A mother bird and four baby birds. Urban birds.

Urban Birds
By Grzegorz Długos

A woman is sitting up in a bed, light is shining on her through curtains. She has her knees drawns up and is hugging her and looking worried.

Sarah Harrow, 38, who thinks through her every action with the strategic neuroticism of a moral philosopher, is unfortunately not in control of how other people react to her.

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I think about this all the time

Google Starts Scanning All Your Photos As New Update Goes Live Google wants its AI to see all the photos of "you and your loved ones." Billions of users must now decide.

“Take a moment to think before you dive in. That’s the best advice for Google Photos users, as the company confirms its latest update can scan all your photos to “use actual images of you and your loved ones” in AI image generation.”

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The desperate campaign to push AI down our throats is just what Nestlé did with baby formula, or Monsanto with patended seeds.

Manufactured Intermediation—inserting a corporate tollbooth into a process that used to be self-sustaining, using a low initial barrier to entry to destroy the alternative.

AGAINST ALL ODDS, THOSE WHO BELIEVED BLUESKY THAT THE CRASH WAS DUE TO A DDOS

AND THOSE WHO DIDN'T BELIEVE BLUESKY AND WERE SURE IT WAS BECAUSE OF THE AI VIBE CODING

WERE

BOTH

RIGHT

A Newly Discovered Recording Lets You Hear Delta Blues Legend Robert Johnson in Stunning Clarity Great swathes of rock music since the nineteen-sixties would never have existed, we're sometimes told, were it not for the recordings of Robert Johnson. Certainly the likes of Keith Richards, Eric Cla...

Holy SHIT someone found the test pressing of Robert Johnson's Cross Road Blues and it is clear as a PIN www.openculture.com/2026/04/reco...

BAFTA pulling a trailer for an autobiographical game about surviving sexual assault only hours before it was said to be a part of a showcase is an exceptionally bad look.

Think of how many games where the verb is violence. How many games (including the ones nominated for tonight’s BAFTA awards) where you shoot, fight, kill.
But when games want to explore the topic of violence in a meaningful way, that’s the issue?

It just means they didn't care about putting in effort toward quality interactions or dedicating the time to actually build a better community around their interests.

They're only interested in watching bot accounts make that cute little heart icon under their Tweets get a higher number next to it.

Healthcare is a right.

You shouldn’t have to earn it.

It shouldn’t be dependent on employment or economic status.

It shouldn’t be something you have to fight for.

It shouldn’t be something that leaves you in debt for life.

Universal healthcare saves lives.

A flatscreen display on a "smart" water fountain, demanding to be reconnected to the internet.

In 1999, I was playing a decker in Shadowrun, and tried to distract a guard by hacking a water fountain to overflow, and my GM said "why would a water fountain be on the network? That's fucking stupid. No you can't try."

Well it's 2026 and I just want you to know, Phil, that I FUCKING CALLED IT!

the big problem isn´t you liking or not the generated content itself. The problem is that it is a tool that currently has no ethical use case due to how it is developed and manteined

Saving this one to repost when it finally happens

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AFTER much research I recently discovered that at 48, I am the same age now as Nelson Mandela was when he was my age. Similarly, Prince Harry, 32, is the same age now as I was when I was his age. I wonder, do any of your other readers have age-based celebrity links? Dr Trousers, Rickmansworth

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It is far worse than not caring. If the people whod ecided this kind of thing did not care the artists who dow ould be able to choose.

Instead epople activelly look for the blandiest possible version chasing some illusory mas appeal.

Not a new problem. Just think about ICO´s box arts.

The secret fear of the morally depraved is that virtue is actually common, and that they're the ones who are alone. In Minnesota, all of the ideological cornerstones of MAGA have been proved false at once. Minnesotans, not the armed thugs of ICE and the Border Patrol, are brave. Minnesotans have shown that their community is socially cohesive-because of its diversity and not in spite of it. Minnesotans have found and loved one another in a world atomized by social media, where empty men have tried to fill their lonely soul with lies about their own inherent superiority. Minnesotans have preserved everything worthwhile about "Western civilization," while armed brutes try to tear it down by force.

Really powerful, hopeful paragraph from the latest article in the Atlantic by @adamserwer.bsky.social

Two colour illustration of Barad Dûr, with Sauron's eye at the top. surrounded with the ring inscription in elvish. the sky is red with sparks and ash floating in the air, the tower is above a fiery chasm. The front doors are glowing red with silhouettes of chains and armouries. A cloud of ash conceals the horizon. This will be a banner and riso print first. Digital prints coming later this year.

Illustration of a paperback copy of Frank Herbert's Dune. It's a 3 colour riso setup using teal, red and yellow overlapping. The title is in white with D and E mirrored and the lowercase u and n flipped. Center image is a big worm with a big blue hallucinating eye at the centre of its mouth with some rocks with Fremen Holding flags and knives in the foreground. it is particularly difficult to draw Shai Hulud without it's mouth looking like a giant butt-hole.

Digital illustration of a The Lord OF The Rings cover. A Nazgûl sits astride its horse between 2 red trees that make a circle. Int he background is Weathertop, the Misty Mountains and Orodruin. Overlapping risk colours - red, teal and yellow. Some mushrooms in the foreground.

Illustration of a cover for THE HOBBIT. View from inside the halls of the woodland elves. A ramp is dropping some barrels. The trees make a circle. In the trees are some elves and spiders. Inside the circle from the bottom is a river flowing through forest. Barrels in the river. The river joins a lake with a floating town, above it the Lonely Mountain, with its reflection/shadow over the town.

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Im Bruce, an illustrator, creative director, printmaker & sculptor. Big fan of risography, old goofy SFF covers, forced perspective & experimentation. Nice to meet you :)

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Why generative AI doesn’t belong in crafting/handmade spaces We’re going to use a plot point in Schitt’s Creek for this example... You may be familiar with it! A photograph of Alexis Rose saying "Ew, David no!"

Why generative AI doesn’t belong in crafting/handmade spaces Later in the television series Schitt’s Creek (S5 Ep10), main character David Rose decides to open an apothecary called “Rose Apothecary.” (Photo of David Rose) He hand curates and selects handmade, high quality items made by small business owners he knows he can trust. (Photo of Rose Apothecary building) It is an adorable addition to an otherwise run-down town, and it does well! High quality, handmade items sell at a premium

Why generative AI doesn’t belong in crafting/handmade spaces During a local small business event in town in which he is representing Rose Apothecary, he notices a former business partner who has set up a table not far from him. (Photo of David and Stevie at the event) She and her business partner, who looks suspiciously like David himself, are selling “hand curated, hand made” lotions, creams, etc, just like Rose Apothecary. (Photo of Antonio and Wendy at the event) However, they are selling them much, much cheaper, undercutting David. It later turns out that they are purchasing cheap manufactured goods and relabeling them to make them seem hand crafted/small batch.

Why generative AI doesn’t belong in crafting/handmade spaces This is exactly what generative AI, whether used in whole or part does when placed in a handmade space. It devalues artisans who have spent a lot of time, money, and effort making something good by creating a “rip-off” product that sells for cheaper. Even if you are “only” using generative AI for labels or logos, even having just that reduces trust in all of the vendors around you for anyone who has a keen eye to AI generated assets. This destabilizes trust in the entire collective of artisans, because if one vendor is getting away with using gen AI, then who else is?

Today I'm making a presentation and this is part of it

Still frame from "Segata Sanshiro: A Final Greeting," featuring Hiroshi Fujioka's reflections on his role as Segata Sanshiro and a handful of personal comments afterwards. This is a segment from the latter. Fujioka turns to the camera, pointing at the viewer. "The twenty-first century is yours," he says.

The camera zooms in a bit, displaying a distinct smile on his face. He continues. "I want you to cross borders, oceans, and whatever other barriers you encounter.

"And seize a magnificent future," he says as he puts his hands up in a grabbing motion.

Pointing once again at the viewer, he smiles, determined: "I believe in you."

Um pássaro de rapina de plumagem cinza-escura, com olhos e pés laranja vibrantes, está empoleirado em um galho seco e retorcido. Seu olhar é fixo e atento, contrastando com o céu azul claro e uniforme ao fundo. Atenção: O alt da imagem foi gerado automaticamente.

🇧🇷Gavião-do-igapó
🌎Helicolestes hamatus
Conservação: Pouco Preocupante

O gavião-do-igapó é uma ave accipitriforme da família Accipitridae.

📷 Ronaldo G. Lebowski

the big problem isn´t you liking or not the generated content itself. The problem is that it is a tool that currently has no ethical use case due to how it is developed and manteined

You have to sleep to get the nightmares, that is why nightmare pills are often prescribed for people who cannot sleep

great work everyone keep it up

they are pigs and fascists and they should be reminded of it every day forever

“Connections” in comics is just you make friends when you’re a bunch of unknown dorks and then you all come up together! That’s usually all it is.

The most bad-ass rebuttal from Tite Kubo, the author of Bleach.

Watching the Brazilian show about a radioactive disaster and having seen Chernobyl a couple times OH MY FUCKING-

Yeah, plenty of drama and horror abound. Though thankfully also humanizing people and making it clear it all starts and gets worse because poverty, bigotry, and colonialism.