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Despite years of hype, the ability of generative A.I. to dramatically increase economic productivity remains theoretical. (Earlier this year, Goldman Sachs released a report titled “Gen AI: Too Much Spend, Too Little Benefit?”) The task that generative A.I. has been most successful at is lowering our expectations, both of the things we read and of ourselves when we write anything for others to read. It is a fundamentally dehumanizing technology because it treats us as less than what we are: creators and apprehenders of meaning. It reduces the amount of intention in the world.

Ted Chiang for the New Yorker in 2024. Missed this until it started making rounds again this week. www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...

Awesome. Hope this works out.

A black and white lithograph shows a skeleton with a drum major's shako hat leading a parade of rich old men in top hats. At the rear of the line, the old men morph into vultures.

The Mabel Dwight show at the Whitney couldn't be more timely. Here's a 1935 print titled "Merchants of Death."

1. It's my birthday 🎂

2. here's my annual birthday Prisma drawing ❤️

As aside, this is one speech Melania didn’t plagiarize from Michelle Obama.

Donald Trump needs to go — the 25th Amendment needs to be invoked.

A detail of a painting by a Wifredo Lam shows a female figure with a bird head and breasts holding a small bowl that appears to have a ghost emerging out of it.

How your email found me.

A cool thing about Bill Ward that I didn't know before I committed to making a blog-gallery of his cartoons is that he created an absolutely infinite amount of them, or perhaps even more than that.

Seaside Lovers is an elite pick.

A Swedish poster featuring Lili Damita for Red Heels (1925). Artwork by Eric Rohman.

Came out quite nice

1. In punk, we try out best to call people by their preferred names. "Hey Thyme, this is Chompy". 2. But sometimes someone will introduce themself like this... "Hey! Everyone calls me SEWER BUTT." "Uhh..hi Sewer butt." 3. And then you find out that nobody calls them that! "Hey Thomas, your mom's assistant is here with your wallet."

Webcomic #724 "Call Me Ishy" by Rick V. @itsmerickv.com

razorcake.org/webcomic-724...

Got some bad news for her regarding who is engaging in "radical gender ideology".

yes, please do not fedpost

but also it is incredibly infuriating that the president of the united states can threaten to destroy an entire civilization with impunity and the rest of us have to say <redacted> a lot

hmm, what if i told you that it wasn’t

I know the tweet is Al generated when they use " ," before and.

“I will NOT sacrifice the Oxford comma. We've made too many compromises already; too many retreats. They assimilate the em dash and we fall back. They capture ‘not just X but y’ and we fall back. Not again. The line must be drawn here! This far, no further!”

Robert Fawcett

Leif posted another Fawcett from 1958.
The linework, textures and values just bowled me over

a small creature with a bundle and a gourd

bug or rabbit, who can say
they drift in a creek and seek the Way

Hayao Miyazaki films start in his sketches—his "image boards." It’s a habit he’s kept up for 60 years.

He works fast and loose, mainly in pencil and watercolor. Perfection isn't the goal. But you can trace his growth through the pictures. We explore:
animationobsessive.substack.com/p/the-image-...

AP says it will offer buyouts as part of pivot away from newspaper-focused history The Associated Press says it will offer buyouts to an unspecified number of its U.S.-based journalists as part of an acceleration away from the focus on newspapers and their print journalism that sust...

People should actually be very alarmed that while AP's business model is shot to bits, Americans are still very much reliant on the news it delivers. The alternatives in some cases are inferior or non-existent.
apnews.com/article/news...

Hope it's spelled on the cover "ARSENIOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO....."

They Pay $34 for Burgers. Should Their Child Care Be Free?

Tax invisibility is a scourge in our politics

> Public childcare isn't free, it's tax-funded.
> People buying $34 burgers pay taxes.
> Believe $34 burger eaters should pay more? wait until you hear about this idea "progressive taxation"

Wow, problem solved, thanks taxes! 😀

A Ronald Searle-esque figure drawn in a mid-century mode

I drew this while I was on the phone today. No idea where it came from. I could not have summoned a drawing like this under normal circumstances

Axel Digoix has directed a beautiful 3rd music video for the band Tinariwen: "Erghad Afewo" (produced at WIZZ studio, France).
Full MV >> www.catsuka.com/news/2026-03...

was watching the mario movie from a few years back with my son in preparation for the sequel and it does legitimately feel like anti italian discrimination that mario is voiced by chris pratt

also who wants to listen to this shit

That simply isn't true.

A leaping bunny memorialized in modern mosaic tile.

He has risen!

Guys, every discourse topic is an emergency for me, I don't know what I'm doing here.