Nobody tell Alan Moore…

The New York Post has outdone itself:

The thing is, of course, that not only do we not know what JTR actually looked like, WE DON’T EVEN KNOW WHO HE WAS! Who writes this bullshit? Well, per the article:

The dangerously dreamy drawings come courtesy of Jeff Leahy, a long-time Ripper enthusiast from Carmarthen, Wales, who produced a mini-series on the murderer and has spent decades studying the lore surrounding one of history’s most infamous villains.
Using Midjourney software, along with information and available photographs of the relatives of prime suspect Aaron Kosminski, Leahy was able to produce a rather astonishing portrait of the man.
“It’s astonishing to finally have an image of him. I was surprised by how striking the picture is,” Leahy told SWNS.
Kosminski was a Polish-born barber working in Whitechapel, the area of London’s East End where the murders took place in the late 1800s.
Kosminski has been named by numerous experts as the Ripper, however nobody has ever been able to prove his guilt.
“There’s never been a picture of him and this is the best we’re ever going to get,” Leahy said.

JESUS FUCK. There’s never been a picture of him and THIS ISN’T ONE EITHER, you ignorant cunt. The evidence for Kosminski is thin, in any case; you might as well have taken the drawings of William Gull in From Hell and fed those into AI and called that a picture of Jack the Ripper, cos he’s about as likely to have been Jack as Kosminski was, or indeed any of the many and varied other putative “Jacks“. This is transcendent bullshit even by the NY Post’s minimal standards, and I find the stupidity of the entire thing kind of offensive…