oki

@oki-paints.bsky.social

Miniature painter, wargamer, Warhammer nerd 🖌️🎨 I also do various craft and sewing related stuff too! My links: https://linktr.ee/okipaints If you're more interested in photography, I post that stuff at @oki-photography.bsky.social 🐦

when artists said this in 2022 they were laughing at us, so 🤷‍♀️ (but realtalk, I'm glad more people are waking up to it now)

Bro I'm so sick of pretending this isn't weird.
The internet spent 20 years creating tutorials, open-source projects, blog posts & answers for free.
Al companies turned all of it into products worth billions.
And now the same people who created that knowledge are being told they're replaceable.
We built the library.
Someone else started charging admission.

On this all hallow's Eve Eve, I declare the little witch done and ready to call in the elements! Inspired by (and a gift for) my kid, this multi year project was a battle between ambition and fear. There's learning to be had in every piece, but this one was a doozy. mini: @ignisartis.bsky.social

Aaron Swartz, coding prodigy and hacktivist who helped develop RSS and was a co-founder of Reddit, died by suicide after facing $1 million in fines and 35 years in prison for felony charges, just for downloading pdfs of research papers with the intention of making them accessible to the public.

Julie S. Lalonde@julieslalonde.bsky.social · 4w ago

Being GenX/Millennial is such a trip. In our lifetimes, we saw people our age getting wild criminal penalties for pirating music and now have to sit and watch as companies gobble up our work with impunity.