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It could be really bad for Discord if Californians contact the office of the Attorney General to report the potential violations of CCPA and CALOPPA citing the recent breach from a few months back where 1.5tb of user data and millions of IDs were leaked, but who can say for sure?

Just a reminder, the greatest living American historian filmmaker, Ken Burns, released a 720 min exploration of every facet of the American revolution using zero generative AI and paying for all of its assets instead of cobbling it from stolen data, then he gave it away for free on PBS this year.

Lots of Bears fans remained in the stands as Bears players exited the field.

NO WAY. CALEB WILLIAMS HEAVES IT ON 4TH DOWN.

Skeleton guy

MS paint drawing- Nausicaä standing and gazing up at the viewer from the forest floor, surrounded by fungi and spores.

I've been reading the Nausicaä manga for the first time 💙 (MS paint drawing)

Oh, the Nausicaä manga is one of my favorites!

The art in that whole series is so cool, and even seeing Miyazaki's early concepts and designs grow from that story too.

...I gotta go back and reread that now.

tenpages.github.io/us-level/us....

Huh, been around more places than I thought.

my hot take is that I don't think it's this website specifically that's toxic. the Circumstances are toxic and nobody really knows what to do about it so they come online and scream. and if I may offer an alternative: actually going outside and screaming feels better.

I adore the background art in Digimon Adventure. There's often a kind of pastel dreaminess - not necessarily real-life, but the way we view childhood through the lens of nostalgia. Considering the whole series revolves around a coming-of-age, summer camp experience, it's fitting.

From the recent Concept Core Challenge (:

Not only a perfect denouement, it was the end of an era. Thirty years ago today, this strip was published.

Meet up with a friend at Guildhall, who wanted to check out this 1hr D&D session going on that night.

A very nice gentlemen comes up to us at the bar to chat and promote said event, very nice time.

After he leaves, we both go: "why does he look so familiar?"

Bartender: "That's Matthew Lillard."

A screenshot from Rick Astley's Never Gonna Give you up music video

A screenshot from Rick Astley's Never Gonna Give you up music video

A screenshot from Rick Astley's Never Gonna Give you up music video

A photograph of the seminary gym in knives out. It has the same window.

Just watched the new Knives Out and I think it's really important you know that the scene in the Seminary's Gym is filmed in the same place Rick Astley filmed the music video for Never Gonna Give You Up.

I saw the window tracery and immediately made my friends pause the film so I could tell them.

Some thoughts: When using GenAi as a mood board you don't get sources. This means you deprive yourself from knowledge. You generated a location? You deprived yourself of knowing more about the interesting parts of the world and why things came to be. Generate an armor or costume? You deprived yourself on real world techniques, function, form and history. You generated art inspirations? You deprive yourself of learning about artists from history or lock out living ones from potentially being hired. Ethical issues of using GenAi models aside, one ends up making visuals mood boards devoid of reality and history. With it one deprives themselves from learning about our world and who is living in it, inadvertently making your work weaker, because of how detached it is from our shared human reality and history.

Been thinking on the use of GenAi for mood boards. Ethics and legal risks aside, I truly believe using GenAi as references deprives one of many pivotal things.

Here’s a blurb on what I mean:

Eyvind Earle (American, 1916–2000)
"Central Park", 1983.
Serigraph on Paper, 76.2 × 50.8 cm.
Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York City)
#art #painting #artist #BlueSkyArt

Digital Circus 7

"One Sky, One Destiny"

Back in 2018 I created a piece in anticipation for Kingdom Hearts 3. Years later, in anticipation for Kingdom Hearts 4 I've created a new version of that piece with even more details and characters!

Will be available on my shop at a later date.

A poster for the animated film "Scarlet" by Mamoru Hosoda, releasing December 12th in IMAX theaters.

I know everyone's (rightfully) geeking out about all the gaming news/awards from yesterday.

But I need to gush about Scarlet, 'cause that film was REAL good. If you love Hosoda's work, you'll love this one. Definitely see it in IMAX, that theater was shaking SO MUCH, and I say that as a good thing.

Suggest an interesting character redesign.

Another quickie doodle.

One Piece changing its release pattern is bittersweet, because the anime's filler episodes only add to the adventure Opinion | One Piece potentially cutting down on filler means we might lose the anime's oddly memorable adventures

One Piece changing its release schedule in 2026 likely means an end to much of the filler. So I wrote about what made One Piece filler stand out, from the crew getting trapped in a navy base, to Zoro's adventures in babysitting: www.gamesradar.com/entertainmen...

漫画描きたいな～って思って考え中

Doodle of my sona Meh pointing at repost/reblog button with their finger. There is "this one is important" written near them.

It's so discouraging to post art when you see how fucked up the ratio of like to repost is. Just please, do the second click, it's literally few seconds and does so much more for struggling artists.

Now the question becomes: what kind of pizza are you eating?

If you think there was a lot of baseball talk last night, that’s because there was A LOT of baseball talk last night

Green line below shows activity during the game, vs. the day before (yellow) and last week (blue). The peaks are 66% higher than normal

We have the juice