Blood Knife

THE REVENGE OF THE REAL: MY YEARS AS A DIGITAL SHUT-IN Young, stupid, and terminally online at the dawn of the digital era

For 3 years in the 2000s, I was a virtual shut-in, living my life almost entirely online. I didn't go out, rarely socialized, and even stopped bathing. This is the story of how I got out, and my fears for a generation barreling headlong towards the same fate.
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Death is a Star Earth's billionaires are ready to colonize other worlds. The stars seem within our grasp - but are we truly ready or rushing headlong to our deaths?

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KNIFEPOINT #4
ADAPTIVE PARASITE ONTOLOGY
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The Culture War: Iain M. Banks's Billionaire Fans - Blood Knife The Culture novels are far-future communist space opera from an explicitly socialist author. So how do we explain their wealthy, hyper-capitalist fans?

Why has Iain Banks’s Culture series – “a world where your Bezoses & your Musks are not just irrelevant, but actively sought out & disempowered” – garnered a billionaire fanbase? Kurt Schiller examines ultra-rich misreadings & delusions for @bloodknife.bsky.social
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Maybe really big publishers won’t care for a while, but smaller/indie presses fucking around with AI covers will soon learn that losing a few hundred readers is actually a huge loss. Saving a few bucks on cover art is nothing if you can’t sell the book.

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one thing i think of a lot is on Cartoon Planet when Space Ghost believes the word "gracias" means "friend" and refers to Zorak as "my little green gracias"

For me it's the Busta rhymes episode of SGC2C. I think about "laser wristo blastos" at least weekly and only stop saying "what kind of hospital IS this?" after finally accepting that nobody else in my life knew what the hell I was talking about

Hockeypocalypse Home Team page 1, depicting two mutants talking while watching the sun rise over post-apocalyptic Edmonton.

I want to do an entire Hockeypocalypse book in this style, but apparently "this series has sold over 1000 copies with no support" is not a strong enough argument for the publishers that can afford a rate that lets me colour like this and also live.

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Thank you 🖤

Thanks bud ❤️

In the meantime we're pausing billing and mostly pausing editorial work. we do have a few things from dec and jan that we'll post when we can. but part of coming back last year was promising myself id give myself space to step away if/ when needed, and im finding it very needed atm.

hey buds - blood knife is taking a hiatus til the fall while I deal with some life things. more info in the post - just wanted to say I appreciate you all a great deal, and im excited to get back to the magazine as soon as I can. more soon! 🩸🔪
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And here is some 2023 artwork of mine for the wonderful @bloodknife.bsky.social and @interzone.press

Book Club: The Ones Who Yell at Omelas | Rite Gud Get more from Rite Gud on Patreon

Anyway @kjy1066.bsky.social and Kurt of @bloodknife.bsky.social came on the podcast to talk about Omelas response stories: the genuinely good, the bad, and the inexplicable. No, you would not have the balls to rescue the child. www.patreon.com/posts/62671741

we used a piece early on that was a blend of human digital painting and manually painted over and redrawn ai elements that had a surreal, "melted" quality. i thought the result was really cool visually tbh.

i really liked the odd style of early AI art! i have i think unresolvable issues with the way the current gen of tools were made and how theyre being used, but i genuinely think in other circumstances and with major changes it would have potential as an artistic tool (but not a human replacement)

it's one of those "solutions" that winds up being worse than the problem it's meant to solve. A cowards option and a half measure; you would make a better impression on the reader by having no art at all

Still puzzled by publications that use AI art. If it's cost, you can create quite good illustrations yourself with a little practice & work. And moral angle aside there's something so unserious & insulting about it. Like going to the trouble of taking off your pants only to piss on your own feet

My biggest issue with AI evangelism in our industry is that it treats creativity like a problem to be solved, and not an adventure to be had.

Yeah definitely agreed. A big issue is that copyright isn't designed to address it—it's focused on reproductions. This is almost more like a patent case - they built something by stealing someone else's "invention". The question is over the design of the invention & its output, not copies of a work

It's a good question. I could guess but don't know - default answer is probably it's a case-by-case basis depending on the degree of similarity and whether it falls under fair use in a larger sense

not a fairey or an openai defender but fairey was *distributing* the infringing material, whereas openai is using it to build a product. thats a much more straightforward infringement/fair use dispute than openai needing infringement for its tool to function

A criminal in a gorilla suit flees militarized cops in a noir setting.

A Map of New McDonaldland, a region on the Texas/Ohio border in the BURGERPunk RPG setting.

Title splash screen for the video game Space Jerks.

A post-apocalyptic hockey player narrowly avoids getting decapitated with a sharpened hockey stick.

It's #PortfolioDay again! I'm Jeff Martin, an illustrator and cartoonist. I've had 14 graphic novels published, and also done #ttrpg writing and illustration, with recent forays into video games.

I'm looking for a lit agent, and also welcome illustration and comics work.

he folks we have some really cool news coming soon. next couple weeks. some articles to publish coming up and 2 themes to announce, also, but more to come soon! new knifepoint later this week as well. been a bit of a mad dash post holidays so thanks for the patience!

This is an absolutely terrific summary of something we have written about often: The way that, despite a nominally "human first" focus, Google's curation and presentation of the internet has distorted it toward a focus on machine readability and empty, boring, unhelpful marketing practices

reskeet if you agree that he's just a little guy

Listening to Sun Ra with the dog (who seems to be digging it)