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V M Wald @vmwald.bsky.social · 3d

13. marble. a marbled statue.

#art #digitalpainting #illustration #painting #statue #marble #peachtober #peachtober25 #peachtober25marble

illustration of the upper body of a statue with a marbling effect on it.

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Imani Gandy Corn 🎃 @angryblacklady.blacksky.app · 20h

The idea that the Reconstruction Amendments were for everybody is asinine.

They’re all lives matter-ing Reconstruction.

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Birmit @birmit.bsky.social · 7d

Well come and well met, my brave little spark
How long you've wandered, burned bright as a star
Oh, I have awaited you patiently all this time 💫

#ffxiv (Illustration wip)

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Ben @anteateradvance.bsky.social · 1d

From today

Birds lined up on a building sign that reads “marsh wheeling stogies”

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Ben @anteateradvance.bsky.social · 2d

From today

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Slurmsadako MacKenzie @slurmsmackenzie.bsky.social · 4d

GenAI truly was the worst technology to come along at this moment.

An energy and water guzzler when we most urgently need to take climate action.

A disinformation machine as our journalism fails.

A bias machine as fascism takes root.

A job killer in a cost of living crisis.

Bria "tries to write a book" Horses @thevoidencore.bsky.social · 9d

The "cognitive decline and brain damage from repeat COVID infections" and "easy to use robot that makes slop and melts your critical thinking skills" is a hell of a combo in a post-fact media ecosystem

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Blue Heron Farm @blueheronfarm.bsky.social · 3d

Happy Indigenous People's Day

BOOOOlioraptor, PhD (spooky version) @biblioraptorphd.bsky.social · 3d

Janet saying: Fun fact: Columbus is in the Bad Place
because of all the raping, slave trade, and genocide.

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cody collins @azoosart.bsky.social · 4d

Today's cafe sketchbook page

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Ben @anteateradvance.bsky.social · 4d

Maybe picking up the new series prequel to His Dark Materials is a bit on the nose for these times

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𝔾𝕆ℝ𝔸ℕ @gorangligovic.bsky.social · 4d

I’m at the point where I’ve stopped trying to decipher these guys’ worldviews. There’s no cogent counterargument to anything they say because they’re deeply stupid people raving at us

Sharon @sharonk.bsky.social · 4d

thiel, man, what the fuck are you talking about

He describes the plot of Watchmen, a 1986 graphic novel involving superheroes grappling with moral questions about humanity against the backdrop of impending nuclear war:

The antihero Ozymandias, the antichrist-type figure, is sort of an early-modern person. He believes this will be a timeless and eternal solution – eternal world peace. Moore is sort of a late-modern. In early modernity, you have ideal solutions, ‘perfect’ solutions to calculus. In late modernity, things are sort of probabilistic. And at some point, he asks Dr Manhattan whether the world government is going to last. And he says that ‘nothing lasts forever.’ So you embrace the antichrist and it still doesn’t work.

Thiel later finds biblical meaning in the manga One Piece, discussing how he believes it represents a future where an antichrist-like one-world government has repressed science. He believes that the hero, Monkey D Luffy, represents a Christlike figure.

In One Piece, you are set in a fantasy world, again sort of an alternate earth, but it’s 800 years into the reign of this one-world state. Which, as the story unfolds, gradually gets darker and darker. You sort of realize, in my interpretation, who runs the world and it’s something like the antichrist. There’s Luffy, a pirate who wears a red straw hat, sort of like Christ’s crown of thorns. And then towards the end of the story, transforms into a figure who resembles Christ in Revelation.

Thiel, along with a researcher and writer at Thiel Capital, explored these ideas at greater length in an essay for the religious journal First Things earlier this month.

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Bruka Jones @brukajones.com · May 17

Monster

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Amayensis @amayensis.bsky.social · 5d

Oh I recently noticed this page on @procreate.com that made me so, so happy. I've used Procreate for all my digital art for many years and seeing them showing such a strong position against gen A/I is such a breath of fresh air. Please keep it up ❤️

Screenshot from https://procreate.com/ai.
It reads:

AI is not our future

Where we stand
No generative AI
We deeply respect your hard-earned skills.

Your work belongs to you
We do not have access to your art, by design.

We take pride in privacy
Your activity is not tracked in our apps.

Second part of the screenshot that reads:
Creativity is made, not generated.
Generative AI is ripping the humanity out of things. Built on a foundation of theft, the technology is steering us toward a barren future. We think machine learning is a compelling technology with a lot of merit, but the path generative AI is on is wrong for us.

We're here for the humans. We're not chasing a technology that is a moral threat to our greatest jewel: human creativity. In this technological rush, this might make us an exception or seem at risk of being left behind. But we see this road less travelled as the more exciting and fruitful one for our community.

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Elliot 🥕 @nameoftheyear.bsky.social · 5d

LOSING MY MIND AT THE PHONE NUMBER ON THIS BUS IN FRONT OF ME

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Ben @anteateradvance.bsky.social · 6d

The second in this trilogy was as highly readable and full of smiles as the first. More growing and realizing other people have entire full lives and perspectives.

Fun to see what was different from the films but carried the same characters and story. Looking forward to the third!

A picture of “P.S. I Still Love You” by Jenny Han

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Ben @anteateradvance.bsky.social · Jun 17

June seems like a good time to start a “___ finished this year.”

Used to devour books, lost the ability in the early 10s and miss them terribly.

So!

Told much like a fable, this follows residents of a “lost imperial province” on an adventure for the empire to lose it again.

Peep alt text 👇

An image of the book The Ropemaker by Peter Dickinson. Two pillars stand on either side of a man framed by a rope snaking through the air before him. His long hair is wild in the wind. The phantom of a gold pinion feather watermarks the whole image.

The story follows a stern grandfather, his critically extraverted grandson, another grumpy grandma and her sullen granddaughter (the main character) and their recalcitrant, willful horse on a journey south to renew magics that have guarded their valley from conquest for generations.

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Ben @anteateradvance.bsky.social · 6d

The second in this trilogy was as highly readable and full of smiles as the first. More growing and realizing other people have entire full lives and perspectives.

Fun to see what was different from the films but carried the same characters and story. Looking forward to the third!

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Ben @anteateradvance.bsky.social · 6d

Gorgeous

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Samille @samille8.bsky.social · 6d

‪🎨🖌☺️ #透明水彩

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Sprouts 🌱🔜 BLFC DD @coolartcorner.bsky.social · 11d

currently the mood rn

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Ben @anteateradvance.bsky.social · 7d

She’s receptive to knowing more but extremely stubborn against “stop doing (x).” It’s slow and arduous but it’s working.

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Ben @anteateradvance.bsky.social · 7d

I’ve been finding success in a razor’s edge to get under the issue and start peeling with my mom and GenAI: I remind her fervently she’s not in trouble or bad for liking an AI pic. I want to teach her how to recognize it so she is guarded against the dangers of fakes it can make for news and scams.

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Ben @anteateradvance.bsky.social · 7d

Yesterday evening

Sunset and a lens flare through the stone arch of the wheeling wv suspension bridge.

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MonotoneGent @monotonegent.fineti.me · 7d

HEY!
Me and @pizzadinosaur.fineti.me did an episode covering Mario & Wario and the other Before-Pokémon stuff GameFreak made earlier this year. Go check it out!
superpodnetwork.com/podcast/fine...

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Imani Gandy Corn 🎃 @angryblacklady.blacksky.app · 7d

Dolly Parton has been a good person all her life. She does so many kind things for people. Compare that to someone like JK Rowling who wakes up every day and decides to be an absolute asshole.

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Ben @anteateradvance.bsky.social · 8d

From today

The moon is approaching the horizon in morning over a river and stone bridge townscape.

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