On Saturday, March 7th Jello Biafra suffered a hemorrhagic stroke caused by high blood pressure. 

As per Jello:

Tony Stella’s poster for the upcoming Meiko Kaji event in NYC 🔥

"One thing that’s never changed is this rent-stabilized apartment, where Mr. Hell, now 76, spends his days surrounded by poetry and literature. 'The dominant message' of the place, he said, is ‘this person likes books.’" At Home with Richard Hell (gift link):

My youngest was sent a sticker from the University of Chicago office of admissions. I keep thinking it has a similar energy to the bird in Tamako Market.

It’s good to know that if springing forward doesn’t work for the whole year, there’s always a fall back plan.

Happy International Women's Day from my fav out of control Vulcan. 🖖 #StarTrek #StarTrekLowerDecks #lowerdecks #T'lyn

I tried watching Before Sunset once. For some reason it rubbed me the wrong way from the get go and I turned it off after ten minutes. Never tried again.

Reading the news today

When I was growing up we never set our clocks forward or back, despite what the rest of the country was doing.

Going to go see it again tonight

I’m trying to find a copy of “Murder in Athens” by Yannis Maris in English, but I haven’t had any luck. The publisher’s website is down, and I’ve tried reaching out to them, but no luck so far. web.archive.org/web/20250323...

I was thinking of this diner tonight because my youngest said that after their show they were going to Applebees. I guess you’re limited by what’s open late, but that’s not a proper place for theater kids to hang out.

Got to see some musical theatre this evening. My youngest was Madame (the stepmother) and my wife did a lot of work on the sets and the program.

When Star Trek doesn’t predict the future but The Simpsons does

The closer we get to 2045, the more I think the weird, janky America depicted in Ghost in the Shell: SAC_2045 might actually be prescient.

Strategy is fundamentally all about developing a sophisticated theory of the mind of one’s opponent. With MAGA’s Iran Adventure, guess we’re going to see what a modern war almost totally devoid of anything we’d call “strategy” looks like.

The Feb issue of Japanese visual arts mag Geijutsu Shincho is a Ghost In The Shell special featuring Mamoru Oshii/Kamiyama Kenji/Shinji Aramaki interviews, select art work from the GITS exhibition & the upcoming Science Saru series. See more in my review- halcyonrealms.com/books/ghost-...

NEW “We’re celebrating a tradition that is at its core about resisting occupation and maintaining community in the face of horrors. You can’t keep politics out of Irish music. No one should try, for two reasons. First, it’s ahistorical. Second, Minnesotans are ready for a big anti-fascist party.”

Hot take: most of the students who you laughed at for majoring in critical theory or comparative lit dense in French theory are more prepared for the 21st Century than computer scientists and engineers.

Everyone who rolled their eyes at “the gulf war didn’t happen” owe Baudrillard an apology

My architecture column today. Art Institute tells the Sun-Times no decision has been made on the old CSE trading room, but adds "the east side of the building — where the Trading Room is located — represents the area where gallery space could increase the most."

"In March, Japan marks International Women’s Day, as well as the anniversaries of the Great East Japan Earthquake of March 11 and the 1945 Tokyo air raids." Such a weird sentence. Japan Times, what are you even doing?

When you see a newly-translated book of Greek detective stories, but then notice with a sinking feeling: 1. A probable AI cover 2. No translator listed 3. Rambling (LLM?) bio of the.. editor? publisher? Sigh. If this were real I'd have bought it.

One side - bio grandpa worked at the (Greek) family restaurant in Chicago, adoptive grandpa ran a small neighborhood grocery store, also in Chicago Other side - chemist for Proctor & Gamble in Cincinnati

How I arrived on Bluesky

I like this set alot

When the boss brought in that big new power loom, I was skeptical. He said once he got it running, we’d be out of a job, so when the boys started talking about breaking into the factory and smashing the thing, I was on board. Until, that is, I saw the funny tapestries it could make.

"So far, all of Finland’s garrisons cater to vegetarians and overall, the Army has sought to introduce increasing amounts of vegetables into soldiers’ diets." Isn't it surprising how better diets, clean energy and active lifestyles contribute to national security? #Sufficiency yle.fi/a/3-10363579

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watched Angel's Egg (its great ofc) and rabbhitholed on Oshii's career again... really love this dude...

I missed that last year at the Howling in the Night event they were selling acrylic stands of military consultant Isaku Okabe as a priest and Mamoru Oshii (dog form) as a shrine maiden. hn226.hatenadiary.com/entry/2025/0...

I think this can be generalized: "If you think AI can make a better product than you can, maybe you're right but that's a personal problem."

It's arrived, it's real, it's an actual book! @adapalmer.bsky.social Preorder now, in stores March 24th!

Ulysses 31 has seemed like it would be a great @discotekmedia.bsky.social title, just saying

I love talking about Battle of the Planets because it gets people excited, even though it wasn't part of my own childhood. For me, it was Ulysses 31, Goldorak (UFO Robot Grendizer), Captain Future, Captain Palnet, Spartakus and the Sun Beneath the Sea, Nadia: The Secret of Blue Water ...

People keep saying it and I keep thinking it's omnipresent marketing 'cuz even if we take out discussions of morality and utility for a lot of it (which, imo, is steelmanning the position), the core infrastructure of the data-center-requiring genalgo functions seems pretty unsustainable.

AI absolutely might put us out of work, but not because it can replicate the quality of what humans currently do. Like any disruptive capitalist “innovation,” it’s a simulacrum that’s far cheaper and just barely convincing enough. Let’s not mistake it for being an actual substitute.

I heard the good old “AI is here to stay” line on NPR this morning. That always strikes me as so odd. I work in IT, and I don’t (knowingly) use AI. And the last time I used it in a personal capacity, all it could do was create weird smeary images. For most cases, there’s just no need for it.

Cover illustration for TKC magazine, March 2026 issue. TKC全国会の会報誌『TKC』2026年3月号の表紙イラストレーションを担当しました。 View on Behance: www.behance.net/gallery/2451...

First week in the BBC graphics department and already thriving

Sometimes in the dark of the night, the following words will erupt unbidden from the depths of my soul: “A baloo is a bear. A yonker is a young man. Wuzzle means to mix.”

One of the greatest, Bruce Campbell, announcing he has cancer. Our hearts are with you Bruce, Hail to the King.

TIL, the Individual Eleven from Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex were an allusion to actual historical figures. Cc: @aelkus.bsky.social @brianruh.bsky.social

And by “not enough pushback,” we mean that Nobuhiro Watsuki has been selected by Shueisha to be a judge for the 2026 Tezuka Awards!

There was not nearly enough pushback against the creators of Rurouni Kenshin, Toriko, etc. which is one reason why companies think they can try to “rehabilitate” creators like this.

My latest artwork - two astronauts exploring the surface of Saturn's icy moon, Enceladus. Plumes from the subsurface ocean are lit up by the dim sunlight. Digital painting, @blender.org and Photoshop, 2026. Any cool ideas for what the mission should be called?

If you don't want gen AI in your manga, anime, game, and light novel translations, now is the time to make your voice heard. Write to your favorite publishers and developers and ask if they are incorporating LLMs into their process. And most importantly, tell them you will vote with your dollars.

One of these days greekcitytimes.com/2026/02/26/p...

The fog rolls in, but please oh god not like this

Good time for a reminder