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A mostly grayscale commission by Andrew Griffith. Optimus Prime is leaning against a memorial wall, taking a moment to remember those who have fallen.

For Veteran's Day, here's a work by @glovestudios.bsky.social that I've posted on the Other Site for years. It's Optimus Prime taking a moment at a memorial wall. This has been watermarked and reduced in size to discourage art theft.

Some fucking loser just messaged me to make a real version of their GenAI song (unpaid of course) and from the bottom of my heart, fuck you and anyone else who uses it

Truly this is what I mean when I say you’re dead to me if you use GenAI. On top of the plagiarizing, It really shows what kind of person you are

011 - Dongtan Dress

#nimagery #NimiNightmare

FYI this is really happening and not just spooked horses in the barn. I got one of these DMs today. Report to BS and block. Don't click the link

It's all "AI is the future" and "you can't get the genie back in the bottle" until the public don't like it and then it's "nooo this was handmade by real humans, it has a heart" and you try to fabricate a process that was never there.
My dudes, if AI was so great you wouldn't need to lie about it.

I don't think it's conceivable that any AI could ever replicate the weird fucking scenarios bug testing has to cover because players are weird little goblins and do shit in unintended ways.

Square Enix says it wants generative AI to be doing 70% of its QA and debugging by the end of 2027 | VGC The publisher is researching “Game QA Automation Technology” with the University of Tokyo…

So they're going to do this for one, maybe two games. It'll be full speed ahead until it's 6 months from release and the game is falling apart, at which point they'll pay an insane overtime rate for a QA studio to do it last minute which won't be enough.

www.videogameschronicle.com/news/square-...

Nov. 4th is proof that you (yes, 🫵YOU) can make good things happen, and there's plenty left to make happen!

Paypros are still censoring the internet, but their conservative overlords are on the backfoot now, so let's strike while the iron's hot! #SaveSpeech

yellat.money
stop-paypros.neocities.org

#SaveSpeech

Hey EU folks may want to call up your MP/MEPs again, it seems the EU Council Presidency is looking to push through Chat Control by other means!

thats a funny way to spell 'train my AI'

Was thinking about this too. It's horrid for preservation.
It's like painting over a historical painting. Also ruins any videos that rely on how they look like anything from or ment to look like VHS ect.

So to my understanding, this means any dead youtuber is gonna have their videos forcefully upscaled, since they literally are unable to turn this shit off.

Silly me for thinking the platform would improve after Susan Wojcicki left. I'm beyond pissed.

Throwing a tantrum because you don’t have the patience to be understood is fucked up.

I’m thinking of the stories where directors are screaming at children and the like.

Art is communication this is why I say it’s arguable they are worse artists, not better. The stereotype is that they are the best artists for some reason.

“They have high standards”
Non abusive people have high standards too

Choosing not to because they are assholes.

If they are geniuses, they can treat people well.

There’s no excuse.

Ofc it make sense to get heated sometimes but that baseline of respect needs to exist and they still need to make it right if they fly off the handle.

HEARD

The tortured genius trope is overblown.
Caring about your work does not mean you have to abuse people.
Arguably, people who cannot find a good way to communicate are worse artists not better, because either
1. They are incapable of communicating to their audience of peers or
2. They are

Censorship is now coming for your dnd and your warhammer and your farming sim, they don't care if it's not adult content. They wanted everything

How is Mastercard Preventing Payment Fraud at Scale? Announcing Threat Intelligence at Money 20/20 US, Mastercard showcases its latest technology in preventing fraud, combining insights from Recorded Future

MasterCard is marketing its new MasterCard Threat Intelligence platform to issuers & acquirers. A source familiar w/ MasterCard’s internal operations told me MTI is flagging anime, VTubing, adult content, tabletop, video games as potentially “high fraud risk”

fintechmagazine.com/news/how-is-...

TIL why bottled water costs different amounts

It’s not just water

It’s re processed water

Some bottled water is hard water

Some is soft

Soft goes through more than hard and costs more

They remove everything and add back the stuff that makes it taste good

#SaveSpeech

starting Nov 1st we're entering the holiday season, which is a big stress point for big businesses like Mastercard and Visa. These Paypros havent stopped cracking down on Adult Content, so we need to jump back into calling them in full force again!

stop-paypros.neocities.org

Alan Moore knows the score

This should lead to the total rejection of surveillance technology. 1984 is no longer a fantasy.

The U.S. government fired thousands of suspected LGBTQ+ workers during the Lavender Scare.

Lawmakers bragged the numbers “proved” decency was restored.

In truth, fear did what no policy could: it made people invisible.

Hey everyone, here's a real simple way to disable "Super Resolution" on your channels:

• YouTube Studio
• Settings
• Channel
• Advanced settings
• Uncheck "Let YouTube enhance visual quality"
• Uncheck "Let YouTube enhance audio quality"

Grandpa Simpson yelling at a cloud

Back in my day, AI used to stand for Adobe Illustrator! And we hated that, too!

Banning VPNs sets a dangerous precedent.

It gives governments and corporations more power to decide when and how we can practice free speech, while eroding privacy and limiting access to information.

I’ve said it before, I’ll say it again:

It did not “take 1000 calls” to convince these assholes to act.

It took one.

Because they already desperately wanted to do it.

They aren’t upset people are calling them out—or they’d fucking stop.

They’re upset people are opposed to it.

Source familiar with MasterCard‘s internal workings: The company finds the censorship focus from consumers “profoundly irritating“ amid larger political issues — they want the controversy around paypros censorship to quietly disappear

"Institutions like Wikipedia are the last bastions of the dream of a free and open internet that betters humanity. Protecting the source code of reality is a matter of survival for a free and sane society, and we must act like it."