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a side character from Dostoyevsky's novels Passioned Concept Artist & Illustrator open for work 📩 [email protected] Director of "Flower Crown" 🗣️🇩🇪🇬🇧🇷🇺 Find me elsewhere: https://linktr.ee/ZIPAVIKA No A/I Find my art under the tag ——-> #zipavika

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ZIPAVIKA @zipavika.bsky.social · Oct 23

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I got reminded of one of my older works from 2016 I did for Age of Arda Anthology. I call it: The first Orcs.

#tolkien #lotr #silmarillion #zipavika #orc

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tante @tante.cc · 4d

With Bluesky admitting that they are pushing a lot of content here to 3rd parties, I just send their data protection officer a GDPR information request to find out where what data actually goes. Let's see what happens.

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707Kat @707kat.bsky.social · 3d

They are going to say the same thing about water consumption and electricity costs. Prepare for subsidising it to the point of personal bankruptcy without even using it.

Because it's unsustainable, doesn't pay the people whose work it relies on properly and is used to maximise profit for the rich.

The Verge @theverge.com · May 26

Nick Clegg says asking artists for use permission would ‘kill’ the AI industry

Paul McCartne, Elton John and others signed an open letter.

buff.ly

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Brian Merchant @bcmerchant.bsky.social · 3d

A thing of beauty

Garth Marenghi's Catbus @hayao.lol · 3d

💯

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Tuta @tuta.com · 4d

We did it: 🇩🇪Germany will OPPOSE Chat Control! 🥳

Thanks everyone for writing to the ministers. 🫶

#ChatControl will not get a majority in the EU Council - at least for now.

Map of Europe showing opposing countries in green: NL, DE, PL, CZ, AT, SL, SK, EE, FI

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ZIPAVIKA @zipavika.bsky.social · 4d

Got a flu right after JenaCo so can't work properly

ZIPAVIKA @zipavika.bsky.social · 4d

#plantober2025 and #Kuenstlerbuchtober
Day 6
Star Anise/Net

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iiiiiiiiit's gem! 💎 @gemcitygem.bsky.social · 5d

"the human centipede of content" holy shit

Dr Kat Day (she/her) @chronicleflask.katday.com · 5d

Daughter of Robin Williams, Zelda Williams 💔

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Please, just stop sending me AI videos of Dad. Stop believing I wanna see it or that I'll understand, I don't and I won't. If you're just trying to troll me, I've seen way worse, i'll restrict and move on. But please, if you've got any decency, just stop doing this to him and to me, to everyone even, full stop. It's dumb, it's a waste of time and energy, and believe me, it's NOT what he'd want.
To watch the legacies of real people be condensed down to 'this vaguely looks and sounds like them so that's enough,
, just so
other people can churn out horrible TikTok slop puppeteering them is maddening. You're not making art, you're making disgusting, over-processed hotdogs out of the lives of human beings, out of the history of art and music, and then shoving them down someone else's throat hoping they'll give you a little thumbs up and like it.
Gross.

And for the love of EVERYTHING, stop calling it 'the future. Al is just badly recycling and regurgitating the past to be reconsumed. You are taking in the Human Centipede of content, and from the very very end of the line, all while the folks at the front laugh and laugh, consume and consume.

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ZIPAVIKA @zipavika.bsky.social · 5d

Sitting in the train, working on day 5 of inktober
#zipavika

ZIPAVIKA @zipavika.bsky.social · 7d

Come and find me at JenaCo in Jena, Germany!✨

ZIPAVIKA @zipavika.bsky.social · 9d

#plantober2025 and #Kuenstlerbuchtober
Maple/Wolf

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Culture Crave 🍿 @culturecrave.co · 11d

EA's new owners are planning an AI pivot to significantly cut operating costs

(via Financial Times)

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ZIPAVIKA @zipavika.bsky.social · 10d

It's spooky season time!
Dudes & Feast!
#zipavika

ZIPAVIKA @zipavika.bsky.social · 10d

#plantober2025 and #Kuenstlerbuchtober
Moss/Tear

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ZIPAVIKA @zipavika.bsky.social · 12d

Thier- and HiroCon are done, now this Weekend of to JenaCo!✨

ZIPAVIKA @zipavika.bsky.social · 26d

My convention plan for the rest of 2025 and a little bit for the 2026. Hope to see you there!🎉
#zipavika #artistalley #conventions

ZIPAVIKA @zipavika.bsky.social · 12d

Look at this very closely, this is your future where your biometrics data will belong to mega corp overlords for eternity with no rest and peace in sight 🤗

Screen Rant @screenrant.bsky.social · 13d

Checking out the Stan Lee Experience
at #LACC.

The hologram sends his greetings to all the fans at ScreenRant.

ZIPAVIKA @zipavika.bsky.social · 12d

Moment, du hast die leeren Flächen reingeschnitten, damit man das Bild vom Hintergrund auf der nächsten Seite sieht ?

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707Kat @707kat.bsky.social · 12d

If you are a danish citizen you can also sign this Citizen Suggestion to show that you are against this.

Although the people who made it missed to mention that it's Denmark as a state who is the primary pusher right now.

They are already past the 50K, but the more people who sign this the better.

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Ed Newton-Rex @ednewtonrex.bsky.social · 12d

When you run a poll and find that the public is concerned about AI, it takes crazy levels of AI boosterism to conclude that the public is wrong and the govt must educate them.

Perhaps… the public is right.

Politicians should listen to the public, not the Larry Ellison-funded Tony Blair Institute.

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Naomi Colvin @auerfeld.bsky.social · 19d

Yeah I could be up for a Luddite renaissance

Brian Merchant @bcmerchant.bsky.social · 19d

Protests, mass meetups, conferences—a youth-led movement is reclaiming the Luddite mantle, rejecting a future dominated by Silicon Valley companies, toxic apps, and generative AI.

This fall, a "Luddite renaissance" is in full swing.

www.bloodinthemachine.com/p/the-luddit...

The Luddite Renaissance is in full swing

This fall, the new luddites are rising

www.bloodinthemachine.com

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ZIPAVIKA @zipavika.bsky.social · 20d

GASPS…

ZIPAVIKA @zipavika.bsky.social · 26d

My convention plan for the rest of 2025 and a little bit for the 2026. Hope to see you there!🎉
#zipavika #artistalley #conventions

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Chris Shehan_Comic Art @chrisshehanart.bsky.social · Sep 3

Every artist I’ve ever known has this itch to create that won’t go away until they create. They have to do it.

It’s why I know the “finally, someone like me can make art” AI users are full of shit. What they really mean is “finally, a way to get social media likes without hard work”.

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nixCraft @cyberciti.biz · 28d

they used AI to uppercase text? lol.

A Reddit post titled "Wow... we've been burning money for 6 months." The post's author, u/me_z, describes how their company's OpenAI usage was costing around $1200 a month. They are using GPT-4 for simple tasks like extracting phone numbers, checking for profanity, reformatting JSON, and uppercasing text. The author ends by asking, "Am I an idiot? How much are you guys spending?"

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ZIPAVIKA @zipavika.bsky.social · Sep 9

My new merch is finally Home!😍
#standee #zipavika #dudesnflowers

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Simon McGarr @tupped.bsky.social · Sep 9

Ireland’s MEPs all have emails you can find with a quick Google.

And they hear so rarely from voters about EU legislation that they pay attention when they do.

It would be worthwhile.

But what would really make a difference would be contacting your Govt TDs.

Tuta @tuta.com · Sep 9

🚨Our governments are about to decide whether 450M Europeans deserve privacy - or not.

Help ensure your country says NO to Chat Control: Call you local representatives!

Privacy is not negotiable. Speak up now. ✊ #privacy

👉 More on how to stop Chat Control: tuta.com/blog/chat-co...

Map of the EU showing what countries are in favor (red), in opposition (green) and undecided (yellow) about Chat Control. The undecided ones must be contacted to stop Chat Control: Estonia, Germany, Greece, Slovenia, Luxembourg, Romania. While the Swedish government leans in favour of chat control, it needs parliamentary approval.

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