Kind of light for me this week, nice after the last couple…
Birds Of Prey #4
Blue Beetle #4
Fantastic Four #14 - Still not sure why I’m buying this, might drop it. Edit Read it, the art and writing has fallen off a cliff, it’s out of here!
Fire And Ice #2 - Not the DC one… the OTHER one!
Hunger And The Dusk #4
Shazam #6
Fall of X:
Alpha Flight #5 - Final issue!
X-Men #29
Ed (Ch=mpathy) recreated a squatter neighborhood in Manila as a generative artwork, and I think that the random rendering process mirrors the unplanned construction in these places. Despite the beauty of the outputs, the visible lack of municipal infrastructure is probably not an artful simplification, but a fact of life.
I put it next to a beautiful, subdued iteration of Calx.
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It's that time of year again when I share the links I've saved for gift ideas.
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I am so full of love for the Benjamin January series of novels by #barbarahambly that I want to grab people by their shoulders and yell "READ IT!" into their faces. But I will refrain.
Instead I'll say: it is, ostensibly, a "historical mystery" series, but that undersells it. It uses the experiences of a free man of color in 1830s New Orleans to explore issues of race, gender, class, power, solidarity, & identity.
That makes it sound too heavy-handed, but this is not a preachy series--those ideas are integrated into the stories themselves, driven by the choices the characters make.
So much of the focus is on the ways in which people with differing levels of power & social status both can & can't overcome the chasms between them through the bonds of friendship, respect, & love.
Add into that actually interesting mysteries, a unique setting grounded in meticulous research, & enjoyable prose.
If you're listening to "experts" opine about "AI", drop what you're doing and read the following analysis out of Princeton, and be especially sure to read slides #14-ff
edit: accidentally removed the quote i was commenting on when editing in Stross’ comment, here it is again:
a belief in psi powers implicitly supports an ideology of racial supremacy, and indeed, that’s about the only explanation I can see for Campbell’s publication of the weirder stories of A. E. Van Vogt.
Maybe it’s me but I don’t think that is so self evident a claim to be posited without further explanation.
Best I can come up is he means the necessary implication of having superabled people in a fictional setting is that you have a de facto racial elite, even if the concept rarely breaches the surface of the text, like in the unfortunate sequel to the Dark Knight Returns by Frank Miller.
Edit: he addresses it in the comments (can’t find a way to direct link from phone, its comment #14) I wasn’t far off:
If you’re a glutton for punishment, (re-)read Slan by A. E. Van Vogt.
Secret superrace with super-mind powers! It’s totally a meme in vintage SF (goes back at least as far as Bulwer-Lytton’s The Coming Race in the 19th century) and you rapidly end up with eugenics and breeding for desired traits (eg. psi powers).
I haven’t bought a Ubisoft title since Uplay became a thing, but my husband bought Farcry 6 2 years ago.
Looking at the titles that they have put out, I have come to realize that my stance on Uplay isn’t even the main thing keeping me from buying a Ubisoft game; it’s the lack of titles that are of interest in several years.
I know it’s hard to believe, but I have lived without Assassin’s Creed #14, Another Monopoly videogame, and Just Dance #15.
All-Star Comics #3 (Facsimile Edition) cover to cover repro of the first super- team book!
Wonder Woman #1 (1942, Facsimile Edition) - Look, I know it’s weird to be nostalgic for stuff printed DECADES before I was born… but hear me out… When I was a kid, D.C. did these GIANT reproductions called “Famous First Editions” and they were NEAT!
It looks like color bleeding cities ! by Valentin Goulmy has some nice palettes and a wide range of complexity that you can play around with. It's a parameter based mint on #fxhash and still open (just don't try a custom palette, that will result in a dud).
#4. "Disagreement is treason" – fascism devalues intellectual discourse and critical reasoning as barriers to action, as well as out of fear that such analysis will expose the contradictions embodied in a syncretistic faith.
#14. "Newspeak" – fascism employs and promotes an impoverished vocabulary in order to limit critical reasoning.
To see an entire world where others don't. Something that artists and kids have in common. I love how the splash of rainbow colours adds a highlight to both the generative forest and the puddle of mud.
ComicList: New Comic Book Releases List for 12/06/2023 - GoCollect (blog.gocollect.com)
This week’s list is up!...
18+ Charlie Stross on his role in creating the Torment Nexus, with a long description of our very good friends (www.antipope.org)
Brutal Year For Game Developers Continues With Ubisoft Laying Off 100+ More People (www.gamespot.com)
ComicList: New Comic Book Releases List for 11/08/2023 - GoCollect (blog.gocollect.com)
This week’s list!...
Really makes you stop and think (i.imgur.com)
Israel to refuse visas to UN officials after Guterres speech on Gaza war (www.aljazeera.com)
CD-ROM (lemmy.world)