Before I became an American, I was Lebanese. Parts of my family live in Lebanon.
Anyway, you don't need those bona fides to feel this way, but what is happening in Lebanon right now is a complete outrage. The people there, who mostly are just trying to carve out a living, don't deserve this.
"What can Democrats do?"
When the South Korean president attempted to declare martial law, South Korean lawmakers literally fought through tanks and military forces and climbed fences to get into their Parliament building to stop him.
So, you know, that.
A rough stylized poster sketch of a golden wyvern in a talon first dive toward the viewer, wings spread behind it. Over laid on the poster are the words 'Golden Bastards Want Me Dead'
Got really into the new Monster Hunter Stories game. Long story short it has a mechanic where you can release monsters to repopulate areas and one of my favorites happens to be the murderous golden flying beast, Seregios.I am in a hell of my own making. Made a scribble about it.
If you care about artists online, wether NSFW or not, you MUST write a comment. And it's simple to just write a comment there. Please go save your artists, and yourself if you are one.
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a cartoon drawing of david and moira from schitt's creek. david is wearing an apron and standing over a pot with a whisk in one hand and a saucy spoon in another. moira is holding a recipe card. they are annoyed. david: "what does "fold in the cheese mean?" moira: "you FOLD it in." David: I- I understand that, but how? HOW do you fold it?"
oh my god, i’m crushed. catherine o’hara you queen
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ICE Tracker, so far today …
(There are not as many responders or watchers in the valley, there may be more raids than we’ve seen reported)
Life's been beating the shit out of me but! I might try social media again. I'm really bad at this, but here's some proof of life
i was able to draw alternative warhammer 40k designs by using google images and looking at images and then i sketched it and drew it- ive not suffered blunt force trauma to the brain yet so i can still draw and imagine without using AI
I'll say again: we are oddly selective about the government services about which we will say, they operate at a loss.
We say Amtrak and the post office "lose money" but we never say highways, the court system, the Pentagon, etc lose money
i dont want ai to do my dishes i want life to not be such a relentless meat grinder that dishes feel like a burden
“AI is clearly sticking around so you have to get used to it” wrong. I don’t have to get used to shit. I am a practiced hater and I can keep this going for decades if I am required to
2000: Dotcom crash
2008: Great Recession
2020: COVID crash
2025: Just watching in horror as we sleepwalk into the AI crash
"Why do Millennials hate capitalism so much" lol
One of the worst things about being an editor is that sometimes, against any natural inclination you might have, you are professionally forced to Know Things
aftermath.site/zootopia-2-f...
Every few years I play with the idea of actually posting things I've done artistically online again and then I get cold feet, but I've got a backlog and I might just have to give it a go again
Years ago I made a 'fursona' at the behest of a friend. Don't really consider myself a furry but I fell in love with the guy and Fin went above and beyond with this!
The long-running ideological war on libraries, education, and government workers is not separate from AI boosterism. It is the same ideological war on human knowledge and expertise. In some cases AI is being used to directly supercharge this effort:
www.404media.co/ai-is-superc...
As another UN climate conference begins, I'm seeing even fewer Americans than ever talking about climate change, which is what the fossil fuel companies want. News groups are firing climate reporters and that doesn't help. Don't stop bringing this up. It hasn't gone away www.bbc.com/news/live/cw...
Article (Brian Merchant; Blood In The Machine) excerpt reads: “I have applied to over one thousand jobs and I stopped keeping track. My disability didn’t effect making art, but makes me a poor candidate for much else. It was my birthday recently and I sincerely considered not living anymore. The worst part of all is that the parents who once supported me fully in being an artist sent me an AI generated picture of a caricature of themselves holding a birthday cake with my name spelled incorrectly. My friends all post themselves as cartoons online. The person I married had a secret file on their computer labeled "AI pics" they thought I didn't notice.”
Article (Brian Merchant; Blood In The Machine) excerpt reads: “There's a part of me that will never forgive the tech industry for what they've taken from me and what they've chosen to do with it. In the early days as the dawning horror set in, I cried about this almost every day. I wondered if I should quit making art. I contemplated suicide. I did nothing to these people, but every day I have to see them gleefully cheer online about the anticipated death of my chosen profession. I had no idea we artists were so hated—I still don't know why. What did my silly little cat drawings do to earn so much contempt? That part is probably one of the hardest consequences of AI to come to terms with. It didn't just try to take my job (or succeed in making my job worse) it exposed a whole lot of people who hate me and everything I am for reasons I can't fathom. They want to exploit me and see me eradicated at the same time.”
“Artists are losing work, wages, and hope as bosses and clients embrace AI” www.bloodinthemachine.com/p/artists-ar...
An ink drawing of Godzilla from Shin Godzilla(2016)
Re watched Shin Godzilla for the Halloween season and decided to do a doodle about it
“I am not interested, nor will I ever be interested. I'm 61, and I hope to be able to remain uninterested in using it at all until I croak. ... The other day, somebody wrote me an email, said, ‘What is your stance on AI?’ And my answer was very short. I said, ‘I'd rather die.’” 🫡
NYT Magazine headline “‘I'm on Fire': Testosterone Is Giving Women Back Their Sex Drive - and Then Some There is no F.D.A.-approved testosterone product for women. Insurance won't cover it. Many doctors won't prescribe it. It's become a cultural phenomenon.”
when trans people take HRT to feel normal: “look at these depraved sex freaks performing their sick fetish in public, we should bully them out of existence”
when cis ppl take HRT so they can fuck real good:
Despite it all, I got to go to Son of Monsterpalooza yesterday and for a brief time the 14 year old version of me, obsessed with monsters and practical effects, was revived.
Real successive good jokes in such a short clip
I agree with every word Zelda Williams says. And this at the end from OpenAI makes me want to go full Ned Ludd. Creators can’t have a blanket opt-out on copyright infringement of their work and have to fill out a form appealing to OpenAI’s mercy every time? Fuck off into the sun
important for us in the US to note: even a solidly right wing government can't ignore this.
