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📖🎀Grimorio Carmesí🎀📖 @grimoriocarmesi.bsky.social · 31/01/2026

No sé si alguien que me vea por aquí desde CDMX esté en posibilidades de ir, pero hoy y mañana todavía estarán muchos colegas actores juntando dinero para un gasto médico muy fuerte que tiene Ximena Frutos. Cualquier apoyo se aprecia muchísimo. #PSA

Promocional para el evento "Doblaje con Causa" en el Centro Universitario Cultural los días 31 de Enero y 1 de Febrero desde las 11 AM. Se venderán firmas, fotos y saludos de actores de doblaje.

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Bree Lundberg @breelundberg.com · 03/07/2025

No amount of marketing advice or hustle culture bullshit about monetizing followers will fix the structural problems that make freelance art careers so difficult. Maybe spend more time asking why people can’t/don’t want to pay us? Why society can’t support us?

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Mastersparking 🕯️ @mastersparking.bsky.social · 31/01/2025

Me gustó Better Man, aunque está algo fuerte🫠

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Lascaille's Shroud @lascaillesshroud.bsky.social · 28/12/2024

Stop normalizing AI, and call out people you've long enjoyed content/music from. People need to feel shame and embarrassment when they use AI.

A screenshot of a YouTube comments section from Jack Gardiner's "Enter Sandman but it's funk" video.

My comment reads: "Disappointed to see the use of music AI. No solidarity for fellow musicians? Come on man, do better."

There are two comments shown.

The first, by a user named None2None: "You want him to hire a session musician to learn that song, record it, send it to him so he can mix it down. And pay for all that so he can put out one video on YouTube? We could be saying the same thing about using midi and samples for drums."

The second from Jack Gardiner himself: "This is where I’m at a bit of a crossroads with AI man. Personally, I really don’t like the idea that AI is going to be a massive part of music in the coming years but at the same time, there’s no way we can stop it. I came across the version (linked in the description) over the Christmas holidays and quite frankly, it slaps haha! It inspired me to recreate it from scratch and put my own spin on it.

I just think we have to find ways in which we as musicians can stay relevant. My intent is not to replace musicianship with AI. This version I’ve made here is entirely organic in the guitar playing, programming (if that counts), arrangement and improvisation - elements that AI cannot replicate yet. The only AI generated thing you hear here is the vocal track the guy originally prompted. Using AI as a tool to reinterpret ideas should be about adapting to new technologies, not undermining musicians. The focus should be on how we can evolve our craft to remain relevant in a changing landscape. Being actually able to play, improvise and perform live is going to be integral in the future. I’m personally hoping that AI can’t improvise or play live in the future. If it can, I’d like to think that I’ll have put in enough work over the years for people to prefer the human playing rather than the AI! 😅"

Four comments by myself responded to the two comments from the previous image.

The first two responses are to the user named None2None's comment: "No, you can't say the same thing about MIDI and samples. AI is trained on stolen work from musicians, MIDI and samples still require human input, alteration, and knowledge.

AI music/art whatever is a tool for the wealthy to access skill, and a way to keep the skilled from accessing the wealth. And yes, I would expect him to hire a musician to do that, and then mix it, that's literally what's required to make genuine music, and as someone who spends as much time on music, it's part of the process and discipline and deserves to be respected, not automated out by a technology destroying creative industries and the world power supply."

The two comments responding to Jack Gardiner reads as: " I think you're legitimately one of the most skilled modern guitar players, but if staying relevant requires the use of technology built off the theft of my fellow musicians and creatives, all while being insanely harmful to the world, perhaps relevance simply isn't as important or worth it. And there are already entirely AI albums on Bandcamp. There's a concerted effort made by dissillusioned people who aren't dedicated or respectful enough of skill, craft, or creativity to make the need to hire, pay, or invest time in someone like you, myself, or your colleagues and peers completely unnecessary."

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The Glaze Project (UChicago SAND Lab and ETCH) @theglazeproject.bsky.social · 19/12/2024

Just to be clear, webglaze runs on a server that is more than 3 years old, on NVidia Titan RTX GPUs, which you can buy on some bigger laptops. It consumes about 1/2 the power of an A100, which is the previous generation of server GPUs. Webglaze runs on < 0.5 modern datacenter GPU.

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Sam Barlow 🔥 @mrsambarlow.bsky.social · 18/12/2024

Absolutely disgrace. Years of trying to lock kids up for Napster, discontinuing movies because of music rights, YOU WOULDN'T STEAL A CAR promo bullsh*t and they're ready to give it ALL away to big tech billionaires

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Smart Bitches @smartbitches.bsky.social · 14/12/2024

Whoever made this, I salute you and your shorts.

A character from Emperor's New Groove says to a llama remember to include the trans community in your holiday celebrations after all Christmas without hrts is just C All ismus.

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Ashlee 🤟🏻 @ashleemboyer.com · 29/11/2024

As a disabled web accessibility practitioner. This pisses me off. Extremely. GENERATIVE AI DOES NOT AND CANNOT EVER REPRESENT DISABLED PEOPLE. Just fucking hire disabled people like me who know what they're doing. Believing AI over disabled people is ABLEISM and DEHUMANIZING. For fucks sake.

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Accessibility explained by those impacted.

Check any website for barriers and generate the perspective of those who face them.

A11y-AI is an experiment using the storytelling capabilities of generative AI to bring the impact of accessibility violations to life. It aims to inspire web professionals to take action.

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Curtis 🇦🇺🇨🇦 커티스 カーチス @darth-babaganoosh.bsky.social · 15/12/2024

"Every social media platform needs a 'nazi bar' rule. If you've been a total shithead somewhere else, you're banned from here even if you haven't broken any other rules."

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Rasheed Abueideh - Now crowdfunding Dreams on a Pillow 🍉 @rasheedabueideh.bsky.social · 28/11/2024

After years away from game dev, I couldn’t stay silent about my people’s dehumanization. I made Dreams on a Pillow 🍉a game inspired by a famous Palestinian folktale about the 1948 Nakba. I’m crowdfunding it now—please back & share! 🔗 launchgood.com/1948

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Dreams on a Pillow - a videogame experience about the 1948 Nakba, based on a true story | LaunchGood

A pseudo-3D stealth adventure game about a land full of people being made into a people without land

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Chicken Puppet 🏳️‍⚧️ @chickenpuppet.online · 27/11/2024

Reformatting this whole thing. Blocklist for Hugging Face, the AI company that's proudly stealing your tweets

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NYAHALLO 🐈‍⬛ @nyahalloshop.bsky.social · 26/11/2024

PSA: There’s a couple of fake giveaway accounts impersonating me and trying to scam you. Just keep in mind that I would never mass follow anyone and send links to strangers. Block and report any impersonators please!

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WrongTypeOfHero 🔪🕷️ Spider / Sackboy Horror VTuber @wrongtypeofhero.bsky.social · 07/10/2024

I feel like I need to tap the sign cause I keep seeing people trying to "dunk" on hateful peeps on my feed. This ISN'T TWITTER. Please don't make it into it.

An info-board summarising the difference between Twitter/X and Bluesky and the potential advantages that come with the latter.

The original post is from @milesmeelezz.bsky.social . Please go support them and their amazing artwork.

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