this is fascinating, and a great explainer of how AI works, and how today AI has begun cannibalizing its own data because so many sites are protecting themselves with those "verify you are human" things to deter scraping.
the biggest LLMs all use the same dataset, and train on their own issue
Very proud to have lettered all the stories in this anthology. I'm not very loud about my queerness, but I love making queer comics, and I love being a part of this community.
New on the blog: a bunch of updates, including reviews of In Your Skin #2, work and life updates, and the Monsters in Love anthology. www.adityab.net/point-five/
Dave Eggers, on NPR's Wildcard with Rachel Martin:
www.npr.org/2026/06/11/n...
Happy Pride to this fine creature!
Oh yeah, I just made FULL TILT available to buy digitally! ko-fi.com/s/e168334585
this might be the best headline i’ve ever read
Image Comics' critical darling That Texas Blood is back with a sequel series called That Texas Blood: Hell Comes to Allison Ranch. Check out our exclusive preview of the first chapter.
Between this post and the last, In Your Skin #2 came out.
Funny story about that.
I never got my complimentary copies for the issue. When I checked with Fedex, they said that the customs department ...
Dr. Damien P. Williams is under the vast indifference of heaven
You get two digital PDF versions of FULL TILT, my 307 page OGN in glorious B&W.
One PDF is in double page format to better display the many two page...
This is wild: essentially every LLM—ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini—keeps using the same character when asked to make up a story, a guy called 'Elias Thorne'. He appears so much it's impacting Google Trends data and the self-published book market. Now we might know why www.404media.co/elias-thorne...
Raül Fernandez Fonts
Monsters in Love: A Pride Anthology is available now! Details: bit.ly/49Dm4u5
Includes 10 new standalone stories blending horror & romance in the style of classic EC Comics anthologies by fan-favorite LGBTQIA+ creators!
By @jamesthefourth.bsky.social and many more. With @readtinyonion.bsky.social
Blue lobsters are very rare: 1 in 2 million by some estimates.
But SPLIT COLOR LOBSTERS are 1 in *50* million.
This lobster is a chimera of two fertilized eggs that fused together, with two distinct genomes: male on one side, female on the other.
(📷: Woods Hole Science Aquarium/NOAA Fisheries)
LLMs including ChatGPT, Gemini and Claude are obsessed with telling stories about lighthouse keepers and clockmakers, and one character named 'Elias Thorne' has made his way from chatbots to Amazon bo...