#information landscapes

[copcomco]

FIELDER #3 by Kevin Huizenga

The latest comics missive from the mind and pen of Kevin Huizenga has arrived! This issue is PACKED cover-to-cover with comics. And as you can see, both covers are front covers. It's kind of like two comic books that meet in the middle. There's a lot going on here. Read our write-up – and purchase the issue, if you are so inclined – HERE!

[carbon-fiber-internal-organs]

[artronenergy]

Honestly if you're looking at Doctor Who (2005) as a piece of fiction with, you know, themes and intent, it's really necessary to engage with it as actual queer media. At least a little. I think it's status as a fandom show from the mid 2000s means people are quick to dismiss this as some sort of transformative read rather than something that actually informs the storytelling and characters, but it can not be understated how it's fundamentally part of the same body of work as Cucumber and It's a Sin and Queer as Folk

[veggieharumaki]

cw: blood

golden tears of a fallen angel

part of a dtiys challenge on twit!

[wachtelspinat]

4 photo studies (and one junkertown-ish landscape thingie) i did for last years christmas calendar (for my dad <3)

had some fun with these but i also realized while drawing landscapes concepts is nice and all, trying to color them correctly is HELL, hence the junkertown thing is in gray scales with fucked up tones...

i’m having a project in mind with a theme (for the junkers) and i might re-use some of these, rly don’t know yet... we might see

[rabbitcruiser]

Jasper National Park, AB (No. 14)

Jasper Forest Park was renamed Jasper National Park in 1930. By 1931, Jasper was accessible by road from Edmonton. In 1940, the scenic Icefields Parkway opened, connecting Jasper to Lake Louise and Banff in Banff National Park.

The first step towards incorporation of Jasper occurred on August 31, 1995, when the Jasper Improvement District was formed from a portion of Improvement District No. 12 (Jasper National Park). The improvement district was subsequently incorporated as a specialized municipality under the name of the Municipality of Jasper on July 20, 2001. The incorporation order established the Jasper townsite as the Town of Jasper and the surrounding balance of the specialized municipality as a rural service area that was deemed equivalent to a municipal district.

The Municipality of Jasper is in the western portion of the province of Alberta within Jasper National Park. It borders the province of British Columbia to the west and Improvement District No. 12 to the north, east, and south. The Athabasca River, which originates from the Columbia Icefield, meanders northward through the municipality. The Miette River, Maligne River, and Snaring River all discharge into the Athabasca River within the Municipality of Jasper's limits.

Source: Wikipedia

[scarland-artbook]

Our third category, Landscaping!... your mind? 🌼

[jareckiworld]

John Olsen — Flooded River & Wattles  (oil on canvas, 1986)

[renirae]

drawing for chapter two of 'cause I'm still turning out :DDD

light version:

[eopederson]

Information Touriste, Dakar, 2019.

[arcadianambivalence]

How was your day? I totally didn't spend mine trying to meticulously map how little Armand could have feasibly made it from Delhi to Venice in the first two decades of the 16th century. And then somehow deleted two hours of notes.

[axololtls]

[vintage-ukraine]

Construction of the Technical Information Institute by Samuel Kaplan, 1970

[kansasjustgotgayer]

Op turned off reblogs and replies for this post but I cant not say something. Because it’s literally not about that.

If you’ve paid any attention to what the republican party looks like in 2024 you would know that the people who are changing their mind and backing Kamala are not doing it because she’s a great example of all the things they want for this nation.

They’re backing her because they know that a Trump administration would be catastrophic for every facet of how our country operates. Kamala has campaigned on a couple of strong messages including the idea that this election it is imperative to vote with the idea of “country over party.”

Because people know about project 2025 and they remember January 6th. The GOP has mutated in the last 10 years to look a lot like its ONLY the cult of trump followers but that is not true. It is full of smart people who know better and know that this is a terrible choice for everyone including themselves.

That is what these numbers really represent, not that Harris is a closet republican and a shining star candidate for these staffers. It is her appealing to republicans who feel they have to vote with their party’s nominee even when they know that option is poison.

[rabbitcruiser]

Wells Dam Rest Area And Information Center, WA (No. 5)

The Columbia begins its 1,243 mi (2,000 km) journey in the southern Rocky Mountain Trench in British Columbia (BC). Columbia Lake –  2,690 ft (820 m) above sea level –  and the adjoining Columbia Wetlands form the river's headwaters. The trench is a broad, deep, and long glacial valley between the Canadian Rockies and the Columbia Mountains in BC. For its first 200 mi (320 km), the Columbia flows northwest along the trench through Windermere Lake and the town of Invermere, a region known in BC as the Columbia Valley, then northwest to Golden and into Kinbasket Lake. Rounding the northern end of the Selkirk Mountains, the river turns sharply south through a region known as the Big Bend Country, passing through Revelstoke Lake and the Arrow Lakes. Revelstoke, the Big Bend, and the Columbia Valley combined are referred to in BC parlance as the Columbia Country. Below the Arrow Lakes, the Columbia passes the cities of Castlegar, located at the Columbia's confluence with the Kootenay River, and Trail, two major population centers of the West Kootenay region. The Pend Oreille River joins the Columbia about 2 miles (3 km) north of the United States–Canada border.

Source: Wikipedia

[tomorrowusa]

« I can attest to the idea that tech companies behave nothing like traditional journalism outlets. They’re run by engineers who might as well be wiring your house for cable or fixing your water main for all they care about the quality of information you consume online. »

— Columnist Matt Bai at the Washington Post. (archived)

Good analogy. No matter how good your electrician or plumber may be, would you consider them regular and reliable sources for news outside their professional fields?

Facebook and the others make money by sharing your eyeballs with advertisers – not by providing trustworthy information.

A disproportionate percentage of Republicans get their news primarily from social media. That tells us a lot about how they form their worldviews.

We need to support credible free news media like public broadcasters NPR, the BBC, the CBC, or Australia's ABC.

At one time most people got reasonably accurate news from free media on TV and radio. The internet has scrambled the media landscape – so far in a chaotic way.

People who spend lots of time on free social media are having their views shaped by digital oligarchs who have no interest in accuracy or responsibility. Indeed, some of those oligarchs have political agendas which are self-serving and promote fringe worldviews.

So support for remaining free credible news media is essential as they navigate their way through the changing informational terrain.

For now, question the credibility of dubious items which people tell you about which they see on social media. Successfully debunking something provides you with credibility you can then use to cast doubt on additional dubious items.