1. Headlines everywhere today read "Grok apologizes." This is bullshit. A chatbot is not something that can apologize. Pretending otherwise is simple laundering these companies' bullshit about what AI is, while diffusing blame away from the human beings that developed and released this system.

Well, 2026 is off to a start, I’d say!

hope this helps

I think you're right. I ended up splitting the difference and centering it based on the right side of the pencil so the shadow hopefully keeps it anchored from feeling off.

I don't recall off hand who made the point about AI being, more than anything else, a machine for displacing responsibility. That increasingly looks like its most reliable feature

Glad to say I finally got these @tylerlittwin.bsky.social prints hanging on my office wall! I think they will inspire me; certainly, they will make me happy. (The prints were a birthday present; the framing was a Christmas present.)

This is a thread of major media outlets falsely anthropomorphising the "Grok" chatbot program and in doing so, actively and directly removing responsibility and accountability from individual people working at X who created a child pornography generator (Elon Musk, Nikita Bier etc) #1: Reuters

The pun in the name “Tractor Beam” would by itself be enough to give rise to a soilpunk genre

The Get a Life episode HOUSEBOY 2000 is on the YouTube stream and that montage set to Depeche Mode's "Master and Servant" has to be one of the craziest things anyone ever got on network tv. www.youtube.com/watch?v=UWRG...

If you're cold he's cold, bring him inside

One of the reasons I was on board with Mamdani from very early on was that he seemed to me, more than any other candidate, to be prepared to offer a roadmap for popular and institutional resistance to Trumpism on the municipal level. Today is validating my optimism.

25 for '25 – 🧵 of some favorite photos from the year, some picked for the quality of the photo, some for the quality of the memory, some for both. Cheers: 🌿🐙🐸📷 First up, here's the lone phone pic of the bunch, a one-handed shot of a European mantis taking flight from my fingertip (Montana)

I have 3 axioms that help me decide when to talk to people I disagree with: 1. To debate a subject is to concede that the subject is debatable. 2. To reason with a person is to concede that the person is reasonable. 3. To ask for evidence of a claim is to concede that the claim might be true.

HAPPY NEW YEAR! I don't make New Year resolutions, but if I did... __ Comic ©2007, 2026 Stephen R. Bissette

Happy New Year. We’re going to win.

Work in progress. I'm slightly obsessed with turn-of-the-(19th)century theatre/pantomime/circus playbills at the moment, so I'm re-creating posters and ads for more recent productions (and products) in that style. #graphics #movies #davidlynch #victorian

BUCK ROGERS: CURRENT STATUS

hope it doesn't explode on takeoff like the others

The final Calvin and Hobbes, which appeared in papers 30 years ago today.

yes I am absolutely here to QT this

Give yourself something to look forward to next year. Something less substantial than a resolution which can carry regret if you can't stick to it. Think of a book you want to read, a genre of music you'd like to learn more about, a curiosity to chase no matter how trivial. Keep your spark lit.

Poking a needle into a textile made from pressed and matted fibers just to felt something

2026 here I come

Lots of folks talking about “Take On Me” … if you’ve never seen the literal lyrics version, I commend it to you: m.youtube.com/watch?v=8HE9...

A page from Walt Simonson’s epic FF run.

In: TO SEE THEM DRIVEN BEFORE YOU

Sitting a stewing in frustration isn't nearly as cathartic as just designing a poster. Let's see how often I remember that in 2026.

Me: The smart dog is missing. I need to do a systematic grid search of the woods. Then if he's not in the fence, a driveby of the neighborhood. Can I get missing posters made on New Year's Eve? Gotta put up a community post... Smart dog, from his warm spot on the couch: SOUND GOOD TELL ME HOW IT GO

Who will stop the Piano Man's reign of terror?!

Even beyond the obvious problems of these chatbots validating delusions or suicidal behaviour, I am also just very concerned about the fact that so many of these companies advertise their chatbots like this bsky.app/profile/zoan...

we are living in dark stupid times right now

*draws comics all day* man i need to draw more

Open up this picture fully. Then look at the surface of Mars. Then look up to the top right. Spot Mars' moon Phobos high in the sky. Then notice the bright spot beside Phobos. That's Earth.

going into 2026 like

🗣️ LET’S MAKE CURIOSITY COOL IN 2026

I hit kind of a funny software hiccup (or “bug”) when I was looking at the accounts I follow, earlier today. I mean, I think Kat Abugazaleh is cool, but I’m not following her this many times …

going into 2026 like

Pretty mushrooms I found on a hike today!

going into 2025 like

Fallen leaves drawn into this drain in Mill Hill, make accidental street art. Each piece unique - a veritable gallery of seasonally coincidental creativity.

It's a good commentary on 2025 that the US President announces a major military attack on a foreign country and even the straightest arrows think, 50% chance it's an attack, 50% chance president is on another cognition bender.

You know in movies where they kinda wipe their hand gently over the face of a dead guy and it closes their eyes. It would be a good gag if they did that on a guy with glasses. Either his eyes close or the glasses turn into sunglasses.

One of the best to ever do it

THIS THIS THIS. ALL OF THIS THIS is why faculty resist technological strategies for teaching. There is no engaging with Edtech without this context

This is true and I was the only one on set excited about it (and playing the song on my phone to blank stares)

25 Favorite Moments from this past year. The sunrise was blazing in Chicago on this morning in October. 3 of 25.

25 Favorite Moments from this past year. The seasons collided in Chicago’s Millennium Park as an early snowfall in November created a beautiful scene. 7 of 25.