Adobe Adds Its AI Assistant To Premiere, Illustrator and InDesign
Adobe is expanding its Firefly AI assistant into Premiere, Illustrator, InDesign, and Frame.io, where it can automate all sorts of tasks such as organizing clips, renaming assets, adding interview markers, rearranging layers, and finding missing fonts. It’s available starting today as part of a public beta. TechCrunch reports: Adobe is slowly tr … ⌘ Read more

Mystery Orb Videos, Other UFO Records Released By White House
The Trump administration released another large batch of government UAP records, including videos of glowing orb-like objects appearing to split and rejoin, witness accounts, illustrations, and decades-old investigative documents. Axios reports: The documents indicate that government agents have spent years monitoring, investigating and documen … ⌘ Read more

Crucifix en conseil municipal, coupe de subventions et déprogrammation culturelle: une semaine d’exercice du pouvoir municipal du RN
De Carpentras à Ivry, de Carcassonne à Castres, des élus d’extrême droite ont illustré cette semaine leur conception de l’exercice du pouvoir, entre suppression de subventions pour des motifs politiques et prière en plein conseil municipal. ⌘ Read more

Best of cartoons, June 12, 2026
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The latest illustrations from artist Simon Letch
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Best of cartoons, June 12, 2026
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Best of cartoons, June 11, 2026
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The latest illustrations from artist Matt Golding
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Best of cartoons, June 10, 2026
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Best of cartoons, June 9, 2026
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Best of cartoons, June 8, 2026
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Concentration, pression économique, extrême droite: «La situation des libraires est catastrophique»
Les demandes de placement en redressement judiciaire des librairies Furet du Nord, Decitre et Gibert illustrent la crise que traverse le secteur. La présidente du Syndicat de la librairie française alerte aussi sur les effets d’une concentration inédite entre les mains de groupes puissants. ⌘ Read more

Pentagon Says US Military Personnel Targeted Using Commercial Location Data
U.S. forces deployed to war zones “have been targeted using commercially available location data,” reports Reuters, citing “reports fielded by military officials.”

Reuters calls it “an illustration of how the global surveillance economy is shaping the battlefield.”

In a letter shared with Reuters by U.S. Senator Ron Wyden, … ⌘ Read more

‘Changing of the Guard’? AMD, Intel, and Micron Soar While Nvidia Lags
While Nvidia has dominated the “infrastructure boom” since 2022’s launch of ChatGPT and “the generative AI craze,” CNBC writes that “This week offered the starkest illustration yet of what MIzuho analyst Jordan Klein said could be a ‘changing of the guard in AI.’”

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Exposed Data Illustrates the Nightmare Scenario for a Stalkerware Victim
Extremely sensitive personal data from a European celebrity that appears to have been compiled using spyware was publicly accessible until a researcher flagged the exposure. ⌘ Read more

‘I get to ask the questions, Mr. Musk’: World’s richest person accuses lawyer of trying to trick him in fiery clash
The jury was shown a series of texts and emails that illustrated the growing mistrust between Elon Musk and OpenAI founder Sam Altman before a tense cross-examination. ⌘ Read more

‘It felt like a bribe’: World’s richest person’s texts, emails revealed as he returns to stand
The jury was shown a series of texts and emails that illustrated the growing mistrust between Elon Musk and OpenAI founder Sam Altman. ⌘ Read more

‘It felt like a bribe’: Elon Musk takes aim at Sam Altman as he returns to witness stand
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Some pretty pics to illustrate the much improved reference Salty.im client, salty-chat.

@shinyoukai@yume.laidback.moe I have long forgotten. Thank you for illustrating it perfectly! 😅

AI Fails at Most Remote Work, Researchers Find
A new study “compared how well top AI systems and human workers did at hundreds of real work assignments,” reports the Washington Post.

They add that at least one example “illustrates a disconnect three years after the release of ChatGPT that has implications for the whole economy.”

AI can accomplish many impressive tasks involving computer code, documents or images. That has prompt … ⌘ Read more

Merriam-Webster’s 2025 Word of the Year Is ‘Slop’
Merriam-Webster crowned “slop” its 2025 Word of the Year, reflecting growing public awareness and and fatigue around low-quality, AI-generated content flooding the internet. “It’s such an illustrative word,” said Greg Barlow, Merriam-Webster’s president. “It’s part of a transformative technology, AI, and it’s something that people have found fascinating, annoying and a little bi … ⌘ Read more

Time Magazine’s ‘Person of the Year’: the Architects of AI
Time magazine used its 98th annual “Person of the Year” cover to “recognize a force that has dominated the year’s headlines, for better or for worse. For delivering the age of thinking machines, for wowing and worrying humanity, for transforming the present and transcending the possible, the Architects of AI are TIME’s 2025 Person of the Year.”

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How Pokemon Cards Became a Stock Market For Millennials
The Pokemon Trading Card Game has quietly transformed into something its creators never intended: a speculative asset class dominated by adults hunting for profit while children struggle to find a single pack on store shelves. The resale market has climbed so high that the latest set, Phantasmal Flames, had a rare Charizard illustration valued at more than $800 b … ⌘ Read more

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Trump and Infantino - too close for comfort?
Friday’s World Cup draw in Washington DC will be the latest illustration of the ever-closer relationship between US President Donald Trump and Fifa president Gianni Infantino. ⌘ Read more

Better Technology, Worse Motivation: GenAI’s Mediocrity Trap

While generative AI (GenAI) promises productive efficiency, it can paradoxically lead to lower-quality work. We conducted an experiment with professional illustrators and found that AI assistance flattens the quality curve—it accelerates initial gains but sharply diminishes the returns on sustained effort. Faced with this, a significant number of professionals made a strategic choice: they sacrificed the final quality to save time.

From http://www.jin-li.org/uploads/1/1/4/5/114595093/ai_and_motivation.pdf

I haven’t read this and can’t vouch for it; seems vaguely AI-boostery. Still, the conclusions are interesting. This seems to be the picture that is emerging about generative AI generally: most people don’t like it and find that degrades the quality of work. Coders seem to like it and think that it helps them, but in fact it makes the slower, less productive, and more bug prone.

By all measures it’s a bad technology. We should just be honest about it. There is no need to make excuses for multi-trillion-dollar corporations.

Affinity is a Powerful Free Photoshop Alternative for Mac (and Windows)
Affinity is a powerful creative application that offers photo and image editing capabilities, vector design, and page layout features, all in a single app, and feature-wise it’s easily able to compete with the likes of Adobe Photoshop or Illustrator. But unlike Photoshop or Illustrator, Affinity is now completely free – though advanced features like AI … [Read More](https://osxdaily.com/2025/11/19/affinity … ⌘ Read more

@bender@twtxt.net Thanks for this illustration, it completely “misunderstood” everything I wrote and confidently spat out garbage. 👌

Americans Brace for Food Stamps to Run Out: ‘The Greatest Hunger Catastrophe Since the Great Depression’
Eric Berger,  Reporter  -  rsn.org | The Guardian (U.K.)

_Stephan: Part of America’s transition from a democratic republic to an authoritarian neo-medieval society, is that just as was the case in the 14th century, the rich and powerful care nothing for the welllbeing of the peasants. Nothing illustrates this more cle … ⌘ Read more

RFK Jr to urge Americans to eat more saturated fats, alarming health experts
Hannah Harris Green,  Contributing Writer  -  The Guardian (U.K.)

_Stephan: No one illustrates the incompetence of the Trump administration than Robert Kennedy, Jr, Secretary of Health and Human Services. I know children who would be more competent in that position than Kennedy, whose only qualification seems to be his surname and his submissive loyalty to his king. Please … ⌘ Read more

Donald Trump shares AI video of himself bombing ‘No Kings’ protesters with manure
JADA BAS,  Trainee Reporter  -  Daily Mail (U.K.)

_Stephan: Just how mentally sick and contemptuous of Americans who don’t support him, dictator Trump is can, perhaps, best be illustrated by the video of himself wearing a crown, flying as a fighter pilot, and dropping faeces on “No Kings” demonstrators. He, himself, actually posted this video.  I think it is also i … ⌘ Read more

Greta Thunberg and other Global Sumud Flotilla activists used an image of Israeli hostage Evyatar David to illustrate the suffering of Palestinian prisoners incarcerated in Israel. ⌘ Read more

@zvava@twtxt.net Hahaha, I love it! This illustrates the contradiction very well.

20 ans !
Eh oui, cela fait 20 ans déjà ! C’est en septembre 2005 que ce blog vit le jour, recueil de notes et de remarques sur une actualité déjà assez liberticide à l’époque. Petit-à-petit, les notes sont devenues plus longues, les billets plus construits, illustrés, puis relayés au fil des années par différents supports numériques. De quelques […] ⌘ Read more

The last six months in LLMs, illustrated by pelicans on bicycles
Article URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Jun/6/six-months-in-llms/

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SC-200 - MS Security Operations Analyst illustrative notes

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@bender@twtxt.net SUPER talented like the way she does her illustrations is crazy!!!

A visual flow chart diagram that illustrates how two different but very related concepts can lead to system accidents 👌

• asynchronous evolution
  
• drift into failure

10 Great Comic Book Castings Wasted on Bad Scripts
Casting comic book characters onto the big (or small) screen is tricky. Unlike regular novels, these superpowered stories come with vivid illustrations of every plot beat. As such, fans have clear pictures of how the characters should look and act. Maybe that’s why they scrutinize these adaptations so closely. It’s painfully apparent when the wrong […]

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[ANN] Launching a new design initiative for Monero

The dream is to bring designers, developers, and creatives together to shape the future of Monero’s ecosystem and I’d love for others to jump in! To build resources and help craft great design. If you’re a designer, developer, illustrator, or just someone passionate about Monero and good design sensibility reach out. Let’s build together!

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• https://fud.agency
  
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La Taxe Lapin, illustration de l’effondrement du système de soins français
Chaque année, 27 millions de consultations ne sont pas honorées par les patients qui posent un lapin à leur docteur. C’est scandaleux, c’est intolérable, et c’est pourquoi le gouvernement agit ! Tout le pays l’attendait depuis un moment et enfin, le gouvernement s’est emparé du sujet : la « Taxe Lapin » fait son apparition dans un prochain projet […] ⌘ Read more

Le cercle vicieux de l’effondrement de la justice en France
Voyons, tout le monde sait que la justice en France n’est absolument pas laxiste ! La France n’est pas un coupe-gorge ! Ces colonnes sont l’occasion de parfois revenir sur l’un ou l’autre fait divers sordide qui illustre, à chaque fois, un décalage assez patent entre ce qu’on peut attendre de la Justice et ce qu’on voit […] ⌘ Read more

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