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Quand mon navigateur web se trompe mais ça me gêne pas trop.

capture d’écran de mon navigateur web, qui montre le logo CFF pour signifier le moteur de recherche DuckDuckGo


Once again, ClassDojo shows how much of its business model is built on creating feelings of parental inadequacy.

An email subject line from ClassDojo’s tutoring service reading “Time’s running out to build back to school confidence.”


It was a real choice to start this dystopian comic the same day I got to the chapter in Karen Hao’s Empire of AI about Silicon Valley outsourcing the worst jobs to the Global South in the name of providing economic opportunity.

Two comic characters in silhouette. The first asks “Why do they get all this? And we get nothing.” The second responds “Never ask that! We’re alive. We have food and water. We have a future. All thanks to them.”


Every time I think my opinion of ClassDojo can’t get any worse, I discover (or am reminded of) another aspect of their grift.

A screenshot from ClassDojo of a warning that all the pictures of my child will disappear at the end of the school year unless I start paying a monthly fee.


There’s only one, and they get the whole floor.

A hotel sign reading “This floor has been reserved for our non-smoking guest.”


Dr. Calvin discovers the labor problems in academic publishing.

A panel from Calvin and Hobbes. Calvin is sitting under a tree, bemoaning “Nobody ever pays me a penny for my thoughts.”


Here’s Stassi Cramm presiding at Community of Christ World Conference after being ordained last night as our church’s first female prophet-president.

Stassi Cramm standing at the center rostrum of the Community of Christ Auditorium in Independence, Missouri.


I know what this school means, and I hate feeling like I’m playing ivory tower definitions games, but it REALLY bugs me when we limit “technology” to “things with chips in them.” A wiffle ball is technology, too.

An excerpt from a school email that reads “Students may bring a toy (no real baseballs or bats, only wiffle balls/bats please, no technology).”


Okay, buying this Order of the Stick collection was worth it for this panel alone.

A comic panel with a character arguing (among other things) that in TTRPGs, “‘comfort’ is just extraneous detail that we add to our lives as part of roleplaying. Once we unshackle ourselves from those things that have no statistical impact, we can achieve a perfect meditative bliss.” yOu ji three what


One of the perks of building some new content taxonomies for my review posts is that I can get a quick view of whose stuff I’m reading (or listening to) most… and realize just how much of my reading is comics.

A list of most common creators most often listed in reviews posted to my website, beginning with Cory Doctorow, Brian Michael Bendis, and Brian K. Vaughan.


Setting up iMessage on an iPad for kiddo to use has immediately turned into Homestar Runner references, and I’m okay with that.

alternating iMessages reading “foogamaboo,” “forhorlingrads,” “phowaggods,” and “fhqwgads”


It took an embarrassing amount of trying to figure out the business model my VPN provider was going for—and its implications for my privacy—before I remembered the date.

a purported Windscribe announcement reading “We promised you all that we will never spend money on external advertisers, and we are sticking with that. However, we need to increase revenue, and that requires some out of the box thinking. We didn’t just think outside of the box, we burned the box up and snorted the ashes. In the resulting euphoria, we decided to skip the middle man (the advertisers) and just sell you your own data back to you. If you want a detailed look at all of your personal data, simply click the link below and download it in a convenient text format. The data dump is free for the next week, so grab it now. Don’t worry, by using this link, only you will be able to see your data. It isn’t available to anyone else, not even Jesus.”


Comics are an undervalued medium capable of telling powerful stories with great beauty—and also they let you do dumb-but-fun franchise crossovers like this one here.

the cover of the Star Trek crossover with Planet of the Apes, naturally entitled “The Primate Directive”


I was excited about the prospect of a Mirror Universe good guy Khan in this comic, but it sure seems like they put a Benedict Cumberbatch drawing in brownface, and ugh.

a peaceful Khan is introducing himself to the crew of the Enterprise, but he looks like Benedict Cumberbatch and I don’t like it.


Look, I don’t have experience running an academic publishing company, but I don’t know if I’d activate the experimental AI summarizer on an article exploring the ethics of generative AI.

a list of “questions answered in this article” created by generative AI


The problem with trying to make comic characters look like their screen counterparts is in those panels when Spock looks nothing like Zachary Quinto (or either of the other options, for that matter).

a very off-model Spock yelling “LEAVE ME ALONE, HUMAN”


Every once in a while I surprise myself with how well I can read music, despite all I’ve forgotten since long ago piano lessons. Getting the musical jokes in Ryan North’s Lower Decks comic is the most delightful this has ever been, though.

Beckett Mariner from Star Trek Lower Decks is in a turbolift on the USS Cerritos, whistling the TOS theme song (which I’ve never really liked but am excited to learn I recognize in musical notation).


I’ve been a Mozilla fan for a long time, but this sort of default behavior is why I’m souring on the organization (and why I abandoned Firefox a few months ago).

a screenshot of Firefox’s new Terms of Service, which reads: “Mozilla may also receive location-related keywords from your search (such as when you search for “Boston”) and share this with our partners to provide recommended and sponsored content. Where this occurs, Mozilla cannot associate the keyword search with an individual user once the search suggestion has been served and partners are never able to associate search suggestions with an individual user. You can remove this functionality at any time by turning off Sponsored Suggestions - more information on how to do this is available in the relevant Firefox Support page.”


Oh, please no. I get (and support) that Community of Christ wants to explore doing digital church, but it also has really compelling theological reasons to not deploy generative AI products, and this makes me sad.

image has the Community of Christ seal with “CofChrist-BOT” underneath and then “I’m a chatbot-in-training! While I’m not a person, I am here to assist. How may I help you today?”


Taking a moment to remember that the Garden of Enid webcomic is a pinnacle of Mormon arts.

Enid, from the eponymous webcomic, holds a copy of the Book of Mormon and says “This is the Book of Mormon. It tells the story of two societies that caused their own demise by hoarding wealth, following crooked leaders, stigmatizing the poor, making war, and manipulating the oppressed. OH! And SECRET COMBINATIONS… they loved those. Good thing we’ve been so much wiser in our day.”


Currently reading David Graeber’s “Debt: The First 5,000 Years,” and while it’s really dense, one clear theme is how money has the power to abstract our moral thinking in dangerous directions. This NYT blurb seemed relevant.

A quote from a New York Times article reading “In private conversations, Mr. Musk has told friends that he considers the ultimate metric for his success to be the number of dollars saved per day, and he is sorting ideas based on that ranking.”


J’ai commandé un album de Guy Delisle juste pour ajouter à ma petite collection de bd francophone, et j’espère que cette case ne sera pas trop, TROP utile pendant les quatres années à venir aux USA.

Guy Delisle qui s’allonge sur un lit et dit « Ah oui, tiens ! C’est vrai. J’oubliais qu’on est sous une dictature »


My first print copy of The Onion came today, and it’s the only news I’ve been happy to read for days.

a picture of an article from The Onion with the headline “Trump Boys Hook Dollar Bill Up To Potato To Make Cryptocurrency”; also features a great photo


Tonight’s ethics lecture for my internet research class this semester will include a brief discussion of protecting researchers, so I got to go through my collection of screenshots of when a reactionary Mormon group took issue with our studying their posts.

it’s a reply on Twitter to me and one other account; the tweet text is just “#DezNat”, but it includes a meme of a peacefully sleeping dog with the caption “How I sleep at night knowing all enemies of Christ will burn in hell.”


I started reading Doonesbury reruns a while ago. I’ve forgotten exactly when they date from (maybe 2002?), but this panel felt very contemporary.

an image of dialogue from the White House or another federal building; an official is saying “So go out there and kick some terminally ill ass!” and others are responding “Yes, sir!”