Contra Chrome
October 4, 2022
In Contra Chrome, Leah carefully charts this road and its terrain in a funny and easily accessible way. In webcomic form, she documents how over the last decade, Google’s browser has become a threat to user privacy and the democratic process itself.
With her meticulous rearrangement of Scott McCloud‘s Google-commissioned Chrome comic from 2008, she delivers what she calls „a much-needed update“. Laying bare the inner workings of the controversial browser, she creates the ultimate guide to one of the world‘s most widely used surveillance tools:
Contra Chrome – a webcomic – How Google’s browser became a threat to privacy and democracy
Exploring the military industrial complex of the Ultimate post-9/11 Avengers comic | Boing Boing
September 23, 2022
Exploring the military industrial complex of the Ultimate post-9/11 Avengers comic | Boing Boing:
I’ve been really enjoying the new season of Collective Action Comics, a new-ish podcast that closely examines superhero comics from a radical leftist perspective. While the first season looked at DC Comics’ Justice League International storyline from the late 80s, Season 2 explores a comic book that’s much closer to my own heart: The Ultimates, Marvel’s re-imagined version of the Avengers from the turn of the millennium. Written by Mark Millar with art by Bryan Hitch, the smash-hit Ultimates would go on to serve as a major blueprint for the Marvel Cinematic Universe version of the Avengers — all the way down to the introduction of a new version of Nick Fury specifically drawn to look like Samuel L. Jackson.
It’s a shame this podcast is Sticher hosted – I do my best to avoid things there as opposed to real podcasts. It sounds like it would be fascinating to listen through.
org2blog vs MarsEdit
September 20, 2022
I’ll probably update this post over time as I do more work with both…
I’ve loved MarsEdit for years as the best blog editor, through generational shifts in what blogging meant and how it fit into the landscape. It is, however, a Mac only tool, which in itself isn’t bad but it doesn’t include iPad or iPhone… And it doesn’t expose it’s moving parts to be extended (I’d love to know how to make emacs the external editor for marsedit for example.)
org2blog as an extension of orgmode makes it unique, as it leverages a format and style I adore, and uses barely marked up plaintext… So I’ll be seeing if I can make Shortcuts which can take a subtree or orgmode file and post to WordPress out of band from emacs itself.
Testing org2blog workflow
September 20, 2022
Most folks I know have suffered my evangalism for org-mode and emacs… So it should be no surprise that I’m excited to try a blogging workflow that puts together my tools of choice with WordPress.
We’ll see how it all goes!
Trans Eighth Grader Was ‘Shaking and Distressed’ As Texas Agency Pulled Him Out of Class for Investigation
September 9, 2022
If you think the 2nd amendment was intended as a political tool, Greg Abbott is the kind of tyrant it would have been intended for.
Earlier this year, when Texas Governor Greg Abbott directed the state’s Department of Family and Protective Services to investigate instances of “child abuse” in families who’ve provided gender-affirming care for their trans children, people were rightly, extremely alarmed. Not only is gender-affirming care not child abuse, the lack of it is actually associated with risks of depression and suicide in trans children and teens. LGBTQ advocacy groups, public health experts, and health associations feared this bigoted and authoritarian directive would harm trans youth. They were right.
via Boing Boing
Lisa Loab – Penny Arcade
September 9, 2022
Gabe has been more careful than anyone I know, he’s still retained many talismanic practices I have softened on, at least in my own neighborhood – but one of the ways your world is trash is that kids at school will bully you if you wear a mask until you take it off and get COVID. And then your dad takes care of you, and he gets it. At home! At fucking home. In the end, he got it at home.
This is BS. People are still dying from other people being deliberate assholes… May Gabe at PA recover swiftly, and may the POS people who minimize the impact and threaten the rest of us all fuck off and die in a fire.
The Steve Jobs Archive
September 8, 2022
From: Steve Jobs, sjobs@apple.com
To: Steve Jobs, sjobs@apple.com
Date: Thursday, September 2, 2010 at 11:08PM
I grow little of the food I eat, and of the little I do grow I did not breed or perfect the seeds.
I do not make any of my own clothing.
I speak a language I did not invent or refine.
I did not discover the mathematics I use.
I am protected by freedoms and laws I did not conceive of or legislate, and do not enforce or adjudicate.
I am moved by music I did not create myself.
When I needed medical attention, I was helpless to help myself survive.
I did not invent the transistor, the microprocessor, object oriented programming, or most of the technology I work with.
I love and admire my species, living and dead, and am totally dependent on them for my life and well being.
Sent from my iPad
Steve Jobs is one of my heroes… Not a saint by any means, but someone who really, truly, worked to make it easier for everyone to create and inspire others. I look forward to exploring the archives more.
Is COVID-19 winding down? Scientists say no. | MPR News
September 6, 2022
Is COVID-19 winding down? Scientists say no. | MPR News:
At any given point, if we actually were vaccinated, wore masks, and stayed the fuck home, we could have actually ended it. We still could.
The U.S. diet is deadly. Here are 7 ideas to get Americans eating healthier | MPR News
August 31, 2022
The U.S. diet is deadly. Here are 7 ideas to get Americans eating healthier | MPR News:
The data are stark: the typical American diet is shortening the lives of many Americans. Diet-related deaths outrank deaths from smoking, and about half of U.S. deaths from heart disease – nearly 900 deaths a day – are linked to poor diet. The pandemic highlighted the problem, with much worse outcomes for people with obesity and other diet-related diseases.
“We’re really in a nutrition crisis in this country.” says Dariush Mozaffarian, a cardiologist and dean of the Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy at Tufts University
jwz: CDC’s updated guidelines for living with the zombie apocalypse:
Great news! The zombie war is over! You can come out of your bunkers now!
Did we win? No. We did something even better than winning: We suddenly became aware of the passage of time! Wars can end lots of ways — by winning, by surrendering, by a negotiated settlement, by simply deciding in our minds that they are over with or without consulting the facts on the ground.
Why are there new guidelines if nothing has changed?
Look, it is hard, and everyone’s trying! That’s the takeaway here! We’ve all learned and grown, and it’s time to move on!
But is the zombie war over?
Well, the fighting-zombies phase of the zombie war is over!
The way you phrased that made it sounds like the zombies are not … gone.
Yes, technically, in the most literal sense, the zombies are still among us, but much as we would like to be living in a totally zombie-free world, that was never the goal, except for a brief time when we were way too optimistic about what people were capable of.
Look, some people decided that the effort of eradicating the zombies wasn’t worth the inconvenience. Imagine having to bring a heavy, metal bat with you every time you go out! Imagine living like that! Well, because some people couldn’t do that for a limited time, now other people will have the opportunity to do that forever.
Pocket Realities 