Happy Mother’s Day

Listen to Charles Schulz, in his own words. This shit is a literal affront to what he believed in and his craft.

If gates can be used to keep people out of Washington Square Park at night, they can also be used to keep people out during the day. We shouldn't give the NYPD or our growing fascist federal government another tool to prevent people from gathering in public.

Comix Action is joining the #Nakba78 protest in NYC! Please feel free to join our contingent at 2 pm on Saturday, May 16, in Bay Ridge, Brooklyn!

Happy May 8 m.youtube.com/watch?v=VwcK...

A lot of people view that national title as illegitimate because of the alleged recruiting violations around Lafayette and Pulaski.

Today is my birthday. If you forgot to get me a gift, that’s ok, you can register as a stem cell or bone marrow donor. www.nmdp.org

NEW—Video shared w me by a witness shows another angle of NYPD officer throwing a protester to the ground during an anti-ICE protest outside Wyckoff Medical Center in the early hours of Sunday morning + has helped identify the officer. His name is Hubert Mohamed, The Handbasket is first to report:

I was doing some hopeful pre-reading in case I actually get to write something uh newsy about Rudy Giuliani and this 2021 story is a well-done, if also queasily familiar and dispiriting, re-examination of an early Rudy production that I faintly remembered from my childhood. nymag.com/intelligence...

Another perfect day of not using generative ai

i get that it can be very effective for automating tedium . but as soon as you treat human communication as tedium *and expect me to give a shit at the same time* , fuck you

Jesus this is fucking bleak

“If you ask tobacco companies to help write your school’s policy on cigarettes…you’re going to end up with guidance on how to smoke responsibly in school.”

Open-air public World Cup watch parties are one of my absolute favorite things about visiting Europe during the World Cup. So of fucking course it’s the cops who hate them.

Kids today are only want one thing—M train service on Fourth Ave. at rush hour

Update: we're switching the ride to Shirley Chisholm State Park to the rain date - April 26. RSVP to keep getting updates: www.bikesbk.org/event/bike-r...

The coloring book has launched!!! www.kickstarter.com/projects/alb...

They finally made drugs uncool.

Lot of people discussing this with the idea of failing faster. I would put it to you that failure doesn’t actually have to exist at all in this conception. One of the great mistakes of the AI brouhaha is the belief that art is good because of its craft or content. It is good because it connects us.

When you use AI to do your writing, you are telling your audience: “I deserve your attention, but you do not deserve my effort.”

Nonprofit does not mean no money. They can afford to pay you for your work.

PSA: the cherry blossoms are in peak bloom at @brooklynbotanic.bsky.social

Love paying $70/month to a company that threatens me with obsolescence if I don’t use the AI they’re building into the software that barely does what I paid for it to do anymore.

On this date in 1997, the Secret Service threatened to shoot and kill Mr. Met. ftw.usatoday.com/story/sports...

New work for Real Woman Magazine. Mallory Tenore Tarpley writes about her eating disorder and the life-long challenge of navigating the middle space between recovery and relapse.

Happy #PortfolioDay to all who celebrate. I’m an editorial illustrator from Brooklyn. I’ve worked with The New Yorker, The New York Times and The Wall Street Journal. You should hire me, too See more of my work at johnwtomac.com

New work for Real Woman Magazine. Mallory Tenore Tarpley writes about her eating disorder and the life-long challenge of navigating the middle space between recovery and relapse.

Time to intervene. "The tech lords knew what they were doing. Back in 2023, venture capitalist Marc Andreessen claimed that enforcing copyright law would “kill” the entire industry. Tech companies would do what they always did – move fast & break things. The things they were breaking would be us."

Everything is bad and expensive right now, but one book I read recently made me feel good, and if you read it, it might make you feel a little better about the future, too. We don't have to accept things staying bad forever. We can demand our leaders quite literally build a better future.

Monarch Tractor raised over $240 million for its self-driving, electric tractors guided by AI that debuted in 2023. That year, Time called the vehicle one of the year’s greatest inventions, and Forbes predicted that the company would become the world’s next billion-dollar startup.

I don't know how to explain to the people who pop up when creatives complain about "AI" to say there are legit uses for it just how much they sound like someone saying "Well actually fire is used to make bread" when people are talking about an organized arson ring burning down their fucking houses

Congratulations or condolences to Marko Kepi, who is no longer the most crooked Albanian in NYC politics

hello today I wrote about something that's been driving me crazy lately: the proliferation of beloved local businesses turning to off-putting AI slop. I sat down with one of them to ask why nygroove.nyc/local-busine...

I hope @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social is taking this comparison personally!

Does burgundy still have a place at the table? For the oenophiles at The Property Chronicle.

Does burgundy still have a place at the table? For the oenophiles at The Property Chronicle.

And a hearty “Fat Fucking L” to all my Lost Causers

Today is a good day to support news outlets (which do not include @propublica.org) that have instituted strong guardrails against Generative AI slop: go.bsky.app/8cn1XfT

We’re on strike today! Support our fight for a fair contract by NOT visiting the @propublica.org website or engaging with ProPublica stories today. Tell ProPublica’s management you won’t cross the picket line: actionnetwork.org/petitions/te...

New: 150 unionized ProPublica workers are on strike TODAY over AI, layoff protections, wages, and more. They're asking readers to not visit ProPublica or engage with content on other platforms. It's the first work stoppage of its kind at the newsroom. www.theverge.com/news/908401/...

For personal pieces, draw subjects/topics that *genuinely* interest you & not just what you believe an Art Director would like to see. Your interest & joy is going to translate into your work, they WILL notice it. Also: LESS IS MORE, don't include EVERY piece you've made, just the very best!

You like to ride bikes. We like to ride bikes. So let’s all ride bikes together. Fourth Saturday of every month, from April through October. First ride is to Shirley Chisholm Park. Details and RSVP: www.bikesbk.org/rides26/

TFW you hate socialism but love municipal employees and state universities.

This. Bob Staake was making work with Photoshop 3.0 (not even CS3) more than a decade after Adobe initially released it. You really did not need to upgrade if your output was good. m.youtube.com/watch?v=wO4_...

Adobe peaked with CS6 and everything's been a cash grab ever since.

We’re going to upload our all our expertise and institutional knowledge to Anthropic and OpenAI, who will not safeguard it, so our 4-person firm can achieve nominal productivity gains for the cost just of employing at least 15 people.

When it comes to writing, the process is the purpose. You don’t have to always like or enjoy the process, but if you don’t respect it enough to do it yourself, there is no purpose. AI will never fill that void. www.thehandbasket.co/p/refusing-t...

I've said it before and will say it again, human beings' ability to compartmentalize is incredible. This pathetic racist very old man in cognitive decline has access to the nukes that can destroy us all.

Oh so now copyright matters.

The Supreme Court will hear arguments today so they can eliminate the right to citizenship in the 14th Amendment. From the archives.