excited to collaborate with you 💙📚🪐 Indie creators & writers, don't hesitate to get in touch✨ 🌐 42fold.studio

I feel privileged to announce that the extraordinary @lianakangas.com is part of 42 Fold roster💖 Whether it's for cover or character art, illustrations, design, or any special request, at the studio we are eager to work with you 💙📚🌈 Indie creators & writers, get in touch😊 🌐 42fold.studio

Thrilled to announce that I am part of the 42 Fold Studio! Give a follow & see what's brewing 💫

A pleasure to be a part of the 42 fold gang! 💚🙏

It is my utmost honour to have the exceptional @margueritesauvage.bsky.social be part of our roster of artists at 42 Fold! 💖 If you are a creator & need art, contact us! Our artists deliver professional work, don't use genAI & care about your projects as if they are their own✨ 🌐 42fold.studio

I am stoked to announce that the amazing @skyepatridge.bsky.social is part of our roster of artists at 42 Fold! Are you an author in need of a cover or character art for your book? We want to work hand in hand with you to elevate your story and make it shine ✨ Contact us! 💙📚 🌐 42fold.studio

Hedda is part of our amazing roster! Authors, if you'd like to commission her for your book covers or some character art, contact us 😊 #booksky #writingcommunity #indieauthors #indie


Today’s creative landscape can be difficult to navigate to find reliable artists who don’t use genAI in any part of their process, are trustworthy, and deliver professional quality work for every piece.  At 42 Fold, we aim to make it easy with our incredible roster of artists! 42fold.studio 💙📚🌈

For any creatives needing cover or character art (or any special request) for their books or projects, check out my new venture @42fold.studio ✨ We are excited to offer 100% human-made art for all your needs by industry professionals who are eager to work with you💖 #writingcommunity 💙📚🌈 #booksky

i'm a part of this!!! if you need to find good quality art for accessible, indie-friendly rates, you should check out 42 fold studio!! (and psst i'm there to not only illustrate but also put together graphic design / DTP for you!)

I'm happy to be a part of this awesome project~ 🫶

For any creatives needing cover or character art (or any special request) for their books or projects, check out my new venture @42fold.studio ✨ We are excited to offer 100% human-made art for all your needs by industry professionals who are eager to work with you💖 #writingcommunity 💙📚🌈 #booksky

Brendan Fraser and Rachel Weisz will reportedly return for a new 'The Mummy' movie (via THR)

This is from Autocracy, Inc, about how modern autocratic propaganda works. I consider this every time I decide what to share and how to frame it.

Facial recognition + bad data protection structures + "AI" that regularly gets behavioral prediction very badly wrong + glaring holes in tech regulations & privacy laws + a stunning & nakedly bigoted authoritarian regime= a threat surface, a bottleneck, & an arm of oppressive state control, all in 1

Can't overstate how fucked up it is that unraveling what is arguably the greatest achievement in the history of humanity is now a motivating issue of one of the two dominant parties in the U.S.

GUILLERMO, MY HERO, A GOOD DUDE, A TRUE ARTIST we love YOUUUUUUU 🫶 Now please direct a Belladonna adaptation, yes yes??

fuckin YIKES

I work in the tech industry, specifically human-AI interaction. The personal data they collect from you is worth more than your out-of-pocket expense for that "smart" mattress, home assistant, security camera, dishwasher, etc.

Futurama already did this.

There are lots of tools out there to help you migrate your play lists from Spotify to just about any other streaming service. The time to ditch Spotify is now.

A lot of people seem to think there will be a cure for them if they get Long COVID. There will not be. Mask up.

we are in a self-awareness crisis

Dismantling the Institutional Review Board (IRB), that oversees all human subjects research, is bad. Really bad.

RFK is undoing human subjects protections so he can conduct placebo trials of vaccines. That means infecting people knowingly. I wonder who will “volunteer” for these trials? If history is any guide, a lot of incarcerated and other powerless people.

Security risk:

Michigan has a similar bill, House Bill 4938, that is also seeking the same goals!

COVID is still here.

weird phenomenon i keep encountering where “writers” correctly identify the soul-sucking danger that large language models pose to their craft, but for some reason have no problem using generative AI to make images. like….are you stupid!!!!

Another round of terminations, combined with previous layoffs and departures, has reduced the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention workforce by about 3,000 people since January. www.wired.com/story/cdc-te...

Award-winning pain researcher here. This is not something that can be done. Hope this helps.

In case you aren’t aware, any video you see with the label “Sora” is A.I. generated. It’s fake. Do NOT make or share #AI videos. It contributes to misinformation, and to a larger culture of disrespect for truth and disregard of reality. Plus it enriches capitalist techbros raping the planet.

Yesterday I was told that the class I’m scheduled to teach this month, Confronting Oppression & Injustice, is no longer part of our curriculum. This is a required class yet there was no discussion, no faculty vote, just an email saying the class no longer exists. This is what it’s like in Texas now.

important on LLMs for academics: 1️⃣ LLMs are usefully seen as lossy content-addressable systems 2️⃣ we can't automatically detect plagiarism 3️⃣ LLMs automate plagiarism & paper mills 4️⃣ we must protect literature from pollution 5️⃣ LLM use is a CoI 6️⃣ prompts do not cause output in authorial sense

NEW: @CDCgov hit hard by massive firings that several staff describe to me as a “bloodbath.” Among those RIFd: —leadership of the center for immunization and respiratory diseases; —leadership of global health center —leadership of the measles outbreak response; 1/4

David Simon, creator of ‘The Wire’, being interviewed by Ari Shapiro (NPR)

🎵 They did the Monster Slash 😭 @ellecordova.bsky.social

True story, during the Great Recession, Airbus said that to survive it needed to open some non-EU factories in places with cheap, compliant labor, no environmental restrictions, and no meaningful labor law and after a lengthy internal study the two sites they chose were Bangladesh and Alabama.

My seconds sale includes several of my Pride lolly keychains, which I've discounted only for having very slightly wonky sticks. 👀❤️ abistevens.etsy.com?section_id=3... #artShop #ace #superSecondsFestival

Effin' Birds mugs are $10 until October 21st. eatf.art/mug

Can’t decide what to buy on Prime Day? Try: absolutely nothing, and then go support indie bookstores instead 📚

Robin Williams daughter Zelda is pleading with people to stop creating AI videos of her Dad. I’m pleading with you to stop using generative AI. It’s destructive to the environment. It’s destructive to artists. It’s destructive to humanity. It steals from us and churns out slop. Just stop.

Great story. Can't overstate the desperation in creative industries right now. Nearly every person I know who previously had a viable, or even lucrative, career in media/entertainment is in a financial panic, leaving longtime apartments, desperately taking any work they can find. It is really bad.

Discord just sent out an email reporting that there was a data breach on September 20. I got a screenshot of the email. A third-party customer service vendor was breached and conversations users had with support/trust & safety were exposed. No DMs, passwords, addresses, or credit cards were exposed.

1. Led by Elon Musk, the far-right has exploded in a campaign to get Netflix to remove shows with queer and trans characters. If Netflix capitulates to their demands, an already strained market for LGBTQ+ animators might become even more dire. Subscribe to support our journalism.

Please stop posting AI generated videos to show how bad they are.

This is a very bad ruling for all of us who value the First Amendment.

"You cannot get through a single day without having an impact on the world around you. What you do makes a difference, and you have to decide what kind of difference you want to make.” Rest in power, Dr. Jane Goodall