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An early Halloween cartoon for Guardian Books

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Radio/TV tower, Sint-Pieters-Leeuw, 1996

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Adam McEwen (British, 1965), Ship (Red), 2017. Inkjet print on cellulose sponge, 37.3 x 50.8 cm.

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A beautiful autumn day in Berkhamsted, Hertfordshire.

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HATE when you’re inserting your email somewhere and literally from the first letter the website is like “invalid email address” like yes i know. I’m typing it right now. My email address is obviously not just the letter ‘m’. Stop

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Vampire

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Poetry of Graffiti by chairspoetry

- fubiz

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People who try to copy historical writing styles don't say enough weird stuff in them. I'm listening to a 1909 story about a ghost car right now, and the narrator just said he honked the car horn a bunch of times, but the way he phrased it was "I wrought a wild concerto on the hooter".

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YOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

(new Gabriel Urbina joint coming soon that I think y'all are gonna go bananas for, go here to sign up for updates)

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September 2024 UK food peanut contamination

I hadn’t seen this when it first came out the other day but the warning is still valid: any UK food containing mustard may be contaminated with peanuts!!

Luckily, mustard is a listed allergen in its own right, so it will be in bold on food packaging and restaurants should know about mustard in their ingredients. Stay safe out there!

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Postcard from Tallinn, September 2024. What a beautiful city!

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In an exceptionally petty act of racist vandalism, only the placards that were contributed by people of colour were stolen.

Let’s take this opportunity to promote the South Downs National Park and the new walking trails. If you happen to visit the eastern end of the park, there are also good art galleries in Bexhill and Hastings, and Pevensey Bay is very pretty.

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Art by Marie Soosaar in Tallinn, Estonia

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Adoration 2019

For Kyiv-based artist Oleksiy Sai, there has always been something surreal about the business world. While trying to unearth a global corporate culture, he turned his attention to Microsoft Excel — the beloved software tool of managers everywhere — to recreate scenes of office life.

“The data I use as elements of visual language can be clearly understood by a person [working within] corporate culture, [which is] perhaps the youngest well-defined culture of humanity,” Sai explains on his website.

New East Digital Archive

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This two dimensional tromp-l'oeil, was crafted by Robert Sprachman from cedar shingles on the end wall of a garage [source and more artworks by the author: https://buff.ly/2ZmOAvq]

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The upsetting thing about the Internet Archive situation is that they decided to bet everything - their credibility, the crucial work of preservation they've done on the net, the accessibility of materials that otherwise be legitimate lost media - on a truly idiotic proposition for the sake of either "changing bad law" or martyring themselves to it.

And now they're getting martyred for it.

And it's their own goddamn fault.

And we're still going to pay for it, as a society, either paying for their dumbfuck legal pirouette, with the loss of all the material that they claimed to be custodians of but instead endangered recklessly, or realistically, both.

It's fucking maddening.

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Call me old-fashioned but I do usually like to look things up before I start wringing my hands about them. I don’t have any data to hand about image generation tools specifically, but given this:

“But while a single Google search requires half a millilitre of water in energy, ChatGPT consumes 500 millilitres of water for every five to 50 prompts.”

I would be very surprised if image generation has no consumption.

Source: https://theconversation.com/ais-excessive-water-consumption-threatens-to-drown-out-its-environmental-contributions-225854

The handwringing over the water usage in AI art is quite funny to me, as an obvious example of 'choosing your thesis then looking around for anything that will vaguely support it.' Because nobody has ever indicated concern over the literal litres of clean water I'm wasting per mediocre watercolour painting. It's a water-based medium. Not to mention the water lost during the manufacture of the paper and paints.