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Serebii Update: Our annual Advent Calendar which features our usual selection of puzzles including Crosswords is now live @ advent.serebii.net

I'll keep repeating it til' I'm blue in the face - making comics is actually an exceptionally difficult task. I'm quick as hell but each page I draw represents about 10-20 hours of work from writing to final output. I deserve to be paid for that work.

Amazon has had many opportunities to create dubbing projects filled with authentic storytelling, emotional connection, and believability. Instead they have chosen to create AI slop dubs of Banana Fish, Vinland Saga, and No Game No life. Many are calling these dubs "insulting" and "disrespectful".

Day 1: Watch out!

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Dag 1: Se upp!

Storyboard by: Sofia Lantz Bartzi

Animation by: Sofia Lantz Bartzi

Colours by: Jowanna Barvizi

Story idea by: Aylen Solander Labrin

Sound by: Alla Vartanyan

Någonstans, djupt inne i skogen, börjar en saga.
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Somewhere deep in the woods, a story is about to begin.

Me and my friends are doing a small animated advent calendar this year! You can find it on most other platforms @nisseadventadventures, but i'll also be posting each day in this thread! ❄️

The Frozen Horse’s Tale~ concept designs for @realgdt.bsky.social amazing FRANKENSTEIN! In 2022 I started work with Guillermo on keyframes and concepts before production started, including the battlefield frozen horse. Later during production I designed it to be built life size as a prop for filming

Frankenstein alt text: Movie poster for Guillermo del Toro’s ‘Frankenstein’. In the centre is Victor Frankenstein in semi-darkness, viewed from behind. He’s in his wreck of a laboratory, with a beautiful circular window with elaborate tracery in the background. The phrase ‘Only monsters play god’ is along the bottom, along with the note that the film is ‘playing in select theaters and on Netflix’.

Three years ago today, OpenAI launched ChatGPT. My latest newsletter, on what we can learn from @realgdt.bsky.social's FRANKENSTEIN, could not be more timely.
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🧪💙📚 🗃 #histsci #histmed #academicsky #politics

Sure, they've made an environmentally catastrophic mass hallucination disinformation plagiarism Clippy that will destabilize the world, but also their other goal is to replace human workers entirely and let us humans starve. A boycott of AI is the most important boycott of your entire life.

My first-ever piece for @unseenjapan.com ⤵

James Van Der Beek Auctioning Off Dawson’s Creek Items Amid Cancer Journey James Van Der Beek has put several Dawson’s Creek and Varsity Blues items up for auction as he continues to battle stage 3 colon cancer.

You are infinitely closer to struggling than you ever will be to billionaires

Round eyes, green body, with its tongue constantly hanging out—it's... Numemon!

Illustration of a full bookshelf in peach colors. Text: All the eBooks! Nine FULL comic books. Nearly 2,000 pages, new and old.

While you're scooping up Black Friday sales, may we direct you towards our own year-long discount on ✨ALL 9✨ of our eBooks for just $25. In stores, these books sell for around $20 a pop, so you're basically getting 9 whole books (~2k pages) for about the price of 1.
www.patreon.com/c/ohjoysexto...

I see AI slop in anything, I instantly disregard the whole thing. It's like finding a slug in your salad. If you can't write without an LLM, or you can't source art that isn't genAI, you can't be trusted to do anything. Sorry. Absolute deal-breaker.

Awoooooo *fart noise* 🐶

#Dimension20

El 27 de noviembre de 1940 nace Bruce Lee.

En el hilo de #Efemérides de hoy hacemos un repaso por la historia del “dragón” de las artes marciales.

My mom took me to the library every week as a kid. I would always borrow a whole stack of books, and she would make sure they were all returned on time. Now she's borrowing the book I wrote from the library 😭

Pokémon Stamps for Patreon

#pokemon #patreon

James and Dani are rewriting the rules of what a straight couple looks like.

Merch for The Museum of English Rural Life. Each item - a tote bag, a mug, and two coasters - is adorned with an artwork of a mouse riding a lobster, holding a scroll decorated with the device of The Museum of English Rural Life.

It's a beautiful day. We just dropped new merch for the first time in a year.

merl-shop.co.uk

(and, yes: we ship internationally!)

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Good morning to Brazilian reporter Manuela Borges, who’s been waiting eleven years for this petty moment. ❤️ 🇧🇷

Si buscan alternativas a #Spotify, recomiendo mucho #Qobuz, que es similar, aunque con mejor calidad de sonido (si tienes buenos audífonos), paga mejor a los artistas, las reseñas y créditos son mucho mejores, y lo mejor; no invierten en empresas que sostienen y apoyan genocidios... el mejor cambio.

Amigo y amiga de Tarapacá, devotos de La Tirana, San Lorenzo y de otras expresiones religiosas en Chile. Escuchen el desprecio de José sobre la religiosidad popular.
Para ellos, todo es NEGOCIO.🤬
#YoVotoJARA

Six books on a light green background. Text in the middle reads “Indigenous/First Nations SFF”. The books are The Buffalo Hunter Hunter by Stephen Graham Jones; Hole in the Sky by Daniel H. Wilson; The Whistler by Nick Medina; The Haunting of Room 904 by Erika T. Wurth; Aunt Tigress by Emily Yu-Xuan Qin; and We Can Never Leave by HE Edgmon

Some Indigenous/First Nations science fiction, fantasy, and horror recs for your Wednesday!

'Slop Evader' Lets You Surf the Web Like It’s 2022 Artist Tega Brain is fighting the internet’s enshittification by turning back the clock to before ChatGPT existed.

Artist Tega Brain is fighting the internet’s enshittification by turning back the clock to before ChatGPT existed.

Anarchism’s principal target is the authoritarian State (capitalist or socialist); its principal moral-practical theme is cooperation (solidarity, mutual aid).

this is mesmerizing

Study In The Journal Of Pediatrics Finds Trans Youth Care Lowers Suicidality, Few Detransition The groundbreaking study found that suicidality dropped for transgender youth receiving hormone therapy by nearly 70%, with only 7 patients of 432 discontinuing treatment.

1. A landmark study was just published in The Journal of Pediatrics.

It found a 68% reduction in suicidality for trans youth getting HRT.

It also found only 7 of more than 400 stopped taking HRT... and of those that did, 4 still identified as gender-diverse.

Transgender care saves lives.

⛰️山海経26: 鵸䳜。三つ首でよく笑うカラス。王道カササギベロスを既に描いているので、今回は据え置き型カラスにしました。厄除けということは、八咫烏のような役割なのかもしれない。
🌊Shanhai jing 26: Qi-tu, the three headed laughing crow. The description says their meat may help to prevent nightmares. Maybe they were a happy crow.
#山海経の怪鳥30羽描く #30WeirdAncientBirds

one of the coolest things about ChatGPT is how you can actually just never use it. you can fill your whole entire life with simply not once using it. it's incredible.