Benjamin (leaving for 🦋@benjami.no)

art, gamedev, accessibility.
100% human.
He/Him
bluesky 🦋@benjami.no

🚨 Involuntary Training Data Provider. 🚨

[Benjamin (leaving for 🦋@benjami.no) @stealcase]

I post a lot of criticism about AI.

Despite being above-average excited about AI for the last 12 years.

It is the ethics, not the tech, I have issues with.

This isn't a "Prompter vs Artist" issue.

This is a "path of humanity" issue.

[Cameron Foxly @CameronFoxly]

In the age of AI slop, some of us are still making things by hand, I promise ❤️ Octocat for the new GitHub Copilot App was modeled, rigged, and animated in Blender...

[Kyle Anthony Miller @kyleanthony]

So people steal my work and throw them into AI now.

[Reid Southen @Rahll]

It's funny because AI is not good at any of those things, especially idea generation and 'taste'. It squeezes out the statistical average by design, so if you want middling taste and generic, reheated ideas, by all means, use AI.

[Arkan Almasri 🇵🇸 @AlmasriHaifa]

Guess who survived three years of genocide and has a psychology exam tomorrow in medical school in Gaza?

[🔻Rio Slade 🔻 @RioSlade]

There have been 45 warehouse fires

https://t.co/2YcCSwf1eS

[demo 🕳️ @demodemodex]

Felt appropriate

[Kate 🕊 @affleckquine]

Amal was under rubble and still conscious, she was speaking to family. The IOF fired on rescuers for 6 hours to make sure she couldn't survive.

[Starbucks Workers United @SBWorkersUnited]

Starbucks CEO Brian Niccol made nearly $100 million in his first few months and holds one of the highest CEO-to-worker pay gaps... all while our stores suffer.

How do we fight corporate greed? WE ORGANIZE! ✊

CONGRATS to Springfield, MO baristas who just won a union election!

[jordan ☼ @iixxivmmxviii]

"The new ChatGPT images 2.0 is insane"

Here are some posters I created without AI

[Ed Zitron @edzitron]

Tomorrow's Premium: OpenAI needs to raise or make $852bn through 2030 to pay for the compute costs associated with Stargate and other data centers. If it fails, Oracle dies, and destroys Larry Ellison's wealth.

Here's $10 off annual.
https://t.co/dSqlNelcjC

[Abier @abierkhatib]

Small wins 🤩

Thank Uuuuu Slovenia

[Nada Maucourant Atallah @MaucourantNada]

We spoke to reporter Zaynab Faraj, who survived a triple-tap attack that killed her colleague, Amal Khalil.

She described how an Israeli strike first hit a car ahead of them, killing two civilians, before a second strike targeted their own vehicle, severely injuring Amal. Ms Faraj said she helped her into an empty house, where they lay wounded and terrified, waiting for help.

A third Israeli strike then hit the building where they were hiding, collapsing it on top of them.

“Amal was gone,” Ms Faraj said. “And I was left alone.”

Throughout the ordeal, the journalists made repeated calls for help. But Israel prevented the Lebanese Army and the Lebanese Red Cross from reaching them, informed sources told us.

[Barry Malone @malonebarry]

Amal Khalil was alive for hours. She phoned her family and the Lebanese military for help. People followed in horror as her colleagues updated the world on what was happening. And yet Israel blocked the Red Cross from reaching her for seven hours. That is stone cold murder.

[Andrey X @the_andrey_x]

A chemical plant in Netanya was so poisonous that an Israeli court ordered to shut it down... instead it was moved to the West Bank

[Tehran Tadhg @TadhgHickey]

The worst examples of humanity are trying to wipe out some of the best examples.

[The Cradle @TheCradleMedia]

VIDEO | "I received direct threats targeting me on my phone from the Mossad, from the Israelis, and they threatened to kill me. They were literally saying they would sever my head from my shoulders if I didn’t leave south Lebanon."

In an interview recorded before her targeted killing, Lebanese journalist Amal Khalil, from the southern village of Baysariyyeh, reflects on the threats she received while covering Israeli aggression in south Lebanon for Al-Akhbar.

"Before 23 September, I definitely didn’t take precautions and I didn’t pay attention to these threats, because I said if I’m going to do what they want, why would I let the Israeli enemy impose its own narrative on me? It brings journalists onto my land and promotes the narrative it wants, while preventing me from moving freely on my own land."

Amal Khalil, along with her colleague Zeinab Faraj, was deliberately attacked and subsequently killed by Israel yesterday in the southern Lebanese village of Tayri. Zeinab Faraj was severely injured and, as per latest reports, remains in stable condition after undergoing emergency surgery.

[Matts Bean Machine @Matts_Beans]

Hey look a fun history lesson!

[PM of Palestine @PalestinePMO]

“Open the road.”

Palestinian children protest at barbed wire erected by Israeli settlers in occupied West Bank village of Um al-Khair—calling for their basic right to access their school, move freely, & live without occupation.

Imagine your child facing this on the way to class