I'm something of a supply chain risk myself

No son, they are not "magically delicious." The workers made them delicious. This is a slogan meant to mystify the social conditions of labor

ChatGPT appealing to scientists on Christopher Street and 7th Ave.

New graffiti on the Avenue of the Americas. This artist's best work is alongside some old railroad tracks in da Bronx. The New York Artists' Memorial Garden in Jackson Park can be a great place to sit in the shade and read during the summer. The fountain is well maintained.

Mamdani declares a state of emergency. No metaphor. All vehicles barred from the roads.

Seems like a low bar.

Corporations: We are collections of people & therefore deserve the civic rights afforded all people. Me: Ok. May I talk to a person? Corporation: No. Never again.

The all-voluntary U.S. military is coming to an end. Conscription is baked in. At the top, it's seen that there is therefore no continuing need for livable housing for servicemembers, adequate cost-of-living adjustments, or veterans' healthcare. The list goes on. It's over.

In a rushed and closed process, the Trump administration is moving to reduce or eliminate disability compensation for veterans who take medications related to their disabilities. Along with other cuts to VA medical care, this signals a likely return to conscription. www.dav.org/learn-more/n...

Seneca, dumbass

Incredible to me that the current US administration has looked at the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and concluded that the real problem with the US military is that its officers weren't good enough at killing stuff but knew too much history, anthropology, theology and international relations.

@jelenawoehr.bsky.social Video about conservation efforts in China to bring back a wild population of Przewalski's horses: english.news.cn/20260214/691...

Meta to add facial recognition to its smart glasses. An internal memo said: “We will launch during a dynamic political environment where many civil society groups that we would expect to attack us would have their resources focused on other concerns.” www.nytimes.com/2026/02/13/t...

Google expands tools to let users remove sensitive data about themselves from Search. You can access the tool in the Google app by tapping your Google account photo and selecting “Results about you.” techcrunch.com/2026/02/10/g...

U.S. Army deploying 200 soldiers to Nigeria on a training mission. www.reuters.com/world/africa...

Portable Person, 1973. Can you figure it out? At Moma.

Finally found an affordable office

The thrill of tramping alone and unafraid through a wilderness of lakes, creeks, alpine meadows, and glaciers is not known to many. A civilization can be built around the machine but it is doubtful that a meaningful life can be produced by it.... William O. Douglas

U.S. Air Force bans smart glasses for troops in uniform, citing opsec concerns. The other services are allow commanders use their own discretion. Meta AI glasses have been employed for on-the-job experiments. taskandpurpose.com/news/air-for...

Vietnam is planning for the possibility of another American war. USA’s increasing belligerence and its highly personalized foreign policies have eroded trust. www.military.com/daily-news/2...

Moltbook, the AI social network that is entirely vibe coded, exposed human credentials and has been allowing people to edit others' posts. There's a lesson here. www.engadget.com/ai/moltbook-...

Only using prompts ironically.

The difference between a linguist and a normal person is that a normal person thinks that Chomsky should’ve stuck to linguistics and a linguist thinks he shouldn’t have done that either

We're heading to a point where almost everyone who works works for a billionaire — a small handful of sociopathic men making mom-and-pop operations unfeasible while profiting off the labor of practically everyone.

Interviewer: Suppose your house were on fire and you could remove only one thing. What would you take? Jean Cocteau: I would take the fire.

WIRED asked an active military officer to break down immigration enforcement actions in Minneapolis and elsewhere. Scathing critique: www.wired.com/story/ice-pr...

Annualized returns (Compound Annual Growth Rate) for Post-War and Contemporary Art compared to the traditional investment classes of the S&P 500, gold and real estate, based on historical data from 1995 to 2022/2023. With numbers like these, it’s odd that art isn’t taken more seriously.

In testing Havelock.AI it's been a surprise to find how much of my incoming correspondence is generated by speech-to-text software. Eric Havelock was a British classicist who said Socrates, as he's known today, is mostly a fabrication created by Socrates' student Plato to push Plato's ideas. 1/

I have suggested that the government just require the company to turn over non-voting shares equal to the targeted tax rate. If we want a 25% tax rate, just turn over non-voting shares equal to 25% of the outstanding. These get the same dividends or buybacks as other shares.

There’s a world of livestreaming out there. Streamers may do well initially and then fall into a long slow decline. Gripping: www.channelnewsasia.com/watch/secret...

Board of Peace sounds like

I just woke up from a nap and somehow while I was asleep, everyone on the bus has figured out we are not going to the right place

What's going on here? In the Garment District NYC

@eryk.bsky.social What's going on here? In the Garment District NYC.

@fritinancy.bsky.social What's going on here? In the Garment District NYC.

Sikh Akalis on the march, Lahore, 1885. The Akalis are a martial force within the Sikh tradition. Shown here with a mix of traditional and modern arms. At the Metropolitan Museum.

LINGUA FRANCA window on Jane St: history has its eyes on you "Custom hand-embroidered sweaters, made by women in NYC... No two are alike." Running on .NYC

We gotta imprison each of these shithead AI ceo's in a different data center like the minotaur

A Los Angeles nonprofit is bringing VR programs to California prisons with the goal of providing inmates a brief escape and, more importantly, exposure to real-world scenarios that will prepare them to reenter society. apnews.com/article/cali...

Desperate to make a world good enough that politics stops being everyone’s personality

🎁 Gift article Our Favorite Home Libraries From Connecticut to Cairo, reading spots that will seem like paradise to book- and design-lovers alike. #BookSky #Skybrarians #TLSky www.nytimes.com/2026/01/07/t...

None of us can afford homes, but we can bet on the prices that landlords and the big private equity companies gobbling up all our real estate will be paying for them

@markhertling.bsky.social As Venezuela’s central govt withered on the vine, its presence outside select neighborhoods in Caracas disappeared, replaced by armed gangs, which now provide public safety & other svcs, giving them legitimacy & support. Eliminating 100s of them still leaves 1000s more.

Recipe for chaos: As Venezuela’s central govt withered on the vine, its presence outside select neighborhoods in Caracas disappeared, replaced by armed gangs, which now provide public safety & other svcs, giving them legitimacy & public support. Eliminating 100s of them still leaves 1000s more. 1/

The youth are mainlining Byung-Chul Han. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/01/s...

"Graveyard of Empires" has only recently been applied to Afghanistan, with the first reference appearing in a 2001 article by Milton Bearden in Foreign Affairs. That term's historical usage is more closely associated with Yemen, where a mass evacuation of UAE forces is currently underway.

A society that gives up freedom for safety will lose both -- Times Square billboard

Email from landlord riddled with typos. “premisis” “dammage” “mesh lab”