I don’t care how respected you are as a person, science educator, author, artist, etc. If I find out that you are using generative AI in any aspect of your work, you lose all of my respect.
TechnOkami
@technokami.bsky.social
Figuring out how to make a living without destroying myself or others. https://ko-fi.com/technokami
Film you've watched more than six times with a gif. Hard mode: no Star Trek, Star Wars, LOTR, Marvel, Disney, or Ghibli.
Jaws: Brody, Quint, Hooper Fishing
Alt: Three men on a fishing boat, foreground, midground, background. The word Jaws in the bottom left corner.
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Film you've watched more than six times with a gif. Hard mode: no Star Trek, Star Wars, LOTR, Marvel, Disney, or Ghibli.
┏┓ ┃┃╱╲ in ┃╱╱╲╲ this ╱╱╭╮╲╲ house we ▔▏┗┛▕▔don’t support ╱▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔╲ FLOCK CAMERAS, ICE, ANTHROPIC AND AI ╱╱┏┳┓╭╮┏┳┓╲╲ ▔▏┗┻┛┃┃┗┻┛▕▔
Anarchism’s principal target is the authoritarian State (capitalist or socialist); its principal moral-practical theme is cooperation (solidarity, mutual aid).
Still the best speech in the LOTR trilogy. And feels extremely relevant to the times we live in. A lot of days do feel this hopeless.
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
Filled out a survey for UK authors and illustrators, about AI Licensing and Remuneration. My personal take on this was that there's no combination of money or terms, that would make me want to license my work to train Gen AI. At the end of the survey I wrote this mqedu.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...
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.
Pay her the debt you owe her, and unpay the villainy you have done with her. The one you may do with sterling money, and the other with current repentance.
PSA: please stop using generative AI. It’s gross, it’s destructive, it’s theft, it’s killing the planet, stealing from artists, writers, creators, SWers, and the list goes on. This is my warning before I unfollow you.
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!
”just let me enjoy 4th of July and fireworks do you think being miserable is activism” is so. Lmao. what do you even say. Please don’t make me think about whose blood bought my treats
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
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
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
We ride the bus all the time. I ride the bus from Portland to Seattle. I ride the bus around Portland. Public transit is stigmatized by the auto corporations and big oil.
The bus is a bad time. Sorry.
In response to the folks who replied to that post about the rising costs of groceries by saying shit like "just cut out chips and candy," I have the following to say: Go fuck yourself. For a more thorough response, see below.
The world will be better off with this foul thing gone from it.
It's a good thing Deltarune's getting a new chapter. My timeline can finally get distracted from posting more TADC final episode spoilers.
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
Introduce yourself with four video games (This only scrapes the surface of my video game interests and experience, but I had to pick 4, and this stretches over a wide stretch of time which I'm content with presenting as a broad reflection of myself.)
Introduce yourself with four video games
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.
made a janky little finger-typed graphic about this using my human words and art made by a real person
In light of recent Ai related nonsense in the creative industry, I wanted to present some easy-to-digest facts about Generative Ai
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.)