Notices by Glenn Fleishman (glennf@twit.social), page 5

Flongs (or mats) of comics haven’t been made since probably the 1980s. Working with letterpress printer, artist, and educator Jessica Spring, we’ll be using a lush handmade paper to produce a print that has both the mold re-creation and the letterpress print in a very limited quantity. The image is a preview; the final print will include a metal typeset label and be on a single sheet, suitable for framing. Behold the rich depth!

For Peanuts fans, you can get an absolutely wild thing: a four-piece set of color separations in mat or “flong” format for a Peanuts Sunday comic in the 1970s. I have 25 sets available; I’m not sure any complete sets exist in the world (even single sheets are rare). At that tier, in addition, you get two copies of the print and ebook, two book plates, and you are DRAWN INTO THE BOOK! (or someone you love and obtain a model release from) https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/glennf/how-comics-were-made/rewards#reward-UmV3YXJkLVVtVjNZWEprTFRrMk9EZ3hNakU9

@tsturm Correct. I have written or further developed three.

@jeffcarlson (my blog is fine, but I must do everything for a joke)

@jeffcarlson I would have posted it to my blog, but, well, see above

All CMSes are bad, except the one you are using, which is worse

Did Alaska made exit row seats +$0? I'm booking a flight three months out and…all exit row seats are $0.

@thomasfuchs @mwichary

@thomasfuchs @mwichary not stuck! It’s in transit, and USPS apparently scans much more rarely than one would ever expect! Likely by later today or tomorrow, the first scan will occur, or it will have arrived! PS, we put all this in the email to make sure people weren’t anxious about it—I understand that it still is frustrating. And why would you read a really long email about shipping anyway?

@thomasfuchs carpenters replaced with pneumatic nail guns that fire in a pattern they determine themselves with unavoidable casualties

In February 2023, I helped @mwichary run what became the #1 tech book campaign on Kickstarter for his massive tome, Shift Happens. How did we raise over $750,000 in the campaign (and sell more copies later)? How did we deal with the expected—and surprise problems? I've detailed all that in this essay: https://glennf.medium.com/how-we-crowdfunded-750-000-for-a-giant-book-about-keyboard-history-c30e24c4022e Hard-won advice from this weathered campaign veteran.

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

Boeing’s #1 problem is not that they lack a culture of accountability.

It’s that they *hate unions* and *hate criticism.* So many of Boeing's major actions in the last 20, even 30 years have had to do with their attempts to break unions and escape political pressure in Washington State. The payoff is pressing workers without enough training, denigrating and overruling the work of union employees, and outsourcing work to avoid increasing union employment. This has cost them $10s of billions.

AI voice scams are here. Create a simple family password based on a story you all remember. Or ask for a very specific memory and when the person says they don’t remember or are too upset you know it’s a fake because everyone in your family would know they’d be asked in just this circumstance.

@thomasfuchs It's weird, because there is something like 30–40 years of visual programming systems that can be pretty robust, or at least address many people's need for data handling. Those are typically vastly better than all the "solutions" even when they're imperfect.

@thomasfuchs oo, oo, remember “expert systems”!

@aleen @thomasfuchs tofu contains no pork — no wait, that one is true

@thomasfuchs I mean, NFTs are like broken links, but even worse than broken links.

Posted 10 days ago https://twit.social/@glennf/111631358383609633

@jerry @thomasfuchs I predicted a few years back that if the COVID vaccines were as successful as they seemed the would be, that people would dismiss them as unnecessary—see, everything worked out! Just like Y2K. (I believe I have seen that take multiple times.)