Patrick Gerard

Patrick Gerard

@patrickgerard.bsky.social

Writer of comics. UNGROUNDED, with Tom Peyer, Brian Augustyn, Eryck Webb, and more. Master's degrees in Business and Storytelling. Bachelor's in Drama from Berry College. Did a panel at SDCC 2022 with Mark Waid, Humberto Ramos, and Brian Pulido. He/Him.

413 Followers 652 Following 1,233 Posts Joined May 2023
1 month ago

The "because" there is really optional.

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1 month ago
Headline from New York Post criticizing Mamdani snow shoveling photo op paired with J. Jonah Jameson meme saying "I want pictures of Zohran Mamdani"

Mamdani should collect a billionaire tax because he's living rent free in their heads, as the NY Post illustrates.

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1 month ago
Marco Rubio and Stephen Miller in a dimly lit Oval Office with a table full of cocktails, wearing furry attire. Pete Hegseth is dressed in rave attire between them. Marco Rubio and Stephen Miller in a well lit Oval Office wearing fur suits. Rubio grins while Miller looks stoic.

Which of these AI generated photos do you think more accurately reflects what meetings in the Oval Office look like?

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2 months ago

I suspect this will be a very live issue increasingly as chatbots detour conversations to sell Doritos that sponsors paid for scripted messages about.

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2 months ago

If the chatbot can say ANYTHING, the user is probably the "author". If it says specific scripted things from a company, the company is the author.

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2 months ago

In general, I'd think copyright is a fairly dead issue with an all purpose chatbot relative to other issues but if they were intentionally making the AI do things, that feels like it IDs a source. Such as making it deliver or not deliver a human written helpline warning.

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2 months ago

As a non-lawyer, I'd think that certain levels of training specialization might constitute intent. Wasn't there a thing where Meta was specifically training chatbots around predatory conversations to boost engagement, hooking users with a charismatic agent?

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2 months ago

In general, the rulings about AI copyright I am aware of deal entirely with near zero-intent AI, like giving a monkey a camera. It isn't that AI invalidates the formation of copyright but that you need some small, clear, demonstrable amount of intent.

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2 months ago

Chevy Chase is one of the greatest mimes of his generation. Shame he had to ruin it by breaking the most famous rule for mimes.

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2 months ago
"They say aspirin is good for thinning out the blood," Trump said. "I want nice, thin blood pouring through my heart." Pictures: Bruises on Trump's hands.

Conspiracy theory: Trump is trying to get pregnant with autistic babies.

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3 months ago

If he is attending these meetings while COVID infected and undergoing treatment, wouldn't that explain the IV bruising and the sleepiness?

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3 months ago

My speculation would be that he has long COVID or has had one or more unreported COVID infections (including possibly during this visit) which would lead to attempts at managing oxygen levels, particularly if he's going around unmasked and concealing COVID infections.

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3 months ago

Specifically my thought id the test you're describing sounds consistent to me as a layperson with investigating the circulation in his lungs (which may be normal) to try and identify why blood oxygen is low. Imagine unexplained low oxygen leading to testing.

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3 months ago

@drdavidbenjamin.bsky.social I just got around to your Trump imaging video. They injected him with dye but while they emphasize his CARDIOVASCULAR health is "normal" (normal doesn't preclude problems at 80; could be normal for his age and diet), they were looking at the whole abdomen.

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3 months ago
RFK Jr apparently drinking raw milk shots with Paul Saladino.

RFK Junior is working hard to secure that nomination for poet laureate for next year.

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3 months ago

Your satisfaction deserves no guarantee. It's buyer beware for you if you have wealth and the government you pay dues to spends it in a way that doesn't make you happy. If you think that the money you expend warrants happiness, go away. The rest of us use money to not die and get small dignity.

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3 months ago

And if you don't want to pay what you owe, take all that money and go somewhere else and don't do business or peddle influence here but I don't want to have to deal with people who "dine and dash", who take and pretend they shouldn't owe unless what they take makes them happy.

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3 months ago

Let me be explicit to the right: I do not want you to have that wedding, that extra car, that extra house, the voice and reach you have, what you want to do for your kids. I do not want that because the money in your accounts and portfolios is partly stolen money. You haven't paid what you owe.

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3 months ago

I am starting to think the phrase "far right" is becoming white noise because SO MUCH is far right. The far right agenda with delegitimizing science boils down to a personal profit motive. When they can't make money off schools or healthcare as much they want, they create "alternatives".

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3 months ago

I am starting to think the phrase "far right" is becoming white noise because SO MUCH is far right. The far right agenda with delegitimizing science boils down to a personal profit motive. When they can't make money off schools or healthcare as much they want, they create "alternatives".

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5 months ago
An image of Ben Shapiro climbing a staircase with an obviously doctored shirt that says "BODY BY DAILY WIRE".

The most enhanced-est.

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5 months ago

I don't think Colloquial Malice is part of the defamation standard. Yet.

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6 months ago
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Here are some things that Charlie Kirk said in his life.

The man is dead, and so it only seems fair to share his legacy by cataloguing the values he spread while alive.

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6 months ago

Honestly, I don't understand her being just 18 when FRANKLIN RICHARDS aged like 12 years between her first appearance and this. Like I'm pretty much pathologically opposed to not (slowly) aging characters. But this is also one of 72 reasons why Logan is probably on the Epstein list.

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6 months ago
Newsweek

Trump Ally Charlie Kirk Suggests Children Should Watch Public Executions

FEB 24, 2024 AT 12:49 PM

Charlie Kirk literally believed that children should be forced to watch public executions. he was an evil & repugnant man without worth or value.

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6 months ago

like i'm sorry but a guy who went around talking to college freshmen asking them to "change his mind" isn't one of our great political thinkers. he was a grifting podcaster

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6 months ago
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On events in Utah and elsewhere: It is all the same I see people calling out the shocking and sudden violence in Utah earlier today and placing it into a context with other physically violent attempts to silence speech or expression.

open.substack.com/pub/patrickg...

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6 months ago
YouTube
It's Saul Wonderful Life - The Alternate Ending to BETTER CALL SAUL YouTube video by Patrick Gerard

youtu.be/8d_ZP_ESMNc?...

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7 months ago
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Also featuring a Chronic Venous Insufficiency design!

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7 months ago

#Trump #Epstein #WashingtonCommanders

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