Nicola Ginzler

Senior Graphic Designer

Blog Category: history

Square image with black background and vignetted photo of a gray and white cat with light green eyes, licking her lips with her very pink tongue. Text in fanciful typeface: light green type above the photo "Eights the Cat" and below photo "I'm TEN!"; white type on the left "2016" and on the right "2026."

Eights the Cat is TEN!

Color-inverted image of Wikipedia article abstract. Black rectangle with white type: "From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Part of a series on Artificial intelligence (AI) The controversies surrounding artificial intelligence encompass a broad range of public, academic, and political debates regarding the societal effects of artificial intelligence (AI). These debates intensified particularly in the late 2010s and 2020s, coinciding with an accelerated period of development known as the AI boom. While advocates emphasize the technology's potential to solve complex problems and enhance human quality of life, detractors highlight a wide array of dangers and challenges. These include concerns over ethics, plagiarism and theft, fraud, safety and alignment, environmental impacts, technological unemployment, and the spread of misinformation. It also covers severe future or theoretical challenges, such as the emergence of artificial superintelligence and existential risks."

AI use can be very problematic

Horizontal poster with black background. Text: "CATS AGAINST M'ICE" in a distressed, all-caps typeface. Text is in yellow except "ICE," in white.

Recent protest signs and posters

Closeup photo of black cat with yellow-green eyes wearing tiny Santa hat. Light background.

My beloved first cat Lucy (RIP), ready for Christmas Eve!

Photo of a red heavy cardboard box with black corners on the lid, on a light gray patterned comforter. A label on the front of the box has a photo of a black cat lying on a flowered beige comforter.

Lucy’s the Cat’s “Memory Box” – (TW: pet death, grief)

Fanciful image: photos of tabby cats in various positions spelling out "LUCY"

Neko Font, in honor of Lucy the Cat, 1991(?) to 2008 – (TW: pet death, grief)

iPhone screenshots using the Seek app. Left to right: sculpture of bird ID'd as Common Raven, plant with flowers ID'd as Ivy Geranium; yellow coaster with grey kitten illustration ID'd as Mammal; gray-and-white cat ID'd as Domestic Cat.

Flower and plant identification using the Seek app

Photo of round pewter pin silhouetted against a white background. Pin is medium silver gray, slightly weathered, and has three parallel black arrows debossed across it. Arrows are pointing down and to the left at a 45-degree angle.

Three Arrows symbol