Daaaamn. “AI is the asbestos we're shovelling into the walls of our technological society. Our descendants will spend generations digging it out again, and the longer the bubble goes on without popping, the longer it will take to repair the damage." www.thenerve.news/p/cory-docto...

Cory Doctorow: The people who tell you ‘AI is changing everything’ are lying

It has become impossible to tell managers mesmerised by artificial intelligence that the tools are not, in fact, helpful. So employees just play along with the fiction to keep their jobs, writes our t...

thenerve.news

Commission for @bunanacinnamon.bsky.social of my favourite guy ✨

in Blue Prince, every time the bassoon track plays, I gain 5 steps irl

re-stringing

It’s a birdie bird world, we’re just living in it 🐦 #art #digitalart #illustration #flatart #birds #raven #pigeon #crow #pigeonsky

does anyone else have cats that loudly and violently chase/attack each other one moment and then cuddle on a blanket together the next? we can’t figure out why their dynamic is like this, but we’re up late and frazzled after splitting them up…

The diarrhea lettuce company, Taylor Farms, uses slave labor contracted from the Arizona Dept. of Corrections. The backbreaking labor is often performed by imprisoned Mexican nationals who would be otherwise ineligble to work in the US. They are paid $1.50 an hour.

The Diarrhea Lettuce Company Has Been Linked to Forced Labor

The lettuce-producing Taylor Farms was linked to the widespread use of prison labor before its involvement in a cyclospora outbreak.

futurism.com

i don't want to "grow my account" or "strengthen my personal brand", i want to frolic unburdened through verdant fields. and shitpost

square stuffs 🟥🟦🟪

behold my wiggly little scamp! so scrappy! ☀️

🧷SCAB🧷@stabrabbit.bsky.social · 4w ago

Artfight attack for bramblebug 🔥

Artfight attack for bramblebug 🔥

does anyone else have cats that loudly and violently chase/attack each other one moment and then cuddle on a blanket together the next? we can’t figure out why their dynamic is like this, but we’re up late and frazzled after splitting them up…

Don't quote me on this in like 10 years but I think one of the defining issues of the 2020s is "a better world is actually very easy to achieve, the powers that be are just not interested in achieving it."

wishda@wishda.bsky.social · 5d ago

The DSA in Wilmingotn, N.C. has created a "crisis" by putting benches at city bus stops, after literal decades of the city promising and failing to do so.

I get that most ppl won't know this, but this website is a News Corp site and this journalist in particular is a really really nasty piece of work. Please share the original @404media.co that NC is copying for clicks 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

Dr. Jeroen W.P. Wijnendaele@drdragases.bsky.social · last wk.

No longer content with pillaging intellectual work and dismembering our environment (already critically weakened), AI companies are now hellbent on destroying books galore including rare editions. Shut down these nefarious enterprises already.

what happens when you hit the flow state, but there’s no shut-off valve

more mr. nice guy@juniorhoncho.bsky.social · 2y ago

god just sort of zoning out and making 20,000 different kinds of ants

I finished 18 pieces for #artfight2026 in gouache, fairly new to me. My goal was just to improve color but it ended up helping me learn about myself, giving me a direction out of creative burn out and resparking an excitement to create again.

Blue Macaw 💙🦜 Acrylic on a thrifted wood plank #formline #indigenousart #telekitneticart

final #artfight revenge for @arccitius.bsky.social!

art fight was different for me this year, but also really good. the art block/burn out I’ve been feeling lifted enough to get me through more pieces than I’ve made in previous years! I just leaned into the designs I was most excited about and then revenge’s carried me the rest of the way!

#pixelart

late night olive reposting, idk man it’s bed time, but I still love this olive

cody 🌱@bramblebug.bsky.social · 2w ago

baby’s first pixel art title: milo (man I love olives)

I work at a public library. People who want to use AI seem to have no trouble doing so. People who don't want to use AI have a harder time. I crowdsourced and then finalized this document "How to disable or avoid intrusive AI" and then gave it a short URL: notoai.org Please pass along if it's useful

Okay on a more serious note, here is a some recent gryphon art I've made, pls appreciate them <3 #GryphonAppreciationDay

City griffin! Oil pastels and posca pens #art #oc #furryart #furry #fursona #sfw I don’t feel like making new tags #traditionalart

'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”.'

Dr. Jeroen W.P. Wijnendaele@drdragases.bsky.social · last wk.

No longer content with pillaging intellectual work and dismembering our environment (already critically weakened), AI companies are now hellbent on destroying books galore including rare editions. Shut down these nefarious enterprises already.

#artfight revenge for rulysnake! #sharemyattack2026

#artfight revenge for @coyoteprince.bsky.social! #sharemyattack2026

#artfight attack for @splitgillstudio.bsky.social! #sharemyattack2026

But seriously, if you took away my laptop, I can still write. All I need is a pen and some paper. Take away a painter's paints and brushes, they'll grab a pencil. Take away a gAI "artist's" access to their preferred art barf robot and they're helpless. The artist makes the art, not their tools.

Indie Book Spotlight@bookspotlight.bsky.social · last wk.

LMFAO

happy full moon to all the witches and werewolves out there 🌕