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I am so exhausted but oh so delighted to (finally) launch my new Embroidery & Thread inspired Photoshop brushes! After endless experimenting and tinkering, I've cracked the code on how to create directional & dimensional thread-like strokes! creatorscouture.com/products/embro…

I used my glitch effect Photoshop brushes to illustrate this tulip artwork, inspired by a photograph. I love the soft and almost watercolor like effect! Full tutorial on youtube! #digitalillustration #arttutorial #surfacedesign

Lush taking the lead

Turning off the Face ID ✅

Instagram is reading DM’s now. They dropped encryption. This also means Instagram is allowing third parties to have access to them. Good time to delete them all. And to stop using them.

Let me explain what a $2 billion “cow collar” actually is 👇 They put an AI collar on a cow. It tracks location. Health. Movement. Behavior. Every second of every day. A farmer opens an app. Draws a line on a map. That line becomes a fence. No physical fence. No wall. Nothing visible. When the cow gets close to the boundary.. the collar vibrates. The cow turns around. Within 10 days the animal doesn’t even test the boundary anymore. It just stays inside. 700,000 animals are already wearing them. They called it a “cowgorithm.” They want you to laugh at it. Now read the technology again without the word cow.. 24/7 GPS tracking on every individual. Real time health and behavior monitoring. Invisible boundaries drawn from a phone. Movement controlled through vibration and sound. Subject learns compliance within days. $2 billion. And guess who led the investment… Peter Thiel. The same man who built Palantir. CIA backed surveillance from day one. The same man who just got a $10 billion Pentagon contract to run AI inside the military. His entire career is building systems that track and control. Now he’s funding a collar that does exactly that. They’re not investing in farming. The farming is the test… Most people have no idea what’s coming…

THEY. TORTURED. A. ONE. YEAR. OLD. BABY. THEY. TORTURED. A. ONE. YEAR. OLD. BABY. THEY. TORTURED. A. ONE. YEAR. OLD. BABY. THEY. TORTURED. A. ONE. YEAR. OLD. BABY.

YouTube asking “does this feel like AI slop” is not them protecting you. It’s them using you to train their next AI to make slop so good you’ll never be able to tell the difference. And they got you to do it for free…

I sound like a conspiracy theorist when I talk about this, but if you want to be able to reliably refer back to the same text over and over you need physical books or a hard drive full of PDFs. Anything on the cloud can be ‘updated’ and ‘revised.’

Welcome to Nazi Germany.

“We stole all your knowledge and art, and now we’re gonna put a meter on it and sell it back to you. You’re welcome.”

Digital embroidery effect with specially designed brushes that give the illusion of fiber and thread! In this #illustration, we are creating a French market bag inspired by thread painting, fiber art, and embroidery. #surfacedesign for #photoshop not #procreate

New Free Nature Inspired Color Blends for Multicolor Photoshop Brushes + 4 Free Sample Brushes! It's so easy to take a photograph and turn it into a color palette for my multicolor brushes featured on Adobe and Behance! I've just added 5 new color blends to my library - and I

The Starbucks CEO can write-off the cost of his private jet on his taxes because it’s considered a business expense. But Starbucks baristas can’t write off the clothing they have to buy to adhere to the Starbucks dress code. This is what an anti-worker tax code looks like.

Sky News deleted this tweet Which is a reminder why we need to log and record every example of dehumanisation on @archivegenocide The archive webpage extracts and stores all data, preserving it for the future.

🚨 BREAKING: Berkeley just proved that AI doesn’t save you time. It makes you work MORE. Researchers Aruna Ranganathan and Xingqi Maggie Ye from Berkeley’s Haas School of Business spent 8 months embedded inside a 200-person tech company. Twice-weekly observations. 40+ deep interviews across engineering, product, design, and operations. This wasn’t a survey. They watched what actually happens when a company gives everyone AI tools and says “go.” What they found contradicts everything AI vendors have been selling you. Employees worked at a faster pace, took on a broader scope of tasks, and extended work into more hours of the day. Nobody asked them to. The company didn’t even mandate AI use. People just voluntarily did more because AI made “doing more” feel possible. One employee put it perfectly: “You had thought that maybe you save some time, you can work less. But then really, you don’t work less.” That quote should be taped to every monitor running Cursor, Claude, or ChatGPT right now. And a 2024 Upwork study backs it up: 77% of employees using AI said the tools had actually INCREASED their workload. Nearly half didn’t even know how to achieve the productivity gains their employers expected. The researchers found 3 patterns destroying work-life balance. First, task expansion. Product managers started writing code. Researchers took on engineering work. The scope of “my job” widened because AI made everything feel doable. Hiring got postponed because employees absorbed work that would have justified new headcount. Second, blurred boundaries. Workers sent prompts during lunch, before meetings, at 9pm. AI dropped the friction of starting any task to near zero, and natural stopping points in the workday just dissolved. Third, cognitive overload. People ran multiple AI agents simultaneously while reviewing code, drafting docs, and sitting in meetings. Both human and machine constantly in motion. Here’s the cycle that traps you. AI speeds up a task → expectations for speed rise → you rely more on AI → you take on wider scope → workload intensifies → repeat. The researchers call it “workload creep.” No manager told anyone to work harder. The tools just made doing more feel accessible and rewarding. So people kept going until they couldn’t. The most dangerous part: in the moment, it feels amazing. Workers described momentum, expanded capability, the thrill of building things they never could before. But when they stepped back and looked at the full picture, they felt busier, more stretched, unable to disconnect. By month 6 of the study, reports of burnout, anxiety, and decision paralysis had spiked. Short-term momentum. Long-term strain. There’s also a competitive dynamic nobody talks about. When your colleague uses AI to take on extra responsibilities, standing still feels like falling behind. Nobody formally raises expectations. But informal norms shift fast. Within months, doing what AI makes possible becomes what’s expected. The people who set healthy boundaries start looking like underperformers. That’s a toxic dynamic where sustainable work becomes career-limiting. The researchers propose something they call “AI Practice.” Not “use AI more” or “use AI less.” Intentional habits. Structured reflection intervals built into workflows, not “take breaks when you need to” because nobody does. Scheduled reviews where teams assess if AI-enabled expansion has crossed sustainable limits. Clear guidelines on when NOT to use AI and which tasks shouldn’t expand just because they can. I felt this in my own workflow. AI gives you superpowers. But superpowers without discipline just mean you never stop working. The fix isn’t to stop using AI. It’s to stop letting AI decide how much work you do. Set the scope BEFORE you prompt. Define “done” BEFORE the tool makes everything feel possible.

They spent years showing off their Dubai lifestyle. The moment it got dangerous, they abandoned the one thing that loved them unconditionally. After Iranian missile strikes hit the UAE in early March 2026, thousands of expats rushed to leave Dubai. But as flights filled, a quieter crisis unfolded: hundreds of pets were abandoned. Dogs were found tied to lamp posts, left in empty apartments, or dumped near shelters already at capacity. Rescue volunteers reported being overwhelmed. One said she received 27 messages in a single day from owners asking her to take their animals. Vets were flooded with requests to euthanize pets whose owners couldn't or wouldn't take them. Rescue groups like K9 Friends Dubai and War Paws called the situation heartbreaking, especially in one of the wealthiest cities on earth. The crisis drew sharp criticism toward influencers and expats who built entire brands around luxury Dubai living but left their animals behind without a plan when things turned dangerous.

In Nice, France a jewish man approached pro-Palestine protestors and staged an 'anti-semitic attack' the moment he got close to them as police officers arrived.

luxury brands embracing AI is weird. not because of neo-luddite cope, but because the whole point of luxury is craft over efficiency.

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