Create don’t Generate! It’s a gimmick. An expensive, unethical gimmick. Also they can take the ✨ from my cold, dead hands, I’m taking it back. ✌️

My coworker who knows I pay attention to these things, asked me how worried I am about the hantavirus. So I told her: I’m paying attention, but I’m more worried about the coronavirus. And when she asked: why are you still worried about that? I wanted to say: precisely.

In Juilliards bookstore and theyre playing the peanuts music

It was always embarrassing but I feel this second-hand embarrassment for companies who are just now trying to jump on the AI bandwagon. Like…better never than late!

my gf works corporate and is on a training about AI and there's a word cloud for "what do you use AI for." the largest word by far is "Nothing" and the trainer is PISSED

begging all organizations, awards entities, institutions, any entity that represents, distributes, produces, etc art, creative works &/or writing of any kind to get your ai policies written and implemented. some of it is happening now but all of it needed to happen yesterday

Wonder how many commencement speakers are scrambling to change their speech this week after watching 2 AI shills get roasted by grads? Or they'll think "this school will get me." Also, schools shouldn't pay for live AI ads, stop those checks

I've noticed some disbelief in some quarters that GALAXY: THE PRETTIEST STAR was successful enough to warrant a sequel.

Believe me, I understand people who have very little in discretionary income for amusement. I understand people who have NO discretionary income for amusement. I'm not judging anybody with a pocket full of lint. In fact, I'm here to help.

And, no, it is not just the right that believes this, or behaves like this. If you pretend not to see centrists, and left of center people still complaining about masks, and those who mask or ask other people to mask, then thats on you. Ableism is not a partisan project.

This is actually true, imo. And also, COVID reminded people of their own vulnerability, the porosity of their own skins and bodies, their mortality and they HATED it. They still hate it. Thats why they scream about masks, about COVID and any reminder of that vulnerability.

The first couple issues: “I hope you understand the intricacies and major players of New Genesis politics!” Issue 10: Scott buys cups.

This comic is great because you go into it overwhelmed by lore and then slowly realize that none of it matters and you’re just supposed to vibe with Scott

this graduation speech moment is notable, and her amazed shock at having failed to read the room feels instructive. when you're inside the bubble, you think everybody else is. but everybody isn't.

If I judged the US economy by commercials, I'd have to say we're built on cars, insurance, drugs, and fast food. In that order.

Webcomics :)

every day further from the love of god

Hantavirus Quarantine Facilities To Use Full Emergency ‘Cough Into Elbow’ Protocol

Now it’s just it just looks like a concerted effort to be snobbish about comics. Publishing has a much wider issue in regards to art (see: illustration/art credits), so comics definitely suffer from that issue, plus a whole lot more on top.

SOLRAD, the two-time Eisner-nominated literary magazine for comics criticism, is open for submissions. We publish reviews, essays, and interviews — and we pay $100 per piece.

What I will fight? The notion that the DM is mainstream. The notion that it should exist as the sole R&D for a wider and far more diverse audience in other media that it does not serve nor reflect.

Amazingly, I have some new followers and I must warn you that I am currently furious about everything. This is not a place of honor. Imagine the old comic strip Cathy but she's obsessed with elephants, dogs, and the occasional aging action star.

The possibility of an AI narrator for an audiobook has been an annoying thing lately…

And here we are. Suffering the worst here. Suffering the worst there. While you waste time arguing about nothing. Kamala as a procrastination device. Because you don't actually want to do the work or acknowledge the problem.

Publishing can't keep up with the number of submissions, whether its journals or monographs. Researchers can't keep up with reading, peer review, or tenure output demands. Claims are that AI is going to help produce "more, faster." ... Why? For what purpose? To help whom? #medlibs 📚

I'm old enough to remember speaking on Project 2025 was also fear mongering

If all the news about the hantavirus outbreak has you searching for something you can do: wear a mask; and if this passes and it turns out you don’t need it to protect yourself from a hantavirus pandemic, it will still protect you from the ongoing coronavirus pandemic.

Since it's come up, I really do think people have forgotten just how monumentally shitty it was when every square inch of public space smelled like a fucking ashtray

One thing I’ve found frustrating but interesting is that when I recommend comics based on people’s established interests, like Power Rangers or Star Trek or Transformers comics, it falls flat. Like the change in medium is a barrier. Also, maybe I’m being pushy because I love comics 🤷🏾‍♀️

Yep. Books in all the formats, but just books, and a bathroom, and a place to sit.

one reason I'll never run a library is when asked "what do you see as the future of libraries" my answer is "pretty much the present except things actually work"

*whispers* it would actually be okay if libraries were "just" about books

Interesting replies from a variety of perspectives!

If you know people in NYC, can you please help us to spread the word that Black Zine Fair is on Saturday and that they should register to come? pools.events/event/WFzHwJ... - It's free but donations are always appreciated. We have 4 days to let folks know about it.

We don’t need “AI literacy”, we need comics literacy.

Hey! You like comics and seeing people talk about them? You should check out the Nib and Ink Fest! It's a month long comics event babey...

it's cool trying write my cute lil comics when all my brain is doing is flashing a big red warning sign about the Oncoming Fall of All Things

BREAKING: Researchers Fear Many People May Still Remember What Feeling Well Was Like

New video is up on YouTube! We’ve Turned Revolution Into Content youtu.be/2BO9YzCacWE

I have heard in honor of international workers’ day you should attend a rally. I have heard in honor of international workers’ day you should not work or shop. And I have heard in honor of international workers’ day you should wear a mask as Covid remains a labor issue.

Happening now!

I’m over here actually completing tasks. Man, I’m tearing up about it. Imagine completing tasks.

Drinking RC Cola, which tastes like both Pepsi and Coke, is so…liminal, galaxy brain, portal fantasy.

A reminder for today that all the aspects of our economic system are made up and we can have a new and better system if we want. It does not have to be this way.

Comics people! This year if you want to vote in the Eisners (and didn’t receive an email saying you’re already registered), YOU MUST APPLY BY 13 MAY. Make your voice heard! Historians, educators, ✨ librarians ✨ and comic / webcomic creators should apply here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Getting into comic books really helped me grasp celebrity culture and arts in the US in a better way, including my current opinion that getting and signing autographs is a strange course of interaction between people.

Free movie idea: a suspense/action/thriller of me getting IN THE ZONE to respond back to messages. Sensory deprivation to finally respond to that text. Cutting the right wire? No. Responding with either a quick reply or provide a wall of context. Investigating group chats with unknown numbers.

I’m reading There Is No Antimemetics Division now and the idea of an antimeme is both very relatable and still a little hard to grasp. One possible antimeme that just came to mind is “having no memory of what you did over the weekend when someone asks you about it on Monday morning”.

I don’t think I ever did this and I’m jealous. I have *learned* more about TTRPGs since the pandemic started, though.