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Viv Schwarz @vivschwarz.bsky.social · 7h

Every school we visit, the kids are so bright. Kids are just bright creatures. Full of ideas and thoughts and questions and fun and ready to invent stuff.

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Viv Schwarz @vivschwarz.bsky.social · 10h

On my way to Lincoln. Penultimate city on this tour!

Viv Schwarz @vivschwarz.bsky.social · 12h

That's why we put a cloth over our heads when we eat the Rocher.

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Hollow Ponds @hollowponds.bsky.social · 2d

All our games are on sale on Steam right now!

Flock, Hohokum, I am Dead, Loot Rascals, Wilmot's Warehouse and Wilmot Works it Out...

here's a handy link to our bundle:
store.steampowered.com/bundle/42256...

...and here are a couple of cute cats from I am Dead who want you to click on it:

A tabby cat with a white tummy sits on a bin looking down at a black cat sitting on the ground. They are hanging around the back of the kipper smoking shack in Shelmerston, which is a location in the videogame I am Dead.

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Viv Schwarz @vivschwarz.bsky.social · 12h

It will not stand. It'll cause damage but it will not stand.

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Viv Schwarz @vivschwarz.bsky.social · 12h

What an insult to us all to pretend otherwise. What an insult to humanity to say we don't need to make and understand art. How disgusting, ridiculous and utterly pathetic.

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Viv Schwarz @vivschwarz.bsky.social · 12h

Art will never be worthless. It's a shared universal language in countless dialects, across time, around the world. It's a living thing, too. It can be insulted and ridiculed and neglected and disrespected but humans make art, and it will always matter.

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adamatomic @adamatomic.bsky.social · 13h

the most powerful people in the world: "it is the least powerful people in the world who are the REAL problem"

everyone: "ah i see, that makes sense"

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Sham Jaff @shamjaff.bsky.social · 17h

It’s a "crisis" when immigrants "take jobs away", but "innovation" when machines do. Funny.

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Viv Schwarz @vivschwarz.bsky.social · 13h

An industry that's set to replace artists with an endless churn of reconstituted slop, trying to suppress all critical understanding of the ways people may be controlled. This is a plan for automatic emotional manipulation engines to replace human culture.

Keith W. Dickinson @keithwdickinson.bsky.social · 15h

Today is a day when arts degrees are worthless, but the product of those degrees is so valuable it would kill an entire industry if they were made to pay for it.

The Verge @theverge.com · May 26

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

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it's frank-en-SCHTEEN 🏳️‍⚧️🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 @mxfrankduffy.bsky.social · 17h

oh look, they're wanting to cut the courses where people learn critical thinking, how strange

Tim Worthington @outonbluesix.bsky.social · 17h

How is this repeatedly made into a policy issue - by *all* parties - when the blunt fact of the matter is that grown adults who are obliged to pay for their own education, and relentlessly pursued to repay their loans, should be able to study whatever the fuck they want.