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‼️‼️‼️ Got word of a new way the billionaire in charge of SSA is fucking over the American people!!!! TLDR: This will definitely lead to people applying for benefits losing out on money, and probably some hefty lawsuits for attorneys that know what’s up. The long version is gonna be long so let’s go.

With alt text because this made me cry 😭

You might see several artists mad about the bluesky policy update banning non-con, even artists who do not make that kind of material, and wonder why it's such a problem. If that's you, here is a quick breakdown:

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a stylized illustration with the text "generative AI was never ethical". The piece features a black cat pulling cables out of the back of a robot. The robot has a conveyor belt attached to it that is pulling in packages that read "stolen art, stolen writing, stolen voices, stolen videos, stolen likeness, stolen photos, stolen books, stolen code, and stolen ideas." The piece is a reminder that generative ai was built on the backs of real artists, photographers, writers, and everyone else's creative expressions as humans in order to churn out slop to feed back to us.

don't forget 🤖🚫

4 things I’d do if I were in control of GW:
1: Fan work is back on the table and Alfabusa’s team is put in charge of Warhammer TV.
2: SPACE SKAVEN!!
3: Bank of 3D Printers (called an STC!) in every store, with Print on Demand Models (including old classics!)
4: THIS FUCKING LOGO:

Way back before the tumblr NSFW ban, I would kinda meticulously use tags for people to give them a content heads up.

Tumblr used that to just mass delete everything.

People still posted NSFW stuff. They just stopped tagging it.

Crack downs like this make things worse for everyone..

what fucks me up about the Bluesky TOS update is fucking

every adult creator i know wants MORE labels and filter options. we WANT more granular control over the labels and spoilers we can put on our work so people who want to curate their timeline to avoid us CAN DO SO

I finally finished the ULTRATABLE!!!
I apologize for the quality of the photo, my phone won't take a better picture.
#ULTRAKILL

it’s in the feed

#ULTRAKILL #V1

매달려

Gabriel kneeling before V1 with ecstasy wings, looking up into the light of V1's optic. V1 is pulling the whiplash cable which is wrapped around Gabriel's neck. Both are covered in blood.

absolution
#ultrakill

UltraZine: An unofficial ULTRAKILL fan-zine is now opening an interest check until September 10th!

Fill out the form here:
forms.gle/i333VhDn434J...

#ultrakill #zine #fanart #fanzine

Circle you in red #ULTRAKILL

Call call call. Visa is literally begging us to stop calling and send emails. Calls cost them way more money and they can't use key words to filter them out

I made a quick and dirty anti-censorship cheat sheet to help onboard people and direct their energy in a productive direction. This isnt as comprehensive as various websites being shared around, but it should be easy to share and save.

Save the png and repost as widely as you can

This page has a big button for you to email 20+ customer service departments at once with an (editable, if you like) prewritten letter. You can even do it from your phone! There's zero reason to not be participating in the pushback on this.

lil thank-you doodle for @/aqualotic :3

I think it needs to be pointed out as well that Visa is clearly losing money off these calls clogging their systems and still thought it was worth the money to re-train their employees/contractors. They're not scared enough to drop the issue altogether, people need to keep calling and snail-mailing.

Their dresses being based off of each other’s designs… 😭💖

(He 100% would have an absolute brick of a Nokia.)

Sisyphus probably has a flip phone and a Casio watch from the 90s that’s somehow still running on the original battery.

The world may be shit, life may be shit, but at least we've got Swordsmachine.

Gutterman, artist's choice on literally everything else.

A colored illustration. A Gutterman, an enemy character from the game ULTRAKILL, stands looking over at the sky, while a young teen is crouched besides it, holding on to their plush shark, a blåhaj. The ground that surrounds them has patches of grass, mud, and snow; the plains are desolate and cold. Some signs of life can be seen in the sky, where three birds are flying from afar.

A sketch of a Gutterman, an enemy from the game ULTRAKILL, sitting with it's back facing the viewer, while a young child sits besides the Gutterman, resting their head on its arm. Inside the coffin that's attached to the back of the Gutterman is a corpse, facing front, with a tube attached into its thorax that allows blood to fuel the Gutterman. In its left arm, the corpse holds on to a photograph.

A story of a father, his child, and that child's younger sibling. This was a concept I've been thinking about for a while that I'd like to explore more!
#ultrakill

I would believe you because I'm 99% sure I've read that same fic.

This is not a "soul of art" issue or a quality of a product issue.

This is a labor issue. This is class warfare. There will be gorgeous, beautiful, well crafted products made with genAI, and it must be rejected entirely regardless because that is how they hope to gain legitimacy

I cannot stress enough: you cannot give an inch on this issue.

The moment you start accepting media using genAI for "small" things or just tiny aspects of production, they will only start outsourcing more of the process to AI

This is how the smallest end of the wedge is driven in against laborers

A kind reminder of my audience for this my Blue Sky