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In the Disney lawsuit, 10 pages are dedicated to citing the work we did. In pursuit of this evidence, Midjourney banned me 3 times and updated their ToS. The first ban encouraged me to dig a lot deeper, so I'd like to congratulate CEO David Holz on his massive unforced error.

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Thursday July 3rd The Charlatans Embrace & The Coral Live at Castlefield Bowl Tickets right here: www.seetickets.com/tour/the-cha...

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Update: While the 10yr ban on State Ai regulations progresses through the House, 140 organizations join the call to reject this proposal! Add your voice to these organizations today by calling your representatives and tell them to reject this proposal! thehill.com/policy/techn...

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Aerial surveillance footage obtained by the Southern Environmental Law Center found Musk's xAI is using 35 methane gas generators to power a ‘Colossus’ supercomputer facility, for its flagship Grok. That's 20 more generators than the 15 xAI filed permits for, and 35 more than it was approved to use.

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On the other site, Studio Ghibli-style AI output is going viral and allow me to just say it is profoundly depressing to see that stuff being used to promote OpenAI's latest product. Miyazaki famously called AI-produced art "an insult to life itself"—and this in turn is an insult to him.

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An important read: www.theatlantic.com/technology/a... And if you’re an author, academic, or anyone who has written an article, an essay or a book, check out this link to see if you can find your work: www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...

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Who remembers Star Fleet

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Studio Hoiho is on the hunt for a 3D Environment Artist to create stunning tropical alien worlds for their adventure game! 🌴 Remote, Contract 🎨 PS2/GameCube era style 🕹️ Unreal Engine & Blender skills a + ⤵️ ⤵️ ⤵️ workwithindies.com/careers/stud...

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Toxic Town on Netflix is story about my Town Corby a steel town, where I was born and grew up. www.netflix.com/tudum/articl...

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Trump officials fired more than 300 staffers at the National Nuclear Security Administration, not realizing that the agency is tasked with managing the nation’s nuclear stockpile. #oops www.cnn.com/2025/02/14/c...

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🔴CALLING ALL ARTISTS🔴 Christie's NYC is planning an AI art auction expected to bring in over $600,000 to creators who've used models trained on copyrighted material from non-consenting artists. If you object to this, please sign and share this open letter. openletter.earth/cancel-the-c...

submitted 134 days ago • 89 comments

Some thoughts from me here. www.reddit.com/r/COPYRIGHT/...

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1/4 Btw, the timing on this is TELLING. The UK had a Feb 25th deadline to gather questionnaires concerning the policy. That Labor party said “screw people’s takes lets do it anyway“ reeks of desperation. Imo they got too much heat and knew it wasn’t viable. So they rushed it in.

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✨New pet delivery service just opened ✨ Order locally, receive a friend 🐶, and support small businesses~ #art

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This is a novella. But if you read it you’ll understand everything you need to know about what Donald Trump, Elon Musk, and Mark Zuckerberg are doing right now. I’m a biographer of the first two men, and have chronicled here exactly how and why the third is following their lead. Again—a long read.

submitted 161 days ago • 127 comments

Chair Stop-Motion 🪑💨 Made with 444 pictures taken over 10 days

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Holy shit this filing update is wild! It states that: 1. Zuckerberg gave the ok to train off copyrighted works 2. Engineers wrote scripts to remove copyright info 3. Meta downloaded illegal torrents to train models of GenAi is a house of cards, I swear. techcrunch.com/2025/01/09/m...

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"America didn't elect Elon Musk. Yet he is acting as Donald Trump’s de facto co-president. Musk’s self-appointed remit includes gunning for regime change in allied democracies...His silence on Russia and China speaks even louder." My column. www.ft.com/content/ff7b...

submitted 165 days ago • 66 comments

Elon has been ranting for last 4 days targeting uk or anyone that disagrees with him. Now he thinks Farage is too moderate to lead Reform 🤷🏼‍♂️. The guy has lost the plot. 🍿

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Only one of my Ultimate Dinosaur Collections left. Six dinosaur-themed books and a set of prints for a special prices. When it’s gone, it’s gone.

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It’s snowing, yey

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sheltering

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Morning Blueys x Coffee?

submitted 168 days ago • 26 comments

Greetings #kidlitartpostcard day! Im an illustrator of happy & ethereal with specialty in animals & IP for clients. Rep is Shannon Associates Portfolio www.jennifer-meyer.com Cara: cara.app/jenniferlmey... published work: www.shannonassociates.com/jenniferl.me... #kidlitart #liloandstitch

submitted 170 days ago • 7 comments

Nice little look at the work behind the newest wallace & gromit

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Never got around to playing portal and just saw it was on sale for £3 for Portal 1 & 2 on switch, now I’m addicted.

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Bumper collection of goodies from the House of Tharg @2000ad.bsky.social this Christmas. Great to have the return of the 2000ad Annual.

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Nasa's Parker Solar Probe survives closest-ever approach to Sun