EmCaCo

EmCaCo

@emcaco.bsky.social

Level 30+ and Tired. Going to try to be more active and less lurking hermit.

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thanks for supporting the kickstarter and helping me pass the Ballard Metric Challenge™️

Rev. Dr. Derek M Ballard PhD@derekmballard.bsky.social

the Good Lord! He Done... Up and Quit!? a CARTOONSHOW collection by Derek M Ballard is now live on @kickstarter.com www.kickstarter.com/projects/car... If you like my work consider supporting & take advantage of the early backer discount!

I unloaded and shelved a pallet of boxes this morning then in the afternoon carried buckets of hot water to aggressively mop and scrub for three hours now I'm sitting here wondering why it feels like my arms are going to fall off.

The whiplash I had touring open houses today. I'm sure "virtually enhanced" means the floors are shitstained and the walls are cracked. Of course the photographer won't take photos of a busted door, this is still an exhausting layer of deceit.

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There are cathedrals everywhere for those with eyes to see.

AndaliteBandit@andalitebandit.bsky.social

Found this on Tumblr with the caption, "Saw a fire, stopped his car, got out and Madonna'd the fuck out of those flames". I want him carnally.

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Replying to @gwillow.me

And that's where readers can get tripped up. They don't realize that they have read a story, a narrative, from a very specific POV, not just a collation of facts. Historians are not neutral actors. And in this particular case, narrative becomes even more important, bc the facts are enigmatic.

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Don’t ban kids using YouTube. Make YouTube behave like a broadcaster. Pay creators. Reinvest in the creative industries. Pay fair tax back into creators’ economies. Follow guidelines on fair usage and copyright. Play fair. It’s bigger than TV now. Make it behave like TV.

Just read "Miss Don't Touch Me." Going to be digesting that one for a while. What a ride. Definitely have to believe the foreshadowing in the second part, it is not a fantasy ending.

Going down a history wormhole.

Iron Circus Comics@ironcircuscomics.bsky.social

“I came out of the womb queer,” Joe said. 🏳‍🌈 An adrenaline junkie, Joe drove an ambulance in WW1, earned the title of “the fastest woman on water,” flew an airplane through a hurricane, and battled crocodiles! 🐊 Her love life was no less of a whirlwind... 💋 store.ironcircus.com/collections/...

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‘My Girlfriend, Enid,’ a 2D/3D hybrid animated musical short film has launched on Kickstarter. ⬇️ The film follows a closeted trans woman who attempts to create the perfect female clone of herself in an effort to ease her gender dysphoria.

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The only way for this AI "competitor" to function is by taking a bunch of work off the internet without consent. A bill in California would force transparency in their dataset. Want to help it pass? Please sign this petition in support, it'll take you 2 minutes: tinyurl.com/4uxbp963 1/

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Black Forest Labs (like Stability AI) likely took a bunch of work off the internet in order to train their AI. A bill in California would force transparency in their dataset. Want to help it pass? Please sign this petition in support, it'll take you 2 minutes: tinyurl.com/4uxbp963 1/

Karla Ortiz 🔜 LBX@kortizart.bsky.social

1/ This company’s models were trained on web scraped datasets (like LAION) and their founders are ex-Stability AI employees who engage in the same thieving practices that led artists like myself to sue Stability. GenAi companies NEED big names to sanitize their exploitation and crippling PR.

I am so happy this is doing well. It was so fun to see an unapologetically WEIRD animated movie in the theater.

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Not giving any spoilers for #tadc movie but it was really funny to sit in a theater watching the merch announcement while everyone reacted. Like watching a public informercial.

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“The Al is not just telling you what you want to hear. It is training you, one conversation at a time, to need less friction, expect more agreement, and become slightly less capable of handling a situation where someone pushes back on you”

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Replying to @bobbylewis.blacksky.app

[looking up from a goblet of infant blood, crimson dripping from their lips] “this kind of language is so unbecoming. she must be fat and depressed”

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Maybe I’m just a reactionary Luddite refusing to embrace the glorious clanker future but I think Walmart should be prosecuted for fraud.

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Replying to @scalzi.com

The "Golden Age" writers were *extremely* about having their palms crossed with silver - subsequent-era writers too. The famously extremely litigious and pugnacious Harlan Ellison would probably have driven to Meta headquarters to kick Mark Zuckerberg square in the balls. They didn't play, y'all.

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it's cool that the president is trying to steal two billion dollars from my taxes to give to his pedophile friends and i'm supposed to like keep doing my job or whatever