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Okay, muting notifications on the main post on this thread. :)

Thank you for the information. Credit has now been attributed.

Also, it's been pointed out that the art is by Joe Wos @joetoon.bsky.social

Now that I know, credit where credit is due.

Accurate.

And now that I know whose work it is, I'll be giving the credit.

So if you didn't read this comment thread before jumping in with your commentary, that's cool. Enjoy your day. :)

For clarity, I don't think it's AI. I'm currently massively visually impaired, with recent eye surgery. So while I don't think it's AI (marker different than writing doesn't necessarily denote that it is), I couldn't definitely say such. Hence my previous comment.

I'm against it. AND I'm an artist. I also didn't make the image, and when I posted it, it wasn't out of irony. I simply followed up with a reply that if it was, it would be ironic. I'm currently visually impaired with recent and don't have a tool to check for certain.

I don't think it is, honestly. However, I'm currently massively visually impaired with recent eye surgery, and don't have those tools to check it with, so I couldn't immediately rule it out.

... And yes, the delicious irony is that AI was quite possibly used to make this image, using it against itself. That, or somebody made the composition un(intentionally).

As I said in another reply, using AI against itself would be a delicious bit of irony. And yes, that's a valid observation.

I mean, some will, but they're probably not going to sign it, and you're going to have to add a zero to the cost.

Could be. Using AI against itself would be deliciously ironic, if that's the case.

Technically, 'toaster' existed first, but BSG is always pushed aside by Star Wars.

Remember America 😱🚩

Yes. And other local businesses, as well.

Bah. Demanding people read half-century-old work as a purity test for genre membership is a fine way to kill the genre dead.

I wrote about such nonsense here;

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Oddly enough, I wasn't in the wheelhouse of the number 1. When it came out, I was starting to learn about industrial, rave, and techno.

As of today, Israel has assassinated 237 journalists in Gaza.
Less than 70 journalists died in WW2.

The 90 Greatest Albums of the ’90s This article originally appeared in the September 1999 issue of SPIN. “You must be high." We heard that a lot during the time we spent preparing this i

As a friend says, 'Fear of a Black Planet' being Number 2 os a big ol’ HELL YEAH because y'all know what Number 1 is.

Trump executive order gives politicians control over all federal grants, alarming researchers An executive order signed by President Donald Trump aims to give political appointees power over the billions of dollars of grants that are awarded by federal agencies.

More shit from the horse's ass.

Accurate.

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth reposts video of pastors saying women shouldn't vote Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth reposted the video profiling Christian Nationalist Pastor Doug Wilson, who opposes same-sex marriage.

...And nobody should be surprised by this.

As electric bills rise, evidence mounts that data centers share blame. States feel pressure to act Amid rising electric bills, states are under pressure to insulate regular household and business ratepayers from the costs of feeding Big Tech’s energy-hungry data centers.

The only people who don't want us to realize this are those that are profiting off of it. They may not necessarily own the companies or facilities, but that doesn't mean they're not invested in something related, or that someone isn't padding their wallet.

Scientists Rewrite the Genetic Code of E. Coli, and It's Drastically Different From Anything Found in Nature The synthetic bacteria contain a shorter genetic code with 57 codons rather than 64, freeing up space for further edits that might lead to new drugs or virus-resistant microbes

Here's a momentary injection of science for your feed.

AI industry horrified to face largest copyright class action ever certified Copyright class actions could financially ruin AI industry, trade groups say.

"They've warned that a single lawsuit raised by three authors over Anthropic's AI training now threatens to "financially ruin" the entire AI industry if up to 7 million claimants end up joining the litigation and forcing a settlement."

Good. Let them.

I'm not immediately familiar...

"Get it all on record now. Get the films. Get the witnesses. Because somewhere down the track of history some bastard will get up and say that this never happened." – Dwight D. Eisenhower, Germany, 1945

Corporate virtue signaling is serving your drinks in compostable cups but only having landfill trash cans.