media literacy is all about finding a balance between critical thinking and surface level enjoyment. too much surface level enjoyment and u become a chud excusing horrible things. too much critical thinking and ull be grasping at straws and will never enjoy any piece of art for the rest of ur life

look at how much power the hana-barbera sound library gives you

pauline value-added consumer incentive@spacehunterm.bsky.social · 6d ago

Oh you have NO idea, buddy.

Sam Reich@samreich.bsky.social · 2d ago

there's gotta be, right?

“Meritocracy”

The phantom limb of the old internet

JP@jpbrammer.bsky.social · 2d ago

sometimes on my laptop I get the intuition that there's a beautiful interesting website I should be visiting but I either can't think of it or it is my mission to find it

Has anyone else noticed the sudden rise of vibecoded websites which "make the indie web searchable" with "curated lists" of art sites? It feels like, not content with ruining their own spaces, they're rushing to lay ownership of things we've made as if they have participated by curating lists.

People using common disorders as an excuse for AI are so annoying. You know how many people have ADHD? A LOT of people. A LOOOOOT. Do you know what makes ADHD worse? AI.

Jean Cabot@prairiehamster.bsky.social · 18h ago

In a videogame roleplay server I'm in they just banned AI and this person flipped out, saying that because of her ADHD she needed it to manage her whole life and it turned out she had even been making her *tiny* game posts with it too! Then she called it her friend. Terrifying shit. She ragequit

I actively avoid using AI like the plague. I’d rather have my art look terrible, and through practice, hard work, and determination - get better. AI hack jobs will never understand that. Their “work” will always be slop.

Ayo@darrylayo.bsky.social · yesterday

Guys like this don’t realize that they are the freak

i think, now, more than ever its really important to interact with people who like your art and vice versa, and cultivate more community and trust among artists and commissioners and followers in general. its not a perfect system by any means but i think building trust between everyone will help

Fuzzikayu@fuzzikayu.bsky.social · yesterday

This is what people mean by AI is theft. Someone I know later found out an artist (16k followers) they got a commision from uses AI and now they don't have funds to commish me or another artist they like. Not only does the slop machine steal art, these scammers directly steal work from real artists

If SCREEN were to pass, you'd be required to scan your face and upload an ID to access this site because it allows "harmful" material. This affects you even if you don't care about sex work or porn.

404 Media@404media.co · 2d ago

Mike Lee's SCREEN Act, which heads to Senate Commerce Committee for markup on Wednesday, would expand age verification requirements to a nearly limitless scope of websites, and is supported by the architects of Project 2025.

Well, that's the thing about dopamine and people. Everyone gets it from different things, depending. And this tech is addictive by nature. Will it be that way for everyone? No. But it's definitely designed to be and I think it's wise not to assume anyone is immune. Sort of like cults and propaganda.

Shiv Ramdas Mens Rice Activist@nameshiv.bsky.social · 3d ago

As a confirmed dopamine addict who has thrown myself off bridges and out of a plane in the past chasing some of that sweet stuff, I genuinely don't get it

unseal your cards, unseal your comics, take things out of the fucking box. it's all just cardboard and plastic. fuck the resale market

Dexerto@dexerto.bsky.social · 6d ago

K-pop star Momo is under fire after breaking open a vintage graded Pokémon card to stick it on her face and keep it in her phone case

It will be worse than this! Most websites will be forced to ask you to send your ID to a third party surveillance service, adding a credit card won't be enough for most. Bluesky asks for your *social security number* if you live in Texas now, due to this shit. Call in, and kill it.

Eromancer@eromancer.bsky.social · 4d ago

This will be the US if the SCREEN Act passes. Call your Senators before August 5 and tell them that you oppose the SCREEN Act, KOSA, and the KIDS Act. Use the official lookup tool at www.senate.gov/senators/sen... to find yours by state.

I think a lot of people who remain in fandoms for children's media as adults fundamentally misunderstand what we're saying when we criticize something being "for kids" Yes, children's media can engage with serious, mature topics. But it has to treat them like it's your first time hearing about it.

characters created out of homophobia look so much more like me than Good LGBT Representation TM. save me, 2000s media and your weak, pathetic queens.

The firestorm of age-verification laws have done almost nothing to prevent minors from accessing porn online. What they have done is give the state a powerful tool to harass speech they don't like by declaring it pornographic or "harmful to minors."

I love how people like this will do anything but admit to the fact that gen ai is just inherently a bad harmful thing with no worth. “Eating human feces isn’t the problem, it just that my relationship to it is unhealthy and needs work-“ OH MY GOD JUST STOP EATING SHIT

Kotaku@kotaku.com · 5d ago

YouTuber Hank Green Admits He Has Unhealthy Relationship With AI After Facing Backlash Over Recent Video 'The level of dopamine I've been getting from interacting with LLMs is not healthy for me,' said Green

There will always be people who appreciate what YOU make, it just might take them a while to find you.

Haus of Decline@hausofdecline.bsky.social · 7d ago

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Acquired.

I'm so annoyed NFTs turned out to be the mini-boss before AI

Theory: The context collapse of the 21st century means many people read or consume media through a deeply personalised lens - everything is either about or for them specifically, so critical writing is experienced as confrontation

really funny how stories told here it seems companies reporting high AI workflow are probably cooked stats from being lied to by their employees as they keep doing work as usual without it but it's also alarming bc it gives AI the veneer of competency. AI can't stop stealing credit from human labor

Aftermath@aftermath.site · 6d ago

Welcome to the resistance: meet the workers dodging (and sabotaging) their employer's AI mandates: aftermath.site/ai-resistance-...

"...since their keystrokes are being tracked and their videos calls monitored by AI agents." We're fucking cooked, Skynet is here 🫠

please be nice to patrick@nicetopatrick.bsky.social · 6d ago

INSANITY

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It’s really starting to grind me down

All the video game studios that refuse to use generative AI aftermath.site/video-games-no...