I just heard about it recently, and absolutely lost my temper hugely when I found out they'd stolen my rep/identity! If there is a class action lawsuit -- I hope -- I will post about it and I hope many of us leave a smoking crater where these smug thieves used to be www.moryan.com/an-open-lett...
Another tough day for team “there’s no point in complaining about AI, just accept it.”
The official day of advocacy may be wrapping up, but that doesn't mean it's too late to send an email to your state rep, especially when we've made it so easy!
Want to help raise awareness in your community about the national book ban being considered in the House of Representatives? Print out this one sheet and hang it up in your community:
I wrote about the first national book banning bill, which effectively seeks to erase trans people. At the end I include a link to let your reps know that you oppose this bill and all it stands for. lithub.com/why-we-must-...
There's been a lot of debate within the Democratic establishment about what rhetoric to use via ICE.
Well, an incumbent doesn't lose by 48 percentage points very often—and her vote on collaborating with ICE was the defining issue here.
The midterm elections are officially underway and contests in Texas and North Carolina will be the first major opportunity for parties to hear from voters about what's important to them in 2026. n.pr/4aZ5bK6
It’s Election Day!
Calling AI "slop" has been one of the most effective instances of the public rebranding a product and it pisses them off.
Frida Kahlo is a famous disabled artist. Her art explores her disability. When she had the accident that disabled her, she painted from her bed in her casts. Many artists in history have been disabled. Many are now. You will not find them fighting to have AI take their creative process from them.
EMERGENCY, #oregon forest friends!
Three more weeks to comment. No public hearings scheduled.
OMG wow these look amazing
A blue eyed Siamese cat with a bold stare sits on a grey couch in the loaf position
Clea celebrating #caturday by giving me the sassy face.
He looks like he hopes nobody notices that he farted.
A digital drawing of author Maia Kobabe, a white nonbinary person with short brown hair wearing a patterned blue shirt, who scowls while holding up a copy of eir book GENDER QUEER: A MEMOIR. Maia is saying: H.R. 7661 is a national book banning bill which seeks to remove any book that "involves gender dysphoria or transgenderism" from all public schools in the US. This would ban my books, and any other book with trans themes, from public schools. PLEASE call your House Reps and say: NO ON H.R. 7661!
H.R. 7661 is a national book banning bill which seeks to remove any book that "involves gender dysphoria or transgenderism" from all public schools in the US. This would ban all my books, & any other book with trans themes, from public schools. PLEASE call your House Reps & say: NO ON H.R. 7661!
Years ago our admin did a red and black report. It took salaries & how much $ each instructor made in tuition $ for classes we taught-you were in the red or black. They released numbers once & shut it down bc humanities were producing huge $ for uni & engineers, business and scientists were losing $
Thank you to @authorsabb.bsky.social heroes @beccacoffindaffer.bsky.social and Ed Underhill, we have some slides that can be shared by anyone about this, with particular reps to target. Let's kill this bill in committee.
funny you should say that
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Jillian Gregory gradient dyeing witch dresses for Macbeth, costume design by Olivera Galikin
OMG we have been dyeing our witches too!
A child just told me something was AI that wasn’t AI and I asked “does AI just mean bad?” and he went “yeahhhhhhh” so there you have it.
This is cool as hell: An app designed to ping people about nearby smartglasses.
Also cool: The creator was inspired by @404media.co coverage, a great illustration of why their journalism is so essential. This kind of work is funded by paid subscribers so become one of those if you can.
Tim Curry’s memoir Vagabond is a wild ride, and Josh Cook’s essay collection The Art of Libromancy is illuminating, fascinating, and full of great book recommendations.
This is bizarre. This poor woman.
Now recruiting: DW users who would be interested in the possibility of helping us out in a legal challenge to state age verification laws, now or future! More details and where to register interest: dw-advocacy.dreamwidth.org/815.html
@alttext.bsky.social
This sounds like an amazing opportunity if your interests lie in public health and storytelling as education.
Nest failure due to drone use is a real thing. Please do comment to help birds and other wildlife against an absolutely stupid unnecessary hazard. Honestly, who the fuck needs a drone.
The point of the AI project is to provoke despair in creative people. They haven’t produced profits or anything anyone wants, just a steady stream of articles about how us artistic types can’t do the thing we’re already doing, making art. Jokes on them, we’re even better at despair than they are.
True Color by Kory Stamper
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