Brendan Parry Kaufmann

@bpkaufmann.bsky.social

Audible Shape. Semi-Ambulatory Cheese Disposal System. Actor/Writer/Director/Producer/Cat-Wrangler. No DMs unless I know you IRL. 🇦🇺🇺🇦🇬🇪🇦🇲🇨🇦🇬🇱🇩🇰🇮🇸🏳️‍🌈🖤💛❤️

Hey @royalsociety.org, this is your most esteemed Fellow doing white supremacy again. He's a nazi. He's murdered many thousands. Yet you say nothing and implicitly endorse his fascism. As a Fellow he's your ambassador. Are these your views he presents? Are you white supremacists? #SpinelessCowards

Snigdha@snig.bsky.social · 2w ago

Tweet from Elon Musk: “Anyone who opposites remigration is a traitor” posted yesterday. Open white supremacist rhetoric from the richest fascist in the world.

Tweet from Elon Musk: “Anyone who opposites remigration is a traitor” posted yesterday.

Well. So this is sixty. Pretty much the same as fifty-nine, I'd note. No idea how I'm meant to feel about this. Still waiting for the instructional handbook on how to operate this thing. Making it up as I go along - which works most of the time. Per Ardua Ad Astra.

Happy Birthday to me.

Timeline cleanser - isn't this lovely? I saw a Pine Marten once, very early in the morning, as I was wandering Yellowstone National Park a few years ago. Gorgeous little forest sprite he was - watched me for a bit, and then went about his day. I saw wolves, as well. That was a bloody good day.

UnfamiliarArts@unfamiliararts.bsky.social · 4w ago

An ivy covered pine marten forest spirit. This little piece will be available Friday, July 17th at 8pm Eastern time!

A photo of a ceramic pine marten. It has hand painted ivy leaves on it and is coated in a pale green glaze.

Good morning. An observation, for the current moment (and in anticipation for a few future ones - yes, *one* in particular): If the dead are so concerned with being spoken ill of, then perhaps they should have been a better person while they still drew breath.

Boosting the signal on this. I've long ago walked away from anything Meta - and would recommend others do so, too - but some people still find its products have utility. But I'd strongly suggest you do this - protect yourselves, and your art, whatever that may be. Fuck AI.

SAG-AFTRA@sagaftra.org · 4w ago

Meta now lets anyone use your Instagram photos in AI images without your consent. SAG-AFTRA recommends that #SagAftraMembers (and all Instagram users) opt-OUT of Meta’s new AI image generation tool, Muse Image. Take action to protect your likeness.

If you want to avoid AI generations of your Instagram posts without switching your account to private, you’ll have to dig into the app’s settings. Open the Instagram app, tap your profile, and then tap the three lines in the top-right corner of the screen. Then, scroll down to the Sharing and reuse tab. Here is where you should see a section labeled Allow people to use your content on Instagram and with AI features on Meta, with a toggle for Posts and one for Reels.

If you think this performing toaster oven is going to give you anything beyond hot garbage, strip-mined, bleached and desecrated from the work of actual creatives who were never paid, then perhaps the kindest thing you can do for yourself is feed yourself feet-first into a tree shredder.

NBC News@nbcnews.com · last mo.

The comedy-drama will star AI "actor" Tilly Norwood in a “hybrid production with traditional film and TV professionals — such as directors, writers and editors — working alongside AI specialists, with AI training and mentorship built into the production itself,” the company says.

Wishing Ghost and Goblin happy birthday, today. Brother and sister, found under a porch in LA at five weeks old, now citizens of Melbourne, Australia - where they mostly spend their days sleeping, eating, destroying my couch, and waiting for their next thought to turn up. Love my little guys.

Ghost and Goblin - my two rescue kittens, who are now two insane furry blobs of chaos.