Billionaire Mike Bloomberg cut down on traffic in Manhattan by closing off streets

That was his transportation secretary Janet Sadik-Khan's idea, give her credit! She was the brains behind all of the Bloomberg safe streets / cycle network stuff. And she did it on a shoestring budget. He gave her a few million bucks for paint and she created hundreds of miles of bike lanes.

I only know Ed Koch from that quote "how am I doing?" that psychologist Alfie Kohn calls "deeply neurotic" in its search for validation

I only know Ed Koch from the people’s court

"If you agree with me 51% of the time, vote for me. If you agree with me 100% of the time, seek a psychiatrist."

I remember seeing a video of Zo Boy talking about how he cited that quote in a previous video then was approached by some enthusiastic dude shouting "100% my man, haul me off to the clink!" lol

And Mamdami brought Khan onto his team

And Republicans lost a ton of other elections this week

And Nancy Pelosi is retiring

I am very tentatively hopeful for the future

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Sandwich guy acquitted.

(Context: this is a picture of Dick Cheney)

If vector art was used, or the outlines were placed/adjusted algorithmicly, this is a relatively normal effect caused by a bad path or stray vertices. While it could have been touched up with AI, I'd personally give the benefit of the doubt on this one

I went to the linked account page and it seems like just a consistent quirk in the artist's style. I imagine it'd be difficult to get AI to do that as consistently as it seems. Additionally, he posted the following regarding AI accusations: https://newsie.social/@royaards/115490549503341601

I'd have to vote not AI. Just scanned it really close and looks very much like digital art shading and the disconnected lines are a artistic choice.

I can see where he drew the outline the fill and the shading, looks natural. But it's hard as hell to tell each day.

Think the safest thing artists can do these days is a return to physical media (paint, ink, charcoal). Digital art like this is just so easy for AI to shit out. Not a craft issue, not because it's easy. But because digital is heavily in it's toolkit.

Not AI, just a particular style he's practiced since before AI was a thing

Are you AI slop? I don't know what to think.