Naervern

Artist and automation engineer. Former European Solidarity Corps volunteer
I draw dragons and fantasy, big and small.

[Naervern @naervern]

Got invited to bluesky by @AndytheTanuki
Thank you very much, tiny!

If anyone wants to follow me there, check https://t.co/QnkDBqJbkC

Thank you all!

[International Cyber Digest @IntCyberDigest]

‼️ BREAKING: Journalists hid an Airtag in a rare book shipment and confirmed Amazon to be one of the buyers behind the bulk orders destroying rare-books to feed their AI.

They tracked it to Amazon's LAS8 warehouse in Las Vegas, home to VGT3 (see logo below), a scanning operation feeding Amazon's AI training data, where workers say they cut the bindings off books to scan them faster.

Amazon won't say why the books are destroyed.

[Naervern @naervern]

Good. Yes

[Umbre the Frostdragon @UmbreRepere]

YA all remeber this? well I refined it adn its now actually useable!

[Naervern @naervern]

Happy Allhallowtide!

[Naervern @naervern]

In case anyone has wondered, I still draw occasionally and that includes working on commissions.

It's just that I've been quite busy (I'm an immigrant settling in Finland) and some episodes of uncredited tracing have kept my motivation low to upload personal projects...

[Polunoch, you're a potato 💙❄️ @Polunoch_sv]

🔹Cоmm оpen!
Fullbоdy with shadоws
🔹 frоm $210🔹

>> Attention, additional fee!
Wings +40, scales +30,
Additional limbs +30,
Соmplex dеsign/palettе +30

>> Deаdlinе: mоnth
🔹Paуment: EаsуStаrt (Paуpаl/Stripе), card via Boоsty/Hipоlink.

I will be very grateful for repоsts! ❤

[Dark @DarkDragonArt]

Tiamat 🔥

[Buitengebieden @buitengebieden]

“You want a close up?” 😅 https://t.co/neNncxNV1u

[Akira @Akira_MomRaptor]

Absolutely love this piece, made vy @ItsSamAtNight! Thank you so so much! Momma gonna take some extra care about you soon my dear!

[Predatoria @PredatoriaED]

How about a wing handstand!

[Naervern @naervern]

@endlibtyranny @BrendanCarrFCC Now compare that with 2022, and you will notice a slight difference in crowd. Maybe something went wrong? (7/7)
https://t.co/PyEsVkgjOA

[Naervern @naervern]

@endlibtyranny @BrendanCarrFCC Also, you can compare the performance of last year's Independence Day parade, seen from a Brazilian Air Force footage which shows the Esplanada dos Ministérios basically empty, with roughly 3000 attendees. (6/7)
https://t.co/Qy3d9g3Ufq

[AEROIN @aero_in]

🚨 ESPLANADA LOTADA 🇧🇷 de verde 🌲 🪖

Vídeo gravado a partir de Embraer E145 (R-99) da Força Aérea Brasileira mostra o sobrevoo durante o Desfile do Dia da Independência em Brasília, mas com baixa presença de público no Eixo Monumental no 7 de Setembro

[Naervern @naervern]

@endlibtyranny @BrendanCarrFCC 2 things:
1. Most Brazilian exports to the USA are produced by a population which >99% despises censorship. (the only supporters of this government are people on their paychecks, who, in turn, are parasites)
2. The current USA govt is behind this since 2021.

[Brendan Carr @BrendanCarrFCC]

On Brazilian Justice de Moreas's order shutting down X:

The text of his 51-page decision is far more concerning and sweeping than the headlines suggest.

de Moreas’s own words make clear that he is attempting to strike a broader blow against free speech and in favor of authoritarian controls.

His opinion does not even try to hide it. He comes right out and points to Brexit and the 2016 election of President Trump as examples, in his telling, of the types of extreme “populist” outcomes that he is attempting to avoid by imposing a new censorship regime in Brazil ahead the country’s elections later this year.

But this type of censorship of a political and ideological nature is expressly prohibited by Brazil’s own Constitution.

Nonetheless, de Morea argues that free speech on X cannot be allowed to continue because the diversity of political opinions expressed on the site might influence the people of Brazil ahead of their 2024 elections. See op. at 31-32.

In other words, de Morea is arguing that free speech is a threat to democracy—a position that is as Orwellian as it is dangerous.

The opposite is true. Free speech is democracy’s check on excessive government control. Censorship is the authoritarian’s dream.

To dress up his decision, de Morea runs the warmed over playbook of labeling political speech that runs contrary to his own orthodoxy as “misinformation” and “disinformation.” But authoritarians like de Morea are not worried that people will be misled by the political messages they choose to read. He is worried that those messages will be effective.

At bottom, this decision is part of a live, ongoing, and global debate between free speech and censorship, between freedom and control. It is imperative that free speech and freedom prevail.

Or as the late NY Times editor John Oakes once said, “Diversity of opinion is the lifeblood of democracy. The minute we begin to insist that everyone think the same way we think, our democratic way of life is in danger.” Those are the stakes.

[Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald]

This is an very good summary not only of Moraes' mindset but also the mindset of Brazil's left.

Most of the Brazilian left wants a dictator who will silence and imprison all their political opponents. It's amazing to watch a political faction degrade into fascists. Read this:

[Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald]

Here, by the way, is PT - Lula's party -- calling Moraes a fascist, liar and coup-monger when he was first nominated to the Court in 2017. They also called him a white supremacist.

I guess all it takes to be accepted as a racist and fascist is censoring the left's opponents: