Hot news for the sea lion in my comments bothering everyone about how training data is fair use www.courthousenews.com/ai-training-...

AI training of copyrighted material not fair use: Third Circuit

Using someone else's "creative spark" to start a competing business runs afoul of copyright law, the panel found.

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New taxes are already prohibited without ballot measures in California. Props 41 - 44 are designed to negate the billionaire tax. That's all. Prop 45 removes environmental restrictions for data centers. We're so easily fooled, it's sad. YES on prop 40 (billionaire tax) NO on props 41-45.

Spinoza at a bad dinner party.@spinozazsagabor.bsky.social · last wk.

There are few places that can rival California with its eclectic natural beauty. We have a disparate collection of ecosystems that is unparalleled in all the world. Yes, I'm biased as a native Californian, but it's true. We also have the dumbest voters. They mean well, but they're easy marks.

Californians! YES on Prop 40 ✅ - written by economists 🤘 NO on Prop 41 ❌ NO on Prop 42 ❌ - written by billionaires to cancel out Prop 40 👆

Robert Reich@rbreich.bsky.social · 2w ago

The arguments you've heard against California's billionaire tax are utter BS. Here to debunk them — and explain why you should vote YES on Prop 40 — is renowned economist @gabrielzucman.bsky.social

Ok maybe I have a little bit of time for swordtember 🫣

Hi Internet! I'm Drew and THIS IS MY FACE. If this GIF has ever brought you joy in the past, I humbly ask you to consider making a donation to the National MS Society. It would mean a lot to me and to those I know affected by the disease! Donate at blinkingguy.com

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We're excited to share that AFIA IN THE LAND OF WONDERS is nominated for the Nile Book Awards in the White Nile category! Congratulations to #SerendipityLit illustrator/author @miaaraujo.bsky.social! Full list: www.thenilebookawards.org/short-lists #BookSky #NileBookAwards #ChildrensBooks

The Nile Book Awards - Short Lists

Here you'll find our short lists of nominated books.

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A.I. just helps people who don't want to write make things people don't want to read

It’s an unbelievable honor to be nominated alongside such incredible authors! My deepest thanks to the Ignyte jury, and especially to the panel of 12-17-year-old judges who chose to include my book in this category 💗 Please go read my fellow nominees’ books! 🔥

The Ignyte Awards@theignyteawards.bsky.social · 4mo ago

The #2026IgnyteAwards finalists for Outstanding Middle Grade are: Afia in the Land of Wonders – @miaaraujo.bsky.social Candace, the Universe, and Everything – Sherri L. Smith Mystery James Digs Her Own Grave – @allyoutthere.bsky.social (1/2)

feel like I have been yelling about I AM FRANKELDA since roughly this time last year – a hand-made marvel, really shouldn't be missed!! I interviewed the directors last year about how they put it all together (for @animag.bsky.social)

'I Am Frankelda': The Ambriz Bros. Discuss the Making of Their Pioneering Mexican Stop-Mo Feature | Animation Magazine

Roy and Arturo Ambriz discuss the creation of their spooktacular film 'I Am Frankelda,' Mexico’s first stop-motion animated feature.

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Catsuka@catsuka.bsky.social · 5mo ago

"I Am Frankelda" is coming to Netflix on June 12. A Mexican stop-motion feature film by Arturo & Roy Ambriz (Cinema Fantasma).

"It’s going to be people with substance versus people with shallow knowledge. It’s going to be mastery versus faking it. It’s going to be people with good taste versus tacky. I trust you will put in the work necessary to be on the right side of those battles.”

Doctora Malka Older@older.bsky.social · 5mo ago

"“I’m here to tell you the mission of your generation is to destroy AI,” said Chieng." news.harvard.edu/gazette/stor...

"Faster, more efficient" = cutting artists and animators "3rd party video models w/ a proprietary model portfolio" = we won't tell you what data we trained off of (likely stolen) A bill in Cali would force AI transparency, but it needs YOUR help! Please sign this petition tinyurl.com/4uxbp963 1/

Animation Magazine@animag.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Three AI animated series are heading to Prime Video streaming via Amazon MGM/AWS-backed GenAI Creators' Fund: 'Cupcake & Friends;' 'Love, Diana Music Hunters;' and 'Punky Duck' from Jorge Gutierrez.

Now you can keep track of how many billions the AI companies are losing on AI. (Red is spending, green is revenue.) isaiprofitable.com

if you are someone who makes anything, anything at all, with your own real brain and hands, I respect you so so much and am begging you to keep doing it.

This really is it, this is the part that keeps me raging against the machine. Every day of my career I’m shoulder to shoulder with incredible people, pouring their skill & point of view into the work they do, making choices that amaze and delight me. Frame by frame, drawing by drawing…that’s THE job

🎃👻BOO Li Jaw-bone👻🦴@juleshortstuff.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Any time a creative turns to this tech, they are saying "I do not respect the people who do this thing. I do not value their creative contribution to my vision. I think they are so worthless, they can be replaced by the machine that ate their work." It's not surprising this is seen as hostile.

Can’t make it to a bookstore but still want to celebrate Indie Bookstore Day? You know we’ve got you covered with free shipping all weekend long 🥳📚

Some suggestions for notebooks in pocket format that are NOT Moleskine. It's a thread 🧵 ⬇️

Oni@onidraws.bsky.social · 6mo ago

Ew Moleskine used genAI for their Lord of the Ring collection by mentioning they used it, then entirely removing the claim after some backlash. Incredibly shitty of them for a brand that claims human creativity. cjleo.com/blog/moleski...

Using AI for your art references not only gives you a skewed & inaccurate view of the world, it also puts resource providers like myself & all these awesome people out of work! Using REAL photo references is what levels up your art AND supports the stock/resource community! ❤️💪

IMPERDIBLE entrevista. Escuchen a Cecilia Rikap, economista argentina, hablar sobre el HUMO detrás de las promesas de inversiones billonarias para instalar centros de datos para la industria de la IA generativa, que terminan consumiendo cantidades descomunales de AGUA POTABLE y energía eléctrica.

I've seen people trying to defend it today by saying "No, no, I just use it to brainstorm, bounce ideas, I do the actual writing" and with all the kindness in the world I need to tell you: if there is a stage of writing you are not good at, you need to get good, not use the plagiarism machine.

Laura Keating@lorekeating.bsky.social · 6mo ago

I keep seeing "all authors use AI, the real issue is they're being forced to be sneaky about it" headlines. Full stop No. This is a lie peddled for normalization. It's schoolyard-level pressure tactics "C'mon, all the cool kids are already doing it. We won't tell. It's fine. We're on your side."

I was asked to give my thoughts on generative AI usage in games - here they are!

GamesIndustry.biz@gibiz.bsky.social · 7mo ago

What place will AI have in game development? Senior figures from across the games industry weigh in on the future of AI use. https://bit.ly/4uB8396

I met with AI data labelers in Kenya who are organizing their colleagues to fight the brutal working conditions and horrible pay given to the workers at the "bottom of the AI supply chain." They believe the NDAs they've signed are unenforceable so are speaking out: www.404media.co/ai-is-africa...

'AI Is African Intelligence': The Workers Who Train AI Are Fighting Back

Kenyan workers are still the underpaid labor behind AI training, moderation, and sex chatbots. The Data Labelers Association is fighting back.

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The full art for "Blade Through the Heart" by @carrievaughnco.bsky.social , AD @cfoltzer.bsky.social - it is always a treat to illustrate these stories (they're so good!) Thank you Christine for the assignment!

AI Isn’t Lightening Workloads. It’s Making Them More Intense.: "It’s not that AI doesn’t create efficiency. It’s that the capacity it frees up immediately gets repurposed into doing other work, and that’s where the creep is likely to happen." www.wsj.com/tech/ai/ai-i...

AI Isn’t Lightening Workloads. It’s Making Them More Intense.

The technology is increasing the speed, density and complexity of work rather than reducing it, a new analysis of 164,000 people’s work activity shows.

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ppl who still commission their favourite artists even in this era where everyone is broke and genAI is being pushed on us at every opportunity—you are appreciated more than words can express!!!

I’ve watched a very smart child try to encode what chaptgpt thinks is “human” so that her class assignments don’t get flagged for plagiarism. I’ve heard expert professionals admit to self-editing so they don’t “sound” like an llm. This is the kind of cultural flattening that accelerates fascism.

Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 8mo ago

“As some universities and journals adopt AI-text detectors, they risk creating a feedback loop that constrains how authors express themselves. I have seen colleagues intentionally simplify their grammar or break down complex rhetorical structures to avoid arousing algorithmic suspicion.”

These are concentration camps and its our duty as citizens to ensure these things don't get built.

The Washington Post@washingtonpost.com · 8mo ago

Breaking news: ICE expects to spend $38.3 billion on its plan to acquire warehouses across the U.S. and retrofit them into immigrant detention centers that can hold tens of thousands of people, according to agency documents.

HARVARD BUSINESS REVIEW: “.. In our in-progress research, we discovered that AI tools didn’t reduce work, they consistently intensified it.” hbr.org/2026/02/ai-d...