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In a response to my recent post on compiling AI books, Thad McIlroy sent a link to a paper on the topic, “Generative AI floods and dilutes the market for books” by Tuhin Chakrabarty, Xinyue Liu, Jane C. Ginsburg, and Paramveer Dhillon....
BOUGHT: Now That We Draw Vol. 5 (Seven Seas Entertainment) The previous volume ended with a pretty big cliffhanger, with high schooler and aspiring manga artist Uehara Yuu overhearing the other two points of the series' emerging love...
Why Intensity Can Feel Like Connection For many people who grew up with childhood trauma, love can feel confusing. Not because we don’t know how to love. Many trauma survivors actually love deeply. We tend to notice the smallest changes...
… are moments. Moments when you’re stood amid a strand of really tall sunflowers, listening to bees quietly buzzing and going about their business and, as you tilt your face toward the sun, mimicking a sunflower, the warmth radiates...
Hello, loves! We need to get the boundary behavior right. This may mean I have to understand my code. Arrgh. Tout le monde déteste l’IA. If you are like me—and if you are, you have my sincere sympathy—and if you’ve done much graphics...
A rant triggered by sticker shock in vintage stores. Yesterday I went on a bit of a trip across town to a famous local comic shop called The Beguiling. They are owned by the guys who founded the Toronto Comic Arts Festival and although...
I am hopping on an airplane right now and I’m headed to the biggest pen show in the US! Come see me at the DC Supershow this weekend. I will be at the Dromgoole’s tables as their resident ink expert. I would be happy to help you find the...
Red chopsticks swirl into a ball of red string on the poster for Nothing Can’t Be Undone by a HotPot [Mei you yi dun huo guo jie jue bu liao de shi] (dir. Sheng Ding, 2023).
One answer to the Fermi Paradox is that advanced civilizations develop AI and lose interest in space travel. A researcher now argues that's backwards: AI, robots, and cheap probes make space exploration easier. Which means the paradox...
Not in Edinburgh so much these days, I'm a little out of touch, but it seems like these new pink bikes (for hire) are everywhere. Trouble is I've not seen anybody actually riding one of them so far. Perhaps there's a few mad hours later...
I’d heard rumors that the FFXIV Mobile version would be canceled about a week or two before the official website posted an announcement. Because I’m honestly not sure how long the site will remain up, I’ve screenshotted the info and...
📔 I'm doing Blaugust this year. This is 5/hopefully 31 posts in August, and a post I started writing on the 19th of July. A page I've added to my blog this year but not linked anywhere (my 'page' page needs a spring cleaning) is little...
These are the terms we’ll be having people pick up starting in early 2027 and ongoing through the following five fiscal years, to accommodate the need for rhetorical conflict and animus in the RPG scene.Friendplay: long-form RPG play in...
Here’s a good post and tips from Mike Harley: How I make my blog posts more resilient. Mike recommends self-hosting media. I’ve been back and forth about doing that vs. using something like Cloudinary or Cloudflare. I think Mike makes a...