There’s an amazing new AI trick that delivers superior results to anything else you’ve seen and it also happens to be radically simple to use. I used it to make my new profile pic, but the same methodology can easily be scaled to work for any size project. (1/X) To get a comic-book style image without any telltale AI glitches, I just followed three simple steps:

1. I identified an artist whose style I wanted to replicate.
2. I took some selfies.
3. I grabbed my credit card and I *paid the artist* to actually draw a portrait.
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I’d like you to do something. Right now, the #SaugusHighShooting is still an evolving story. The details and the number of victims will be updated and refined as the day goes on. Once all of the facts are in, try to remember this moment of uncertainty. (1/6) We often think of mass shootings in terms of the numbers — X people killed and Y people wounded. But I’d like you to think about what it’s like NOW for every family member of every student at that school. Right now they don’t know the numbers... (2/X)

THREAD: When one of my MAD Magazine articles (“The Ghastlygun Tinies”) went viral, some people were surprise that MAD published a satire (as opposed to parodies & puns.) But MAD had always done that.

Here are some of my favorite examples of when MAD “pulled no punches.” (1/X) "The Militarization Of Officer Joe" was written in 2014 by Desmond Devlin and painted by Richard Williams in response the Ferguson protests. It stands on it's own, but it's even more powerful when you contrast it with the 1958 Norman Rockwell painting that it references. (2/X)