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"Somebody here remarked, "I think people really took the wrong lesson from Watchmen." The comment I began in response quickly revealed that it wanted to be a post. So here we are."

"You can still have the pulp escapism without abandoning social responsibility. And if Punisher fans, to say nothing of racist cops, don’t get it after that scene, it’s definitely on them."
5 years since this article, and so many of them still don't get it...

"As computers get smarter, scientists look at new ways to enlist them in environmental protection." 2016 article, before "AI" became the latest buzzword

"When writers swap Trump for Cheeto and 45, it's not just a put-down. Removing a keyword is the anti-SEO—transforming your subject into a slippery, ungraspable, swarm."
Well, the terminology aged poorly.

"Much is going to hinge on how the Act understands the fediverse."

Sharing tool that acts as glue between your site and modern social media like Mastodon, Threads, Bluesky, Known, micro.blog, WordPress, and some Indieweb schemes

"Accessible design is often reduced to adding alt text and avoiding colors imperceptible by colorblindness. While physical differences are an important component of accessible design, cognitive differences are often ignored entirely. Brandon Gregory considers three common types—inattention, anxiety, and depression—and how they impact their users, patterns that trigger those conditions, and how designers can..."

"There is a growing gap between what a high-end device can handle and what a middle to low-end device can handle."
"Similarly, there is a growing gap between what a top of the line network connection can handle and what someone with a poor mobile connection or satellite connection can handle." "The cost of that data itself can be a barrier" "Poor performance can also result in actually reducing the life-span of the devices we do have" "In 2016, video, tracking scripts and sharing buttons caused the average website to swell to the same size as the original version of Doom."

"Curators discovered old mistake during research for No Man's Land exhibition"