For @archpaper.com I helped gather recollections/reactions to actions by @vox.com that took @curbed.com archives off the site. Thoughts on media today, urban history & memory by @langealexandra.bsky.social @katewagner.wehwalt.net @latrace.bsky.social @dianabudds.bsky.social @awalkerinla.bsky.social

NEW: Social Security workers are being told to hand over appointment details to ICE

related to the view among the professional commentariat that only students at ivys and boutique liberal arts colleges actually matter

There is a new Tomeka Reid album out today

I would like to hear Johnny Weir and Tara Lipinski call a baseball game

🎁 www.nytimes.com/2026/02/13/r...

if you're in Chicago in two weeks, don't miss this

There's a real "let's do everything they told us we couldn't" thing going on at Meta now. The facial recognition glasses bring to mind an old story I haven't seen mentioned today: Facebook built a feature like this a decade ago and didn't release it www.businessinsider.com/facebook-bui...

the correct answer is "don't look back in anger" but i can appreciate the elitist stone roses pick (answer: "i am the resurrection")

Budman is up for auction—again. www.christies.com/lot/lot-6573...

bring back technical children's books

Meta's plan for launching glasses that people can use to secretly identify strangers on the street is to do it "during a dynamic political environment" when people who care about why that's bad are "focused on other concerns." www.nytimes.com/2026/02/13/t...

It says a lot that the media keeps elevating this guy instead of, e.g. David Bentley Hart, despite Hart's mirror image resume: Orthodox convert, First Things, rebelling against the disenchanted world, cult online following. Of course, Hart is not a perv, pretty anti-racist, and a member of DSA.

Bluesky is a twitter edgelord circa 2022 compared to Threads, which is like if the Hamilton fanfic authors on Tumblr were given cocaine

A great piece from @alibreland.bsky.social on Epstein's race science obsession—one he shares with much of the contemporary right wing elite www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...

there will be fascinating books written about the three US frontier model companies at some point, and between OpenAI, Anthropic, and the ragged remains of Gemini, they will be very, very different pictures. there will be an xAI document but it'll be written in crayon.

This kinky, silly, crowd-pleasing adaptation might make Emily Brontë roll in her grave, but honestly that sounds right up Emily's morbid, Gothic alley. Probably Emerald Fennell's best film to date (not that that's saying a lot coming from me). slate.com/culture/2026...

oh god we're doing this again

"The White House Office of Management and Budget, which Vought leads, is allocating $15 million of what remains of USAID operating expenses to cover the costs of his protection" www.reuters.com/world/us/whi...

I'm having a hard time reconciling the fact that the Appointments Clause is supposed to be an indispensable protection for liberty with the fact that DHS is operationally under the control of a special government employee who is not legally allowed to work more than 130 days a year.

about to drop the hardest edm album you ever heard

Purchase Knob, Smoky Mountains National Park #NPS #NationalParkService #SmokyMountainsNationalPark

me to my teenage son: "hey it's 12 degrees out. you can't just wear your giannis jersey to school." teenage son:

what level of cyberpunk would it be to start a regional or world war because you moved a bunch of bitcoin into a military prop bet and a hostile power took it as actionable intelligence

In other words, long enough that habeas petitions can be filed on their behalf in Minnesota before they're whisked off to an immigration detention facility somewhere in the Fifth Circuit (where, under that court's current law, they wouldn't be eligible for a bond hearing).

NEW: Another NIH institute director hasn't been renewed — the director of NIAMS (arthritis, musculoskeletal and skin diseases institute). That leaves a whopping 15 of 27 institutes and centers without a permanent director.

Hope everyone's out there tonight thinking thick

(i don’t love the “you can’t repeal a finding” stuff because it obscures more than it reveals. the endangerment finding is a scientific one and a legal one, so it kind of buries the legal part of it which is the consequential one)

This is not a place of honor and no great deed is commemorated here. I don’t need to save my draft

Starting to think it is required to play Disco Elysium to understand Bluesky

Current* conditions near Chicago, IL:

This interview WAS PRETAPED AND WE ALREADY RELEASED A CLIP kalshi.com/markets/kxfr...

Boom. Also: "Ms. Ruemmler, in addition to being Goldman’s general counsel since 2021, was a partner and vice chair of the reputational risk committee." www.nytimes.com/2026/02/12/b...

ohhh he’s a claremont fellow www.politico.com/live-updates...

“And nine participants [of 14] said they know someone who has changed their daily life out of concern for a possible interaction with ICE.” Swing voters in Arizona say they want to see ICE reformed www.npr.org/2026/02/12/n...

NEW @ms.now: The lawyer representing the woman who was shot 5x by a Border Patrol agent in Chicago in Oct says the agent is the subject of a criminal investigation by the US Attorneys Office. This would be a remarkable shift in a case that started w/ the gov’t trying to prosecute the woman he shot ⬇️

Fantastic to see this project restored.

tfw this lingers for more than a minute and you are sure someone is mad at you and you're about to be told off

HAHAHA

I re-opened and added to this spring aerial embroidery from last week... I felt it lacked details and therefore 'life'. I'm much happier with it now! Zoom in to the landscape to see the tiny sheep, tractors working and buildings :) now here: victoriaroserichards.co.uk/collection/a... #fibrearts

Me watching a 16 year old doing sick snowboarding tricks at the Olympics

Important Caleb Williams offseason update

Happy birthday to one of my favourite haters, Charles Darwin

you merely have to glance at an ordinary New Jersey electric bill to understand why Sherrill's central affordability plank was electricity

holy crap this looks awesome

I don't talk to anyone this much www.economist.com/interactive/...

not only has anyone famous ever graduated from my high school, the most famous people from my county are two founding members of the modestly well known country band old dominion

Current* conditions near Isle Royale NP, MI: