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If you’re looking for proof that magical places still exist, I ask you to simply walk into your local library.

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Empire of AI: Inside the reckless race for total domina… When longtime AI expert and journalist Karen Hao first …

www.goodreads.com/book/show/23...

Empire of AI: Inside the reckless race for total domination by Karen Hao

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Title: Where writers really get their ideas. A writer, holding a note in his outstretched hand approaches a cart in the park. The front of the cart reads 'Fresh ideas' and a colourful umbrella shades the server who is reaching deep into the body of the cart (much as an ice-cream vendor might) and saying: "I'm all out of mind-blowing concepts and heart-rending narratives, but I've got an acerbic observation, an unexpected outcome and a couple of amusing notions."

My cartoon for the books page in this week’s @theguardian.com

Empire of AI: Inside the reckless race for total domina… When longtime AI expert and journalist Karen Hao first …

www.goodreads.com/book/show/23...

Empire of AI: Inside the reckless race for total domination by Karen Hao

reading progress: p. 227 (45%)

Title: Choose your seat in the literary festival event tent. Image: lines of chairs set out in a tent, a stage at the front has two more chairs on it. The chairs are colour-coded and labelled 1. Awkwardly close 2. Too far away 3. Good view / can't hear 4. Good sound / can't see 5. In a cold draught 6. Behind a giant 7. Between a chatter and a shusher 8. Very creaky chair 9. Great seat / wrong event A single yellow chair is labelled: 10. Just right!

Three of my cartoons have been released as prints by @theguardian.com. They are an open edition in two sizes and are available for two weeks only. Get one here:
www.guardianprintshop.com/pages/tom-gaulds-best-cultural-cartoons-of-2025

This is going to be an absolute disaster. It is colossally stupid, unethical in the extreme, and it’s going to ruin lives.

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Our Brains, Our Selves: What a Neurologist’s Patients T… Discover and share books you love on Goodreads.

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Our Brains, Our Selves: What a Neurologist’s Patients Taught Him About the Brain by Masud Husain

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like Chuck Noland, whose mantra I have taken to heart ~

"keep breathing; who knows what the tide might bring.."

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An image of the dragon Smaug from the Hobbit,sleeping on a pile of gold. The word 'notepads' has been added to the pile.

Me

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Happy Friday from all of us at #EnglishScotland

On the left, a narrow, glass-fronted display case with a mix of letterpress, hand-bound, antiquarian, and collectors' books; stretching off to the right, 8-foot bookcases laden with literary and contemporary commercial fiction, about one thousand books out of the 6-7 thousand in that section. LED lighting and light-colored wood cases and flooring keep the room feeling relatively spacious despite the sheer quantity of books.

Communities need used-book shops.

As the trends in our world are increasingly standardized and entrenched by "predictive" technologies that stifle innovation and reduce human actions into economic categories...

We need a full range of possibilities for readers and communities to explore and share.

Jólakötturinn painting by Reynir Hauks

now shifting into Jólakötturinn (child-eating Icelandic Yule cat ) season

Guernica but someone is grabbing a flat screen TV

"Black Friday" by Picasso

screenshot of a tumblr post from user “wildmansters” The thing that really boils my potatoes about Al in general is that I have been a creative professional for over a decade now and the devil has ALWAYS been in the details. Big and small, I've had single-person businesses rip me to shreds over how their colors turned out on newsprint, and have worked with huge companies with THICK brand guidelines with every detail of their brand identity laid out and enforced with an iron fist. But I guess all of that stuff doesn't matter anymore? Who gives a fuck if this Al generated baby has six fingers, that mom-and-pop shop is still going to use it. That rug from Temu says Happy Thanksgivirg? Oh well haha it's just a silly funny thing now (nevermind that you never would have given a B-grade item from a craft show the same consideration). I don't actually care that the Al Coca-cola ad has a truck that changes size every scene, but I can't help but think about how, if it had been some poor underpaid artist, they would have been laughed out of the building. I don't really know how to put it in a succint way but it just feels all the more obvious how much more grace and flexibility has always been possible but never offered.

i know WHY this is but that just makes it even more of a kick in the pants lmao

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