You can make art and hold a day job, because the art is what fulfills you. It is not less valid. It doesn't make you less of an artist. It does not diminish. (Hi, I have a day job! If I had to live on what I make as a poet, I would be dead.)

I am ALL for making time to make your art. I am all for not remaining comfortable in the art you make.

But DO NOT starve yourself or put yourself in dire straits to live up to some bizarre notion. It's GREAT when creative work pays the bills! But you're not obligated to do that, either.

Shitter dim mode is one of the only things I miss really

other than dms, that is... 😅

@yuagiin.bsky.social is that friend, if you wanted to hear more from the horse's mouth

It is, but it's also not even that accurate. Friend of mine consistently gets 90-something more accurate than other users emails, but a lot of the errors he does get are the software being wrong on word choice

It's very likely they're training on corrections from ppl like him

Honestly I've never seen the bots this bad anywhere outside of instagram

takes real talent to have completely fucked twitter like that and then have the audacity to charge entry

I'm not sure on the specifics, either by sending strongly worded replies, complying with the nonsense just to see how far it actually goes, or something similar to what you're doing.

Just that the scare tactic wasn't going to make them let up

A few people are planning to push it further so if we get any more updates I'll keep you in the loop if you like

It's not surprising how rubbish and scummy the response was, but where possible keeping the pressure will be the best way to make them admit it was a load of shit at least

The first social media to say “we will not allow scraping or AI training” will win the wars. But none of them will because we are product, not patrons.