Joe Crawford
@artlung.com
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https://artlung.com/
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This month's IndieWeb Book Club selection is "Understanding Comics" by @scottmccloud.bsky.social
Thanks to @artlung.com for picking this title!
I am re-reading the book, and posted a bit about it on my blog today: nicks.im/posts/2025-u...
Thanks to @artlung.com for picking this title!
I am re-reading the book, and posted a bit about it on my blog today: nicks.im/posts/2025-u...
November 9, 2025 at 10:04 PM
This month's IndieWeb Book Club selection is "Understanding Comics" by @scottmccloud.bsky.social
Thanks to @artlung.com for picking this title!
I am re-reading the book, and posted a bit about it on my blog today: nicks.im/posts/2025-u...
Thanks to @artlung.com for picking this title!
I am re-reading the book, and posted a bit about it on my blog today: nicks.im/posts/2025-u...
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The Mamdani political sign generator is kinda fun https://homes.luddy.indiana.edu/ccshan/for/for.html
November 8, 2025 at 3:06 PM
The Mamdani political sign generator is kinda fun https://homes.luddy.indiana.edu/ccshan/for/for.html
First person plural "omniscient" as a narrative tool has my brain racing to wonder about the rules and gotchas inherent in the system. It has me thinking again about the novelty of the Borg from Star Trek. What if the singularity was just "everyone*"
(* almost everyone on earth)
Networks are neat.
(* almost everyone on earth)
Networks are neat.
November 8, 2025 at 3:36 PM
First person plural "omniscient" as a narrative tool has my brain racing to wonder about the rules and gotchas inherent in the system. It has me thinking again about the novelty of the Borg from Star Trek. What if the singularity was just "everyone*"
(* almost everyone on earth)
Networks are neat.
(* almost everyone on earth)
Networks are neat.
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Calling all web developers! Browsers are all meeting up next week (www.w3.org/events/tpac/...). I want your voice to be heard! Tell me your biggest problems, and tell me what you want to see from the platform. What problems are tough to solve, but could be easier?
TPAC 2025 - Hybrid meeting
Our major event of the year gathers our community for thought-provoking discussions and coordinated work.
www.w3.org
November 6, 2025 at 9:44 AM
Calling all web developers! Browsers are all meeting up next week (www.w3.org/events/tpac/...). I want your voice to be heard! Tell me your biggest problems, and tell me what you want to see from the platform. What problems are tough to solve, but could be easier?
I just saw an Instagram ad saying that THIS “AI” could help me see the trends about trading memecoins.
The worst MadLibs output ever.
The worst MadLibs output ever.
November 7, 2025 at 3:56 PM
I just saw an Instagram ad saying that THIS “AI” could help me see the trends about trading memecoins.
The worst MadLibs output ever.
The worst MadLibs output ever.
I also want a trillion dollars and can assure the US government it will be put to good use.
November 6, 2025 at 6:58 AM
I also want a trillion dollars and can assure the US government it will be put to good use.
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Here's an interesting new study exploring whether LLMs are able to understand the narrative sequencing of comics and... even the best AI models are *terrible* at it for pretty much all tasks that were analyzed aclanthology.org/2025.finding...
Beyond Single Frames: Can LMMs Comprehend Implicit Narratives in Comic Strip?
Xiaochen Wang, Heming Xia, Jialin Song, Longyu Guan, Qingxiu Dong, Rui Li, Yixin Yang, Yifan Pu, Weiyao Luo, Yiru Wang, Xiangdi Meng, Wenjie Li, Zhifang Sui. Findings of the Association for Computatio...
aclanthology.org
November 4, 2025 at 8:05 PM
Here's an interesting new study exploring whether LLMs are able to understand the narrative sequencing of comics and... even the best AI models are *terrible* at it for pretty much all tasks that were analyzed aclanthology.org/2025.finding...
I AM STILL REELING FROM A POL MENTIONING EUGENE DEBS IN A VICTORY SPEECH. Is this real life? It’s US history baby! UNION YES.
November 5, 2025 at 2:59 PM
I AM STILL REELING FROM A POL MENTIONING EUGENE DEBS IN A VICTORY SPEECH. Is this real life? It’s US history baby! UNION YES.
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“what pundits forget is, by the midterms, the ballroom will be complete.”
November 5, 2025 at 2:43 PM
“what pundits forget is, by the midterms, the ballroom will be complete.”
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Eugene Debs has a posse. Mayor Mamdani. Keep hope alive!
November 5, 2025 at 5:11 AM
Eugene Debs has a posse. Mayor Mamdani. Keep hope alive!
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“I am opposing a social order in which it is possible for one man who does absolutely nothing that is useful to amass a fortune of hundreds of millions of dollars, while millions of men and women who work all the days of their lives secure barely enough for a wretched existence.” -- Eugene Debs
Eugene V. Debs - Americans Who Tell The Truth
americanswhotellthetruth.org
November 5, 2025 at 5:20 AM
“I am opposing a social order in which it is possible for one man who does absolutely nothing that is useful to amass a fortune of hundreds of millions of dollars, while millions of men and women who work all the days of their lives secure barely enough for a wretched existence.” -- Eugene Debs
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26 billionaires spent over $22 million to beat Zohran Mamdani.
Why? Because regular people came together around an agenda that prioritized making life easier for more people. It beat big money.
That is how we win.
Why? Because regular people came together around an agenda that prioritized making life easier for more people. It beat big money.
That is how we win.
November 5, 2025 at 3:12 AM
26 billionaires spent over $22 million to beat Zohran Mamdani.
Why? Because regular people came together around an agenda that prioritized making life easier for more people. It beat big money.
That is how we win.
Why? Because regular people came together around an agenda that prioritized making life easier for more people. It beat big money.
That is how we win.
Eugene Debs has a posse. Mayor Mamdani. Keep hope alive!
November 5, 2025 at 5:11 AM
Eugene Debs has a posse. Mayor Mamdani. Keep hope alive!
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i hope this election cycle empowers everyone the next time a centrist liberal says to drop pro-trans and pro-immigrant rhetoric to enthusiastically tell them to shut the fuck up
November 5, 2025 at 2:33 AM
i hope this election cycle empowers everyone the next time a centrist liberal says to drop pro-trans and pro-immigrant rhetoric to enthusiastically tell them to shut the fuck up
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Mamdani has now gotten more votes than 1/4 of the members of the United States Senate did when they got elected. The political power being channeled here is immense.
November 5, 2025 at 4:59 AM
Mamdani has now gotten more votes than 1/4 of the members of the United States Senate did when they got elected. The political power being channeled here is immense.
I invited visitors to my site to add emoji hearts to a page with a click. Here is a time-lapse of their clicks during October 2025. #WeirdWebOctober artlung.com/videos/reels...
Month of Hearts 💜 Weird Web October 2025
artlung.com
November 4, 2025 at 8:14 PM
I invited visitors to my site to add emoji hearts to a page with a click. Here is a time-lapse of their clicks during October 2025. #WeirdWebOctober artlung.com/videos/reels...
There is no excuse for a bookseller to misspell Salman Rushdie as (the fishier) Salmon Rushdie in the subject of that sales email.
November 4, 2025 at 2:49 PM
There is no excuse for a bookseller to misspell Salman Rushdie as (the fishier) Salmon Rushdie in the subject of that sales email.
I wrote a "slashpage" on how I use and do not use "AI" artlung.com/ai/
“AI” Statement
artlung.com
November 3, 2025 at 11:00 PM
I wrote a "slashpage" on how I use and do not use "AI" artlung.com/ai/
"these new CSS features are not quite baseline yet" is the same as "these new CSS features are not baseline"
"quite" and "yet" are weasel words.
"quite" and "yet" are weasel words.
November 3, 2025 at 5:21 PM
"these new CSS features are not quite baseline yet" is the same as "these new CSS features are not baseline"
"quite" and "yet" are weasel words.
"quite" and "yet" are weasel words.
I like this and I don't think I have seen it before. YES START A COMPUTER CLUB IN YR OWN TOWN startacomputer.club ( via @meadowhawkz.bsky.social )
START A COMPUTER CLUB
startacomputer.club
November 3, 2025 at 4:50 PM
I like this and I don't think I have seen it before. YES START A COMPUTER CLUB IN YR OWN TOWN startacomputer.club ( via @meadowhawkz.bsky.social )
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I am the host for #IndieWeb Book Club this month! November 2025. The book is Scott McCloud’s Understanding Comics and if you’ve not read it—or if you have!—I encourage you to give it a read and post about it on your own site. Questions? Reach out to me!
artlung.com/understandin...
artlung.com/understandin...
ArtLung: Understanding Comics IndieWeb Book Club
artlung.com
November 1, 2025 at 1:58 PM
I am the host for #IndieWeb Book Club this month! November 2025. The book is Scott McCloud’s Understanding Comics and if you’ve not read it—or if you have!—I encourage you to give it a read and post about it on your own site. Questions? Reach out to me!
artlung.com/understandin...
artlung.com/understandin...