Robot Bastard!

oh no, they totally could have done it if they had four million dollars to make it worth a licensing lawyer's time to pick up the fucking phone

Beethoven's symphonies were all commissioned works!

And the big innovation of last century was artists being able to *just* make art, and to make a living from that, versus needing to do commissioned glazing just to survive...

"you don't know *how* many slices of toast I threw away before the toaster made this PERFECT one"

"I'm going to reinvent copyright and apply it retroactively to every copy of this jpeg!"
to
"Copyright is just a stupid idea that artists use to gatekeep creativity!"

it is genuinely surprising the degree to which the US Government insists on getting Thanksgiving vacation.
They put off reviewing the COVID vaccine data for a week because it got submitted right before that holiday!

And even then it took JWST multiple *months* to cool down to operating temperature, and that was with zero sources of heat beyond a couple computers and radios.

And even at that it's not like Big Bang Theory was actually about nerd culture, it was about a jock interpretation of nerd culture. (Futurama and Lower Decks are what actual "nerd culture" shows look like.)

bsky.app/profile/robo...

And in America you can just open your mouth and drink the water you're showering in, and places where you can't do that get to be on the news because it's so uncommon.

I always heard that as "...never thought we'd be rich enough to have two telephones but too poor to hire a cook."

"we'll just put a sticker on the side of the Death Laser that says NOT FOR USE ON GOOD GUYS..."

It'll be interesting to see how this gets enforced, because who's to say that the specific artwork in my etsy shop wasn't AI-generated?

"They're already fucking us, maybe if we play friendly we can convince them to pay for it."

Tank Police is just a mess.

this question is unironically a core part of the actual media

the bitter cynical viewpoint is that Disney is aware that OpenAI straight ripped everything Disney owns and is at least 40% being used for Disney copyright violations, so they might as well be inside the tent and make a dime off of it

like, you say "freemasons" to mean what Americans would call "police gangs"

See, that's the thing - obviously the tip-top end is gonna be fine, as well as the "I don't care about money, it's about the love of the game" hobbyists. What gets reamed out is the middle, the jobbers, the people who made a living doing jingles and auto-dealer layouts and posters for the church...

Well, they ain't makin' the cosmic rays any different!

"But all those books I read said that space was really cold!"

Huh. So when Terry Pratchett wrote about Big Mad Drongo, that's a reference to an actual thing?

Also the people out there saying flat-out that if a computer can make a good-enough version of your work then you don't deserve to get paid...

TV SHOW IN A FOREIGN LANGUAGE

TV SHOW IN A FOREIGN LANGUAGE

we’ve kind of reached the twilight of the strip in the reposts, but man, I think I was cooking in the late stages

"Egon, this reminds me of the time you tried to drill a hole through your head."
"That would've worked if you hadn't stopped me."

please support writers and artists and musicians and all the people who are doing the actual labor to create interesting, intentional work

like, it's being made clear that they consider us cows to be milked for data, and the only choice we have is whether we moo while it happens or just disassociate.

YouTube video by Chance Wen USSF Chicago Servicing Mission

youtu.be/n7baTLMzYjA?...

yeah the GMs really take it in the shorts here

really really long wires