Stephen Mullinax
@stephenmullinax.bsky.social
Illustrator/designer of sorts
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November is great. We should not allow the erasure of the back half of fall due to making the year about christmas right after halloween. Embrace your time and live in it!!
November 1, 2024 at 1:56 PM
November is great. We should not allow the erasure of the back half of fall due to making the year about christmas right after halloween. Embrace your time and live in it!!
DO NOT LET THIS MAN IN YOUR HOUSE, HE WILL NEVER LEAVE
October 20, 2025 at 3:25 PM
DO NOT LET THIS MAN IN YOUR HOUSE, HE WILL NEVER LEAVE
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We should have listened when the modems screamed at us.
July 22, 2025 at 2:30 PM
We should have listened when the modems screamed at us.
The movie Be Kind Rewind has done more to democratize filmmaking than AI ever will
June 28, 2025 at 7:12 PM
The movie Be Kind Rewind has done more to democratize filmmaking than AI ever will
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Elon saying he’s going to reprogram his chatbot’s view of history is a perfect example of why these kinds of AI products aren’t the neutral “tools” people always defend them as. They’re little political projects reflecting the ideologies of their creators
June 21, 2025 at 2:01 PM
Elon saying he’s going to reprogram his chatbot’s view of history is a perfect example of why these kinds of AI products aren’t the neutral “tools” people always defend them as. They’re little political projects reflecting the ideologies of their creators
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I joined Bluesky exactly two years ago and I wrote a piece about my thoughts on the platform - how it's been coming along so far and where it seems fated to go. Thanks for reading.
June 12, 2025 at 4:42 PM
I joined Bluesky exactly two years ago and I wrote a piece about my thoughts on the platform - how it's been coming along so far and where it seems fated to go. Thanks for reading.
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#Titmouse and #KCGreen Partner on #AnimeClub Animated Series: show based on the comic of the same name by Green follows a group of high school outcasts obsessed with pop-culture who decide to form an unofficial, unfunded, and misunderstood anime club. bit.ly/43tucuA #Animation #AnimationWorld
June 2, 2025 at 5:27 PM
#Titmouse and #KCGreen Partner on #AnimeClub Animated Series: show based on the comic of the same name by Green follows a group of high school outcasts obsessed with pop-culture who decide to form an unofficial, unfunded, and misunderstood anime club. bit.ly/43tucuA #Animation #AnimationWorld
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The whole 'Grok is a boer now' thing is very funny, but it also really exposes how every 'AI tool' isn't just passively biased from training data, but actively designed to shape your worldview according to the interests of the billionaires who made them.
May 15, 2025 at 5:49 PM
The whole 'Grok is a boer now' thing is very funny, but it also really exposes how every 'AI tool' isn't just passively biased from training data, but actively designed to shape your worldview according to the interests of the billionaires who made them.
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If you make it your life's goal to defund things like this, you are my enemy and I hope you die alone and afraid. Stevie Wonder performs a fire version of "Superstition" on Sesame Street. www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ul7...
Stevie Wonder - Superstition live on Sesame Street
YouTube video by Ryan's Smashing Life
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May 6, 2025 at 8:35 PM
If you make it your life's goal to defund things like this, you are my enemy and I hope you die alone and afraid. Stevie Wonder performs a fire version of "Superstition" on Sesame Street. www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ul7...
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Robert McGinnis has died. An absolute icon of mid-late 20th century commercial #art and #illustration.
April 4, 2025 at 8:35 AM
Robert McGinnis has died. An absolute icon of mid-late 20th century commercial #art and #illustration.
It's just a tool bro. Why are you screaming bro?
April 1, 2025 at 1:33 PM
It's just a tool bro. Why are you screaming bro?
Don't worry, I almost got it
March 7, 2025 at 5:21 PM
Don't worry, I almost got it
Aw man
Just learned from one of his friends that George Lowe, voice of the titular character from Space Ghost: Coast to Coast, has died.
R.I.P., George
R.I.P., George
March 4, 2025 at 3:41 PM
Aw man
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In general, I think we'll look back on from the 2005-2025 era and realize they worked to deskill everyone--from casual users down to actual coders--in anything related to computers.
I'm often teaching undergrads things like "how to save a file as PDF" even. AI really accelerates this trend though.
I'm often teaching undergrads things like "how to save a file as PDF" even. AI really accelerates this trend though.
February 25, 2025 at 2:12 PM
In general, I think we'll look back on from the 2005-2025 era and realize they worked to deskill everyone--from casual users down to actual coders--in anything related to computers.
I'm often teaching undergrads things like "how to save a file as PDF" even. AI really accelerates this trend though.
I'm often teaching undergrads things like "how to save a file as PDF" even. AI really accelerates this trend though.
Just a valentine only graphic designers will get
February 14, 2025 at 3:52 PM
Just a valentine only graphic designers will get
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When they say "Move fast, break things" — We're the things.
January 27, 2025 at 11:00 PM
When they say "Move fast, break things" — We're the things.
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Democrats have too much respect for the voters. They assume they're making complex, nuanced, reasoned decisions and must be approached with care, while Republicans assume voters are simplistic and emotional and you have to pound them over the head with your message. Guess which is more effective.
January 27, 2025 at 1:56 PM
Democrats have too much respect for the voters. They assume they're making complex, nuanced, reasoned decisions and must be approached with care, while Republicans assume voters are simplistic and emotional and you have to pound them over the head with your message. Guess which is more effective.
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"Imagine a world in which an A.I. can analyze your reading patterns and alert you that you’re about to buy a book where there’s only a 10 percent chance you’ll get past Page 6..."
Fuck off. That's not empowerment, that's outsourcing your soul. That's outsouling.
www.nytimes.com/2025/01/25/o...
Fuck off. That's not empowerment, that's outsourcing your soul. That's outsouling.
www.nytimes.com/2025/01/25/o...
Opinion | AI Can Work for Us
A.I. can be designed to dramatically enhance individual empowerment.
www.nytimes.com
January 25, 2025 at 4:15 PM
"Imagine a world in which an A.I. can analyze your reading patterns and alert you that you’re about to buy a book where there’s only a 10 percent chance you’ll get past Page 6..."
Fuck off. That's not empowerment, that's outsourcing your soul. That's outsouling.
www.nytimes.com/2025/01/25/o...
Fuck off. That's not empowerment, that's outsourcing your soul. That's outsouling.
www.nytimes.com/2025/01/25/o...
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People. TikTok, like all the other awful social media platforms, led plenty of people to hateful right-wing content. Trad wives, manosphere influencers, Trumpists (as Trump himself bragged about) etc. were all huge on there.
None of these billionaire big tech corporations are our friends.
None of these billionaire big tech corporations are our friends.
i remain professionally convinced that tiktok wasn’t banned for either the stated reasons (national security & data privacy) or competitive reasons (ads on tiktok worked compared to IG/FB/Snap/TW)
TikTok was banned because it is/was monstrously effective at teaching people empathy of others
TikTok was banned because it is/was monstrously effective at teaching people empathy of others
I am watching 30 years of propaganda melt away at first contact with actual Chinese folks.
Every comment section on RedNote are the Chinese users welcoming the Americans, "I'm so glad you're here! We can be friends now! We are not enemy!"
Every comment section on RedNote are the Chinese users welcoming the Americans, "I'm so glad you're here! We can be friends now! We are not enemy!"
January 14, 2025 at 9:14 PM
People. TikTok, like all the other awful social media platforms, led plenty of people to hateful right-wing content. Trad wives, manosphere influencers, Trumpists (as Trump himself bragged about) etc. were all huge on there.
None of these billionaire big tech corporations are our friends.
None of these billionaire big tech corporations are our friends.
HAPPY NEW YEAR
January 1, 2025 at 2:36 PM
HAPPY NEW YEAR
Thinking about the unused music video concept for @redstateupdate.bsky.social’s song Christmas Crow and wanted to see if it could at least work as a fake book cover.
December 24, 2024 at 2:32 PM
Thinking about the unused music video concept for @redstateupdate.bsky.social’s song Christmas Crow and wanted to see if it could at least work as a fake book cover.
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That being an "independent" artist means being trapped by Kindle/TikTok/Spotify etc. algorithms and ecosystems, combined with a decimation of artist payouts by those same corporations (requiring ever more virality to survive)... I think this basically defines so much of modern culture.
December 18, 2024 at 3:15 PM
That being an "independent" artist means being trapped by Kindle/TikTok/Spotify etc. algorithms and ecosystems, combined with a decimation of artist payouts by those same corporations (requiring ever more virality to survive)... I think this basically defines so much of modern culture.
The elves are putting on their fanciest footwear
December 18, 2024 at 4:04 PM
The elves are putting on their fanciest footwear