Those machines didn't require stolen work to function in the first place.

My tribute poster to Alex Garland's 'Civil War.' #CivilWarMovie

Viral particles of H5N1 bird flu have been found in commercial milk but the FDA says it's safe to drink.

Testing is currently underway to confirm pasteurization killed the virus. Results will be made public in the coming days or weeks.

You mean the Hollywood that made Hattie McDaniel sit at a segregated table at the side of the room the night she won the Oscar? The Hollywood where 94 of the 96 winners for Best Actress have been white? OK.

Thanks for hearing me about my struggles. I hope you can find someone to share your struggles with too! #YourKoreanDad

There's nothing satanic about women being treated like full human beings, worthy of human rights.

Including the right to control your own body and make your own medical decisions, rather than being treated like livestock because a third party views the fetus as more deserving.

It is healthcare.

It's life saving healthcare.

But the reality is in this country people don't see women as fully human; folks refuse to recognize the risks of pregnancy in favor of mythologizing childbirth, and demeaning women who choose to have sex and not want to give birth.

The Society of Authors collected survey data from 800 of its members and found that 26% of illustrators and 36% of translators had already lost work due to generative AI. This tracks completely with anecdotal data from my own reporting.

Not good.

www2.societyofauthors.org/2024/04/11/soa…

BREAKING: The FTC just banned non-compete agreements.

The Federal Trade Commission has issued a final rule making it illegal for bosses to make workers sign noncompetes in any scenario, and voiding nearly all existing noncompetes.

This is a game changer for American workers.

FTC banned new non-compete clauses for all workers and rendered unenforceable all existing non-competes for workers below the level of senior executives!

Incredibly important and directly good for workers and their earnings.

Well this will be disastrous—expect AI systems, well known for exporting racial biases into output, to do the same on police reports. Serious errors will be entered into the legal record. And one part of the job that forces cops to reckon with their conduct will be automated away

You dont 'need' to draw it but you want the aesthetic of pencil and paper for some reason.
that reason is envy. A misunderstanding of the production process and plain laziness.

The student debt system we have today was a reaction to campus activism of the 1960s. Same ghouls, same playbook.

NASA has recently regained communication with Voyager 1, the most distant human-made object located 15.1 billion miles away. The Voyager probes, launched in 1977, continue to surpass their expected lifespans, venturing into the unknown realms of interstellar space.

Jeffery Catherine Jones being so brilliant it's unreal

Gen AI researcher at Amazon instructed to ignore copyright because ‘everyone else is doing it’.

Unfortunately this is very believable. A couple of companies decided gen AI training was ‘fair use’ in 2022, and everyone else followed, scared of falling behind.

This large-scale

If you’re an illustrator, have you noticed a decrease in work since 2023? I absolutely have.

Finding your art style is an accumulation of 3 things:

1. Developing your skills over time
2. Learning from multiple artists you love
3. Deciding what you like in your work and making that stronger

• A quarter of illustrators (26%) and over a third of translators (36%) have already lost work due to generative AI.

• Over a third of illustrators (37%) and over 4 in 10 translators (43%) say the income from their work has decreased in value because of generative AI.