Nikki Longfish

@drawingnikki.bsky.social

Acrylic painter for art shows at Giant Robot in LA. Concept Art Association Mentorship organizer and gallery coordinator. Gallery curator. SJSU SHM alumni.

Google has been deleting the reviews of ICE detention centers on Google Maps, according to a new study. The study found Google deleted reviews from dozens of ICE prisons, then blocked users from writing new ones. DHS says ICE never requested that Google do this. theintercept.com/2026/07/20/g...

Google Is Censoring Reviews of ICE Detention Centers

In the past year, Google Maps was deleting all the reviews for dozens of ICE jails, a new study found.

theintercept.com

The Art of Star Wars: Andor is out tomorrow! The book is superb, sharing a huge amount of artwork and a deep dive into the making of the show. Check out my review of the book below with everything you need to know, as well as more previews 👇

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Lol Tim Sweeney can get over himself, tagging your game as "made with AI" on Steam is akin to stating whether it was made with Unity or Unreal at the beginning - players deserve to know if you opted to put slop in your product and they can decide to avoid it accordingly.

We need your voice TODAY. 📢 The #NoFakesAct is heading to the Senate Judiciary Committee for a vote FRIDAY June 19th. This bill will establish an individual intellectual property right to your Voice, Image, Name, and Likeness.

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“AI is less regulated than a sandwich shop” - MIT professor Want to help with that? There’s a bill in California that would require transparency in the AI datasets, but it needs your help to pass. Please add your name to the support petition here, it’ll take you 2 minutes: tinyurl.com/4uxbp963 1/

My company just bought Claude licenses. Our IT VP asked it to put FAQs from a Word doc into a PowerPoint. $0.57 token cost for that one task. We’re a several thousand person company. We’re going to spend 5 years of IT budget on Claude in a week.

The #NoFakes Act is vital legislation that is heading to Senate Judiciary Committee for a vote this month. This bill will establish a new individual intellectual property right to your Voice, Image, Name, and Likeness.

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Hey... I uh... I'll be speaking at ICON13 in July on the mainstage! I pulled an all nighter delivering my slides where I had to reduce it from 140 to 95, so you HAVE to go, it's only fair.

Title slide with huge dork Reid Southen.

Resistance and Optimism in the Face of AI.