#15yrsago Terror cops hunt down ornamental castor bean plant https://web.archive.org/web/20080914224719/http://www.abc4.com/news/local/story.aspx?content_id=f2396fa3-c730-457d-825c-257c263a831c

#15yrsago Seaweed: Lush, hilarious oversized indie graphic novel https://memex.craphound.com/2008/09/11/seaweed-lush-hilarious-oversized-indie-graphic-novel/

#10yrsago #NSA reveals that it illegally gathered thousands of phone records, to the appalled astonishment of #FISA court judge https://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/sep/10/nsa-violated-court-rules-data-documents

#10yrsago Revisiting #Milgram’s #ObedienceExperiment: what did he actually prove? https://psmag.com/social-justice/electric-schlock-65377

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#20yrsago Help pay back the #RIAA’s 12-year-old victim https://web.archive.org/web/20040215051659/http://funkbunny.com/datatype/archives/000076.html

#20yrsago 'Amnesty' for Music #FileSharing Is a Sham https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2003-sep-10-oe-vonlohmann10-story.html

#15yrsago Canadian man changes name to beat #NoFlyList https://web.archive.org/web/20080917202919/https://www.cbc.ca/canada/montreal/story/2008/09/11/nofly-name.html

#15yrsago Michigan GOP attacks #RightToVote for the recently foreclosed https://web.archive.org/web/20080911193036/https://michiganmessenger.com/4076/lose-your-house-lose-your-vote

#15yrsago North Texas house burns because local authorities switched off hydrants “to fight #terrorism” https://web.archive.org/web/20080913150058/https://www.wfaa.com/sharedcontent/dws/wfaa/latestnews/stories/wfaa080827_lj_hawes.1983f2d0.html

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Hey look at this

* We May Not Negotiate Prices for Ten Drugs After All https://prospect.org/health/2023-09-11-we-may-not-negotiate-prices-for-ten-drugs-after-all/

* 'It's robbery': Salvadorans slow to adopt #Bitcoin https://news.yahoo.com/robbery-salvadorans-slow-adopt-bitcoin-191002188.html (h/t Slashdot)

* The #oracle problem and the future of #DeFi https://www.bis.org/publ/bisbull76.pdf (h/t Naked Capitalism)

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The Tamakis' "Roaming": Ah, to be young and Canadian in New York City.

https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/111046223612620443

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Tomorrow (September 12) at 19h, I'm at #Toronto's Another Story Bookshop with *The Internet Con: How to Seize the Means of Computation*:

https://anotherstory.ca/events/29283

On September 14, I'm hosting the nostr:npub1sqfnxau480pnvm0t258kdrj5u2u72zwm2kh7tk3qf6lxtqkwvlmqgn5skr Awards in #SanFrancisco:

https://www.eff.org/awards/effawards/2023

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Today's threads (a thread)

Inside: The Tamakis' "Roaming"; and more!

Archived at: https://pluralistic.net/2023/09/11/as-canadian-as/

#Pluralistic

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It's a love story about friendship and the transition from adolescence to adulthood, perfectly precise in its depiction of very specific people in a very specific time and place, and yet absolutely universal in the truths it reveals.

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All my female friends have stories of growing up in intense, three-way friendships that were forever turning into two-on-one fights, with allegiances shifting from moment to moment. *Roaming* tells the story of one such triangle, forming and shattering and re-forming in a sorefooted, exhilarating weekend in the greatest city in the world (TM).

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I was one of those Canadian adolescents drunk on New York, on several occasions, and even today the City can just *floor* me. The Tamakis *nailed* this, from the facial expressions to the body-language of their characters, the push-pull of wanting to go to all the tourist traps and not wanting to be the kind of rube who goes to all the tourist traps.

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Meanwhile, NYC looms large as it only could in a story about young Canadians in the City. It's hard to overstate the glamour with which New York looms in the imagination of (many) young Canadians. Hence the old joke: "How many Canadians does it take to change a lightbulb? Two: one to change the bulb and one to go to New York and make sure lightbulbs are still cool." Or: "Toronto is New York run by the Swiss; the city that never sleeps...in."

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With *Roaming* we get a dizzying, beautifully wrought three-body problem as the three protagonists struggle with resentments and love, sex and insecurity. The relationships between Zoe, Dani and Fiona careen wildly from scene to scene and even panel to panel, propelled by sly graphic cues and fantastically understated dialog.

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The young women check into a hostel for a hotly anticipated long weekend, which turns into a complicated, moody marathon of debauchery, bonding, feuding, flirting, resentments and wonders.

The Tamakis' specialty is capturing the charged sexuality, subtle friendship power-moves, and intense but brittle friendship between young women. They're *very* good at it, which is why they won a Governor General's prize for their 2014 blockbuster *This One Summer*:

https://memex.craphound.com/2014/05/06/review-this-one-summer/

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Roaming is the story of three young #Canadian women meeting up for a getaway to #NewYorkCity. Zoe and Dani are high-school best friends who haven't seen each other since they graduated and decamped for universities in different cities. Fiona is Dani's art-school classmate, a glamorous and cantankerous artist with an affected air of sophistication.

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Cousins #MarikoTamaki and #JillianTamaki are a graphic storytelling powerhouse, and their latest title, *Roaming* (from #DrawnAndQuartlery) is a stunner:

https://drawnandquarterly.com/books/roaming/

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If you'd like an essay-formatted version of this thread to read or share, here's a link to it on pluralistic.net, my surveillance-free, ad-free, tracker-free blog:

https://pluralistic.net/2023/09/11/as-canadian-as/#possible-under-the-circumstances

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nostr:npub1egej4gxhlk2kw9zffk0ckt9sk77vn8m7n9j4yu4a5k56l2jx8xcsqnr7lj An error!

nostr:npub1y4k7gasjjxqefzhx7ehzvl6m95puq0g0k3u5l74hw22yn7ek3g8s6v8ty5 They're the ones that repeatedly screwed up, alas.

Anyone have an online printer they like for full-bleed business cards? There's a company I usually use but they keep assuming the parts of my design that are supposed to bleed off are actually mistakes, and they resize my art to fit in the center of the card! After repeated failures with them, I gave up - but I still need new cards.

nostr:npub1rj3ep4vg936dqmcjcvdrkkf8fzupvmtl7hhc2sqqt29l05fq602qf9y9re From experience, I can assure you that doing this would create *hundreds* of hours of support requests for me from users who like the sound of MB4 but then can't figure it out. It's *very* easy to convert the MP3s at your end with free utilities like m4b-tool.

nostr:npub12gmsmhfp6p5s6drelz65g9dg222tsxh3xkrh8lzzwalff35r7m6qdx4e9w No, because that book is sold DRM-free, so buying it doesn't shackle you to Amazon by making it something you have to throw away forever if you break up with Amazon.

The shrinking dream of the #TechWorker — from “maker of a #DentInTheUniverse” to “disposable source of free cash-flow for a #StockBuyback”

https://doctorow.medium.com/the-proletarianization-of-tech-workers-ad0a6b09f7e6?sk=6dc50e8e1afc9bbd523a2fee4959e5c0

#Labor #Unions #TechUnions