“AI has turbocharged the spread of bullshit and falsehoods. It is not able to produce actual, qualitative academic work, despite the claims of some in the AI industry. As researchers, as universities, we should be clearer about pushing back against these false claims by the AI industry.”

"Trickle-down theory - the less than elegant metaphor that if one feeds the horse enough oats, some will pass through to the road for the sparrows." John Kenneth Galbraith,(1908-2006) creativite-consultants.com/2020/09/14/t...

"It is a truth universally acknowledged that even if you already own a copy of a book, you can still be tempted by a different edition when you see it in a bookstore" fivebooks.com/best-books/b...

German artist Katja Lang Road to E. (2022)

Painting by Marina Marcolin (Italian born 1975). “Everything around you” Watercolour 2017. www.instagram.com/mawinamar/?h...

"Once again...welcome to my house. Come freely. Go safely; and leave something of the happiness you bring." Bram Stoker, Irish author, (1847~1912)

"All my life, I have maintained that the people of the world can learn to live together in peace if they are not brought up in prejudice." - Josephine Baker (1906-1975) Josephine Baker - Wikipedia share.google/jmYN1CDIz4m9...

Marlene Dietrich (1901~1992) in Shanghai Express (1932). #filmsky

I’m in Vienna right now. A city which went from being the intellectual and cultural capital of the world to a “provincial backwater” (to quote Brian Barry) in a couple of decades due to nationalism, anti-semitism and fascism which drove away the leading scholars and artists it didn’t murder.

"It seemed a blinding moment of self-understanding. Hate had been the trademark of his presidency. But in the end he had come to realize that hate was the poison, the engine that had destroyed him." Carl Bernstein, All the President's Men (1973). #SundayattheMovies

My book "On Freedom," the case for the value of freedom and a proposal for a better future, with a new foreword accounting for where we are today, will be out in paperback October 28th. timothysnyder.org/on-freedom

#PhotoArt #NoLoitering #Art #Photography #Abandoned #Photosky #Americana #Artsky #CentralNY #PhotoEdit #ClosedForTheSeason

In the Third Reich evil lost its distinctive characteristic by which most people had until then recognized it. The Nazis redefined it as a civil norm. Hannah Arendt (1906-1975), Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil (1963).

20 September 1963 Three British research scientists have scored a major breakthrough in the battle to perfect a vaccine against German Measles. This is good news for expectant mothers because their unborn babies can be affected by the disease.

On my walk this morning, done before the rain

Paul Kenton. 'Reflections of Autumn' Oils on board.

"The man that hath no music in himself, Nor is not moved with concord of sweet sounds, Is fit for treasons, stratagems, and spoils; The motions of his spirit are dull as night, And his affections dark as Erebus. Let no such man be trusted." #ShakespeareSunday

...But you see, it's not me It's not my family In your head, in your head, they are fighting With their tanks and their bombs And their bombs and their guns In your head, in your head, they are crying... youtu.be/6Ejga4kJUts?...

On the streets of Toronto The Walk 📷 Carmine Chiriacò

To live in this process is absolutely not to be able to notice it… Each step was so small, so inconsequential, so well explained… Each act, each occasion, is worse than thea last, but only a little worse… - Milton Mayer - (1908-1986)

Goodnight from the shack where the river meets the sea! #sunset #california #river #ocean #photography #love

If you see this, quote post a #sunset

"A man would die to-night of lying out on the marshes, I thought. And then I looked at the stars, and considered how awful it would be for a man to turn his face up to them as he froze to death, and see no help or pity in all the glittering multitude." Charles Dickens, Great Expectations (1861)

Lauren Bacall #BOTD 1924 📷Louise Dahl-Wolfe, in Harper's Bazaar, 1943 #LaurenBacall #LouiseDahl-Wolfe

On Wednesdays We Wear Black...

"Others? He dares to call us others? He’s the other. The one who looks most American—and he’s the one who is least American! The man is unfit. He shouldn’t be there. He shouldn’t be there, and it’s as simple as that!" The Plot Against America (2004), Philip Roth.

The Yerres, Effect of Rain, Gustave Caillebotte, 1875.

Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid: How Robert Redford and Paul Newman captured Hollywood’s greatest outlaws | The Independent share.google/xR0Hqofr3Mv9...

"Loneliness does not come from having no people about one, but from being unable to communicate the things that seem important to oneself, or from holding certain views which others find inadmissible." ~ Carl Jung, (1875-1961) Memories, Dreams, Reflections (1962).

German poster for THREE DAYS OF THE CONDOR (1975), starring Robert Redford - RIP

“Don’t ever be the first to stop applauding.” Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn and some chilling public speaking history mannerofspeaking.org/2010/05/12/s...

Painting by Mark Edwards “Three Men, two Fires, and a Train" 2022. Oil on Canvas, 60 × 60 cm. www.kilmorackgallery.co.uk/mark-edwards/

“Ida”: A Film Masterpiece | The New Yorker www.newyorker.com/culture/cult...

"Some day the earth will weep, she will beg for her life, she will cry with tears of blood. You will make a choice, if you will help her or let her die, and when she dies, you too will die." John Hollow Horn, Oglala Lakota, (1932) www.abc.net.au/news/2025-09...

Unlimited power in the hands of limited people always leads to cruelty. Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, (1918-2008) The Gulag Archipelago (1918–1956) (Published 1973) @fivebooks.com The best books on The Soviet Union recommended by Sheila Fitzpatrick. fivebooks.com/best-books/t...

Can you imagine when this race is won Turn our golden faces into the sun Praising our leaders, we're getting in tune The music's played by the, the mad men youtu.be/oNjQXmoxiQ8?...

Part of our #WiseWomen series, supported by a grant from the @nehgov.bsky.social. Listen to all the episodes in the series at www.philosophytalk.org/wisewomen. #PhilSky #philosophy #women @altnehgov.altgov.info

What a great collection of films directed by the brilliant David Lean. Thank you RaveWaves U.K. www.rarewaves.com

“Resentment is like drinking poison and then hoping it will kill your enemies.” Nelson Mandela, (1918-2013)

Anyone got a handcart?

"This peace will leave us as a cluster of dust..." 🕊️ Mahmoud Darwish (1941—2008) Palestinian Poet. Source: Poetry Foundation share.google/CI58BrCwvF4T...

A salient reminder of the true meaning of the hypocrisy that we bear witness to in these politically charged times: Only crime and the criminal, it is true, confront us with the perplexity of radical evil; but only the hypocrite is really rotten to the core. ~ Hannah Arendt, On Revolution (1963).

A woman exchanges vegetables for baskets of money during the hyperinflation of 1923. alphahistory.com/weimarrepubl...

All evidence indicates that you are correct. It is so crushingly sad. So much hinges on the outcome of elections. I constantly lament how deeply uninformed and ill-equipped Americans are, generally, to think critically and vote in their own interests. The lack of reasoned discourse is suffocating.

"Nuremberg taught that aggression is the supreme international crime. Being a combat soldier taught me that there can never be a war without atrocities, and illegal war-making is the biggest atrocity of all." ~ Ben Ferencz ~ (1920-2023) variety.com/2025/film/co...

Kiyoshi Yamashita ~ 1922 - 1971 Mt. Fuji from Nihondaira - 1957 Offset Lithograph.