Some of my favorite hands I've drawn for the Halloween season over the years. I wish I had the time to do some for this year!
Bryce Durbin
@dicebourbon.bsky.social
Illustrator/designer, FOT, midwesterner. https://bio.site/brycedurbin https://brycedurbin.carrd.co/
not to be repetitive but if all art was made the way i want it it would honestly be really boring. art that defies my expectation or even just pisses me off for whatever reason is great and necessary
good to know some of my old bangers are still in circulation
helen@homotoptheory.northsky.social · 3d agoi think about this tweet every day
Viewing this video changed the trajectory of my day earlier
Did you know you only need a small brain to make silly little drawings?
growing up in ohio wasn't all bad. for example, sometimes you have a funny story about growing up in ohio that you can tell your friends who didn't grow up in ohio, and they look horrified when you finish, instead of laughing, causing you to immediately realize something about your past
This will be a thread of essays I recommend to students in my creative nonfiction workshop:
🧅🌐 The Onion has been making the news absurd for decades. Founded as a college newspaper in 1988, it launched online in 1996, bringing its ridiculous headlines, stories & snark to the web. 30 years later, it’s still going strong. Explore web history ➡️ web.archive.org 🧵
Eternally grateful for the opportunity to continue doing something so ridiculous.
Have you seen Werner Herzog watching and discussing skate clips? www.youtube.com/watch?v=EQLI...
Discussing Skateboarding with Filmmaker Werner Herzog
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Several weeks ago, Phil Tippett's legendary animation studio in Berkeley, CA closed. An anonymous hero noticed a folder of CDs. This turned out to be hundreds of unseen hi-res images and videos from Star Wars, Robocop, Jurassic Park, etc. ~90 isos for you to browse: archive.org/details/tipp...
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smoking that shit that makes me look like the live action Moe Szyslak
Art Of Coop@artofcoop.bsky.social · 2w agoI know we’re not supposed to goof on people’s looks, but if this is what being a billionaire does to you, I’m happy to be a poor slob
AI cannot and will not ever be able to employ contextual judgment the way a person can. it does not have any social adeptness. it does comparative pattern matching, it doesn’t actually KNOW anything in the way a human does
if I was Cyclops I'd spend a lot of time tossing pumpkins into the air and blowin em up. People would try to make plans with me and I'd get mad and say I'm working on something really important but they'd see the gourd meat on my shoes
We are at the break glass moment on the Democratic Party and its treatment of transgender people, and it is my opinion that if we don’t act now and loudly demand to be heard, we will suffer the consequences of their shift.
Scoop: Meta's Muse AI can make phone calls. Internally, Meta has told employees that many of these calls will be made by human beings in a call center: www.404media.co/meta-tests-m...
Meta Tests Muse AI Agent Calls That Are Actually Made By Humans in a Call Center
"This has potential for so much negative PR. It could portray us as ‘their AI is not good enough so they still need humans’ kind of coverage for this launch."
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A couple went on a Fox News podcast and claimed the state of #Massachusetts took away their teen because they won't help the teen transition. But it's actually because the father was charged with beating and threatening to kill the teen and the mother was charged with witness intimidation.
Mass. parents' story about child's gender transition complicated by court records
Joseph Kutzko was charged with assaulting the child in January 2025, not long before the child was removed from the family’s home. Mother Arlene Kutzko was charged with witness intimidation in connect...
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Do you know how it felt to open a writing app that claimed to analyze your writing for optimization and discover that my books were inside its system? I had never spoken to these people. they hadn't asked for a license or permission or *anything.* and that all the big AI companies had done it too?
Tyler King@tyleraking.com · 3w ago“A senior executive at Microsoft said A.I. systems built on the work of others will be seen as ‘an astonishing theft of unprecedented proportions’ and possibly the greatest robbery of labor in human history, according to court documents unredacted Thursday in an ongoing Manhattan lawsuit.”