I know calling reps is very nerve racking. You're not sure what's the right thing to say, and tbh having a script thrown at me makes things just as nerve racking.
I called today, and I figured I'd write up a transcript of how my call went down. Hopefully it helps demystify the process
@naomikritzer.bsky.social There's a pretty great Tumblr post about this: nitewrighter Mar 26 me: I don't get it. I thought I was doing a lot better than I was a few years ago. I'm like 10 times more on top of things than I used to be. How does everything feel terrible now? The Tiny Me in OSHA-approved Hi-Vis Gear Who lives in my brain and pulls all the levers: Boss, it's the fascism. You're completely gunked up with cortisol due to the fact that your entire daily life is now underscored with a haunting awareness of the rapid erosion of your rights, dignity, and any and all social safety nets, and you're also bearing witness to the most vulnerable people immediately being persecuted. This creates a natural stress response that basically means you're going to continue having memory and organizational problems, as well as emotional imbalances. Me: BUT I HAVE A BULLET JOURNAL AND I MEDIATE NOW. Tiny OSHA Me: BOSS, THE FASCISM.
Posting the sign so I can tap it when necessary.
AI-generated artwork is officially not eligible for copyright protection after the U.S. Supreme Court declined to review the appeal.
The court ruled that a work must have a human creator in order to qualify for copyright.
(Link: www.reuters.com/legal/govern...)
Here's the timelapse, including the silly picture I used as a reference.
Browt, a small round yellow bird pokemon with a leaf green beak and leaf-like eyebrows, is drawn taking a step with extremely long legs.
He take an big steppy
#browt #pokemon
Mr.no$ it'd be an honor 😳👉👈
Fuck ICE.
Any of the spineless fucks who supports ICE or trump are genuinely just not human.
UHM CHAT!!!!
ITS MLK DAY
Let’s remember a very historical and VITAL part of our history today! Let’s celebrate MLK jr AND the brilliant black leaders that helped fight for the rights for many Black Americans!
FOLKS!
Chiitan loves good transgender people🏳️⚧️
In today's world, even making these kinds of statements will get you slandered, but I think it's more important to create a world where transgender people can live peacefully and be themselves, so I will continue to send out messages until my account is deleted
So starting Jan 15th Twitter is adding to their terms AGAIN. The TLDR; You will no longer be able to opt-out of Grok or AI training. Having a Twitter account will automatically grant Twitter full license to anything you post and will be fed to AI training. Period. Not just AI scraping, but full-on.
Dude carrying way too many things, labeled "writer/artist" with the stack of stuff labeled "side WIP, WIP from 3 months ago, passion project, imaginary project, WIP I keep open in the background so I don't feel guilty, the WIP I'm actually "working on""
if you see this post, your actions are:
- if you have a spare buck, give it to Wikipedia, then repost this
- if you don't have a spare buck, just repost
your action is mandatory for the world's best source of information to survive
If you're not trans, I don't think I can fully explain how important this is.
It's so powerful that one of the most circulated science media publications in the world has come out and said "trans children are real and providing transition care improves their lives." That's groundbreaking.
Using gen ai for text and asset placeholders is not solving a problem; games have been made for decades with regular placeholders. studios using AI this way are just testing the water to see what more they can get away with - which will inevitably mean laying off skilled workers, to make worse games
Seconding this, also finding out Larian is using Gen AI in it's fucking planning stages has just pissed me the fuck off oh my god.
{Context: They're using it to: explore ideas, expand on internal presentations, develop concept art, and write placeholder text, Bloomberg reported.} {1/2}
There's a new episode of Suction Cup Man?! 😮
Epic Games not only didn't do Rainbow Royale this year (a Fortnite event for the LGBTQIA+) but they're also encouraging folks to play Hogwarts Legacy & now this.
Killing a skin on sight is not enough since that's literally the point of the game, just stop playing it. They know what they're doing.
I hope your surgeries go well, and that your recovery is gentle and quick 💙 we'll miss you!
RT if you also wish ill upon JK Rowling.
waow
Fellow VGen artists please be careful! Apparently scammers are now impersonating artists and contacting their previous clients (I'm assuming they're gathering that info from public reviews). I was lucky that my client contacted me first about this.
Reon take your time to rest and recover, however long that takes. Those who love your content will understand and above all want you to be healthy and happy. I hope you feel better soon 🥺💙
On this day, Indigenous people and allies confront the settler-colonial narratives of “Thanksgiving,” observing it instead as a National Day of Mourning.
Time once again to rep my favorite place for giving: anelder.org - they supply food, firewood and supplies for traditional crafting to Navajo Elders. If you have the cash, please give these folks a hand.
one of the coolest things about ChatGPT is how you can actually just never use it. you can fill your whole entire life with simply not once using it. it's incredible.
This is your sign btw that you should call Mastercard
White people piss me off. How the fuck are you going to police/gatekeep a culture that's not yours? Why are y'all so mad over black cosplayers, dressing up and pretending to be FICTIONAL ANIME CHARACTERS!
"That character isn't black!" THE CHARACTER ISN'T WHITE EITHER DUMBASS!
4 frame comic. in the first frame, we see a candle; in the second, a trans flag ; in the third, birds flying off a tree near a house; in the fourth, someone blowing on a fire. text reads : november 20th is trans day of remembrance, during which we remember trans people who died in the past year due to transphobic violence. When I was younger, t.d.o.r. always galvanized me into working even harder towards dignity and justice for trans people. may each of the 281 names on this year's list - and the many more names that we don't know - ignite in our heart a relentless desire to keep dreaming.
A relentless desire to keep dreaming
