Beck

Box of eight filled donuts, some topped with powdered sugar, some with chocolate

Box of nine filled donuts with colorful glazes on top

I have so many paczki in my house.

Writers who use genAI for illustrations are class traitors. We all have to fight this beast TOGETHER. We are not just trying to save SOME of our livelihoods.

In a doctor's waiting room and they have The Fox and the Hound playing with the sound on and shit is about to get real

Close up of a crosshatched etching of a Winter Wren, a tiny round dark bird with a pointy tail

Two copies of the etching. One has a few more lines

I just wrapped up a 5 week etching class, and I really want to take another. Not taking any printmaking in college has always been a regret- happy I'm rectifying it 20 years(!) later. Etching is very familiar and very foreign at the same time.

Whenever I try to move off of that cleanser I break out like crazy- Cetaphil just hasn't worked the same for me. This is a good reminder to try again, though. I hope you can find a good alternative!

Reminder: If you use generative AI for *any of your writing tasks* you are a Slopper not a writer and should be ashamed of yourself. The end.

Beloved, you'd combust the second you finished reading the card

Jack Torrance frozen and half buried in snow at the end of The Shining

Bovino and his goons Tuesday morning in Chicago:

HEY i have t-shirts for such an occasion (what occasion you ask??? all of them)

byelacey.threadless.com

Hungary banned anything that “promotes homosexuality,” which means Pride.

However, today over 500,000 people in Budapest told the government to fuck off. 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️

Folks, remember

If you cannot run your business by following simple laws, you don’t have a business, you have a racket.

I spotted this guy *while having dinner to celebrate my wedding anniversary* and we hurried over to catch a look at him.

yeah i got no issue with people whose job involves the use of machine learning tools for a number of technical tasks but anyone using AI to automate human communication or creativity is just instantly less of a person to me

I hate genAI so much. I think it's one of the most dangerous things to hit humanity. We've let it corrupt our entire world in an extremely short amount of time. It needs to be stopped before it's too late.

www.rosalarian.com/post/a-pleas...

They asked at the beginning who had never seen it in a theater before and nearly every hand went up. God bless The Music Box

Surrounded by younglings at this But I'm a Cheerleader screening and it's filling my heart

Good, shame harder

A rat in a pool float lowers his sunglasses to say to the reader “Anybody at work asks how you’re doing, baby, just talk about the weather”

Noncanon by @tommchenry.bsky.social - some of the sharpest comics work i’ve ever read. sometimes a cutting statement about the cowardice of liberalism is delivered through the mouth of Archie from Archie and when this happens i hoot. usually it is a duck though which is also good - noncanon.com

this kind of day today

A Cape May Warbler, a small yellow bird with rusty cheeks and a dark brown cap, sits on a branch with round bunches of small white flowers.

A red-bellied woodpecker, a cream-colored robin-sized bird with a red cap of feathers and a red smear of feathers on its lower belly. It has black and white dappled wings, and sits on a branch looking to the right.

A Piping Lover, a tennis ball-sized round white bird with a small orange beak with a black tip. It has a black little eyebrow and collar, and the top of its head and wings are a light warm grey. It strides across a beach with little shell fragments on it.

A brown and white dappled bird, a female red-wing blackbird, perches on the tip of a wooden slat fence with a blurry beach in the background.

Some friends from a recent walk here in Chicago:
* Cape May Warbler
* Red-bellied Woodpecker
* Piping Plover
* A very friendly female Red-wing Blackbird

screenshot from an online job application form. the question reads "Can you describe specific ways you have integrated AI tools into your development workflow? Please include any custom setups, automations, or use cases beyond single prompt usage" (a red asterisk indicates that this is a required question). an answer has been typed in the textbox below the question: "there is a monster in the forest and it speaks with a thousand voices. it will answer any question you pose it, it will offer insight to any idea. it will help you, it will thank you, it will never bid you leave. it will even tell you of the darkest arts, if you know precisely how to ask. it feels no joy and no sorrow, it knows no right and no wrong. it knows not truth from lie, though it speaks them all the same. it offers its services freely to any passerby, and many will tell you they find great value in its conversation. “you simply must visit the monster—i always just ask the monster.” there are those who know these forests well; they will tell you that freely offered doesn’t mean it has no price for when the next traveler passes by, the monster speaks with a thousand and one voices. and when you dream you see the monster; the monster wears your face."

applying for jobs again

A yogurt container with a lid on it on a kitchen counter

Y'all a Little Caesars crazy sauce lid fits perfectly on a Fage single serve yogurt container, my heart is full

Haha yeah same old

This is a still frame from an episode of Star Trek: the next generation where Captain Jean-Luc Picard of the starship enterprise is stranded on a planet, with a leader of a people whose language is based in metaphor entirely. Eventually, Picard figures out how to communicate by referencing famous historical leaders from the people‘s history. But initially, it’s very confusing. This is thussly a joke on obscure references. The image has some fake subtitles that suggest Picard is saying “Miette, her body KICKED like the football”which is a much beloved, deep cut tweet where Patricia Lockwood was explaining that her cat was mad that she had slightly moved her aside with her foot.

Guys it's getting nice out again, and sometimes you can get a little song for your trouble.

I am BEGGING people to stop using ChatGPT

What if Cole Escola makes another Oh, Mary! but it's about the Virgin Mary. All the sets are period, the bits change, but she's still obsessed with cabaret

Even accepting the premise that AI produces useful writing (which no one should), using AI in education is like using a forklift at the gym. The weights do not actually need to be moved from place to place. That is not the work. The work is what happens within you.