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Canadians: The federal government is seeking public input on how AI should be developed and used in business, research, and the military.

If this scares the shit out of you, please let them know:

This means if you're in the UK and haven't signed this yet, please do. At 100k signatures they have to discuss it again.

Literally the least you can do!!

Several adventurers fight giant flying onions in a dungeon corridor. One of the onions lifts a goblin adventurer off the ground.

I bet you all thought you knew what I was going to name the giant corn, didn't you?

dungeoneyes.com/dungeon-16-turn-26

#comic #webcomic #dungeoncrawl

fiction is a safe space to think of unsafe things if you feel it's messing you up, step away. don't assume it's messing everyone up and you need to eradicate it because you caught a case of the feel-bads from something. go sit with that and think about why instead of pissing in everyone else's cheerios.

Several adventurers huddle together in a fortress hallway. One holds a large shield over the others to protect them from bombardment from flying monsters.

Don't attack the giant flying onion monsters. I'll cry.

dungeoneyes.com/dungeon-16-turn-25

#comic #webcomic #dungeoncrawl

SHAPIRO: OK, so you've spent your career creating television without Al, and I could imagine today you thinking, boy, I wish I had had that tool to solve those thorny problems... SIMON: What? SHAPIRO: ...Or saying... SIMON: You imagine that? SHAPIRO: ...Boy, if that had existed, it would have screwed me over. SIMON: I don't think Al can remotely challenge what writers do at a fundamentally creative level. SHAPIRO: But if you're trying to transition from scene five to scene six, and you're stuck with that transition, you could imagine plugging that portion of the script into an Al and say, give me 10 ideas for how to transition this. SIMON: I'd rather put a gun in my mouth.

David Simon, creator of ‘The Wire’, being interviewed by Ari Shapiro (NPR)

If you're somebody who values supporting marginalized voices in comics, here's your chance to put your money where your values are! The writer of this RINGO NOM’D INDIE COMIC (and a very dear friend of mine) is a Syrian Refugee who has been through more continuous hardships than I have space to list here; constantly navigating visa applications, unstable living conditions, predatory landlords (limited options as a refugee). Anas just wants to make comics and live a normal life like what so many of us take for granted. Backing this campaign will help Anas to take the next step toward freedom and autonomy, helping to fund a move to another country with more stable employment options. This is truly one of the most important comics purchases you will ever make.

Middle Eastern and North African comics creators are some of the most underrepresented in the comics industry of the western world. Anas isn’t running a GoFundMe to support this move, and is not asking for charity. Simply, Anas is using their talent for storytelling, along with Dennis’ gorgeous art, to offer you a beautiful experience in the comics medium, that also goes toward funding a better life for Anas. I’m so proud of Anas, and humbled by their experiences and perseverance. I would like to see Anas’ Dream realized, and I’d love to see this community help to make that happen. Please join me in pledging to the Etheres Kickstarter campaign! (link below).

Etheres cover B

#Comics folks, I need you to pull up to this one.

The world sucks right now, and we have the opportunity to do a little bit of good for a displaced and marginalized member of our community. Please join me in supporting this KS campaign!

www.kickstarter.com/projects/den...

Several adventures fight their way through a dungeon corridor. The enemies are all ambulatory vegetables with armour and weapons.

What if I drew horny art of the giant corn man.

What if melted butter was involved.

dungeoneyes.com/dungeon-16-turn-24

#comic #webcomic #dungeoncrawl

pixEXE holds up a Palestinian flag. To his right, the logo Pixels for Palestine is written overtop two flags: an American Flag is joined by a Palestinian Flag. The event will be from November 17 - 21st, raising money for the PCRF, the Palestine Children's Relief Fund.

🇵🇸Our 3rd annual Pixels for Palestine has a date! 5 Days of Vtuber Collabs and Free Art Giveaways to help children in need!

🇵🇸If you are interested in participating, whether as a Vtuber or as a Raffle Artist (or BOTH!), please DM me here on Bluesky! All skills levels from novice to adept are welcome!

Several adventurers battle a powerful corn knight, while another adventurer loots the battlefield. On a lower platform, a giant blue lettuce smashes apart the ladders that lead up to the battle.

The giant lettuce is like the Kool-Aid Man but if he was full of an iced vegetable smoothie instead of sugar water.

dungeoneyes.com/dungeon-16-turn-23

#comic #webcomic #dungeoncrawl

Welcome to the capitalist innovation museum we got

- scam machine
- psychosis inducing machine
- weapons of mass destruction
- button you push that makes the planet hotter
- markets that intentionally starve people
- clothes that fall apart after washing them 1 time
- medicine you can’t afford

Then perish

As a player I'm more A, and as a GM I'm more B. But I sometimes get my wires crossed.

As a player I might slip into B when I accidentally turn on my GM brain and imagine how I would adjudicate my own actions, or as a GM I accidentally do A and start helping the players solve my own puzzles.

An adventure climbs up a ladder into a flying fortress populated by vegetable people. A very large ear of corn with a flail appears to be the leader.

A late page on my usual skip day to make up for yesterday's skipped usual update day!

It's a complex iterative process, designing these enemies, making sure they're up to my usual standards of unseriousness.

dungeoneyes.com/dungeon-16-turn-22

#comic #webcomic #dungeoncrawl

idk if it's overly reductive but I'm convinced fascism is born out of creative envy. every far right character is a failed or obsolete writer/comedian/actor/artist/etc

which is so annoying since these are losers who made their rainbow drawing not being good enough for the fridge society's problem

This would single-handedly transform the lives of everyone I know in such profound ways it is difficult to fully articulate, but it would also let us actually make more and different and crazy things

i'm on a million of the most hateful lists you can imagine, but sure, let's draw the line here

"hand-to-hand combat with antifa every night"

It's kind of funny that gamers will invent endless varieties of challenge run for Pokemon, Dark Souls, etc., but when it comes to tabletop games so many seem to believe that only the optimal strategies are acceptable.

A pair of adventurers climb ladders through the clouds. One looks at the dropped treasure of defeated enemies on other nearby cloud platforms, while another eats an entire stalk of corn.

This dungeon has lots of stupid enemies but not enough of them are ridiculous puns, so I've taken steps to correct that.

dungeoneyes.com/dungeon-16-turn-21

#comic #webcomic #dungeoncrawl

zeldawilliams 20m From Create Mode •• Please, just stop sending me AI videos of Dad. Stop believing I wanna see it or that I'll understand, I don't and I won't. If you're just trying to troll me, I've seen way worse, i'll restrict and move on. But please, if you've got any decency, just stop doing this to him and to me, to everyone even, full stop. It's dumb, it's a waste of time and energy, and believe me, it's NOT what he'd want. To watch the legacies of real people be condensed down to 'this vaguely looks and sounds like them so that's enough, , just so other people can churn out horrible TikTok slop puppeteering them is maddening. You're not making art, you're making disgusting, over-processed hotdogs out of the lives of human beings, out of the history of art and music, and then shoving them down someone else's throat hoping they'll give you a little thumbs up and like it. Gross.

And for the love of EVERYTHING, stop calling it 'the future. Al is just badly recycling and regurgitating the past to be reconsumed. You are taking in the Human Centipede of content, and from the very very end of the line, all while the folks at the front laugh and laugh, consume and consume.

Daughter of Robin Williams, Zelda Williams 💔

"but it's everywhere now so we just have to accept it's the new reality" motherfucker we can just stop putting it everywhere! we did it with asbestos and CFCs and lead-based paint or petrol and make-up with arsenic in it! if everyone is using something and it's bad, we can choose to stop!

Everyone in EU, UK or any US state with ID laws on the books [or even ones without them] should contact their representatives and mention this data breach specifically and [link the article if emailed]

Show them the actual, tangible results of all this digshit online ID legislation

Banned Books - Gator Days Transcript Panel 1 Olivia and Gustopher are at the library. The Library is having a special event for books that have been banned in the past. Dora the librarian is stacking books with titles like "BOOK", "Boogers", "Tales", "Can you", "read this" and "Word". Olivia has a great interest in forbidden knowledge and has been browsing what's available. She's found a book called "Salt Box" and has an important question for the librarian. Olivia: Miss Librarian! Why was this book banned? Dora: Vulgar Language. Panel 2 Dora makes a shocked expression and holds her hands to her face. This is the only way she can express how depraved the book is. Dora: The word "butt" is used.... FIFTEEN TIMES! Panel 3 Dora looks down to the children to gather their reaction. Internally, Gustopher is wondering if Dora meant "but" with one "t" or "butt" with two. Olivia immediately assumes it's the latter. Behind them is a poster promoting banned books week. There is a cartoon book that's smiling and saying "I'm forbidden!" He's booky the banned book. He was specifically banned for being made using the darkest of magic. He's also kind of rude. Panel 4 Olivia is excited about the book. This leads Gustopher to assume that "butt" was indeed spelled with an extra "t". Olivia: Now I have to read it. Dora: Oh noooo... I'll help you check it out.

Banned Books - Gator Days

this felt too informative not to share

It is my suspicion that part of the great push against nsfw material online is that it poisons the well for AI, and thusly brings the property value down. It is, thus, praxis and prophylaxis to draw smut.

LoneStarNorth - Twitch CHILLSTREAM

Live right now, gonna play Dota 2 for a couple hours and talk about whatever.

twitch.tv/lonestarnorth

#twitch #stream #pngtuber

I never had a huge audience, getting a nice message from a new reader now and then is pretty good though.

Gonna stream in about 90 minutes.

Israel accused of detaining Greta Thunberg in infested cell and making her hold flags Activist tells Swedish officials she has been subjected to harsh treatment, including insufficient food and water

““They dragged little Greta [Thunberg] by her hair before our eyes, beat her, and forced her to kiss the Israeli flag. They did everything imaginable to her, as a warning to others,” the Turkish activist ErsinÇelik, a participant in the Sumud flotilla, told Anadolu news agency.”+