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Meat proxy

A person who forwards AI-generated text, code, or other output without reading, understanding, or validating it. The person acts only as a relay between the AI system and the intended recipient.

A little late on this one as it’s travelled across the interwebs and back already, but I felt like it needed to be preserved here as well.

South Park Shares a Cheeky, Trump-Inspired Name Change Ahead of Season 29

“Inspired by the bravery and patriotism of Apple and Google, we are changing the name of ‘South Park’ to ‘South America,’” Parker and Stone said in a statement. “We especially want to thank our parent company Paramount — a Skydance Capitulation.”

South America is some Grade-A marketing, which is no surprise from these guys. I know they’ve always pushed boundaries, but I absolutely love that they’ve ratcheted things up over the last few years.

Sources page

Been working on some small refinements around here despite the fact it has been a ghost town for the last month or so as we pushed out a couple print books at Foofaraw.

Colors, interactions, and more have been updated along with the linked Sources page that shows a grid of all the places we've linked to.

I have a few more ideas I still want to get to, but I'll save those until I'm actually a bit more active around these parts.

Gimme by Typearture

Gimme is the kid in class who has everything, from the latest toy as seen on TV to a tricked out BMX bike. It's the only person you knew with the complete Playmobil Mansion or USS Flagg. This time however, it can be you! Gimme is a dazzling ever-growing type family of multi-chromatic and variable display typefaces which will leave you saying: gimme more! And you are in luck, because updates will deliver on that! Inspired by a box full of toys, more type families will be added as we go along, expanding them further and adding new features. And the more allowance, the more it will grow!

There is a strong possibility this is the wildest and craziest font that has ever existed. It's truly an incredible work of art that is beyond my wildest imagination.