Most of the internet used to be like this. This is actually the default, it took companies enclosing the internet and adding weird, soul-killing incentives to make people behave the way they do now. In a way, there is truly nothing special about Wikipedia except that it survived longer.

Colbert will be all right, maybe even better off. The world's his oyster and I'm sure MSNBC and Netflix will come calling. He could stand up the biggest late night YouTube channel in days. But they are just torching the Late Show, an institution, solely to appease a dictator. And that fucking sucks.

My latest newsletter is about how tech companies, by pushing generative AI, reveal the contempt they hold for their users and society at large. whatwelost.substack.com/p/the-bigges...

“The true solution, perhaps, is more solidarity and more sincerity.”

great reminder to all of those Democrats and liberals saying that we need to abandon red states because they are gerrymandered into right wing autocracies where the vote isn’t in their favor instead of accepting that we are gonna have to fight for every American no matter where they are.

The rainbow is not a symbol of condemnation, but of patience, of God revealing creation will have a role in creating itself, and of God choosing renewal over destruction All God commands as part of this rainbow deal: Don't hurt anybody, because everybody is precious 🌈

Posting one more Prothonotary Warbler shot because I’m blown away to get this lucky. A top 5 photo for me 📷: Fujifilm X-T2 & XF100-400mm #birdwatching #birding #birdphotography #fujifilm

I had a couple pretty good bird photos from the weekend to share but then experienced an all-time photoshoot with an extremely curious and un-afraid prothonotary warbler. — 📷: Fujifilm X-T2 & XF100-400mm #prothonotarywarbler #birdphotography #fujifilm #telephoto #georgiabirds

“Not A Swan” 9x12 (2025) | Getting caught up on posting art here! I photographed this juvenile female belted kingfisher at Swan Lake, Berry College right at the end of the year on Dec. 31. (1/2) #painting #art #scientificillustration #watercolor

Yea great

A bill to make sure poor people stay hungry, sick, and dying so rich people can be slightly richer. Actually evil. We need to make people understand it in those terms and not something about “budgets” or “house reconciliation bills”

Unironically they should buy up the domains for about 60 defunct local newspapers in swing states. Hire two reporters to write almost exclusively about highschool sports and new restaurants opening with every 10th article about how the local GOP is screwing over people.

Also read me here: horrormovieblog.com/author/jamie... And obvs email me if you need social media work, voice over work, or just want a fun actor who’s a workhorse in a personality hire’s body

To be clear I hate it but

Look at this list and see how little our national parks cost the American people. My park has an appropriated budget of $3 million. That's it. By way of comparison, that's 4 percent of the cost of just one of the fighter jets we've lost overboard in the last week.

The PBS Kids app is one of the few things you can trust your kids to play around with on a computer. All the shows that you can stream are good and entertaining. Nothing positive comes from getting rid of this, they're just trying to make life worse for everyone www.nytimes.com/2025/05/06/u...

As @brianmfloyd.bsky.social has pointed out repeatedly these champions of innovation and would-be tech messiahs freaked themselves out in a group chat and crashed their own sweetheart slush fund/bank for absolutely no reason beyond they were bored and dumb.

The Public Broadcasting Act of 1967 created the Corporation for Public Broadcasting. I reread it today; nothing in the law allows a president to defund PBS and NPR. In fact, Congress specifically sought to insulate public media from political pressure.

All the guys who run media went from shitheads who used to throw elaborate and expensive parties to fill a void inside of them to guys with headlines about them like "Meet The Startup King Who Invented Slavery 2"

Any dem who thinks well-directed ambition is a vice should find a different hobby

i am far too stupid to be weighing in on this but one thing i would stress is that gaming media’s collapse wasn’t an inevitable fact of life. it’s the result of very stupid people making decisions they could have just as easily not made

"primary everyone" feels like the moderate option tbh

this antivax stuff is genuinely bewildering. like what do you mean you don’t know if vaccines are safe? why exactly do you think child mortality rates have plummeted since the beginning of the 20th century? why is it that you are not worried about getting polio or smallpox anymore?

decided to do a fun little thought experiment on an otherwise normal day

They were already doing this for some of their courses last year. The Irish course is completely ruined, the real human voices have been replaced with AI ones which have their pronunciation all over the place, and in many cases make up sounds that don’t exist in any Irish dialect. It’s awful.

Newsletter: I am sick and god damn tired of everybody pretending that generative AI is the next big thing. The media is complicit in accepting fantastical nonsense - both in the numbers put out by OpenAI and the silly jobs created by Anthropic - and it has to stop. www.wheresyoured.at/reality-check/

Tremendously disappointing from a company I’ve honestly had affection for. Pure founder brain detachment. The AI based video function already on there sucks

A taxpayer-focused argument for art education in Texas schools if I’ve ever heard one

A key difference here is that while either can be incorrect, the structure of Wikipedia *creates context* and the structure of LLMs *destroys context* Wikipedia has linked sources and an edit history showing where information came from and who added it when An LLM just generates text

Fully on board with dems running for office promising to reinstate fired federal employees and jail this administration’s various criminals, but let’s go ahead and add “we will seize by eminent domain any national parkland sold to developers”

This line is going to stick with me for a very long time. “One of them is a 4-year-old with Stage 4 cancer who was deported without medication or the ability to contact their doctors…”

Screaming at these people works. They’re fundamentally wimps, we just have to actually DO the screaming instead of preemptively admitting defeat. I am talking about my fellow Americans, not the Democrats. We actually need to scream, gang, not just complain that Schumer isn’t.

“We hope it will be temporary” yeah, well, I hope all these families get the care they need elsewhere and everybody involved in every step of this decision goes to their graves broke and friendless, we’ll see who gets their wish www.ajc.com/politics/chi...

This one took five years, three editors, four far-flung reporting trips (Kazakhstan, Wisconsin, Tennessee/Alabama, and Italy), and a vicious ant attack to see over the finish line and tell the story of these ancient, weird, beloved and gravely endangered fish.

I got to draw this “Fanmail Darter” for the USFWS (not on here unfortunately) Fish of the Week podcast & their listener mailbag! Based on the Fantail Darter that is fairly cosmopolitan around the eastern US, kind of like mail carriers. There’s a great episode on the darter from 12/1/24!

Canada geese at last light 📷: Fujifilm X-T2 & XF100-400mm #photography #birds #fujifilm

Guys I am legit crying right now. You did it! I love you all so much.

Dove in Series. A study of three slightly different angles of the same bird but with three different approaches that I just finished. I wanted to practice some depth and also a simplified pen style. #watercolor #art #scientificillustration

what, this old thing

You can always tell people it’s Nick Offerman

I’m offering TWO things for the highest donor/bidder today to the @edsbs.bsky.social Charitibundi Bowl for @newap-georgia.bsky.social! Option A is this, the Spencer Overalls image as a Serious Portrait. Option B is a commission of your choosing (up to around 12x12). Here are the instructions: (1/2)

I illustrated this isometric view of River Remedy Brewing in Rome,GA for their 2025 Mug Club and the glasses just came in! It was a complex drawing and I’m really happy with how they printed. I got lucky with the light taking photos last night! #illustration #procreate #craftbeer #art

The full quote from RFK, Jr. is truly disgusting and this is 100% him calling for institutionalization of autistic people. This is horrifying.

Noticed a bunch of these ornate gold medallions slapped all over the Oval Office. We found em on Alibaba. “High-density Home Decoration Polyurethane Appliques Ornament PU Foam Veneer Accessories” from seller Guangzhou Homemax Decorative Material Limited. sherwood.news/power/shop-t...

there's so many layers of fraud and abuse in this story that "someone might have been trying to log into the NLRB's systems with a valid Doge username and password from russia" doesn't even make it into the first 5,000 words

The best thing to ever happen to Pablo… Leaving ESPN He’s good at this!

Newsletter: OpenAI is a systemic risk to the tech industry, requiring more money than exists every year, threatening the financial health of SoftBank, Oracle and NVIDIA, their future dependent on impossible debt and unproven startups to build their data centers. www.wheresyoured.at/openai-is-a-...

Even assuming electoral victories in 2026 and 2028, if Democrats don't start taking away badges and putting people on trial the instant they take power back, we are going to be right back here on January 21, 2032. I don't know how many more chances they're going to get to not learn this lesson.

RoryBlog. it would have been inappropriate for him to get the grand slam any way other than excruciatingly slate.com/culture/2025...

Little cardinal portrait I’ve had the base of doodled in my sketchbook for a while. Knocked out this first draft earlier this morning during a free moment #procreate #northerncardinal #illustration #art