Andrew James

Turns out, 6 months was optimistic

The Case Against Generative AI Soundtrack: Queens of the Stone Age - First It Giveth Before we go any further: This is, for the third time this year, the longest newsletter I've ever written, weighing in somewhere around 18,500 wo...

Newsletter: This is The Case Against Generative AI, a comprehensive analysis of a financial collapse built on myths I’ll dispel, the markets’ unhealthy obsession with NVIDIA's growth, and the fact that there is not enough money in the world to fund OpenAI.
www.wheresyoured.at/the-case-aga...

in related news i'm excited to announce that i'm selling sam altman's house unless he asks me not to

These scripts are GREAT and these calls are EASY and ESSENTIAL. Call your senators and reps today and tell them to vote against ANY bill that contains cuts to trans health care.

#DidThisToday

Just fuck off with this. How about start the conversation by highlighting how much immigrants contribute to the UK - not least by propping up the NHS and social care system!

Also - forced volunteering is not volunteering, it's unpaid labour.

If scrapping indefinite leave to remain (ILR) entirely, as Reform would do, is racist, according to Labour, what is making ILR twice as difficult, expensive & humiliating to obtain, as Labour are doing?

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A blissed-out looking brown-black cat, Havoc, with feet extended, is reaching a possessive paw over the hand that is scritching her tummy.

Havoc hopes everything goes brilliantly!

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A cartoon of myself against a photographed background. I’m approaching a big box from Penguin Random House placed on my dining room table.

I’m now kneeling over the box on the floor on top of a rug in front of my couch, preparing to open the box

I’m now jubilantly hopping around with a copy of my book in my hand, a slightly crazed look on my face.

My cartoon hand holds a copy of Angelica and the Bear Prince, cartoon stars and sparkles around it

I hate unboxing videos. HOWEVER, I am a CARTOONIST. So.

It's a NEW feature

Fun fact: this is how Spock defeats the Enterprise's computer in the classic Star Trek episode "Wolf In The Fold"

Or point out that Farage wants to reduce and remove all our rights, not just immigrants. His mendacity already helped strip us of our rights to travel, live, and work freely in Europe. The country is poorer and less powerful, because of policies he agitates for. Also immigration is good 👍

WEVE BEEN TRYING TO TELL YOU THIS FOR MONTHS, ABSOLUTE MONTHS, THIS IS ACROSS THE BOARD, EVERYTHING YOU USE IT FOR THAT ISNT PURE DATA CRUNCHING, IT SUCKS THE WILL AND ABILITY RIGHT OUT OF YOU

Just because diagnoses of mental ill health or neurodivergence have increased, it does not follow they are incorrect. Gee, people are being diagnosed with bad mental health post-pandemic? Weird, did anything huge and damaging happen that might account for that? brb just googling 'the pandemic'

We're back!! 💖 This is the epilogue to Chapter 8 before we get into Chapter 9-- if you need a refresher, you can find convenient links in the blog post below the comic!

Ending mail-in voting will disenfranchise all Americans living abroad, including the votes of military and diplomats. But sure, let’s just pretend like there are problems with mail-in voting, which there are not, to appease an unreasonable man who is using this as a pretense to end democracy.

My product is so good you guys we have to literally monitor everyone using it in case it drives them to psychosis or suicide. It only costs $100 billion to operate per quarter but don’t worry there is no road to profit

This is the service that Starmer's government considered buying for £2bn so that everyone in the UK could use it for free, while introducing draconian age verification for everything else to "protect children".

I don't know if you've still got the ol' Photoshop Action Andy set up to sort the Total Area Coverage ink levels on CMYK files, but that was also another pre press thing I had *zero* idea about. Don't know how relevant it is for solo publishing though!

That and, always save the 300-600dpi version of your working files, not just the finished 72dpi flat ones. Learned that myself the hard way, many many years ago...

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This was doing the rounds again last week: www.tumblr.com/mckelvie/167...

I'm sure you already have loads more detail, but a para with 'here's what bleed is, and why you always need at least 5mm of it on each side for print purposes' would save the lives of several webcomic > print artists.

I play *jazz music* and I’m able to gather more people than some of these, on a weeknight. It’s honestly a joke. The uk press are reporting a wag-the-dog style Fake War. Truly remarkable.

Ed Zitron's Where's Your Ed At The Words of Ed Zitron, a PR person and writer.

Tomorrow I am putting out one of my favourite things ever: a 14,000+ word guide to arguing with AI boosters, comprehensively responding to both their types of arguments and the arguments themselves, free on wheresyoured.at

Just for perspective, a few weeks ago roughly 100,000 turned up for the London Trans+ Pride march. By contrast fewer than 3,000 ACROSS THE WHOLE COUNTRY, have turned up to anti-asylum "protests". Yet we are meant to take the latter as "the voice of the people" and the former as "the minority".

cover of GEEZER 3 comic book, with a big "OUT NOW!" splash, and a URL: offregister.press/geezer

if you're into comics about imaginary Britpop bands fucking it up in the early 90s, but missed out on the GEEZER 3 kickstarter - GOOD NEWS! GEEZERs 1 2 and 3 are now available directly through www.offregister.press/geezer
we will be promoting this further.

The fact that the thing we're calling artificial intelligence *can't do math* and yet we're jamming it into programs that successfully *have done math* for decades, then warning people against using the AI to do math, seems like an excellent summary of where we are.

#all50rts Day 42

Eels - Fresh Feeling (2001)

We nearly had this as our first dance at our wedding. Eels get a bit of an undeserved pasting as awkward beardy holey-cardigan types, and they're that too, but sometimes E is just a frictionless conduit for the transfer of love

youtu.be/gNvhvI59YX0

CITY animates everything, everywhere, all at once The fifth episode of this ambitious anime breaks the on-screen image into multiple moving parts.

I'm sick today, but know what else is sick? CITY: The Animation.

Here's @kambole.bsky.social on it for re:frame #4:

It’s one thing to individualise a systemic issue, but to do it when you’re actively courting and encouraging some of the worst offenders to make things worse…

Unbelievably tone deaf.