Some Switch 2 screenshots before bed,
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Ho scoperto solo oggi che il vignettista israeliano Dry Bones (Jerry Yaakov Kirshner), che mi ha regalato tanti sorrisi, è scomparso il 14 aprile scorso.
Vorrei ricordarlo ripostando la vignetta che di lui mi ha fatto più ridere, a mio avviso la migliore, amara e sconsolata.
AI was hot in the 80s, but Kirschen felt people didn't really want "artificial intelligence" — but artificial *personality* and *creativity.* "Could a computer display personality traits? Could a computer create music?" he asked.
He was ahead of his time.
I'm thankful to have known him, and to have helped preserve a small part of his legacy.
You can help his wife Sali by donating via their PayPal link: tiny.cc/3oncvz
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Decades later, I began researching and rescuing Kirschen's forgotten computer games and software for the Apple II, Atari ST, Commodore Amiga, and IBM PC.
https://breakintochat.com/blog/category/kirschen/?order=asc
Over the years, he and his wife Sali graciously made time to talk with me and send material related to his software.
I'm proud to have published histories on it for my blog, Emory University, the Internet Archive and Juiced.GS.
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Sad news: "Dry Bones" cartoonist Yaakov Kirschen has died.
https://www.jns.org/dry-bones-cartoonist-yaakov-kirschen-dies-at-87/
I first encountered Kirschen through his "Mom and Me" and "Murray and Me" graphical chatbot programs (received from my uncle Jim when he handed down his Atari ST to us in the late 1980s).
Kirschen's work on "Mom" and "Murray" was profiled in-depth by the NYT, LAT, and others.
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Telly and Disco (friend's OC) hanging out!
#Boo #ghost #DryBones #skeleton #FanOC #OC #OriginalCharacter #art #DigitalArt
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