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Melo @letitmelo.bsky.social · 1d

If you'd like to support my spooky fantasy comics this holiday season, ultra HD pages go live on Patreon. Uncle Game Master accrued some expenses this month.
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Kay King @kayzig.bsky.social · 2d

Liege Doomveil is getting a rare bonus #webcomic update! We'll be back again Saturday!
liegedoomveil.thecomicseries.com

All the competitors stand ready, reaching for an arrow. The view chiefly shows Liege, Helios glaring at him, and Index looking smug. Birch is partially visible but Vilgorr is absent from the frame.
ANNOUNCER: On your ready - aim...! ...and shoot!

Liege's arrow snags a nearly-perfect bullseye, with a down-ward pointing shaft. Helios's ais SLIGHTLY off-mark from a bullseye, but in the inner circles. Birch's arrow is at less of an angle but likewise to Liege's, a bullseye with a little wiggle-room for error. Index's arrow connects perfectly perpendicular to the bullseye's surface, and in the dead center - like its bow, it seems to be molded or carved from a nearly pure-white substance.

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Adam Beece @drbeece.bsky.social · 6d

For #artjamolantern, I've drawn Luna Hellsing from my web serial about teenage super heroes forced to team up against their will.

Kinda loving how her Halloween fit turned out.

Read about her here: drbeece-109b875.ingress-daribow.ewp.live?p=57

A skinny goth girl wearing a half cape carrying a traditionally carved pumpkins and a carving knife, and looking skeptically off to the first.

Cover image of Scions of Shadow: Origins by DrBeece. It features an African girl with braids looking at a pink cell phone sitting across from a frustrated looking goth girl in a cape. In the background a crowd looks at three glowing circles, in front of each stands an monstrous silloutte.

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Adam Beece @drbeece.bsky.social · 6d

For #artjamolantern, I've drawn Luna Hellsing from my web serial about teenage super heroes forced to team up against their will.

Kinda loving how her Halloween fit turned out.

Read about her here: drbeece-109b875.ingress-daribow.ewp.live?p=57

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Adam Beece @drbeece.bsky.social · 8d

This is like that time Pandora radio put a pop-y song from some unknown nobody on my radio, and than the next day I saw Carlie Rae Jespen singing a Call Me Maybe duet with Cookie Monster.

Which is easily the most hilarious way to find out something was already super mainstream.

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sephirAmy @sephiramy.bsky.social · 9d

join me for a super chill art jam this month with
🎃🎃🎃 #artjamolantern ! 🎃🎃🎃

all you gotta do is draw a character (preferably original, but fan art is cool too!) carving a pumpkin or showing off the final gourd! post & tag accordingly and I'll repost all I can. you can share, too!

happy carving! 💀🔪

an infographic for the Artjam-o-Lantern art jam! a skeleton is sitting with a smiling, carved jack-o-lantern, with a big ghost overhead listing the following information:

Artjam-o-Lantern
draw your character(s) carving a pumpkin and post it with the hashtag #artjamolantern
I'll repost throughout October!

a note down below says, and you can too!

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Adam Beece @drbeece.bsky.social · 10d

I want the prompts. 🙋‍♂️

Odds of me successfully drawing any are slim, but I’d like the option.

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Adam Beece @drbeece.bsky.social · 12d

🤣🤣🤣

Do you have an OC you’d like fanart of?

I’m not making any promises, but…

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Adam Beece @drbeece.bsky.social · 12d

With reference to this post: bsky.app/profile/sade...

I'm not saying I will definitely draw fanart of your character if you draw some of mine, but I am saying I have both time someone did.

✨️Sadie✨️ @sadesmcgee.bsky.social · Sep 7

tHEREs a BeE!?!?!
lol i love her

Adam Beece @drbeece.bsky.social · 12d

ThErE's a GEnAsI?
lol, I love her.

A blue-skined woman with long, pale blue hair. She's wearing a blue-green top with a large boob window, a wide white belt, and a long skirt. She's extending one arm, causing a breeze. The background is full of mists.

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METR @metr.org · Jul 10

We ran a randomized controlled trial to see how much AI coding tools speed up experienced open-source developers.

The results surprised us: Developers thought they were 20% faster with AI tools, but they were actually 19% slower when they had access to AI than when they didn't.

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Adam Beece @drbeece.bsky.social · 15d

Speaking as some one who's given you a bit of a hard time about creating words, the approach you're considering is pretty solid, and I would encourage you to keep thinking about it the way you are.

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Adam Beece @drbeece.bsky.social · 15d

My mother in law, reading the onion: “I don’t get it. What’s ‘road head?’”

Me: Are you familiar with the term “oral sex?”

My wife: 🤦🏽‍♀️

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Adam Beece @drbeece.bsky.social · 15d

It’s actually kinda not.

The conventional wisdom is that it’s easier for readers to attach novel meaning to existing words (Avatar’s bending, the Force in Star Wars) than to read too many invented words.

EGS even does this with ‘elf’.

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Adam Beece @drbeece.bsky.social · 15d

xkcd.com/483/

Fiction Rule of Thumb

xkcd.com

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Adam Ellis @adamtots.bsky.social · Sep 4

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Adam Beece @drbeece.bsky.social · 16d

I mean, the only reason I can name an astronomer is there’s this handsome one that made some great YouTube videos.

…

Okay, fine. I also know some of the famous dead ones who have moons named after them.

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Adam Beece @drbeece.bsky.social · 17d

I did it!

I found a post @roxiqt.com will like that she didn’t put on my timeline!

Finally!

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Adam Beece @drbeece.bsky.social · 18d

Pritt loves science.

#art #oc #pinup

A goblin woman with wavy green hair in a red version of the dress, showing off some side-butt.

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Adam Beece @drbeece.bsky.social · 18d

Pritt loves science.

#art #oc #pinup

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Adam Beece @drbeece.bsky.social · 20d

The worst part of my wife making fun of me for making a post way more popular than anything I’ve ever done is that I use my real name and she doesn’t, so I can’t tell y’all to go like her post.

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Adam Beece @drbeece.bsky.social · May 11

This week for #artclub, the prompt was Mermaid (because #MerMay) so I decided to recreate my favorite mermaid illustration.

Shout out to @sephiramy.bsky.social for being a great artist.

#oc #not_my_oc #art

(Repost with the art this time)

Sephiramy's OC Alti rendered as an eel-mermaid, coiled around a rock, looking all sexy.

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ines 🧇 wristless @inesvisual.bsky.social · 21d

crazy how deepfake porn that uses faces of real people and ruins lives has never been a subject in the "protecting internet users" argument and instead all the recent censorship ended up being targeted at artists and sex workers just trying to make a living

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Brandon Williams @stupidartpunk.bsky.social · 22d

Interesting regarding AI and Kpop Demon Hunters 1/2

Artists Against Generative Al
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Andrew Unferdorfer • 14h • G
A Redditor caught this. Looks like a possible instance where a translation bot fabricated pro-Al misinformation and that got picked up and amplified as real news.
The misinformation states that ChatGPT was used by the creators of KPop Demon Hunters to help them write the song "Soda Pop".
Problem is, when somebody went back to the original source in Korean, IT DIDN'T SAY ANYTHING ABOUT USING AI OR CHATGPT!
The article was translated with Al, and it looks like the Al itself made up this complete lie, and the truly terrifying thing is how nobody questioned it until this one person went digging for the truth.
We launched the OpenAl Korea office yesterday!
Fav moment from the launch celebration was hearing singer/songwriter Vince share that ChatGPT helped him write "Soda Pop" from KPop Demon Hunters! It apparently gave him ideas to make it sound "more bubbly"
OpenAl
코리아
Tweet's now deleted, but here's a bit further down the web of this:
The original article this was sourced from, from Korea JoongAng Daily, says this:
"Prior to the unofficial event, producer Vince also spoke with Business Director Oliver Jay at OpenAl's official launch event. Vince stated, "We sometimes use ChatGPT to generate inspiration when producing K-pop," and also mentioned that Al technology is already being utilized in K-pop."
The thing is, that's only in the English translation.
The Korean article it's translated from doesn't mention KPop Demon Hunters using Al at all. So, how did it get there? Well, the English article, as confirmed by a note at the bottom, was translated using generative Al. So, since different language versions of the article contradict themselves, there's a nonzero chance that this entire debacle is an Al hallucination ITSELF, spawned from an Al translation

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Adam Beece @drbeece.bsky.social · 22d

There’s no way to say this without coming off as passive aggressive, but here’s his appearance page, which has the deets: whatever.scalzi.com/about/schedu...

Scheduled Appearances

These are the places I will be appearing in my capacity as an author. This page will change as new dates are added (and also dropped as they slide into the past). 2025 Sept. 5-7: Rose City Comic Co…

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