Shaw Nielsen
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Illustrator, like a ray of sunshine and a pencil had a baby.
https://www.shawnielsen.com/
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Grudgie the Whale
3 days ago
“The President sent his lawyer to negotiate a settlement with a convicted sex trafficker to provide cushy accommodation in exchange for her silence on his participation in said sex trafficking” is a cold description of the facts of an insane story that the media doesn’t find worthy of scrutiny
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JK✨️
18 days ago
#MakeAThing
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Spelling Mistakes Cost Lives
3 months ago
Did a new one
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Culture Crave 🍿
26 days ago
“Fuck AI” — Guillermo del Toro 🎥 Vanity Fair
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Faine Greenwood
about 1 month ago
there’s this weird idea a lot of people seem to have about how all of us writers and artists must secretly want to use AI and are merely resisting temptation for ethical reasons, and like, no, it’s not hard for me to resist drinking the bowl of Piss With Glass In It actually
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Juno Rylee Schultz
about 1 month ago
David Simon, creator of ‘The Wire’, being interviewed by Ari Shapiro (NPR)
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John Scalzi
about 1 month ago
Not for me, "AI" aimed at consumers has very little offer anyone who actually does at a professional level the creative things it mimics. I write better than an LLM, an artist does better art than an image generator, a musician makes better music than an "AI" music tool.
add a skeleton here at some point
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Kelly
2 months ago
Sesame Street will be putting a huge collection of episodes on YouTube starting in January 2026 This is a fantastic way to educate children It’s a form of resistance. Shows like Sesame Street teach love, tolerance, acceptance & more. These lessons are crucial for the long fight ahead.
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Hireillo - Hire an Illustrator
2 months ago
From the 2020 archive! "National Parks of the United States of America Map" by
@shawnielsen.bsky.social
🙌 Portfolio:
hireillo.com/c81
#Art
#Illustration
#TBT
#ThrowbackThursday
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Danie Ware
3 months ago
And on the subject of
#realartatters
: AI poisoning tool NIGHTSHADE is now free for artists to use:
venturebeat.com/ai/nightshad...
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Nightshade, the free tool that ‘poisons’ AI models, is now available for artists to use
The tool's creators are seeking to make it so that AI model developers must pay artists to train on data from them that is uncorrupted.
https://venturebeat.com/ai/nightshade-the-free-tool-that-poisons-ai-models-is-now-available-for-artists-to-use/
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Crimson Mayhem
3 months ago
So apparently, it may turn out that The Wizard of Oz at the Las Vegas Sphere wasn’t entirely made in AI and Google threw the VFX crew under the bus by claiming it was all done by artificial intelligence. If true, then fucking yikes.
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Robert Francis
4 months ago
Norman Rockwell was actually a progressive and challenging artist and his reputation for nostalgic schlock was undeserved.
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Ed Morrish
4 months ago
my new ai device will sit in a beer garden that backs onto a small river and drink three to five pints on a sunny late summer afternoon for you, leaving you free for more meetings and business calls
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Faine Greenwood
4 months ago
I do firmly believe that refusing to outsource your basic cognitive functions to LLMs right now - as so many are stumbling over themselves to do right now, like hogs trotting to a pile of slop that’s been set up inside of a butcher’s delivery truck - will very much pay off in a few years.
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Mo Ryan
4 months ago
New stamps dropped to celebrate the 250th anniversary of the US Postal Service & artist Chris Ware (Reader, NewCity, Jimmy Corrigan etc) designed one of the commemorative stamp sets!
blockclubchicago.org/2025/07/22/u...
(also hey, the USPS still exists, at this moment anyway, so that's something)
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USPS Needed Stamps For Its 250th Anniversary. Local Cartoonist Chris Ware Delivered
Ware, a contributor to The New Yorker who began his career in Chicago’s alt weeklies, designed a sheet of 20 stamps that show a mail carrier's neighborhood journey. The stamps go on sale Wednesday.
https://blockclubchicago.org/2025/07/22/us-postal-service-needed-stamps-to-celebrate-its-250th-anniversary-local-cartoonist-chris-ware-delivered/
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Sarah Jones
4 months ago
wrote about my family’s nemesis
www.dissentmagazine.org/online_artic...
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The Painter of the Right - Dissent Magazine
Thomas Kinkade’s paintings show conservatives a world they have already won.
https://www.dissentmagazine.org/online_articles/the-painter-of-the-right/
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PJ Holden
4 months ago
An ai cover on your magazine about writing is pretty disappointing.
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David Dayen
4 months ago
Rian Dundon, a photographer based in Portland, went down to L.A. to provide a portrait of life in a city that is partially under occupation by ICE. His photos reveal heartbreak and fear but also the city's culture and fighting spirit. Great photo essay at the link.
prospect.org/culture/2025...
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Photo Essay: ICE in L.A.
Scenes of a city under siege
https://prospect.org/culture/2025-07-08-photo-essay-ice-in-la/
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KJ Charles
5 months ago
I just received a contract on Docusign for review and signing, and it offered to give me an AI-generated summary that I could read instead to save time. That's AN AI-GENERATED SUMMARY ***OF A CONTRACT***, in case you need to let that sink in.
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Hireillo - Hire an Illustrator
7 months ago
No matter how small your contribution to taking care of our environment, whether turning off an unused light or recycling a paper cup, it's all important. We only have one planet! Happy Earth Day 2025! 💚
#EarthDay
Artwork by Shaw Nielsen
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