“When participants used ChatGPT to draft essays, brain scans revealed a 47% drop in neural connectivity across regions associated with memory, language, & critical reasoning. Their brains worked less, but they felt just as engaged—a kind of metacognitive mirage.”🧪

Statue-Ink and Acrylic on Canvas

inspired by the snoopy donut I got at krispy kreme the other day

Good luck.

This Pluribus ad on a fridge caused a schizophrenic woman named Carol to be hospitalized.

Red Lobster never released a commercial with a jingle that went “Shrimply having a wonderful Fishmastime.” That’s why they went bankrupt.

RYSK is my cyber thriller, about bookie/hustler Ruby Chance, her crew of GraftTek-enhanced oddsmakers — and a heist that can save (or destroy) what’s left of their dystopian world. Find all 5 issues at blackboxcomics.net

i love how everyone draws tifa with added muscle mass. like everyone collectively agreed the game model is wrong, like let me fix that for you

“AI is clearly sticking around so you have to get used to it” wrong. I don’t have to get used to shit. I am a practiced hater and I can keep this going for decades if I am required to

i’m setting you free. i’m releasing you from the discourse

Here’s a handy protocol to determine whether AI could be helpful with your problem or project.

@dgchichester.bsky.social I'm wondering how you found Blackbox. Why them? What drew you to them? Why'd you want Rysk to be published with them? And are there any interviews with you about Rysk that I'm missing out on?

I’ll use this basket.

People are talking about the Kickstarter prelaunch of Axles Infernal #2. Listen in to this fun of Splash Pages Comic Book Club at www.youtube.com/watch?v=oNuU... — then check out the preview and spread the word at tinyurl.com/axlesinfernal

When the world is torn up by a flesh-eating virus, people rebuilt themselves with GrafTek. Oddsmaker Ruby Chance unlocked a powerful A.I. named Rysk, amping Ruby’s senses and skills. Join her adventure at blackboxcomics.net

think trans artists tend to be multidisciplinary renaissance types bc we all know that no matter what we do we’re not getting famous or even respected for this shit

This is fucking terrible. It's just awful. What the fuck is this garbage. Amazon can pay human actors!!! It has plenty of money!!!

Exactly. One reason folks fall in love with characters is because they feel the great work actors do behind and in front of the screen. Amazon can do much freaking better. Pay the actors and skip watching this crap.

@dgchichester.bsky.social I'm reading your interview with manwithoutfear.com from '98, and it's both refreshing and saddening to hear they treat their characters the same now as they did. If it's not Spidey or X-Men, they don't wanna hear about it. At least, that's the way it seems.

@dgchichester.bsky.social another one comes into the fold

I know why they didn't do it, but that headline would absolutely CRUSH if they'd deployed an adverbial f-bomb immediately prior to the word "obvious."

Also @louissouthard.bsky.social , if I can bug you again, I missed the Kickstarter for Laugh Riot #1!! Will I be able to get a copy sometime in the future? Also, wonderful to see it got funded!!! I'm really excited to see what you have up your sleeve this time

@louissouthard.bsky.social I just watched your video! I run a comic shop and talk to indie creators such as yourself, so I'll DEFINITELY be on the lookout for the missing book. I love media preservation and finding that would be a goldmine. Is the character in the public domain? Do you know?

@dgchichester.bsky.social cool cover! I wonder who came up with the idea for that costume...

@dgchichester.bsky.social I'm over here instead of League because the picture quality is better. I've learned this is a new trend, making your main for Rivals your profile picture with a Santa hat, and I figured you might wanna use it, if not for here, at least on League.

if your “great ideas” aren’t good enough to dedicate more energy to than just typing in a prompt then maybe they aren’t that great in the first place

“waaah my art isn’t good enough to fully portray my GREAT IDEAS, I need to use AI” listen i spend years putting my terrible art online and having strangers tell me it was terrible and off-putting and then i did it long enough that it got less terrible so sorry if I have 0 sympathy for your plight

the people hate the artificial orbs. natural orbs still a perennial favorite

tech companies continually learning people don't want these things

oh word?

Design practice - Y2K investigative journalist 😶‍🌫️

The party got too hearty. 🍻 Photo from my collection, 1969.

Love Hemisphere. 💞

@dgchichester.bsky.social my copy of RYSK #5 just came in finally!!!

history will ultimately decide this but i think joyce carol oates might have just landed the most devastating burn in human history. like the death star trench run of posting

being trans is the most punk thing in existence

Amazon is helping fund a $300 million build of a ballroom for the White House. Independent bookstores are donating to food banks and organizations that help with food insecurity. They are not the same.

what i imagine people see in me when they find me attractive

im always saying there should be more cardinal girls

the best, the dumbest, and the lesbianest

'hey guys if i take hormones and live as a woman i feel great and amazing for the first time in my entire life and it feels like i can finally be myself' 'thats neat, but ive drafted you into a war to dismantle that and youre a piece of shit if you dont do exactly what i say'

"trans women don't owe you femininity" true statement! we also don't owe you gender abolition! you can't uphold one group as a paragon of virtue and tell the other they're assimilationist for enjoying femininity that's literally just transmisogyny.