rcs709

I have said this before:
You cannot separate the art from the artist when they are alive, profiting, and identifying as a problem.

The Iron Empire iterations of Klonoa and Lolo swapping outfits

REPOST DUE TO ERROR

IE!Klonoa and Lolo wardrobe swap!

Thank you for commissioning me
@rcs709.bsky.social

#風のクロノア #クロノア #klonoa #lolo #klonoaironempire #art #digitalart #illustration #commission #commissionsopen

IMPORTANT!!

Letting everyone in the furry fandom know! Make sure you check to see if you blocked furryli.st or not because of a certain blocklist! Unsub from the blocklist if the account is on there!

A Kiwi Farms account that uses custom lettering to avoid being located. One liked my post and that’s how I found it.

They’re out there, they’re name searching, and they’re using custom text tools in their names to avoid being searched and found. Block accordingly and stay safe

You know what to do. Block.

Don’t engage.

Mass student strike happening in #Montreal at Concordia university. After a vote, students have voted to go on strike to demand divestment from the state of Israel by the university. In the 1980s, similar struggles helped push for divestment from apartheid South Africa.

Post a character you like and tag ppl to do the same.

His father's my profile pic, after all.

I nominate:
@jeyrolami.bsky.social
@callumtheimp.bsky.social
@bridgeoffaust.bsky.social

Aight let's do this!
Thanks so much for 100 Followers. Here's a chance to win some art!

Good luck!!

If you get generic messages like these from accounts with little to no activity, do NOT engage. They're out to swindle you. Simply block and move on.

An info-board summarising the difference between Twitter/X and Bluesky and the potential advantages that come with the latter. The original post is from @milesmeelezz.bsky.social . Please go support them and their amazing artwork.

I feel like I need to tap the sign cause I keep seeing people trying to "dunk" on hateful peeps on my feed.

This ISN'T TWITTER.

Please don't make it into it.

Just a reminder that this is who you're working with if you go with Mad Mushroom/OTK as publisher for your game. Avoid them completely. www.si.com/videogames/n...

AI is going great

As predicted in early August, a pale horse arrives - if OpenAI is raising prices on ChatGPT, then things are getting desperate, and their revenue isn't growing enough to deal with their costs. This is so, so bad.
wheresyoured.at/burst-damage/

The AI bubble is finally bursting. They're really getting desperate at this point.

If we lose the internet archive we are in serious trouble. They are the only public repository of most digital media (and some physical through scans) - like @frankcifaldi.bsky.social says, 89% of all video games are not currently available to purchase.

"We are disappointed in today’s opinion about the Internet Archive’s digital lending of books that are available electronically elsewhere. We are reviewing the court’s opinion and will continue to defend the rights of libraries to own, lend, and preserve books." -Chris Freeland, Director of Library Services

Internet Archive Responds to Appellate Opinion in Hachette v. Internet Archive

🔗 blog.archive.org/2024/09/04/i...

Mimic/Duo: "Hm, not exactly what I was hoping for, but... guess that's another potential threat out of the picture..."

Personally, I'm betting that once Clutch is out of the picture, Eggman'll swoop in and take over Clean Sweep, effectively recycling his own scrapped tech for a future scheme.

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It's happening again!!!

As I've written in the past, KOSA is a censorship nightmare that'll drive LGBTQIA+ folks out of social media spaces and suppress any content that Republicans think is harmful to kids.

Please call your reps NOW, especially your Senators.

THIS IS HUGE! Researchers at Northwestern Medicine and Brigham and Women’s Hospital have discovered a molecular defect that promotes the pathologic immune response in Lupus and show that reversing this defect may potentially reverse the disease!

Let’s talk about that! 🧪🧵⬇️

lmao. this plus crowdstrike firing a bunch of their QA team and replacing them with AI before all that happened is just so funny.

the airlines alone are on the hook for billions in missed flights and they're absolutely going to be trying to wring that blood outta this clownshow security company

Crowdstrike : its fine u just have to manually visit the PC boot it into safe mode and remove a sys file

US Organization with 50,000 pcs and a completely outsourced IT department in Bangalore : what

The CrowdStrike outage causing the blue screen of death to many Windows users was not on my 2024 bingo card

This Microsoft and Crowdstrike outage is just insane and I feel bad for anyone innocent who is affected and is trying to do their job

Like what the fuck

I am BEGGING y'all to leave Twitter for good. PLEASE.

Bryce O'Connor: Authors using AI art on your covers, you're cutting off your own leg. I'm not even talking about the accusations of "thief" that you're going to get. Let's set that aside. I'm talking about the price you're paying in reputation and marketability to save maybe $1000. (1/10) First, there's a straightforward one you should be aware of: There are a LOT of people who will pass over books with AI covers on principle. 99% of artists out there (and there are a lot), and their friends and family. Most authors, and many of their readers who (2/10)

are made aware of how they feel. Anyone who thinks that AI is lazy and shoddy work, and anyone who sees the imperfections in an AI cover and loses interest because of it. So there's a not-insignificant portion of the market you are cutting yourself out of right there. (3/10) Second is your reputation. Going along with the above, 99% of the authors I know do not want to be associated with AI, whether that be art on the covers or text in the book. You won't catch us using it, and you won't catch us making buddy-buddy with people who use it. (4/10)

This also applies to your reputation amongst artists. Want to hire Felix Ortiz one day? Or Asur Misoa? Or YAM? Or Swanland or Lockwood or *any* reputable artist? If they find out that you've got AI on other covers, good luck. Chances are you've excommunicated yourself. (5/10) But here's the third and most important thing I don't think you're thinking about: Your marketability. Having the support of the writing community is almost essential when it comes to getting a book off the ground. The RTs, NL shares, shoutouts, YouTube mentions, etc. (6/10) 99% of that goes away the moment it becomes public knowledge that you use AI, that you steal from fellow creators in order to try to gain some *tiny* advantage for yourself. Few authors are going to RT you. No YouTuber is going to mention your book or cover. (7/10)

I can't think of a BookToker who is going to work with you, nor any serious influencer who will want that on their Instagram page. You are sacrificing so much, and for what? To save $1000? $1500? Plus a few total hours of your time? That doesn't math out. (8/10) And yes, I am acutely aware that $1000+ is a *huge* amount of money for a lot of people. Not discounting that. But AI art isn't making publishing "accessible" to you. You're paying WAY more in the end. You're paying in reputation, opportunity, and the chance of success. (9/10) Pay an artist. Save yourself. (10/10)

A very good thread from Bryce O'Connor over on twitter.
TL;DR:
Fuck genAI.
Do not use it for your books.

#WritingCommunity #Authors 🖋️📖💰

OP: twitter.com/OConnorBooks...

You really can’t make this shit up, folks.

Absolute insanity.