The Space Between

I'm Alyssa and I'm probably either drinking tea or contemplating getting more tea. I made a comic called 'Lapse' before it starved to death. I still want you to read it. I like drawing and storytelling.

[rabbitkinglune777]

makes me sad that most YouTube art videos are about "how to make your ocs interesting", "how to grow your account in social media", "how to not make mary sues" like what happened to just drawing for fun and sharing it- oh wait I forgot this is the result of lolcowing people for their technical art skills and or clout related things.

[rabbitkinglune777]

we are in an era where people openly and harshly judge people's creative output because of the normalization of having a "freak" of the week. it makes me sad cuz as artists we should be having fun, not treating social media like an art competition or forcing our art to be "perfect" and digestible.

[rabbitkinglune777]

another thing is the constant need to market yourself and assimilate into a squeaky clean brand via treating social media like full time job rather than hobby you put your art on and occasionally get paid for. it's not a moral failing but I swear it's another form of art being controlled and governed by capitalism.

[patg-comic]

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[thevulturesquadron]

text: [ “Some of you have forgotten that only three years ago you were perfectly capable of writing an essay, writing a eulogy, telling a bedtime story to a child, and it should worry you that powerful companies have convinced us we can’t do things we’ve been doing for 5000 years.” ]

[varethane]

So hey!!! I've just launched a Kickstarter campaign, and this one is to make a cool slipcase boxset collection for Chirault, my complete high fantasy webcomic :D

I've wanted to have some sort of cool boxset edition for YEARS, like ever since I finished the story....so this yeah, I want to make it happen. And you can help, by sharing the campaign around!

[varethane]

So the campaign has hit its goal already! 🎊🎊🎊 I thought I wouldn't be here so quickly, but I guess its time to think about stretch goals...... so I will have more news soon.

Chirault Boxset and Volume 1-2 Combined Edition

Printing a boxset slipcase for the high fantasy webcomic Chirault!

[varethane]

On account of how quickly the initial copies sold out, I've retroactively decided to make my first stretch goal be a reprint of my Shenanigans minicomic!

This 48-page short story is set about 20 years before the main story of Chirault picks up. It originally released in 2012 on the website (where it can still be read), in between chapters 13 and 14.

So it is possible to interpret it as Astrid telling Teeko about these events while they travelled to Aerquist via airship... or maybe just thinking about them while telling her something else about his childhood growing up there. :)

Anyway, because of the reprint, I've removed the limit on the amount of minicomics available as add-ons on the Kickstarter!

[delphina2k]

Words and layouts by me, art and inspiration from the pages of the webcomic Lunar Blight by the amazing @studiocartridge

[lilithsaintcrow]

"This week I discovered the same pattern, executed by Google. Google Chrome is reaching into users' machines and writing a 4 GB on-device AI model file to disk without asking."

Google Chrome silently installs a 4 GB AI model on your device without consent. At a billion-device scale the climate costs are insane. — Th

Google Chrome is downloading a 4 GB Gemini Nano model onto users' machines without consent, with no opt-in, no opt-out short of enterprise t

[spockvarietyhour]

Google Chrome Secretly Downloads Huge Local AI Models

Google Chrome automatically installs local neural network components on user systems via default configurations. The browser downloads a 4GB

Procedures for disabling it

[josephbrassey]

“Haha remember when murder-hornets were gonna be a thing? What a nothingburger.”

Yes, because the Washington state government activated like a sleeper-cell and ruthlessly, systematically hunted them down and annihilated them.

“Y2K came to nothing amirite?”

Yes because an army of software engineers working around the clock, losing sleep, and busting ass till the last minute prevented it from happening.

“Remember the hole in the ozone layer?”

You mean the one that was fixed through rigorous world wide government action?

One of the root problems of our society is a refusal or inability by media to articulate that all those “it’s gonna be an apocalypse” disasters were not disasters because we collectively did something about them.

The good news is this is actually quite correctable. I maintain my firm belief that we as humans are capable of solving almost all of our problems, when we decide to do so.

And I still think that’s going to happen. I don’t know when or how, but I do know that abandoning hope won’t help bring it about.

And I refuse to let the cynics own a chunk of my heart.

[gudamor]

Happy Smallpox Eradication Day

[delphina2k]

Happy Webcomic Day! Sombulus is the webcomic I've been making for the last 16 years! It's a world-hopping adventure set against a magic world of pseudo-angelic-demonic rivalry, with fun characters who ride flying toasters, get in trouble with gods, and have big feelings.

Read it on my website at sombulus.com!

[patg-comic]

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[probablyasocialecologist]

Analysis Finds That Google's AI Overviews Are Providing Misinformation at a Scale Possibly Unprecedented in the History of Human Civilizatio

A new analysis commissioned by The New York Times suggests that Google's AI Overviews are wrong an astonishing percentage of the time.

A recent analysis conducted by the AI startup Oumi at the behest of The New York Times found that the AI-generated summaries, which appear above Google search results, are accurate around 91 percent of the time.  In a sense, that may sound like an impressive figure. But here’s an even more impressive one: five trillion. That’s roughly the number of search queries that Google processes every year, translating to tens of millions of wrong answers that the AI Overviews are providing every hour — and hundreds of thousands every minute, the analysis calculated. In other words, Google has created a misinformation crisis. Studies have shown that people tend to trust what an AI tells them without question, with one report finding that only 8 percent of users actually double checked an AI’s answer. Another experiment found that users still listened to AI when it gave them the wrong answer nearly 80 percent of the time — a grim trend the researchers dubbed “cognitive surrender.” Large language models adopt an authoritative tone and can confidently present fabricated information as fact when it can’t immediately glean a straight answer. Add the convenience that Google’s AI Overviews offer, and it’s easy to imagine untold numbers of users taking its summaries at their word.

8 April 2026

[coffee-khaleesi-deactivated2020]

When I was training to be a battered women’s advocate, my supervisor said something that really blew my mind:

“You can always assume one thing about your clients; and that is that they are doing their best. Always assume everyone is doing their best. And if they’re having a day where their best just isn’t that great, or their best doesn’t look like your best, you have to be okay with that.”

Any now whenever anyone in my life, either a friend or a client, frustrates me, disappoints me, or pisses me off, I just tell myself They are doing their best. Their best isn’t that great today, but I have days where my best isn’t that great either. 

[bogfox]

Op I’d like to thank you for sharing this. Ever since the first time I’ve read it I’ve held it in my mind and it really has helped me to be kinder to others and to myself.

[undergroundwubwubmaster]

✨️ Twinkle twinkle little star, how the hell you draw an arm ✨️

[delphina2k]

New page of Sombulus this week! Her. Read today’s page here > https://www.sombulus.com

[delphina2k]

New page of Sombulus this week! Finding a friend. Read today’s page here > https://www.sombulus.com

[onuen]

[landscapeexposurenetwork]

Photo by https://onuen.tumblr.com/post/648909228453560320

[mamawasatesttube]

the thing about media literacy is that understanding why the author chose to specify that the curtains are blue is the same skill set as understanding that the way the author characterizes all black characters as angry or all chinese characters as meek and silent is racist. it is the same skill set as being able to identify when a news source is biased or when someone is feeding you propaganda. the ability to ask "why did this person choose to present this premise in this specific way?" is a critical skill in a world full of misinformation. why are the curtains blue? maybe it's a characterization detail. maybe it's extraneous worldbuilding. why is this character written as being right all the time? maybe you're intended to disagree with them. maybe it doesn't matter. maybe you should still ask why.

[liberalsarecool]

"Dignity For All" is anti-capitalist. 👏🏻💫