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New article on Wizard magazine and comics fandom in the 1990s and 2000s published in Popular Communication. If you remember Wizard and/or 90s comics culture, either with fondness or shame, you won't want to miss this one.

Kalervo, Anna, and I have been talking about Wizard for a couple years now, and it's great to finally have something out.

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/15405702.2024.2414120

Benjamin WOO Chun How boosted:

My friend Cameron Blevins experiments with using generative AI to grade: “Watching a Custom GPT capably mimic the grading process has only reinforced how hollow grades can actually be.” https://cblevins.github.io/posts/grading-custom-gpt/

Simultaneously fascinated and troubled to see the “sparkles” emoji (✨) emerging as a visual code for generative AI in user interfaces. As emanata in manga, it signifies awe, beauty, stylishness, pride. Here, it seems to be … pixie dust?

Let’s not give credence to the idea that this technology is sufficiently advanced to be indistinguishable from magic.

Still got it.

Several copies of a small black and white zine, stood up on a table. The cover of the zine has two cartoon heads and reads, “MCP Presents Comics & Cartooning with Prof. Woo & Kate.”

Excited for this new project from @glennf https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/glennf/how-comics-were-made

Academia https://socel.net/@catandgirl/111981797223795422

Benjamin WOO Chun How boosted:

The settlement is puny but this is super important. Air Canada is responsible for the inaccurate information from its chatbot.

Super super important. They tried to Weasel out of it too. If this went the other way there's no such thing as corporate accountability anymore.

https://bc.ctvnews.ca/air-canada-s-chatbot-gave-a-b-c-man-the-wrong-information-now-the-airline-has-to-pay-for-the-mistake-1.6769454

Benjamin WOO Chun How boosted:

Is Publons a scam? I signed up and my inbox is flooded with review requests for articles I have no expertise in. I just got an invitation to review for Earthquake Engineering and Resilience

Like that's terrifying that I would be a candidate for peer review.

Buildings gonna fall down.

Benjamin WOO Chun How boosted:

Upcoming workshops from around #canada that are eligible for the Canadian Certificate in #dh - https://ccdhhn.ca/upcoming-dh-workshops/

including our own XLab Confab! https://carleton.ca/xlab/xlab-confab

Okay, that’s all I have in me. Thanks for joining me for Almost Hourly Comic Day!

9:22 p.m.

The artist sitting up in bed with a tablet propped on his lap reading Uncanny Vows by Laura Anne Gilman. Caption reads, “Time for ~~bed~~ reading a fantasy novel in bed.”

8:45 p.m.

Banner: “BOOTING UP / BACK TO WORK”

The artist is pictured behind his laptop. “Peer-reviewing conference abstracts.”

7:11 p.m.

Panel 1: A walking mushroom. “Watch the new Delicious in Dungeon.”

Panel 2: “Give the cat his medicine.” An ornery looking cat thinks, “What, again?”

5:51 p.m.

Two panels at the top show a male figure in a ball cap walking in the rain then looking out over Dow’s Lake. Captions read, “Walking home — it’s unseasonably mild, standing water on the canal ice.”

Three panels under a heading reading, “Dinner.” In the first, two people sit across from one another talking and eating. In the next, someone reading on their phone says, “You better get drawing if you want to catch up.” In the final panel, the artist is drawing.

4:24 p.m.

A closed laptop, its lid covered in stickers. Banners read, “SHUTTING DOWN, HEADING HOME”

3:23 p.m.

"Still working on those RA instructions … quickly reading an article to support them." The pictured article is titled, "Protecting the Identity of Participants in Qualitative Research." A couple of new message notifications have popped up, and a caption reads, "More emails…"

Quick break from Hourly Comics to say, how cool is this prize competition for the best article on fans and/or fandoms of colour in Transformative Works and Cultures? https://journal.transformativeworks.org/index.php/twc/announcement/view/141

#FanStudies #TransformativeWorksAndCultures

2:31 p.m.

A drawing of a video chat interface captioned "In the RoCCET Lab." A balloon from one participant says, "Is this a comic?" And another says, "Or just a drawing of a Teams meeting?"

The aforementioned lunchtime talk. 12:00 p.m.

In an inset, the artist is pictured wearing an elastomeric respirator. In the main panel, Sally Campbell Pirie gestures with their eyeglasses while giving lecture: "Comics slow things down and make you look -- really look."

11:26 a.m.

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