DO YOU SING?

The very slightly different way I would put this, building on work with Hahrie Han is that AI is hitting our capacities for _collective agency_ by replacing our tools for collaborating with other humans to figure stuff out with mediated relations to frozen monuments of accumulated cultural knowledge

Hooligans. Photo from my collection, 1955.

I feel like they're making up new 1980s bands just so they can drop out of Trump's 250th celebration. I do not believe these acts existed yesterday.

There's no such thing as a good cheesesteak. There's no such thing as a bad cheesesteak. They're all just . . . cheesesteaks.

Watching TV: Me: Why can't they just trust the process? Trust the system? The mrs.: Trust Perry Mason. Me: That's what I meant.

Still one of the greatest pieces of animation ever made

and a very happy Glorious Twenty-Fifth of May to you all

A friend of mine who was TA’ing for an AmLit course found a copy of Moby Dick a student had left behind. It had only one marginal annotation, around page 100, that simply said “whale is important.”

It’s like Iran On your wedding day

The civil rights movement built power not by capturing the state but by building institutions that formed citizens capable of acting on and with the state when the moment came. The Voting Rights Act ratified that capacity. It did not create it. That capacity is what needs rebuilding now.

This is why Athena kicks Ares's ass every time they fight.

Recommended for fans of dragons; Victorian fiction about family, love, and property; and/or a ripping yarn.

It's Wrong Jacket Week in Chicago, we are celebrating the changing seasons by making sure that you are 100% always wearing the wrong jacket no matter what you do

I’m on Amtrak and the conductor just made the best quiet car announcement I’ve heard yet: “This is the quiet car. If you’re going to feel some kind of way when people shush you, then you should not sit in the quiet car.”

This is a very nice video.

Friends, the great progressive @chrisrabb.com won the D primary for PA-03 last night. He's an old college buddy and I went down to Philly to photograph the day. So here's a big thread for you. And HUGE hearts to everyone who voted for him and helped get out the vote - HEROES ALL!

You had me at "duffle coat." No, actually you had me at "Brexit, Pursued by a Bear," but anyway. Got it.

I'm not a plumber. But I'm pretty sure that's not how sinks work.

Protecting our historic friends and allies, the Cuban people, from the threat of Cuban influence in Cuba. And don't get me started on Panama.

Come on. Come on. This cannot be true. It just can’t. Can it????

Not sure why I’m on the mailing list that sent me this article but I’m not mad about it. news.ucr.edu/articles/202...

Google Search was a wonder of the information age, our modern-day Library of Alexandria. By replacing links with “AI-powered interactive experiences,” they are quite literally burning a pillar of our society to ashes.

Getting reports of an incident where some Coast Guard cadets were confronted and menaced by an apparently confused and delirious old man with some kind of stigmata

Our words move aimlessly through empty city squares Collecting into mobs and angry like their prayers They breathe the air we fought to leave behind This kind of blank adventure happens all the time Because nobody knows the wreck of the soul the way you do

It's not 1536, but Anne Boleyn has taken over the news. Recently a team of computer scientists, electrical engineers and a historical novelist think they have discovered the “true face” of Anne (& her mother) by applying AI-based computational facial recognition to Holbein sketches. The catch? /1

German chocolate, ganz sicher.

[WPA posters @ Library of Congress, www.loc.gov/pictures/sea... ]

Many unanswered questions. Questions like "what on earth are you talking about", "is this some kind of joke" "how much have you had and where are you hiding the bottle", things of that nature

Stephen Maturin, single-handedly undoing Napoleon's espionage networks while downing a gallon of laudanum a day: Thank god I'm not burdened by a mid-sized sighthound

I think the word you're looking for is "convicted."

Shh, my favorite show is back.

Clash of the Titmice

University President: Good afternoon Class of 2026! Please put your hands together for this year’s graduation speaker, MOLOCH!!

AS PUTIN ANNOUNCES VISIT TO CHINA ON 18-19 MAY: This is the latest published Chinese political cartoon, which tells you how they really see DJT

I've been trying to think who Altman reminds me of and he's the spitting image of Burke from Aliens

I was blessed to take a grad school course with Janice Radway, who wrote a book exploring why romance readers liked reading romances, and came up with some fascinating and not-condescending findings. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reading...

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“Oh so some fella with an Irish-sounding name has gone and desecrated The Odyssey, is that it? Homer’s own Odyssey? The absolute cheek. And tis the talk of the town, is that what I understand you to be saying to me? And people very upset altogether? Sure I never heard the like in all my born days.”

So this made my day!

Watching a series of former Confederate states rush to eliminate any vestige of black representation in the House pretty much answers the question whether the Voting Rights Act was still necessary.

Read to the end. Seriously. It’s very important.

True, but just TRY to get something like this past the GOP.

So many stacks of books..

Look, it's all very simple. From Gorka's dissertation:

Rewatching 30 Rock and I think this is still possibly one of the best constructed jokes in anything, ever.

This would hit hard even if I hadn't grown up in Champaign at about the same time and had a father in the English teaching business. Read it while I decide whether I'm going to read more DFW.