What I see is rank injustice—A.G. Sulzberger

Just as ABC brought Jimmy Kimmel back, I see AppleTV has restored The Savant, albeit with a few changes.

You KNOW your boy loves a nonfiction novel

"Wow. In conclusion Hayek is a land of contrasts."

Called it

Tricked myself into reading the depressing chunks of The Prelude last night, particularly to try to get a handle on those moments when WW's pragmatism fails, and he scrambles. Those moments are captured—in Tolkien-ish ways—on Nico's Marble Index, in the looping harmonium and incantatory lyrics.

windmills mentioned

mods are asleep post smooth rapture

There were so, so many murders. Tylenol murders. Tie-le-nol. Funny word. Seven, eight, nine, twenty. It was 1982 and Carol Alt was on the cover of the Swimsuit Issue. I moved on her, of course. We were at Studio 54 and it was right around the time those 54 people died in Chicago—not as many as today

Wrap it up. We're all Deleuzeans now. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

The single most Disney thing to do rn is raise the price of the streaming bundle so everyone who resubscribes has to pay more

I am def not getting raptured because that would mean missing @drjjwild.bsky.social's talk "Queering Cinephilia: On Archival Authority, Archival Dérive, and the Productive Mistakes of 'Rediscovery'" on Thursday at 4 in SCA 316!

Judith Butler was decisive to my own intellectual development when they were at Hopkins. Watching the UC facilitate their persecution by dipshit wreckers in the Trump administration is enraging. Butler, in all their thorniness and range, epitomizes the centrality of the fight for academic freedom.

It is Sunday evening in the canyon and a drop-top just rolled by blasting the opening chords of "True" for everyone to hear. You can hit play and imagine www.youtube.com/watch?v=AR8D...

Maybe I should catch up with my employer's exciting football team? Perhaps I was hasty in thinking it was too brutal to enjoy *Michigan State player down; paralysis and death loom over everything* Nope.

My bribe would be a Birkin bag so that when the feds opened it and saw it was empty they would be all "wha?!?" and then I'd walk away real casual-like and then like 5 minutes later David Straitharn would realize "The bribe wasn't *in* the bag—the bribe *was* the bag!" Real Ocean's 14–type shit.

The Supreme Court, in an unsigned order, has declared any payments to Homan "definitely not bribery" and mandated the FBI give him a giant novelty check for a million dollars

Missed opportunity to betray the legacy of Cedric Robinson again

Apple’s Liquid Glass is just @sickoscommittee.org’s beveling for cowards

I have no interest in being president, but in such a case, I will zip myself into a realistic JD Vance flesh suit and take his place. I think we can make the switch on one of his many vacations to a liberal enclave.

We have created a conversational hold robot so convincing it could steal all your parents' money Also, our gentle hold music still pegs out constantly like a highschool NuMetal band playing in a church basement and we will never fix it

Late night. Can’t sleep. Catching up with Shingy. Yeah, that dude still sucks

Apple’s Liquid Glass is just @sickoscommittee.org’s beveling for cowards

Time to settle in with some Trader Giotto’s gnocchi and some more eps of this Joe Wright joint

"average person hears 3 echos a year" factoid actualy just statistical error. average person hears 0 echos per year. Echos Myron, who lives in a bell tower & hears over 10,000 each day, is an outlier adn should not have been counted

Quasi-tropical rain in LA. New England fall vibes. Time to put on Yusuf/Cat Stevens’s The Wind and dive headfirst into seasonal affective disorder

Turkish cat hustle culture

I Photoshop Paddington into a movie, TV show, or pop culture until I forget: Day 1648

Somewhere between Dabovo and Trajvna. #RailwayAesthetics

Emerging in sunny breezy Istanbul where every hostel seemingly has a breakfast terrace

I spent the last 4 days with a band of mad academics and artists rolling from Vienna to Istanbul for a conference on #railwayaesthetics held on the train. The work was great and I can’t thank them enough. Some images

Picking up the thread here a bit, with some impressions from the Bucharest to Istanbul journey

Walking around Istanbul last night I could have sworn I heard a Turkish cover of Guns of Brixton but whosampled yields nothing. Any leads?

At least Portnoy takes a bite

“I would like wraps but I don’t know the word for 15”

Goals

2:30 am. Everyone off the train for 2 hours for Turkish border control. As bad as that feels imagine being overnight staff at the Duty Free

I should be dropping this on insta with some techno cover of MeEspresso but whatevs #railwayaesthetics

All aboard

In other news Trump has announced the Kennedy Center will be giving "big up" to Chet Hanks for the popularization of White Boy Summer

Major NYC developers: if we can just get this down to a two man race, we've got a fighting chance. And billionaires can flood the airwaves with red scare propaganda. Mamdani: FIFA sucks and World Cup tickets should be cheaper. Developers: That's cheating

They want café (some dascafé)

I get the picture

NYT asks "Is America Ready for Japanese-Style 7–Elevens?" Kinane explains why not (can't put both a pic and vid in the same post, sorry)

Aside from the fact that a mistake-free Starmer is not Starmer at all, this neatly captures current Labour education policy

Really hoping he winds up lecture 4 by stammeringly proclaiming that he is, indeed, the antichrist and cueing some DOGE-reject to hit play on the Sex Pistols like the end of Iron Man luma.com/antichrist

LA cafes are like, "We have sustainably-sourced, hand selected beans; terrific, careful pourovers; fast wifi; and plenty of seating in both Punji Stick and Iron Maiden configurations."

One of the most important things I learned from @calculatedrisk.bsky.social was to pay attention to non-trad economic indicators like architectural billings. But where he looks at the economy, I focus on culture. So I absolutely love the bonkers weekly updates from Gensler (the biggest in the world)

For authors who are already spending their Anthropic settlement money. Figure it closer to this: $3k/book -25% attorneys fees *.5 (which is likely the split with your publisher on this, but who knows what that provision actually says) =$1125/title

Labor Day 2029. New York in rubble. A man reaches past the shards of a medicine cabinet mirror in his Brooklyn subbasement and removes a gray rag—wait, not a rag, but a remnant polo dickey. He slips it over his head and in the stray blue threads and reliquary shadows reads "Eric Adams—Mayor"