Jaime

What is Nick Shirley? Slop doesn’t need to be AI-generated

The violent occupation of Minneapolis started with a vlog. I've wanted to find a framework to describe Nick Shirley & others like him: "Influencer" is too quaint. "Journalist" is obviously wrong.

I landed on "slopagandist."

Gift link (open in a web browser) www.theverge.com/news/869824/...

Hell yeah now that's a juicy update

Sounds like a good punchline to a Beetle Moses strip (I imagine something like this)

One page vibe test for a story.

Happy New Year! May the next one be better than the last.

Congrats!

Cover mockup for a story idea about demons in a city

When you get into that flow state

America’s Polarization Has Become the World's Side Hustle The 'psyops' revealed by X are entirely the fault of the perverse incentives created by social media monetization programs.

X's location "transparency" feature showing many MAGA accounts are based internationally reveals what we already knew: The world is using American social media and American politics as a slot machine and social media companies are directly incentivizing this:

www.404media.co/americas-pol...

A video shows inside the secret airplane bedrooms where flight attendants sleep on long-haul flights A new video takes viewers into the secret crew rest area on an American Airlines 787 Dreamliner that's hidden above the passengers.

Some planes apparently have a hidden rest area for the crew to lie down.
www.businessinsider.com/video-secret...

Air Canada must honor refund policy invented by airline’s chatbot Air Canada appears to have quietly killed its costly chatbot support.

Reminds me of the Air Canada case where a customer got them to honor a made up refund policy by the AI but only after months of back and forth and legal intervention. Some insane arguments made by the airline before they lost.
arstechnica.com/tech-policy/...

What a thoughtful fella keeping the floor clean

Neocities hell yeah

If it's a talking heads scene I like Wally Wood's 22 panels for some quick inspiration. I also like the advice to have characters doing some other activity while talking to convey more through their body language and actions

We can all dream...

Death comes for us all in many forms

The Cracker Barrel Hype(rreality) Simulation and Simulacrum in America

Baudrillard continues his relevance. This essay may be of interest:
www.unpopularfront.news/p/the-cracke...

YouTube video by Louie Zong Church of Whale Fall

Always a treat to see his stuff. I also enjoy his videos. Still think of the Church of Whale Fall from time to time
m.youtube.com/watch?v=rwWb...

Looks like pupitar is blasting off again

ja.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E6%B9%...

Explosive girl

The layout design is aggressively hostile to anything that isn't short and readable at a small size. Anything fancier than a 4 panel grid is going to face an uphill battle. And then there are the weird quirks like posts getting shown again but starting from the second image. A lot to adapt to

The spirit of Werehound lives on

Remember to keep the spirit of dance alive in these trying times
#makeaterriblecomicday2025

Skating on thin ice