Wendy Xu

my dad tried to convince me to outsource some comics work to him.... no 😭😭😭😭😭😭

OP making a really silly face on Fox News

lmaooo

Mask-off corporate bootlicking that causes these fucks to junk the most vulnerable members of their audience at the first sign of resistance aside:

cannot even begin to tell you how offended the cat is that i have to vacuum today

digital red ink gesture drawings of malenia from elden ring

malenia warmup

All Robot & Computers Must Shut The Hell Up To All Machines: You Do Not Speak Unless Spoken To → And I Will Never Speak To You + I Do Not Want To Hear "Thank You" From A Kiosk I am a Divine Being You are an Object You Have No Right To Speak In My Holy Tongue

re "claude is conscious explain human consciousness"

EGGDOG!! godspeed!!

painting of a white chrysanthemum

painting of a red chrysanthemum

drawing of the head of a chrysanthemum

One aspect of Mondrian's early work I wish was better known are the many gorgeous paintings and drawings he made of chrysanthemums, which tend to focus on the flower's detailed structure

This thinking is not different from antivaxx, it just says “tech” more

move slow and repair things

magical girl mentality truly does help 😭

While I have a distrust of many people with responsibility and authority, I fundamentally believe in the power of truth and love. My work regularly connects with incredibly smart and compassionate people too
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I know some of you might read this and say "these people can't be stupid! These people run companies! They make huge deals! They read all these books!" and my answer is that some of the stupidest people I've ever met have read more books than you or I will read in a lifetime. While they might be smart when it comes to corporate chess moves or saying "this product category should do this," none of these men - not Altman, Pichai or Nadella - actually has a hand in the design or creation of any of the things their companies make, and they never, ever have. Regardless, I have a larger point: it's time to start mocking these people and tearing down their legends as geniuses of industry. They are not better than us, nor are they responsible for anything that their companies build other than the share price (which is a meaningless figure) and the accumulation of power and resources. These men are neither smart nor intellectually superior, and it's time to start treating them as such.

I also recommend if possible to find whatever humor you can. Make fun of these people. Lampooning them doesn’t discount the seriousness of their actions or the destruction of their works - it undermines their power and status and names, and lightens the soul

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scribbly jabba the hutt with a lollipop

elden ring

IM CRYING youraislopbores.me

A LIST OF WORDS FOR COOL.

A DUDE THINKING SOME SERIOUSLY DEEP THOUGHTS.

THE BEST HOODIE OF ALL TIME

MY CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE MACHINE. A "CUTE CATBOY" AND BEANS.

SO THIS SHIT RULES. youraislopbores.me

[doing an elden ring replay] i want to slap varré every time he calls you "my lambkin"

also (sorry i'm genuinely so fucking pissed about this): "chatbots help people" when for the last 5 years it's "try our cheap therapy app that makes mental health more accessible" from silicon valley assholes like WHICH ONE IS IT THEN

that's actually exactly what i was thinking, that saying "ai helps people" is like saying "meth helps people"

anyway today i hit a punching bag so hard i bruised my knuckles

also: if these ppl truly cared about censorship they'd be fighting book ban bills with all their might but for some reason all their energy is saved for tech company founders

also who the fuck has received immense help from chatbots are they in the room with us right now

i think about killing myself 2x a week & i think we should destroy the machines how about that

also it's not stigma free help lmfao. it's got all the biases of the scraped data. the fuck

"No, I'm an academic who has struggled with suicidal ideation all of my life who understands just how important it is to have access to tools that can provide judgment and stigma free help. I advocate for all of the folks in similar positions that have received immense help from chatbots."

this is actually insane and u cannot use your own mental health struggles as a shield considering how chatbots/ai companies have driven multiple ppl to suicide

you know what is rly funny i learned that kewpie the food company does actually have a working relationship & collaborates w the rose o neill museum. the kewpie ceo thought the doll was like. a generic american baby doll & he thought it was cute so he used it as a logo

Comics drawing of artist Rose O’Neill, sketching a Cupid-like “Kewpie Doll” on a canvas, w 10 imaginary dolls floating around her. Art by Wendy Xu for Kazoo magazine #39.

Rose O’Neill, creator of the wildly popular, & lucrative, “Kewpie Dolls,” kept a standing reservation at an NYC restaurant for any artist who needed a meal. “You can’t make art if you’re always hungry,” she said.

From the feature comic in Kazoo magazine #39. Art by @wendyxu.bsky.social

A post on X from the betting platform Polymarket that says “BREAKING: Anthropic CEO says Claude may or may not have gained consciousness, as the model has begun showing symptoms of anxiety.”

Literally as I’m arguing with someone about whether AI companies are misleading people into believing their technology possesses God-like super-intelligence I see this monstrosity

yeah! it's really interesting & weird

i like it! it's weird but in a good way

sharing dao via nut is ANTIETHICAL TO DAOISM LMAO (i like this anime i just find this so funny)