is that Macavity? What brings him here? the other cats have all been busy doing their own thing. . haven't been able to get a word out of anyone though
For anyone interested, I write fantasy & paranormal! Am currently working on an ace horror anthology including titles like “Aromantic Frankenstein,” “NOPHOBIA,” “Raining Men,” and more.
Here is my latest published short story “NIX” on @longleafreview:
https://t.co/kNBHzpdu0i
Why are ace narratives expected to be, like, 20% own story, 80% vocabulary lesson and disclaimer that sex is not bad and explanation that some aces do have sex and here’s a diagram of the split attraction model and no it’s not a religious choice and—
never forget that artists who have passed away had their art put into an AI model to train it to draw in their style. sometimes only a few days after their passing. they were digitally grave robbed
being a good artist isn’t about having artistic talent. it’s about practice and having the willpower of a roach that has been smacked 20 times with a rolled up magazine and yet Still refuses to die
The fact that so many people are so keen to use AI art that builds itself off stolen work, STOLEN is the big word here, shows a severe lack of empathy for the artistic world and those of us who pushed on despite what is expected of most.
Imagine if everyone was required to take creative humanities like we do with STEM. The respect we give rising tech comes from how much we’re told about it’s value over anything to do with understanding colors
Most folks don’t have an awareness or an understanding remotely close to what goes into the work everyone admires from afar, which makes artwork feel inaccessible. The public welcoming stolen AI artwork is a symptom of our schools underfunded humanities and arts
When you overwhelmingly push for more STEM and less art during a child’s foundational years, you end up with programmers stealing artwork and a public, starving for art, stealing from starved artists
@b0tster Yeah it’s really mind boggling. As soon as you change the context into “haha look at this funny meme thing”, everyone switches up and just completely forgets
My niece asked me to unlock my phone so she could watch cartoon on my phone, I didn’t answer her, next thing she took my phone out of the room and I was looking for her. Just guess where I found this babe? In front of our family portrait, trying to unlock my phone with my picture
For 35 minutes, a teacher sat in the middle of her classroom, holding onto crying students as she gave them strength
And when police came to escort students out of a window, she held their hands to lead them out—not leaving till she was certain that not one child was left behind