[anyawen]

[myrling-art]

That artist is the founder of Cara by the way (https://cara.app/zemotion/all).

Cara is the only art platform I have found that not only prohibits AI art from being uploaded on the site, but also offers their users to Glaze their art (which protects them from ai mimicry). They are also working on implementing Nightshade, which actively poisons ai training.

I have used Cara for a couple of months now, and I hope more people check it out. It's really nice. 💚

We need these kinds of places for artists, and it's also FREE (despite the staff paying out of their own pockets to keep it running).

[caitlin-elias]

reblogging this as I was just complaining about the rampant AI usage on pinterest yesterday lol

[ettawritesnstudies]

Even if you're not an artist, I highly recommend signing up just to lurk because it's been such a lovely wholesome experience free of the noise and brainrot that comes with the ads and reels on instagram. As a writer I think it has a niche for connecting authors with cover designers and illustrators. I'm documenting my experience in this thread if anyone wants to follow along!

[weiszklee]

This is actually extremely worrying? Not the website or whatever, I mean the court case. It breaks with longstanding standards in fine art. Appropriation art is well established and accepted, recontextualization is itself a creative process. And he didn't just recontextualize it (which, again, should have been enough), he actually painted it in oil. A painting is not a copy! Every single brush stroke is an act of artistic expression, it doesn't matter if it traces an existing image.

[chryza]

Debating silently showing this to one of the flight attendants while boarding

[chryza]

I SHOWED IT TO MY FLIGHT ATTENDANT WHEN HE GAVE ME MY COOKIES AND HE LAUGHED SO HARD HE TOOK MY PHONE TO SHOW IT TO THE OTHER FLIGHT ATTENDANT

[localairport]

Please stop sharing this, the average flight does not carry enough cookies.

[cartooncoyote]

There's just so much I don't know about Tolkien's work

[peppercat-panic-deactivated2025]

Incredible job by the 1980s BBC who decided last minute they needed to quickly explain why Switched on Bach doesn't have Wendy's name on it

(sex change) motion graphics

[ms-demeanor]

Description:

Visual is a close-up shot of a photograph of a synthesizer that zooms out to show that the machine is next to a man dressed as Johann Sebastian Bach. The image zooms out until the title “Switched On Bach” comes into view revealing the image as an album cover.

In the background of the narration, a synthesized version of Bach music is playing.

BBC Presenter: The Moog modular synthesizer first became widely heard in 1968 on a record called “Switched on Bach” by Walter, now Wendy, Carlos.

[The words “(sex change)” scroll quickly across the album cover from right to left]

BBC Presenter: It was b-

/video ends

[notkatniss]

I love baseball

[notkatniss]

they let the pest control man throw out the first pitch 😭

[ozempicofficial]

[psych-is-the-name]

According to color theory, brown has more positive connotations than negative. Brown is associated with nature, stability, and warmth. Also a rich neutral tone goes well with most decor.

[lindleland]

the most noble professions are

3. line cooks. unsung warriors fighting in unreasonable conditions to make food that taste good.

2. sanitation worker. working at risk to carry out unpleasant tasks without which society would collapse within days. actual heroes

1. artists who draw blowjobs good

[lindleland]

oh shit i made a mistake

the most noble professions are ACTUALLY:

4. line cooks.

3. sanitation workers.

2. artists who draw blowjobs good

1. whores

[lindleland]

lmao they blocked me

[lindleland]

in fairness they are called startsargumentsforattention not finishesargumentsforattention

[theconcealedweapon]

[boy-yuri]

This happened in 2025.

His name is Chris Gatlin. He’s a Black man. AI has, for years, been worse at recognizing Black people. Black activists have been speaking up for years about how police use of AI will perpetuate racism in the justice system.

The victim repeatedly told the police that he was not a reliable witness due to sustaining a head injury from the assault. On top of this, police pressured the victim into identifying Gatlin as the suspect, even though he had already identified two other suspects. It took 17 months police to finally hand over the bodycam footage, which they conveniently forgot to say existed in the first place. The case was dismissed soon after.

[notswush]

The Everything Bundle

The Everything Bundle is a remedy for your well-founded FOMO. Let’s be clear, this is every last plugin we’ve ever made. Not only did we sav

Yo

[donjuaninhell]

lmao done, now I just need to get better at learning Reaper.

[sorairoknife]

my dad got a clear phonecase for himself so I let him have one of my pokemon cards to put inside it, and after making me explain what each pokemon did and was he picked a basic lightning energy card

[aokozaki]

It'll keep the phone charged longer, dumbass.

[sorairoknife]

[hellsitegenetics]

String identified: a gt a ca ca t a ca t t t, a at ag a at ac a a c a ac gtg g ca t' t cag g, a.

Closest match: Panemeria tenebrata genome assembly, chromosome: 6 Common name: Small Yellow Underwing

(image source)

[emtropi]

the alien when it bursts out of someone‘s chest:

[hound-of-ulster]

[jabberwockypie]

Area Man Experiences Consequences, Whines About It

[unashamedly-enthusiastic]

If you're in the notes thinking this is really only about little origami stars

[jabberwockypie]

Red flags such as:

- Dismissing his girlfriend’s hobbies and interests.

- Talking her out of buying fancy paper because HE doesn’t think it’s important. (Why does it matter if she spends her money on something she likes for her hobbies?)

- Destroying a thing his girlfriend made, repeatedly

- Disregarding when she asked him to stop, because he just couldn’t help himself.

- Ignoring that this thing he’s doing clearly upsets his girlfriend

- Lying to her repeatedly

- That whole mess of homophobic nonsense in the update, and acting like he’s the victim when he actually experiences consequences.

Classic DARVO response (Deny, Attack, Reverse the roles of Victim and Offender).

- First he says it wasn’t him, must have been her roommates destroying her things.

-It’s not a big deal, they’re just little paper stars, why are you making such a big deal about this? It doesn’t matter.

- Trying to guilt-trip her about how she could have seriously damaged his computer with that glitter!  Why is everyone being so MEAN telling him he’s the asshole? And how dare she date someone else! Can’t you see how unfair and TERRIBLE she’s being to him? And he’s ALL ALONE for Thanksgiving because she’s just being so UNREASONABLE. (Totally ignoring that these things are all consequences of his actions.)

Reminder: You can break up with someone for ANY REASON. Even if it’s “not a big deal” - if they’re not respecting you, your belongings, or your boundaries, that is TOTALLY a valid reason to break up with somebody or end a friendship.

[buckingfaseball]

here's the story. i know expressvpn has been recommended in some 🏴‍☠️ how-to posts but it is not trustworthy. the parent company, kape technologies, not only used to distribute malate but has ties to multiple state surveillance agencies. and be careful where you look for info about good vpns, because kape technologies owns a bunch of "vpn review" sites too

[hiddensandtrap]

In case anyone can’t read the article for whatever reasons, the VPNs acquired are:

ExpressVPN

Private Internet Access

Zenmate

CyberGhost

And the VPN review sites they purchased are:

vpnMentor

Wizcase

So if you use any of those, time to look for other options.

[nooralanqar3]

According to a major report by the Associated Press (AP), an Israeli double-tap strike on Nasser Hospital in Khan Younis killed at least 20 people, including five journalists. The first strike hit the hospital’s fourth floor, followed minutes later by another that targeted rescue teams and journalists as they were responding to the initial attack.

The report noted that among the dead was Maryam Daqa, a freelance correspondent for AP, along with journalists from Al Jazeera and Reuters, as well as rescue workers and medical staff.

[himbocorgi]

I like to imagine these two dated.

[trapny]

This is also him

[doccywhomst]

i love the term "joshing." it's slang, meaning to joke or tease playfully. "i'm just joshing you." who is this notorious josh. who joshed so much that the whole concept got named after him

[rubykgrant]

the one true Josh

[kipplekipple]

Whenever this photo turns up I remember that all the Joshes came and fought and then they made that little Josh's entire life by declaring him the winner and I get a little choked up.

[sorrowsofwerthertheyoung-deacti]

“They’re trying to convince people they can’t do the things they’ve been doing easily for years – to write emails, to write a presentation. Your daughter wants you to make up a bedtime story about puppies – to write that for you.” We will get to the point, she says with a grim laugh, “that you will essentially become just a skin bag of organs and bones, nothing else. You won’t know anything and you will be told repeatedly that you can’t do it, which is the opposite of what life has to offer. Capitulating all kinds of decisions like where to go on vacation, what to wear today, who to date, what to eat. People are already doing this. You won’t have to process grief, because you’ll have uploaded photos and voice messages from your mother who just died, and then she can talk to you via AI video call every day. One of the ways it’s going to destroy humans, long before there’s a nuclear disaster, is going to be the emotional hollowing-out of people.”

Justine Bateman on AI in this article from The Guardian