Old Fucking Punk @lwriemen@librem.one

This key finding from the study should be pinned on the walls of our home offices:

> 31% reported pressure for lower fees and 27% for faster turnaround.

Pretty sure that, if you did a similar survey of freelance software developers, the percentages would be even higher than illustrators are reporting.

This also provides a working example of how infinite supply of mediocre works distorts the market for everybody in it, which software developers seem to have a hard time understanding. Or think that their industry is somehow exempt from basic microeconomics.

This survey on "AI" and illustration from the Association of Illustrators makes for grim reading

https://theaoi.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/10/2026-AI-Survey-Analysis.pdf (PDF!)

> A year ago, almost a third of illustrators told the AOI they had already lost work because a client chose generative AI instead.
>
> This year, that figure is 46%.

Via https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0I6eztzifK0 who apparently found it via https://www.thebookseller.com/news/rise-in-number-of-illustrators-losing-work-to-genai-survey-finds

Just a reminder to those people using AIs (local or not) that unless you are purely training on your own data, any benefit you receive is paid for by other people without their consent, and that's only one of the harms.

We are excited to report the recent launch of Black Onions, a new site listing anarchist and anti-authoritarian onion websites.

Onion websites are a great tool against surveillance and censorship! They do not use the State-controlled domain name system, and they allow anonymizing the location of a website's server, equivalent to how Tor Browser anonymizes your location when you visit the website.

Visit Black Onions at any of the following addresses:
- https://blackonions.gd
- https://blackonions.li
- https://blackonions.st

Follow @blackonions to learn about new and updated onion addresses.

The Company That Published Fake Journalists in Sports Illustrated is Collapsing Dramatically After Massive AI Rebrand

*ahem* lol

https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/company-fake-journalists-sports-illustrated-collapsing-ai

#AI has made it ‘close to impossible’ to assess university #coursework, regulator says - https://www.theguardian.com/education/2026/nov/11/ai-close-to-impossible-assess-university-coursework-regulator "Office for Students says institutions in England should return to traditional exams and in-person presentations" it's inevitable

Schumer and Jeffries are chums ... for orcas. https://www.gocomics.com/brian-mcfadden/2026/11/10

I'm an anti Gen AI whistleblower, and it would take you less than 60 seconds to help me...

New video!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UX42P1tim0A

Blog with all of my evidence:
https://medium.com/@kim_crawley/i-am-an-anti-gen-ai-whistleblower-and-it-would-take-you-less-than-60-seconds-to-help-me-24b986529abd

My Kickstarter:
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/kimcrawley/how-i-became-the-hacker-who-you-hate

Please share!

#NoAI

@GossiTheDog @brennan

The AI itself needs to be resisted, and, hopefully (in its current form) destroyed. But the AI isn't what got our field to this point, where the oppressive clutter of Computer Stuff is so pervasive and so exhausting that we would be willing to do anything, even surrender our own ability to *think*, just to be rid of it, just to be able to address the actual problem at hand. There is a crisis of tool complexity that we just *need* to find a way to address.

Woman in Saudi Arabia sentenced to 100 lashes for giving birth outside marriage - https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2026/nov/11/woman-in-saudi-arabia-sentenced-to-100-lashes-for-giving-birth-outside-marriage what a barbaric country

If you want people to work for you, make your company a nice place to work at

#anticapitalism #EatTheRich #FeedThePoor #activism #workers #labour #WorkersRights #LabourRights

“Michael Crichton, psychology, and AI - Austin Kleon”

https://austinkleon.com/2026/11/10/michael-crichton-psychology-and-ai/

Miller is a white nationalist fascist, and makes that clear every day. Don't expect America's ever-normalizing Big Media to say it, thought. https://popular.info/p/major-media-outlets-sanitize-stephen?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=1664&post_id=224060612&utm_campaign=email-post-title&isFreemail=false&r=1aumh&triedRedirect=true&utm_medium=email

Microsoft, from the very beginning, has been prolifically stabby, especially in the Gates era, and it bugs me with *great intensity* that both Microsoft, and Gates, have managed to rehabilitate their image and rewrite their sordid history. Especially bugs me that people think Gates is a good guy, and not just yet another ill-gotten billionaire who goes around with the tag "philanthropist" after decades of doing evil.

OK we have enough French translators, thank you!

We need translators for

⁃ Italian
⁃ Polish

https://sfba.social/@drahardja/117576862013078469

i can't wait for 18 months from now when quantum computers are going to be really important and everyone will have to care about them for some reason

The US Senator with the most stock in data center companies is also leading the push for the BAAJA permitting legislation that would make it easier to build the fossil fuel infrastructure the data center industry needs to expand.

Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse (D-R.I.), negotiated and introduced the “Bipartisan American Affordability and Jobs Act” (BAAJA), that would exempt most energy infrastructure projects from federal environmental review, narrow communities’ ability to challenge those projects in court, and limit states’ authority to deny water-quality approvals for pipelines and other projects..

Whitehouse and his wife hold up to $12.3 million in AI-related stocks.

https://readsludge.com/2026/10/14/senates-top-data-center-investor-backs-environmental-rollbacks-to-power-the-industry/

#BAAJA

Tourism info about Monterey and Pacific Grove are always like, there used to be Chinese fishing villages here, California has been diverse for hundreds of years

Yeah, why don’t you print what happened to them?

Or that Pacific Grove had people putting on yellowface, carrying lanterns and wearing kimonos up until.. *checks watch* the 2020s?!?

Mozilla's study of nearly 25 million Firefox users found that its fingerprinting protections cut the share of uniquely identifiable users from 75% to 46%. That figure is measured against simulated commercial fingerprinters. Mozilla says some protections are on by default only in Private Browsing, and Strict Enhanced Tracking Protection applies them to all windows.

https://fingerprinting.study/

#Firefox #Privacy