Duck Soup: Photos

Thursday, September 17, 2026

Turn Yourself Into A 1985 Photo

[ed. Because everybody must have a secret urge to look like a Miami Vice character. Since this video is mostly about writing better prompts, see also: this link (not video) for travel planning.]

Tuesday, September 15, 2026

Carly Simon and James Taylor
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[ed. Everybody had the hots for Carly back then (and Linda Rondstadt). She actually came from a very wealthy family; you've heard of the publishing company Simon and Schuster? When she was young she thought her dad made shoes for a living (Shoe-ster). Hahaha...]

Monday, September 7, 2026

The Unique Horrors of A.I. Food Slop

The Unique Horrors of A.I. Food Slop (New Yorker)

Images via: X/Reddit

The next frontier of food imagery has proven far less appealing than whatever food porn was. From Minneapolis to Hexentanzplatz, restaurants are plastering menus and promotional materials with A.I.-generated renditions of shrimp scampi and quiche, chicken nuggets and burritos, Italian subs and bacon, egg, and cheeses. Anyone with even the mildest case of trypophobia—the sense of revulsion from tiny clusters and holes—should avert their eyes. A nauseating, nightmarish quality defines A.I.’s insectified interpretation of human cuisine, as if food were just another surrealist goo to stochastically iterate upon. This may explain the categorical outrage over this latest misuse of generative A.I.: such renderings of food—genuinely, slop—offend the materiality of the living in a way that A.I.’s distortions of words and other inanimate objects somehow do not. These images violate science; they mock life itself. It is Barthes’ conception of ornamental cookery infested with maggots; it is the Food Network, aired from hell.