Will biocodicology take off like Derrida's deconstruction or bomb like digital humanities? Your current English majors with a proclivity for biology will decide. 💙📚 #academicsky www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Still not ready for prime time. Will companies pull back & do more testing, insist on refinements before giving the software to the public?

Perhaps especially true these days, though we know we can rule out the middle possibility. The item is from Alexander Kluge's "The Devil in the White House."

It's a good day when the author doesn't want to string up the reviewer. 💙📚

My thanks to the workers at the 𝐿𝑜𝑠 𝐴𝑛𝑔𝑒𝑙𝑒𝑠 𝑅𝑒𝑣𝑖𝑒𝑤 𝑜𝑓 𝐵𝑜𝑜𝑘𝑠 for publishing my review of David Bather Woods's biography of Arthur Schopenhauer. @lareviewofbooks.bsky.social lareviewofbooks.org/article/arth...

What I’d NEVER do as a brain injury rehab doctor: • Motorcycle • Tackle football (for my kids) • Ignore BP • Skip helmets • Normalize repeat COVID infections Because I take care of what happens next.

While it is hardly my place, possums, to criticize the peculiarities & pathologies of people who imagine they're special, the World of Anastasia Beaverhausen continues to entertain.

Surely it's possible to reach this understanding without having cancer. “I cannot tell you how inconsequential advertising seems once you are diagnosed with cancer.” — from the documentary 𝐴𝑛𝑑𝑟é 𝐼𝑠 𝑎𝑛 𝐼𝑑𝑖𝑜𝑡

Billy Joel unknowingly addressing your political present: After you've heard lie upon lie There can hardly be a question of why

The Robert Trivers trivia could have been part of this exchange.

Had imbibed his own Kool-Aid by 12. Luckily, he later realized he wasn't the 1st person to understand Wittgenstein. All part of a troubled self-history in which hasty decisions & unearned generalizations passed for intelligence. At least he waited until paragraph 7 to tell us he went to Harvard.

A barely regulated private sector isn't the answer to all our problems?

It's the same way with replacing CEOs with AI "agents." You don't need actually to meet CEOs to know that computerized "agents" could come up with equally bad decisions. The savings! The improvement in quarterly profit reports! Replace those CEOs now.

Mr. Harris must have been preoccupied with preparing for the guests to his mystery vacation spot, & failed to notice what's going on in D.C., the Grand Central Station of nefarious activity. 💙📚 www.hollywoodreporter.com/lifestyle/li...

'A Sunny Day.' (1900) Elin Danielson's favourite subjects tend to be portraits of women engaged in daily work. Given the date of this picture, it was most likely painted in Livorno in Italy shortly after her marriage to the painter Raffaello Gambogi.

This vibrant marine painting is by contemporary French artist Eric Le Pape. His signature, a distinct, stylized mark, is visible in the bottom-right corner of the piece.

𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐄𝐧𝐝 𝐉𝐮𝐬𝐭𝐢𝐟𝐢𝐞𝐬 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐌𝐞𝐚𝐧𝐬: Apparently, a college President would sell his soul and everyone else's for a bit of lucre. Ignorant of the notion of "blood money"?

An auspicious development that might signal the end of the Era of Nuggets, chicken or otherwise. Awaiting Cory Doctorow's next salvo about the Nuggetification of society.

What matters is not whether the company helps other human beings, offers something worthwhile, but only that the result is billions and "value." Better if the least number of humans benefits from the making of the company & the making of the "product." That's their lesson for you, replaceable you.

Marina Hyde tells readers about book hype & how shallow it all is. 💙📚 Will Matt Goodwin recover from the fact that his sales did not exceed those of 𝑇ℎ𝑒 𝐷𝑖𝑛𝑜𝑠𝑎𝑢𝑟 𝑇ℎ𝑎𝑡 𝑃𝑜𝑜𝑝𝑒𝑑 𝐸𝑎𝑠𝑡𝑒𝑟? See Hyde's column. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Yet, some people continue to insist that, with current technology, it will be safe to start a colony on Mars. I wrote a sci-fi piece about this based on long-standing data about gravity, for an anthology 💙📚 : www.google.com/books/editio...

"The unalloyed love that any old male dipshit has for himself is one of the current capital crimes in the face of history." —Klaus Theweleit, 𝑂𝑏𝑗𝑒𝑐𝑡-cℎ𝑜𝑖𝑐𝑒, trans. Malcolm Green, p. 40

𝐒𝐢𝐥𝐯𝐞𝐫 𝐌𝐞𝐝𝐚𝐥 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐒𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐞𝐧𝐜𝐞 𝐨𝐟 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐖𝐞𝐞𝐤: "It takes a certain kind of mind to look into the world of colostomy bags, incontinence pads and emollient cream and see dollar signs." www.theguardian.com/society/2026...

Looking forward to being in Bristol for the @lyrafest.com with Karen and John next month!

Old Town malarkey

Folks at 𝐹𝑖𝑛𝑎𝑛𝑐𝑖𝑎𝑙 𝑇𝑖𝑚𝑒𝑠 botched placement of prepositional phrase. Should be: "Stevenson talks over shrimp, biscuits, grits & iced tea of overturning capital convictions and his fears ..." Civil rights gains are not being reversed 𝑏𝑒𝑐𝑎𝑢𝑠𝑒 𝑜𝑓 biscuits, though that likely is happening in Florida.

The same people who separate taxpayer-funded golfing trips from the fascism, & Epstein island visits from the scientific contributions, & the concentration camps from the paintings produced by the author of 𝑀𝑒𝑖𝑛 𝐾𝑎𝑚𝑝𝑓 — all as if some actions don't count. Think "fruit of the poisonous tree"

Peter Brown (British painter, b. 1967) The Landing, 2025 Oil on Canvas

The 𝑆𝑦𝑑𝑛𝑒𝑦 𝑀𝑜𝑟𝑛𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝐻𝑒𝑟𝑎𝑙𝑑 is calling New Zealand's "Small Town Scandal" a take-off from "Only Murders in the Building." Like "Ludwig," this show's main character is a comedian.

Grade inflation in advanced degrees ought to be tied to how desperate programs & universities have been for grad tuition dollars, & to administrators eager to move their institutions up the Carnegie rankings (e.g., lust for R1 designation). People worry about bits like "time to degree." #academicsky

How many Anne Franks in the US?

𝐃é𝐣à 𝐅𝐥𝐮:

One might expect the Texas authorities to work just as rapidly to remove from schools any mention of Krasnov, whom a jury found liable for sexual abuse.

The impact of Sorolla's teaching on Arthur Grover Rider is obvious from this work - the sunlight, the subject matter, and the rendering of the sea. Rider moved to Los Angeles in 1924 and lived and worked near Laguna Beach throughout the 1930s where this work was painted.

"Lord Chief Justice Mansfield said that there were occasions when courts should dispense with all legal considerations and act 𝑒𝑥 𝑎𝑒𝑞𝑢𝑜 𝑒𝑡 𝑏𝑜𝑛𝑜, simply to the right and good." —Sally Smith, 𝐴 𝐶𝑎𝑠𝑒 𝑜𝑓 𝑀𝑖𝑐𝑒 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑀𝑢𝑟𝑑𝑒𝑟 Has Chief Justice Roberts reached the place where he can understand Mansfield?

"𝑆𝑎𝑛𝑐𝑡𝑢𝑎𝑟𝑦? Have you run mad, Ward? Every law student knows that the law of sanctuary was abolished in 1624!"  "Not in the Temple," said Ward. "The abolition was never acknowledged within the Temple. I stumbled upon it in a volume of 1732. Do you know what it was called then? The law of mercy."

𝐇𝐞𝐚𝐝𝐥𝐢𝐧𝐞 𝐨𝐟 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐖𝐞𝐞𝐤:

Tiny Chef enjoys exercising with Jason (Bashem). Since the program is recommended by the great Dionne Warwick, how can you go wrong? youtube.com/shorts/IC5A4...

William Tyndale’s translation of the New Testament transformed the English language, but the text itself was almost erased. 🔒 James G. Clark’s new feature is now in the archive www.historytoday.com/archive/feat...

Could someone please send Mr. Hegseth a copy of Mark Twain's "War Prayer"?

Likely that F. Scott would have given the "F" to this deal being called "Project Gatsby." As the Bloomberg article claims, the development people at Yale are operating out of fear. Has no one running financial things at Yale read 𝑇ℎ𝑒 𝐺𝑟𝑒𝑎𝑡 𝐺𝑎𝑡𝑠𝑏𝑦?

We were at Berkeley for a genetics conference, & the host brought out some chicken wings as a starter for the meal. Someone yelled out: "I want it CRISPR." No one laughed because they couldn't see that it wasn't spelled "crispier."

Second Life 2.0 seems to have hit a wall. I remember going to a conference at which someone trumpeted that the person had spent a zillion Linden dollars on some cosplay outfit for the person's SL character. Back then, the exchange rate was less favorable than today: $0.0031 USD.

For purely selfish reasons everyone tell me what forthcoming collections of this sort you’re looking forward to so I can try and review them

Remember how AI will "create" jobs? Seems that wasn't true. Another CEO who believes breaking even, when you can save people's jobs, is not an option. Like "The Rocking Horse Winner": there must be more profit.

Q: You don’t regret that people might’ve lost important income to support their lives? A: No, I think it was more important to reduce the federal deficit. Q: Ok. Did you reduce the federal deficit? A: No, we didn’t.

As in life, so on X, which is that the world's population consists of many Berties but precious few Jeeveses. Enjoy this Jeeves from the other micro-blogging place.

We need to update "a fool and his money are easily parted", it's not strong enough for the modern age www.ft.com/content/af1f...

David Hockney welcomes you to his spring treehouse.

For everyone nominating for next year's SFFH awards: ARB's 2025 Awards Eligibility