Pencil Types
Wesley Osam
Nothing significant to note.
I’ve just made another blog post, on Stanislaw Lem’s Imaginary Magnitude: https://www.superdoomedplanet.com/blog/2025/06/22/on-stanislaw-lems-imaginary-magnitude/
Managed to write a quick blog post that is definitely about a video game and nothing else.
https://www.superdoomedplanet.com/blog/2025/06/15/how-ive-been-wasting-time/
I've had a new panel ready for the better part of a week and... just forgotten to post it for some reason?
A tree drawing, just at the website this time.
I have a lot of half-finished comic panels I haven't made progress on because I still haven't fully recovered from getting sick about three weeks ago. Today I finished this one more or less to my satisfaction:
Over the weekend I dug out some old notes on two Doris Piserchia novels and finished a blog post.
The man who is angry because his finger only points at himself.
Posted something on Dino Buzzati's The Singularity, and common SF ideas about AI, and how they bleed into common ideas about the real-life technologies labeled "AI".
https://www.superdoomedplanet.com/blog/2025/02/16/on-dino-buzzatis-the-singularity/
I can't see a photo with a pencil in it without thinking "What kind of pencil is that?" Also pens or any kind of art supplies. They're like cat photos to me.
The one blog post I've managed to get myself to work on lately is on a SF novel about AI, and, man, am I tired of thinking about AI.
I've finished and posted a long blog post on, like, everything wrong with generative AI:
https://www.superdoomedplanet.com/blog/2025/01/20/outsourcing-your-imagination/
It's actually an early treatment of themes we'd associate with transhumanists which have since been done to death in SF—but by the same token it has an unusual perspective on them. More skeptical than most SF of the idea that human-type intelligence could exist happily without human embodiment.
I just read Dino Buzzati's The Singularity, and reading about it discovered the original Italian title translates as "The Great Portrait," which resonates better with the book's themes; feels like the change traded a title that fit for one marketable in 2024.
The latest #DoctorWho is cute, but I saw the "tour the Blitz" poster and couldn't stop thinking "So... this is Vintage Season, but without grappling with the morality of that setup at all?"
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