Girl: AI is a conspiracy to make writing look like unskilled labor Cat: AI is a conspiracy to make drawing look like unskilled labor / Girl: AI is a conspiracy to devalue the humanities Cat: The moon landing was a conspiracy to justify spending money on math and science education / Girl: AI is a conspiracy to make understanding the world through the observation of it look like unskilled labor Cat: Our ideology will MAKE the world in its IMAGE / Girl: AI is a conspiracy to replace complexity and nuance with binaries Cat: I know a whole industry based on binaries! / Girl: AI is a conspiracy to make ALL labor look like unskilled labor except for the labor done in Silicon Valley - Silicon Valley is a conspiracy to make all labor look like unskilled labor except for investing done by venture capital / Girl: An AI prompt is an idea - but an idea is not a thought - THINKING is what brings the idea into the world Cat: But an idea is what you sell to a venture capital firm / Cat: So YOU tell ME what's valuable Girl: The labor of creation - the richness of ambiguity - / Cat: Good luck monetizing that one Girl: Thirty years ago ambiguity got you a starter home
  • Justin Reeves
    January 16, 2025

    “There’s a woman cleaning up . . . slop.” — Mellencamp

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The Other Places

September 13, 2023

Platypus (Ornithorhynchus Paradoxus) illustrated by Charles Dessalines D' Orbigny (1806-1876). Digitally enhanced from our own 1892 edition of Dictionnaire Universel D'histoire Naturelle.

As the monoplatforms that displaced the monoculture shudder (above: monotremes), we here at the Cat and Girl social media department (employees: 1/28 of a person) would like to celebrate the fact that all the feeds and accounts you need to keep you from looking here, at this website, are – briefly – working. So come join us for your distraction-from-environmental-catastrophe needs –

via mastodon
via email (and millionaire) at Substack beehiiv
via millionaire at tumblr
via billionaire at bluesky
via billionaire at instagram
and, for luddites who don’t mind web-based subscription platforms, there is a (millionaire-adjacent) patreon that sends out zines

Or, as drewtoothpaste.bsky.social said: “‘why would you use that site? don’t you know it’s financed by someone evil?’ yeah well i made my own websites and you all stopped going to websites so i have to use the evil ones you like instead of my own.”

What’s in your time capsule?

June 26, 2023

Drew a comic about time capsules, Flushing Queens and how long 5,000 years is – over at the Nib.

All Times Are Limited, Strictly Speaking

November 25, 2022

For the next week the attic store is going to be OPEN AGAIN for orders. There’s a limited amount of stuff in there! And I have a limited amount of patience with the current modern era of packing and shipping things. So this will be it for the next couple of months, good luck getting three Graces on coasters when you decide you need them THEN.