Well that's not good... In the new Twitter Terms of Service , you will grant them licence to use your content to train their machine learning and artificial intelligence models.
I've been following you already on TWT 😊 but basically I think a lot of people are trying to migrate their following list to permanently leave that site esp. with their AI ToS stuff.
btw for everyone joining bsky today but worried about trying to find their friends from back on twitter: ✨ sky follower bridge ✨ is an extension on chrome and firefox that lets you sort through your following on twitter to see if any of them have associated bsky accounts
Read an interview today with a music producer who said "Apologies for all this nerdy detail but [one of the most fascinating accounts of how a record was put together I've ever read]" Never apologise for going into nerdy detail. The ones who DON'T go into nerdy detail should apologise.
Zombie fiction is, at its core, about the fear of seeing your own body age and decay. Ghost stories are about the impossibility of grappling with the past. Vampires are about what if you got so horny you died
Art is connection. With just a few lines, words, strokes or pixels you can reach continents and make people get what you mean, and feel less alone. Nothing can replace that. That's what real art is.
Costs of ebooks for libraries are actually disgustingly exorbitant and they also are "leased" out! There are great articles about this out there. I know it can be frustrating that libraries don't just buy a lot more copies, but publishers are definitely to blame here. apnews.com/article/libr...
Libraries across the U.S. are struggling to cover the cost of e-books, which have grown in popularity.
Something I find personally cathartic about writing (and designing) professionally is that the base anxiety of being alive just…. melts away when I am in the actual process of producing it. It’s the place where my craft gets to change me, rather than me changing the craft
