Comic Strips: Retail, the (Archived) Comic Strip, Has A New Web-Home

Back in February 2020, I noted the passing of Norm Feuti's comic strip series, Retail.

Mr. Feuti had announced at that point his intent to archive the whole series online at some point. I'd expected the process to take longer. But apparently, the main work is done. There's topic-tagging yet to do, but that's not a high priority, and as someone who took years to finally manage to get every image file on my Flickr account properly tagged, I'm extremely reluctant to denounce anyone else's scheduling of such work.

Oh, and if you're wondering about the company that took over Grumbel's mall-space...?

Rabbit News - 22 May 2021

The back yard continues to host at least one adult rabbit with bunnies to feed and raise, at least for the next few weeks.

The House Rabbit Society website has provided a list of items with which to supplement their regular feed. Our household has no plans to try to domesticate any of them. So we'll leave out the odd bit of table scraps - with reference to that House Rabbit Society list - to supplement their regular forage-feed, and otherwise leave them be.

C-10, Oligarchy and the Future

I just finished watching a re-run of Man of Steel. Before that, I was rereading David Brin's novel Earth and reading an opinion piece in today's Globe and Mail by Sue Gardner (once of CBC and Wikimedia) on Bill C-10.

I think Prof. Michael Geist has fair criticisms of C-10 as presently promoted by the Trudeau team, particularly Heritage minister Steven Guilbeault. I share those concerns. Sue Gardner pointed out other issues, issues that C-10 might still be refashioned to address better. Issues about the business model of the major internet giants, including Facebook, Twitter, Alphabet/Google, etc.. The model that requires pushing engagement over education...rather than both in tandem.

It also speaks to some concerns that Dr. Brin put forward in the course of writing Earth: oligarchy trying to hold onto the power it used to have by keeping humanity more divided than absolutely necessary. Those companies risk being more entrenched as an oligarchy itself or as part of an existing structure's newer components.

In case any of you are able to get around the paywall because you're subscribed or otherwise legally able to look at it directly:

https://www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/article-the-crackdown-on-big-tech-targets-symptoms-rather-than-the-disease/

Also, my local public library provides ProQuest access to the article. Your own public libraries - wherever you are - may be able to provide similar access.