TechnOkami

@technokami.bsky.social

Figuring out how to make a living without destroying myself or others. https://ko-fi.com/technokami

┏┓ ┃┃╱╲ in ┃╱╱╲╲ this ╱╱╭╮╲╲ house we ▔▏┗┛▕▔don’t support ╱▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔╲ FLOCK CAMERAS, ICE, ANTHROPIC AND AI ╱╱┏┳┓╭╮┏┳┓╲╲ ▔▏┗┻┛┃┃┗┻┛▕▔

Ethical art is art that treats everyone involved in the process (from materials to production to creative labor) fairly and with respect—not art that adheres to a specific set of content guidelines. Don't confuse genre trappings or marketing buzzwords with the real obligations we have to each other.

I do not like this gen AI I do not like what it implies I do not want it in my art I do not think it makes you smart I do not want it in my games I do not like its goals and aims I do not want it in my books I do not like the way it looks I do not like it, I don't care I do not want it anywhere

This morning in Biddeford, Maine, a 26-year-old man said goodbye to his wife and daughter and left for work. Moments later he was dead, shot in the head by ICE agents, the second man ICE has killed in six days. ICE is killing our neighbors. ICE cannot be reformed. Abolish ICE.

I haven't been too vocal about it (trying to not be obnoxious) but I've started streaming vidja gaemz on the ol' Twitch.tv/technokami in recent times. Typically on Wednesdays I run around in Minecraft with a group of friends, but when I'm on my own it's Path of Exile (1 and 2) all the way down.

250 years a monument to selfish cruelty, broken promises, ignorance amidst opulence, menacing the globe for a century of waiting for the apocalypse at the push of a button, and the inhuman treatment of anyone who couldn’t or wouldn’t buy, bully or extort their way out of it. 250 years too long!

in any other era this would be the only thing on people’s minds, they would assume this was some curse of the gods and be frantically looking for some way to placate them, in the industrial age everyone is simply pretending this isn’t happening

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It's 100% some bullshit that the Disney/Marvel big-budget hero shooter is allowed to go "lol check out this bulge, you guys like huge asses?" while every other website and platform in the world is trying to figure out a way to execute you over the computer if you post a sexy picture online

Jandri🔞@jandri.bsky.social · last mo.

To be real, a Disney-owned property like Marvel Rivals very loudly and intentionally leaning into the “porn-bait” side of hero shooter character design in the current climate of nsfw censorship and independent nsfw creators being deplatformed left and right bugs the *fuck* out of me

Like you understand what I'm saying right Visually, it might look like someone's storyboards and make it look like pencil or whatever stupid shit but AI has zero concept of context or intentionality. It cannot replace storyboarding beyond the superficial

the true horror of liminality is the realization that you as a person are not the focus of marketing or capitalistic society, you are barely more than a product now. Nobody cares about you or your comfort or health or happiness. You're what corporations trade, now. The whole world is liminal to you

Obsession is a fucked film. It's a fucked, fucked film. Good, but fucked. I'd rather watch Backrooms ten more times than watch that other film again. That's how disturbing it was.

A study of @jookpubstock.bsky.social I have been in an art rut and state of burnout for about... 7 months? I don't really count holidays like Mother's Day or Xmas because there's the social pressure there to force me to create. For my own art it's been nothing but struggle, and I recently (cont.)

A drawing of a figure's head and upper torso. Rendered in gel pen.