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glennf

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Glenn researches and writes about the history of printing, focused particularly on newspaper comics and printing molds. Pre-order his book How Comics Were Made. He’s a long-time technology journalist, who contributes regularly to Macworld and TidBITS and writes books in the Take Control Books series. A former Amazon employee (1996–97) who used to eat burritos with Bezos, Glenn is more interestingly a two-time Jeopardy! winner.

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An entirely unnecessary article, even with all the little nuances. Sociopaths are charming. Holmes has been rightly convicted of massive financial crimes. She perpetuated those crimes knowingly over years and lies to herself about them. She and everyone around her acts like she’s a teenager who doesn’t/didn’t know better. Does she deserve years of jail? That’s a question about the carceral state. But she can’t admit she lied and none of her enablers can either. https://www.nytimes.com/2023/05/07/business/elizabeth-holmes-theranos-interview.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

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My next big project is about comics, artists, printing, and the future of cartoons:

How Comics Were Made: A Visual History from the Drawing Board to the Printed Page https://howcomicsweremade.ink

I’ll cover from how artists draw their strips (on paper and on screen) to print production to the outcome as reproduction, from the 1890s to the present.

Kickstarter, Feb. 2024; planned pub. date: October 2024. Sign up for an email when the project launches: https://buttondown.email/howcomicsannounce

Mark Kaufman, designing

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"The Tragedy of the Commons" was written by a eugenicist and was effectively debunked as ahistorical fantasy decades ago. More propaganda in the service of privatizing public space and resources. Pass it on. https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/voices/the-tragedy-of-the-tragedy-of-the-commons/

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Still reading and hearing takes that Mastodon has “failed” as a Twitter alternative. Listen, it’s ok if it doesn’t work for someone—unlike Twitter, I think Mastodon requires more effort and cultivation to produce an experience that feels meaningful. It’s been worth it for me. But there is definitely a smell of…not sour grapes but people making broad assumptions based on their own experience while ignoring millions of other people. Will Mastodon top 100 million? Who knows. Who cares?

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Checked out Blue Sky and it immediately feels like the corrosive and viral-baiting aspects of Twitter. No thank’ee.

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The greatest gift you can give to your children is not to leave a ton of stuff for them to sort out when you die.

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Larry Lessig should really stop speaking to the press. He routinely says things as bafflingly ridiculous as this. https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2023/10/09/they-studied-dishonesty-was-their-work-a-lie “Trust me” is one of the biggest red flags you can ever utter.

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Never ever ever ever ever ever ever trust what caller ID says. Never do anything that someone who calls you and claims to be from a company or government organization tells you to do. Never give cash to anyone who claims they represent a company, a lawyer, or the government, and they need the cash to help you out. No legitimate organization works solely with cash. https://www.thecut.com/article/amazon-scam-call-ftc-arrest-warrants.html

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What are the best tiny museums in London and Paris?

In London, we’re going to the Sir John Soane Museum, and I’m doing research at St Bride Foundation (not exactly a museum, but tiny and remarkable). In Paris, I don’t know of good ones at all.

In Prague, my older kid and I passed a superb hour at the Dvorak Museum, €4 for adults, €3 for kids, worth every centime!

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I'm going to say it: I've reached the point in my tech pundit career where I am profoundly uninterested in today's announcements. That might be one of the most unpopular things I say all year. I was quite interested in the M1 and M2 and Studio Mac by contrast. I am sure there's a market for AR/VR goggles, but I think they're one of the most boring possible things for a technology company to sink their time into.

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People keep making new Substack newsletters. I keep pointing out politely that the founders are terrible enablers of transphobes, hate speech, vaccine denial, and more. They reap their reward from fear, hate, and disinformation.

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Fascinated by how comics pass from an artist’s hand through to the printed page—or a display? I’ve spent years researching, interviewing, and developing How Comics Were Made: A Visual History from the Drawing Board to the Printed Page.

If you’d like to a rich history of 130 years of newspaper cartooning told with original art, printing artifacts, and much more, pre-order now for delivery later this year: https://howcomicsweremade.ink/order

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If you're on mastodon.social, please give a shout—curious if anything/everything remains broken in the federation.

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A tankless water heater mystery. My spouse said she has noticed that in the evening, the hot water tap produces hot water after about 30 seconds; in the morning, it's just a few seconds. We have a natural-gas furnace that kicks in the morning (I'm disabling that feature soon), but a heat pump provides 90% of our heating. Neither the furnace nor heat pump are connected to the hot water pipes, and we don’t heat the basement, where the copper piping is largely exposed. Ideas?!

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Trying to run the dishwasher in France. Nothing appears to be dishwasher liquid. This looks like the closest thing. Is that what it is?

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With Evernote nearly doubling its price and spiraling down the drain, reportedly, what's the best migration option for macOS? I only have two notebooks, so I can easily export in ENEX format.

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@nickheer On Zuck and masculinity: Bezos used to be a stereotypical pencil-neck geek and then at some point I guess decided he needed to be ripped. Having worked alongside him for months (and known him for a bit before that), it always makes me side eye photos of him now. It’s such a strange performative thing, like, being a billionaire isn't enough (or being a human isn’t). I guess it’s probably tied to theories of longevity too. I wouldn't be surprised if he takes a slurry of 25 supplements.

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It seems like if you have an Apple One subscription and share your storage with other people in a Family Sharing group, you cannot add storage (i.e., 2 TB plan + 2, 6, or 12 TB plan) but only replace (pay for Apple One, including storage, but only access 2, 6, or 12 TB paying the full iCloud+ price for each tier). Yes? No? Apple does its best to not make it clear.

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Stonehenge was something I was curious to see. I didn't find it so much moving as absolutely impressive.

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A household mystery: my Teva sandals are missing from the porch. I have front camera footage of me removing said sandals on Monday evening. Nobody but the family and the postal carriers have been to the porch. Who stole them? Only Encyclopedia Brown can help.

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Wowzers! Thank you all who participated, promoted, or gave support and comfort! (And 40+ hours to go!) https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/glennf/how-comics-were-made

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It just struck me what Apple got wrong with its “crushing ad.”

They thought we would identify with the iPad, not the creative instruments and materials.

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Substack continues to conflate their existence with a government entity. By definition, a company is always engaged in choices, cannot censor (unless it's the sole platform available), and has financial, regulatory, legal, and social responsibilities that differ from government censorship.

It’s such mealymouthed greedmongering that normalizes hateful speech no company is required to carry…just like no one is required to pay for Substack subscriptions. https://substack.com/@hamish/note/c-45811343

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When was the last time you had to write a resume/C.V.?

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I was unaware that some people pronounced Nike like nyk without the E sound at the end. Like some people say Porsche without the E.

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