Grey J.

Grey J.

@greyj.bsky.social

Portlander, then and now. In between: Mexico City, Berlin, Los Angeles, NY. Graphic designer, sandwich eater, taco lover. The guitar solo in the True Wheel. He/Him

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Human Nescient Design will always be more intriguing than Artificial Sentient Design. Simple. Clean. Perfectly imperfect. This is something people should make note of as they phase out paying graphic designers/artists in lieu of "creating" work using Artificial Intelligence.

Cabel Sasser@cabel.panic.com

this is the way. 50× more eye-catching than an AI generated ad. #bigchallenges

Everything else is a distraction for the billionaire to steal from the US Treasury, dump it into his crypto BS, and have zero paper trail nor accountability. This is insanity.

The idea of paying for a type specimen catalog—essentially a tool designed to sell you fonts—baffles me. True, they're often examples of beautiful print work, and obviously cost money to create, but at the end of the day, they're still just a catalog trying to sell you a product.

"If we've been bamboozled long enough, we tend to reject any evidence of the bamboozle. We're no longer interested in finding the truth... It’s simply too painful to acknowledge, even to ourselves, that we've been taken. Once you give a charlatan power over you, you almost never get it back."~Sagan

This is what losing the cold war looks like. Putin continued the long game while our hubris helped drive us apart.

39 years ago, a KGB defector chillingly predicted modern America A disturbing interview given by a KGB defector in 1984 describes America of today and outlines four stages of mass brainwashing used by the KGB. bigthink.com/the-present/...

The hubris that makes us believe we are beyond manipulation simply because we feel like we're in charge of our own emotions is troubling. One simply needs to take a step back and look at the state of our country to see it's not the case. Dominoes have been falling for generations now.

In ideal conditions, the human eye can see approximately 2500 stars in the night sky. On Instagram alone, there are over 23 million posts marked with the hashtag, #stars. One of these has freely inspired humanity since humanity existed. The other is owned by Mark Zuckerberg.

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