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Will AI destroy humanity before GWAR gets the chance?
GWAR Hates AI
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Some people see the LA River and think of Grease or Terminator 2. Others are reminded of Jackass.
The Jackass Guide to LA
Nothing shows the streets of Los Angeles as they really are quite like Jackass
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Do you have memories of Taix in Echo Park? An art show at Gallery Luisotti features work from six contemporary artists, all focused on the end of the restaurant’s 99-year history.
Big Taix
Sometimes grief will surprise you
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This week is your last chance to check out the Laura Aguilar show at the Huntington
Laura Aguilar Is Out There
There is a landscape. It is the desert. Not the sandy desert. Rocks. I see cracks and shapes. I see boulders. One of them is not a boulder. It is a human. A nude human. A nude human with a crack.…
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Relatedly: Your regular reminder that Waymo - unlike human drivers! - does not pay a fine in CA when it commits a moving violation!
David Zipper@davidzipper.bsky.social · 3w agoThis is due to Waymo's business choices, not technical challenges. Waymo could tell its cars not to park illegally (or block bike lanes), but that might annoy riders. Want Waymo to follow the law? Either use automatic cameras w/steep fines or make future permits contingent on better behavior.
We channeled our inner @davidzipper.bsky.social and wrote about antisocial autonomous vehicles
Honking at Waymos
The future is not written, and don't let anyone hoping to profit tell you otherwise
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We chatted with the artist painting those Trump piggies on the Santa Monica Freeway
Trump Pigs on the 10 Freeway
Like many folks, I sank into a hole two Novembers ago. I’m not saying I was hiding in that hole, but I slid far enough down in there that I might as well have been. Eventually I began climbing back…
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Sunday is your last chance to check out the Semiotext(e) bookshelf residency at ICA LA
Linguistic Turning
I can’t stop reading. That’s not meant to be a boast about bibliophagy. No, I can go weeks without cracking a book. What I mean is, if I see words, especially words in Roman script, I am going to see…
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Where did Santa Monica cursive come from? Why did Weldon J. Fulton use it on so many of his buildings?
Santa Monica Cursive
It loops, because it’s cursive and that’s what cursive does, but it doesn’t stay between the lines, instead climbing up, up to the end of the word. It’s Santa Monica cursive, and you can see it on the...
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