David Ziggy Greene (Jam bookshop)

Dear Meta Smart Glasses Wearers: You're Being Watched, Too Not for your eyes only.

I didn't think Meta's creep glasses could get any creepier but "an army of contractors watches everything you record to render your life into AI training data" is creepmaxxing

A few years ago I learned that to a highly financialised state (eg the UK), a person in debt is considered far more valuable than a person just working and paying taxes.

After reading that, suddenly every government policy made much more sense…

Exactly how & why I opened Jam 'bookshop'

Seriously though there must have been some hell of an Epstein files drop coming up

Just Nick Robinson casually asking a guest on BBC Today if protests against the war 'should be allowed to go ahead' or 'ought to be banned in this country'.

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a cartoon character says it 's art in front of a red wall Alt: That dude from el dorado, wildly out if context here, but shouting “IT’S ART” and looking annoyed.

Watching that lords video clip about AI again.

As creators we should be mindful of calling our work ‘content’ - “generating content” is a term that is systematically devaluing work of creatives across all disciplines.

We’re not making content. We are drawing, painting, writing, music-making.

Ah screw it let's do a

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Atomic.

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drawing of a dog resisting being pulled on a leash so hard that his skin is pulled up covering his face

Don't resist...

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David Squires on … Gianni Infantino’s accomplishments in 10 years as Fifa supremo Our cartoonist on a decade of magic moments in the big job for world football’s leading ‘man of the people’

Here’s this week’s cartoon for @sport.theguardian.com

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Write to your MP. Actually do it. It is the one thing you can do all by yourself that they actually notice

"We called London a war zone and moved to Dubai by mistake"

@dannyrobins.bsky.social must be called into action!

Seriously though there must have been some hell of an Epstein files drop coming up

btw The Secret Agent is a hellova film

Tbh this taste of old school twitter is quite funny

Yeah.
Same.
Just no money to share around :(

That last word is spelt p-r-o-f-i-t-s

Newcastle pubs ban AI art from breweries to protect local creatives As two pubs in Newcastle ban AI art, artists discuss the impact it can have on creatives.

"If I was to use ChatGPT for my designs rather than our designer Sean, that's taking money out of the local area into the hands of a multibillionaire ... removing value from the local community and local artists [and] into the hands of some of the richest people in the world."

#AIslop #refuseresist

Venture capitalists are responsible for some of this. So are previous owners of WHS for how they ran the business. Changes in reading habits amongst the public too. But IMIO this is especially bad news because it will reduce the presence of books on the high street, books as a fact of everyday life.

Got a load of fellas with no followers, lecturing me like I'm some newbie art school graduate that hasn't lived as a professional & international illustrator for almost 20 years or been promoting on socials since the start of MySpace.

Not exactly making the positive case for social media, chaps.

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I just ordered your Times Like These book, I don’t know how I missed it but looking forward to reading it!

After a truly awful last 12 months, I'm struggling to scrap by.

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Oceania had always been at war with Eastasia.

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This Kate Bush #WutheringHeights dance print by @jambookshopuk.bsky.social is a steal at £14, surely? 🤩

This is incredibly shit but also completely unsurprising. Every single large corporate in the UK is dropping everything useful or sustainable they might have been doing in favour of miraculous snake oil sold by grifters