Wassily Kandinsky (1926)

the knicks and spurs have received lifetime bans from the nba for running around on the court in the middle of last night's game

Sama Safi is a 20-year old American citizen and honor student at Birzeit University who was kidnapped by Israeli soldiers from her family’s home on June 2nd at 3 AM. She is being illegally held in Israel's notoriously unsafe prisons, known for human rights abuses. Her family cannot contact her.

Interesting observations on AI style from Jay Caspian Kang, who built a test of machine v. human writing that fooled most people, most of the time. Yet Claude kept describing ‘absence and stasis’ - it just ‘can’t reliably have characters do much of anything’. www.newyorker.com/news/fault-l...

I just went 82-0, think you can go 82-0? www.82-0.com/share?id=dqM...

perhaps copium, perhaps too many cycles spent watching california elections, but i actually feel fine about raman and steyer in their respective races (for 2nd, ofc)

ANOTHER ANGLE. Utah plates. Im fucking losing it. www.reddit.com/r/SeattleWA/...

im hooting and hollering

I don’t think other people should have to learn about California politics. It’s not like California voters do

Report: Music’s Power To Unite, Heal Down 74% https://theonion.com/report-musics-power-to-unite-heal-down-74/

tom steyer: sure, i guess!

We are appalled that US politicians and Jewish communal institutions marched alongside war criminal Bezalel Smotrich, other fascist Israeli leaders, and pro-apartheid organizations like the Hebron Fund at Sunday’s Israel Day parade in New York.

#then0ughtie5 begins now, now: 50. St. Vincent - Now, Now (2007, USA) the beginning of the most miraculous decade-long run of art rock singles this century www.youtube.com/watch?v=kKsN...

my #TheN0ughtie5 stats: 84% NKC, 94% JCC 30 US acts, 5 UK, 3 Canadians, 2 each from France/Jamaica/Colombia, 1 each from Iceland, Barbados, Norway, Sweden, Mexico, and Brazil 17 songs appearing on a Girl Talk mashup album; 1 mashup on my list proper 5 artists returning from 10s/20s, 5 from 77-99

Yay! Congrats to Janet Voight at the Field who has described a new species of deep-sea octopus from the Galapagos! Microeledone galapagensis! #molluscmonday www.fieldmuseum.org/about/press/...

The Canadian Ideology

one for clarence carter youtu.be/ioFRJBxDhjg?...

fyi a lot of articles about cosmetics and beauty SUCK SOOO BAD and could use your help. you can research the science or history of a product in good sources and add it! you can trim rambly unsourced text! you can demonstrate concealer by uploading pics of your eye with and without it!

Julius Erving and Larry Bird: Software artists? (Julius Erving and Larry Bird Go One-on-One) Source: Computer Gaming World 4.3 (June 1984) Scan Source: CGW Museum #retrogames #retrogaming

"Your posts are worse than Bieber" "Shirt look like a shop rite bag" "You have sold out the fans ." Every Accusation is a Confession. —DRIL

After big dams on the upper Klamath River in far northern CA were removed in 2024, Chinook (king) salmon migrated upstream for the first time in 100+ years--and now they have hatched.

the al horford late period legacy game

perhaps the greatest set of short story titles every assembled, in samuel delany’s DRIFTGLASS

Several important nuggets in here: • Swalwell was rebuilding Newsom's inner circle; he was the establishment hope • One lobbyist: "Were we willing to delude ourselves or not ask questions that should have been asked? 1000%" • His campaign started sending cease-and-desists last year

JStreet moving like this greatly increases the chances the median Dem congressperson, who is wildly out of step with the base on Israel, actually moves towards a Block the Bombs-type position and beyond. This is a permission structure for change.

Papers should stop having introductions and conclusions. An abstract and a "future work" section should be sufficient.

Rally at the White House tonight

In lieu of lecture blogging on simulation and prediction, check out this fortuitously timed op-ed in the NY Times by @leifw.bsky.social and me on the absurdity of Silicon Sampling. (Related lecture blog tomorrow!)

Great example of bad science policy communication 👇🏽 This post does not communicate that they don’t propose cuts to the Artemis program. In fact it proposes an increase to their budget. The cut is to the science programs: the curiosity and saving planet earth programs. 🔭🧪 #scicomm

RIP James Gadson, master drummer, who played on everything from Charles Wright's "Express Yourself," to Diana Ross' "Love Hangover" to D Fagen's "The Nightfly" to D'Angelo's "Black Messiah." here he is backing Bill Withers in 1973: www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Smt...

Iranian Americans now oppose this US war on Iran by a two to one margin.

reading old cybernetics books and i love how goofy their illustrations are

There are now 10 toilets in Space International Space Station: 4 Crew Dragon Docked at ISS: 1 Soyuz Docked at ISS: 1 Tiangong Space Station: 2 Shenzhou Docked at TSS: 1 Artemis II on way around Moon: 1 This will be the first time a toilet has left low earth orbit!

Found this a pretty interesting piece about the machinery behind music industry hype and the writer‘s personal response to finding out that her new faves’ popularity may not be as organic as she hoped www.wordsfromeliza.com/p/fake-fans

I think people forget that this man is a literal child prodigy. this run????

So what this describes is ethnic cleansing www.nytimes.com/2026/04/01/w...

a couple weeks ago my friend and I journeyed all the way around the bay on public transit only. i wrote about the things we saw, for @oaklandreviewofbooks.org:

The whole concept of a "cover," that any given song belongs to one specific act, and that someone else performing it amounts to a kind of suspension of the normal rules of music that we need a name for, is a cultural fail state. Music gets worse when it's a monologue instead of a conversation.

We got a DM the other day with a fun request from a local family: Could we find this nice BART train operator who always waved and beeped at this special little rider? And if we found him, could we deliver him a thank you card!?  So we got to work …

Ben Recht ( @beenwrekt.bsky.social )'s new book The Irrational Decision: very good! very insightful! the rare new book that is at once very helpful for understanding our current moment while never feeling overly timely or a prisoner of that moment! i reviewed it: joinreboot.org/p/how-we-bec...

Marvin Gaye singing "I Want You" at rehearsal

paul ehrlich is dead. all else aside he did write a number of genius papers about butterflies. so who is to say what his impact was, really

There’s nothing funny about what happened today. And also, “and before you call me antisemitic, I was raised Catholic” is objectively the most hilarious thing I’ve read in weeks.

freed ! from my self inflicted philosophy of biology hell

only 12% of the students in the class i'm TAing completely AI-generated their essay responses... small victory?

the horn arrangements on the new mitski album are so. jaunty !

my 5 #thetenx5 HMs: 1. Rae Sremmurd - Black Beatles (2016, USA) 2. Rich Gang (Young Thug & Rich Homie Quan) - Lifestyle (2014, USA) 3. Lana Del Rey - Mariners Apartment Complex (2018, USA) 4. Mondo Grosso - Labyrinth (2017, Japan) 5. Grimes - Flesh Without Blood (2015, Canada)