Rae Loverde

Last night I was down a rabbit hole of why fish can't exist deeper than around 8000 meters and I realized that the deepest a fish has ever gone in the ocean and survived was in a submersible. The fish were people. All vertebrates are fish.

I hope this helps with ~~the horrors~~

The House of Lords Digital & Communications Committee just published their report on AI, copyright & the creative industries, and their conclusions could not be clearer.

🧵 1/5

ppl who still commission their favourite artists even in this era where everyone is broke and genAI is being pushed on us at every opportunity—you are appreciated more than words can express!!!

*sigh* here we go again

them: you know our last president-- what was his name?

me: Biden

them: YES, HIM! He was just not a well man! He NEVER should have stayed in office!

me: you know Tr*mp has a bunch of the same dementia symptoms, right?

them: pfft well, he's just OLD. That's normal

me:

this is a fair point

YOU ASKED FOR THIS!

Downfall. Kristi Noem Edition:

Fun note on this article, this company uses comfyUI, which boasts a collection of some of the most unethical and exploitative GenAi models.

This whole deal is Netflix normalizing the exploitation of the creative workers—whose works GenAi companies stole to train their models— they hope to replace.

UK arts must not be sacrificed for speculative AI gains, peers say Ministers urged to abandon plans to let tech firms use work of novelists, artists and writers without permission The UK’s creative industries must not be sacrificed in the pursuit of speculative gains in AI technology, a House of Lords committee has warned, as the government prepares to reveal the economic cost of proposals to change copyright rules. A report by peers has urged ministers to develop a licensing regime for the use of creative works in AI products and abandon proposals to let tech firms use the work of novelists, artists, writers and journalists without permission. Continue reading...

UK arts must not be sacrificed for speculative AI gains, peers say

oh these are both EXCELLENT lists

Re: enabling workplace abuse, read to the end for Mike’s weird fucking response that names the reporter multiple times as if he’s addressing her, specifically:

graphicpolicy.com/2015/10/01/e...

dammit now I'm hungry again 😭

A comic drawn digitally with two panels. First panel has one black cat on the left asking a white cat on the right "so what do you do for a living?" Second panel the white cat answered with a silly face "My best?"

don't we all

#art #cuteart #comic #cat

Guardian headline: “Bob Carr, ‘a masterpiece’ and a hornet queer fantasy”

And this, kids, is why we need Oxford commas…

a woman is holding a cup that says help me Alt: a woman with a brilliant, pained smile is holding a mug that says help me

it is just

constant

day after day

I dread leaving my room sometimes bc of whatever fresh bullshit is going to be blaring on the TV and whatever batshit justification I'm going to be met with when I call it out

I love them fiercely, and they've done a lot for me

but dudes, my brain is MELTING

{I'm ngl, the Latino comments drive me extra crazy bc 1) their family owned a construction company for decades and they were always telling me about the importance of making sure you pay your laborers in cash and 2) their ancestors came over from France w/Maximilian TO ILLEGALLY SETTLE IN MEXICO}

a view of a city from a balcony with columns Alt: a man jumping out a window for what must be a very justifiable reason

{oh, maybe except this one

them: UGH those HISPANICS coming here and taking the jobs and stealing MY tax money to pay for their welfare checks

also them: Have you met Juan, my gardener? He's SUCH a lovely man, but shhh we need to remember to pay him under the table *wink*

half-Latino me: }

{I'm not including any of the casually racist shit here bc 1) ain't nobody needs that rn and 2) they're the kind of racist who says "I have Jewish in-laws and Chinese grandchildren and Black grandchildren and Mexican stepkids and-- what was your ex? Chinese? {no, Korean} how could I be racist??"💀}

a man in a red shirt stands next to another man in a blue vest Alt: Tulio from The road to El Dorado banging his head against a wooden support beam

them: You know what I love about GBBO? They're all so positive and wholesome and respectful. I just can't stand nastiness

me: you know every single F*x talk show you watch every day is like a solid hour of that, right?

them: Really? I've never noticed that. Eh, guess you just don't get humor

me:

(to be fair to them, they frequently get the guests mixed up a lot or think that the subject being discussed is the thing said guest is an expert in)

them: You know what I like about F*x? They bring on such knowledgeable and experienced guests

me: *googles their credentials, 99% of which are dubious, outright fraudulent, or due to nepotism*

them: Well, you don't need to be EDUCATED to be an expert (their father went to UC Berkeley & Harvard)

(am I mean for this? yeah, probably, but I'm going out of my mind here 💀)

a young boy in a yellow shirt is smiling and making a funny face . Alt: little kid staring in abject unamusement at the camera

them: you know, my father (treasurer of Getty Oil, I shit you not) used to say he was too honest to ever rise any higher in the company. Bc those Getty higher-ups? WOOF

me: *lists various Tr*mp family scandals*

them: well, we don't know how money works at that level like these businesspeople do

a close up of a man in a suit and tie Alt: one of the Supernatural guys chewing and staring, unamused

{literally any liberal woman says something vaguely impolite}

them: You know that nasty woman? Oh, you should have HEARD her. It's just not flattering -- you don't do that in public

me: *lists off examples of things Tr*mp has said*

them: Well, he's a businessman -- that's just how they talk

me:

*sigh* here we go again

them: you know our last president-- what was his name?

me: Biden

them: YES, HIM! He was just not a well man! He NEVER should have stayed in office!

me: you know Tr*mp has a bunch of the same dementia symptoms, right?

them: pfft well, he's just OLD. That's normal

me:

My dad: you can pick your friends, you can pick your nose, but you can’t pick your friend’s nose

Markwayne: Challenge accepted.

Your artist friends would make art for you for free if the society you invest in also invested in them.

One of the many exhausting things about capitalism is it doesn’t facilitate taking on pro-bono work or even spec work for something you’re really passionate about with no budget. A lot of the work I do “for free” is the most satisfying to me but I can only do it because of my day job.

we regret to inform you that due to federal budget cuts Kristi Noem has been laid off from eight new jobs

You’re in her DMs, I have showered her with trinkets picked by crows, placed crowns woven from forest foliage upon her shining hair, and engaged the trembling magic of the deep wood in her defense. We are not the same.

On @pablo.show I talked about the limits of generative AI, and why the brainstorming process—which LLMs mostly eliminate, imo—is fundamental to doing *good* work.