I made a little something new…! DELICIOUS HIDEOUS UGLY FAT INFINITY is an experimental photo zine on cancer, fatness, ugliness, and all the beauty it entails. 12 pages, 3 colors. Read for free here: sloanesloane.itch.io/ugly-fat-inf...
Angie Wang
@okchickadee.bsky.social
I draw, teach at USC, and run Comic Arts LA. I won a James Beard Award and a National Magazine Award, and was a Pulitzer finalist. “Is My Toddler A Stochastic Parrot?” in the New Yorker.
I’m working on my josei-influenced comic for Shortbox Comics Fair! ☺️ it’s kind of a love letter to the Lililicious scanlation group, if anyone remembers them
out it goes: my long post about Rachel Hope Cleves's claim that Tillie Walden plagiarised her book. It's long because Cleves's claim is much, much more bizarre than it looked on first reading. I'm not going to bury the lede here. Cleves's claim does not hold up. buttondown.com/thene/archiv...
thene@thene.bsky.social · 2mo agoi am working on a very, very long blog post that could really have fit into a skeet: When someone posts that "this website/journal article/etc proves my dramatic claim!!!" and then does not link to the website, journal article, etc, it is because it does not in fact prove their dramatic claim.
This story is really really really really good!! You should read it!!!
Meghan McCarron@meghanmccarron.bsky.social · last yr.My new short story is now live at @lightspeedmagazine.com. It's set in a struggling private Mars colony. I'm really proud of this one, and so happy to be putting fiction out into the world again www.lightspeedmagazine.com/fiction/the-...
I did not know that reading Piranesi would be the exact same experience as playing an excellent walking simulator! I would’ve loved walking around a huge map picking up bits of lore and piecing together the whole story.
My visual essay on gossip came out right as we were evacuating from the LA wildfires, so I’m finally posting it now! 😅 I had a lot of fun making this comic about birds spilling the tea with each other… my favorite activity. www.vox.com/culture/3920...
Why gossip is just so irresistible
An illustrated guide to its delicious, subversive appeal.
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tw CSA, Neil Gaiman If your immediate reaction when hearing a five year old experienced child sexual abuse is expressing disgust and concern that they’ll be a future perpetrator… that sucks, y’all. Sorry to be a social media scold and all, but that really sucks.
This goes well beyond humanities and classrooms. Art is not just an array of pixels on a screen. Physics is not just a sequence of LaTeX commands. Consciousness is not just an emission of tokens. The whole field is has mistaken byproducts for products.
Anna E. Clark@annaeclark.bsky.social · 2y agoThis is what's so baffling about so many suggestions for AI in the humanities classroom: they mistake the product for the point. Writing outlines and essays is important not because you need to make outlines and essays but because that's how you learn to think with/through complex ideas.
It’s happening!! After 5 long years away, Comic Arts LA is returning this weekend December 14-15th at 3015 Rosslyn St. LA, 90065. From 10AM to 5PM both days, FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC! www.comicartsla.com
The discourse about that paper on highly-rated AI poetry especially misses the point—because one of the greatest strengths of poetry is that it’s a person speaking to you intimately, illuminating a real experience you may have never seen anyone put words to before. Some pieces I’ve liked lately:
Oh I guess Bluesky has videos now and I didn’t even notice! Here’s my animation about eating my baby’s toes from a couple years back:
CALA is a 100% volunteer-run community show and we need your help to make the show happen! 🙏 If you're interested in volunteering to help out during the show in return for free lunch and a CALA volunteer T-shirt and everybody's gratitude, sign up here: forms.gle/DncVPWnKwPWo...
Sorry to be an internet shitpig again, but I dug a little to find out who’s running NaNoWriMo right now because that FAQ is full of grammatical errors, so it was clearly written with no oversight. It looks like the interim director Kilby Blades is pretty much the only person left at the office? 🧵
New from 404 Media: we did it, we figured out where the waves of AI-generated spam like Shrimp Jesus on Facebook are coming from. Creators in India, Vietnam and the Philippines learning from YouTube/Telegram guides, using Bing's image creator, making $ from Facebook www.404media.co/where-facebo...
Where Facebook's AI Slop Comes From
Facebook itself is paying creators in India, Vietnam, and the Philippines for bizarre AI spam that they are learning to make from YouTube influencers and guides sold on Telegram.
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Nashville, 2013, tour bus. Is this Claire who made the new Gaiman allegation on the podcast Am I Broken? Survivor Stories? open.spotify.com/episode/47en...
S4 Ep2 - Claire "I Ignored It and I Believed Him Because He's the Storyteller [Neil Gaiman]"
Episode · Am I Broken: Survivor Stories · Claire (she/her) uses a pseudonym to share her story about being groomed and sexually coerced and manipulated by world-renowned author Neil Gaiman. We discuss...
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Hannah@venneh.bsky.social · 2y agoHi, apologies, but trying to insert when I see people fretting about the terf podcast being a source. This is from a friend who’s indicated she’s ok with my sharing, isn’t associated with the terf podcast. And uh. This seems pretty cut and dry.
A comic about my Chinese parents who drive me absoluTELY BUGSHIT UP THE WALL when feeding my child AKSHGKHJSG;HJA www.newyorker.com/culture/cult...
Stop Stuffing the Kids Silly
But our parents have made up their minds—the grandchildren must be fed.
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"Being a brilliant writer does not elevate one above the common smallness of being a person." Brandon Taylor on Alice Munro is a must read blgtylr.substack.com/p/what-im-do...
what i'm doing about alice munro
why i hate art monster discourse
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I have seen multiple people say they do not like single source stories (by which they mean, instances where later stories are copied from another story), and this sticks in my craw for sexual assault stories, because this requires that victims of sexual assault speak to multiple reporters.
I want to add one more thing. My 20-year-old students, the moment I tell them they need to do something they anxiously go, “Oh no, oh no, you’re right, omg. Of course, totally. Totally!” And that’s me, a random adjunct teaching one of their classes, not a world famous writer who’s their boss.
Thank you!
Kathryn Tewson@kathryntewson.bsky.social · 2y agoI have listened to and transcribed the first episode of the Tortoise Media podcast series "The Allegations Against Neil Gaiman." This is NOT a certified transcript and should not be relied on for legal or journalistic purposes without confirming with original audio. drive.google.com/file/d/1Ql2b...
Guys, the podcast is available on Spotify/Apple Podcasts, and as infuriating as it is that Tortoise funnels you into their fucking podcast instead of providing the information clearly via text, you should listen to the nanny's first-hand account before being like "TERFs be lying."
In our new issue: Laura Preston attends an AI conference as its honorary contrarian speaker.
An Age of Hyperabundance | Laura Preston
Everyone at this conference kept invoking loneliness and claiming the antidote was conversation. That didn’t track with my own experience. My most desperate moments of loneliness have been in conversa...
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I did some layout analysis for different comics, and then I figured they’d probably be helpful for other people too. It’s really interesting how cartoonists can use different methods to create a sense of subjectivity or wrongness or slow time.
Whoops, a lot of cartoonists have probably moved over to Bluesky. Just FYI, CALA is back and accepting applications!
aeon.co/essays/your-... this article is fantastic and is basically the long version of this meme
Your brain does not process information and it is not a computer | Aeon Essays
Your brain does not process information, retrieve knowledge or store memories. In short: your brain is not a computer
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Matt Novak@paleofuture.bsky.social · 2y agoA good meme to send people who are convinced we live in a computer simulation.
I got really sucked into this video by münecat that debunks evopsych, but one thing I wanted to note is that the spatial reasoning/spatial modeling ability that men are allegedly (lol) stronger at is actually just a learned skill you get better at with practice, and I taught it in my class at USC… 🧵
I Debunked Evolutionary Psychology
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