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Glenn Fleishman

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Technology journalist & printing historian. Columnist, Six Colors. Executive Editor, Take Control Books. Two-time Jeopardy! champ. Find out about my work at https://glennf.com Get a copy of my latest book https://sixcent.info

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Glenn Fleishman @glennf.com · 14d

Looking for a gift for someone with an interest in design or typography? Or a thorough but quick read on the history of printing and type for yourself? sixcent.info

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Glenn Fleishman @glennf.com · 2h

My father now says “fuck” at times but still hates “sucks”

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He does honestly deserve that prize, which is made of gold-plated uranium.

Glenn Fleishman @glennf.com · 4h

That is very kind! Thank you!

Glenn Fleishman @glennf.com · 5h

I didn’t catch that! Bibliographers’ humor!

Glenn Fleishman @glennf.com · 5h

This is the first of three sets that I’ll release over the next few weeks. Thank you very much to Marcin for providing additional items and giving me his blessing to sell copies from my archives as project manager and editor. This will help to underwrite surgery/recovery. bsky.app/profile/glen...

Glenn Fleishman @glennf.com · 5d

Hi, folks, a little personal news. In mid-November, I'm getting my aortic valve replaced via open-heart surgery. As scary as that sounds, my prognosis is excellent. This is fairly personal health news, and I'm posting publicly for two reasons.

Glenn Fleishman @glennf.com · 5h

If you missed out on the Shift Happens massive book set, I’ve just posted a listing for a mint-condition, never-opened, super-premium version: www.ebay.com/itm/40628451...
This includes exclusive items, like a note signed by author @aresluna.org, which he provided for this auction.

Shift Happens bookset: a large slipcase with printed keys on it, with volume two of three pulled out to reveal a man seemingly at a keyboard.

MVKB-designed keycap set shown as three items in a foam case: a unique Cherry MX-compatible keycap with two different tops you can swap between, made of copper, steel, and aluminum. A special box with symbols on it drawn from the book's design, at top of photo.

Special limited-edition preview booklet for Shift Happens with keys on cover with no labels and printed in dark colors. The title says MARCIN WICHARY SHIFT HAPPENS PREVIEW

A card with a large keycap reading THANK YOU FOR SUPPORTING SHIFT HAPPENS lies on top of an orange envelope with its flap open

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Glenn Fleishman @glennf.com · 6h

The famous continuity of the strip will certainly have an arc.

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Glenn Fleishman @glennf.com · 6h

Bewildered, because I’ve spent hours talking to the primary writer, Brian Walker, who is an incredible decent guy. But also in his 70s and maybe never got over the notion of “PC.”

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Glenn Fleishman @glennf.com · 6h

Hi on Its Own Fumes & Lois

Halloween Name @damnyouwillis.bsky.social · 7h

JESUS CHRIST, Hi and Lois

what the fuck

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Lauren Harper @laurenleharper.bsky.social · 6h

Good thing @freedom.press filed a FOIA request for all of Bondi’s Truth Social DMs to see what else he’s demanding she do on his janky platform.

(Social media posts from gov officials are federal records, including deleted messages and DMs)

Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 9h

This has real -- I intended to dm "Pam" -- energy.

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Glenn Fleishman @glennf.com · 6h

Highlighted a bit more obviously in a digitally typeset edition I found.

Screenshot of book called ABC with details of printing and editions for book collectors: paragraph about broken type showing two examples in line

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Joseph Hone @josephhone.bsky.social · 13h

How have I only just spotted this fabulous joke in Carter’s ABC?!

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darren32359.bsky.social @darren32359.bsky.social · 11h

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Qagggy! @qagggy.bsky.social · 17h

Some of the urbanism happening in New York City…is stunning.

Broadway between Union Square and the Flatiron.

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Jesse @requiemarm.bsky.social · 8h

this is by far the worst reading of Alan Moore’s Watchmen I’ve ever seen and if you spend an appreciable amount of time online you will know what a crowning achievement that is

Sharon @sharonk.bsky.social · 11h

thiel, man, what the fuck are you talking about

He describes the plot of Watchmen, a 1986 graphic novel involving superheroes grappling with moral questions about humanity against the backdrop of impending nuclear war:

The antihero Ozymandias, the antichrist-type figure, is sort of an early-modern person. He believes this will be a timeless and eternal solution – eternal world peace. Moore is sort of a late-modern. In early modernity, you have ideal solutions, ‘perfect’ solutions to calculus. In late modernity, things are sort of probabilistic. And at some point, he asks Dr Manhattan whether the world government is going to last. And he says that ‘nothing lasts forever.’ So you embrace the antichrist and it still doesn’t work.

Thiel later finds biblical meaning in the manga One Piece, discussing how he believes it represents a future where an antichrist-like one-world government has repressed science. He believes that the hero, Monkey D Luffy, represents a Christlike figure.

In One Piece, you are set in a fantasy world, again sort of an alternate earth, but it’s 800 years into the reign of this one-world state. Which, as the story unfolds, gradually gets darker and darker. You sort of realize, in my interpretation, who runs the world and it’s something like the antichrist. There’s Luffy, a pirate who wears a red straw hat, sort of like Christ’s crown of thorns. And then towards the end of the story, transforms into a figure who resembles Christ in Revelation.

Thiel, along with a researcher and writer at Thiel Capital, explored these ideas at greater length in an essay for the religious journal First Things earlier this month.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 7h

STEPHANOPOULOS: I didn't insinuate anything. I asked you whether Tom Homan accepted $50k as was heard on an audio tape recorded by the FBI in September 2024. You did not answer the question. Thank you for your time.

VANCE: No, George, I sai--

STEPHANOPOULOS: We'll be right back

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Pavel @spavel.bsky.social · 8h

bitch what

Onedrive settings. A toggle for using AI to detect and identify faces is set to on. The caption says, you can only turn off this setting 3 times per year.

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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 7h

The groups that shifted most towards Trump were not the groups hardest hit by inflation. Worldwide, the thing that seems most consistently linked to extremist, anti-institutional politics is not any set of economic conditions but SOCIAL MEDIA AND IMMERSION IN A DIGITAL INFORMATION ENVIRONMENT

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Glenn Fleishman @glennf.com · 7h

Like someone who played The Sims too much.

jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 8h

a key thing about vought — and all of these guys — is that they have a totally top down and hierarchical vision of the world. they believe that the cultural changes they hate can be turned off by destroying the federal government because they can’t imagine that they emerged bottom-up in society

Thomas Zimmer @thomaszimmer.bsky.social · 9h

What he’s railing against is a profound shift in culture, status… He’s obsessed with the idea that America is controlled by a leftist “ruling elite” - but “elite” isn’t defined socio-economically or by political power, it means something like: Getting to define “real America” and who gets to belong.

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Vincenzo @vincenzodon.bsky.social · 1d

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Glenn Fleishman @glennf.com · 17h

Image parodying image of Guy walking with woman and looking hungrily at woman in red dress. Man is labeled Atheists. His partner, Richard Dawkins. The woman in red, Catholic Church.

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 18h

About a month ago, the Trump administration got rid of the de minimis exemption, whereby packages valued under $800 could slide in without import duties. Now there's a backlog as the government can't process all of this paperwork, leading to UPS just destroying packages

Business Insider headline reads: UPS is telling customers that their packages coming to the US are marked for destruction.

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Marlow Stern @marlownyc.bsky.social · 18h

Trump claims the “Biden FBI” placed 274 agents at the Capitol on Jan. 6.

Trump was president on Jan. 6.

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Glenn Fleishman @glennf.com · 21h

The American Embassy is very inconveniently located but if you are nearby it is an amazing building with incredible gardens and water features outside the cordon.

Glenn Fleishman @glennf.com · 21h

Burying the lede! Wishing you the best. Was in the ER a few weeks ago and was treated delightfully well!