Yo, it’s my last day as a staff writer at @TheOnion. I am grateful for the opportunity that I got to learn so much and work with such talented, smart people. I am not grateful for the dork-ass herb CEO of G/O media @JimSpanfeller. Here’s a thread of headlines I wrote that I love:
Here’s the first one I wrote that I felt got my sensibilities across to the historically Caucasian sensibility of the onion. Note we ran this a few weeks before they got rid of aunt Jemima in real life, and I want credit
This is my favorite child, because he probably should not exist
Some recent timely headlines you may have seen
Ok now rest of the favs
“Are they all about race?” Nope ☺️
a BAIT and switch get it ??
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I could go on forever because I was lucky enough to do a lot of jokes that I liked but we’ll close on these two:
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I just struggle to find a reason why anything created by an AI matters. Like the whole point of anything creative is that a person had an idea to bring what was in their mind into our physical plane of reality. If a human being isn’t involved what is the point
If we’re going to let ai make our art for us we should just kill ourselves for real
Like in the experience of being alive there’s all this pain and suffering and drama and emotion and the only reason we make things is to make that human experience help make the universe make some kind of sense and offer catharsis and if we’re not doing that then why exist?