A reminder that while this is primarily a comic book account, comic books are absolutely political because they ALWAYS have been.

"i asked grok" "i asked chatgpt" yeah well i asked carl sagan and he said the greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance but the illusion of knowledge 🧪

The internet was never a perfect place, but at least a lot of these media companies gave a darn about kids and gave them safe, fun spaces to be fully entertained online. Alas, this generation will never have that experience. Maybe those that had these places will bring them back for the next one.

Finished up! I feel like I learned a lot about metal shading with this one. Are there any art skills you struggle with? #Samus #MetroidPrime4 #fanart #metroid #MetroidPrime4Beyond

COMING SOON.

As a reminder: LLMs are not intelligent beings. You are providing an input to an algorithm that calculates, in a very complicated way, the probability in which words will follow each other in response to your input based on whatever data was used to train the algorithm. The algorithm doesn't think.

My cartoon in this weeks @newyorker.com

Advocates for AI say it's just another tool, and you can't blame tools for how they're used. Listen, I don't blame hammers just because they might be used to hurt people. But if I found out that the factory making hammers relied on hurting people as its business model, yeah, I'd stop using hammers.

Get in the Venga Bus, Shinji

"Am I the problem? No it's everyone else who's woke" Hobby confessions #530 #anonhobbyconfessions

"Our economy is run by people that don't participate in it and our tech companies are directed by people that don't experience the problems they allege to solve for their customers"

For those curious, you can run the Powershell command Disable-WindowsOptionalFeature -Online -FeatureName "Recall" -Remove to remove this. Get-WindowsOptionalFeature -Online -FeatureName "Recall" lets you check the status of the feature on your computer.

"Well, there went my shoe business" permanently ingrained in my mind

giving myself a gold star for this

“I loved and supported Aaron as my son, and now I love and support Airyn as my daughter. I don’t know what the big deal is,” Robert De Niro told CNN in a statement. “I love all my children.” www.cnn.com/2025/05/01/e...

love reading a 12 year old girl in 1911 write a mech pilot tweet in her diary abt the experience of driving an automobile

been thinking about this for years, now articulated:

So the courts can do this but can’t stop Meta from illegally using my books to train their AI?

This is why I still think that the internet, not the issues, are the root cause of this culture war. People (including journalists…who are people) imagine the loudest, angriest positions as default positions because those are the ones that get eyeballs in an ultra-competitive attention economy.

On the anniversary of the sinking of the Titanic, we thought we'd answer a question that's often asked, "If they raised the Mary Rose, why not raise the Titanic?" Allow our scaled diagram to explain...

"Martin, can you draw an image to illustrate the disk drive communicating with the computer?" "Say no more, Eric & Will." (Source.)

they really need to invent a second type of money these guys can play around with separate from the money I need to buy food. Business Money. Money 2

GEORGE LUCAS IN 1999: a trade embargo is going to spark the galactic reckoning and collapse ME IN 2025: ah, okay

Microsoft bought skype in 2011, shoved it full of ads, forced cortana into it, added premium paid features while disabling stuff people liked, and eventually drove its millions of users to a competitor. Will the next megacorpo learn when discord eventually goes for sale? Doubtful.

UNIANIMOUSLY!!!

oh is it bad when you put people out of work for political reasons

Finally! DARK on blu-ray. It's one of the best science fiction series of all time. Smart, sometimes sad, but always beautiful. Yes, it's currently on Netflix, but I don't trust those fuckers not to pull it.

They're called public records for a reason. Starting today, WIRED will *stop paywalling* articles that are primarily based on public records obtained through the Freedom of Information Act, becoming the first publication to partner with @freedom.press to offer this for our new coverage.

Ice cream's ultimate form

I will admit to finding the “all problems are caused by evil and we could fix every problem without any trade-offs” worldview pretty draining and immature.

And arrogant. Ive never encountered a class of people so convinced that they and they alone have the answers to everything, no matter what the subject in question is--from higher education to medicine to art and literature. They might have no training or skill in it, but are convinced they know best

Historians Politely Remind Nation To Check What's Happened In Past Before Making Any Big Decisions theonion.com/historians-p...

First 3D Observations Of An Exoplanet’s Atmosphere Reveal A Unique Climate astrobiology.com/2025/02/firs... #astrobiology #exoplanet #astronomy

NASA: Webb Reveals the Ancient Surfaces of Trans-Neptunian Objects. blogs.nasa.gov/webb/2025/02... 🔭 🧪

@ generative AI

It’s interesting to watch bluesky grow by cohorts as they are alienated elsewhere. Like it’s not just “hey there’s a million new people” it’s like “hey, the entire Battlestar fandom and Peru just showed up”

Cord Jefferson, quitting Instagram, sums many things up: “I don’t need Instagram to be a haven for free speech for the same reason I don’t need a Jamba Juice or a Hooters to be a haven for free speech.”

Just incredible things from the VLC folks

This is deceptively difficult in practice but absolutely necessary

Me in 2004, teaching 10th graders: For the love of god don't cite Wikipedia, it's not a reliable source Me in 2024, to literally anyone in earshot: Good ol' Wikipedia, the only thing the internet hasn't fucked up yet

Wow that thing that everyone said would happen happened weird

Algogen (AI) programs don't actually know anything, because being able to reproduce the most frequently occurring results is not the same as Knowing a thing. It does not cover instances where something doesn't fit all criterion, but still qualifies. Like a hairless cat, or a flightless bird.

Vholo in the Shade Commissioned by @sigmaminus.bsky.social #bionicle #art #lego