Printed comics as a genre long preceded the Sunday Funny Pages:"'Lost Literacies' Strips Down the Dawn of Comics" @jstordaily.bsky.social
(Plus- TMNT)
Tell *and* show: https://roughlydaily.com/2026/03/23/in-comics-at-their-best-words-and-pictures-are-like-partners-in-a-dancer-and-each-one-takes-turns-leading/
An explication of one of the most fundamental of all human needs: "Mattering"
(Plus- Goethe)
Wondering about worth: https://roughlydaily.com/2026/03/22/what-matters-to-you-defines-your-mattering/
Living faithfully a hidden life: "The Moral Beauty of Middlemarch" @plough.bsky.social
(Plus- The Mill on the Floss)
Valuing virtue: https://roughlydaily.com/2026/03/21/the-growing-good-of-the-world-is-partly-dependent-on-unhistoric-acts/
Fabulous fruit and vegetables: "Calicornication: Postcards of Giant Produce (1909)" @publicdomainrev.bsky.social
and Banksy @boingboing.net
(Plus- Isaac Newton)
Live large: https://roughlydaily.com/2026/03/20/the-bigger-the-better/
The map is not the territory, part xxii- challenging our frameworks and models for thinking and talking about our future.
(Plus- the Mongol Yuan conquer the Song)
Musing on metaphors: https://roughlydaily.com/2026/03/19/the-metaphors-we-use-deliver-us-hope-or-they-foreclose-possibility/
On the practice of selective enforcement and prosecution: "Corrupt anticorruption" @pluralistic.net.web.brid.gy
(Plus- Caligula)
Grapple with graft: https://roughlydaily.com/2026/03/18/everything-is-destroyed-by-its-own-particular-vice-the-destructive-power-resides-within/
Farming vs. fabs (and AI)- American agriculture is caught in a collision between old and new economies: "The Supermarket of the World"
(Plus- National Agriculture Week)
Contemplating cultivation: https://roughlydaily.com/2026/03/17/where-grows-where-grows-it-not-if-vain-our-toil-we-ought-to-blame-the-culture-not-the-soil/
On "beauty" in mathematics in the age of AI: "The eye of the mathematician" @ritaahmadi.bsky.social @aeon.co
(Plus- Eduard Heine)
Embracing elegance: https://roughlydaily.com/2026/03/15/he-is-seen-but-he-does-not-see-he-is-the-object-of-information-never-a-subject-in-communication/
On "beauty" in mathematics in the age of AI: "The eye of the mathematician" @ritaahmadi.bsky.social @aeon.co
(Plus- Eduard Heine)
Embracing elegance: https://roughlydaily.com/2026/03/15/he-is-seen-but-he-does-not-see-he-is-the-object-of-information-never-a-subject-in-communication/
Gauging the panopticon: "From Flock to ICE, Here’s a Breakdown of How You’re Being Watched" @jasonkoebler.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy @josephcox.bsky.social @404media.co
(Plus- the dot.com bust)
