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Dolvun for sure

photo of a pencil sketch of a frantically smiling woman grabbing a sword stuck in her abdomen. blue blood pours over her royal dress and hands, and wires fly out her back.

heed your master and come forth #kog #knightsofguinevere

A new free set of #brushes for #clipstudio you can pick up now!

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One half of a full page spread of sketches depicting the pokemon characters Meowth, Pikachu, Hitmonlee, Exeggutor, & Lickitongue in cartoonish situations.

Submitted these for a grade. I love storyboard classes.

A digital illustration of the character King Belial, who is garbed in a ram skull with golden horns, a long wool cloak with layers of robes underneath, and a deep red tippet with golden trim.

Finally settled on a design for this guy #characterdesign #oc #demon

Fraudulent Scientific Papers Are Rapidly Increasing, Study Finds A statistical analysis found that the number of fake journal articles being churned out by “paper mills” is doubling every year and a half.

“If these trends are not stopped, science is going to be destroyed." Here's my story on the accelerating growth of systemic research fraud--aka paper mills. Gift link: nyti.ms/45rDirw

Can I just say how fucking ridiculous it is that queer and nsfw art is more heavily regulated than the fucking plagiarism machine destroying our planet that is genAI

I'm constantly thinking about that Mel Brooks quote about how he would go to studio meetings and say "oh yes great idea definitely we'll do that" to every one of their notes and then go back to work and ignore all of them, basically banking that the execs would forget what they said, which they did.

Folds: If we’ve been told our whole lives that we can’t spend money on the arts because they’re not important—then why was taking over the Kennedy Center and the arts the first thing they did?

It is extremely important. It’s the bedrock of self-expression.

scuncht

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

historians is it good when the robe Nobles are able to buy the positions and honors typically reserved for the sword Nobles?

There are no distractions. It's all bad. Systematically stripping trans people of their rights, guys in balaclavas shoving any brown person with a tattoo into a ummarked vans, ending healthcare for millions. It's all in service of fascism and technofeudalism. It's all one thing. That's the point.

This is a vital message: one of the larger reasons BlueSky is refreshingly free of alt-right shitlords is because in the early days we made a gentleperson’s agreement to starve these fuckos out and it worked. No likes, no quotes, no engagement. They got bored and left. Please keep the Old Ways.

WAIT WHILE I WAS AWAY, a piece of interactive fiction i wrote got shortlisted for a competition (and didnt win but shh). you should read MY BROTHER; THE PARASITE if you like feeling bad 👇
qrowscant.itch.io/mybrother-th...

So Google's latest consent violation is them generating "AI" audio of your voice in YouTube as an opt-out "service."

Here's how to turn it off (original images reposted with alt text):

This government report from 1973 encapsulates America's then-emerging fears about the US government cross-referencing databases to engineer social policy absent due process, and tendency of governments to categorize people deemed "high risk"

www.justice.gov/opcl/docs/re...

More journalists need to talk about this the way Japanese articles do

So anyway, I created an updated version of that XdanielArt chart that contains all the Adobe alternatives since there are a lot more now than there were back when that list was originally made, and Adobe has continued to get shittier and shittier.

the binding of isaac and how it's made:

the future of factory work in the red states where they're making child labor legal again

A reddish brown snake is partly curled up on a thick green branch. It has its head and neck raised. The belly and throat is whitish. The eyes are orange with black vertical slit pupils. The snake is looking to the right of the camera.

🐍Mangrove pit viper/shore pit viper (Trimeresurus purpureomaculatus).

Max. size 665 mm (26.2") for males, 900 mm (35.4").

Venomous.

Found in Bangladesh, India, Indonesia, Malaysia, Myanmar, Singapore and Thailand.

Considered Least Concern by the IUCN.

📷by kuritafsheen77 on Freepik

wow look at all of these better alternatives to Adobe that exist

ask me about Pixelart programs if interested in that aspect specifically because you *definitely* don't need PS for that, lol

front and back covers of dvlsblsh mini vol 2

metal gear solid mini zines are all finally in the mail! really sorry for the delay everyone, I’ve been working my day job 6-7 a week since before christmas so it’s been difficult to keep up to date with any other aspect of life.

Figure skating world championships were considered to be for men only until 1902, when Madge Syers showed up and took home silver and the ISU went "whooooops guess we need to segregate them."

It happened again in 1992 Olympic skeet shooting: Zhang Shan took gold and then they segregated the event.

#wip my building is sick

made a blue lober. not-so-friendly reminder this a transgender account run by a transgender dyke
#lowpoly #lobster

We just had an epiphany: in a world of Al nothing will be as valuable as humans! .•• Ok you can laugh at us for realizing it so late, but we are going to kick off work to allow Klarna to become the best at offering a human to speak to!!! So excited about this, more to come! We will continue to invest and improve our Al support. But the truth is the cost savings it generates and improvement in quality. Allows us to double down on making sure the human service part of Klarna becomes even better. More to come!

Klarna, the company that got so much press for dropping customer service and replacing them with AI, is now saying that they are now going to "become the best at offering a human to speak to." Great stuff!

No one who hasn't shared or donated to this gofundme is allowed to talk about Disco Elysium ever again.

I know! I'm poor too. I don't always eat either.

A single dollar. One currency.

Duality: Gamer Edition