Snicket McG (Commissions Open @ Vgen!)

@snicketmcg.bsky.social

I'm Snicket! I love to draw! Adult // OC Artist // Writer Check out my feeds to see art, or other projects ONLY! I am learning Japanese, and Spanish. I use a translator still. Carrd: https://snicketmcg.carrd.co/

You should read this. I've known the history of "zombies" for a while now. I've shared it. I'm not consistent. I pick my battles. And I've always felt this intense shame when I go along with a convo. It is this near total appropriation of Haitian culture. Leaving almost nothing behind.

‘An embodiment of white fears’: how zombies went from Haitian spiritual tradition to Hollywood monsters

Maya Annik Bedward’s fascinating new documentary goes beyond reductive imagery to place the zombie and vodou in their true historical context

theguardian.com

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Adoptable characters. One is a fennec fox based on a puzzle toy (puzzle box.. fox... get it..) and the other is a unicorn based on a toy carousel

.......I just can't help but feel a bit bitter when we artists/writers/musicians have been screaming about how obvious it is that AI has ripped us off and done exactly all this shit to us for like 3 years, and none of you did fuck all. Now it's all kumbayah holding hands, suddenly huh. Oh well

Terence Tao@teorth.bsky.social · 2d ago

A group of 25 Fields Medalists, including myself, have made a joint declaration on Math and AI: mathandai.org . We welcome additional signatories. See also this article in the Economist announcing the declaration: www.economist.com/science-and-...

A bunch of Israeli politicians said “we will destroy Gaza” and then the IDF blew up the hospitals and shot starving people with snipers and killed everybody in the NICU so all the preemies died but prominent people will still argue with you under their own names about whether or not that’s genocide

the thing about this is that this isn't an AI problem. AI is *accelerating* the problem, but industry investment in training, mentoring and developing employees has been waning for decades, what's different is that it's going to hit white collar work in the way it's been hitting the trades for years

Zach Weinersmith@zachweinersmith.bsky.social · 2d ago

Btw, even among pro AI friends, this concern is ALL OVER THE PLACE. Devs wondering how we get senior devs if the ecosystem for junior devs goes away. Doctors talking about not needing interns. Lawyers not needing paralegals. There's an ecological aspect to this and we need a plan.