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 started getting followed by some "film festivals" and "writing festivals" and thought "oh, these are cool!" Then I looked a little closer. They're all part of a network that preys on writers, charging us for reviews, and feeding our stuff into slop generators. So I made a list.👋🏻🖕🏻😠

another night where i remember that i made the best song ever

The Center

We all orbit trying to find the center. We all orbit trying to be the Sun.

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I am no longer asking you to play another game medium.com/@radmadrpgs/...

Sick of These Fucking Dungeons

Oh Boy He’s Doing Theory

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Hendrik is writing an ashcan about nuns@napel.itch.io · 4d ago

We shouldn't be too down on a game like Dungeons & Kittens winning an Ennie even though it lacks imagination or innovation. We should be down on it because the game re-introduce the civilized-savage dichotomy into a setting about talking adventure cats on the first page of its introduction.

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A dark day for human rights.

Please use this link twitch.uservoice.com/forums/92338... and tell twitch how fucking insane this is. Comment and let twitch know that this is horrible. Thank you

Zach Bussey 🍁@zachbussey.tos.gg · 5d ago

Twitch and Amazon are apparently planning to use streams to train Generative AI. Multiple sources tell me it will be announced in the coming months, despite some internal friction against it. Creators may be able to opt out of some training data.

OKAY BLUESKY I NEED YOUR HELP! Hundreds of artists have signed @fightforthefuture.org's pledge to boycott venues that use AI surveillance like facial recognition. We want to get to 500 before a press conf in 2 weeks. Quote this and tag artists that might sign? Reskeet? do the thing!

Ban Facial Recognition at Live Events

Artists and venues take the pledge: no facial recognition at shows.

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My root canals appointment is in two day I still need 719$ for surgery I has to have done I is in so much pain all day and I keep get infection one was in my jaw please helps me my family I is scare to have done but I has to I sick be so much pain

Horror Scared

ALT: Horror Scared

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Lilith Treah 🏳️‍⚧️@riveroceansea.bsky.social · 2w ago

Do not let me die 🚨 black transgender woman is in danger if I do not get help I has no insulin running out of all medicines no foods I am suffer my parent disown me I has no one please friends ko-fi.com/lilith99680

Still a £100 in the red 💀

Srutis 🔞@srutis.bsky.social · 2w ago

HEY if you're feeling generous and want to support my art I'm a disabled artist stuck on welfare, can't take new comms rn as I catch up due to health issues that have impacted me in the past year but tips really help me avoid the food bank ♥️ ko-fi.com/srutis PayPal.me/srutisssart

almost 60% funded! let’s do this guys!!! thank you for everyone that’s supporting, sharing, and getting a tiny meowdy!

poorly drawn cats@poorlycatdraw.bsky.social · 4w ago

meet your new partner: the tiny meowdy keychain! he may be tiny, but he’s ready for the biggest adventures! all this for only $15.99! get yours here: www.makeship.com/products/tin...

Thank you for the love for the new piece! Here are some more of my Darktide pieces.

Frost Llamzon@frostllamzon.bsky.social · 2w ago

New Darktide fan art done! These are always fun.

Okay sorry to keep bugging but just got another past due hospital bill for 500 that I need to start paying on and I have 200 dollars left in my bank. Literally any bit helps including shares. Ty.

🦄Syd Fish 🦈@shadefish.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Hii If you like my art/me and want to support either, please consider checking out any of these links below to support me financially! Literally any support whatsoever helps! Sharing is also really appreciated! patreon.com/shadefish ko-fi.com/shadefish alicefish11.itch.io/shade-fish-t...

This shit is not inevitable, it could be made illegal tomorrow if our governments weren't in the pocket of Big Pervert.

Unofficial CTV News Mirror@ctvnews-mirror.bsky.social · last wk.

AI devices that see, listen and record: Are we ready for the post-smartphone world?

hi im dot i like the robot and the girl @shadefish.bsky.social @laylafgore.bsky.social @clebmaher.bsky.social

Oh heck yeah 3.5k followers, about time I went and did an... ◢ ⭕ ART SHARE ⭕ ◣ ◈ Share your work ◈ Support one another ◈ Repost for visibility ◈ Drag your friends into this ◈ Will repost for the next 24hours ❌ No NFT, No AI bullshit ❌ #artshare I #art

Playing a fifteen year old boy named Godammit made my twenty-session campaign of Apocalypse World smaller, angrier, fiercer, and forced me to be more honest about the place of violence in our game. At the end of the campaign, Godammit looked at a weapon and called it brother.

The only real boy in Apocalypse World

Playing an ordinary teenager casts the game’s blunt violence into sharper relief.

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Moomin knight and Snork maiden

It's gonna be real interesting watching how everyone's favorite actual play blorbos they've become parasocially invested in procede to assiduously ignore this and continue giving WotC tons of free exposure and publicity as D&D brand ambassadors

Radmad@radmad.bsky.social · 2w ago

It's so easy not to play the eugenics game published by the AI booster that partners with the biggest anti-trans freak on the planet.

It's so easy not to play the eugenics game published by the AI booster that partners with the biggest anti-trans freak on the planet.

Matt Caulder (They/He)@mattcaulder.com · 2w ago

Man, thankfully no one is playing or making stuff for this bad game run a billion dollar company that's putting AI into everything! www.geeknative.com/225567/hasbr...

Did a study trying to emulate the painting style of an incredible Noita piece by Jeurucj.

discarded - - - vessel

Sometimes when reading to my kid, a character would do something and she would ask "is that good or bad" and I would explain that's not really the right question. It's a story, they did something. it will affect the story. LLMs are bad at saying "that's not really how to think about it"

Olivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ@olivia.science · 2w ago

Playing 20 questions with a new ideological stance is not possible. In fact, that itself is why statistical or data-first thinking is so flawed. So it's likely I just cannot explain this to you over short q&a. We cannot understand totally novel ideas or frameworks by applying existing methods. 2/3

This is because they don't understand content, they mimic form. If you ask "is [thing] A or B" the usual form is an answer like "A, here's why" or "B, because" far less common is "A and B aren't the right categories for this"

That goes double if the usual categories are outdated, and the right way to think of it is a *new* way to think of it. This is partly why LLMs are an inherently reactionary technology, anchored in old patterns

Statistics are made of unstated assumptions That something can be quantified in specific consistent ways that meaningfully correspond to important things about it and that transforming those numbers in certain ways tells you new important things about it

They're building a digital prison and most people don't even know it. Your art, your free expression, your dissent. Literally anything they find objectionable they want to label as "obscene" and debank and imprison you for.

Fuck them and their gambling games, but also fuck them for stealing a bunch of shit directly (like the hacking minigame in ZZZ) and also fuck them for pushing AI.

Oni@onidraws.bsky.social · 3w ago

After that Olivia chatbot launching, big reminder that Mihoyo is really into genAI and is launching several apps, games and initiatives with it. I know it can be hard to quit their games, but at the very least, do not give money to them. www.gamingonphonebiz.com/hoyoverse-pl...

this is an incredibly important archaeological site for so much. please leave a comment opposing this.

Kelly Lynne D’Angelo ✨@kellylynnedang.bsky.social · 3w ago

Please blow up the public comment (included below): BREAKING NEWS (7/15) — The administration wants to destroy Chaco Canyon without consulting Tribal Nations. It’s an irreplaceable historic & cultural site with 4,700 archeological sites that could be lost to the bulldozers of oil & gas development