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A post on The Daily Cartoonist.
If by "Humpday's Happy Diversions," they mean "this post doesn't mention Donald Trump or Jeffrey Epstein or Charlie Kirk by name even once, but only just barely," then sure, but it's still not all sunshine and rainbows in this post, even so.
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"This cartoon was posted on line and somebody commented of AI that 'it's just a tool.'
"No, man. You're just a tool."
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"It would be hard for any reasonably intelligent person not to know about Taylor Swift, just as it was once hard not to know about Frank Sinatra or Johnny Carson. You don't have to like her or care about her. You just have to have an IQ in three digits and a minimal amount of curiosity.
"We used to celebrate something called the Renaissance Man, a type of Jack of All Trades, admired for knowing something about a whole lot of things.
"It wasn't confined to Leonardo da Vinci, either: Samuel Johnson spoke with some awe of Elizabeth Carter, whose intellectual accomplishments are jaw-dropping, but who Doctor Johnson admired for being a down-to-Earth person, saying 'My old friend Mrs. Carter could make a pudding as well as translate Epictetus from the Greek, and work a handkerchief as well as compose a poem.'
"The real snobs these days are not the ones who can translate Epictetus but those who sneer at anybody who can.
"For my part, I am curious and well-informed enough to know we have Cabinet members who like to cosplay as police officers, though I hope to god that, like Barney Fife, they're permitted to wear the uniform but not to load their guns."
If by "Humpday's Happy Diversions," they mean "this post doesn't mention Donald Trump or Jeffrey Epstein or Charlie Kirk by name even once, but only just barely," then sure, but it's still not all sunshine and rainbows in this post, even so.
...
"This cartoon was posted on line and somebody commented of AI that 'it's just a tool.'
"No, man. You're just a tool."
...
"It would be hard for any reasonably intelligent person not to know about Taylor Swift, just as it was once hard not to know about Frank Sinatra or Johnny Carson. You don't have to like her or care about her. You just have to have an IQ in three digits and a minimal amount of curiosity.
"We used to celebrate something called the Renaissance Man, a type of Jack of All Trades, admired for knowing something about a whole lot of things.
"It wasn't confined to Leonardo da Vinci, either: Samuel Johnson spoke with some awe of Elizabeth Carter, whose intellectual accomplishments are jaw-dropping, but who Doctor Johnson admired for being a down-to-Earth person, saying 'My old friend Mrs. Carter could make a pudding as well as translate Epictetus from the Greek, and work a handkerchief as well as compose a poem.'
"The real snobs these days are not the ones who can translate Epictetus but those who sneer at anybody who can.
"For my part, I am curious and well-informed enough to know we have Cabinet members who like to cosplay as police officers, though I hope to god that, like Barney Fife, they're permitted to wear the uniform but not to load their guns."
