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(Bear-thh. They/He) Glory to Cascadia. Graphic Designer, Web Dev., Tech. Writer. 👋 Hi from PDX || #FFXIV Aether baerthe.com <- Discord tokens.baerthe.com <- High Quality MTG Token Prints
i am once again pointing out that the #1 asset pack on your site right now is a no AI notice/splash screen that i made. you can just ban the slop. in fact, this would be a very popular thing to do
itch.io@itch.io · yesterdayThe number of game pages being created per-day has doubled in the past 2 months
Itch.io should take a stance and side with indies; ban or hide all slop. Hard to enforce for sure, but it's a strong message. I've personally had to disable all bot/agent access to my site, they were eating up my bandwidth, no donations, almost taking down my site for everyone. Why accept this?
itch.io@itch.io · yesterdayThe number of game pages being created per-day has doubled in the past 2 months
when artists said this in 2022 they were laughing at us, so 🤷♀️ (but realtalk, I'm glad more people are waking up to it now)
Holy shit the Mexico City Dia De Los Muertos parade this year is stunning stuff www.instagram.com/popular/mexi...
I do not like you, Sam-I-am. You will not have my fucking RAM.
Culture Crave 🍿@culturecrave.co · 3d agoOpenAI CEO Sam Altman says having RAM in personal computers is a ‘terrible’ use of limited resources and that it would be better utilized in data centers "From a global perspective it’s quite terrible to have everyone have a bunch of the world’s limited supply of DRAM sitting in their computer"
Anthropic appears to have ordered AI tool Claude to stop remaking video games
Anthropic appears to have ordered AI tool Claude to stop remaking video games
'Don’t build a recreation of a specific existing game, even if it is renamed or called original.'
gamedeveloper.com
Talarico: "Ken Paxton is canceling rallies because nobody is showing up. He can't recruit volunteers, so he uses AI bots. He doesn't have any grassroots donors, so he's relying on the richest man in the world to fund his campaign."
"The company that owned a private prison in Appleton offered to sell it to MN for $75m Year later, Trump agreed to use taxpayer $ to buy it from CoreCivic for $495.6m The price difference, $420m, is more than was lost in much-publicized Feeding Our Future scandal" www.kare11.com/article/news...
oh, fucking hell this one really hurts, very few people have had as much impact with their acting as Patrick Stewart by all accounts a lovely human being as well, we are all much worse off for his passing
Patrick Stewart, ‘Star Trek’ Captain and ‘X-Men’ Superhero, Dies at 86
He’s forever known for playing Jean-Luc Picard and Charles Xavier, whom he “admired for their morality, for their kindness, for their sensitivity, for their compassion.”
hollywoodreporter.com
PLEASE JUST OPEN A BROWSER AND USE PATREON ON THE BROWSER. THE APP SUCKS SHIT ANYWAY.
Derf Backderf@derfbackderf.bsky.social · 5d agoFYI Apple is now taking a huge 30% cut if you donate to someone's Patreon via Apple's IOS App. AND they sit on the funds for 75 days-- over 2 months!-- making interest while creators watch their bank accounts wither to nothing. Yet again Big Tech fucks creators. Do NOT use the Apple IOS APP.
A summer camp sent an email this morning. They outline how Gen AI search has killed their marketing reach. They’re asking families to host info sessions in our homes. When a business cannot connect with people looking for it, what’s the search business model again?
Financial Times@financialtimes.com · 4d agoBreaking news: Alphabet shares tumbled 13% on Thursday after the Google owner revealed that 'AI mode' searches were threatening profits at its core advertising business. ft.trib.al/g8Q9IPx
With my site approaching 7TB of monthly data transfer, I've had to take action. Download links are now signed to prevent direct hotlinking. No changes for you! Please link to my website instead of directly to files. That way, I at least get a chance to ask for a donation.
PSA for anyone falling for the clickbait headline: 1. it'll only affect PUBLIC /DISCOVERABLE/ servers. Not just normal public servers 2. it'll only affect NEW messages, not old ones 3. it's trying to address "everything lives in discord and not in public forum/wikis"
guys i hate discord but this is super not them making your dms public or whatever. all this does is make 1000+ member public servers searchable. so, you know, all those games you play where you have to join to get information? you may not need to join now
Naolin Davis@naolindavis.art · 6d agoTime to leave all public discord servers and make your own discord servers private. www.dexerto.com/entertainmen...
For years, Republicans have been pushing to cut FDA funding. Recent outbreaks (diarrhea lettuce) prove we can’t keep cutting domestic spending to fund foreign wars. Congress MUST reject Trump’s $1.5 TRILLION war request and focus on real priorities—like keeping our food safe.
The FDA rarely inspects much of the produce Americans eat
Americans are eating more imported fruits and vegetables, but less than 10 percent of facilities that account for 90 percent of shipments have been inspected since 2009.
washingtonpost.com
wanted to write about this, but found it simpler to draw it instead
Anthony Davis: “Who exactly are this 31% of Americans who think this lazy tyrant, this dollar-store dictator, this narcoleptic nincompoop is doing a good job?”
This is literally the end of the rule of law. If a President can pardon people committing crimes on his behalf - and the Supreme Court says he himself can't be prosecuted for crimes committed as part of his job - then the government becomes a lawless entity able to violate our rights without limit.
The Washington Sun@washingtonsun.com · last wk.New: White House attorneys are evaluating whether to issue mass pardons to junior staffers. https://www.washingtonsun.com/whitehouse/white-house-weighing-mass-pardons-for-junior-staff
it's because they literally have no visual education; so they do not know how to convey anything without the help of text tools don't make you an artist
Terminally Frogline@2frogline69.bsky.social · last wk.Continuing the tradition of Everything Being Labeled For Some Fucking Reason
At some point I am going to actually create more #MTG content like this #ProxyCard of Goddess Emeria, the ancient god of Zendikar who turned out to be an #Eldrazi titan. A reflection of an eons old horror. #AffinityStudio #Art
Trump’s personal Attorney General Todd Blanche doesn’t rule out challenging election certifications in various states (You are not alarmed enough)
We literally have the emails from Jeff Epstein advising, over years, with *all* these guys on the explicit strategy of targeting trans children in order to make all their intended victims more vulnerable and easier to access. Jeff Epstein told them, literally, to use transphobia as a sledgehammer.
Washington State Democrats@wadems.org · 2w agoDoctors and nurses are voicing their objections. I-638 would require EVERY girl who wants to participate in sports to go through biological sex verification. That means expensive, invasive, and utterly gross examinations. Protect our kids and let them play. Vote NO on I-638
Love the idea, let's start a train of art inspired by Bioware games ❤️ These stories mean the world to me, its characters inspired me for years, the artists and writers behind them literally helped shape my artistic journey. I am thankful for everything you've created 🫶
☽ saskia ☾@corvidkusnos.bsky.social · 2w agoIn the wake of the news... feel free to quote with your art, fic, edits, etc. to show our love! Salutes in chat for the end of an era 🫡 Dragon Age truly is ours and no one can take that from us.
🗳️ Stella Parton (Dolly’s Sister) is among the Tennesseans reporting voting machines tried to flip her @jerrigreen4tn.bsky.social vote to Marsha Blackburn🤔😕 www.instagram.com/p/DewwVI9ERq...
