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Yes! Exactly!
or seeing only Harrods.
they should try to survive a week in Yakutsk.

well written, good points about him. He's like a living, breathing internet troll, who has never experienced anything outside of his bubble. Maybe he should actually visit russia which he loves so much? not a city tho, small town, it's what he wants for everyone, right? squishy little myopic man.

I am, thanks! it just struck me as something true, authentic and human. In that awful landscape of "content" and AI slop suddenly something real. No one else but you could've made it and you decided to share it. seriously, made my day. (I'm also curious now how Nigerian Guiness tastes like haha)

somehow this was the comic i needed to see today, thank you. one never know how the things we do can influence others

Don't give them ideas!
very intriguing, would read it further:)

my first film memory is actually of *that scene*
it's hard to believe how old it is and yet how relevant (and how well made and still powerful)

i dont really like doing this, but i am still waiting for multiple invoices to go through so if anyone would like to purchase a print, a single character commission, or just throw me a couple bucks… it would be deeply appreciated.

ko-fi.com/carsonthorn
www.inprnt.com/gallery/cars...

Lynda Barry's books are life-changing and a must have!

Ridiculous. Especially that *for decades* playing DnD was "reserved" for cishet males. Finding a group that wouldn't be sexist was hard af. and if someone was queer? Good luck! now it's possible to play comfortably whoever you are and whatever character you chose - and this is a problem?

most of these headlines are disgraceful and not factual, but I would pay attention to those newspapers who got it right and support them. i think it will be beneficial in the long run

A digital drawing of a squished guy looking up and pointing. There is text that reads 'Hey wow. Look at this!'

#3169 I can only hope whatever is above this is worth drawing attention to.

damn. Soon companies will use crappy AI to "design" clothes. Can't wait for t-shirts with hole for the third arm...

It's Small Business Saturday! And I run a small business! Here's a little rundown of what I've got . . .

In fact, we could probably get a fair amount of these gains with smaller, more focused models, and/or models *not controlled by corporate entities*, so the overall damage to our world would be minimized. But boosters like you will never see that.

They probably have never cooked a meal in their life...

Great interview!!

"It turns out that when you withdraw discipline from firms, when they don't face consequence for being bad to you, and when you reward them for doing bad things, bad things occur. This is a thing that is obvious to everyone except for the policymakers.."

This is a beautiful notebook!

Hilariously on point
"The idea that if you keep teaching the word guessing program more words it will wake up..
It's like the idea If you keep breeding horses to run faster and faster, one of them will give birth to a locomotive. Humans aren't word guessing programs."

'Slop Evader' Lets You Surf the Web Like It’s 2022 Artist Tega Brain is fighting the internet’s enshittification by turning back the clock to before ChatGPT existed.

Slop Evader is a tool from artist and researcher Tega Brain that lets you search the web for results exclusively before November 30, 2022—the day that ChatGPT was released to the public.

I've made about $17k all year, INCLUDING my adjunct teaching job.

There is this idea that anyone working in the arts has wealthy family help, and sure some do, but a lot of us are simply poor. If you enjoy someone's work please pay them for it. It is not greedy to want to be paid for your labor.

Wishing him all the best and quick recovery!

I think so - in the ideas of who the knight is, that there should be sacrifice for the 'greater cause'. definitely more alive in French literature (and in local European stories). Of course Arthurian myths are more popular than its French counterpart:)

and Song of Roland

Motifs of vengeance, unfair treatment, oppressive system etc:

The Count of Monte Cristo
Les Miserables

How Should the Art World Handle the Dark Legacy of Viennese Actionist and Convicted Sex Offender Otto Muehl? His Victims Have a Few Ideas One of the most prominent figures in the legacy of Viennese Actionism, Otto Muehl was also a convicted abuser.

one can be the one of the worst human beings and art world will still treat his art as worthwhile, even though it was sexist and plainly bad.

Ukraine was never yours to sell and never will be.

Yup, whole Europe's GDP is like astronomically high (17 trillion € or smth) which is many many times more than russia's .
it is tho europe's fault that they are unable to project, or rather show their strength and are letting trump behave like he actually is a king

^this

they are not as rich as trump an co seems to think.
Treating them as 'having all the cards' is just stupid

Usually, residency isn't required to obtain a marriage license in an EU country.

So what today's EU's supreme court ruling does is put Eastern EU (and 🇮🇹) in the same gay marriage category as 🇮🇱.

All explained here: davekeating.substack.com/p/the-eu-jus...

Is Alexa and Siri conscious?
is your stuffed toy that says "hello" conscious?