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SAM ALTMAN: "People talk about how much energy it takes to train an Al model ... But it also takes a lot of energy to train a human. It takes like 20 years of life and all of the food you eat during that time before you get smart."

“Evil starts when you treat other people as things. There are perhaps worse crimes, but they begin when you treat other people as things.” - Terry Pratchett

Newcastle pubs ban AI art from breweries to protect local creatives As two pubs in Newcastle ban AI art, artists discuss the impact it can have on creatives.

Pubs in Newcastle standing up to the onslaught of AI slop appearing in the sector 🖤🤍🖤🤍 love the toon!

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Tech bros were a mistake 😒

!!!! Neither did I 😂😂😂

…..oh my god 😍

Warm ups part 1

Warm ups part 2

Warm ups part 3

Warm ups part 4

I went to art school...

I had no clue this is what people meant by "warm ups". Like, a whole routine? Each part specific and functional? Dang.

Probably would have less "forgot how to draw" days if I did these every time. I'm gonna try it.

being an artist is just decades of going "ugh I wish I knew how to draw" over and over again until you die

Cartoon. Person says to other person „We invented a robot that answers questions.“, adding, „we just have to feed it 10 baby giraffes a day“. The other person asks „But it answers the questions correctly?“ Person responds „Oh my goodness, no. No no no no no.“ By Aram J. French Appropriated due to missing alt text

[yakkety sax intensifies]

We rolled a group strength check WITH ADVANTAGE and still failed

You want hilarity in your dnd game? Give your party of four who all have 8 strength, a strength based challenge 😂

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Age verification?

I'd nudge you on MSN

Three witches down, one to go.

Oops all witches

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generative AI has become widely available in the summer of 2022 and entered mainstream in 2023

people are working themselves up in a frenzy, convinced they're utterly helpless without software younger than still-fresh canned tuna. we have been making art for at least 50,000 years, get a grip

a meme of two people looking depressed on opposite sides - one says drawing on 1 layer, second says drawing on 100+ layers

bringing this gem back

✨An exercise in DM Frustration ✨
Crafting what you’re certain will be a fantastic encounter... and your players sit in a single choke point before promptly retreating behind cover again.
Let's change that with 10 FREE options to get players moving around the map.
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The rest of the world should absolutely boycott the World Cup and boycott the Olympics. At minimum.

‘I had a lot of equipment and ink and I was very very angry’ is a beautiful sentence in this context ( @dansinker.com I think you’ll appreciate this one)

Quality performance art. Easy to parse, thematically relevant, kinda gross. Love it.

I’m sharing this video again because people don’t really get what these data centers and ai are doing to our planet and our communities. Especially Black communities because they were strategically placed there.

I need you to listen to these people.
STOP USING AI. STOP SUPPORTING AI.

a meme with two hands holding words : "the deep desire to be creative" vs "the inherent need to recover my energy from surviving reality"

I feel seen

I come with empty hands and the desire to unbuild walls.

Misty landscape of a dense forest with trees and shrubs, layered hills in the background under a pastel-colored sky at dawn. Credit: Knepp Wilding.

Results show: 
- A 900% increase in breeding birds and 500% rise in nightingales
- In some areas, butterfly species have doubled while dragonflies and damselflies have increased by nearly 900%
- A 600% increase in turtle doves, with 22 singing males in 2024 – up from two in 2008

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Two storks stand on a large nest built atop a tree with sparse branches, set against a clear blue sky. Credit: Ruby Batt

After two decades of letting nature lead at Knepp Estate, the species recovery has been phenomenal 🦋

The @kneppwilding.bsky.social story is well known. 20 years ago, Charlie Burrell and Isabella Tree's land was managed farmland and the business was struggling.

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Anyway, once I got over me righteous indignation (FIFTEEN. YEARS), he referred me to a physio to walk me through an exercise plan and occupational therapy to figure out some support for my janky hands, so that’s all good

Also I don’t have rheumatoid arthritis, so today’s a win-win! (I do have an antibody marker and other factors that puts me at higher risk of developing it so we’re just going to shelve that in a quiet corner and not look at it so long as it behaves itself)

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