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drawpile doodles

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Hairball time

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Ever since i was a boy i wanted to pay the highest cost of living on the continent to be a disposable animation studio intern

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Did this painting of my partner for my final project in painting class. oil on canvas

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stop all the downloadin

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Few more 🌱

In the end, I've decided to sell all the original drawings from this forest series! Prices from 60 to 80USD (shipping included) - all the earnings will be sent to charities. If anyone's interested, you can reserve them now by sending me a message or an email (s.u.w.i@email.cz), thanks!

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what awaits outside

twitter/ insta/bluesky/ store

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figurines by TheSafflowerField

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me and my guardian angel

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Friends, my wallet is dry, I need some money pronto. So I'm opening up 5 slots for these custom group hug poke trainer cards for only $75. First come first served. Interested please DM.

Besides getting a kick-ass piece of artwork you'd be helping me out big time.

Shares are also much appreciated ❤️

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midnight webfishing

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safe passage 🦌

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why my username is pearl-likes-pi: i have this headcanon that when steven asks pearl if she likes pie she thinks he means the mathematical constant and shes like YES

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Leafeon

My piece for the Eeveelution-zine back in 2019.

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The Ik-or-ita

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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.