Sam Neil and Jeff Goldblum September Song, composer Kurt Weill

Read the introduction to 'Dictatorships in Portuguese: Legacies and Repercussions' by Rosane Carneiro Ramos (@bristoluni.bsky.social) which reflects on the experiences of dictatorships in Brazil and Portugal in the 20th Century. ➡️ bit.ly/MLO-DIP1 @apamferreira.bsky.social @amklobucka.bsky.social

NEW | 'Dictatorships in Portuguese: Legacies and Repercussions' ed. Rosane Carneiro Ramos is a new Special Collection offering interdisciplinary analysis of 20th century dictatorships in Brazil & Portugal. @apamferreira.bsky.social @amklobucka.bsky.social @ilcs.bsky.social ➡️ bit.ly/MLO-Ramos-blog

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My Canadian Queen 👸🏽, Alanis Morissette, with A stunning acoustic performance of "You Oughta Know" at her induction into the Songwriters Hall of Fame last night! 🌹🩷

I've spent months speaking to current & retired Black service members about being part of the military in this political moment. What I found were officers and soldiers despondent at the resurgence of racism, yet often insistent that they were fighting for what this country could be, not what it is.

June 9, 1926: Two women sharing a hotel room in Lincoln, Neb., are arrested after authorities learn they were married last week, one of them giving a man’s name. Neil Garess (born Nellie) wears men’s clothes and is a bacteriologiet at a veterans hospital; Marie Primeau is a nurse. 1/2

Just need everyone to know that the Belgium men's soccer team has new jerseys based on the art of Rene Magritte and this is the official photo shoot

Marjane Satrapi 1969-2026

Vermeer’s Girl With The Pearl Earring will be shown in Osaka, later this year, and the press conference was as Japanese as you’d expect #Vermeer

a piece inspired by this concept www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/...

one trick to getting students to close reading is to break them of the habit talking as if the text came to them simultaneously rather than as one word after the other, in order. The urge to *summarize* what's just been read rather than to account for its gradual arrival is deadly to good reading

I got to play a role in facilitating something so perfect and joyful: @kimberlecrenshaw.bsky.social is a New York Times bestselling author.

I DO NOT WANT TO 'CHAT WITH MY FILES'

my latest books cartoon for @theguardian.com

The incoming health minister of the future Magyar government, upon learning of the election results last night (From Instagram)

Dorothea Tanning — Robert Motherwell, 1945

It’s Tennessee’s birthday tomorrow. 📸 Richard Avedon (1950)

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Edvard Munch (Norwegian, 1863–1944) "Portrait of Friedrich Nietzsche", 1906. Oil on Canvas, 201 × 160 cm. Thiel Gallery, Stockholm, Sweden. #art #painting #artist #BlueSkyArt

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Some course descriptions for the Fall 2026 offerings of the Washington Center for Civics, Culture, and Statesmanship at West Virginia University

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I sometimes worry that too many people think being a good critic means being a self-righteous dick about every little thing and I think far too many miss the point that you can't critique anything if you don't know how to love something.

So Philip Glass just joined TikTok. He only has like 4 posts and they’re simply him in what I assume is his living room playing the piano. First comment on one I saw was “your piano is too close to the fireplace, you’ll dry it out” and if that’s not the internet in a nutshell I don’t know what is.

Today I had a meeting about funding I received for a November 2025 (!) presentation. Part of the agreement requires me to present the talk at a university-wide event in March 2026. I was told today I could either censor/change my talk’s title and receive the funding, or withdraw. I withdrew.

Relevant to today's conversation about AI's inherent sexism, here's an email from cognitive psychologist and early AI theorist Roger Schank, arguing to Epstein that women can't be truly intelligent, because they care too much about what other people think.

randomly thinking about the Moody Blues cover band in Delhi called the Bloody Muse and ngl, I always thought their band name was way better

Crime headline of the day.

To process the chaos, I'm spending a few minutes each night stitching a news diary--embroidering tiny icons representing an important story of the day. One month in, and it feels like I've already sewn a year's worth of news. But it helps me make sense of it all, so I think I can manage 11 more.

Video message from Federal Reserve Chair Jerome H. Powell: www.youtube.com/watch?v=KckG... www.federalreserve.gov/newsevents/s...

From an email to one of our faculty members.... Not even Plato can escape censorship at Texas A&M!

"7 a.m. (New Year's Morning)," László Moholy-Nagy (c. 1930)

A thread of how to say “nobody asked you” from around the world, starting with this one… A Lithuanian way of telling someone to mind their own business is ne tavo kiaulės, ne tavo pupos. It means “not your pigs, not your beans.”

Dec. 11, 1925: Greta Garbo behind the wheel of a car in Los Angeles.

One theory I have is that competence, self-control, responsibility, and expertise have all been feminized, leaving “masculinity” with the realm of impulsivity and petulance. So the divide is not really between “femininity” and “masculinity” so much as between adulthood and childishness.

Monument to the Unknown Bureaucrat, Reykjavik — Magnús Tómasson, 1994

After much research and development I have made an offline version of ChatGPT. Now you can save water and electricity while navel-gazing, and carry one of the world's most powerfully annoying AI chatbots in your pocket.

“AI is clearly sticking around so you have to get used to it” wrong. I don’t have to get used to shit. I am a practiced hater and I can keep this going for decades if I am required to

Louis Armstrong and Lotte Lenya, 1955 Lenya was in the studio when Armstrong recorded "Mack the Knife," which is why he improvised the line "and Miss Lotte Lenya!"

Boys messing with men's heads du jour: David w/ head of Goliath, 1648, complete w/ embedded stone. Seriously huge sword there, too. By Jacob van Oost of Bruges, whose day is today.

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What a queen