Darth Paradox
@darthparadox.bsky.social
Maker of many things - art, puzzles, horrible puns, etc.
With Bugs' tail poking out from the backwards jeans' fly, making that style more functional on Bugs than it was on Kriss Kross.
Or maybe I was making that bit up, but I certainly remember thinking about it at the time.
Or maybe I was making that bit up, but I certainly remember thinking about it at the time.
I remember being insanely jealous of my cousin's oversized teeshirt featuring Bugs Bunny and the Tazmanian Devil in backwards baggy jeans and sports jerseys, a la Kriss Kross
January 3, 2026 at 9:52 AM
With Bugs' tail poking out from the backwards jeans' fly, making that style more functional on Bugs than it was on Kriss Kross.
Or maybe I was making that bit up, but I certainly remember thinking about it at the time.
Or maybe I was making that bit up, but I certainly remember thinking about it at the time.
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This makes me want to call it slop, like, at least 5x as much as I already did.
as if the onus for improving quality and usefulness is somehow on the critics or the consumer
Microsoft's Satya Nadella wants you to stop saying AI "slop" in 2026
In closing comments of 2025, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella shared an update on the company's mindset for 2026 — shocker, it's all about AI.
www.windowscentral.com
January 3, 2026 at 12:16 AM
This makes me want to call it slop, like, at least 5x as much as I already did.
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ICYMI, Starbs boycott is still on
Friendly reminder that Starbucks baristas are still on strike and still asking you to support them by not patronizing *any* Starbucks in the US.
Try a new place! Get a home coffeemaker and a thermos that will pay for themselves with all the Starbucks you won't be buying! Don't cross picket lines!
Try a new place! Get a home coffeemaker and a thermos that will pay for themselves with all the Starbucks you won't be buying! Don't cross picket lines!
Add this to your new years resolution: No Contract, No Coffee!
Pledge now to stop buying Starbucks in 2026 until the company stops union busting and settles a fair contract!
www.nocontractnocoffee.org/#pledge
Pledge now to stop buying Starbucks in 2026 until the company stops union busting and settles a fair contract!
www.nocontractnocoffee.org/#pledge
January 3, 2026 at 2:20 AM
ICYMI, Starbs boycott is still on
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When a chatbot says it’s sorry it’s improv
When a chatbot says it’s sorry it’s improv
You can never change or guilt it
Just go find the guys who built it
When a chatbot says it’s sorry it’s improv
When a chatbot says it’s sorry it’s improv
You can never change or guilt it
Just go find the guys who built it
When a chatbot says it’s sorry it’s improv
New AIWeirdness post: ChatGPT will apologize for anything, including stuff that didn't happen. It's not reflecting on stuff it did wrong, it's improv.
www.aiweirdness.com/chatgpt-will...
www.aiweirdness.com/chatgpt-will...
January 3, 2026 at 4:06 AM
When a chatbot says it’s sorry it’s improv
When a chatbot says it’s sorry it’s improv
You can never change or guilt it
Just go find the guys who built it
When a chatbot says it’s sorry it’s improv
When a chatbot says it’s sorry it’s improv
You can never change or guilt it
Just go find the guys who built it
When a chatbot says it’s sorry it’s improv
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The older I get the madder I am that I was lied to about who the Black Panthers were my entire childhood. www.tumblr.com/mxwhore/8044...
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💬 59 🔁 40864 ❤️ 50706 · Black panther poster. Just as relevant today
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December 31, 2025 at 10:58 PM
The older I get the madder I am that I was lied to about who the Black Panthers were my entire childhood. www.tumblr.com/mxwhore/8044...
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Resisting him almost always works, trying to bargain with him never ever works
BREAKING: After legal setbacks, President Trump says he's dropping push for the National Guard in Chicago, Los Angeles and Portland for now.
Trump says he's dropping push for National Guard in Chicago, LA and Portland, Oregon, for now
President Donald Trump says he’s dropping — for now — his push to deploy National Guard troops in Chicago, Los Angeles and Portland, Oregon.
bit.ly
December 31, 2025 at 9:38 PM
Resisting him almost always works, trying to bargain with him never ever works
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Can’t see what could go wrong with the chatbot that tells people to kill themselves also pushing DraftKings
December 31, 2025 at 2:31 PM
Can’t see what could go wrong with the chatbot that tells people to kill themselves also pushing DraftKings
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I hate these charts so much because they imply chatgpt is comparable to the internet or phones
You could create the same graphic for full screen pop-up advertising on websites and make them look like ultra-rapid technology adoption when really they were just baked unavoidably into the internet
You could create the same graphic for full screen pop-up advertising on websites and make them look like ultra-rapid technology adoption when really they were just baked unavoidably into the internet
In 2025, AI became pervasive in American life and the economy, with ChatGPT surging in adoption much faster than any other major technology in memory. @nytopinion.nytimes.com
December 30, 2025 at 7:38 AM
I hate these charts so much because they imply chatgpt is comparable to the internet or phones
You could create the same graphic for full screen pop-up advertising on websites and make them look like ultra-rapid technology adoption when really they were just baked unavoidably into the internet
You could create the same graphic for full screen pop-up advertising on websites and make them look like ultra-rapid technology adoption when really they were just baked unavoidably into the internet
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Ok team, we can bring these words back into usage! 💪
Overmorrow = the day after tomorrow
Ereyesterday = the day before yesterday
We ahould have been using such excellent words ereyesterday, but if we start now we’ll be glad overmorrow!
Overmorrow = the day after tomorrow
Ereyesterday = the day before yesterday
We ahould have been using such excellent words ereyesterday, but if we start now we’ll be glad overmorrow!
You can be the change you want to see in the English language!
So long as we get ereyesterday back too! Words need their inverses!
December 31, 2025 at 2:37 PM
Ok team, we can bring these words back into usage! 💪
Overmorrow = the day after tomorrow
Ereyesterday = the day before yesterday
We ahould have been using such excellent words ereyesterday, but if we start now we’ll be glad overmorrow!
Overmorrow = the day after tomorrow
Ereyesterday = the day before yesterday
We ahould have been using such excellent words ereyesterday, but if we start now we’ll be glad overmorrow!
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Not only a perfect denouement, it was the end of an era. Thirty years ago today, this strip was published.
December 31, 2025 at 2:40 PM
Not only a perfect denouement, it was the end of an era. Thirty years ago today, this strip was published.
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Here's a really easy New Year's Resolution:
If you're sick with something contagious, you will stay home if your circumstances allow.
If you can't stay home, you will mask around others until there is no possibility you are contagious.
By making these choices, you will literally save lives.
If you're sick with something contagious, you will stay home if your circumstances allow.
If you can't stay home, you will mask around others until there is no possibility you are contagious.
By making these choices, you will literally save lives.
December 31, 2025 at 3:07 PM
Here's a really easy New Year's Resolution:
If you're sick with something contagious, you will stay home if your circumstances allow.
If you can't stay home, you will mask around others until there is no possibility you are contagious.
By making these choices, you will literally save lives.
If you're sick with something contagious, you will stay home if your circumstances allow.
If you can't stay home, you will mask around others until there is no possibility you are contagious.
By making these choices, you will literally save lives.
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This set of observations is produced by my scrolling Reddit and otherwise listening to people talk about "how to write."
A) there is no requirement that any of your characters has any sort of "arc" let alone a redemption.
B) there is also no requirement that your fiction has a plot.
A) there is no requirement that any of your characters has any sort of "arc" let alone a redemption.
B) there is also no requirement that your fiction has a plot.
December 31, 2025 at 4:47 PM
This set of observations is produced by my scrolling Reddit and otherwise listening to people talk about "how to write."
A) there is no requirement that any of your characters has any sort of "arc" let alone a redemption.
B) there is also no requirement that your fiction has a plot.
A) there is no requirement that any of your characters has any sort of "arc" let alone a redemption.
B) there is also no requirement that your fiction has a plot.
An extremely drunk woman in Las Vegas going "oooh" and trying to lift up my kilt.
I stepped back and said "No!" and she responded "...no?" in what sounded like genuine confusion before her friend ushered her away.
I stepped back and said "No!" and she responded "...no?" in what sounded like genuine confusion before her friend ushered her away.
Forget insults, what’s the most unhinged *compliment* you’ve ever received?
December 31, 2025 at 9:08 AM
An extremely drunk woman in Las Vegas going "oooh" and trying to lift up my kilt.
I stepped back and said "No!" and she responded "...no?" in what sounded like genuine confusion before her friend ushered her away.
I stepped back and said "No!" and she responded "...no?" in what sounded like genuine confusion before her friend ushered her away.
I was within about thirty feet of Bernie Sanders at a rally but he left by a different route.
Please quote this with the time you didn’t interact with someone famous - eg one time I was in Cardiff the same weekend as Willem Dafoe (but I didn’t see him or even know he was there until he appeared on the telly later)
Please quote this with your major interactions with massive celebrities. eg “I was married to the pope for fifteen years”
December 31, 2025 at 3:34 AM
I was within about thirty feet of Bernie Sanders at a rally but he left by a different route.
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Do I have this right?
A Wall Street financier is shaping opinions for a newspaper owned by hedge funds to manufacture consent for technology built on intellectual theft to consolidate wealth and power into the hands of narcissistic billionaires while pouring gasoline on a climate crisis? 🤔
A Wall Street financier is shaping opinions for a newspaper owned by hedge funds to manufacture consent for technology built on intellectual theft to consolidate wealth and power into the hands of narcissistic billionaires while pouring gasoline on a climate crisis? 🤔
In 2025, AI became pervasive in American life and the economy, with ChatGPT surging in adoption much faster than any other major technology in memory. @nytopinion.nytimes.com
December 30, 2025 at 4:18 PM
Do I have this right?
A Wall Street financier is shaping opinions for a newspaper owned by hedge funds to manufacture consent for technology built on intellectual theft to consolidate wealth and power into the hands of narcissistic billionaires while pouring gasoline on a climate crisis? 🤔
A Wall Street financier is shaping opinions for a newspaper owned by hedge funds to manufacture consent for technology built on intellectual theft to consolidate wealth and power into the hands of narcissistic billionaires while pouring gasoline on a climate crisis? 🤔
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This past weekend we had dinner with our friend who is a Sbux union leader. She clued me into 3 things.
Starbucks has not signed a contract with the workers for 4 years.
Starbucks has more union violations than any other company in the US.
Shareholders are demanding they settle.
Keep boycotting.
Starbucks has not signed a contract with the workers for 4 years.
Starbucks has more union violations than any other company in the US.
Shareholders are demanding they settle.
Keep boycotting.
Starbucks spent years trying to become an inescapable storefront on the streets of New York, Los Angeles and other big cities in America. Now that’s coming to an end. https://cnn.it/4q8AJ6D
December 30, 2025 at 1:41 AM
This past weekend we had dinner with our friend who is a Sbux union leader. She clued me into 3 things.
Starbucks has not signed a contract with the workers for 4 years.
Starbucks has more union violations than any other company in the US.
Shareholders are demanding they settle.
Keep boycotting.
Starbucks has not signed a contract with the workers for 4 years.
Starbucks has more union violations than any other company in the US.
Shareholders are demanding they settle.
Keep boycotting.
"I would [...] characterize this creative theft as an original sin: something so foundationally damning as to have tainted every subsequent iteration of the tech [...] Make no mistake: if this was the only crime we could lay at AI’s door, it would be bad enough [...] to justify loathing it forever."
as promised: I'm back and I have Opinions fozmeadows.substack.com/p/against-ai
December 30, 2025 at 4:12 AM
"I would [...] characterize this creative theft as an original sin: something so foundationally damning as to have tainted every subsequent iteration of the tech [...] Make no mistake: if this was the only crime we could lay at AI’s door, it would be bad enough [...] to justify loathing it forever."
I did a webcomic for four years. Peaked at 250 page views per day.
I've probably had a much larger impact on the Internet in my day job despite being one person out of hundreds of thousands at my company. 🤷♀️
I've probably had a much larger impact on the Internet in my day job despite being one person out of hundreds of thousands at my company. 🤷♀️
What was your biggest impact on the internet? I'll go first.
I'm the fucking Gmod RDM kid.
I'm the fucking Gmod RDM kid.
December 30, 2025 at 3:12 AM
I did a webcomic for four years. Peaked at 250 page views per day.
I've probably had a much larger impact on the Internet in my day job despite being one person out of hundreds of thousands at my company. 🤷♀️
I've probably had a much larger impact on the Internet in my day job despite being one person out of hundreds of thousands at my company. 🤷♀️
QRP with your flower art
December 29, 2025 at 10:47 PM
QRP with your flower art
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Next time someone says they don’t have to apologize for being white anymore, ask them to tell about the most recent time they were forced to apologize for being white and who made them do it.
December 29, 2025 at 2:18 AM
Next time someone says they don’t have to apologize for being white anymore, ask them to tell about the most recent time they were forced to apologize for being white and who made them do it.
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Conventions, if you use AI do not be surprised if creators turn down your invitations to be guests or even to be on panels.
Do not use tools trained on stolen work from creators and then tell them you want to honor or uplift them - that’s not what you’re doing. You’re stealing and being lazy.
Do not use tools trained on stolen work from creators and then tell them you want to honor or uplift them - that’s not what you’re doing. You’re stealing and being lazy.
December 28, 2025 at 5:54 PM
Conventions, if you use AI do not be surprised if creators turn down your invitations to be guests or even to be on panels.
Do not use tools trained on stolen work from creators and then tell them you want to honor or uplift them - that’s not what you’re doing. You’re stealing and being lazy.
Do not use tools trained on stolen work from creators and then tell them you want to honor or uplift them - that’s not what you’re doing. You’re stealing and being lazy.
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These technologies can and are being used to create lifelike images and videos of actual living women and girls. For what I think are pretty obvious gendered civil rights reasons, it needs to be a recognized civil cause of action to create an AI image or avatar of a woman without her consent.
"And I never say no"
We need to have a serious talk about the way "AI companion" apps not only prey on the vulnerable, but are priming their users to ignore consent and to conflate love with control.
We need AI regulations across so many sectors, but this area is particularly horrifying.
We need to have a serious talk about the way "AI companion" apps not only prey on the vulnerable, but are priming their users to ignore consent and to conflate love with control.
We need AI regulations across so many sectors, but this area is particularly horrifying.
December 28, 2025 at 8:00 PM
These technologies can and are being used to create lifelike images and videos of actual living women and girls. For what I think are pretty obvious gendered civil rights reasons, it needs to be a recognized civil cause of action to create an AI image or avatar of a woman without her consent.
Frankly, if the existence of these creepy "AI companions" could ensure that abusive men never hurt actual people again, I'd consider it a good use of the technology.
But that's not what's going to happen. They're going to transfer their expectations to the real people their companions are based on.
But that's not what's going to happen. They're going to transfer their expectations to the real people their companions are based on.
They're enabling creepy lonely men to create submissive "AI companions" that can be modeled on whatever real-life woman they're obsessed with and made to do whatever they want and, Jesus Christ, I need to wash my hands just typing that.
"And I never say no"
We need to have a serious talk about the way "AI companion" apps not only prey on the vulnerable, but are priming their users to ignore consent and to conflate love with control.
We need AI regulations across so many sectors, but this area is particularly horrifying.
We need to have a serious talk about the way "AI companion" apps not only prey on the vulnerable, but are priming their users to ignore consent and to conflate love with control.
We need AI regulations across so many sectors, but this area is particularly horrifying.
December 29, 2025 at 4:30 AM
Frankly, if the existence of these creepy "AI companions" could ensure that abusive men never hurt actual people again, I'd consider it a good use of the technology.
But that's not what's going to happen. They're going to transfer their expectations to the real people their companions are based on.
But that's not what's going to happen. They're going to transfer their expectations to the real people their companions are based on.
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My favorite thing about Frog and Toad is that it is the story of two men deeply and obviously in love with one another, drawn as a tribute to his lifelong partner by a gay man long before their relationship was socially sanctioned.
Then Frog and Toad went out onto the front porch to wait for the mail.
They sat there, feeling happy together.
They sat there, feeling happy together.
December 28, 2025 at 5:47 PM
My favorite thing about Frog and Toad is that it is the story of two men deeply and obviously in love with one another, drawn as a tribute to his lifelong partner by a gay man long before their relationship was socially sanctioned.
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🧵 Important thread for writers.
Make sure to grab PDFs or whathaveyou from the online publications you've published in. Use archive.org for things that have already gone missing. Publications are removing articles that that disagree with the present US regime.
Make sure to grab PDFs or whathaveyou from the online publications you've published in. Use archive.org for things that have already gone missing. Publications are removing articles that that disagree with the present US regime.
Hello repro writers from the mid to late 20 teens - I just discovered Cosmopolitan at some point pulled almost every politics/repro story from the 5 years I wrote for them offline (except two, which they put under someone else's name and gave me "additional reporting" which it very much was not)
December 28, 2025 at 9:02 PM
🧵 Important thread for writers.
Make sure to grab PDFs or whathaveyou from the online publications you've published in. Use archive.org for things that have already gone missing. Publications are removing articles that that disagree with the present US regime.
Make sure to grab PDFs or whathaveyou from the online publications you've published in. Use archive.org for things that have already gone missing. Publications are removing articles that that disagree with the present US regime.