Haven't seen anyone post about the director's cut of X-Files: I Want To Believe, which ironically enough is an indicator of how excited you turbo nerds are. youtu.be/vbmA8V65czY?...

The X-Files: I Want to Believe - Vrach Frankenshteyn | Official Trailer | Hulu

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Librarians and Booksellers Will Be Arrested For Doing Their Jobs in Arkansas A Federal Judge has allowed an Arkansas law to go into effect that will lead to widespread book bans and jail time for librarians. What to know, who is involved, and how you can act. bookriot.com/arkansas-act...

Librarians and Booksellers Will Be Arrested For Doing Their Jobs in Arkansas

A Federal Judge has allowed an Arkansas law to go into effect that will lead to widespread book bans and jail time for librarians.

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My library-themed commander deck will finally swap from mono-blue to blue-white.

"all em dashes in these slides were human generated" GOAT footnote

Love has never needed permission from labels 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 My emptiness of gender lets me see that clearly. Anxiety tightens around transgender lives right now. Why must their chosen bonds still pass through someone else’s gate? Why is the soul they claim treated as a request instead of a right?

1/ REALLY insightful thread. (Jess's, not miee) Many of my students (particularly undergrads) lack basic computer skills, including folder structures, knowing that you need to download certain files to open them, how to navigate a spreadsheet etc. And it affects their ability to do schoolwork.

Jess Calarco@jessicacalarco.com · 3d ago

I wonder if students today would be less likely to lean on AI for writing assignments if schools had made sure they could touch-type (at least 60wpm) before having them submit all their assignments online. 1/🧵

Running a sale in my store all Black August daygloayhole.gumroad.com some comics are 4-20 dollars off.

A strip done in collaboration with the @humanartistry.bsky.social , starring Question Hound as he gets some unwanted help for a comic he’s working on:

It’s pretty funny how whenever Nintendo has the most successful console, everyone just kinda pretends it doesn’t count as a real video game system.

IGN@ign.com · 5d ago

The $500 console is dead. Even after the RAM crisis ends, the era of affordable gaming hardware is gone for good. https://bit.ly/3ROAvpc

More than $70 million worth of Bitcoin was recently stolen in a hack. One of the goals of cryptocurrency is reducing reliance on trusted intermediaries. In practice, though, trust doesn't disappear, it shifts.

Folks, be aware of this. Lawn flamingos may seem kitschy and adorable, but they can pick a T-Rex clean in under 90 seconds at this time of year. Be careful. Use a trusted anti-flamingo spray before venturing outdoors. Let's be safe out there.

I want to say "when the events of a story cause the pages to break down by color, then paneling, then a fourth-wall break to acknowledging it's a comic," but that's a standard practice nowadays.

Anne Loves Comics!@annecomics.bsky.social · 6d ago

What’s the weirdest thing that’s ever happened in a comic book?

#WeebWednesday

Myony@myonymyon.bsky.social · 7d ago

I hope GitS leads to a resurgence of 80s-y character designs. There's this *sauce* that 80s anime characters have that 2010s and 2020s characters don't have, you know?

I need Christopher Nolan to keep adapting towering works of literature as a sort of Keynesian stimulus for literary culture.

Aaron Bady@zunguzungu.bsky.social · 7d ago

Okay now it's getting real

Acclaimed and Beloved Author Benjamin Alire Sáenz Has Died at 71 | Book Riot buff.ly/hV0Kikz

Acclaimed and Beloved Author Benjamin Alire Sáenz Dies at 71

Benjamin Alire Sáenz, an author of poetry, adult novels, and books for young readers, has died at the age of 71.

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I know we are all radicalized by the most bad faith people alive asking hOw WiLl YoU pAy FoR iT but now the long end of the entire global bond market is seriously asking that question, and no one has an answer yet.

Genius-level stuff happening on THE FLASH thanks to @gavinguidry.bsky.social and @ryannorth.ca.

This series keeps chugging along and I can't help but root for it. There are a lot of moving parts that would collapse in less capable hands. Somebody option and honor this thing with a cartoon already!

Lorenzo Hall 🍉@lorenzohall.com · last wk.

Fun video by @comicbookyeti.com featuring @jordanalsaqa.bsky.social and Vivian Truong!

Tons of peoples' Claude chats are exposed on Google. Cryptocurrency keys, API keys, login credentials, legal discussions, more. This happened with ChatGPT last year. And Claude too. There's clearly an ongoing issue with search engines indexing peoples' AI chats www.404media.co/tons-of-peop...

Tons of Peoples’ Claude Chats and Creations are Exposed on Google

Claude users are creating public share links, but probably don't realize that means their chats are now ending up in Google searches where anyone can dig through them.

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The world where anime is just another acceptable part of a media diet is the result at the end of a cascade that included: - the popularity of Japanese videogames - Pokemania - Cable anime blocks like Toonami/Adult Swim - Miyazaki Oscar wins - the 2000s anime DVD boom - internet fansubs - streaming

WHEW glad we can confirm there's no AI parasite in the latest Avatar movie's lettuce.

Kat Tsai@chuwenjie.bsky.social · 2w ago

I have no clue why it was on that slide or who put it there, and every member of the crew I worked with is 100% against AI. Every aspect of the animation is handcrafted by real artists and I hope that people don’t use this slide as a reason to detract from how much love and labor went into the film.

The legendary "walking bed" page from Winsor McCay's "Little Nemo in Slumberland" was published on July 26, 1908. If there’s a Mt. Rushmore for Sunday pages, this one is certainly on it.

Spaceballs: The Extended Universe graphics from yesterday's SDCC panel, reformatted into one poster-sized image

People really do hate children in this country, and sadly, a lot of libraries would—and in fact have—taken steps to exclude youth from using library spaces. himissjulie.com/2022/11/30/t...

Teens, Trauma, and the Future of Libraries

Imagine if a library closed its doors from 3-5 p.m. every day, which just happens to be when the Senior Center across the street lets out for leisure time, and heading to the library was a popular …

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Matthew Noe@noethematt.bsky.social · 2w ago

"This might be unpopular but I'd like to discriminate against an entire class of people" If this is you, I hope the next 500 books you try to read are a disappointment.

The winner of the Will Eisner Spirit of Comics Retailer Award is Books With Pictures in Eugene, Oregon, USA! @bkswpicspdx.bsky.social #EisnerAwards #SDCC

The coin flip discourse has reached me. I use a hypothetical just like it as part of my financial literacy workshop. Introduces concepts of risk/reward and talking about what's valued and at stake in each person's decision.

They keep telling me media literacy is dead but then I see videos like this and I know it jot to be true