My cartoon for this week's @newscientist.com

Today’s xkcd made me cry.

In a good way.

xkcd.com/3172/

Every ad now

"Man becomes first ever trillionaire" is a headline that should only inspire anger. No joy, no ambivalence, no apathy, just pure seething rage.

Musicians, stop using AI for your album art. I would legitimately rather you just make your art a selfie of you on the bus than see even more slop

I am a cranky old man ("back in my youth Halloween didn't exist 'round here"), but I can only agree with mr. Green here. Though my experience is for another country.

Call out to music creators on YouTube: don't use GenAI for your visuals. As a fellow artist, would you like to be replaced with an algorithm because someone else couldn't be bothered to reach out to you?

If you are using GenAI for visual, why would I trust that music is made with your own effort?

Certain numbers accompany us through our lives, connected to our memories of people and places, of significant events. What numbers remain with you decades later? And why?

This poem is taken from Whatever You Do, Just Don't (HappenStance Press, 2023), my second full collection...

Absolutely peak millennial media vibes to be using a Mac even when a a Windows PC is the better tool for the job

Didn’t want to believe this was true. It’s true.

i shudder to think about how many human lifespans have been spent debugging / vs \ in file paths

I just want to say “thank you” to the people who turned “Discovery Channel” into “Ghosts and Bigfoot” and “The Learning Channel” into “Granite Countertop Propaganda” for being a guiding light* for me as an owner of an educational media company.

*to run away from.

Princess Tutu

When I found a pub with an inverted normal map. (If you understand what this means, you have to repost.)

Stop spreading this garbage about em dashes in ACTUAL EDITED PROSE OH MY GOD.

Plenty of actual human beings know how to type em dashes! We’re called “writers” and “editors” — maybe you’ve heard of us?

"Team building exercise".

I don’t want dinners at fancy restaurants, I want breakfast in a sunlit kitchen. Not awkward conversations over expensive dessert, but quiet words over gently burnt scrambled eggs we forgot to stir because you were too busy distracting me and I was too busy letting you.

I canceled my company subscription for Adobe Acrobat Pro, and they charged me $100 for "premature cancellation".

I hope the whole company goes up in flames.

#5yearsofTailscale