To call the Catholic Church problematic is beyond an understatement, but this encyclical drops nonstop humanist bangers, including a radical call to counter fascism with a "civilization of love."

woke 1 made the mistake of making people think it was problematic to make fun of healing crystals and astrology. woke 2 must be focused on the destruction of white shamanism

This is a literal verbatim quote, btw. Incredible stuff.

Adventuring little kitty!! #art #illustration

come hang. let's make cute postcards & tell the mayor ai sucks

Somehow my podcast list has wound up with me listening to two podcasts about Dr. Phil in one day. 🫡

Pope Bob is shaping up to be like a Catholic Mamdani. He's still a fallible human working within a corrupt framework and everything's not gonna magically get fixed, but it's always nice to see something in life become even slightly better than it was.

I'll say what Bluesky fails to address in v1.122 They've rolled out a new "adult content" tag applied on an entire account, hiding all their posts from users, including text posts, even if they may be SFW This update, while well-intentioned, defeats the whole purpose of the content filters system

Hey, NYC! @comixaction.com is gonna go to this great @aimoratoriumnyc.bsky.social postcard party in Prospect Park on June 3 -- come join us and write postcards to @mayor.nyc.gov demanding a moratorium on "A.i." in the public schools!!! actionnetwork.org/events/south...

According to Axios, an AI consultant revealed that one of their enterprise clients accidentally racked up a staggering $500 million bill in a single month on Anthropic’s Claude after failing to implement spending caps or usage controls for employees. Half a billion dollars. In 30 days. On AI usage.

Thinking about how all that money could have gone to the SALARIES and BENEFITS of employees (including the ones who were let go) instead of paying for people to figure out uses for AI.

this propelled me out of bed to make a meme the likes of which i haven't made in a decade

Look, is it a good thing that he dropped out? Absolutely, yes. But this man destroyed an entire career's worth of goodwill and trust and an apology ain't gonna undo that. He knew how awful AI is, it's documented, and sold out to pursue it. You don't forget that shit, even if you forgive it

"I'm learning so much from all of you." Man shut the fuck up, you know. Actions and words and all that crap.

Keeping with the sex metaphor he noticed he was fucked.

Universal: I can't wait to see how your dinosaur film turned out, Steven. Spielberg: Oh, it has the best 15 minutes of dinosaur footage of all time. Universal: What did you put in the other hour and forty-five minutes? Spielberg: The only thing kids like more than dinosaurs - ETHICAL DEBATES.

Oh this sucks. We wouldn’t have Star Wars without her. Back when we had SYFY fangrrls, we featured her during our Forgotten Women of Genre month in 2019 and her story is amazing. Incredible woman. www.syfy.com/syfy-wire/fo...

Naming your project after Project 2025 is like naming your autobiography Mein Kampf 2.

I love this song. ❤️

The results are in! ICON workers are the newest members of CAG 938!

Looks like this guy is getting Broadview 6’d (leaving the case in the hopes the judge doesn’t find out what he did to the grand jury).

I think we’re long past the “ai bad because of stealing” argument and fully in the “ai is also actively and tangibly destroying our planet why are you even trying to use it as an art tool at this point” stage

I fucking warned people about this shit. The AI is picking up stylistic conventions in writing, the literal patterns that disciplines conform to, and not the content of the work. This is not dissimilar from AI flagging my own writing as AI generated.

This is weird as fuck and I hate it because I’ve already seen AI versions of MLK and Malcolm on magazines here so its only a matter of time if it hasn’t already happened.

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Just let me draw pictures!! 🚫🗯️ [ #cuteart #illustration ]

Props to the creators who only specialize in hotel corridor carpeting, for they are the ones who disguise all of our sins.

can’t post my opinion about this on a public forum 👍

oh wow it's that thing that was only happening in everybody's heads

Hot Potato

In case you still haven't caught on. The explosions are intentional but not in the way you think. They're getting huge government contracts, spending one tenth of it making a trash firework, then they'll go back to the well end take more taxpayer money. This is not a new scam. Space X does this too

A reminder you dont have to work in comics to sign the petition and show support!

Hey, when these AI-slop shows come out. Don't talk about them. Don't Watch them. Don't engage with them Hell don't even pirate them. Give THEM NOTHING. SHOW them we don't want it. When it releases, SCREAM and SHOW OFF about your favorite indie Show(s) instead!

i'm generally aligned on this - important to note that hollywood's major creative booms were largely precipitated by external factors (govt regulation, economic climate, investment rat races) outside the scope of film. also the way theatrical illusion vs virtualized simulacra scale in cost differs!

'vanilla ice congratulations u are the opening act and your planned set is 10 minutes but we are sure the 30 minutes you are set to perform will be appreciated for the entire 45 minutes also congratulations u are the closing act"

AI isn't the only reason they're building data centers. They need a place to store the information they got from digitally stalking you. And physically stalking you via flock cameras. And actually, this goes back to AI, because that's powering their stalking. This is fucking horrifying.

Everything this fucking regime does is one of the worst things I've ever heard of in my life.

New dystopia just dropped

I love how they're just little dudes walking to their destinations

I would be remiss not to point out that "Tricking Milli Vanilli into performing a concert for a dictator" is LITERALLY a storyline from the 1990s 'Super Mario Bros 3' cartoon 🙃

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I might do some Throwback Thursdays to post old stuff? Here's mermays before the month of May ends ha

There is a distinct overlap with this and the people who end up going crazy because AI tells them they're a genius. Like at a fundamental level there is a yearning a lot of people have to be want to be exalted and special, and tbh I think a lot of that is probably related to capitalist alienation.

Moving On.

Here's the serious bit for anyone who'd rather skip the 4000 words of jokes

Rockstar management fired 30+ people to try to prevent this and still failed.

“Anything personal in it is anonymized before the recording is processed” by a team of people who blur your faces, photos, mail, devices, medicine cabinet, and any other PII you might have lying around 👍 we keep all that data ✌️ it’ll never be publicly sold 👊 so long as we don’t get bought 🤟

Everything has to change. Everything. Do not settle for politicians who want to go back to "normal." "Normal" was the garbage state of existence that allowed all of this evil to take root and thrive. Everything has to change.

Last shot asking here. Still need 500 in order to clear my account and be able to pay my application fee for my teaching credentials. Deadline is tomorrow. At this point I’m begging. Fuck it. I’m just trying to change my situation the only way I can. Preciate y’all. 💕💸

These AI companies are trying SO HARD to get you to accept it. "Look! We got these popular artists to use it and endorse it! You like these artists, don't you? Don't you want to support your favorite artists?" THEY ARE LOSING MONEY AND NEED YOU TO BUY IN. DON'T FALL FOR IT.