Thurgood Martial

An art lesson

Steve Lieber giving some invaluable art advice to a young artist at Comic Con Nebraska

the argument that AI in the context of art is “just a tool” completely elides the fact that the point of art is to participate in the fucking process of making it

Good Devils Dont Play Fair With Evil #1 From Nick Dragotta (East of West, Absolute Batman) and David Brothers (Time Waits) comes three tales that hit like a truck.

Starting tomorrow, me and @nickdragotta.bsky.social are gonna do our best to convince you to get our one-shot Good Devils: Don’t Play Fair With Evil when it drops on 10/1. It collects three self-pubbed stories.
We’re a great interview. Very charming and funny.
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My mom sent me three cards for my birthday, on purpose, each with a different small denomination of money in it totaling my current age, because she is both a legend and one of a kind.

I was the only black kid in the majority of my classes at my art school. There was like… one other black girl and guy. In my classes I teach now I can say clearly that we are still extremely few and far between

He stays hesitating.

I think about this dude and about Thane from Mass effect, and the article where they went to women to help design him and were like SHOCKED about the character that resulted Lmao

Magenta flowers in a glass mug on a table. (I'm sorry I can't remember what kind of flowers these are.)

You can just buy flowers. It doesn't even need to be a special occasion.

Donate to Need Rental Car. Our Car Broke Down. Again., organized by Diane Barker Well friends, I did not want to find myself back here only three short months… Diane Barker needs your support for Need Rental Car. Our Car Broke Down. Again.

In April our car was totaled by an impaired driver. With the help of the community we were able to secure a new vehicle that only needed to last six months. Turns out the car we chose only wanted to last half that, so we're once again turning to the community for some help.

gofund.me/90494b43

THIS IS BULLSHIT!

In Review: It’s Not Too Late for the Movies to Reject AI A dramatic week in the AI wars made it clear that the future is far from lost, and that we can't afford to fight for it on the tech community's terms.

this got at a lot of my feelings on this:

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Ban "A.i."

Seriously. This is part of the fascist project of thickly layering every single aspect of society with bullshit so reality and truth are entirely controllable by billionaires and oligarchs.

Ban that shit. It's fascist trash.

Nothing much to see here, just an orderly winding down of the American project

Black and white photo of groundbreaking Black American cartoonist, Jackie Ormes, standing in front of a page of her comics including Torchy Brown.

American rapper and founding member of Public Enemy, Chuck D, posing with his fist towards the camera.

The MTV (Music Television) logo with a yellow M and a red TV.

Black and white photo of gay American author, Herman Melville, in profile.

Shout out to some of the birthday twins.

Limited edition benefit shirt for World Central Kitchen from Bikini Kill Limited edition benefit shirt for World Central Kitchen from Bikini Kill

just fyi for t-shirt lovers, Bikini Kill is selling a one-day-only shirt to benefit World Central Kitchen's work in Gaza today:

An Oglaf comic strip, "Princess Party." Panel 1: The princess, dressed in pink and with a tiara, is asked by her father the king, "Well, princess, soon you turn five. What would you like for a present?" Panel 2: The princess responds, "Troops." Panel 3: The child princess leads her army into battle wielding a star-tipped wand. Panel 4: They ransack a petting zoo. Panel 5: And a sweets shop. Panel 6: They celebrate their conquests... Panel 7: ...before her troops are decimated by a wave of arrows. Panel 8: She looks across a battlefield at a rival child princess in a green dress and fairy wings with her own troops. Panel 9: The rival princess glowers. Panel 10: A year later the king asks his daughter, "What would you like for your sixth birthday?" And the princess responds, "Assassins." https://www.oglaf.com/princessparty/

Time once again for this Oglaf comic.

DuckDuckGo now lets you hide AI-generated images in search results | TechCrunch DuckDuckGo's new search feature comes as the internet is being flooded with AI-generated slop.

HEY GUYS

RARE GOOD NEWS
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Christ. Is this where we are?

I think maybe this is where we are.

We’re SO close to cracking 200 reviews on Spirit Swap! and I know it’s silly, but please if you’ve played it, PLEASE leave us a short and honest review.
1) it helps w/ discoverability
2) it helps with just knowing what worked and what didn’t, and we made changes in the upcoming update bcz of them!

For io9, I interviewed trio of game developers about their respective projects and their shared love for Scavengers Reign, the cult sci-fi animated series created by Joseph Bennett and Charles Huettner.

"But no wasps were found."

did a radioactive wasp write this?

100% normal, yes.

Not that anyone particularly needs my opinion on this, but Dems really, really need to remove whoever is advising them to throw transgender people under the bus.

Writing taglines for movie posters.

just fyi if you are a writer who is both a) willing to move to China and b) at all competent, you have an exceptionally good chance of being considered for this role. this is a Real Writing Job, and very stable work

Lots of great selections on this shortlist, including several comics (and not just in the comics category)!

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TALK TO AN ACTUAL HUMAN FRIEND WHO IS NOT A GLORIFIED AUTOCOMPLETE BUTTON

Fucking lifetime appointment too.

When I hear about UCLA making this settlement today, I keep thinking of UCLA failing to stop this mob attacking pro-Palestinian demonstrators for hours and hours in May 2024.

www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/5/...