Just read that the kids are using “that’s AI” to mean “that’s bullshit” and nothing has made me breathe out so fully in months.

Do it! FYI if your book is incorrectly listed (mine had some details inc publisher wrong) - you can still submit with correct info, I was told.

B&N opening 60+ new stores across the US in 2025 seems noteworthy to me, in a 90s-revival / analogue future kinda way

the enduring Algonquin-esque fantasy that Dorothy Parker would not eat you for fucking (liquid) lunch…

nytimes logging on to do some bike commentary

Took the shameless opportunity to plug my book about the history of socialism and feminism in New York City. joanna-scutts.ghost.io/happy-new-ne...

Hang it in the Louvre!

Shout out to all the book publicists trying to get all their art historian authors interviewed for Heist Content.

One of the telling differences between artists and non-artists is the latter always seem to think the problem for the former is not having ideas. The problem is usually... the exact opposite.

OK so who is making the “But, despite his busyness, he came to the book party.” t-shirt & when can I buy it?

Never been prouder to belong to The Other Place

I may have messed this up, but I have deleted (the account I forgot I had)

I need to find this cafe.

I'm playing around with a new newsletter project, Life + Work, all about the art that makes us, and how we make art. Wrote this one about Jenny Saville, the Holy Bible, and 90s London. joanna-scutts.ghost.io/life-and-wor...

quite seriously, authors whose work was stolen (per the Atlantic database) can register here www.lieffcabraser.com/anthropic-au...

Such a good thread, a useful reminder that American fascism has a long history & deep roots.

Those of us in STEM must vocally affirm that the humanities are our allies, and no department is expendable. Arguing we can survive by cutting whole disciplines isn’t just inhumane, it’s nonsensical. The humanities tell us why we’re here in the first place, and what to do about it! This isn’t hard!

The devaluation of skill, experience, and expertise is a crisis across cultural journalism right now--it's being felt profoundly in theater. It's great that anyone can post a review, but that does not, even in the smallest way, replace what's being thrown away.

my white whale is going to be convincing the paper of record to stop allowing its opinion writers to quote this zombie statistic without caveat

let’s have a crisis of femininity, as a treat

Socialist mayor who dgaf about the loud whining minority of car owners will do that.

Violent or destructive left wing protest is framed as delegitimising the protesters' stated cause. Violent or destructive right wing protest is framed as emphasing the need for urgent action on the protesters' stated cause. As always, right wing men are treated as elemental forces without agency.

Every. Single. Story. about women not using AI as much as men portray it as bad for their future career prospects (without a shred of evidence) and a result of women being fearful little ladies rather than looking at AI's output and saying "this sucks, it's not going to help me."

Marianne Hirsch is a titan, whose teaching & mentorship opened my mind and whose kindness is legendary. Columbia has much to be ashamed of, but losing her would be irreparable.

I rewatched this recently after many years and yep it’s barely subtext

"Criticism is discernment. Could that be one reason it feels so endangered?" THIS RIGHT HERE 👇 I worked with an array of fine Chi Trib critics for years, then became a critic. I read their stuff & hoped to be as good & engaged as them. Critics care & should exist & are endangered & deserve to exist.

Wouldn’t it be nice to see some curiosity about how we know these people’s stories? Who has written, researched, interpreted them for us? If only we had a name for these people, and an agency to fund their work!

There are so many more pressing stories here than the "who's who" of the Garden of Heroes - starting with the termination of two-thirds of National Endowment for the Humanities staff and 1,400+ cancelled grant projects that paved the way for this thing. Tell those stories, pls. #NEH #humanities

Anyway big shout out to Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand for finding 13 women she didn't think it was worth believing after all, and by "shout out" I mean "primary"

We should probably do an episode on free buses, huh?

I don’t want to say Andrew Cuomo’s political career is dead, but it just checked into a nursing home run by Andrew Cuomo

(future) Mayor Mamdani: “A life of dignity should not be reserved for the fortunate few. It should be one where city government guarantees for every New Yorker.”

Woot!!

These people should be *begging* to pay higher taxes. They clearly can’t be trusted with their own money.

Man I forgot what it was like to wake up to not-awful geopolitical news! (Now if the Criterion channel would be so good as to put a Mira Nair collection together…)

Making endnotes suck 0.05% less? I will TAKE IT!

Party of Five reboot but it’s orphaned Gertrude Stein and her four siblings trying to get by in 1880s Oakland.

Oh man sometimes publishing is good, actually

my hottest educational take is that schools should actively, non-punitively teach students how to admit when they don't know something, aren't sure or have made a mistake, with various teaching frameworks adapted to support this ideal, because people who can't admit fault are breaking the world

Also it was free for at least a full year during the pandemic iirc and the city survived.

Escaping ~news~ to drink from the deep, refreshing well of the old-fashioned (or perhaps just very British) literary takedown.

Counterpoint: Women are ahead of the curve on knowing AI is bullshit. www.ft.com/content/7f0f...

Bloomsday

I don't think I've ever felt more like burning it all down than I have while witnessing the elite project to turn Zohran Mamdani and Brad Lander into scary, incompetent monsters while turning an actual incompetent monster, Andrew Cuomo, into a merely complicated fellow who just made an oopsie.

"To everyone who pulls me aside to whisper with the best intentions 'You have already won', I am sorry, but the days of moral victories are over. And as my father told me years ago, 'When the Right wins power, the Left writes a great book.' Those days are over too." -Zohran Mamdani

We correctly make fun of the French penchant for endless vacances, but how are American summer holidays starting *now*?? We have 3 more (blessed) weeks!

The NEH has been a singular force for bringing people together. In this moment of hate, fear and isolation, the NEH helped us learn about our past and about each other. Today we are losing almost all of the NEH public servants. We are all in their debt. A national shame. A profound cultural loss.

The ever-est of evergreens

See, this is why I don't trust men in positions of power. They're ruled by their emotions. Totally irrational. We need the calm, cool intellect of women in situations like this. :3

Doesn’t matter if it’s NEH, NIH, NSF or anything else. Nothing but propaganda allowed. bsky.app/profile/siva...