Brad Walker

Robin Williams' daughter has some quality thoughts on AI slop

Okay, but were you ever thinking about her hymen?

In a year of very weird sentences…that’s the weirdest sentence I’ve ever seen.

Not even the point, but bullshit. He absolutely fucking saw it.

Politico: Democrats are demanding Republicans negotiate a bipartisan stopgap spending measure. Among their asks is for the GOP to extend certain Affordable Care Act subsidies, which were expanded by Congress in 2021 and are due to sunset at the end of the year. President Donald Trump on Thursday blamed Democrats for making “unserious and ridiculous” demands, foreshadowing what is likely to be the go-to talking point should neither side blink ahead of the Tuesday night deadline. “He read all the shit they’re asking for, and he said, ‘on second thought, go fuck yourself,’” the White House official said.

If you’re worried about losing your health care, apparently Trump has a message for you:

Indie director Barbara Marques has been kidnapped by ICE. She is legally married to a U.S. citizen & was at a green card mtg when she was abducted and prevented from seeing her lawyer. Her husband Tucker May does not know where she is. Please spread the word so he can find her /1

Oh, I very much DO get hung up on penciller/inker combos, and this is a great one. In an age where everybody’s inking themselves, this specific kind of chemistry feels like a lost art.

So. Religion was wrong, again.

Available Balance -$49.25

Welp. My family's bank account is negative. It'll be at least a month or more before my book advance arrives. If anyone wants a signed Bowie book or wants to subscribe to my movie Patreon at the $5 level, now would be a great time. Thanks!

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Load up your favorite film or TV show. Pause the show 5 times and take a screenshot. Now look at the costumes and background design elements for each shot and understand how someone had to research the design and build something that made sense in the world of the show…

Kids would read more American comics if they were encouraged to crumple, tear, throw them in backpacks and generally beat the hell out of them. Big advantage of manga and scholastic ogns is that they’re sturdy and no adult is telling you to delicately put them in a plastic sleeve in a cool dark box.

Tweet from Dan Satterfield Ok, I keep getting asked about how to complain about Kimmel. The best way to complain that will have the biggest impact? See if you have a Sinclair or nexstar station in your area. 2. Watch the local newscast tonight or some time this week. 3. Note the companies that bought tv adverts. 4. Call them and let them know you will boycott them until they quit supporting that media company. Trust me. I worked in tv for 45 years. Nothing you do will have greater impact.

and a retired meteorologist shall lead us

I don't think it's overdramatic to say that we must consider whether we want "working artist" to be a viable prospect in the near future, and how to materially protect the field from corporations, execs, and managers all too happy to automate creative production with AI.

Artists are losing work, wages, and hope as bosses and clients embrace AI Visual artists, illustrators and graphic designers share their stories about how AI is being used to lower wages, degrade work and even replace it altogether, in this installment of AI Killed My Job.

Freelance illustration gigs drying up. Ad agencies using Midjourney instead of hiring human artists. Costume design turned over to AI wholesale. Good work vanishing.

These are the stories of working visual artists, who describe losing jobs, wages, and hope as their clients and bosses embrace AI.

Fuck me this is bleak.
But please, do continue to use GenAI slop thumbnails for your YouTube videos, or your album art, or your book covers or whatever else. I'll continue to refuse to watch/listen/read any of them, knowing already they're not worth the time & that you're a disappointing lazy hack.

Pardon me, but while MAGA and Trump may want to use it that way, we don't need to let them.

I think it is absolutely the case that Trump aspires to be something like a fascist dictator, I said so last October.

But we are not powerless and they have not won yet.

I walked 18 blocks to get my teeth cleaned today, an appointment I rescheduled twice because it costs me $275, out of pocket. On the way down, alone, I got asked for money by 3 homeless people, in a relatively affluent neighborhood. So…

Seems kinda unrealistic that everybody is going, “Release the Epstein files” considering we’re shouting it at the guy who’s IN the files. “Give me the evidence to bury you!” Shouldn’t it be something like, “Somebody HACK the Epstein files!”?

Listen to me:

Our profit from the post office is the post office.
Our profit from a library is the library.
Our profit from a school is the school.
And our profit from our lives is life.
Our life. Ours.

Please god learn the difference between "This isn't good" and "This isn't for me, or something I enjoy"

Every artist I’ve ever known has this itch to create that won’t go away until they create. They have to do it.

It’s why I know the “finally, someone like me can make art” AI users are full of shit. What they really mean is “finally, a way to get social media likes without hard work”.

important to reiterate from time to time:

"artificial intelligence" does not exist.

there is no sentient artificial being. no threepio. no demerzel. no terminator.

what the tech publicists call "a.i." is just big, crappy databases and mindless and often incorrect autocorrect.

Really enjoying @markwaid.bsky.social & co.'s The New History of the DC Universe. Read #2 this morning, and from @allredmd.bsky.social & @iambradwalker.bsky.social's artwork to the piecing together of the DCU's grand story from multiple eras and sources, it's excellent comic book. #dccomics

Every artist deserves to be able to paywall all their art in a setup that would earn them a living wage, from an ideally financially-healthy supporter-base.

But we love art and communication and sharing so much we do it for free. Which has caused society (especially tech) to devalue art as labor.

The biggest trick the devil ever pulled is to call LLMs “artificial intelligence.”

They’re worried about this one, particular form of harming children. Yet…

Oof. What the fuck.