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covid19/japanese art

Atlas Obscura reports on a trend where artists are drawing Amabie (アマビエ), a sort of mer-bird-person spirit associated with protection from disease.

A Healing Spirit From 19th-Century Japan Is Back to Face COVID-19

Artists are bringing back Amabie, a ‘yōkai’ associated with protection from disease.

Image by Kaori Hamura Long. The article features several other examples from the current trend.

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Perspective: Moderate/independent voters aren’t necessarily in the “middle” so much as they just don’t fit neatly into the binary left/right categories.

Perspective: Moderate/independent voters aren’t necessarily in the “middle” so much as they just don’t fit neatly into the binary left/right categories. https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/the-moderate-middle-is-a-myth/

Perspective: Moderate/independent voters aren't necessarily in the "middle" so much as they just don't fit neatly into the binary left/right categories.

As usual, people who claim that social justice values are new to comics (in this case Vertigo) and therefore the cause of their decline show that they have no clue about comics’ history. Crack open some early Vertigo, and you’ll find plenty of examples:

As usual, people who claim that social justice values are new to comics (in this case Vertigo) and therefore the cause of their decline show that they have no clue about comics’ history. Crack open some early Vertigo, and you’ll find plenty of examples:
https://bleedingcool.com/comics/vertigo-comic-book-line-sjw-values/

“Why people are socializing more about crime even as it becomes rarer.” Because the more coverage you see, the more common you think it is. (Look up ‘availability heuristic’) The rise of fear-based social media: Nextdoor, Citizen, and Amazon’s Neighbors

“Why people are socializing more about crime even as it becomes rarer.”
Because the more coverage you see, the more common you think it is. (Look up ‘availability heuristic’)

The rise of fear-based social media: Nextdoor, Citizen, and Amazon’s Neighbors

Crime has gone down, but people think it's gone up

A medical drone delivery service is shipping blood as-needed to hospitals across Rwanda, which has the tech & telecom infrastructure for autonomous drones, but rugged terrain and poor roads that slow down delivery by land.

A medical drone delivery service is shipping blood as-needed to hospitals across Rwanda, which has the tech & telecom infrastructure for autonomous drones, but rugged terrain and poor roads that slow down delivery by land.

In the Air With Zipline’s Medical Delivery Drones


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It’s almost as though cruelty and neglect can affect people’s mental health….

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It’s almost as though cruelty and neglect can affect people’s mental health.  

Everyone gives Batman shit over the state of Arkham but no one ever talks about Iron Heights.

There was a bit of criticism for Iron Heights within the Flash book, such as when Ashley Zolomon called the prison “the Rogue Factory” (which she said was a widespread nickname) and accused Wolfe of having no compassion for its prisoners.  It seems quite likely that the mistreatment there has made some of the prisoners worse, with I think Roscoe as one of the prime examples.  And as awful as Arkham is, at least they make some attempt to treat their inmates; we’ve seen that Iron Heights leaves theirs barefoot in straitjackets and isolated in filthy cells.  So it’s no surprise that they end up even more mentally ill and anti-social, which is almost certainly what Ashley was alluding to.

Wally and Wolfe clashed on a number of occasions over the treatment of prisoners there, once Wally found out about it. But Wally had no authority there, he was just a vigilante super-hero, and Wolfe kept running things the way he wanted to. The one win I remember was that Wally was able to get Fallout an actual, comfortable room that absorbed his radiation instead of leaving him hooked up to tubes like he was before.

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