Even if Spotify could demonstrate it isn’t a publisher here, platforms don’t get a free pass on content. Also, podcast platforms run counter to podcasting, so Spotify’s trying to be successful there is just as troublesome as the costs it’s willing to pay to do so.

Dark but funny, and a great imitation of the original art.

We should all be concerned about this. Describing this as “high tech” in the first line of the story fetishizes surveillance. It’s gross.

I have not (and do not care to) read a lot about the Spotify thing, but podcasts are meant to be a platformless, open medium—one of the few left on the web. If you’re going to make one exclusive, you absolutely take responsibility for content moderation.

Having survived one Backderf book and knowing that this is his more famous work (it won an award at Angoulême in 2014), I decided to give it a try.

The story is of Backderf’s childhood association with Jeffrey Dahmer, who grew up to be a serial killer. Dahmer’s crimes are horrifying—I had to put the book out of my mind before going to sleep—but he was caught when I was 3, so I wasn’t really aware of the story.

I picked this graphic novel from JCPL just over a week ago. I think that Backderf’s art is weird, and I have mixed experiences with non-fiction comics, but I don’t know much about the 1970 killing of four students at Kent State by the Ohio National Guard, and I decided it was worth knowing more about.

The story was compelling, and Backderf’s art didn’t bother me as much as I worried it would, so I’m glad I tried it. The story of the Kent State shootings stuck out to me as a difficult tale of the importance of non-violent protest and of curbing state power.

Maus is one of the most important graphic novels that has ever existed—on one of the most important subjects for our students to learn about. This is a mind-bogglingly dumb decision.

This inconsistency is mind boggling.

Nope nope nope.

Do not like the sound of this. Will likely bring it up when teaching DNS this semester. I’ve been reading up on it for research, and it’s hard to overstate how important DNS is.

Contract tracing is good, but apps for it are scary. Ugh.

Helpful if worrying read.

Fact checking is always important, but especially so here.

Hooray for sports?

We can prosecute criminals without weakening encryption.

We do not value child care—including unpaid child care—in this country. It is shameful, especially considering how many of us proclaim to value children.

I absolutely support the work of this committee, which makes it all the more important I carefully consider the means that they are using.

Great example of a forced acronym here.

Good for these students.

Shut it down.

A wake up call and compelling story.

Interesting read on a subject I expect to be following for a while.

Not happy about this.

Worried about our present—and for our future.

I am shocked—shocked!—to find gerrymandering going on in this establishment.