Tocoja!

I hope workers in other game studios see WoTC unionizing, and see the mass layoffs and BioWare closing and decide it's time to put their foot down. What do we have to lose by unionizing? A job that you're afraid every day you'll be laid off from anyway? UNIONIZE THE GAME INDUSTRY!

Support unions!

I am 100% serious. Fascistic art demands adoration, demands to be loved, demands to be respected. It does not seek to express so much as to impress. It is art that aims to take and take and take, never to give.

The richest man owns X. The second richest man owns The Washington Post. The third and fifth richest men control Google. The sixth richest man owns Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp. And the eighth richest man now owns both Paramount and Warner Bros. See the problem here?

This is your occasional reminder that generative "AI" in particular could have been developed on public domain materials and/or licensed and compensated works but the major players intentionally, methodically and systemically chose to steal labor from working creative folks instead

Hello! The Onion is hosting Free Handouts parties in five cities over the next month! Free drinks, free snacks, and other free stuff for people who never seem to get that sort of thing. Onion members from New York, Seattle, Chicago, LA, or SF: Check your email for a signup link! It'll be fun.

One of the coolest things about people who don't have a lot of power taking a principled stand is it lays bare the complete cowardice of the ones who actually *do* have power when they fail to do even a fraction as much.

I was afraid this was gonna happen, but I am Not surprised because YouTube is ass >:( Please support the creators by watching their beautiful film!! www.youtube.com/watch?v=eUa2...

I was never faced with my art being ripped off and profited off, got any explaining @displate.com? displate.com/displate/100...

Ohio U.S. Sen. Jon Husted’s wife had as much as $15,000 invested in the struggling Intel megaproject in New Albany as her husband worked to push it forward, financial disclosures show. via @ohiocapitaljournal.com www.newsfromthestates.com/article/he-w...

The bigger issue is that this gives people the ability to launder real csam. Real csam ran through AI almost instantly becomes legal.

When the CEO got into crypto/NFTs and breached privacy policy because his feelings got hurt, this comes to no surprise. Reminder to send your complaints to the platform, not the people using it. Not everyone can migrate so easily/quickly to other platform options (many of which also use AI).

Picnic Bench Varieties

#indiegames #gamedev #indiedevs

Repost if your account is a safe place for the trans community 🩵🩷🤍

Roses are red The runs got your neighbor

Absolutely this. You could talk about having a book coming out for months, constantly, and then release day will come and your feed will be nothing but I HAVE A BOOK OUT, and then a week later a very close mutual will be all “wait, I didn’t know you had a book out?”. So yes. Talk about your books!

I'm Christina I've been a professional illustrator since 2005 and a specialist game artist/ art director since 2009. I've worked for Mojang (on Minecraft), Netflix Games, WB Games I've been unemployed for 8+ months. I'm tired of rejection letters. Please help me find a paying project #gamedev

Commissions are open ✨ email or dm me for illustrations, tattoo design, video game work and comics!

We should rebrand the concept of "literary classics" into "retro novels." Literacy rates would skyrocket.

In this age, forests belong to the international community, not to any nation. They are our lungs. This is a crime against humanity and against life itself.

there is no such thing as "age verification." All "age verification" is actually "identity verification." You can coat it in glitter and "privacy-preserving" wrapping paper. But in the end, mandating age verification means mandating surveillance be built into software and hardware. Period.

Art tip: don't share everything you draw. Draw things you never intend to show anyone. Your brain needs time to just exist in a state that's not about performing for strangers. This used to be the normal way to exist before social media poisoned us.

People like sales numbers, right? Well, we are a smol bookstore that's been opened since last Tuesday, and these our best selling authors.

Vertical forest continued #🥦

Negate imposter syndrome by remembering that you are neither straight up good or straight up bad but someone who has good days and bad days and that learned talent is an ever progressing spectrum

I really hope this takes off. There needs to be a creative storefront marketplace that actually bans genai and drop shipping, and I hope it's a 100% ban. Etsy is completely ruined and not artist friendly. Much luck to Fybe! fybe.art

keep AI out of Paleoart

"So in this scene, what were you trying to do?" You know what you were trying to do. Authors who had the slop generator spit the scene out do not and can only flail around vaguely. And that's exactly the kind of thing an editor wants to know to help edit.

Spokane is really suffering under a combination of terrible wildfires. My house was near the epicenter of the autumn lane fire, and against all odds, survived, but many of my neighbors were not so lucky. It’s bad, folks. Time to help your neighbors!

Doctorow does a great job here and in earlier articles, putting words to the skepticism I feel regarding AI.

As adults we're told playing is childish, but I truly believe allowing yourself to play is one of the keys to happiness and creativity. I have been playing with paper recently and it boosted my art. I wanna get me some wooden toys and lego now. Playing is not just for kids, it's for everyone! ✨🌼

Google Earth, a tool often used as a source of satellite imagery to verify photos and videos, has added a feature that allows you to alter satellite imagery with AI, for reasons. blog.google/products-and...

I f***ing hate #LinkedIn, like with a passion. It’s a truly awful place. But I will give credit where due, well done them for figuring out what the rest of the SM world (not BlueSky) has so far managed to conveniently ignore. 👏

I come back to this tumblr post again and again

Does it matter if you release quick patches if your code is swiss cheese?

The FDA has announced that 1.6 million eggs have been contaminated with salmonella, forcing a nationwide recall. Last year, the Trump administration scrapped regulations to limit salmonella and laid off hundreds of food safety inspection workers.

The events of the Odyssey would have been set 500 years previously at the time that Homer composed them, equivalent to writing about the voyages of Columbus today. For example Homer probably imagined Iron Age hoplite armor, while actual Bronze Age Mycenean armor looked like this:

I've said it before but please stop copy pasting ai companies' press releases with no critical judgment And stop attributing human agency to ai. It cannot plan or think. Also patch your zero day exploits please

Last thing is people tell me games are more expensive then ever to make but from my perspective my wages haven’t moved much in 16 years. That more expensive factor is not going to wages this side of the industry far as I can tell.

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