"Data centers are proliferating in Virginia and a blind man in Baltimore is suddenly contending with sharply higher power bills." Gift Link to a deep dive on the rising cost of electricity by my colleagues: www.bloomberg.com/graphics/202...

Ezra has always been no more than half as smart as he thinks he is.

It’s cool how it’s just open bribery now, completely normalized and fine www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...

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In 2016, the artist Stuart Sandford buried a bronze sculpture of a human head in the garden of the Tom of Finland Foundation in Los Angeles next to a sign that asked visitors to urinate on the spot to patinate the head. The sign ended with a cheery “thank you for your contribution.”

Today in media bias: I was listening to NPR Morning Edition. They had on a Palestinian human rights lawyer who said "why should Palestinians have to negotiate an end to genocide?" The host, unprompted, said "while many human rights groups and a UN committee say it's a genocide, Israel denies this."

ICE Nazis in Chicago tried to kidnap a food delivery worker but my man was too fast for those slow bastards

The Trump administration is canceling federal grants for hiking and biking trails because they're "hostile" to cars 🤯https://apnews.com/article/trump-transportation-infrastructure-grants-hostile-cars-37495f299378ac0980a3dea5b450e004

We can afford this but somehow don’t have enough money for health care

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Yes please

Why in tarnation is the Uffizi displaying Lavinia Fontana's Self-Portrait in her Studio like this? Bullseye? Oculus? Help me.

Exactly

www.dw.com/en/germany-n... AfD - Germany’s extremist anti immigrant party endorsed by Elon Musk - notched losses this week…

The fact that consigliere, enforcer + back-room bandit Frank Carone is joining the Cuomo campaign for #NYC mayor now that Adams has quit ... pretty much says it all.

"Don't be afraid to be weird, don't be afraid to be different, don't worry too much about what other people think. Whatever it is that's original in you and your work might sometimes make you feel uncomfortable. That probably means you're on the right track, so just keep going. Dare to be foolish."

I know cause conferences have gotten into puppy paddocks, but might I suggest kitten pool?

Kash Patel will tell us those are Antifa flags.

And next to me, a man who recently confided in me that he took the offer to perform at the Riyadh Comedy Festival because, and I quote, "Cancel culture is ruining Western civilization. Besides, what good is a weekend house if you can't keep a tiger and a couple of falcons in it?"

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It’s amazing to me how many Tom Clancy best sellers were read by no one.

They're habitually wrong about everything because that's effectively insanity, not because they're "centrists" or "elites" or "leftists"- I mean Klein isn't full of shit because he's an "out of touch elite" he's wrong because it isn't the 80s-90s and see also Hayes and it not being the 60s-early-70s

Sorry for harp, but IMO we have the opposite problem. We have a chattering class with large cohorts just comically ill-suited to the 21st century and who, instead of adapting to a future where their pov would less relevant have opted to continue chattering as if this were an earlier era.

Portland Art Museum is still in renovation mode, but definitely stop by to check out the incredible Chizuko Yoshida exhibit, especially her incredible prints, and the stained glass from Cristopher Myers' Let The Mermaids Flirt With Me

so @chatterton.bsky.social turned off replies and quote posts so i can't reply to him, but eagle eyes will notice that all of the posts he says are about bluesky's reaction to today's interview were posted between 16 and 120 hours ago

Really need the BBC and everyone else to note that the US has the highest per capita carbon emissions when they wring their hands about China’s emissions. And that we are the largest contributor to climate change because we’ve been emitting a lot longer.

“You will now swear an oath of fealty to Dear Leader and his issue.”

Not shocked that the speaker who showed up to trump’s NYC trial with colleagues, all cosplaying their dear leader, would rather shut down Congress than have a vote on releasing the Epstein files #MomSky

the problem isn't that the president believes medbeds exist, it's that you don't

I don't understand how a public service can be anything but insolvent??? It's not supposed to make a profit. It is there to serve us. If it's making a profit we're overpaying.

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TUESDAY

Wrong files.

"Practice being brave now, don’t wait for some special moment at the end to be a hero." This is excellent. open.substack.com/pub/peaceful...

There is one of two ways this ends and both are terrible.

How Serbia inspired the Renaissance, Jimmy Kimmel and the real “cancel culture,” Shakespeare’s greatest rival, Shinnecock photographer Jeremy Dennis, and more in this week’s Required Reading.

All of these tech billionaires are delusional fucking assholes who think they’re prophets because of the money. And too many idiots believe it.

Hahahaha!!!

Sure there’s no ethical consumption under capitalism but some of it is waaaaay less ethical.

We have been chomping at the bit to hike a bit and so today we left Turlock at 9am and drove up to the least-used trailhead to the Emigrant Wilderness: Box Spring. (An hour on forest service roads off Hwy 108 in Long Barn. But we enjoyed the Chain Lakes, glacial erratics and out-hiking a hailstorm.

136 years ago, on the 28th of September 1889, the length of a metre was defined by the General Conference on Weights and Measures. States participating received not only new prototype metres but also thermometers to guarantee measurement at the correct temperature. #otd #history 🗃️

Hell is already here, it just isn't evenly distributed yet.

Read the long version here. www.artforum.com/features/gen...

"Jonathan Tokeley-Parry and Frederick Schultz would be the very first people in the United Kingdom and the United States to serve time for dealing in smuggled antiquities" is something I just wrote... am I right, cultural heritage law friends?

“AI” isn’t a tool or technology or even a cluster of technologies with a misleading name. It’s the infrastructure at the foundation of a form of capitalism dependent on data brokering. We should be teaching our students about this and not teaching them about “responsible” use.

Appreciate all the takes, but I would really like @sulliview.bsky.social to explain this to us. The question of why certain people are clearly untouchable is one of the most taboo subjects in the legacy media. *Nobody* talks about it and I'd like to know why.