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Now imagining a guy whose entire sketchbook is "Dr. Midnight gives the members of the JSA their annual physicals."

Three panels from Cole City #1 within a white frame. In the first, which is as tall as the other two stacked, a Black woman in the background shouts to a muscular person with short black hair wearing a tank top and a white man in a cap with his head down in foreground. She is shouting "Jacob!" In panel two, a medium close up of the white man turning to her. In panel three, a close up of the woman's mouth saying "See you round." The text in the frame says "Chrome Dreams, Rusted Hearts."

Cole City #1 by me and @facundonehuenlopez.bsky.social

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Was just talking to a guy online who used to run a Superdrag emailer I was subscribed to in the '90s (long story), and he revealed that Jeff was the webmaster who helped save the list by manually inputting all our AOL e-mails into a new server. Definition of a real one.

common core and other state literacy standards have been "content-neutral," republicans are now attempting to fill with what they see as a void with book mandates while democrats propose the freedom to choose from a variety of corporate solutions

Remember all the media people on twitter with "RT do NOT equal endorsements" in their bio?

Come on, guys. They were always fucking endorsements. Don't pee on my leg and tell me it's raining,

Golden Age Superman stands head to thigh alone in a panel black at the top and red on the bottom where Superman stands pointing at the reader as he says, "Be wary of unscrupulous operators of gambling games--they are always on the look out for unsuspecting victims."

She wore a cowboy hat and everything. Is nothing sacred?

Next time I'm at my mom's, I'm pulling out my binder of thus set. I forgot these guys were in there! High probability that Larry wrote the earthquake bit, right?

Sorry I'm not more open-minded about LLMs, it's just some fucking maniacs shoveled out a bunch of useless bloatware featuring that technology, did not give me any chance to opt out, reorganized the entire economy around it, zeroed out gains made by green energy, and made it impossible to buy RAM

Hard same, I know it's a marketing gimmick (I hope like most marketing gimmicks all this booktok shit evaporates in the cleansing light of day) but the "tropes checklist" is one of the worst things to happen to the public's relationship to books, every time I see it I feel the call of violence

Extremely telling that despite the tech sector’s constant crowing that LLMs are massively popular, the only associated terminology that’s taken off in popular language is “slop” and (to a lesser extent) “clanger.”

By this time in the dot com era’s life cycle, “Google It” had become a beloved verb!

Having gotten a writing masters in the Twin Cities, I know many people who eventually went to work for Thomson Reuters, and the Venn Diagram of people who work there and people who were in the streets protesting ICE would have a pretty fat fucking center.

This is sort of true... but it happened when Billy Corgan was like 10 years old.

The 1980s New Wave movement was largely driven by the three sons of CIA co-founder Miles Copeland Jr. — Miles, Ian, and Stewart — who created Illegal Records, IRS Records, FBI Booking, and the Police

If anyone at any of these companies was interested in building and marketing actual business models for what this tech does well (medical record keeping, transcription, time-consuming coding tasks) in an ethical way instead of The Everything App That Gives All Answers, we’d be living in a diff world

So this is really happening. Coming soon: The Book Supplement. First issue almost done. Four books, four reviewers.

A second issue for later in March is also in the works.

Suddenly dozens of spunky little moppets take the stage, parading around in Mickey and Donald shirts while winking at the crowd. Simultaneously the most insane and offensive thing I’ve ever seen. Like out of a DavId Foster Wallace book. I often wonder if I dreamed it, but I’m pretty sure it’s real.

People stopped in the aisle and placed hands over hearts. Men removed their ballcaps. Some folks had tears in their eyes. And as she finished, a speaker immediately kicked in with Springsteen’s Born in the USA as an announcer declared a freedom-themed Disney Store fall fashion show…

The Saturday after 9/11 happened, I had to go to the mall with my grandmother to buy sneakers, and in the middle of the food court they had erected a stage where a woman in a flowing red dress stood up and sung The Star Spangled Banner acappella…

I’m far from super dialed into the politics prediction game, but the guy quoted here has struck me at odd times as being way off the mark, plus using a Texas primary as a bellwether for national Dems feels even more insane than discounting Black voters’ role in the coalition (itself pretty nuts!)

It’s like the one thing Gen X was unambiguously right about, and now many of them are confused why their shit isn’t as culturally dominant to kids today as Boomer stuff was when they were young. Smh.

Working with my own kid as they go through the system, I am increasingly becoming "textbooks are better than laptops"-pilled.

Remember to brush your teeth kids (dinosaur with toothbrush)

Don't let existential terror get in your way

Take it from me! I know my kind will die

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Ever had a conversation w someone, but it’s not really a conversation because every time you open your mouth, they cut you off after 3 words and talk for 5 minutes about whatever they already wanted to say?

Ever done that live on camera in a room full of professional peers?

It’s not that fun!

This is good in general and also a good first step in pushing print media to recommit to a robust book review vertical -- the cutting of which likely hurt their numbers more than it hurt book sales.

What these chuds are incapable of comprehending is that Scouts didn't start accepting more than boys because of woke mind virus bullshit. They did it because people wouldn't sign their kids up for an organization that discriminates. That'll remain true!

Dammit, AI...

The amount of scorn I hold and will continue to hold for Michigan’s current Democratic “leaders” over this shit is endless.

It's difficult to do esp if you've got anxiety issues but it pays to give yourself permission to melt down about things only when they are actually happening. Even amid all the extant horrors I've had several long dark nights of the soul that wound up being about nothing.

The universe keeps pushing me to watch all of Richard Linklater in order, and I think 2026 is the year I finally listen to it.