Michigan Avenue right now.

David Bowie — worldbuilder. Morph. Technologist. No one like him. Cannot imagine him living in this current insane timeline. Incredibly cool article on the David Bowie Archive in London www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

On this date: October 8, 1980. Prince released “Dirty Mind.” It was his third studio album.

“Today, it’s not much water,” said Mohammad Rantisi, the engineer monitoring NPCF operations. He pointed towards one of the pumps: “This is 575 gallons per minute.”

'Torii and Full Moon' - Kobayashi Kiyochika, ca. 1930s. #ToriiTuesday #shinhanga #JapaneseArt

OMFG, on every level.

“All right,” said Frog. “I am ready.”

Macron remarks are notable- some quotes: "We have been incredibly naive in entrusting our democratic space to social networks that are controlled either by large American entrepreneurs or large Chinese companies, whose interests are not at all the survival or proper functioning of our democracies."

every body art now!

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Bauhaus textile artist Gunta Stölzl, design for double woven cloth, 1926 #WomensArt #UnravellingWomensArt

Hm. Shame on me, I guess, for thinking the gloves might come off a lil bit after the money ran out.

I don't care much about baseball anymore, but this kid pitching for the Yankees is locked the F in. And Cubs win!

When the Chicago Cubs won the World Series in 2016, Donald Trump won the presidency less than a week later. Nothing has been the same since. Guys, you know what you have to do.

It is, indeed, happening here.

the “groupchat” phenomena does show that social media has asymmetric benefits for powerful and less powerful groups

Black-crowned Night-Heron (juvenile), Brooklyn Bridge Park, Pier 6. #birds

Louder, please, for those in the back

Swedish music streaming company Spotify announced that its longtime Chief Executive Officer Daniel Ek will step down at the end of this year.

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Just to recap, the actual president found an AI-generated video of a fake news report depicting a fake announcement about an imaginary healthcare system based on a technology that doesn’t exist and posted it on his official social media account

One can both fight fascism and develop a robust clean energy economy.

Happening now in war ravaged Portland: the city's Parks and Recreation Department (the most subversive of all government entities, is giving away trees.

“One of the big take aways from our research is that confidentiality or non-disclosure agreements undermine the ability of the public to know what is going on before signing on the dotted line.” Melissa Scanlan on AI data center environmental governance www.watertalkpodcast.com/episodes/epi...

from the latest print edition of ‘The Onion’

I remember someone telling me a couple of years ago this was all a big nothingburger

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companies programmed us to refer to art, music, video, and writing as "content" to make it seem like it comes from the website and not from a person who had to think of it and make it

Well don't I feel stupid

“And now you will have a nice garden too,” said Frog. “Yes,” said Toad, “but you were right, Frog. It was very hard work.”

A new study finds over 70% of Illinois wetlands lost protection after the Supreme Court’s rollback of the Clean Water Act. Floodplain forests—vital for flood control, water quality, and climate resilience—are most at risk. Illinois needs to pass a state law protecting wetlands.

Truly impressive number of birds migrating tonight. More than 800 MILLION birds up in the air right now❗ #BirdMigration

Name that Illinois city

This doc is wonderful, truly

New: Sarah MacLachlan, Jewel, and more musicians scheduled to perform at tonight's premiere for Hulu's ABC News doc LILITH FAIR have all pulled out after Disney scrapped the red carpet. First notable talent consequence of the Jimmy Kimmel situation.

I only regret that I have but one Disney/Hulu/Max bundle subscription to cancel for my country. 

"Everything Tortoise heard, they folded into their music – a forward-thinking approach that saw them heralded as US emissaries of a new sound: post-rock. It’s a genre name the group never warmed to, but grudgingly recognise." Tortoise on the changing face of Chicago, Steve Albini and new-gen fans:

Fascinating

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By the way, you can in fact run a media business where people give you money for goods and services. 56k+ people give The Onion ~$100 and we give them a year of newspapers. This business didn’t exist last year in this way. People will pay for good shit. Now’s the time to break glass and go for it.

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Preach. Let's go.

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Whoa...

The amount of shit I got for this segment at the time was astronomical, and it was all from people who now stalk CVS employees to get them fired for insufficient online sadness. Cheering on political violence is both evil and not new, an outgrowth of an internet intentionally dismantled years ago.

One day, nearly 2000 years ago, a cat dashed across some drying tiles, somewhere near Hadrian's Wall. It's immortality of a kind, isn't it?

Instant follow.