He is so good at this

I don't know how to explain to the people who pop up when creatives complain about "AI" to say there are legit uses for it just how much they sound like someone saying "Well actually fire is used to make bread" when people are talking about an organized arson ring burning down their fucking houses

So many sneering elitist journalists with snarky posts over the past months that the Reflecting Pool story was trivial. It was so trivial that the DC US Attny presented false evidence to a grand jury to indict an innocent man to please the President while they both lied about it.

LinkedIn added an "AI slop" button. The U-Turn is happening, expect to see a lot more of this from other tech companies.

Cover by Paul Murry. #WesternComicsMonth

welcome to the tinned fish thread. in this thread, there’s tinned fish. my review of this tin: pretty good tuna 👍

She was Hayao Miyazaki's "right-hand" collaborator from the '70s onward. Her name was Michiyo Yasuda -- the best color designer in animation. Yasuda's eye for color gave Ghibli's work a totally different look. We explore her methods: animationobsessive.substack.com/p/the-artist...

What’s wild is that only a few years ago, “prediction markets” had a whole different name and you used to have to go to Reno or Atlantic City to participate, otherwise it was a crime. Now we can’t even regulate them.

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JUST IN: Kalshi has won a federal court ruling to block a Minnesota law from taking effect that would have banned prediction markets in the state. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Yes, all of this. Use your library! It's an unmitigated good in the world!

Tom Cox@dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social · 2w ago

Someone said to me, "I'm sorry but I got your book from a library." Nobody should ever apologise for that. You read my book! That's brilliant! I grew up hanging out in libraries and the idea of a world without them fills me with dread. Without libraries, authors, like readers, will only suffer.

In the future every smart TV will have an “AI” tab where you can say stuff like “make me a new Star Trek episode” or “make me a murder mystery set in Stars Hollow” and no matter what prompt you give it, it’ll show you a deepfake of a jacked and nude Donald Trump hunting bald eagles with a crossbow

insane how there isn’t a single industry where being good at your job does anything for you variety.com/2026/film/ne...

Pixar Bears Brunt of Disney Studio Layoffs as Company Axes Several Hundred Staffers

Pixar Animation Studios, despite riding high on the success of summer blockbuster "Toy Story 5," was hit particularly hard in a wave of corporatewide layoffs at Disney.

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Concept art by Maurice Noble for What's Opera, Doc? (1957), dir. Chuck Jones, Warner Bros. Cartoons

AUTHORS! Do not, without the explicit permission of an illustrator, upload the art from your book into any AI system to create content like trailers for your book. I cannot believe this needs to be said AND HERE WE ARE.

AI is a bubble and it's going to burst, catastrophically. Good thing corporate stooge Mark Carney has invested Canada's entire future ecology & economy on a vapour industry doomed to failure. And get @doctorow.pluralistic.net's "The Reverse Centaur's Guide to AI" from @versobooks.bsky.social.

37-year-old lifelong New Yorker here. You know, growing up, I don’t remember being trapped inside by toxic wildfire smoke. Certainly not with this regularity. I have a toddler. I am beyond outraged over the state of the planet he will inherit—a crisis fueled by greedy businessmen and their allies

Legendary editorial cartoonist Pat Oliphant @anntelnaes.bsky.social tribute on SUBSTACK: substack.com/pub/anntelnaes/p/legendary-editorial-cartoonist-pat?r=3gwynu&utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=post%20viewer

Onthisday in 1789, the Bastille was stormed in Paris, a key turning point of the French Revolution. 3.5 years later Louis XVI was executed by guillotine. We look at the deluge of prints that emerged depicting his death publicdomainreview.tumblr.com/post/8221146...

Concept art for The Iron Giant (1999), dir. Brad Bird, Warner Bros. Feature Animation Pieces by Dominique Louis and an unknown artist

"They just want to turn it off." A fascinating story of the librarians who have started teaching classes showing people how to remove AI "features" from their phones and apps. www.bangordailynews.com/2026/07/02/m...

These Maine librarians are helping patrons resist AI and Big Tech

Despite breathless reporting on how AI is going to change the world, Hannah Cyrus, a Bangor librarian, said that, in her experience, most library patrons aren’t finding it helpful.

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Jesse Duquette, The Daily Don

Background paintings by Jenny Gase-Baker for My Life as a Teenage Robot (2003–2009), created by Rob Renzetti, Frederator Studios

this may well be the defining joke of our era theonion.com/guy-who-suck...

Guy Who Sucks At Being A Person Sees Huge Potential In AI

SAN MATEO, CA—After spending the past three decades of his life being totally unable and unwilling to engage in any meaningful way with the world around him, James Parker, a local guy who sucks at bei...

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scanning for wokeness

A year ago: We're building data centers everywhere to run you out of your job and double your power bill. It's so you can look at fake videos of talking dogs on your phone Now: Why are people so hostile about the data centers

From: Baby in the Airport (1988), dir. Pencho Kunchev, Sofia Animation Studio & Slovenská Filmová Tvorba

OpenAI Announces Construction Of New Data Center On Top Of Sick Child

WIRED got a copy of a New York Intelligence and Counterterrorism Bureau report that has a curious term for opposition to AI development and data centers: "anti-tech violent extremist activity." Great reporting here on how law enforcement is tracking big tech opponents www.wired.com/story/us-law...

US Law Enforcement Warns of ‘Anti-Tech Extremism’ as AI Hatred Grows

As Americans stew over the looming risk of job-stealing AI and data centers in their back yards, the feds are raising the alarm about a new category of threat, documents obtained by WIRED show.

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America is so vast, you can live here all your life and still know only a small percentage about it's people & land. Love this illustration by @shawnielsen.bsky.social on the Appalachian Trail Map

"I'm really angry that this scifi writer whose work was stolen to train a probability machine that depletes water tables and raises electricity prices and is accelerating the transfer of wealth and capital toward men who actively hate other humans doesn't like 'AI," what a lack of vision they have"

"I ask all of you to think of it, graduates and families alike, let yourself dream of a future in which we can harness this amazing new technology to eliminate entry-level jobs entirely. Indeed, that work has already begun, and that future is now." /college kid booing intensifies "Wow okay,"