Laura 👓✨
@nerdinsandals.bsky.social
Artist | she/her | 30+ | AroAce ♠⚪💜 | Spain | English/Español OK! | I live for Conway/Kouhei and nerds 💚👓 | #art | Pokémon | Anipoke | HxH | Animation fan | 🚫 Do NOT reupload | 🚫 Anti genAI | https://nerdinsandals.carrd.co/
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Laura 👓✨
@nerdinsandals.bsky.social
· Mar 5
Here are some things you'll see on my profile!
🎨Art feed: bsky.app/profile/did:...
⚡ Pokémon (mostly Anipoke, especially OS-DP and Horizons)
🎣 Hunter X Hunter (manga, 1999 and 2011)
🖍️ Art, anime and animation in general
🔃 RT heavy
🌻 I like Conway Anipoke and HeatTagshipping a normal amount 💚💙
🎨Art feed: bsky.app/profile/did:...
⚡ Pokémon (mostly Anipoke, especially OS-DP and Horizons)
🎣 Hunter X Hunter (manga, 1999 and 2011)
🖍️ Art, anime and animation in general
🔃 RT heavy
🌻 I like Conway Anipoke and HeatTagshipping a normal amount 💚💙
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This is a huge part of why so many people think we're in the middle of a widespread "anti-woke backlash": Small movements opposed to social progress are collected into trend stories by conservative media. Far larger movements that want more diversity are ignored or cast as threats.
"Woke is ruining D&D". Meanwhile Dimension 20, one of the wokest real play shows around, just sold out Madison Square Garden and the Hollywood Bowl for live shows and brings armies of new players to RPGs.
November 30, 2025 at 3:38 PM
This is a huge part of why so many people think we're in the middle of a widespread "anti-woke backlash": Small movements opposed to social progress are collected into trend stories by conservative media. Far larger movements that want more diversity are ignored or cast as threats.
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Come on guys, we can do this. We can make it stop by simply retaining basic human abilities.
Think for yourself. Understand for yourself. Learn for yourself. Eventually this anti-human, anti-individual, anti-creativity, environmental disaster will collapse.
Think for yourself. Understand for yourself. Learn for yourself. Eventually this anti-human, anti-individual, anti-creativity, environmental disaster will collapse.
"All of this falls apart if humans don't adopt the tech. This is why you've seen Meta cram its lame chatbots into WhatsApp and Instagram. This is why Notepad and Paint now have useless Copilot buttons on Windows. This is why Google Gemini wants to "help you" read and reply to your emails."
Analysis: OpenAI is a loss-making machine, how can it survive?
Don't call it a bubble! Loss-making monster OpenAI is on the hook for $1.4 trillion (with a T) in compute commitments. How can this go on?
www.windowscentral.com
November 30, 2025 at 8:47 AM
Come on guys, we can do this. We can make it stop by simply retaining basic human abilities.
Think for yourself. Understand for yourself. Learn for yourself. Eventually this anti-human, anti-individual, anti-creativity, environmental disaster will collapse.
Think for yourself. Understand for yourself. Learn for yourself. Eventually this anti-human, anti-individual, anti-creativity, environmental disaster will collapse.
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If AI usage is so ubiquitous, then why are you opposed to disclosing it? It's not like disclosure costs you anything or is a hard thing to do. Seems more like you know that not everyone uses AI, and that you want to disguise the fact that you do because you know it's a deal breaker for many buyers.
"Why stop at AI use? We could have mandatory disclosures for what shampoo brand the developer uses" — Epic boss Tim Sweeney says Steam should ditch its AI generated content disclosure. https://bit.ly/4a193vt
November 30, 2025 at 10:17 AM
If AI usage is so ubiquitous, then why are you opposed to disclosing it? It's not like disclosure costs you anything or is a hard thing to do. Seems more like you know that not everyone uses AI, and that you want to disguise the fact that you do because you know it's a deal breaker for many buyers.
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Rêverie ✨ - Painted with watercolor an gouache
November 30, 2025 at 11:49 AM
Rêverie ✨ - Painted with watercolor an gouache
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People are so terrified of actually engaging with content for some reason. Like are they afraid that they're gonna get canceled or something if they actually engage with something deemed "problematic"??
• “I didn’t watch it, but TikTok told me it’s problematic.”
• “I didn’t read it, but here’s my take based on screenshots.”
• “I didn’t follow the narrative, but I saw a gifset and that’s enough.”
• “I don’t understand the plot, therefore the writing is bad.”
• “I didn’t read it, but here’s my take based on screenshots.”
• “I didn’t follow the narrative, but I saw a gifset and that’s enough.”
• “I don’t understand the plot, therefore the writing is bad.”
November 29, 2025 at 10:44 PM
People are so terrified of actually engaging with content for some reason. Like are they afraid that they're gonna get canceled or something if they actually engage with something deemed "problematic"??
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• “I didn’t watch it, but TikTok told me it’s problematic.”
• “I didn’t read it, but here’s my take based on screenshots.”
• “I didn’t follow the narrative, but I saw a gifset and that’s enough.”
• “I don’t understand the plot, therefore the writing is bad.”
• “I didn’t read it, but here’s my take based on screenshots.”
• “I didn’t follow the narrative, but I saw a gifset and that’s enough.”
• “I don’t understand the plot, therefore the writing is bad.”
November 29, 2025 at 8:19 PM
• “I didn’t watch it, but TikTok told me it’s problematic.”
• “I didn’t read it, but here’s my take based on screenshots.”
• “I didn’t follow the narrative, but I saw a gifset and that’s enough.”
• “I don’t understand the plot, therefore the writing is bad.”
• “I didn’t read it, but here’s my take based on screenshots.”
• “I didn’t follow the narrative, but I saw a gifset and that’s enough.”
• “I don’t understand the plot, therefore the writing is bad.”
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As someone who works in the tech industry--absolutely.
They are testing the waters. These are top-down orders. The ONLY way to stop it is a visceral negative reaction. Write articles. Post your rage. Email. Post. @. All those things.
Only you have the power to kill it.
They are testing the waters. These are top-down orders. The ONLY way to stop it is a visceral negative reaction. Write articles. Post your rage. Email. Post. @. All those things.
Only you have the power to kill it.
Let me give some insight on this, as a producer in the dub industry who worked with major streamers, who's witnessed first-hand where this push for AI is coming from.
tl;dr: Only CEOs want this. Tell them how much you hate it. Be loud, email, call, @, post. You will kill this.
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tl;dr: Only CEOs want this. Tell them how much you hate it. Be loud, email, call, @, post. You will kill this.
🧵⬇️
The only thing less human than these AI dub performances is the decision to sign off on them
A company this big can pay human actors a decent wage, not produce slop that intentionally removes the human element.
A company this big can pay human actors a decent wage, not produce slop that intentionally removes the human element.
November 30, 2025 at 5:07 AM
As someone who works in the tech industry--absolutely.
They are testing the waters. These are top-down orders. The ONLY way to stop it is a visceral negative reaction. Write articles. Post your rage. Email. Post. @. All those things.
Only you have the power to kill it.
They are testing the waters. These are top-down orders. The ONLY way to stop it is a visceral negative reaction. Write articles. Post your rage. Email. Post. @. All those things.
Only you have the power to kill it.
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We need journalists to help, too. Write articles about how terrible it is, and how bad it makes it look the company. Name and shame the people in the credits responsible for the travesty. Contact the company for comment.
Be the loudest, most annoying voice possible.
Be the loudest, most annoying voice possible.
November 30, 2025 at 5:07 AM
We need journalists to help, too. Write articles about how terrible it is, and how bad it makes it look the company. Name and shame the people in the credits responsible for the travesty. Contact the company for comment.
Be the loudest, most annoying voice possible.
Be the loudest, most annoying voice possible.
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Here's the good news: though the workers 'making' these AI locs can't do much to stop them, WE, THE CONSUMERS, CAN.
Email them. Cancel your subscription. Call them and complain.
Be a Karen. Tell them they have lost your dollar.
Workers secretly want this. They want consumers to riot.
Email them. Cancel your subscription. Call them and complain.
Be a Karen. Tell them they have lost your dollar.
Workers secretly want this. They want consumers to riot.
November 30, 2025 at 5:05 AM
Here's the good news: though the workers 'making' these AI locs can't do much to stop them, WE, THE CONSUMERS, CAN.
Email them. Cancel your subscription. Call them and complain.
Be a Karen. Tell them they have lost your dollar.
Workers secretly want this. They want consumers to riot.
Email them. Cancel your subscription. Call them and complain.
Be a Karen. Tell them they have lost your dollar.
Workers secretly want this. They want consumers to riot.
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Long story short: the people who are 'making' these dubs probably hate it just as much as we do, but they don't have any choice.
If they want to keep their job (and in this economy, and the only way to have health insurance being through your job, they do!) they have to do as they're told.
If they want to keep their job (and in this economy, and the only way to have health insurance being through your job, they do!) they have to do as they're told.
November 30, 2025 at 5:04 AM
Long story short: the people who are 'making' these dubs probably hate it just as much as we do, but they don't have any choice.
If they want to keep their job (and in this economy, and the only way to have health insurance being through your job, they do!) they have to do as they're told.
If they want to keep their job (and in this economy, and the only way to have health insurance being through your job, they do!) they have to do as they're told.
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In private messages, we all agreed: this was bad for the shows, bad for consumers, and bad for our translation teams. No one was benefiting from this, except for the company's bottom line... and honestly, even that was all speculation.
But complaining to our management didn't do much.
But complaining to our management didn't do much.
November 30, 2025 at 5:02 AM
In private messages, we all agreed: this was bad for the shows, bad for consumers, and bad for our translation teams. No one was benefiting from this, except for the company's bottom line... and honestly, even that was all speculation.
But complaining to our management didn't do much.
But complaining to our management didn't do much.
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Then came the push to start using AI as part of our subtitling flows.
"It'll save time and money, because translators can just post-edit!"
Never mind the fact that we spent hundreds of thousands of dollars on purchasing AI licenses, it didn't lead to much improvement in translation speed.
"It'll save time and money, because translators can just post-edit!"
Never mind the fact that we spent hundreds of thousands of dollars on purchasing AI licenses, it didn't lead to much improvement in translation speed.
November 30, 2025 at 5:00 AM
Then came the push to start using AI as part of our subtitling flows.
"It'll save time and money, because translators can just post-edit!"
Never mind the fact that we spent hundreds of thousands of dollars on purchasing AI licenses, it didn't lead to much improvement in translation speed.
"It'll save time and money, because translators can just post-edit!"
Never mind the fact that we spent hundreds of thousands of dollars on purchasing AI licenses, it didn't lead to much improvement in translation speed.
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For clarity, when I say "we" in the following bit, I mean "the people who actually do the localization work: translators, adaptors, actors, directors, project managers, department heads".
When I say "upper management", i mean "upper-level directors, CFOs, CTOs, CEOs".
When I say "upper management", i mean "upper-level directors, CFOs, CTOs, CEOs".
November 30, 2025 at 4:58 AM
For clarity, when I say "we" in the following bit, I mean "the people who actually do the localization work: translators, adaptors, actors, directors, project managers, department heads".
When I say "upper management", i mean "upper-level directors, CFOs, CTOs, CEOs".
When I say "upper management", i mean "upper-level directors, CFOs, CTOs, CEOs".
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Let me give some insight on this, as a producer in the dub industry who worked with major streamers, who's witnessed first-hand where this push for AI is coming from.
tl;dr: Only CEOs want this. Tell them how much you hate it. Be loud, email, call, @, post. You will kill this.
🧵⬇️
tl;dr: Only CEOs want this. Tell them how much you hate it. Be loud, email, call, @, post. You will kill this.
🧵⬇️
The only thing less human than these AI dub performances is the decision to sign off on them
A company this big can pay human actors a decent wage, not produce slop that intentionally removes the human element.
A company this big can pay human actors a decent wage, not produce slop that intentionally removes the human element.
November 30, 2025 at 4:55 AM
Let me give some insight on this, as a producer in the dub industry who worked with major streamers, who's witnessed first-hand where this push for AI is coming from.
tl;dr: Only CEOs want this. Tell them how much you hate it. Be loud, email, call, @, post. You will kill this.
🧵⬇️
tl;dr: Only CEOs want this. Tell them how much you hate it. Be loud, email, call, @, post. You will kill this.
🧵⬇️
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my “AI is over” anecdote is that my wife was hired over the summer to write scripts for a big tech company explaining how to use their AI tools and after many rounds of revisions, the latest notes said “we’re finding a lot of AI fatigue among our users” and to remove all references to AI
Anecdotally on twitter seeing a big shift the last few days from every AI slop account saying every other creative field is “over” and they’re in control now to now posting about how nobody likes them and it’s not fair and they’ll persevere and real artists respect and uplift eachother
November 30, 2025 at 12:27 AM
my “AI is over” anecdote is that my wife was hired over the summer to write scripts for a big tech company explaining how to use their AI tools and after many rounds of revisions, the latest notes said “we’re finding a lot of AI fatigue among our users” and to remove all references to AI
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Remember, the big argument for AI in the arts is that these “artists” have ideas, hundreds of ideas, thousands, all that was stopping them was the hoards of gatekeeping musicians, writers, illustrators… and not that they were lazy and didn’t want to put in the work.
November 29, 2025 at 8:42 PM
Remember, the big argument for AI in the arts is that these “artists” have ideas, hundreds of ideas, thousands, all that was stopping them was the hoards of gatekeeping musicians, writers, illustrators… and not that they were lazy and didn’t want to put in the work.
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The character design of Knights of Guinevere | TBSkyen
YouTube video by T B Skyen
www.youtube.com
November 28, 2025 at 6:00 PM
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More birds! 🐥💛✨
November 23, 2025 at 10:27 AM
More birds! 🐥💛✨