storiesofapple:

There’s a new exclusive post on Patreon for Stories of Apple supporters. Go check it out!

surfer-osa:

Francesco Guarnaccia disegna i Fugazi.

multiversitycomics:

David Mazzucchelli’s title pages from Daredevil- Born Again.

For me, what [Meet, Skype, Teams, Zoom] all do is offer convenience and ease, with underlying complex technology, but nothing truly immersive. I keep thinking it’s because we’ve turned business tools into communication tools. It’s like using PRWire to send holiday cards.

Ali on Twitter

mikedeodatojr:

#Repost @marvelcomicsguide with @repostsaveapp
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Stan Lee makes a bizarre cameo in the insanely dark Thunderbolts series during THE INITIATIVE (2006-2007). Stan made a number of comic book appearances over the years, starting in a text story in Marvel Mystery Comics 23, first fully appearing in Patsy & Hedy 78 and making his first Earth-616 appearance in Fantastic Four 10 alongside creative genius Jack Kirby
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Artist: #MikeDeodato (@MikeDeodato)
Colours: #RainBeredo
Script: #WarrenEllis (@WarrenEllis)
From: #Thunderbolts 112 (interior)
Featuring: #StanLee
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What’s your favourite Stan Lee cameo in comics?
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#TheInitiative #Initiative #FaithInMonsters #TBolts #Excelsior #Marvel #MarvelComics #MarvelUniverse
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Many people effectively rate a computer today on how well it can access social media, and a computer that can’t is therefore useless. This means you permit these companies to determine when the computer you spent your hard-earned money on should go in the trash. That decision probably won’t be made maliciously, but it certainly won’t be made to benefit you.

These are private companies and they get to decide how they will spend their money and time. But we, in turn, shouldn’t depend on them for anything nor expect anything from them, and we should think about finding ways to extricate ourselves from them and maintain contact with the people we care about in other fashions. On our systems in particular this will only get worse and it doesn’t have to. The power they have over our wallets and our public discourse is only — and entirely — because collectively we gave it to them.

TenFourFox Development: Another way social media is bad

hotelfred:

Who He Is www.patreon.com/hotelfred http://dlvr.it/Rq4cWc

Please don’t contact me to “well ackchyually” me and explain MITM attacks and how your terrible ISP inserts ads into your unencrypted web pages and how you were able to make a Gemini client out of a whistle and some shoelaces. If you don’t want to make your website content available to stupid old computers, then don’t.

Plaintext HTTP in a Modern World - joshua stein

Flash is over! If you want it (2010)

travisellisor:

page 12 from Hellboy: Wake the Devil #5 by Mike Mignola, James Sinclair and Pat Brosseau

el-ffej:

A brief appreciation of Peter Falk in Columbo, by Joe Dator in The New Yorker

I don’t think a liberal arts education makes you a better person. It ought to enable you to more accurately describe things. […]
On the one hand, of course, no education will prevent you from putting your mind to really troubling purposes. At the same time, there’s a lot of thinking in Silicon Valley that is there to describe reality in a way that wouldn’t immediately seem plausible. […] It allows very wealthy men, usually, to escape confrontation with what they really are doing. […] There are all these tech CEOs who believe they are the victims of random meanies on Twitter. And you think, how can you be so blind so as to not understand what the power differentials are here?
These are philosophical ideas that allow them to do this, even if they’re not very good ones. The ideas allow for an obfuscation of reality rather than a more penetrating analysis of it.

This Stanford professor is confronting tech’s billionaire philosophers - Protocol

[…] many creators coming to comics from other fields don’t know how to defend the creation side, and end up with too little money to share. […] What kind of art school can pretend to prepare their students to this field without touching on such matters? This is part of the job, it’s not all just artistry.

Aurélien Fernandez and comics authors Yaatuu and Lisa Mandel in Self Publishing: Same Issues In Any Language

(via Apple rebuffs Facebook criticism, says iOS anti-tracking features are about ’standing up for our users’ - 9to5Mac)

theycantalk:

reflect

The web has to mature beyond advertising as a business model. For this to happen people are going to have to open their wallets, pay for the services they use, and support independent businesses. That’s how we build a web where indies can thrive - one that’s more village centre than financial centre. I think the shift is underway.

Goodreads plans to retire API access, disables existing API keys | Joe’s website

weirdlandtv:

Carl Barks’s welcoming Uncle Scrooge.

In Holland, where I’m from, Uncle Scrooge is called Uncle Dagobert. All the Barks stories were reprinted in weekly magazine DONALD DUCK. Barks’s mad inventions, imaginative stories and lively, living characters were a big part of my formative years.