JAWS was released 51 years ago this week. Regarded the first summer blockbuster and A landmark of Hollywood, the making of story is so crazy it begs the question of how it was ever made… 1/47

Been a grim, grim fucking week man iandunt.substack.com/p/an-abysmal...

The Brexit vote 10 years on - and the legacy we live with every day. Latest column www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Watercolour doodle, A6. #watercolour #portraitpainter #sketchbook #watercolourartist #artist

1/ This company’s models were trained on web scraped datasets (like LAION) and their founders are ex-Stability AI employees who engage in the same thieving practices that led artists like myself to sue Stability. GenAi companies NEED big names to sanitize their exploitation and crippling PR.

A lot of journalism in the tech space is basically free advertising. If some CEO makes a wild claim that is transparently designed to boost their market valuation you don't have to report it. This is how scams like Theranos happened. How many times have we heard that AGI is 1-2 years away? It's hype

That’s how you do it! 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽 @MayorofLondon

Watercolour, A6. #watercolour #watercolourportrait #portraitpainting #sketch #artist

Sketch of Dua Lipa. Watercolour, A6. #watercolour #watercolourportrait #watercolourartist #dualipa #sketch

Sketch of Ron Perlman. Acrylic on paper, A6. #portraitpainting #acrylicart #acrylicportrait #sketchbook

Quick watercolour sketch, 7x5 inches. #watercolour #watercolourportrait #portraitpainting #sketchbook

Watercolour sketch, 7x5 inches. #watercolour #watercolourportrait #portraitpainting #sketch

So, incredibly happy for, and proud of, Hungary. And looks like PM might even manage 2/3rds needed for a deep constitutional undoing of Orban's feckery. If EU has *any* sense whatsoever, it will THROW MONEY at Magyar, like a drunk yuppie at a stripper. www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/c2...

Orban was the first in the modern populist wave, the prototype, and he operates now as a crucial international lynchpin. There's a reason the White House and the Kremlin are so desperate for him to win.

Glad to see so much love for Dedra Meero today 😍 (in Andor, and if you don't know, you miss a great character).

Oh HELL yes! 🔥 OpenAI is pulling the plug on their AI video generator Sora, and with it goes their deal with Disney to bring AI gen to Disney+. OpenAI seems to be in serious financial trouble, what a shame 🖕

It really gets my goat when people tell me I may not like AI but it’s here to stay & there’s nothing we can do about it. Yes there is! We don’t have to bow down to every corporate demand! We can fight, regulate, use the law. We can & must ensure this tech benefits humanity & doesn’t dismantle it.

Mileships outtake

This duet cover of Radiohead's "Creep", between a son and his Shastriya Sangeet classically trained mother, is the mash-up I didn't know how much I needed in my life. Totally spontaneous sobbing may have taken place. www.youtube.com/watch?v=nZoH...

Small sketch of Michael Sheen. Acrylic on paper, A6. #acrylicpainting #portraitpainting #acrylicart #artist #sketch

Sketch of Ella Purnell. Acrylic on paper, A6. #acrylicpainting #portraitpainter #ellapurnell #artist

Ruins of Skaro, Doctor Who. Acrylic on paper, A5. #acrylicpainting #doctorwho #scifi #drwho #artist

Doctor Who sketch, Oodsphere. Acrylic on paper, A5. #doctorwho #acrylicpainting #scifi #drwho #acrylicart

Some straight drawings

Reform is basically a suburban petrol station's DVD bin of Tory politicians.

“The goal now has to be nothing less than a new alliance of western democracies no longer dependent on the US for their defence”. Latest column www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Every day we all have to think about one of the most irredeemable cunts in the history of the world. What’s he doing? What’s he said now? How will it affect your life? What will be left once he’s finished smashing it all up? It’s unconscionable

Was honored to get the call to be one of The Guardian’s Big Interviews in G2. A thorough and thoughtful piece that digs into the real fundaments of the AI bubble narrative. www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

Quick sketch of Mia Goth. Gouache on paper, A6. #gouachepainting #portraitpainting #sketchbook #artist

Last week, hundreds of creative workers amassed at a public hearing for an AI transparency bill to testify how AI was corroding their lives. Days later, Disney cut a deal with OpenAI, and Trump moved to stamp out state AI laws. On art and labor in the age of AI and American authoritarianism:

Hot dang this video essay hits hard, is well researched, and aligns so well with what I think ails this world. I feel that now, more than ever, solidarity of the 99% will truly be one of the few things that can fix this absolute mess of a techno feudal-ish world. Mega worth the watch:

Acrylic doodle, A6. #acrylicpainting #portraitpainting #artist #sketchbook

Sketch of Elle Fanning. Acrylic on paper, A6. #acrylic #portraitpainter #ellefanning #artist

Here's the clip! youtu.be/ZGVKZQQSJkg

How we're all changing under the gaze of AI, as we learn to see ourselves as the machine sees us iandunt.substack.com/p/machine-me...

It's here: An absolute beast of an episode. The story of the worst speech in post-war Britain - how it came to be, what it said, and what happened afterwards.

The latest in a long line of terrible humans seeing if they can destroy people lives before asking if they should. If only sociopaths were seen as bad instead of rewarded.

On the day Joe Biden accuses Trump of appeasing Putin, we just happen to have a new two parter on the story of appeasement and how the pursuit of peace and justice mutated into a moral and strategic catastrophe. Part one takes us from the aftermath of the First World War to the Anschluss

This post very much blew up. It's on track to be one of, if not *the* most-read on the newsletter. There are a few points I think I could have underlined better—that I think the thesis is true whether the jobs data in the pictured graph reflects AI impacts or not—but it clearly struck a nerve.

Gil Elvgren style time-lapse. Sketchbook Pro, iPad 9. #timelapse #digitalportrait #gilelvgren #portraitpainting #sketchbookpro

THE RISE OF END TIMES FASCISM My first major piece of the new Trump era, co-written with @astra.bsky.social. The governing ideology of the far right has become a monstrous, supremacist survivalism. Our task is to build a movement strong enough to stop them. www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...

Time-lapse sketch based on a painting by John Singer Sargent. Sketchbook Pro, iPad 9. #timelapse #sketchbookpro #portraitpainting #johnsingersargent #digitalart #digitalportrait

Another Gil Elvgren style sketch. Acrylic on paper, A6. #acrylicpainting #acrylicportrait #portraitpainting #portraitart #gilelvgren

Cyberman doodle. Acrylic on paper,A6. #doctorwho #acrylicpainting #acrylicart #drwho #acrylicportrait

Acrylic sketch based on a painting by Gil Elvgren, A6. #acrylicportrait #acrylicpainting #portraitpainting #acrylicart #sketchbook #portraitartist