Here’s something consumers should know: companies can’t simply hide this ingredient under “color added.” Since 2011, when a food contains it, FDA regulations require the ingredient statement to specifically identify it as “carmine” or “cochineal extract.” The FDA notes that potential allergic reactions in some people were part of the reason for requiring specific identification. So Check Your Labels for: 🔴 CARMINE 🔴 COCHINEAL EXTRACT

Y'know what's funny? The longer I'm in this space, sitting in the middle of the AI art debate, the more I catch glimpses of a lot of peoples' processes when it comes to scratchin' out hand-drawn art. As someone who also draws, I'm left with a handful of questions. A couple of observations. A few musings, if you will. Primarily: When did it become so common to take mashups of reference images, cut and paste them together to make a new pose or composed image and trace your desired characters and such over it all? Hell, sometimes you just see them take screenshots or memes and just kinda scribble their stuff on top of it (reference the recent flux of Syndome memes). Here I was the whole time over many years studying anatomy and shit, trying to draw everything off the "top of my head," like "real artists" supposedly do. Y'know, to demonstrate mastery of techniques and such. Meanwhile, we got all these "hand-made" advocates out here basically using serial killer collage notes to guide their drawing hands. Did you get permission to use any of those references you chopped up? How is it functionally any different from what an AI learning model does? Is it simply that human hands touched a pencil or a stylus? What changed? What makes one okay and not the other? I'm just an old man with questions. Like what you like. Do whatever makes ya happy. I very much enjoy pretty imagery regardless if it came from a brush or a prompt, but I legitimately don't understand the difference here.

Just a pro tip for you guys: if you ever find yourself saying "Hitler had the decency..." you should probably just take a tactical pause right there and reevaluate your entire life.

No cheating Do you know the answer?

I’ve been posting AI animation on X for 3.5 years. Not crossposting it on YT, TikTok, IG & FB (especially in the early days when there was no competition) is my biggest regret. Don’t make the same mistake. Distribution matters just as much as creation.

New Music video and New stories to tell "No Cosmic Parade" Video made with @runwayml using Seedance and Aleph 2.0

I thought it was already here when I launched Dr. Sbaitso and had it repeating jibberish in DOS.

I am proud to announce alongside many of our task force members that we are going to suspend 870,000 people who defrauded the government from ever being able to apply for these loans again. It’s simple, if you screwed the American taxpayer, the federal government is going to cut you off from applying for benefits and if you try — you will be DENIED!