Tactical crab

Too many students are convinced by their own universities, by some of their teachers and professors, and by the AI companies themselves that ‘using ai to study is getting ahead of the game’ But the process they seek to get ahead of is the point.

we have to start looking at billionaires as an investment we are making, in money power and trust, and we have never ever ever ever gotten a return on that investment

Is it too much to ask that we stop finding new ways to be astronomically awful

I'm back on my primitive animation nonsense. I had a lot of fun animating Star Wars so I'm on the sequel now. I've broken the movie into 8 manageable "chapters," and this is the first. For some reason I've decided that tauntauns consistently just drop dead for no reason. youtu.be/pW_KHiW8-No

If you stare it long enough you can start to believe that “blorf” is a word

Because I'm an artist perpetually on the cutting edge of 1994, I've begun sculpting (and 3d printing/painting) a line of foot-tall busts from Ben Edlund's peerless series "The Tick." I hope I do it justice.

I get yelled at for saying this but for many hundreds of years people went to university not to get diplomas or be employable but because immersion in the humanities was considered foundational to a good life, and school must return to its original purpose: the joy of learning.

fish doorbell fish doorbell fish doorbell FISH DOORBELL FISH DOORBELL🐟🛎️

[Exit Murderer.]

"As if increase of appetite had grown by what it fed on." Over to you, @shakespeare.lol

The world could be such a nice place if we allowed it. It's all so goddamn unnecessary. There's no need for any of it. It's so beautiful here. It should be so cool to be alive

"That person sitting across the cafe from you is, from your perspective, several nanoseconds in the past, which may go part of the way toward explaining their wistful expression and outdated fashion sense." @astrokatie.com is unfairly funny and her book is wonderful.

Just tried to unlock my classroom door with my car key so things are fine here

The plaice isn’t mad, Spelling Bee, he’s just disappointed. Also, a bit mad.

Entering desperation mode

As an alternative to watching the SOTU here’s a timelapse of me painting a cat. Both options may be unappealing and bear no semblance to reality, but at least my video has a soothing piano soundtrack. youtube.com/shorts/kNk9k...

This one hits hard.

What the heck, Spelling Bee

Just a thing of pure beauty

Love that AI, a thing we hate and don’t want, steals everything, ruins everything, shittifies everything. Drinks our water, plagiarizes our art, pisses all over our information fidelity, drives kids to suicide, serves the right-wing, and fucks up our devices and services. Good job, techbros!

well i for one couldn’t be more excited for the possibilities of AI. finally a technology that answers the age old question ‘what if clippy was wormtongue’

An instant classic. "Hush and eat your coal!"

Perfection

I made a silly little animated tribute to Star Wars over a 12 year period - which is to say I animated some primitive shots for fun 12 years ago and then decided to stitch them into a more coherent narrative last year. Animating can be a grind so it was fun to go simple. youtu.be/afttMjZdvj4?...

museums are cool because the people who work there are like look at this neat thing and you're like wow that is neat and you just do it over and over again until it is time to go

This is genius. There are a lot of hidden geniuses in these there corners of America.

"I'm not in denial about [AI]. I'm in open rebellion." Amen.

This is actually quite brilliant, up to and including the final sentence 🔥

one of the coolest things about ChatGPT is how you can actually just never use it. you can fill your whole entire life with simply not once using it. it's incredible.

To “my students and to anyone who might listen, I say: Don’t surrender to AI your ability to read, write and think when others once risked their lives and died for the freedom to do so.” www.huffpost.com/entry/histor...

Good morning. I don't know who did this, but I love you.

Happy 19th, Brewster

Come on, Spelling Bee

I forgot that I once animated a robot dancing to Encanto

I have a complaint

Every time I heat water for tea in the microwave instead of a kettle, I wonder if someone in England is suddenly overcome with an inexplicable sense that something is wrong with the universe.

I painted a little picture of one of my cats today. This is little BarnBarn. The name might sound stupid but the story of how it came to be is even stupider.

I sculpted and 3D printed Rocky, Winky and Cleolanta from the MST3K-riffed Rocky Jones, Space Ranger series.

I reimagined the opening scene of Hamlet as a Zoom meet. For some reason no one liked Francisco. youtu.be/fdsiuj8Kg14?...

Oh come ON, the letters are even in little grey cells!

Farewell old streak 😪

Outraged on behalf of hoopoes everywhere

I just don’t know how he does these things