owen cyclops

current game: linked on my page here: books / art / lab (day to day comics in highlights tab)

i like that “podcasts” stuck as a term long after the use of ipods because we intuitively sense that you’re meant to listen to them in pods (cars or apartments)

interesting to contrast these two images: below (college) and quoted, 2015. this is basically the furthest and most recent points of bill watterson’s career, with calvin and hobbes sandwiched in the middle:

you don't realize how violent finger guns are until you find yourself constantly, out of habit, pointing them at a baby.

POV: i am in 'the new yorker' but it's 1932:

when i first started as a cashier, i had a person get furious at me. kind of rattled me. guy i was working with said, “its not you. if you interact with 600 people in a row and its normal 599 times, its them”. true. so thats when i started intentionally enraging 1 customer a day.

you think people have gone too far in being oversensitive about terms, then i look at an educational document from the early 1900s today where teachers are referring to their students as “dummlings”, a slightly folkloric and germanic way of saying “dumblings”.

you can just redraw a picture i drew and get 80k likes in a day on here very cool (not being sarcastic, great sign)

even if you look at “real publications”, people are just posting straight up AI articles. this is in forbes. first pic: they posted it, then “updated it” three days later. on the wayback machine you can see an obviously AI section. they removed this in the “update” (last pic):

love getting crazy unsolicited academic papers in my inbox. true chaos