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Chris Narchi
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Scottish/Lebanese Freelance Senior Character Artist in the UK
www.artstation.com/mongrelman
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Chris Narchi @mongrelman.bsky.social · Oct 21
#myart Hi, I'm a freelance senior character artist in the UK, here's some of my art.
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kaseygifford.bsky.social
I don't know how many more ways I can scream fuck AI. It's ruining lives, communities and ecosystems for what? Italian brainrot videos? Deepfake porn? Is this how we really want to move forward as a species?
November 20, 2025 at 6:01 PM
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felipegaonar.bsky.social
Open AI loses copyright case in Germany.

Judge Elke Schwager summarized the case saying that if you want to build something and need components, "then you purchase them and do not use the property of others."
Blow for OpenAI in Germany as court rules song lyrics used illegally
A German court ruled on Tuesday that OpenAI violated copyright on nine popular songs in a lawsuit that marked another attempt to prevent the free use of artists' content online. The Munich Regional Co...
www.yahoo.com
November 14, 2025 at 2:49 PM
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proton.me
Last chance to turn it off.

On Monday, November 3rd, Microsoft will start using your LinkedIn data for AI training. And remember, you're opted in by default.

To toggle it off 👉 Account - Settings & Privacy > Data privacy > Data for Generative AI Improvement.
October 31, 2025 at 1:37 PM
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lizshannonmiller.com
friend shared this, immediately updated my settings
Screenshot of text: unfuck google drive by shooting gemini Hey folks! Google is fucking you via sneaky enshittification again! Want the shit in your google drive to load instantly again, instead of taking for-fucking-ever? Open your gdrive (web OR app) Settings > Manage Apps Gemini was checked "use as default" (and i sure the fuck didn't set it that way, this was a silent push) Nuke that, and suddenly, folders that took up to a minute to populate and sort do so in a fraction of a second.
October 27, 2025 at 4:28 PM
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kanaratron.bsky.social
For context, some of the AMAZING carved pumpkins my friend Kjetil made (shared with his blessing)...
A pumpkin with an amazing sculpted face. This one is like a LOTR dwarf A pumpkin with an amazing sculpted face. This one has a creepy smile A pumpkin with an amazing sculpted face. This one has oversized teeth A pumpkin with an amazing sculpted face. This one has no nose and looks grumpy
October 7, 2025 at 12:42 PM
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mikeachim.bsky.social
Damn. This is amazing. £325 per week, paid monthly, for 3 years - and the result was a profit for the Irish economy:
www.citizensinformation.ie/en/employmen...
Post from Threads user rodneyowl: "Ireland has declared the Basic Income for Artists scheme permanent. This will be officially announced in tomorrow’s budget. Details to follow. Congratulations to all who fought for it and the present and future artists of all sorts in Ireland. That includes me 👌We’re just comin to the end of a 3 year pilot scheme. It’s been a roaring success. For every €1 paid out to the 2000 participants, the government got €1.46 back. Can’t argue with that. Other countries are already taking note."
October 6, 2025 at 10:03 PM
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chronicleflask.katday.com
Daughter of Robin Williams, Zelda Williams 💔
zeldawilliams 20m From Create Mode •• Please, just stop sending me AI videos of Dad. Stop believing I wanna see it or that I'll understand, I don't and I won't. If you're just trying to troll me, I've seen way worse, i'll restrict and move on. But please, if you've got any decency, just stop doing this to him and to me, to everyone even, full stop. It's dumb, it's a waste of time and energy, and believe me, it's NOT what he'd want. To watch the legacies of real people be condensed down to 'this vaguely looks and sounds like them so that's enough, , just so other people can churn out horrible TikTok slop puppeteering them is maddening. You're not making art, you're making disgusting, over-processed hotdogs out of the lives of human beings, out of the history of art and music, and then shoving them down someone else's throat hoping they'll give you a little thumbs up and like it. Gross. And for the love of EVERYTHING, stop calling it 'the future. Al is just badly recycling and regurgitating the past to be reconsumed. You are taking in the Human Centipede of content, and from the very very end of the line, all while the folks at the front laugh and laugh, consume and consume.
October 6, 2025 at 8:45 PM
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ramiismail.com
100 / 100
kojamf.bsky.social KOJAMF🤘🖤🤘 @kojamf.bsky.social · Oct 5
Dr. Jane Goodall filmed an interview with Netflix in March 2025 that she understood would only be released after her death.
October 5, 2025 at 11:20 PM
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meemalee.bsky.social
Author and filmmaker Justine Bateman on generative AI
"They're trying to convince people they can't do the things they've been doing easily for years - to write emails, to write a presentation. Your daughter wants you to make up a bedtime story about puppies - to write that for you." We will get to the point, she says with a grim laugh, "that you will essentially become just a skin bag of organs and bones, nothing else. You won't know anything and you will be told repeatedly that you can't do it, which is the opposite of what life has to offer. Capitulating all kinds of decisions like where to go on vacation, what to wear today, who to date, what to eat. People are already doing this. You won't have to process grief, because you'll have uploaded photos and voice messages from your mother who just died, and then she can talk to you via AI video call every day. One of the ways it's going to destroy humans, long before there's a nuclear disaster, is going to be the emotional hollowing-out of people." - author and filmmaker Justine Bateman from a piece by Emine Saner for the Guardian
October 4, 2025 at 9:41 AM
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kortizart.bsky.social
Ridiculous and appalling that Open Ai, amongst other GenAi companies, think they can dictate how THEY use OUR works.

No, Open Ai, it should not be authors and copyright holders opting out of your exploitative models. It should be you, Open Ai, asking authors and copyright holders to opt IN.
OpenAI's new Sora video generator to require copyright holders to opt out, WSJ reports
OpenAI is planning to release a new version of its Sora video generator that creates videos featuring copyrighted material, unless copyright holders opt out of having their work appear, the Wall Street Journal reported on Monday, citing people familiar with the matter.
www.reuters.com
September 29, 2025 at 10:31 PM
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spaghetmenot.bsky.social
normalMagic now available on Superhive! 🐝
Link in thread 👇
#b3d #normalMagic
September 26, 2025 at 2:23 PM
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glebalexandrov.bsky.social
Whether you love realism or NPR rendering, being able to get a close-to-photorealistic (or at least close to the *Cycles ground truth*) rendering in Eevee is no joke. #b3d

Here's what you need to know on HDRI lighting in Eevee 👇

www.creativeshrimp.com/free-sample-... free sample

#blender3d #3d
free sample Eevee lighting / rendering course
September 25, 2025 at 10:56 AM
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rebeccarhelm.bsky.social
I get that the news cycle is packed right now, but I just heard from a colleague at the Smithsonian that this is fully a GIANT SQUID BEING EATEN BY A SPERM WHALE and it’s possibly the first ever confirmed video according to a friend at NOAA

10 YEAR OLD ME IS LOSING HER MIND (a thread 🧵)
September 24, 2025 at 8:30 PM
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martocticvs.bsky.social
With the main modelling basically finished on the Bird of Prey, I turned attention to the landing gear. Refs for this are few and of poor quality, but I decided in advance I would only do it if I could find a way to make it work and fit inside the ship. So... here is Iteration #10!

🖖🖖

#StarTrek
September 13, 2025 at 1:26 PM
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pjvphotography.bsky.social
"Pat, why do you carry that ridiculous 600mm lens on long hikes?"

Buddy, I can see mountains reflected in the eyes of a trailside pika.
A pika sits on a mossy rock. Tighter crop of the same pika, focusing on its head. An even tighter crop, focusing more on the pika's eye. An extremely tight crop of the pika's eye, emphasizing their reflection of an early morning mountain scene.
August 28, 2025 at 4:18 PM
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surfwilde.bsky.social
Guys!! Media Molecule is hiring a stylised environment artist! Come work with me!

www.mediamolecule.com/jobs/senior-...
Media Molecule | Creators of Award-Winning Games
Our magnificent team of Molecules are the creators behind the multi-award winning LittleBigPlanet, LittleBigPlanet 2, Tearaway, Tearaway Unfolded and our most recent title, and BAFTA award winning, Dr...
www.mediamolecule.com
September 16, 2025 at 3:36 PM
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jonathan.gameanim.com
Sonic X Shadow Generations rigging and animation behind-the-scenes
September 16, 2025 at 7:18 PM
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clairezagorski.bsky.social
Everyone say hello to Tupi, a lil’ capybara baby at the San Antonio Zoo. 🥹
September 5, 2025 at 9:14 PM
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giancarloarriola3d.bsky.social
A doctor I trust more than RFK Jr.
September 7, 2025 at 7:00 AM
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kortizart.bsky.social
Wow!

So while I still wish this case would’ve gone to trial, and believe the amount given per work should have been EVEN higher, $1.5 billion in settlement AND the destruction of infringing datasets is still a fantastic start! Congratulations to all those involved as these things are not easy!
September 5, 2025 at 9:00 PM
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ryanestrada.com
Just a reminder to check for your name in this list of books that OpenAI trained from. If your name is there, they probably owe you several thousand dollars.

OpenAI cried that if everyone eligible author files, the company will go bankrupt, so I'm alerting every author I have ever spoken to.
Search LibGen, the Pirated-Books Database That Meta Used to Train AI
Millions of books and scientific papers are captured in the collection’s current iteration.
www.theatlantic.com
September 6, 2025 at 6:31 AM
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comet76design.bsky.social
W I L D E R W O R L D

Screenshots in Blender of a vehicle design I created for the game project Wilder World. Great team!
Thanks Aristotelis for your support!

www.wilderworld.com

Looking for new project to join.

#WilderWorld #Gamedev #ConceptDesign #Scifi #Cyberpunk #Blender #VehicleDesign
August 29, 2025 at 2:12 PM
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artofjeffp.bsky.social
Tons of great #handpainted #gameart examples and process images on Chengdu Pugui education technology Co.,Ltd artstation page

www.artstation.com/artwork/WLzAE
September 4, 2025 at 2:04 PM
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charlesgaba.com
You could try to be more cartoonishly evil than this but it’d be difficult.
crampell.bsky.social Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · Aug 30
A respected network of hospitals and cancer centers is halting enrollment in clinical trials for children with brain cancer after the federal government said it would no longer provide funding to the group. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/28/w...
Pediatric Brain Cancer Group to Lose Federal Funding
www.nytimes.com
August 30, 2025 at 9:08 PM
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edzitron.com
The cost of inference is going UP as I SAID! The mainstream media picking this up is a huge deal and I'm so happy to see it
mims.bsky.social Christopher Mims @mims.bsky.social · Aug 30
shout out to @edzitron.com who is the whole reason my story this week exists -- he turned me on to the trend!

go read Ed:

www.wheresyoured.at/how-to-argue...
headline: Cutting-Edge AI Was Supposed to Get Cheaper. It’s More Expensive Than Ever. dek: With models doing more ‘thinking,’ the small companies that buy AI from the giants to create apps and services are feeling the pinch
August 30, 2025 at 8:21 PM