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Creator of EGADS! TTRPG Solarpunk writer, artist, doer and teacher of design from Magan-djin 📝🎲🪐☀️🌾 they/them haindesigns.com

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Phil McDuff@mcduff.bsky.social · 3d ago

The price of a new phone in Gaza is $350-450. This is a large amount of money, but without it Amir loses contact with the rest of the world. Please help any way you can.

Phil McDuff@mcduff.bsky.social · 4d ago

Amir has broken his phone. These are a lifeline for people in Gaza, connecting them with the outside world, enabling them to raise money and reach out. They are also incredibly expensive due to the blockade. Please donate and help him raise the money for a new one. chuffed.org/project/help...

Amir showing his cracked and broken phone screen
Diabolical Plots@diabolicalplots.com · 4d ago

1. Thank you 404 for reporting on this 2. This place advertised this as an available service, then pretended they didnt. 3. I have asked for them to remove our anthologies from their site as they clearly cannot be trusted with other people's work.

Joseph Cox@josephcox.bsky.social · 5d ago

IMPACT: that company that was offering to buy books for AI companies’ training data — and probably destroy them in the process — says it will no longer offer this service following 404 Media’s exposure of it www.404media.co/ai-company-t...

Nate Bethea@inthesedeserts.bsky.social · 6d ago

Apple charges people ~20% more than the Patreon list price and they keep the difference for themselves. They also hold the proceeds of iOS app sales for 75 days, making it impossible for creators to accurately predict earnings. They basically inserted themselves in order to rip *more* people off

Part Time Yeen@parttimeyeen.bsky.social · 6mo ago

Any of you using the ios version of Patreon to support me, switch to the browser version instead, cuz the apple fees have actually taken over 3000 usd from me in the course of a year

Shiro Sirius@shirosiri.us · last wk.

I don’t want to be too sensationalist about this but also I’m the least violent person in the world and I think if someone said this to my face I’d hit them

"A physical book is a delivery mechanism for information," it continues. "Once that information has been extracted and encoded into an Al model, the delivery mechanism has served its purpose. What remains is paper, ink, and binding material. The book is not destroyed. Its value has migrated. The paper returns to the material cycle; the knowledge enters the intellectual one."
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.

Micheeel@micheeel.bsky.social · last wk.

My soul is breaking! Gaza is stealing my son Elias's eyes. Darkness is swallowing his gentle vision, and time has run out. Without immediate surgery, he will be blind forever. I am begging on my knees—save my boy's sight before night claims him! Verified : molly shah✅ chuffed.org/project/1624...

Elias sitting on his father's knees on a chair in front of a device used in optical examination
Indrapramit Das@indrapramitdas.bsky.social · last wk.

Speaking of mythic/heroic film epics about humans and gods--have a great one. Not based on a specific poem that I know, but on the oral storytelling of the Bambara people of West Africa.

Indrapramit Das@indrapramitdas.bsky.social · last yr.

YEELEN (1987); a fantastically beautiful Malian heroic epic, with a thrillingly grounded yet awe-inspiring depiction of magic as a natural emanation of humanity's storytelling & linguistic abilities, which can birth gods & fell entire peoples. Power, gorgeous & terrible. Loved this.

Still from the film Yeleen; shot of a young African boy kneeling in the sand of a desert under a sky orange from dust, holding up a large white egg to an African woman in a robe the colour of the sand. Next to the egg, pale in the dusty sky, is the sun, like a cosmic egg twinned to the one in the boy's hands.
Cat Manning@catacalypto.bsky.social · last wk.

One thing I’m noticing is that one rogue person not embedded with the team (or on the team but not empowered to drive decisions) will do or say some bullshit with genAI, even if it doesn’t reflect the team’s practices. and it is MUCH harder to dispel that narrative once it’s out there.

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Karen K. Ho@karenho.bsky.social · last wk.

I keep thinking about how often the mass layoffs in media, government and big companies, especially women and people of color, will lead to poorer outcomes for years because the people who would point out potential problems or blind spots were deemed non-essential, a "bad fit", and/or too expensive.