Silver Spring, MD
Indie cartoonist making comics.
Autistic and in constant physical pain.
Former theater artist. Forever cinephile.
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Michael Avolio
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Bari Weiss not beating the bootlicking propagandist allegations here:
“When I assign analysis, (…) I am trying to put the student’s mind through resistance in order to make it stronger. Offloading the struggle to a chatbot does not “free students up for higher-order work.” It deprives them of building the strength to do any substantial cognitive work at all.”
This is deeply concerning. These illiterates will be our doctors, engineers, etc.
Minnesota celebrates the sharpening of a giant pencil every year now. Quirky, fun, and a bit touching.
youtu.be/Zjporyl-V90
It's pathetic that some people are using Scorsese's unethical generative AI adoption to criticize him again for having principles when it comes to corporate superhero slop. Don't pretend he's wrong about superhero blockbuster trash choking out better movies just because he's wrong about AI.
Marjane Satrapi (1969-2026)
Video of the Minneapolis giant pencil sharpening from an attendee: youtu.be/p2JsRFpAg8I
Lorenzo Mattotti on Fires, four decades later, in The Comics Journal.
I haven't read the whole interview yet, but he mentions as inspiration the late Dino Battaglia, a favorite Italian cartoonist of mine whose work I only discovered about five years ago.
www.tcj.com/fires-after-...
It's extremely disheartening to me that my two favorite living artists, Bob Dylan and Martin Scorsese, are using the unethical, plagiaristic slop machine that is generative AI.
www.nytimes.com/2026/06/02/b...
Dark Horse Comics' interim CEO recognizes the union Dark Horse Workers United: www.darkhorse.com/newsfeed/sta...
Eliot Higgins
Valerio Stivé talks to the legendary Italian artist about one of his most significant comics, as well as several other things.
"The bigger problem, Lulu, frankly, is not any kind of political influence. The problem was the incompetence.."
Scott Pelley talked to @lulugn.bsky.social about "the Bari Weiss era and his last days at 60 Minutes:" www.nytimes.com/2026/06/07/m...
I know we’ve all read 100 articles like this, but I do recommend this one, especially for the series of questions at the end about how universities (not individual instructors) could change our practice. I’d love to discuss those
Brian Stelter
The generational collapse in literacy is measurable, persistent, and likely to get worse.
