Grace notes: Art as a reverie of gentle sounds. Céleste Boursier-Mougenot's "Clinamen," is now at the Park Avenue Armory in New York City,

@justjanuary.bsky.social I just finished listening to the audiobook of The Change. I really enjoyed the book, and your narration was absolutely superb - as good as it gets! So I just wanted to say thanks, and that you have a new fan.

"Contrary to popular belief, it's not all fire and brimstone, and unlike what's happening on Earth, our weather is highly predictable. You can read about it in Dante's travel blog. Our third and ninth circles are actually quite refreshing."

In 1925, archaeologist Leonard Woolley was excavating the temple complex at the ancient city of Ur. That's the ziggurat in the background. As the excavation proceeded, he found something quite surprising: artifacts hundreds of years older than Ur itself. Let's talk about the oldest known museum.

If AI accounts for only 20% of data center use, why is it the justification for nearly every new data center? I did the math and suspect Big Tech is using AI as a cover for unpopular uses like surveillance advertising. blog.still-water.net/what-if-data...

The number of people in the replies to this who completely misunderstand how property and casualty insurance (car, renters', homeowners', etc) works on a fundamental level means it's time for an explainer of What Car Insurance Actually Is!

No Trespooping

Shaken, not stirred.

In the wake of the Michael Jackson biopic success, producers are now planning a John Wayne Gacy movie that focuses only on his career as a clown.

Man Who Threw Molotov Cocktail at Sam Altman's Home Claims He was Following ChatGPT Recipe for Risotto

pdf, unalive, grape, hinge, corn, etc. Videos are demonetized or hidden b/c a crappy AI tool finds banned words in transcripts, regardless of context. Obviously if creators are willing to censor themselves to make a living, that's their option, but I always stop watching when I come across it.

Anna Colvi and Iggy Pop

Anyway www.youtube.com/watch?v=l7Oj...

A few choice examples of how the stupidity of billionaires fucks us all: pluralistic.net/2026/03/09/a...

Mayor Brandon Johnson announced “Abolish ICE” as the winner of a citywide snow plow name contest. He had earlier given it a “full and complete” endorsement.

This thread had me progressively cackling

That's my cue to post this bit of genius ☺️ youtu.be/_WwZFsddLdE

“it’s less move fast and break things and more move fast and make broken things, because who cares, dipshits will pay for it” sums up the AI disruption itself, as well as the slop it creates. 😔

@burnsidegooch.bsky.social Burnside Gooch is a superb profile name!

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"Stephen Miller, widely regarded as the senior asshole in the Trump administration, masterminded the sociopath substitution, White House sources said."

Seen on Reddit: The only thing that's safe in America right now are the Epstein files.

End-stage capitalism in the digital age has made us a DIY economy in which millions of customer service jobs no longer exist, not because computers do the work, but because the work has been shifted, via computers, directly onto the consumer.

How convenient - an app that let's you place bets on the outcome of tragic world events! yay???

The sale bins had already been looted by scavengers. The talons of bargain hunters tore ruthlessly through stacks of silk blouses and left a tangle of garments upon the earth. The man knelt to comb through the castoffs like a haruspex searching for truth in the entrails of a slaughtered animal.

[detective waving phone around at crime scene] AI says this guy died of his injuries

“Never have so few done so much to so many.” www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/...

It’s fun to think about the surgeon who will botch your surgery 20 years from now and what he’s doing at this moment. He just ran all his homework through ChatGPT. He just read that article about vaccines and autism at the CDC website. He just watched an Instagram video about the moon landing hoax.

To “my students and to anyone who might listen, I say: Don’t surrender to AI your ability to read, write and think when others once risked their lives and died for the freedom to do so.” www.huffpost.com/entry/histor...

Unchained Melody was a huge hit for the Righteous Brothers, but it was originally sung by Todd Duncan in the 1955 prison film Unchained.

"I feel like the movies sold us an idealized version of the end times."

I got this useful bon mot from a middle school teacher recently. In response to, “I DONT UNDERSTAND,” he calmly said, “okay what steps have you taken to understand?” And that’s when I realized that a lot of folks have no steps.

Ctrl Alt Deleaf

Thoughtful essay about how to evaluate the confluence of art and politics in our current climate.

(gift article) One example of how far-reaching the effects have been is that babies even get potty trained much later than they used to, because of disposable diapers.

Kavanaugh's statements make the problem worse, not better. If the reason SCOTUS is using cryptic shadow docket orders is because "five" of them can't "reach a consensus or a compromise on a particular issue that might be difficult," then that order should not be precedential —there's no majority.

Just saw someone on tiktok call Dubai the Michael Kors of vacations 🥀

Whenever you see a quote from a poll or survey in the form "x% of [population] do/believe [statement]" translate that to "x% of respondents selected a specific response option" The respondents may or may not represent a population. That form interaction may or may not reflect what they do/believe.

The future of programming is AI; er, I mean, the future of cooking is the microwave!

Distorted Wall Street incentives drove us to centralized digital infrastructure that mirrors authoritarian power structures. But the same technologies can be architected to resist authoritarianism. Decentralization isn’t a technical preference, it’s a democratic necessity.

Interesting explainer on the ramifications of a service member refusing an order because they think it's unconstitutional:

This opera sounds like so much fun, but unfortunately I'm half way around the world from Ireland (gift link):

look the real lesson of this is that more internet memes should've had dance interpretations www.youtube.com/watch?v=o0u4...

Nice to see Cuomo finally being a team player and campaigning for Zohran

Extrapolating Doctorow's enshittification principle from tech platforms to American hegemony under the current administration.

𝒞ℯ𝒸̧𝒾 𝓃’ℯ𝓈𝓉 𝓅𝒶𝓈 𝓊𝓃ℯ 𝒶𝓅ℴ𝒸𝒶𝓁𝓎𝓅𝓈ℯ.