#SAGAFTRA has released the following statement on the announcement of “Tilly Norwood,” an A.I.-generated “actor” that is reportedly seeking representation: SAG-AFTRA believes creativity is, and should remain, human-centered. The union is opposed to the replacement of human performers by synthetics.

Five corporations control 90% of the US media market. Airlines merged from 12 major carriers in 1980 to 4 today. Four giants control 80% of meat processing. A handful of companies control the pharmaceutical industry. The evidence of corporate concentration is everywhere.

Opinion | Judith Butler is being targeted by the US government. We must stand up - The Guardian

Wow the CEO of Spotify is just terrible. Who would have guessed it? Cancelling subscription.

Today’s news is giving me a headache. Oh wait …

The real MVP of comedy in the US right now

Wait, did I miss the rapture or is that tomorrow?

Great show by the great Zoe Leonard, reviewed by the great Julia Bryan-Wilson in 4 Columns.

The brain tricks us constantly. It mistakes scrolling and "seeking information" for DOING THINGS. That is not doing. You have to act.

Great conversation with @astrominx.bsky.social at Beinecke yesterday, about Janelle Monae, atrofuturism, and dreaming beyond despair.

A Proud Iconoclast - New York Magazine — Coco Fusco retrospective opens!

Trump’s allies now control X, Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp, & TikTok. They own Fox News, CBS, WaPo, WSJ & NY Post. They own Sinclair Broadcasting which has 200 tv stations and local news in 100 markets. “Freedom of speech” is now what Trump and his billionaire pals say it is.

You can never appease a tyrant.

Jimmy Kimmel wasn’t suspended for a joke about Charlie Kirk-he was suspended for mocking Donald Trump.

I know everyone is consumed with other news, but this is a big fucking deal: The Trump administration says that IUDs and the Pill are actually abortions. Here's what USAID told the NYT about the $10m in birth control they plan to destroy. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/11/h...

@anthologyfilm.bsky.social excited to see this legendary NYC cinema venue on Blue Sky!

Will you post one more take and risk getting canceled? Or take home the clout you've already won?

How to reframe the present so as to retain a sense of agency without taking individual responsibility for structural dysfunction.

BRASILIA, Brazil (AP) — Brazil's Bolsonaro sentenced to more than 27 years in prison after Supreme Court panel convicts him of attempting coup.

24 years after 9/11, it's long past time to rein in the endless war machine and demand investment in America. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OnR84h7t5kI

Imagine what it will be like when Zohran Mamdani is NYC mayor!

NYC Mayoral Polling: 🔵 Mamdani 51% 🟣 Adams 30% Emerson / September 2025

Just lost all respect for Jerry Seinfeld.

Greta Thunberg’s message from the Global Sumud Flotilla. 👏👏👏👏

I’m an English professor in the US in 1967. I bought a house in town my first year on the job and earned tenure with two articles. My wife cooks my meals and my secretary does my typing. I have to read all the books published this year about the one author I study. There were two of them.

Why Arundhati Roy Fled Literary Fame - The Atlantic

A real estate broker Suzanne Miller is using her paid Taxi TV ads to blanket city with favorable interviews of Eric Adams and a minor right wing mayoral candidate, with no airtime for the leading candidate Mamdani. How is this legal?

Judge Orders Florida Rainbow Sidewalk Chalk Protestor Released From Jail—Arrests Continue This is a form of protest that the fascists can't tolerate. You know what to do. Did you know they sell chalk in spray cans? You can buy big jugs of it too.

Hooray for The Workers.

Also, Pankaj Mishra is painfully right about the hapless surrender of the liberal political class in the US to authoritarianism. This thought strikes me every time I am on the Amtrak corridor.

A useful datapoint on how MAGA is accelerating the breakdown and collapse of the US in the name of a vaunted return to “greatness.” A state that cannot receive mail is a state in free fall collapse.

My heart breaks into 10,000 pieces once again.

jacobin.com/2025/08/unco... A great post-mortem on the movement to platform Palestinian Americans at the DNC last year, and the cost of exclusion.

The monarch butterflies are here

AI prompt for Wonder: Black Robin Hood. Kinda racist, but also … interesting? It’s giving dark Brer Rabbit

No lies detected

Beauty Everyday. Homage to CS And KM

I hope Zohran’s first act as mayor is to reopen City Park to the people fully, and deliver a fireside chat there now and then. He is such a good communicator. I’ve never seen Adams at City Hall

Was this the weekend the US ceased being “leader of the free world”? Trump blinked first and now Ukraine will be divided.

It’s truly insane the energy costs of AI aren’t front and center in the debate. I just downloaded a local LLM — open source, not owned by billionaires, and uses only the battery power on the phone.

East of the Sun, West of the Moon (2025).The favorite of the pictures I took this summer.

Congratulations to everyone who made it into Twelfth Night off of standby last night. Despite the downpour, the show went on and it was a fine preview of things to come.

Oh gosh, how are New Yorkers going to get rain checks for the rained out Twelfth Night?

Neo, says Abloh, is a word used to dismiss our logos. The logism of black sky (night sky) is not new, but ancestral. Like the twinkle of a long dead star.

A skeet, to repeat, mustn’t just be a tweet. But something there is in me that does not love another neologism.

Not meter, but a meter-making argument, will be the name of this blue sky game.

Mourn the dead and take a stand for the living.