Sven Slootweg (soft-deprecated) @joepie91@pixie.town

With all the constant talk of how generators like Stable Diffusion and MidJourney trained their AI on other artists' work without their permission, if you're in the art scene *at all*, you know. You KNOW. You know it's exploitative and infringing copyright and morally and ethically wrong. You *know*.

Just... do better. Have faith in the quality of your own hand crafted work, and drop the AI. You have a choice not to be a shit person.

(Disclaimer, I used to do stuff with MidJourney. Then I stopped because I realised that they, too, had training data that included people's work without permission.)

If you're an artist yourself, you should know better. If you're an artist who crafts their own artwork from a learned skill, you should know better. If you've had other people or companies stealing your work, or work of artists you know, you should know better.

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Ongelooflijk mooie fotos van een bizar wezen https://www.barrywebbimages.co.uk/Images/Macro/Slime-Moulds-Myxomycetes/ #myxomycetes

It's called a single user instance because 5 people use it

I’m Jewish. I’m trans. I’m queer. I’m disabled. I’ve seen the fascism warning signs for a long time now, and have written about it at length. Fascism is here. Now. All the anti-trans legislation, removal of reproductive rights, etc, IS fascism. If you’re waiting for them to forcibly load you on trains to take you to camps for you to recognize that it’s here, that will be too late.

If you buy things from Redbubble, please be aware that they changed their business model so that they now get over 85% of whatever products they sell. If you are interested in buying something from a creator, you may want to check whether they have an alternative outlet that won't scam them this way.

If you are a creator who has used them...I am sorry.

#Redbubble

The worst thing that ever happened in software engineering was when Kirk asked Scotty how long something would take and Scotty said thirty minutes and Kirk said you’ve got five and Scotty got it done in five and impressionable children watched this and grew up to become managers.

cat update

To be clear, I'm not promoting anti-intellectualism here, we should listen to scientists and others in their specialized field and the conclusions drawn detailed/rigorous meta analysis on those topics they've collectively come up.

But we have to stop assuming that someone with a PhD in sociology knows more about the struggles of marginalized people than a marginalized person; we have to stop creating vanguards of intelligentsia; and we have to accept that in order to successfully complete that much schooling, you have to have privilege, lots of not insignificant privilege.

Filtering online product reviews to only show posts from before the public release of chatGPT like im scavenging shipwrecks for pre-1945 steel

BREAKING: "Loud quitting" trend enters explosive new phase as employees looking to leave their job commit acts of sabotage with well-placed explosives

NDAs are so transphobic how the hell do i infodump about cool stuff

hey cis people

shit's really ramping up with this whole trans genocide

you're gonna start seeing a lot of posts where trans people are trying to crowdfund an escape from one of the places where they're actively being genocided

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your boost could be the one that makes a difference and puts it in front of the right person to donate

what percentage of buttons in computer software have never been pressed

this is a hard question, especially if you include buttons that no longer exist but were not pressed while they did exist