Andrew Herring
@andrewherring.bsky.social
Artist, occasional humorist, philosopher, NFTs and AI stuff can go to Hell. "Bobby Lee this, Bobby Lee that. Stop thinking what he'll do to you and start thinking what you'll do to him!" ~US Grant Other places you can find me: cara.app/andrewherring
"I am actively making this planet a crappier place to live, but damn does this job pay well" is literally how we keep perpetuating this god awful timeline, and I can guarantee you every terrible invention ever manufactured had factory employees saying exactly as much.
onion person@junlper.beer · 6d ago
In re, a post of mine well below this one: Damnit!, he is like this on purpose!
WildPartyInviteDecliner@ratelimitexceeder.bsky.social · 2w agoFrancis Fukuyama keeps the winning streak alive.
If anyone reading this can help with that, hit ero up.
ero@erodozer.moe · 2w agoneed a tool that converts NIF to VRM so I can vtube with my Morrowind character
The only thing that reeks more than the theory behind this is the desperation. Not the dudes, though; they will be obliterating the local AQI.
Ela Bambust 🏳️⚧️ (alleged transsexual)@ela-bambust.bsky.social · 2w agomen have figured out a new dating technique and it's "less personal grooming" it's a bold strategy cotton let's see if it works out for them
J.Jonah Jameson is tsundere for Spider-man. That's the only lesson I am getting out of these latest memes.
Alright, who let Cronenberg open a restaurant? Cooking is another form of art, and it's important that any depiction of that art reflect what you actually create and serve. I don't think this place remotely knows what a burrito is if *this* is what they are telling me they're selling.
Robert Komaniecki@komaniecki.bsky.social · 4w agoWe are all dogs locked in god’s hot car
A list will tell me all I need to know to order. An AI menu will tell me all I need to know to order from someone else's place.
Robert Komaniecki@komaniecki.bsky.social · 4w agoHow do I explain to small business owners that the menu on the left is one billion times more appealing than the one on the right
I dunno who follows me that needs to be told this, but you are in fact so much better than no-assing any of your work with AI. Follow ero's example, because it's a good one to follow with any work you do.
ero@erodozer.moe · last mo.fellow vtuber loving software engineers, please consider adding an anti-AI oshi clause to your OSS projects. For an artistic community built on human creativity, it's asinine and insulting to your oshi to not treat your code and problem solving also as an art that flourishes from your personal touch
There are many ways to produce a work of art.
852dude@852dude.bsky.social · last mo.Bro. People are cool as fuck.
R2-D2 just started playing the transmission, and you are Cuber's only hope.
Cuber@xcuber2.whiprays.com · last mo.EMERGENCY COMMISSIONS I'm opening up some commission slots to help pay rent for this month. :) I would greatly appreciate sharing with your friends!
People ask me this outside of the topic of art anyways, but that's now another reason I can give them.
Cool Doug Love@cooldouglove.bsky.social · last mo.You're not really making art if people aren't asking you, "seriously, why are you like this?"
Disney, if you don't give us this as a movie you're a pile of cowards!
Gail Simone@gailsimone.bsky.social · last mo.Today I wrote my editor speaking as Dr. Doom but with a Foghorn Leghorn accent and this is why I am so universally beloved with no haters or detractors anywhere, ever. "That Richards, nice boy but he's about as sharp as a bowling ball. Are ya listening, son? Doom is, I SAY, Doom is SPEAKIN'!"
"If AI disappeared tomorrow... Imagine AI was suddenly banned..." I am holding the world's sickest kegger. Whole township would be getting hammered on my dime. Cops'll think we're a frat or something, it'll be that kind of blast.
Ayo@darrylayo.bsky.social · last mo.Guys like this don’t realize that they are the freak
It's a lack of criticality in sites and channels that traffic in any given subject, but don't actually specialize it, the result of people who don't know *how* to care, or have the time to do so, thanks to the publish-or-perish model so many live and die by: tis the enshittification of information.
Cats of Yore@catsofyore.bsky.social · last mo.This is not cat related, but I discovered an odd bit of widespread history misinformation today. I saw a story about a very cool lady named Margaret E. Knight who was a brilliant inventor. The problem is that she was born in 1838 and this is the photo of her used in nearly every story I found.
I mean, this was I why I did. Also, peep the Strange Aeons Youtube channel. Absolutely unhinged internet lore to be had.
Kevin M. Kruse@kevinmkruse.bsky.social · last mo."Why should I major in History?"
Escapist fantasy will do this every time the world starts to suck real hard, be it now or, say, 45 years ago, isekai or not. Often, though not always, with the message "well, you can't fight capitalism and win, so pretend you can fight this instead". The truck is literally capitalism, by the way.
The Emotion Engine@emotion-engine.bsky.social · 2mo agoIsekai as a genre is exploding in popularity because it appeals to a universal desire to get hit by a truck rather than live in the 21st century.
Arguably the most magnetic thing you can do as a creator is go into your thing with the enthusiasm of a soccer fan. I coulda told you that they inject digestive fluids, I never woulda been able to explain the mechanics. And @travismcenery.bsky.social goes into detail beyond that.
How Spiders REALLY Eat their Prey (and it isn't by just sucking blood)
YouTube video by Travis McEnery
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"Bread and circuses" came out of a scathing critique about how depraved Romans in the capital had become morally and socially. And that's just on Rome itself, not the greater empire. There were fewer ways to push back against it all, but people knew what evil looked like when they saw it.
Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò@olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 2mo agoone tendency that comes out about period films is the insistence that XYZ moral thought would not have occurred to anyone in the ancient world. to be sure there are moral innovations and changes but the existence of thorough dissatisfaction with the present moral order is not a modern phenomenon
I could swear I did this day last week. Tuesdeja vu, this is.
Little Boxes, because being the embodiment of all of the lesser angels of two national governments' natures shouldn't bar him from engaging in a little social commentary once and a while.
Gail Simone@gailsimone.bsky.social · 2mo agoWhat song would Godzilla practice on if Mothra gifted him with a giant ukulele?
Any mechanic where the player is presented with tangible effects of their actions, however small, is never a bad mechanic to have. Rockstar did this with Carl Johnson in San Andreas, and it was for good reason: *making you* pay attention to what happens to this character. More games should do this.
AUTOMATON WEST@automatonwest.bsky.social · 2mo agoAtelier Karia’s developers are asking players if they want the heroine to become “plump” after she eats a lot via an official survey Feedback from the survey will inform the game's development automaton-media.com/en/news/atel...
Because John Williams could write and conduct the score to footage of a trip to a DMV and make it worth the audiences' investment. Man just knows how to hook you with music.
Your art could look like a scrungly turd and it would still offer more to the world than anything a bot could barf up. Your writing could read like a scrungly turd and it would still offer more to the world than what a bot could barf up. Bad art you make yourself is still worthy art.
Shen Comix@shenanigansen.bsky.social · 2mo ago
Hands down the best take on fighting AI: Love the thing you are protecting as much as you hate the thing that you oppose. It's such a good take.
Casey Explosion@caseyexplosion.bsky.social · 2mo agoIt's not enough to be against AI, you need to be pro art. You need to be a champion of the art you love, you need to share that passion and joy, and do what you can to support the artists who make it, because it's not enough to hate AI, to hate what it's doing to art and media; you gotta love.
What the Zuck is this crap? I'm so very glad I haven't had an insta or FB account for years now. Also, yes, Mark's doing this on purpose, because forcing bad technology down our throats is just his mission in life.
Ian McQue@ianmcque.bsky.social · 2mo agoA new example of Meta shithousery. This is a post of mine on Instagram (left). Click the dots top right and this advisory note appears (right). I never use ai, never will. Why would they do this? Who benefits? Are they just trying to make viewers think everything is genAI so they just accept it?
Location, location, location, indeed.
Belle and the Meaning of Place
YouTube video by Folding Ideas
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