Andrea

The AI bubble is so big it's propping up the US economy (for now) Plus how American professors are fighting back against the AI onslaught, a backlash over AI models in Vogue, and more.

Analysts show that capital expenditures on AI were so big over the last 6 months they added more to the GDP than *all consumer spending*. That growth is offsetting pain from the tariffs and slow job growth.

So the AI bubble may be propping up the whole US economy. What happens if and when it pops?

Booooooo

Screenshot of the smoke levels around the greater Seattle metro area. Ranging from 59 to 98, they’re not ideal!!

Friends and foes coming to Worldcon, please be aware that Seattle’s smoke season is officially underway. Don’t leave your masks at home!

A cartoon of a pink labubu with rainbow text reading “feelin’ fabubulous”

Don’t hate me cuz I’m bubu-eautiful 😌

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some new photos of the thicker butter pads :) store is still open and i'll close on Aug 8 to focus on more stuff!! thank you for the support this round as always, it means a lot 🥹

🧈 nautikalmiles.com

I have no idea, just saw it at a restaurant with no artist name or source!

Such a cute baby!!

🪱 Another one where you have to grab worms
🐦 A game for people who like pigeons and hate their friends
🦀 A game about crabs!
📚 Two games where you work in a library and/or organize books
🐦‍⬛ A card game about corvids

And that seems to get the point across! 😝

Trying to explain what games I bought this weekend, and I don’t remember the names so I’m just describing them:
🐓 A game about chickens
🍄 A board game about fungi
🍪 A card game about cookies
🍖 A game where you have to use chopsticks to put meat on a grill
🥚 One where you collect dragon eggs

Shing!! Bug!! You two look so cozy!

It’s a diagram of a potato, with markings for each type of food you can make! Similar to a drawing of a cow with different cuts.

@darthbluesky.bsky.social This potato print seems like something you’d appreciate!

Omg these are great, I’ve gotta share them with my niece!

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“Today, people find it easier to imagine that we can build intelligence on silicon than we can do democracy at scale, or that we can escape arms races. It’s complete bullshit. Of course we can do democracy at scale. We’re a naturally social, altruistic, democratic species and we all have an anti-dominance intuition. This is what we’re built for.”

Thank you! Yes!!

Cool cool cool cool cool…

Totally valid, I appreciate you sharing your feelings as a vendor. It’s definitely something I’ve encountered when I’ve worked as an exhibitor as well! And I’ll definitely pass that along to other event planners I know (as a former one myself I’m sure I’m guilty as well 😓)

I’ll send you an email with information!

Oh noooooo!!!

If you can afford to put people in jail for being homeless, you can afford to just give homes to people who need them.

Can I ask what contact method you’d prefer instead, for people organizing events they think you’d be a good fit for?

Agh!! This is so good!!

Omg these photos!!! 🤣

She recently had her ID updated to reflect her accurate gender, but I’m sure there are other potential issues, and I’d like to offer her info from people who’ve traveled to Indianapolis from out of state, if possible!

I have a friend who desperately wants to attend Gen Con, and having been to the event I think she’d have an awesome time.
She’s justifiably worried about flying to Indiana because it’s not the safest state for trans people, and I’m wondering if anyone at #GenCon this year could offer advice.

can't get this song out of my heeeaaadddd heeeelllpppp🚇

For any artists dealing with adult content bans, I want to encourage you to get involved in the sex worker rights movement. While illustration is not the same as sex work, we share many of the same struggles, and our fights will be stronger if we collaborate.

I’d love to work with you on this! Maybe @whitesquirrel.com could fulfill US orders for you?

“AI is coming to take our jobs” no it isn’t. It’s a CEO named Gary taking some shitty advice from a VC who has never had a real job in their life, trying to maximise their quarterly earnings by firing as many people as they can get away with to make number go up, and it isn’t sustainable

I got mad about AI so I made this comic about The Fucking Point of it all (1/7)