Discord wants to know how you feel about AI.

Go tell them: discord.sjc1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...

I went ahead and just deleted everything.
If you go to the dashboard of the blog (I did this on desktop) on the right side under posts there's a link for "mass post editor" and you can delete things that way. Don't forget drafts.

MODERN SOCEITY REMOVES ALL TIME FOR PLEASURE'S OF LIFE SO THAT THEY CREATE A MARKET TO PURCHASE TINY BITS OF IT HERE AND THERE , STILL NEVER ENOUGH, THATS WHY YOU FEEL A GNAWING EMPTYNESS, EVEN IF YOU DO EVERY THIGN THEY SAY TO DO, YOU DONT ACTUALY HAVE TIME TO DO SHIT THAT YOU WANT TO DO, FOR YOUR SELF!!!! YOU ARE A DIVINE BEING MOTHER FUCKER!!!! YOU ARE MEANT TO ENJOY YOUR EXPERIENCE ON EARTH AND CONTEMPLATE YOUR GIFT OF EXISTANCE! NOT DO SOMETHING CALLED ,FUCKING "COMMUTING " !!!!!!!! THEN THE NEWS PAPERS BLAME US FOR BEING DEPRESSED ALL DA FUCKEN TIME , THE RULING CLASS LOVES "INDIVIDUAL RESPONSIBILITY" AS A EXCUSE FOR WHY WERE NOT HAVING FULL LIVE'S, AND THEN YELL'S AT US FOR NOT HAVEN ENOUGH KID'S OR BUYING ENOUGH JEWLREY . DA TEXT SAYS . WELL I DONT FEEL LIKE TYPING IT. BUT HERE YOU GO "YOU NOT LAZY YOU JUST DONT HAVE TIME OR ENERGY AFTER WORK, VACUMING, SCHOOL LAUNDRY, COOKING RECYLING DOCTORS YARD WORK DISHES TOILETS GROVERYS HAIRCUT'S , I JUST WANT TO LIVE IN THE WOODS AND SMOKE WHEED, I HATE MONEY, I WANT TO SIT ON A LOG AND THINK ABOUT SPACE " - DASHARE.ZONE ADMIN - ONE MORE THING THE RULING CLASS DONT HAVE TO DO ANY OF THIS SHYT THEY GOT SERVENTS TO DO IT FOR THEM, AND THEY DANGLE A BIT OF DA SERVENT LIFE IN FRONT OF US BY LETTING US BUY DELIVERY BURGER'S ON AN APP, NO WAR BUT CLASS WAR - DASHARE.ZONE ADMIN

YOUR NOT LAZY - dashare.zone ADMIN

That's not true!

It was also to eliminate everyone investigating him/his companies c:

Unsolicited tip for artists in this new year : please stop drawing top models *all* the time. It's lazy and uninteresting (sorry). Be curious of how everyday-people actually look like. There's beauty in them, and your art will be better for it I promise.

will this be the year I really get back into drawing....??

HmmmMMmmmmmMmmmmm....

Could be an art reference!

Some thoughts: When using GenAi as a mood board you don't get sources. This means you deprive yourself from knowledge. You generated a location? You deprived yourself of knowing more about the interesting parts of the world and why things came to be. Generate an armor or costume? You deprived yourself on real world techniques, function, form and history. You generated art inspirations? You deprive yourself of learning about artists from history or lock out living ones from potentially being hired. Ethical issues of using GenAi models aside, one ends up making visuals mood boards devoid of reality and history. With it one deprives themselves from learning about our world and who is living in it, inadvertently making your work weaker, because of how detached it is from our shared human reality and history.

Been thinking on the use of GenAi for mood boards. Ethics and legal risks aside, I truly believe using GenAi as references deprives one of many pivotal things.

Here’s a blurb on what I mean:

I finally hav a contribution!

Blender Development Fund Join the Development Fund and support Blender Foundation to work on core Blender development.

Blender is struggling. it's the best piece of 3d software on the market, and it's free. I'm not going back to autodesk.
please donate if you can!
fund.blender.org

Damn I wish I could get paid for 5 months of work while only attending 20 days.

I'm CRYING

nerd: hey fellas, i hear alot of calls for abolishing police. but how will we stay safe? buff shirtless bald guy on laptop: King, police abolition is not about defunding every department instantly. It's about a gradual process o strategically reallocating resources, funding and responsibility away from police and toward community based models of safety, support and prevention. The people who respond to crises in our community should be people who are best equipped to deal with those crisis. insanely buff guy on couch with laptop: Friend I want to echo that last statement and dig down a little further. Crime isn't random. Most off the time, it happens when someone has been unable to meet their basic needs through other means. By shifting money away from police and toward services that actually meet those needs, we'll be able to get to a place where we won't need to rob banks. jacked dude in gray tee shirt at a desktop pc: Couldn't have said it better myself, King! This is bigger than just police brutality; it's about how the prison industrial complex, the drug war, immigration law and the web of policy, law and culture that forms our criminal justice system has destroyed millions o lives, and torn apart families. Cops don't prevent crime, they cause it, through ongoing violent disruption of our communities.

#ACAB

Someone's screenshot of a two-post twitter thread, from user blue (@bluewmist): the fastest way to kill motivation is to make your identity depend on the outcome. it's called ego involvement. when failing becomes failing as a person, your brain starts avoiding the whole thing. not because you don't care, but because you care too much. you don't need lower standards. you need less self-worth tangled up in your goals. the work gets easier when it's not about proving who you are.

Found this on the AO3 subreddit, and I'm about to let it change my whole life (or at least work really hard to internalize it wrt my writing).

Ah, well, you see... antisemitism

Tips for Bluesky. +bridge +populate +setup feeds +communicate +moderate. Chibi version of myself in the corner.

Where to start: If you just setup a new account, it's going to feel a bit quiet. Here's some pointers to make it feel like home. "Be a Person." +Add a profile pic, add a banner, introduce yourself. (This helps others know you aren't a bot/scammer.) Do not use generative images for pfp/banner. This community is heavily artists and labels will tag your account and show you don't support artist rights. (in general... don't use unethical stolen data. Ironically or not.)

Populate. Time to follow and fill your sky with people you enjoy! Starter Packs: Great way to find people with similar interest. You don't need to follow everyone on the list if you want to vet individually. Skybridge: If you still have the bird app you can make it work for you. Use this chrome/firefox extension to keep your network. Image example of skybridge from web store. Color indicators will show if they are available. Chibi self being excited in corner!

I thought it might help to make a tutorial of how I setup my Bsky. Minus the image moderation, here are a few other ways to customize your BlueSky. (1/2) #art #bskyart

there’s this weird idea a lot of people seem to have about how all of us writers and artists must secretly want to use AI and are merely resisting temptation for ethical reasons, and like, no, it’s not hard for me to resist drinking the bowl of Piss With Glass In It actually

LEAVE THEM AT THE BOTTOM OF THE GRAVE THEY DUG FOR YOU

Who's in charge of naming animals? I want to know why Simocyon was not named the Dire Red Panda. We're not using dire nearly often enough when we name large animals. And don't get me started on the giant hummingbird. We could've had the dire hummingbird!

So, now that Bluesky's going the way of Tumblr, where's a good place to actually post art and maybe have reach? I know I don't post much, but do intend to start and I'd like to have an idea where to get set up since this is going to be a bust.

Yes this is the one I'm doing! Thanks Toby!

Thank you so much! That is very helpful advice c:

For someone wanting to learn, where would you recommend starting?

a tweet by toby fox that says "I didn't try to learn Japanese for a long time because I thought it would be too hard. But now I love learning it and I use it every day. If there's anything you want to learn, don't be stopped by thinking it'll be too hard! Try it! Game-making, music, art, language, anything!"

Obliviousness, entitlement, or just straight up being a bot would be my guess.

I'm a random internet stranger, but it's okay to not be okay. And it's also okay to let other people see that. I hope you know even if we don't know you, we see you. You're not nothing.

Man that'd be fun, you wouldn't believe the number of crochet projects I have. (help)

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