The AI bubble may be about to bust. Peter Thiel has sold all of his Nvidia stock. We all need to say this very clearly: NO BAILOUTS FOR THEFT-TECH! Expropriate their asses instead. They stole from all of us and fully plan to burn the planet. They owe us - not the other way around. 1/3

E B White's granddaughter says that the author of Charlotte's Web detested fascism in all forms and would be revolted by Greg Bovino's stealing of the work's title to describe his domestic terror operations. www.cnn.com/2025/11/16/u...

Lots of memorable lines e.g. “It’s like this pay-to-play Tasmanian devil,” one veteran political operative told me. “You just feed her any sort of D.E.I. comment that some executive made over the last twelve years—then you just expect total anarchy and a wide blast zone.”

I’ll believe it when Laura Loomer spontaneously combusts. Or melts into goo

Republicans may come to regret picking this battle. “And while Republican-backed efforts continue to stall across the country, Democrats are beginning to ramp up their efforts”

Great news

RIP Todd Snider. You left us one for the ages.. music.youtube.com/watch?v=4vDy...

“Born-old buzzwords fell through the following months like a grey snow: “synergy,” “multipliers,” “mindset,” “vision” (as a verb), “agility,” “impactfulness,” students as “clients,” “entrepreneurship,” “branding,” “future-proofing””

Like Charli XCX, I also appreciate Wuthering Heights’s sentences, punctuation, & grammar

Something absolutely perfect about Larry Summers riffing about the scourge of woke cancel culture being unfair to predatory men in a friendly email to his pal JEFFREY EPSTEIN.

“Legalized gambling is completely antithetical to a functioning society-/ to promote this to young men in particular. It's predatory in nature. It's highly addictive. It's just a sense of financial nihilism.” (Says the biggest NBA bettor ever)

B/c “building LLMs to study the vocal patterns of male speakers” definitely screams, “I am very cool & down & can ‘hang with the boys’”

Marlen Haushofer’s THE WALL may be the great cat novel 🐈 🐱 @ndbooks.bsky.social

when you’re too embarrassing a wing nut for this SCOTUS you’ve cleared a very high bar

Loving today's news that the mysterious "fedora man" outside the Louvre heist was actually a 15-year-old museum visitor who dresses like a 1940s French detective all the time, just because. apnews.com/article/louv...

In the name of "fighting antisemitism," Indiana University appointed a Christian scholar to tell Jewish scholars what they can and cannot say - all while they invited Tucker Carlson to speak on campus. www.jta.org/2025/11/07/u...

A solemn Wombat Day (Nov. 6) for those who honor it

omg. This calls for a Werner Herzog Eats His Shoe-style documentary short

John Plotz on Arendt’s Refugee Politics in @publicbooks.bsky.social : “One of Arendt’s most surprising insights is that professing *love* for the X people may be a way to foreclose on freedom and on humanity just as effectively as professing *hatred* for the Y people.”

some jazzers have been griping about Hancock’s vocoder ad-lib segment, which he’s been doing every set. Allow me to set you straight. Herbie Hancock is one of the greatest musicians ever to live and in the context of music if he makes a choice then that is the right choice. Hope this clarifies

"Or consider the claim of AI rights advocacy group UFAIR (United Foundation for AI Rights) that denying AI personhood amounts to 'digital apartheid' comparable to the violence of slavery, Indigenous dispossession, and the subjugation of women"... omg... ?!

“The literal translation is, as best as we can tell, we will emit fire from our vaginas that will wound his penis. This is one of the reasons why the protest movement became known as Vengeance of the Vagina Head.”

Wole Soyinka: “all 10,000 women took off their head wraps. This is always a dramatic moment. The moment there's going to be conflict, off would come the head tie. It's like throwing down the gauntlet when a woman takes off her head tie, ties it like a sash around her waist, men scatter”

I’m enjoying this podcast

“Give your money away, shorties!”

Radu Jude’s Dracula film sounds exhausting… but/& interesting “Jude’s film suffers from severe bloat…we get authoritarian ruler as vampire, capitalist fat cat as vampire, racist xenophobe as vampire, AI as vampire, religion as vampire, US imperialism as vampire”

I could not love this essay more! What terrific public scholarship!

Let's make "pocket-watching" happen! @publicbooks.bsky.social @noragilbert.bsky.social

"It's a bit ironic that “gaslighting” is the term that’s come to signify the psychological abuse... It would really be more apt to say that someone has been “brooched,” or “pocket-watched,” or “little pictured,” since those are the objects the husband uses to rattle the wife’s mind"

My tribute to genius cartoonist Edward Steed-- out in @lareviewofbooks.bsky.social. "The 'homunculus' comics can be read as embodiments of the *actual truth* of the male self, one that is usually concealed or otherwise disguised" @dandq.bsky.social

Finally someone bold enough to ask, is new york ready for a mayor who opposes slavery? www.nytimes.com/2025/10/28/u...

Finally saw this (the 160-minute director’s cut)… unbelievable 🤯

Parenting triumph: I gave my daughter my copy of “the Hearing Trumpet” on her Fall break - she declared it one of the best novels she’s ever read and is taking it back to school to loan to friends @nyrb-imprints.bsky.social

So many pleasures in the new Frankenstein... I did regret just a bit del Toro's decision to give it a Victorian setting. But that shift opens the way for an episode in which Elizabeth purchases a work of entomology that, I'm pretty sure, is L M Budgen's Episodes in insect life (1849): cover below!

Why did Indiana University attack and cut its own student newspaper? Well, in a twist of irony any English professor would call clichéd, it turns out IU did it because they were angry about the students' reporting on a FIRE report naming IU as the worst public university for free speech in the US.

The new Sam Lipsyte story is hilarious & delightful. Surprisingly moving for a story about a “Charles in Charge” fanfic author

I enjoyed this truck at the post office window

say it ain't so Chauncey Billups

Henry James can be so savage 🔥 "Isabel would as soon have thought of despising her as of passing a moral judgement on a grasshopper. She was like a bright rare shell, in which something would rattle when you shook it. This rattle was apparently the Countess's spiritual principle"

We can only pray that Santos might still be willing to pied-à-terre 🙏 @just-jack-1.bsky.social @mkirschenbaum.bsky.social

“It’s important to understand that Trump’s sitting himself up as padrone to the mob is part of the political economy of Trumpism. Any strategy that takes on Trump must find a way to incorporate and exploit this truth: *Trump and his key followers are criminal parasites on American society*”

It’s hard to convey just how much Chicagoans are mobilizing against ICE. Don’t want to downplay the harm, or make it seem like a fair fight. But in neighborhoods across this city, ICE is getting chased by people blowing whistles and shouting. People are running TOWARD ICE to protect their neighbors.

Henry James on “the wondrous Galerie d'Apollon... seeming to form, with its supreme coved ceiling and inordinately shining parquet, a prodigious tube or tunnel through which I inhaled little by little, that is again and again, a general sense of *glory*”

this rocks. when indiana edu killed the student newspaper, Purdue stepped up, printed the forbidden issue, drove it to Bloomington and stocked the boxes.

Good evening. We estimate that between 4.2 and 7.6 million people turned out for the No Kings Day demonstrations held around the country on Saturday. This makes Oct 18 very likely the biggest single-day U.S. protest event since 1970. www.gelliottmorris.com/p/second-no-...

“Censoring a student publication after it reported on a university’s dismal record on free speech isn’t just a stunning display of lack of self-awareness, it’s a violation of the First Amendment”

It’s gothic nostalgia, isn’t it? All these shows about humanities profs with wood-paneled offices, fame, and enough autonomy to act like a diva. We’re doing it for the same reason cozy 1930s mysteries involved vicarages and viscounts with decaying mansions.

omg Why no ciggie in the beach romance scene though???

Indiana University has fired the staff director of the student newspaper, after disputes in which university leadership tried to pressure him to prevent students from publishing news.

I always thought of D'Angelo's "The Charade" as a Ferguson anthem-- but it turns out it's also very much an Occupy Wall Street song