Isn’t Craigslist still alive but barely kicking? Some wild and very overt things in the missed connections section.

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Still alive and horny

They are good. The illustration style that was dominated by these Memphis people for areas that still need some illustrative “fun” has shifted to gradients and more color. The roots of simplistic illustration are still there, just improved.

This too will get stale. Design trends used to last close to a decade, than down to 5 years around the 2000s. Now it’s more like maybe 2 years before everyone gets bored. That’s only going to accelerate.

But as the cycle goes around and around, it always seems to comeback to swiss design. Modified of course, but the base DNA is always there because it’s what all us designers had beaten into us as visual communicators.

All this Memphis, flat design, geometric bullshit is dressing on that basis that still works. Because at the Bauhaus school they looked closely at the psychology of visual communication and recorded what works and why to be an authority on the subject.

At the end of the day, a design is a failure if it doesn’t communicate to the viewer. Everything else consumers see are distractions marketing VPs and CEOs feel like they need because they “paid good money for something NEW”.

Just like my father did and his father before him. AI can’t replace traditions.

Did you get pregnant?

For an example of what these illustrations evolved into look at Firefox.com. But overall they have died not because of AI Slop, but because they got stale and any hangover over the last couple years was from “pre-built” templates.

From personal experience I’d see it in PowerPoints, business to business (B2B) marketing, and a lot of SaS or digital tech products.

A lot of companies in those spaces went abstract or geometric and phased stock photos of people laughing at nothing back into their marketing.

The stock images of people is what these Memphis stick figures replaced because it was easier to spin things up quickly without agonizing over getting photographic diversity, which was kind of a driver at the time.

It’s my job to keep an eye on trends.

ChatGPT, where is the best place to buy methamphetamines and a hooker locally?

the AI industry is trapping itself in a doom loop of its own creation, a cynical strategy that won’t benefit anybody but those at the very top who kicked the ladder down behind them.

That is a great way to sum it up.

Also the article highlights a problem I’ve been preaching. Everyone is complacent to use AI now, but the longer this goes on the less input it has to feed from.

I like the unique and raw creations that humans make. I don’t like formulaic pop music, writing, or art. There is beauty in our imperfections or raw expressions that will keep their meaning, but become increasingly rare because it’s not rewarding or pays well.

I’m not allowed “cool shoes” because I require arch support. Both NB and Sketchers have specialized shoes that accommodate that, are comfortable, and reasonablely priced.

But I really want them to provide some styles that have good arch support that doesn’t radiate “old man orthopedics”.

Thanks I’ll have to dig deeper. I figured out dumbing down Alexa but haven’t dug into Gemini yet.

I just wish their was an alternative besides Apple and Google for car things. Sooner or later the choice of having it disabled is going to quietly go away.

Where I am forced to encounter advanced LLMs is every company rolled out replacements for my “dumb” assistants. Like Alexa on an echo dot or Gemini on Android auto.

What I ask them to do does not take significant processing power. I need you to set a 5min timer. Not talk to me like you’re alive. Don’t overthink things, just do simple things.

All that extra banter they added in eats up processing power. So now it’s slower and works like shit because it’s formulating some complex response to my request to beep in 5 minutes. Just set the timer, my hands are covered in raw chicken juice.

If you were riding a snail naked would you stick better?

HE HAS BEEN BUSY!!

This looks like it’s not enough cream or deep enough. Is a bigger injector going to get sloppy seconds?

You’ve never seen an absolutely wrecked cream hole?

Grumble grumble… I’ve wanked to worse… unzips

Sorry, I was focusing on pushing out a turd at the time and was shopping for speaker stands.

I, had a lot on my plate.

This was invented by someone who was high and digging through their cupboards.

That building and scenery reminds me of something Moebious would illustrate.

Soapy Tiddies*

There I fixed it.

Bonus points