Bidonica
@bidonica.bsky.social
Adult With A Job™️ plagued by visions of fictional characters that I sometimes draw | #asoiaf veteran incurring in #mgs brainrot. #bdncrt for all the art (most recent in 📌) | She/her | Leave your questions: https://bidonica.straw.page/ | ENG+ITA
honestly if all that stuff disappeared my days would improve? I wouldn't have to navigate cryptic menus to opt out everywhere, I wouldn't see shifty chatgpt posters everywhere I wouldn't have to hear ppl say "I asked chatgpt..."
Alexander Glass@alexanderglass.bsky.social · 19h agoI have one answer.
I yearn to Be Outside but Outside is Mordor currently and I can't even take advantage of my friend's invitation to join her at her rental in the mountains because my car needs to be looked at and they aren't going to do it before the end of next week. Yeurgh
It’s never denazify social media, it’s always welcome more Nazis to social media.
Ciara | Ciaraíoch 🎨@ciaraioch.bsky.social · 2d ago"Bluesky is a political echo chamber" okay but I'm mostly here to chat with fun internet people and post art and make jokes, I cannot stress how much I don't care
I've gotten to the point that nine times out of ten, when I hear a song that is topping the charts my honest reaction is "people listen to this garbage?"
Black Aziz Anansi@blackazizanansi.blacksky.app · 2w agoWhat's your old person trait?
Every now and then someone takes a run at me along the lines of "I don't understand why you, a scifi writer, don't appreciate 'AI'," and I'm all, motherfucker, it's *because* I'm a science fiction writer I have the positions I have, how many times do we have to fucking yell "torment nexus," my dude
Just realized that August 15 (a bank holiday in Italy) is on a Saturday this year. Foul work.
never thought short form video would be able to capture a type of humor i can only describe as “the far side-esque” but this comes close.
I'm actually going to use this as a jumping-off point for a more general thread on zines. I think a lot of us writers and artists see a zine application as one-way evaluation, where the mods judge our work & decide if we're a fit for the project. But the evaluation needs to go both ways. (1/?)
Nina Lansing@nlanswrites.bsky.social · 5d agoAnyone putting together a zine: Vet your finance and shipping mods VERY carefully. Back in 2023, Cym/Kroalias signed up to be the finance and shipping mod for dozens of physical zines and then did not ship what people had paid for. The money went missing and much of it has still not been paid back.
The TOS being so strict that they control you offsite is the problem; sites like Patreon and Kofi have offsite clauses too. The social criminalization of the suggestion that somewhere you might be doing nsfw is a problem. It's branding a person as obscene and we need consumers to stand up for us
Sam Cole@samleecole.bsky.social · 5d agoa bunch of popular ASMR artists lost their channels forever this week, after YouTube cited them for violating terms against "sexually gratifying" content: www.404media.co/youtube-asmr...
had lofty plans of waking up early tomorrow to go biking a little before the heat gets too unbearable but I fear they're crashing against the Loves To Be On The Computer Late iceberg
went to Action and picked up this 2.99€ frame on a whim in the off chance it fits the bbkaz print I bought months ago. And it does. It fits it like a GLOVE
The Raleigh Vektar was considered world's first smart bike (1985). Today, I don't even want a smart TV.
QRP with your most popular piece on bsky ~
Dan Liimatta@danliimatta.bsky.social · 6d agoQRP with your most popular piece on bsky ~
Potato is the name of the mascot character for Korea’s Gamzabatt Cafe, known for its potato bread and lattes. There’s a branch in Yokohama, Japan, now.
the humiliation ritual of looking at old fanart from when you still hadn't settled on the Correct design for the character
It'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.
"millions of old rare, out of print books - then destroying them"! bsky.app/profile/mint... www.404media.co/ai-companies...
AI Companies Are Buying Tons of Old Books Because They're Free of AI Slop
ISBNdb, a company that sources printed books for AI companies to turn into training data, tells clients “the optics problem is real.”
404media.co
Mint Royale@mint-royale.com · last wk.This story about anthropic (and other ai companies) just bulk buying millions of books - including old rare, out of print books - then chopping the spines to make them easier to scan and then destroying them once they’re scanned is just so fucking bleak and depressing
Lrp if you think I'm joking when I say we need the butlerian jihad let me just say I'm dead serious
‘Anthropic described the project as “our effort to disruptively scan all the world’s books” in an internal memo, which noted “we do not want it to be known that we are pursuing this project”.’
Eli Valley@elivalley.bsky.social · last wk.Dystopia www.news.com.au/technology/o...