UNDAAAAAAAV!

the industrial revolution put humans in a competition with machines to see who can machine better. we were always gonna lose that one. now the “AI revolution” is putting machines in a competition with humans to see who can human better, and we can easily win this one, but we’re determined not to.

@vfbamericana.bsky.social the new podcast software has definitely improved the audio quality… but I really miss the Rock Lobster/Derek Rae intro song!

Amazing match in Stuttgart last night. #CC97 set the tone early! A chippy first half, and an INTENSE second half (and Extra Time). @vfb.de didn’t let up and finally gave us the win. The most incredible match I’ve seen! Can’t wait to hear the boys on @vfbamericana.bsky.social break it down. 🤍❤️🤍

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30 years ago tonight:

My congressman, @vargas.house.gov just voted AGAINST forcing the president to get congressional approval before starting a war. I won't forget that the next time he asks for my vote.

You can avoid Google's AI summaries in your search results by simply adjusting your query. Or just switch search engines altogether. www.wired.com/story/how-to...

New— An American citizen boarding flight from Boston to Lisbon just now told me after showing boarding pass, every passenger stopped on jetway by two ICE agents demanding to take their photo. When passenger asked why, ICE threatened to detain them. If they said no photo, couldn't board/TBD detained.

This interview with Tristan Harris about the choice we must make about how GenAI will shape our future is worth your time. And it's a lot of time. (Please forgive the host the comically eye-roll inducing tactics of using the click bait image and title for the thumbnail.) youtu.be/BFU1OCkhBwo?...

Literally a publication for eight-year olds 40 years ago

We can't afford these people

Heck yeah, @sweetshop.app is just around the corner!!! sweetshop.app/join/QTAJsP

THIS. youtube.com/shorts/XNGOB...

Happy Yuesday @padres.com fans! #Padres #YuDarvish #SanDiegoPadres

@padres.com's own Manny Machado, is the starting 3rd baseman for the 2025 All-Star game. Let's go Machado! Here's a little one-page comic I did of Manny doing Manny things, from a game in April against the Cubbies. #Padres #SanDiegoPadres #AllStarGame #Machado #Machadod

Worth a watch: Head of Signal, Meredith Whittaker, on so-called "agentic AI" and the difference between how it's described in the marketing and what access and control it would actually require to work as advertised.

Don’t believe the media frenzy. I can attest that the most violent thing happening to LA right now is what the Padres are doing to the Dodgers.

May we become more like Christ, and more like the church he established. #Jesus #Christ #Church #America

I'm posting some art to Cara again. Trying out what it's like to share links over here on bluesky... cara.app/post/ccf50af...

Good Lord Almighty. I came back to comics thru highbrow, nonfic stuff like March. How DARE superhero comics be this INSANELY and PROFOUNDLY good. @denizcamp.bsky.social and @javierrodriguez.bsky.social are incredible. Gut wrenching writing speaks to pain of our times, Javi's art is a playground.

Daaaaaang. This two-part story reuniting @kellythompson.bsky.social with @mattiadeiulis.bsky.social is pure FIRE. Such fantastic writing and De Ilulis's art just feels indulgent in comics. Loved the mother/daughter flashbacks as Diana wrestles with the story. Then later lives it out. So good. Wow.

@jason-aaron.bsky.social's latest issue of Absolute Superman (#6), like the first 3 episodes of Andor, are telling beautifully human stories of being a migrant in a society that desperately wants to scapegoat you.

Glad to see these goons be held to account, and in ruby red northern Idaho!

@ashcanpress.com and @tylerboss.bsky.social thanks for coming out to San Diego and signing at Comickaze! Hope you enjoy some good tacos 🌮 while you’re in town! ✌🏼

Today is Jackie Robinson day! Years after his career as a ballplayer had come to an end Jackie was involved in the Civil Rights movement. Here’s a character study I did of him for a project in the works. #JackieRobinson #JackieRobinsonDay

@padres.com finally on Blue Sky! LET’S GOOOOOOOO! Love the way the team is playing! 💛🤎

Hey, San Diego, read this comic! It’s SO GOOD. I’m recommending it to my friends who haven’t read comics since they were kids because they have NO IDEA this is what’s happening in comics today. #FMLComix

These are the lies billionaires tell us so they can become trillionaires.

Cartoonist R.E. Burke detained by ICE on backpacking trip

Powerful. Free Palestine. www.youtube.com/watch?v=3gzo...

Reading 4Kids led me to @ashcanpress.com and @tylerboss.bsky.social next project, What’s The Furthest Place From Here? This, folks, is 100% the TREASURE I was seeking when I wandered into a comic shop a couple of years back looking for recommendations on awesome indie books. Starting Vol. 4 now!

I started listening to the Ideas Don’t Bleed podcast last year which is how I came to l know the work of @ashcanpress.com and @tylerboss.bsky.social, beginning with 4 Kids Walk Into a Bank. A heist comedy w kids as the criminals. Loved the imaginative intros to each chapter.

Well, quite.

It’s nice how they’ve replicated the middle school dynamic of the insecure bully and his sniveling sidekick picking on someone surrounded by a circle of scared little boys who also try to talk shit so the bully doesn’t come after them. Or as the right calls it, “masculinity.”

To all the teams who got an email from the dodgers this morning offering up to 8 months pay if they voluntarily quit, DON’T DO IT.

Elon Musk is a terrible president.

What’s my #comicsdna -Lots of early 90's Spidey. -Walking Dead was my first "back to comics" post-college. -the March trilogy was my 🤯 oh comics can DO THIS?!!!

Messing around with some Pentel ink brush pens, coloring digitally.

This Cybertruck did not crash. It made a heartfelt and perhaps ill-advised gesture that, in the moment, might have been misinterpreted as a crash, but we should not rush to judgement.

one thing i’m stuck on is this idea that “masculine” energy means license to act like a chud in public, as opposed to more traditional notions of public masculinity, such as those that put a premium on the performance of integrity, honesty, honor and generosity.

Gonna rant a bit about something I see in illustration that I have NEVER seen drawn correctly. I get why it's always wrong (the roots of the mistake), and 99.5% of people will never notice... but I do. My own pet peeve. Yet a simple fix. Anyone else notice a thing that artists ALWAYS get wrong?

Big haul tomorrow! #NCBD

Just got back from the beach/tide pools and the other 3 folks in my family took a bath or shower at the same time. Our water heater, did not, in fact, meet the challenge. 🥶

Before 2024 I was reading some graphic novels and just a few ongoing comics here and there. That changed in 2024 thanks to some great recommendations from friends and a fantastic LCS (Nuclear Comics in San Diego). Here are my favorite reads from 2024 (some of which are from WAY before 2024)...

What are we doing here?

Annoying to have to say this again, but... If you wouldn't be able to hold the women's World Cup in a particular country, don't have the men's one there.