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   Paul Cantrell (inthehands@hachyderm.io)'s status on Thursday, 30-Apr-2026 04:14:58 JST Paul Cantrell

   Blender stepped straight into a blender, and they should have known better.

   It’s not just that generic “AI is bad” sentiment is so strong in FOSS or with the general public. It’s that AI companies are specifically targeting the livelihood and self-worth of artists and designers — Blender’s primary customers.

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     Paul Cantrell (inthehands@hachyderm.io)'s status on Thursday, 30-Apr-2026 04:17:32 JST Paul Cantrell

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     It’s the difference between, say, a jeweler accepting sponsorship from the Skeksis and a •maker of Gelfling flutes• accepting sponsorship from the Skeksis. Say what you will about the first….

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     Paul Cantrell (inthehands@hachyderm.io)'s status on Thursday, 30-Apr-2026 05:12:45 JST Paul Cantrell

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     (I realize the Dark Crystal analogy might not land as widely as some others I might choose, but that image from the movie of the Skeksis extracting the essence from the Gelflings really just…captures a certain something about out present oligarchic moment.)

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     Paul Cantrell (inthehands@hachyderm.io)'s status on Thursday, 30-Apr-2026 05:53:29 JST Paul Cantrell

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     • David Smith

     @Catfish_Man

     For real. That and Artax the horse sinking into the mud in The Neverending Story.

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     David Smith (catfish_man@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 30-Apr-2026 05:53:30 JST David Smith

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     @inthehands those scenes fucked me up for *years* as a kid 😅

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     Paul Cantrell (inthehands@hachyderm.io)'s status on Thursday, 30-Apr-2026 06:48:24 JST Paul Cantrell

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     • Damon L. Wakes

     @DamonWakes

     Exactly.

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     Damon L. Wakes (damonwakes@mastodon.sdf.org)'s status on Thursday, 30-Apr-2026 06:48:25 JST Damon L. Wakes

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     @inthehands I really am astounded just how clueless some of these people seem to be about their users. It's the same with Firefox eagerly aping Google for an audience of people who are exclusively using Firefox because it isn't Chrome. I'd say it's like the Kentucky Derby accepting Pritt Sticks as a sponsor, but I genuinely think that might land better.