Aurum K.
@ak-illustrate.bsky.social
Artist and writer behind the "Chimeran Legends" web comic! Lighting Artist at Epic Games. Thoughts and opinions are my own. I do not take commissions or requests. sfw✦30+yrs Webcomic: https://chimeranlegends.thecomicseries.com/
While the SCREEN Act failed in the committee, KOSA did move forward. Contact your senators immediately demanding it be opposed, and keep the pressure up until it comes to a vote in the Senate
Fight for the Future@fightforthefuture.org · 9h agoThe Senate Commerce Committee just passed KOSA out of committee with zero debate & failed to move the SCREEN Act. punchbowl.news/article/tech...
SOME GOOD NEWS! continue to contact your reps re: KOSA and the KIDS Act, but also give yourself a pat on the back if you called! Your voice mattered!
Free Speech Coalition@fsc.bsky.social · 11h agoSCREEN Act, which would have required mandatory age-verification for sites (like this) that allow "material harmful to minors" failed to pass out of committee after thousands and thousands of people called their Senators. More work ahead!
If SCREEN were to pass, you'd be required to scan your face and upload an ID to access this site because it allows "harmful" material. This affects you even if you don't care about sex work or porn.
404 Media@404media.co · yesterdayMike Lee's SCREEN Act, which heads to Senate Commerce Committee for markup on Wednesday, would expand age verification requirements to a nearly limitless scope of websites, and is supported by the architects of Project 2025.
You know it's a good series when you get that wistful "what now?" melancholy upon finishing it. @pangolinfox.bsky.social put so much love into the resonance series, and you can feel that love on every page. Please support this amazing creator by buying her paperbacks here!
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I really hope this takes off. There needs to be a creative storefront marketplace that actually bans genai and drop shipping, and I hope it's a 100% ban. Etsy is completely ruined and not artist friendly. Much luck to Fybe! fybe.art
The SCREEN Act is not just another age-verification bill — it goes much further than anything passed at the state-level or in other countries. 1. The bill doesn't just target porn sites. It goes after *any* site that allows material "harmful" to minors. You'd have to scan your face to use Google.
After years of work, my fantasy creature encyclopedia, 『竜とけもの図鑑』, is finally being published! Release date: October 2nd. I hope you’ll look forward to it!🐾 ▼Amazon www.amazon.co.jp/dp/4046856920
An incredible cause that includes Bundle of Joy! So impressed by @videogameworkers.bsky.social and the community surpassing 100K!
itch.io@itch.io · 2d agoEnjoy 127 items by 109 creators and support game devs effected by recent layoffs: itch.io/b/3802/game-...
Pattern Pack is one of my more popular assets, because of its generic nature. So, I've made 80+ more patterns! They'll be released soon, completely free. Both in PNG and SVG formats ✨
It will be worse than this! Most websites will be forced to ask you to send your ID to a third party surveillance service, adding a credit card won't be enough for most. Bluesky asks for your *social security number* if you live in Texas now, due to this shit. Call in, and kill it.
Eromancer@eromancer.bsky.social · 3d agoThis will be the US if the SCREEN Act passes. Call your Senators before August 5 and tell them that you oppose the SCREEN Act, KOSA, and the KIDS Act. Use the official lookup tool at www.senate.gov/senators/sen... to find yours by state.
Because I haven't been able to draw I've been going back and looking at older art I've made. I really like this little Petrie from Land Before Time I did a few years back.
Gave my oceanic dragon sketch some color. He raids seaside ports for easy meals and treasures. #dragon
Just did a release for the Mesh2Motion app. Open source alternative to Mixamo 🎉 #gamedev #blender - New Horse Rig + 13 animations - Offline Desktop Application - 40+ Human Animations added Check out the full release 12 notes with all changes: mesh2motion.org/news Try it out: app.mesh2motion.org
Heads up, artists 🚨 There’s a massive scam wave hitting DeviantArt right now DO NOT CLICK IT. If you have artist friends on DA, please boost this. I’d hate to see someone lose their account or payment info over something this stupid 🖤 { #DeviantArt #ArtistBeware #ScamAlert }
Apple charges people ~20% more than the Patreon list price and they keep the difference for themselves. They also hold the proceeds of iOS app sales for 75 days, making it impossible for creators to accurately predict earnings. They basically inserted themselves in order to rip *more* people off
Part Time Yeen@parttimeyeen.bsky.social · 6mo agoAny of you using the ios version of Patreon to support me, switch to the browser version instead, cuz the apple fees have actually taken over 3000 usd from me in the course of a year
In light of Hank Green disappointing us all, a thread of science communicators that do not brainlessly parrot LLMs as reference. Miniminuteman. A Tiktok import who now posts long form archeological/pseudoarcheology-debunking vids to YouTube. They're fantastic. www.youtube.com/watch?v=bFA4...
The Giant Skeletons of Lovelock Cave - DEBUNKED
YouTube video by Miniminuteman
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This is exactly how people talk about gambling and drinking.
!["I need to come to terms with the fact that the level of dopamine I've been getting from interacting with LLMs-with doing more and more and more and more-is not healthy for me or good for the world," said Green. "It is careless, and has disconnected me from where people are on this. I was talking about this with [my wife] last night, and she did not pull any punches. Frankly, neither did [my brother]. Neither of them think I've been being healthy. I need to readjust."](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:pytxycyhu6ql3flqs2qmkuub/bafkreicmxurcds4n55kttsu4q7lglli5tmelaerxppn4gc5ruutlkdqrvq)
Being anti-AI isn't enough. You should be pro-art, pro-artist, pro-writer, pro-worker. Don't expend all your energy tearing people down. Spend it lifting people up instead. Make their voices so loud, their art so visible, it drowns out the slop.
