Per my last re-post, twice this year I've been commissioned to write reviews of harms that can arise from the use of LLMs and then, as we surface the harms, told it's not appropriate to be political. But LLMs are a deeply extractive technology, they are political by design.

It is imperative for STEM faculty (hi, it's me) to fight back against this absolutely abhorrent idea. I deeply value the scholarship and creative works of my colleagues. Demanding a teaching load away from their necessary work is hugely damaging to our nation's future and effective education

The legal, media, and academic institutions capitulating to an authoritarian ordering payments for favorable treatment are damning themselves to irrelevance. They are destroying their institutions. They will be — and should be — shunned for failing in their most basic purposes for existing.

Today in 1988 Mystery Science Theater 3000 premiered on KTMA in St. Paul Minnesota. #MST3K

I would like to see more discussion of potential conflicts between the “Abundance” agenda and preparing for climate change. Specifically, how do we balance the need for more housing with unaddressed climate concerns in many of those same communities.

Sam is right. DOGE did exactly what they wanted it to do- hurt poor people, destroyed faith in government, enriched Elon.

The broligarchs have more money and power than any class in human history—and they don’t give a fuck about you. The LEAST we can do is tax the shit out of them. The least.

"Poverty" Art Young, 1914

My post today is a reminder that we need to spend a ton of money on adaptation for our new climate, based on a report issued in March on U.S. infrastructure needs. yaleclimateconnections.org/2025/11/u-s-...

This photo of Stan Sakai at TOEI Studios just warms my heart. #comics

BACK IN STOCK! Superman's Pal Jimmy Olsen, the deluxe hardcover, signed and sketched by Steve Lieber, with lots of additional signatures by artists depicted on the cover! Free USA shipping. helioscopepdx.etsy.com/listing/4311...

Legendary game designer, programmer, Space Invaders champion, and LGBTQ trailblazer Rebecca Heineman has died

Charles Burns. #comics #art

Thought Bubble Festival 2025 Pre-Show commissions

Every single day I get asked for Simpsons comics. How has Disney not put all those Bongo comics back in print?

A bit of good news: I think you'd all be pleasantly surprised by how resistant the undergrads are becoming to AI. Institutions have lost their minds on this front, but more and more the students themselves are saying "no" to this horribly corrosive technology.

Mohawk Storm by Rod Reis. #comics #art

Why is female joy so terrifying to weirdos and losers?

If any reporters are working on stories related to SNAP, Sarah Bowen is a good expert source. Food insecurity is the focal point of her research (the nexus of food systems, inequality, and social institutions). Her contact info is here: 🧪 chass.ncsu.edu/people/skbow...

Is social media dying? How much has Twitter changed as it became X? Which party now dominates the conversation? Using nationally representative ANES data from 2020 & 2024, I map how the U.S. social media landscape has transformed. Here are the key take-aways 🧵 arxiv.org/abs/2510.25417

As of April 2025, there were 83,243 people in Wake County, N.C., enrolled in the SNAP program. That means more than 80,000 people in Wake County will need help feeding themselves and their families, starting Nov. 1. /short 🧵

Kid and I are thinking about making a meme zine that explains things like six seven and brainrot to adults. I make crappy illustrations per the below and he writes explanations. So what do you need explained? We’re taking requests.

Mexico Versus Nazis is a theme that’s really resonating with me of late

Here is another absolutely spectacular Mexican WWII poster

Constantine by Enrique Breccia. #comics #art

Sculpture of the creature by John Wrightson, Bernie’s son.

ZITA Tune in tomorrow to see the full reveal of my Universal Monsters @codacurates.com @collectsideshow.bsky.social THE MUMMY poster, which debuted this evening at the Universal Monsters Gallery Show in Austin, TX, at the Canopy Gallery!

Allison Helms made this short documentary about my run for town council. I think it captures running for municipal office in a small town. It touched me, there is joy in this process. Anyway, it is under 5 minutes and Allison did amazing work. vimeo.com/1127421399?s...

"Wow, who has the stones to publish a headline like this in The Atlantic," I thought to myself. Of course it was @adamserwer.bsky.social

The woman hosting this shit is CMO at a VC firm that funds AI projects. But the great @nytimes.com does not disclose that

Here’s something you don’t see every day - Bernie Wrightson’s Man of Tomorrow.

billionaires should not be allowed to exist because the downside of "one of them loses their mind" is simply too dangerous for a functional society also, having a billion dollars tends to make you lose your mind

The White House is a public building and a National Park, maintained by the National Park Service. The President is a tenant. He has zero authority to tear up this building.

I’m a subscriber to The Onion print edition and trust me, the ads alone are worth it

Two weeks ago we lost a giant of the movie posters world, Renato Casaro. Today we lost a modern Master of movie posters: DREW STRUZAN. I can guarantee you have at least seen 5 of his posters in your lifetime. The man has put his art on some of the most popular movie franchises (Indiana Jones, 1/4

In the Face of Power Appeal. Disarm. Record. Reflect.

BREAKING: Friday night massacre underway at CDC. Doznes of "disease detectives," high-level scientists, entire Washington staff and editors of the MMWR (Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report) have all been RIFed and received the following notice:

I particularly love his work on this series.

The best college football podcast by far

Genuinely have no objection to people having patreons and paid newsletters but something that stresses me out as a writer is the idea of having to pitch myself to people as a brand that people should subscribe to and again this is why I miss having multi-author publications 😵‍💫

this is wild: while Stephen Miller's guy was in Minnesota for his uncle's funeral, somebody was able to see his entire phone and take pictures of his Signal group chats talking about military deployments to Portland, and brought them to the Strib (gift link: www.startribune.com/trump-offici...)

Wonder Woman by Cliff Chiang

some people told dave chappelle his jokes weren’t funny and this ego maniac has been having a meltdown over it for ten years

i looked at the methodology for this and it is a. sex addiction counseling group in texas did a surveymonkey and extrapolated the results to the entire us population which is the sort of research design that earns you an ff on an intro methods class (the extra f is for extra effort), and b. p-hacked

A good read

It's not just bribery. He's now using personal litigation, backed by state extortion, to extract "settlements" which he then puts into an account he created to spend on government work, all entirely outside of Congress taxing or appropriating. It's full Charles I illegal taxation and spending.