Friendly suggestion to my fellow accounts with decent followings: it is a GREAT time to start a weekly art show with your account to boost indie artists/crafters. Everyone is struggling due to AI and Etsy becoming a toilet. We can't magically fix everything but we can help some individuals.
WIREDOnce a quirky bastion of amateur vulva jewelry and pet portraits, Etsy is now deluged with mass-produced goods and AI knockoffs. Some customers don’t seem to mind.
So disappointing to see previously respected authors out there with AI covers, promoting AI audiobooks. Brother, you just torpedoed your career because we can only assume you're using AI to write as well. Which means you're no longer a writer of any worth, just a prompt jockey with no morals.
He clearly hasn’t ever read the economist
Dom ErvolinaMusk says more Europeans die from heat than Americans die from guns He asks why The Economist doesn't write about air conditioning Zanny Minton Beddoes explains they do "Pro-air conditioning?” “Very pro-air conditioning,” she responds. “You should read us sometime.” So is Musk correct? (🧵)
'No one here can help you, but you can talk to the creepy robot sex doll. But: no one here can help you.' This is gross, and especially for a school with a large Indigenous pop. Yes, let's tell those kids they're not even worth having a human to interact with. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
‘Really inappropriate’: teachers decry plan for humanoid robot in New York high schoolRobot from company that acquired sex doll maker to be introduced in school with large Native American populationwww.theguardian.com