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Lint Roller? I Barely Know Her
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Origami Around
Three Goblin Art
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One Nice Bug Per Day
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Keni
"I'm Dorothy Gale from Kansas"
Show & Tell
art blog(derogatory)
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shark vs the universe
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A commission done for @barkingbarghest. Wouldn't want to run into this fellow in the desert!
Aaaaand todayâs drawing is a cute tiny Legion that just saw Shepard and is happy about it because the world deserves cute Geths EVERYWHERE.
drawing him was a damn challenge tho XD
Could you maybe reblog this post if you think respecting trans peoples' names and identities is a basic right and not a political opinion?
No pressure. Just seeking some validation of my sentiment. Due to some. people
friendly reminder that ai is not an automatic collage machine, and is not the devil, and i am sick of the fearmongering
i would give my writing an ai, i dont care, because i know how it actually works and knows that it doesnt fucking matter.
Unfriendly fucking reminder that AI is a copyright violating machine, that the original AI projects were funded by Elon Fucking Musk because he does not see value in the work of artists, and that AIs have problems with constantly putting signatures and watermarks back into art
BECAUSE THEY'RE TRAINED ON SO MUCH STOLEN, COPYRIGHT-VIOLATING ART.
Implying that those of us who have moral objections to AI art (and writing) are "fearmongering" or that we just don't know what we're talking about ignores the very very blatant art theft occurring.
But no, AI art doesn't steal! That's why it's totally not reproducing watermarks here!
Or here!
Or signatures and copyright lines in all of these!
When you feed the AI which is BASED ON STOLEN ART, you are telling thieves that you're cool with art being stolen as long as you get something temporary, free and momentarily cool.
Fuck off. ^__^
LAION scraped medical photos for AI research use. Who's responsible for taking them down?
*rubs temples*
SO ANYWAY, LIKE I WAS SAYING.
An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works
in which everyone trying to solve problems, causes them a lot.
This was awesome. So many problems.
Barker then turned his attention to his fellow author J.K. Rowling, who has had her fair share of controversy over the last few years over her opinions on the transgender community. âThereâs a lot of pain amongst the transgender people that I know,â Barker stated. âThey have a lot of issues in the world as it is, without a famous author opining on the subject. It just seems redundant. It just seems unkind.â
Noting Rowlingâs vast financial success, Barker felt that Rowlingâs newfound position of fame ought to exclude her from discussing trans rights. He added, âIt really just seems redundant for a woman as successful, as validated in the world, as Ms Rowling, to be negative, to be disruptive if you will, to a very beaten up subculture. These are human beings. She has no right to opine, I think, upon the lives of human beings that she does not know.â
âI feel very protective of people who are on the edge of our culture as gay people still are,â Barker continued. âAnd certainly transgender people are on the edge of our culture. And here you have one of the most successful people in the frigging world â Ms Rowling. Going after a very emotionally vulnerable portion of our culture. It just seems unnecessary and unfair.â
Prejudice.
Current recorded daily average deaths from COVID-19 in the US alone is 345. Current recorded death toll in the US is over a million. Current worldwide death toll is 6.56 million. I wanted to depict an homage all 6.56 million souls lost to COVID-19, but my computer isn't robust enough to even do a week's worth of losses in the US. So many people lost. So many families fractured forever. Hundreds die every single day, just in my country alone. The loss is insurmountable, and grappling with it is hard. The best I can do is small tributes like this to those who died, and do my best not spread it.
This is more-or-less gonna serve as the rough draft for what Iâll put on the page, but I thought a lot about this shit today so YEEHAW. Text and pics. Zoid Manufacturing: Zoid Shells in the modern era are almost exclusively mass-manufactured. Zoid Cores can grow themselves shells (read: whole bodies) if given long enough, but this takes time and can have wildly inconsistent results. Neither of which work for mass manufacture. Every Zoid Core starts as a bud. For most Zoids this is about the size of a golf ball.Â
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idk if this is a phenomenon that has a name yet but like. scheduling doctor's appointments when you work a 9-5 job is really fucking hard when said doctors' offices are also open 9-5 and closed any time i could actually make it without needing to take PTO. im lucky bc my boss doesn't care if i duck out for under an hour for medical stuff but he very easily could force me to submit PTO for all of it. staying healthy in this country is such a hellscape on so many levels
Especially if you don't get PTO and have to just take off work, or work customer/food service and don't have a reliable schedule so you don't know when you can schedule appointments for even if you don't necessarily work 9-5
The phenomenon does have a name! It's systemic ableism.
Our world is set up to dissuade and prevent disabled people from participating in society in any way. With the state of late-stage capitalism destroying unions and grind culture so normalized, this starts to affect abled people as well. If you prevent your employees from taking care of their health without punitive action, you not only keep your employees too tired to work around your anti-union bullshit and simultaneously keep disabled people out of the pool of applicants. I have at least one doctor's appointment per week, and have for the past 4 years or so. No employer will hire me despite it being illegal to discriminate based on my illness, and they use the structure of grind culture to circumvent that.
Disabled people have been rallying against this for decades. It is legal not to hire us as long as they come up with an excuse, and their excuse ends up hurting abled people as well, preventing you from getting basic care to make sure they don't have to extend accommodations to otherwise capable workers. It's a side-effect of systemic ableism and historical eugenics and I'm very sorry that you've been caught in it.
The answer to this is to unionize. It is illegal to prevent you from doing so. Unionize, ignore the company rhetoric about unions being a drain on you, and rally for health time PTO. Vote for the SSI Restoration Act, to raise disabled people's income to the poverty line after decades of gutting funds, and remember that we are at the root of this and need your help. We can work together and change things if we can remember that late stage capitalism is not the natural state of existence. The 40 hour work week was won by unions, and getting time off for your doctor's appointments will be, too, if you can put in the work.
Just don't leave us disabled people behind when you get there.
Fuck OpenSea for ignoring my copyright infringement notices till the NFT got sold.
I saw so many artists give up, because they couldnât take the stress and sadness of not being able to protect their works.
Because they are not able to take on windmills and neither have the strength to ignore them.
Every person who ever made an artist wonder if they should stop what they are doing, if they should stop filling the world with colour and beauty, deserves to fucking burn in hell.
Fuck NFTs and anybody involved with them for making the world a greyer and darker place.
Want to hear the extra âfuck youâ for artists?Â
Itâs bots.Â
And each time an NFT is taken down because of a copyright claim, the art just gets reuploaded instantly.Â
How are we supposed to fight that?Â
I'm very happy to finally introduce my Zeke the Organoid poseable model!
From the anime and manga: Zoids Chaotic Century and Guardian Force.
Tornado Reborn! đ
Stealth Dragon from the Zoids manga! Modeled in Fusion360 and printed on my Anycubic Photon. Fully 3D printed ball and socket joints giving a pretty good range of posing ability.
Organoid Zeke Reveal Trailer.
Please excuse my crappy video-taking/editing. Best I can do atm, XD
Feel this HARD most days. -_-
Disney's writer wage-theft is far worse than reported
Back in November, we learned that Disney had pulled a breathtakingly criminal wage-theft manuever on one of science-fictionâs most beloved authors, Allan Dean Foster, an elderly cancer-patient caring for his sick wife.
https://pluralistic.net/2020/11/19/disneymustpay/#disneymustpay
Foster is the bestselling author of some of the most successful movie novelizations ever, from the first STAR WARS novel to ALIENS novels and more. Thanks to Disneyâs monopolistic buying spree of companies like Lucas and Fox, they now owned the movies and Fosterâs contract.
Hereâs where things get criminally weird. Disney argued that when they bought out Lucas, Fox, etc, they acquired their assets, but not their liabilities. In other words, theyâd acquired the right to sell Fosterâs work, but not the obligation to pay him when they did.
This is not how copyright contracts work, period. If it were, then any publisher with a runaway bestseller novel could incorporate a new company, sell its assets - but not its liabilities - to that company, and stiff the writer.
Both Fosterâs agent and the Science Fiction Writers of America tried to negotiate with Disney quietly on this, but they were stonewalled and insulted (Disney insisted that they wouldnât even *discuss* a deal without first getting nondisclosure agreements from Foster, another unheard-of tactic).
After failing to make progress with private negotiations, they went loudly public, launching the #DisneyMustPay campaign. The good news is, the campaign was successful, and Foster has been paid.
The bad news is that the campaign flushed out *many* writers who are also having their wages stolen by Disney. The company is stalling them, too - refusing to search its records or volunteer info unless the authors can name the specific instances in which theyâve been robbed.
In response, SFWA has joined forces with the Romance Writers of America, the Horror Writers of America, the National Writers Union, Sisters in Crime and the Authors Guild to form a coalition called Writers Must Be Paid.
https://www.writersmustbepaid.org/
They have a form where writers who suspect that Disney has stolen their wages can report it, anonymously:
https://airtable.com/shrE1hJbqMHsjP9Ll
Thereâs a reason for the anonymity: Disneyâs anticompetitive mergers (culminating with the destructive Fox merger) has created a monopoly with vast market-power to destroy creatorsâ livelihoods by excluding them for speaking out.
The coalition has five modest demands for Disney:
I. Honor contracts now held by Disney and its subsidiaries
II. Provide royalty payments and statements to all affected authors
III. Update their licensing page with an FAQ for writers about how to handle missing royalties
IV. Create a clear, easy-to-find contact person or point for affected authors.
V. Cooperate with author organizations who are providing support to authors and agents.
More broadly, I hope this brings more creative workers into the discussion about competition.
Specifically, âmonopsony,â the excessive buying power that happens when a companies dominate access to a market, which allows them to squeeze their suppliers, especially workers.
FUCK DISNEY.