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It’s my birthday, so I re-opened my etsy store with a bunch of #ygo prints, charms, stickers and more!

Please check it out 💕

https://lilienwolf.etsy.com

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It’s my birthday, so I re-opened my etsy store with a bunch of #ygo prints, charms, stickers and more!

Please check it out 💕

https://lilienwolf.etsy.com

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And here it is, the grand finale to the “Conan is Shinichi’s son”-fic no one asked for!now with five times more drama, because, well, I’m writing this.

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Been kind of in an art slump lately, so I tried something different to get back into drawing… let’s see if it works to get over the art block ;__;

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SHUT THE FRONT DOOR

Nintendo what are you cooking?!

Is this finally playable Zelda?!

You guys she has a sword! At first I thought it might be the broken Master Sword, but looking closely it seems Zonai.

Our roster of characters ladies and gents:

Get a load of ancient Hyrule Castle!

If Terrako doesn't make an appearance this game will be a true prepare to cry moment...

Coming this winter let's gooooo!

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Masterlist

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We gotta stop aiming for unique and interesting baby names we gotta start naming every single infant straight-shot middle-of-the-road ass popular common unisex names like Alex and Sam. By the end of 2031 I wanna see 100% of kindergarten children named either Alex or Sam and you know what, let’s make ‘em all Smiths and Johnsons, too. In an age of digital tracking give your baby the gift of total functional anonymity within the panopticon

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Do they know its Leipziger Buchmesse time at all????

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Endlich vollständig aufgebaut! Kommt getn an Stand H101 in Halle 1 auf der LBM/MCC zum Schnattern vorbei! 💕

it’s finally all put together! Feel free to stop at booth H101 in hall 1 at LBM/MCC for a chat! 💕

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Happiness Will Come To You.

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Return

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Return

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It's very endearing to me how many people are willing to keep an eye on a video feed so they can push a button and let a fish in the Netherlands get to the other side of a dam.

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IM FINALLY DONE! R U PROUD OF ME! I FINISHED A FULL ILLUSTRATION FOR ONCE!

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Something I don't think we talk enough about in discussions surrounding AI is the loss of perseverance.

I have a friend who works in education and he told me about how he was working with a small group of HS students to develop a new school sports chant. This was a very daunting task for the group, in large part because many had learning disabilities related to reading and writing, so coming up with a catchy, hard-hitting, probably rhyming, poetry-esque piece of collaborative writing felt like something outside of their skill range. But it wasn't! I knew that, he knew that, and he worked damn hard to convince the kids of that too. Even if the end result was terrible (by someone else's standards), we knew they had it in them to complete the piece and feel super proud of their creation.

Fast-forward a few days and he reports back that yes they have a chant now... but it's 99% AI. It was made by Chat-GPT. Once the kids realized they could just ask the bot to do the hard thing for them - and do it "better" than they (supposedly) ever could - that's the only route they were willing to take. It was either use Chat-GPT or don't do it at all. And I was just so devastated to hear this because Jesus Christ, struggling is important. Of course most 14-18 year olds aren't going to see the merit of that, let alone understand why that process (attempting something new and challenging) is more valuable than the end result (a "good" chant), but as adults we all have a responsibility to coach them through that messy process. Except that's become damn near impossible with an Instantly Do The Thing app in everyone's pocket. Yes, AI is fucking awful because of plagiarism and misinformation and the environmental impact, but it's also keeping people - particularly young people - from developing perseverance. It's not just important that you learn to write your own stuff because of intellectual agency, but because writing is hard and it's crucial that you learn how to persevere through doing hard things.

Write a shitty poem. Write an essay where half the textual 'evidence' doesn't track. Write an awkward as fuck email with an equally embarrassing typo. Every time you do you're not just developing that particular skill, you're also learning that you did something badly and the world didn't end. You can get through things! You can get through challenging things! Not everything in life has to be perfect but you know what? You'll only improve at the challenging stuff if you do a whole lot of it badly first. The ability to say, "I didn't think I could do that but I did it anyway. It's not great, but I did it," is SO IMPORTANT for developing confidence across the board, not just in these specific tasks.

Idk I'm just really worried about kids having to grow up in a world where (for a variety of reasons beyond just AI) they're not given the chance to struggle through new and challenging things like we used to.