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Culture Crave 🍿 @culturecrave.co · 1d

“Fuck AI”

— Guillermo del Toro

🎥 Vanity Fair

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John W. Tomac @johnwtomac.com · 10h

So far so good! I had a very good HLA match with my donor

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John W. Tomac @johnwtomac.com · 11h

It’s also the reason I didn’t get hit w/ a lifetime cap during 15 years of cancer treatment.

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John W. Tomac @johnwtomac.com · 11h

In 2009, 5 days in the hospital after being diagnosed with leukemia left me with me $5000 worth of out of pocket expenses.

Last year, a month in the hospital for a bone marrow transplant left me with a $600 bill.

ACA is the reason why.

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John W. Tomac @johnwtomac.com · 2d

It’s also bizarrely funny that he thinks he can get the votes of southern Brooklyn and Staten Island conservatives. They’ve hated him for a long time.

John W. Tomac @johnwtomac.com · 2d

Cuomo never ran in a competitive election. His opponents were an aspiring Fox News host, a clown with a baseball bat, two non-descript county executives and two people who had never run for office.

His campaign skill was name recognition. Now that name is associated with a creep, not his dad.

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Boo!-per Lund @cooperlund.online · 2d

The real problem with AI generation as a tool for liberating everyone’s creativity is that most people’s “great ideas” that their lack of skills are holding back suck shit

Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 2d

Still waiting for this fucking technology to write the next great American novel instead of just defiling the memory of people to do racism or making Sonic the Hedgehog enjoy meth

CNN @cnn.com · 2d

OpenAI announced that it has "paused" users' ability to generate videos of Martin Luther King Jr. on its artificial intelligence video tool Sora, following backlash over "disrespectful depictions." https://cnn.it/4qxP0KX

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John W. Tomac @johnwtomac.com · 2d

All that money and the best they can do is beg for Republicans in the outerboros to vote for a guy they’ve hated for more than a decade.

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John W. Tomac @johnwtomac.com · 3d

I think copyright law is good and that the tech bros.and AI scammers owe me a lot of money.

Justin Wolfers @justinwolfers.bsky.social · 3d

There are basically only two positions in the debate about AI.
1. I’ve barely invested any time in learning how to use it effectively. AI sucks.
2. I’ve invested in learning how to use this tool. Holy cow, it’s transformational.

Position #1 has lower barriers to entry.

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John W. Tomac @johnwtomac.com · 2d

The funniest would be Cuomo winning and Hochul removing him from office on Jan. 2..

That seems very unlikely now.

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John W. Tomac @johnwtomac.com · 2d

The second funniest outcome of the election is Cuomo finishing third and I really hope it happens.

Chris Sommerfeldt @c-sommerfeldt.bsky.social · 2d

Cuomo concedes it'll be "very, very hard mathmatecially" for him to win on Nov. 4 if Sliwa stays in the race.

He says local GOP "bosses" are keeping Sliwa in the race because Mayor Mamdani would be a good foil for Trump and national Republicans.

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John W. Tomac @johnwtomac.com · 3d

I think copyright law is good and that the tech bros.and AI scammers owe me a lot of money.

Justin Wolfers @justinwolfers.bsky.social · 3d

There are basically only two positions in the debate about AI.
1. I’ve barely invested any time in learning how to use it effectively. AI sucks.
2. I’ve invested in learning how to use this tool. Holy cow, it’s transformational.

Position #1 has lower barriers to entry.

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Dan McQuillan @danmcquillan.bsky.social · 3d

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John W. Tomac @johnwtomac.com · 3d

His forehead looks 30 years younger than the rest of his face. A walking advertisement for SPF

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Matthew Noe @noethematt.bsky.social · 6d

Seeing a lot of "No Kings" protests groups using AI images lately

You aren't resisting fascism by using their tools

Be better than that

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John W. Tomac @johnwtomac.com · 5d

Gotta try a triumvirate of hitting coaches next.

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Farts "sʇɹɐℲ" Johnson @fartsjohnson.bsky.social · 5d

RIP Drew Struzan, the best to ever do a movie poster. Here's my favorite of his posters

Poster for Squirm. tree whose roots look like a human skull with worms coming out of it

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John W. Tomac @johnwtomac.com · 5d

Happy #PortfolioDay to all who celebrate

My name is John. I am a conceptual illustrator who does a lot of work for newspapers, magazines and websites.

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Britannia looking at a phone in disgust

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A snake topiary coiled around a house for a story about how hedges are destroying your home’s foundation.

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A guy getting crushed by the hands on a gold watch for a story about not being ready to retire.

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Recycling bins melting to reveal old metal trash cans for a story about how recycling often ends up in the garbage.

©️2025 John W. Tomac

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John W. Tomac @johnwtomac.com · 5d

Mamdani campaigns like someone who unapologetically loves the city.

If you listen to Cuomo and Sliwa they seem to think this place is a hellhole and that it’s perpetually 1977.

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Todd Radom @toddradom.bsky.social · 5d

COMING APRIL 28, 2026!
“The Ballpark & Beyond—An Illustrated Celebration of Baseball’s Rich History.”
An eclectic, illustrated collection of baseball stories, “The Ballpark and Beyond” is the book I was born to write—75,000 words, 150 original illustrations, packed w/ stories from on & off the field

"The Ballpark and Beyond," a new book by Todd Radom, coming April 28, 2026

https://www.amazon.com/Ballpark-Beyond-Illustrated-Celebration-Baseballs/dp/1683585143/ref=tmm_hrd_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&dib_tag=se&dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.FyUKCc5Bq-7eAdXSTFUy5w.662RfllGRcrryGsQ67wetG-xSF9GRd_LDyMPbRHzhfE&qid=1760200905&sr=8-1

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John W. Tomac @johnwtomac.com · 5d

You’re too kind, sir

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John W. Tomac @johnwtomac.com · 5d

Happy #PortfolioDay to all who celebrate

My name is John. I am a conceptual illustrator who does a lot of work for newspapers, magazines and websites.

johnwtomac.com

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mcc @dryad.technology · 6d

If you are a Canadian citizen or resident, and you hate "AI"¹, please fill out this survey.

ised-isde.canada.ca/site/ised/en...

The survey questions are *extremely* biased, so this will not be a fun experience, but I think it is worth it.

¹ (And if you like "AI"… how have I not blocked you yet?)

Help define the next chapter of Canada's AI leadership

Current status: Open from October 1 to October 31, 2025 Canada helped invent modern AI. To stay a leader—and protect our digital sovereignty—we're running a 30-day national sprint to shape a renew...

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George Gantsoudes @pedsortho.bsky.social · 6d

Please remember that the disgust people have over Christopher Columbus is not based on some modern, 21st century “woke” ideology, but rather on contemporaneous accounts of atrocities that make many modern genocides appear quaint in comparison.

Below, are the accounts of Bartlomé de las Casas.

But too many of the slaves died in captivity. And so Columbus, desperate to pay back dividends to those who had in-vested, had to make good his promise to fill the ships with gold. In the province of Cicao on Haiti, where he and his men imagined huge gold fields to exist, they ordered all persons fourteen years or older to collect a certain quantity of gold every three months. When they brought it, they were given copper tokens to hang around their necks. Indians found without a copper token had their hands cut off and bled to death.
The Indians had been given an impossible task. The only gold around was bits of dust garnered from the streams. So they fled, were hunted down with dogs, and were killed.

After each six or eight months' work in the mines, which was the time required of each crew to dig enough gold for melting, up to a third of the men died.
While the men were sent many miles away to the mines, the wives remained to work the soil, forced into the excruciating job of digging and making thousands of hills for cassava plants.
Thus husbands and wives were together only once every eight or ten months and when they met they were so exhausted and depressed on both sides... they ceased to pro-create. As for the newly born, they died early because their mothers, overworked and fam-ished, had no milk to nurse them, and for this reason, while I was in Cuba, 7000 children died in three months. Some mothers even drowned their babies from sheer desper-ation.... In this way, husbands died in the mines, wives died at work, and children died from lack of milk ... and in a short time this land which was so great, so powerful and fer-tile... was depopulated... My eyes have seen these acts so foreign to human nature, and now I tremble as I write....

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John W. Tomac @johnwtomac.com · 8d

We can talk about how the Cubs went 7-0 vs. the Mets in 2015

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