Oct. 10, 2025
Jim Lee just did something remarkable at New York Comic Con: he publicly declared that DC Comics will never use AI for storytelling or artwork. Not now, not ever, as long as he’s running the show. And the crowd went wild.
Now, here’s what’s computationally fascinating about this moment: we’re watching a major content production system explicitly reject optimization in favor of something messier, more expensive, and infinitely more interestingâhuman consciousness in action.
Dec. 27, 2024
Another Sunday morning, and my head feels like it’s been through a meat grinder. Perfect time to read some fancy New York Times opinion piece about AI and human genius while nursing this bottle of Buffalo Trace. The writer, Christopher Beha, seems like the kind of guy who drinks wine with his pinky up, but he’s stumbled onto something interesting here between all the academic name-dropping.
Here’s the thing about AI that nobody wants to admit: we’re all scared shitless of it because we’ve spent the last fifty years convincing ourselves we’re nothing special. Somewhere between smoking too much French theory in college and worshipping at the altar of evolutionary psychology, we decided humans were just meat computers running outdated software.
Nov. 22, 2024
Christ, my head is pounding. Three fingers of bourbon for breakfast probably didn’t help, but neither did reading this latest masterpiece of tech optimism about making ChatGPT your “writing assistant.” Let me tell you something about writing assistants - the best ones come in bottles labeled “Kentucky Straight Bourbon Whiskey.”
But here I am, chain-smoking my way through another piece about how AI will make us better writers. Because that’s exactly what Hemingway needed - a chatbot to tell him his sentences were too short.