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8 February 2025 Cancel the Christie's AI Art Auction Nicole Sales Giles & Sebastian Sanchez Christie’s, New York Dear Nicole and Sebastian, We are writing to express serious concern over your upcoming auction of AI art at Christie’s. Many of the artworks you plan to auction were created using AI models that are known to be trained on copyrighted work without a license. These models, and the companies behind them, exploit human artists, using their work without permission or payment to build commercial AI products that compete with them. Your support of these models, and the people who use them, rewards and further incentivizes AI companies’ mass theft of human artists’ work. We ask that, if you have any respect for human artists, you cancel the auction. Yours sincerely, The undersigned artists

🔴CALLING ALL ARTISTS🔴

Christie's NYC is planning an AI art auction expected to bring in over $600,000 to creators who've used models trained on copyrighted material from non-consenting artists.

If you object to this, please sign and share this open letter.

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Well shit.

I've been thinking a lot about comics lately and the craft and calling of making them. So I wrote myself a comics manifesto. Please comment, share, steal, or disregard.

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Declassified CIA Guide to Sabotaging Fascism Is Suddenly Viral The World War II-era "Simple Sabotage Field Manual" is full of steps that office workers can take to resist leadership.

Suddenly, out of nowhere, a declassified World War II-era CIA guide to sabotaging fascism in the workplace has become one of the most popular free ebooks on the internet:

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"How to talk to police: 1) Don't"
Sticker spotted in Utrecht, Netherlands

Tower Of The Elephant

Available Now: a brand new DC Original Art Collection from @jamesstokoe.bsky.social and @kittycoffee.bsky.social!

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Had the pleasure of reading Bug Wars by @jason-aaron.bsky.social @mahmudasrar.bsky.social Matt Wilson and Becca Carey. I loved what Jason, Mahmud and Matt did on Conan years ago and somehow they managed to level up here. A great read and concept. Go check it out!

Meta confirms they plan to add tons of AI-generated users to Facebook and Instagram

They will have bios, profile pics and can share content

(via Financial Times)

AI Needs So Much Power, It’s Making Yours Worse There’s a strong link between proximity to AI data centers and higher levels of distorted power in residential areas

Please, pease stop using AI, even for your 'harmless' memes.

www.bloomberg.com/graphics/202...

If you're looking for comic book professionals here on BlueSky, here's a starter pack of fantastic Letterers.

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Billionaires who buy Democratic politicians are oligarchs.

Billionaires who buy Republican politicians are oligarchs.

They want working class people of both parties to argue which side is worse because it allows them to continue the practice.

They’re playing us.

Barlowe's Guide To Extraterrestrials : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive Introducing extraterrestrials, one man has seen them. Wayne Douglas Barlowe's brilliant portraits bring to life 50 aliens from science fiction literature.Note:...

Cool stuff for artists on Internet Archives:

Wayne Barlowe's Extraterrestrials
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You can borrow James Gurney's Color and Light if you have an account

Feel free to add your own finds to the thread:

That’s never fun

We're covering Junji Ito for our November #StrangeStudies bonus content, with sinister spirals, noxious sea life and... murderous real estate?!? Join us on Patreon at the Scholar level or higher for more!

#junjiito #uzumaki #hppodcraft

It also makes it harder for them to ban books.

That’s a pretty good comic pitch!

Monopolies are not good. A return to multiple distributors like in the 80’s, fostering local/amateur/underground work would be a welcome and timely change.

All you newbies drawing their first comic and haven't printed their comic before: 300 dpi, CMYK colours, bleed and safety, 0 0 0 100 K black text on a separate layer. Make sure you have all of these on all of your comics files, otherwise you'll end up like me having to fix 660 pages of my webcomic