I've also done the two finger double-tap on my paper sketchbook when I've made a mistake. Tech has cooked our brains.

When you use AI to do your writing, you are telling your audience: “I deserve your attention, but you do not deserve my effort.”

I can imagine the ending raised some QUESTIONS

It's like saying "Our digger can dig holes faster and bigger than any human". Yeah, cos you designed it to.

tbh with this website being down I got like 4 pages drawn today. If it could break during working hours tomorrow also that'd be awesome.

‘This craving to go viral is tiresome’: the artists who’re sick of the pressure to promote on social media From Stewart Lee in his wolf costume to Werner Herzog’s big steak sizzle-up, artists are now under huge duress to ‘chase the algorithm’ and reach audiences. Many of them are hitting burnout – and hitt...

Literally just reading about this. It's something I'm dreading as a very camera shy person who despises insincerity. The inevitable "make video content" marketing call. www.theguardian.com/culture/2026...

A silhouette of a lanky robot walking against the sunlight, from Evangelion

Donnie letting the weebs know he's seen Evangelion

Cover art of Martian Manhunter. A blonde haired detective with a pistol looks up at the viewer while an abstract green and rainbow hued alien form projects from his forehead.

Aw man, just got round to reading Absolute Martian Manhunter (vol.1). Mind bending stuff with art that's so inventive and striking it made me audibly go "no way!" quite a few times

Well, as an artist it shows an enormous amount of disrespect to our work, so we can't respect your work in turn. Creatives should stick together, I won't listen to AI music, watch AI videos or read AI writing because it was built on the backs of other creatives without consent.

It's usually some incredibly minor thing dressed up as something that needs my attention. "Metal Gear Solid creators debut controversial new project" and it's some pachinko machine from Konami.

landing complete YouTube video by Brotacon

"What's your biggest achievement of the last year?"
"Well, it's a toss-up between illustrating a 240 page graphic novel for a major publisher... and sticking this Lakon Type-8 landing in Elite Dangerous."

youtu.be/En6hwKYh-W8?...

I read this last year! Fantastic and actually quite funny in a "oh-God-we're-so-screwed" way.

A man chases me down the street.
"Sir! SIR! Are you ready to have your wildest dreams come true? Sir! I have created a machine that will let you build, and here's the best part, ON the protocol in ways you imagined! Yes, THE protocol!"

GitS fans, I think we're back. Look at those Fuchikomas!! Those goofy 80s style expressions. The colours!

I need you all to look at these sad rat people and remember how emotionally resonant FFIX was.

(I realise the only advice I really give here is "being a shut-in little no-life freak in tatty clothes that no one invites to things is the optimal scenario")

There's a lot of stuff i don't have. No kids. No pets. No car. I don't buy expensive clothes or go out socially often (fortunately, I find clubs quite difficult to be in). I'm pretty stingy and pretty good at declining expensive invitations (oh, your wedding in Australia? Send me a postcard!) 2/2

I'm very lucky to get two good gigs that enable me to do it full time (at least for the moment!). My one luxury is living in London, tiny room in a flatshare with two others. You don't mind scraping by because everyone else you know is scraping by. Even friends earning twice what i do. 1/2

I may not be the target audience.

Being a music fan at an average UK club night is pretty exhausting. Like "Oh yeah, here's one minute of Insomnia with a shitty eurobeat crowbarred underneath it and we're bored of that now here's Rihanna, Heartless Pl-here's some of Candy but don't try the shuffle cos now Kings of Leon"

I'm scared it's a game I'll have to find a way to play when the inevitable "do the silly dance trend to promote the book" request comes. Being curmudgeonly and filled with contempt for platforms isn't a brand marketing departments can work with. Apparently, it's a downer when promoting kids books.

The gamblification of social media really bums me out. That slot machine tug, everything is designed to make you lose track of time (reels aren't dated, the app hides your clock) the way creators are trained to be insincere and obtuse. Context hidden in wordy, often AI written descriptions. Grim.

Reinstalled Instagram on my phone yesterday after a recent publishing event where everyone was saying how important it was for them as creatives. Uninstalled today after realising that I'd cumulatively wasted 5 hours faffing around on it. My brain isn't good for the infinite scroll.

I'm not hugely versed in philosophy or the notion of the self. But I understand that a field of study that's had literally thousands of years of discussion behind it won't be undone by one guy's 15-minutes of thought in the back of a Waymo

It all feels like they're desperately trying to lay the groundwork for "Actually, it's fine if an AI does this or that thing usually reserved for humans, because humans are basically just wet AI anyway"

DLSS 5 OFF // DLSS 5 ON

But we're not dead and we carry on going forward even though the past pulls on us like we're a boat going upstream. Like Gatsby would have been trying to reach that light he saw. He also drowned. That's a cool coincidence. It's kind of sad Gatsby died though. He was really wealthy.

More boot to lick

As someone who used to work in magazines where eagle eyed proof readers could spot something being a single mm off (and I'm not even joking), this hurts.