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Nadine

@naustin.bsky.social
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I love Star Wars, and art: digital, watercolor, colored pencils, pastels, all fantastic. 2 grey kitties, Lucien and Zayne. I also play video games and I like reading books. Middle-aged lady with too many hobbies.

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Sufyan Abbasi @sufy.me · 13/10/2026
So what I’m hearing is that any Muse user is one successful prompt injection attack away from sending salacious emails to every single person in their address book because it’s “legal adult behavior” to send smut to every single person in their address book. Got it.
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🏳️‍⚧️ Decomposing Princess Jackie @jackiesupernova.northsky.social · 12/10/2026
RT if you've never had a tab of ChatGPT open, period.
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Sam Altman said people are just gonna have to die in order to implement AI. In the very same week, Anthropic claimed it’s a human rights violation to be mean to the computer. These people need to be held accountable. They think lines of code are a person with rights but living people are debris.
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Emily M. Bender @emilymbender.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
I've been talking to journalists a LOT recently, and it was particularly delightful to get to speak about questions of linguistics, language change and prescriptivism, for once: www.cnet.com/tech/service...
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AI Is Not 'Super Intelligence.' Why No One Should Use Trump's Term - CNET
Commentary: Words evolve based on public use and technical precision, not because a president orders people to adopt them.
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Sleeping Awake @sleepingawake.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
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Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
You AI shitheads are actively hurting children because you just can't break up with your imaginary friend in the phone who tells you that you are cool and drafts your fantasy football team for you
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Ingo Römling @ingoroemling.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Hera Syndulla from "Star Wars Rebels" © Lucasfilm Ltd. Standing character pose with perspective grid 🙂 #drawing #character #posedrawing #noai
A sketch of a female character in orange clothing (Hera Syndulla from STAR WARS REBELS), together with a simplified technical drawing and a perspective frame.
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Guy Gavriel Kay @guygavrielkay.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Very much worth reading if you don’t known about Petrov. This is the day we celebrate and honour him, and properly feel gratitude, and other things. Relying on tech in wartime can be deeply perilous. sammatey.substack.com/p/happy-stan...
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Happy Stanislav Petrov Day
Take five minutes to not destroy civilization
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mors @mors.games · 25/09/2026
all vibe-coded ports look and feel like shit because theyre made by people without the experience or passion to pay attention to the small details these projects are like a disease to the reverse engineering community and must be rejected at all costs if we want to maintain a standard of quality
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Owen K.C. Stephens (He/Him) @owenkcstephens.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
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the hills have vrunt @vrunt.social · 19/09/2026
sure yeah, can't even make a stick figure without fucking up and no one at the company gives enough of a shit to even give it another pass but go ahead and take my money so i can use this lazy shit technology every day too
ad for some AI company called evenfall
copy says "meet derek. ai every day. always hitting a wall. then he found evenfall"
the only graphic is a stick figure holding... a tablet maybe? he's missing an arm
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Jake Bartok @jakebartok.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
“Had you said the word, I would have left the Jedi Order.” Counting work on this big medieval Clone Wars mural with Duchess Satine and Obi-Wan.
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The Serfs (youtube.com/theserfstv) @theserfstv.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
This is the most masculine video on the internet right now
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👻Calvinboo Congress👻 @emericanjezebel.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
the tech bros telling you LLMs are conscious don’t think women are people.
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daryl "rupert pumpkin" b 🏳️‍⚧️ @hypercubexl.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
GDT's reddit AMA spitting fire www.reddit.com/r/movies/com...
reddit comment: 

Hello! Did you intend the ending of Pan’s labyrinth to be real or in Ofelia’s mind?

Guillermo Del Toro's reply: 

My interpretation, and it's exclusively mine, is that it's real.

Because there's two things. One is what people call “The Shining Question.” The Shining Question is, Who opens the door for Jack to get out of the fridge? And Ofelia is in an attic with a guard outside her door, and she draws the door with the magic chalk, and she shows up in the labyrinth. So, the only way she could have gone into the labyrinth is the magic chalk. And the flower is real at the end. The flower that blooms in the dead tree. And the reason I think it’s real is because—and this is why I'm in favor of the human factor in art—I think that art does transform the world. You know?

Think about it for a second. One of the goals, with all this movement, is to make you believe that art is vulgar. That art is nothing special, and anybody can do art. That is like me telling you that I'm faster at running than Usain Bolt but I “run” in my motorcycle. Well, that's not the same. That’s not the same at all.

Art is important, and they want you to believe it isn't. It's part of the idea of control. The goal is not to have artificial intelligence. The goal is to foster natural stupidity. The goal is to foster you not looking for answers, and to trust yourself entirely to an engine. Look at the way we are dipping our toes into these things. We are starting to ask the machine, Is this true? For now, there's a correlation between reality and what the answers of the machine are. For now. But soon, we won't even investigate further. We will be told it's true. And if the machine is in the hands of somebody who should not be trusted, then your reality has been completely and utterly fucked. Because your intelligence ends at the question. You don't seek the answer. It's given to you.Q: You recently mentioned that AI creates 'semi-compelling screensavers' and that you'd 'rather die' than use it. As a filmmaker who relies heavily on practical effects and creature design, what do you think is the biggest thing lost when a computer generates an image instead of a human hand?

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The three quarters of the process that gave you the chance to think of the idea that people don't think about without that process. Meaning, AI can get you to the middle really fast, but there's a dialectic with the process that gets you to that top 10%. I'll give you an example with the Pale Man.

We sculpted it as an old man, with a face. And then I said, Let's take out the face. This happened because I saw a photo of a manta ray and the poster for Don Coscarelli’s Phantasm. That combination, which happened at two different times during a week or a month, are not permutations that are chemically part of an equation. They are alchemy. And then I said, Take out the face, and then I said, Let's put the eyes on the hands. This triangulation happens because I spent a month or two months living with the idea of this creature. And it's not linear.

AI is like a super-fast engine that makes semi-sentient permutations of things that are already done. Creation is things that have never been done. Coming to exist.

And the second thing is the loss of the apprenticeship that one has as an artist. You're never a master; you're always an apprentice. This is a kinship I have with, for example, Chris Nolan. When he showed me The Odyssey, there’s a scene when Matt Damon is floating in the stormy ocean and I asked him—because we were talking about practical effects, and how great it is and that we both always use a maquette or a model—and I asked him, How did you do it? He said, “We put him in a storm in the ocean.”

And you're gonna find that 30% of a great image occurs accidentally. You know, either a drop of water hits the lens, or the camera shakes. I remember when in 1993, '94, Jim…
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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 09/09/2026
AI* has a >10%** chance to kill us all *not the AI we're working on but some other AI that we'll build for sure if you keep funding the company I work at **number I made up based on a still-theoretical technology that nobody has but we all love talking about
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To be clear, as we say in our latest Risk Report (x.com/AnthropicAI/st...), | think the risk from present models is low. What I am worried about is superintelligence arising from recursive self-improvement, as we have said is happening faster than we thought
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Anthropic @AnthropicAI • Aug 14
As part of our Responsible Scaling Policy, we publish regular Risk Reports. These share detailed information on the risks of our systems and how prepared we are to address them.
Our second Risk Report is now available: anthropic.com/aug-2026-...
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Mei 🪲 7.56 @magitekwitch.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
reminder that level-5 is pro genA/I and this layton is A/I slop :)
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Paul Byrne @theplanetaryguy.com · 09/09/2026
Astrophotographer Adam (AJ) Smadi caught this image a few hours ago from Washington state. A thin crescent Moon, sunlight illuminating the rugged lunar surface. And 2,400 times farther away—and on the other side of the Sun—mighty Jupiter, and its moons Io (left) and Ganymede (right).
A crescent Moon seen during the day, arcing from upper left to lower right of the frame. At lower centre is the full disk of Jupiter; the small dots to its upper left and lower right and Io and Ganymede, respectively.
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Brenny @pissedoffinnh.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Found comment: "Mitch McConnel is the only vegetable the FDA hasn't recalled yet."
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John Bull @garius.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
The Cat Righting Reflex is the official name of the process cats use to automatically correct themselves mid-fall and land on their feet. It develops between 3 - 9 weeks of age, and is responsible for the greatest wikipedia gif of all time.
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Bloody Disgusting @bloody-disgusting.com · 04/09/2026
Hammer's HORROR OF DRACULA 7-Disc 4K Ultra HD set is now available for pre-order. For six decades, Hammer’s Dracula was cut, censored, and buried… until now. Features 5 versions of the film, including the uncensored UK & US cuts, and for the first time ever, the editor’s workprint.
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Iron Spike @ironspike.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Sometimes I see stuff and it just goes directly into the Sci Fi/Fantasy reference folder for future projects, no questions asked. youtube.com/shorts/l-wTS...
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spinning yarn off a rabbit
YouTube video by Macy Gilliam
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Heather Antos @heatherantos.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Infinity Jeff print now available! ko-fi.com/s/ef69cb7060
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Karen Dalton Beninato @kbeninato.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
Drink your Argentinian Tainted Beef Juice, have a Recalled Whole Foods Guacamole & Sprout Smoothie, sip some tainted egg yolks, enjoy that spinach cyclospora shake, cool off with a blueberry E. coli freeze, chug your jalapeno salmonella surprise — water is for the weak, and data centers. - WSJ
WSJ: 
Ditch the 40-Ounce Water Bottle: You're Probably

Hydrated Enough

You don't need to make drinking water a part-time job since

too much of it doesn't have any real health benefit.

® www.wsj.com
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Edmond Chang @edmondchang.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
The AI Slop Backlash Is Actually Having an Impact www.wired.com/story/the-ai...
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The AI Slop Backlash Is Actually Having an Impact
Platforms are finally recognizing that people don’t want to consume AI slop. A growing number of sites and apps now have tools and policies to flag, label, and ban AI-generated content.
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purr.in.ink @purrinink.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
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Two-panel comic showing a black cat sitting with its back to the viewer, watching a warm sunset over rolling green hills. The first panel reads, “A sunset when things go the way I hoped.” The cat says, “damn.” The second shows the same scene and reads, “A sunset when they don’t.” The cat again says, “damn.” Above both panels: “Beautiful things will still be there.”
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Positively Present @positivelypresent.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
August is here! Some self-care, you might wanna try this month… 🌻
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Lee Cronin’s Pablo Hidalgo @infinata.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
It’s evident there are people who are detail-blind that just approve material that crosses their desks with the confidence that whoever made it sweated the details. Now that more stuff is AI generated, they *don’t* notice it, because they never were in a habit of noticing things.
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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 17/07/2026
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@edzitron • 5/27/26
We'll know we will hit the top when Meta sells compute to Anthropic
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Mark Zuckerberg tells shareholders that a Meta cloud computing business is
"definitely on the table" if it overspends on data centers and has excess capacity (@jonathanvanian / CNBC)...
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eric stirpē @stirpicus.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
4 years ago in the Telltale Games Alumni FB group, Michael Parsons was asking if anyone had advice for helping his 15 year old son Kane achieve his dreams of being a filmmaker. Turned out alright.
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Comfortably Boo @numb.comfortab.ly · 23/06/2026
Mark Zuckerberg thought long and hard how to make things even shittier, and came up with
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Small Robots @smolrobots.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
Actively annoyed by seeing some AI people smugly agree with each other that the reason we hate their shitty technology is that we resent it "lowering the barriers to entry" for the arts, which apparently the world of software development has always done.
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Melanie Jackson @mjjaxn.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
"We shouldn't teach great books; we should teach a love of reading." ~ B. F. Skinner
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TrueRef by Abbey Esparza @trueref.bsky.social · 13/06/2026
From the second we started TrueRef, I instantly started finding our POC refs turned white and redistributed in the wild.
AI slop of a white womanart reference of an east asian woman crouching, golding a sword.
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anokayguy most Auteur @anokayguy.bsky.social · 14/06/2026
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The Dammitch - Artist and Streamer @thedammitch.bsky.social · 19/03/2026
If you are commissioning an artist, and want a specific pose, don't run to genAI to try and make it for you. Draw a stick person. Stick person poses are beloved among all artists. We can see exactly what you want. Do not fear sending the stick person. The stick person is magical.
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Nadine @naustin.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
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Proloe 🌙🧚‍♀️ Very Fairy Vtuber @proloe.gay · 28/02/2026
I do not like this gen AI I do not like what it implies I do not want it in my art I do not think it makes you smart I do not want it in my games I do not like its goals and aims I do not want it in my books I do not like the way it looks I do not like it, I don't care I do not want it anywhere
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Zero Caim Helloween edition @zerocaim.bsky.social · 25/05/2026
Thinking about Gniesbert again
A german screenshot of a twitter post

It says Mein scheiss hund gniesbert ist schon wieder in meinen gaming pc geklettert

It translates ti My shitty dog gniesbert climbed into my gaming PC again

It shows a picture of a Shiba Inu in a box(maybe a gaming PC?) who is very content with himself.
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Dana Terrace @danaterrace.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
“Creative breakthroughs happen when visionary storytellers are given access to transformative tools”-- Actually, creative breakthroughs happen when people don't have to drink brown water from data center waste. This is not cool or accessible, this is disingenuous & disappointing.
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Doctora Malka Older @older.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
"“I’m here to tell you the mission of your generation is to destroy AI,” said Chieng." news.harvard.edu/gazette/stor...
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Funny but serious, Chieng issues an AI warning to grads — Harvard Gazette
"Daily Show" star and Class Day headliner is fine writing his own emails.
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⚘ DES ⚘ @dezaway.bsky.social · 24/05/2026
just guys being dudes
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Gelty Drake @geltydrake.bsky.social · 10/05/2026
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Nadine @naustin.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
I managed to do my workout this morning despite REALLY not wanting to. No matter what else happens today, at least I have that. 🙃
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Ian Fay @ianfay.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
Just one month till Star Fox!
My drawing of Star Fox from the game Star Fox
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Meredith McClaren @iniquitousfish.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
This is... the process (Not fishing, but if you're in any kind of field where you always want to be doing 'better,' then you probably understand the mindset.)
A two panel comic. 

The first panel has no borders and just features me in my office chair. Text above reads: 'I am terrible.' There are then four speech bubbles around me reading 'My backgrounds are terrible, my colors are terrible, my character designs are terrible, my storytelling is terrible.'

In the second panel I make a tired, resigned face as I twirl my pen and say: '...' 'So, I guess I've got to do it some more.'
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Positively Present @positivelypresent.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
Life lessons from my puppy, Pixel, who turns one today! 🎉
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Annesley Studio @annesleystudio.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
"Watergarden" (watercolour, 20.5 x 30") just received the President's Award from the CSPWC Canadian Waters Online Exhibition. Thank you to the jurors and congratulations to the award recipients and exhibitors! canadian-waters-online-exhibition-2026.artcall.org/pages/web-ga... #art #canadianartist
Watercolour painting by Jennifer Annesley of lilies floating on water, their green leathery leaves holding water droplets and their bright yellow flowers bobbing above the surface. Colours range from may green, cadmium yellow middles, ultramarine. Jet black shadows and specular highlights define each end of the value spectrum. The painting resides in a private collection.
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BERGΛMΛX @bergamax.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
"Au fil de Loire" (Along the Loire) by Patrick Commecy in Brives-Charensac, France 🇫🇷 Patrick Commecy and his team transformed this once-blank wall into a vivid riverside scene inspired by the Loire. These mural paintings are called 'trompe-l'œil' in French (eyes cheat). #art #murals #streetart
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