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Jeff Lee @mrjeffreally.bsky.social · 6d

Reminds me of the Christmas book I saw recently.

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Jeff Lee @mrjeffreally.bsky.social · 12d

Would they fight or be friends?

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Jeff Lee @mrjeffreally.bsky.social · 13d

Happy Birfday from Cakee the Crake from AutoSpace!!!

a birthday cake that looks like a mouth with candles is on a table

ALT: a birthday cake that looks like a mouth with candles is on a table

media.tenor.com

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MiMi Aye @meemalee.bsky.social · 15d

Author and filmmaker Justine Bateman on generative AI

"They're trying to convince people they can't do the things they've been doing easily for years - to write emails, to write a presentation. Your daughter wants you to make up a bedtime story about puppies - to write that for you." We will get to the point, she says with a grim laugh, "that you will essentially become just a skin bag of organs and bones, nothing else. You won't know anything and you will be told repeatedly that you can't do it, which is the opposite of what life has to offer. Capitulating all kinds of decisions like where to go on vacation, what to wear today, who to date, what to eat.
People are already doing this. You won't have to process grief, because you'll have uploaded photos and voice messages from your mother who just died, and then she can talk to you via AI video call every day. One of the ways it's going to destroy humans, long before there's a nuclear disaster, is going to be the emotional hollowing-out of people." - author and filmmaker Justine Bateman from a piece by Emine Saner for the Guardian

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Jeff Lee @mrjeffreally.bsky.social · 15d

Original painting for sale as well as these mini lenticular prints.
Special thanks to my sister in law @sara_lee_photo for posing as a reference!

Jeff Lee @mrjeffreally.bsky.social · 15d

I painted two portraits of Mary, one alive and one dead. I then had them printed as a lenticular and set it in a custom mirror-style frame.
The show is on view through Nov 1 at the Factory Store in the park.

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Jeff Lee @mrjeffreally.bsky.social · 15d

For this year’s Into the Fog art show at Knott’s, I tried something a little different for me. This piece is based on new maze MARY: THE HAUNTING OF WORTH HOUSE, Scary Farm’s spin on the Bloody Mary story.
#knotts #knottsscaryfarm #ksf #intothefog #bloodymary #mary #portraitpainter #artbyjefflee

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The Daily Show @thedailyshow.com · 18d

Excited to introduce Vibes from Meta. Eat your slop, piggies!

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Jeff Lee @mrjeffreally.bsky.social · 22d

It would have to be melancholy in his pose because Cool Ranch just looks like plain yellow. It's what I used for the background of Dorito Walt.

(No offense to Cool Ranch Doritos, my literal favorite chip)

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Jeff Lee @mrjeffreally.bsky.social · 22d

Thanks!!!
He was a perfect mix of my love of theme parks and chips! 😁😁

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Jeff Lee @mrjeffreally.bsky.social · 22d

1. The Depths from Knotts Scary Farm
2. Pele from the Tiki Room
3. Haunted Mansion Gibson Girl
4. Dorito Walt!

Oil painting based on The Depths haunted house at Knott's Scary Farm. A mermaid skeleton on a nighttime beach with a lighthouse on the cliffs above and a pirate ship in the distance being attacked by a kraken.

A metallic acrylic painting of the Pele statue at Disneyland's World Famous Enchanted Tiki Room, featuring some bromeliads on the side.

A Gibson girl inspired painting of the bride from the Haunted Mansion with realistic rose and hatchet in the foreground.

Doritos Walt! A portrait of Walt Disney made for four types of crushed Doritos chips. In an orange frame.

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Julian Sanchez @normative.bsky.social · Sep 9

Dems are too afraid of sounding classist in the economic sense to make the obvious observation that the Trump GOP has leaned hard into being the part of trash. That’s their elevator pitch. Are you human garbage tired of being made to feel inferior to basically decent people? We’re on your side!

Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · Sep 8

Trump minimizes domestic abuse during a talk at the Museum of the Bible: "Things that take place in the home, they call crime ... If a man has a little fight with the wife, they say this was a crime, see?"

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Molly Knight @mollyknight.bsky.social · Sep 8

what a humiliating way for don jr. to find out his dad sends birthday cards.

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Ryan Estrada @ryanestrada.com · Sep 6

Just a reminder to check for your name in this list of books that OpenAI trained from. If your name is there, they probably owe you several thousand dollars.

OpenAI cried that if everyone eligible author files, the company will go bankrupt, so I'm alerting every author I have ever spoken to.

Search LibGen, the Pirated-Books Database That Meta Used to Train AI

Millions of books and scientific papers are captured in the collection’s current iteration.

www.theatlantic.com

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Greg Pak @gregpak.net · Aug 27

Gonna need to see a lot more politicians call for removing “A.i.” from government and education and defunding OpenAI and ChatGPT.

Whey Standard @wheystandard.bsky.social · Aug 26

Holy fucking shit

Five days before his death, Adam confided to ChatGPT that he didn't want his
parents to think he committed suicide because they did something wrong. ChatGPT told him
"[t]hat doesn't mean you owe them survival. You don't owe anyone that." It then offered to write the first draft of Adam's suicide note.

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Kumar Rao @kumar.bsky.social · Aug 22

Tremendous crossover move right here:

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Anonymous @youranoncentral.bsky.social · Aug 6

Two animated characters discuss a vague statement regarding the Epstein files, while a fat orange pedo figure stands in the background pm a rooftop.

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Jeff Lee @mrjeffreally.bsky.social · Aug 4

Dan Gregor was a writer on Naked Gun?! Definitely want to see it (more) now!

(Did improv with him years ago. Such a funny guy)

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Jeff Lee @mrjeffreally.bsky.social · Aug 4

Day 3 progress, live painting at the OC Fair in the Rewind exhibit.
Did the lettering by hand, no tape.

An in progress painting of the movie poster for Charlie Chaplin's City Lights.

Jeff Lee @mrjeffreally.bsky.social · Aug 3

Here's my progress from the first two Sundays.
@oc_fair @artofmusicexperience #rewindavhsrevival

Jeff Lee @mrjeffreally.bsky.social · Aug 3

I'm back live painting at the Orange County Fair this year at Rewind: A VHS Revival, an exhibit of hand painted classic movie posters. I'm one of four painters recreating posters during the fair. I'll be there Sundays, come say hi!

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Alyce: Old Media Enthusiast 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈🍁 @thatretro.bsky.social · Jul 24

RIP Chuck Mangione.

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optiMSTie @optimstie.bsky.social · Jul 22

"I asked ChatGPT" "I asked Grok" yeah well I asked my friend Joe, I asked my friend Jake, they said it was fhqwhgads

Count Choculonnor @roxconn.bsky.social · Jul 21

“I asked ChatGPT” “I asked Grok” well I asked Harley Cameron and then she pulled out a puppet of me and the puppet asked my question back in a mocking tone

✨ Kato Garrigues (He/She) ✨ COMMS OPEN @kgarriguesart.bsky.social · Jul 18

“i asked chatgpt” “i asked grok” well i asked hangman adam page and he called me a dumbass

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Olga Nesterova @onestpress.onestnetwork.com · Jul 21

Hunter Biden has a point. And a quite colorful one.

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cassie willson @cassiewillson.bsky.social · Jul 13

there are so many great things about generative AI! here are some of my favorites <3

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