My first ever Vgen commission!!!!!!
I'm so honored and happy to bring @SakyuTepes ' Lilith to life!
Amazing references and a beautiful character to work with!
Here is the process and my favorite part to paint, the gloves!!!!
@_edenfalls@ArkTuah agreed, this feels the same as the take on Huner Games that Katniss was targeted in book 1, but the whole message was that she wasn't.
Here is the same, I think she is a beacon of hope because she was a nobody who learned magic, and having a connection would dimmish that
@sorcerers_claw@rryhsztshel Ah okay! Yeah I can see that
I think in my case I see it as people not knowing how to deal with their own selfishness and issues that they try to project it to the character, in this case a kid.
And haven't pondered that in general its unfair to how they approach kids in general
@sorcerers_claw@rryhsztshel If you guys are anime only then you are going to understand a bit later so dw ^-^
It's part of the story to question this as richen indeed is a child growing and learning, I just wanted to share that it is addressed later
@Recipe4Groo I say bad on both.
They seem too loud both their voices and the track itself and they don't seem to blend, I can feel like they are singing apart, even if every single singer does.
The voices are too punchy and the track is too out there
Artificial intelligences do not undergo experiences, do not possess a body, do not feel joy or pain, do not mature through relationships, and do not know from within what love, work, friendship or responsibility mean. Nor do they have a moral conscience, since they do not judge good and evil, grasp the ultimate meaning of situations, or bear responsibility for consequences. They may imitate or even simulate, but they do not understand what they produce, for they lack the affective, relational, and spiritual perspective through which human beings grow in wisdom. #MagnificaHumanitas
@lowkeymattyt Also give AI a bad name! Now everything is labeled AI when it used to mean some cool technology improvements back in the day.
When it wasn't trained on a nothing pull but actually crafter tools by the developers to do what they wanted and not GenAi
AI is so popular because it gives uncreative people the illusion that they are creative. It lets them skip right to the part where they get validation. Itโs not only parasitic, but extremely narcissistic.
En la era de la #InteligenciaArtificial, en la que la dignidad humana corre el riesgo de verse eclipsada por nuevas formas de deshumanizaciรณn, tenemos el deber urgente de permanecer profundamente humanos, custodiando con amor esa magnรญfica humanidad que se nos ha dado y revelado en plenitud en Cristo, y que ninguna mรกquina podrรก jamรกs sustituir en su esplendor. #MagnificaHumanitas
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"We must, then, avoid the 'Babel syndrome,' namely the idolatry of profit that sacrifices the weak, a uniformity that neutralizes differences, and the pretense that a single language โ even a digital one โ can translate everything, including the mystery of the person, into data and performance."
Toru Miyazaki gave 11 cats with advanced kidney disease an experimental injection. 15 others didnโt get it. A year later, 9 of the 11 treated cats were alive. Only 3 of the 15 untreated cats survived. He just filed for approval, and the drug fixes a defect only cats have.
Most cats die from one thing: their kidneys fail. By age 10, 4 in 10 cats already have chronic kidney disease, and by age 15, the rate doubles to 8 in 10. Once diagnosed, a cat has about 2 years left.
The reason kidney disease hits cats so hard is a broken protein in their blood. All mammals carry a protein that helps the kidneys clean out waste. In humans and dogs, the protein floats freely and goes to work when the kidneys are in trouble. In cats, it stays stuck to another protein and canโt get loose. So the waste piles up, and the kidneys eventually give out.
Miyazaki originally found the protein in 1999, back when he was at the University of Tokyo. He figured out the cat-specific glitch in 2015. The paper he published in the Veterinary Journal in February laid out the trial. The injection is a working version of the missing protein. His company, the Institute for AIM Medicine, filed the approval paperwork with Japanโs Ministry of Agriculture on April 24, 2026. If the review clears, the drug goes on sale in spring 2027.
The 30-year lifespan figure in the tweet is Miyazakiโs own projection of what cats could reach without kidney disease. The trial only ran a year, and the average cat today lives 15. Most die from the same disease this injection treats.
The research almost died in 2020. After running out of funding during COVID, Miyazaki went public. Cat owners across Japan responded by sending in 300 million yen, around 2 million dollars total. He resigned from the University of Tokyo and worked on the drug full time. The treatment in front of regulators today exists because cat lovers refused to let the research die.