unsolicited advice for freelance artists: please, please 1) make a website, or an artstation or a weebly or SOMETHING that isn't hidden behind a login 2) put all your favourite artwork - the kind you want to get paid to make more of - on it 3) link to it from everywhere you post on the internet

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Not the top Steam review of Dressmaker making me cry this morning!

EA's closure of BioWare is transparently a vile move to shutter the studio that made by far their queerest titles. In the wake of this, I implore you: MAKE MORE QUEER ART. Make it trans. Make it horny. Make it scary. Make it loving. Make it with every inch of yourself. Flood the world with it!

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MC Squared@mcsquared.bsky.social · 2w ago

Business Insider confirms it: Amazon has warehouses of GPUs that can’t be installed, and is buying them so far in advance that a supply chain team said they “didn’t have a clear forecasted path” to installing them. www.businessinsider.com/amazon-220-b...

Ed Zitron@edzitron.com · last mo.

Free newsletter: I estimate that ~50% of AI chip sales - $200bn to $300bn+ - are sitting in warehouses, with NVIDIA selling hundreds of billions of GPUs years in advance. Data centers take way longer to build than hyperscalers are leading us to believe. www.wheresyoured.at/wherere-all-the-ai-chips/

This may be the favourite slide I have designed for our first year core module this year.

PSA: The latest NVIDIA App update adds a Default-ON option that allows AI Agents to control the app... Might want to turn it off.. Even aside from being lame AI features, that feels like making security even worse by defaulting it ON.

YIKES #mesen #mepolitics

Uh oh, did someone’s website and personal account experience a big drop in activity after Ukraine hit a Russian data center?

My god. A Virginia data center ran backup diesel generators full blast for 24 hours, creating a giant cloud of toxic smoke that choked its human neighbors. The government claimed there was nothing they could do.

Virginia Data Center Ran Diesel Generators for 24 Hours. Residents Fled Their Homes

Virginia data center diesel generators ran nearly 24 hours during a Code Red alert, leaving neighbors with no regulatory recourse under current state permits.

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All the "tells" are stolen style. Everything AI does has been ripped away from the work of someone, and replicated without soul, skill, and cognition. While that thing goes on, people do what they've always done: create.

FYI

We bullied a bunch of vulnerable kids back into the closet with threats of explicit violence and parental abuse. Why do they suddenly feel less secure?

The Washington Post@washingtonpost.com · 3w ago

Young teenagers are less likely to identify as lesbian, gay or bisexual than a few years ago, according to a new analysis. “It really does look like a free fall,” Jean Twenge, a professor of psychology, said. “But what’s causing it is unclear.”

Danny Trejo and Harvey Keitel are hard at work on the new Daily Wire movie that dramatizes (positively) the murder of Renee Good, do with this what you will www.latimes.com/delos/story/...

Danny Trejo's Daily Wire ICE movie suspends production after locals raise concerns

Production on "Pawn Shop," a Daily Wire-produced pro-ICE film featuring Danny Trejo, has been paused after Montana residents protest the filming conditions and the movie's subject matter.

latimes.com

gregor samsa awoke one morning to discover he had been transformed into a sickass beetle. fuck yeah he said scuttling all over the walls and ceiling like no dumbfuck traveling salesman could ever do. this is the best day of my life he said

You should be asking why Rockstar gets to do this and doesn't run into any issues with payment processors, while the rest of anyone drawing or writing "explicit content" on any platform have so much trouble getting paid

IGN@ign.com · 4w ago

GTA 6 has received a rating of PEGI 18, revealing mentions of "decapitation," the ability for players to snort cocaine at any time, "scenes of sexual fetishes," and much more.

Dieselpunk 1921 got delisted until I made a public stink about it on CBC because it contains a single public domain artwork of a semi-nude person.

IGN@ign.com · 4w ago

GTA 6 has received a rating of PEGI 18, revealing mentions of "decapitation," the ability for players to snort cocaine at any time, "scenes of sexual fetishes," and much more.

the " #deadlock fanart " as promised

I've heard people make claims that AI would lead to a new Renaissance, but I didn't imagine it'd happen like this:

Announcing the merger with Titanic footage is an incredible bit

Evergreen

The same Brendan Carr who wanted to investigate NBC because Kamala was on SNL? The same Brendan Carr who wanted to dismantle independent fact checking and accused them of being a “censorship cartel?” Periodic reminder that the corruption is a feature, not a bug.

NBC News@nbcnews.com · last mo.

FCC Chair Brendan Carr says that new pro-Trump TV ads paid for with government funds don’t “merit any sort of FCC review.”

This is funny, it really is. However. I don't think I have any "keep politics out of furry uwu" people following me, but if i do, you need to think about this. No amount of keeping it SFW is going to be enough for him. They will make your hobby political, and owning that is our only defense.

just secured my first round of funding for my startup! it's called OMELAS. Its goal is to make Omelas in real life

Hey folks, About that AI opt-out feature Twitch was talking about? It's not just the streamers that have to turn that off. EVERYONE has to turn it off, because anything on your account, including the clips you make, will be fed to that infernal, ignominious devil machine if you don't. /1

Slow Roads is a game for drivers, not racers: aftermath.site/slow-roads-imp...