Bryce Durbin
@dicebourbon.bsky.social
Illustrator/designer, FOT, midwesterner. https://bio.site/brycedurbin https://brycedurbin.carrd.co/
Small Town’s Make-Out Point Purchased By Multinational Make-Out Conglomerate https://theonion.com/small-towns-make-out-point-purchased-by-multinational-make-out-conglomerate/
i’m never gonna be able to fire a cruise missile yet the question of using my tax dollars for them has never been up for debate
USA TODAY Opinion@usatodayopinion.usatoday.com · 3d agoOpinion: Mamdani's idea may sound appealing, but it's NYC taxpayers who will take the hit, subsidizing discounts they may never even use.
i guess i’ll post this now and hope i have something to go off in the morning, but — i would like to talk to writers/creatives about where they draw the line when it comes to using AI. is using AI for things like research/fact-checking ok, and if so, what is the point where it goes too far?
This is really depressing. Neko Case doesn't name names, and nor does she need to, but I believe her. If anything, she tends to be honest to a fault--this post illustrates exactly what I mean--and abso-fucking-lutely does not hold back (except for said dude's name). [ht: @rahnealexander.com]
IN WHAT FUCKING UNIVERSE?
This last week I was just cookin’ along minding my business when I suddenly found myself quite depressed.
nekocase.substack.com
IMPACT: that company that was offering to buy books for AI companies’ training data — and probably destroy them in the process — says it will no longer offer this service following 404 Media’s exposure of it www.404media.co/ai-company-t...
Company Offering Printed Books to Train AI Stops After 404 Media Coverage
Citing backlash, ISBNdb removed its webpages about training AI, denied ever buying, scanning, or selling a book for AI training, and said the site was a "test of market interest."
404media.co
Oh, my God. Nicest guy. Was on the Pogues bill at Carnegie with him. His love of music was palpable, infectious, radiant. I’ve seldom seen a musician as connected to the moment of the song as he was that night, in deep communion with the song & the people playing it. So many felt it. Hard loss.
Stereogum@stereogum.com · last wk.Glen Hansard has died in a motorcycle crash at age 56
Walked through a wall to a different liminal space.
Happy Monday from these emotional little characters by Felicia Chiao 🥹 www.thisiscolossal.com/2026/07/feli...
Share this post to announce that you are free from both hell AND marriage!
died too soon but glad she lived long enough to do a WaPo op ed that was like "hey remember how i protested the sexual abuse of children by tearing up a picture of the head of the catholic church on TV and everyone said i was CRAZY"
Irish Literary Times@irishlittimes.bsky.social · 2w agoRemembering Sinéad O'Connor, who died three years ago, on July 26, 2023. Photo by Andreas Larsson. #sineadoconnor
AI event flyers are ruining my life cause I didn't know I had so many friends with bad taste
Someone in DC set up a “little free blockbuster” with DVDs inside instead of books lol
A message from my dear friend Tasneem in Gaza. Please help Tasneem and her family, if you can. Like the many thousands of displaced Gazans, they rely on our donations to survive and raise funds to ultimately flee to safety. No amount is too small. 🙏💕 chuffed.org/project/1587...
So today I learned there are little doors in the gates to the Colosseum in Rome because the city cats go there at night to sleep. cc @darthbluesky.bsky.social
I took a hard look at the financial donors to ICE’s biggest supporters in Congress. These are people who want to significantly expand ICE’s power and have sponsored or co-sponsored legislation to do so. Here are the top 25 consumer brands bankrolling the biggest ICE supporters in Congress:
okay found the folder - On the old TCJ messageboard, someone posted the photos of Tony Millionaire and Kaz - Tony is making a face after pulling out his bridgework, but it looks like a mini-singularity is sucking his face into another dimension
Art Of Coop@artofcoop.bsky.social · 2w agoI should find all the photoshops I did putting Tony Millionaire into famous photos and paintings
I love to check the App Store for updates to all the little apps that are poisoning my brain
