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Episode 38: release next week

https://www.davidrevoy.com/article965/episode-38-release-next-week
Created
Fri, 21/04/2023 - 01:12

Here is a WIP webcomic panel of the future episode 38 of Pepper&Carrot "The Healer". It takes shape! The release will be next week, and the beta is now ready for translation. đŸ€©

I'll be full-time painting until the release; each panel requires at least 3 to 4h of paint-over and adjustments, and it's a lot of hours until I find the pages ready for 'final'. 💜

Investment in Innovation: Going to Pitch-burgh!

https://www.drupal.org/association/blog/investment-in-innovation-going-to-pitch

Created
Fri, 21/04/2023 - 01:01

The Drupal Association is excited to host "Pitch-burgh", an innovation contest, at DrupalCon Pittsburgh and to invite community members to propose their ideas for innovating Drupal, with the top ideas receiving funding.

Beyond just hosting the contest, the Drupal Association is committing funds to make a direct financial investment in the best ideas and will provide management resources to support taking pitches from idea to implementation. Additionally, we will work with other “sharks” to put together the necessary resources to make these ideas a reality.

Information about how to participate and submit your ideas can be found here.

“We’re banishing hunger from ours”

https://digbysblog.net/2023/04/20/were-banishing-hunger-from-ours/
Created
Fri, 21/04/2023 - 00:30
Gov. Tim Walz of Minnesota paints a stark contrast In his State of the State Address Wednesday night, Gov. Tim Waltz (DFL) contrasts Minnesota with red states. “It’s not up to me how folks in those places, folks like Florida, go about their business. But I got to tell you, I’m pretty glad we do it our way here and not that way,” Walz said. “If you need any examples to maybe change your mind on this one. They’re banning books in their schools. We’re banishing hunger from ours.” The 2024 elections will be about choice. That’s just one.


Jeremy Harding: Macron v. Millions

https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v45/n09/jeremy-harding/macron-v.-millions
Created
Fri, 21/04/2023 - 00:00
The public and most of the press were suspicious of the reform from the start, simply because it meant revisiting the mystifying labyrinth of the pension system. Trade union actuaries and compute-your-pension calculators published in the French media have done sterling work, but nobody can say for sure what lies in store, except that many are liable to lose out.


Pankaj Mishra: The Big Con

https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v45/n09/pankaj-mishra/the-big-con
Created
Fri, 21/04/2023 - 00:00
The neglected details of Gautam Adani’s frictionless rise show how, after their calamitous romance with Russia’s oligarchy, Western politicians, journalists and bankers have facilitated the ascent of another hyper-nationalist elite with dubiously sourced wealth and an extreme aversion to the rule of law and civil liberties.


Andrew Cockburn: Diary

https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v45/n09/andrew-cockburn/diary
Created
Fri, 21/04/2023 - 00:00
The Ukrainian authorities ‘wanted Saakashvili to be in power’, so that he would ‘start a war against Russia and join Ukraine, involving Georgia in the war’. The opposition calls this scaremongering, but the message still resonates. As an American resident in Tbilisi pointed out, the government ‘is panicked that if Putin wins in Ukraine, they’re next. And if he loses, he’ll need a quick win somewhere, so they’d be next.’


Sophie Lewis: I’ll do the dishes

https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v45/n09/sophie-lewis/i-ll-do-the-dishes
Created
Fri, 21/04/2023 - 00:00
Mothering and other forms of intimate labour reproduce and sustain both capital and life; both workers and comrades; both patriarchal society and the possibility of liberation from it. In this sense, to say that life-preserving work (such as feeding, hoovering or wound-dressing) is ‘essential’ isn’t sufficient. The better question would be: essential for what?


Michael Wood: Nasty Angels

https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v45/n09/michael-wood/nasty-angels
Created
Fri, 21/04/2023 - 00:00
Comparisons to Proust and Henry James come up a lot when critics discuss Javier Marías, but we could also see his style, his performance, as something akin to a too-late Balzac, aided perhaps by a disciple of the Ancient Mariner. The prose has the extraordinary effect of making us simultaneously wonder why we’re still reading this garrulous stuff and how we could possibly stop.


James Meek: Short Cuts

https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v45/n09/james-meek/short-cuts
Created
Fri, 21/04/2023 - 00:00
In the absence of a plausible explanation, the list of acceptable ID seems to be a clumsy effort to favour the older, Conservative-tending voter at the expense of the younger and more Labour-inclined. What stands out about the voter ID saga as a whole, however, is not its repressive aspect but its shoddiness, its carelessness.