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Ali's avatar

Your cavorting around NYC at these incredible exhibitions gives many of us solid vicarious thrills without having to actually make a loooong expensive trip. You get to hang with THE Roz Chast?

😱🤯. I would just lose it entirely. 😍

Thanks for sharing your sparkly life and hard work with the rest of us.

And I appreciate that vintage quote from The New Yorker founder about the QUALITY illustrations. That is the key to the personality of the magazine. Hope they don’t forget it!

When I was in my 20s I lived in a building where the entire laundry room was wallpapered in vintage NY covers! It was a treasure to just stay down there for the duration of the cycle just looking looking looking.

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Jason Chatfield's avatar

That laundry room sounds so good it might actually make me enjoy doing laundry... Amazing.

Thanks for your note, Ali. I really am grateful to know you're enjoying it!

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Bob Eckstein's avatar

Love it. Another nice wrap-up and I'm glad you continue raise awareness regarding AI. Thank you.

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Jason Chatfield's avatar

Bob! Of course. And I just received your book from my doorman in my old building (sorry I didn't send you my new address before you sent it). It's brilliant!

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Sharon Herrick's avatar

Your stuff is brilliant---love the cat/carrot/stick/dog and I bagel New York, especially. Also love your Mister Softee and Roz Chast's Sisyphus The Commuter (Sorry. Sorry...Sorry). Wonderful.

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Jason Chatfield's avatar

Thank you Sharon! Don't apologize, I love hearing from you.

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Sharon Herrick's avatar

To be clear, the "sorry sorry sorry" came from Sisyphus, not me. I just really like the idea that he would be apologizing for his rock. Maybe that was a joke on your part? If so, I could apologize for not getting it? Anyway---you're an absolute pleasure.

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Jason Chatfield's avatar

Hahaha. Sorry, yes I love that cartoon.

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Ali's avatar

Jason the AI threat of destruction of Actual Intelligence is only the tip of the iceberg.

I’m not running a business anymore, so am uninterested in these new tools but the following story from Live Science stopped me in my tracks with a real sense of foreboding.

https://www.livescience.com/technology/artificial-intelligence/ai-could-use-online-images-as-a-backdoor-into-your-computer-alarming-new-study-suggests.

All one has to do is read the list of the thousands of cookies already in your computer to know that we are absolutely already vulnerable.

OA is the new luxury. Original Art.

Carry on.

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Jason Chatfield's avatar

Thank you for this, Ali. I’ll take a look.

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Alex Hallatt's avatar

That's a classic "nothing to see here" look from Morris.

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Anne R.'s avatar

I should have done more crowd-watching at the Transit Museum event! I live in Chicago, but happened to be in NYC that day and was delighted to be able to get a ticket. It was a blast to hear Roz Chast, whose work I have loved for many years, and to be introduced to Ellis Rosen and his work. The questions from the crowd were fun and it was notable how everyone was clearly a fan and felt no need to play it cool when in the presence of a legend.

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Jason Chatfield's avatar

I agree! It was so much fun and the questions were great. They’re both such naturally funny people.

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Elisabeth Birker's avatar

❣️🙏

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