Echo's hideout

Friends, in case some of you, like me, are published authors or illustrators or creators of any kind, and you are still using any Google service (Gmail, Drive, Calendar, Classroom), please consider deleting all your material from Drive and moving it to external harddisks or something similar before it turns into a catastrophic problem like mangaka Masahiro Itosugi just experienced:

I really hope this comes as no surprise to all of you and you were already taking precautions about it, but I know for a fact that 100% of my colleagues in the academic field back their papers and their books up on Drive, and that most of our institutional email addresses and some essential tools (for example Gmeet, that we are required to use for remote teaching or to record conferences) are based on Google Workspace (including crucial stuff like uni department documents, scientific journal archives, publicly funded projects contracts and so on).

Now they could be flagged for copyright infringment and lose access to their entire accounts for uploading back up copies of THEIR OWN work on Drive, because AI systems are apparently unable to recognise the legitimate owner of copyrighted material (or they have been intentionally set up to not recognise it so that tech corps can steal people's work).

The complete automation of the scraping-scanning-banning process, that Google has now delegated entirely to unchecked AI, with no human review, is coming for us quicker than I thought, and while there may be some things that I fear we can't disentangle from this mess anymore (I'm thinking of Gmail specifically), we can still pull our work from Drive before it's too late.

I'm not sure how to properly tag this, but if you know people who may need this warning, please help them understand how serious things are becoming.

Hey there!

I'm alive

I know I haven't been active these past few weeks, I've deleted all my socials just to dodge the amount of Good Omens spoilers I knew was gonna invade all my feeds, I'm dying to watch it but my friends schedules and mine won't collab...

If we're lucky we will end this torture on Sunday (if so, be prepared to a good amount of sketches lol)

Ok, let's open this can of worms: which writer?

Neil Gaiman? That Neil Gaiman with multiple allegations of SA? The man who lied for decades to his fans about being an ally and caring about progressive themes? The same man who very probably lied about a lot of things regarding GO, just to have s2 and s3 green lit? The man who is credited 4 times in s3 while Terry Pratchett isn't credited anywhere (curiously he's credited in s2)? The same man who promised to bring his and Terry's ending to the light? Let's talk this. That's a Terry Pratchett biographer and the like is from the Terry Pratchett Estate manager, Rob Wilkins.

Happy pride ❤️🧡💛💚💙💜

This painting is very special because it’s for a cause!

For the next week I’ll be selling this print in 5x7 for $5 or 11x17 for $20 and I will be donating all proceeds to The Trevor Project, a nonprofit that has been helping LGBT youth in crisis since 1998. You can visit my Etsy to preorder and I’ll send them out in late June! If you’d like to spread the word I’d be so grateful!

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