The Athletic’s live blog had good insights from reporters.

Throwing cold water on the idea that Europe will absorb and support the U.S. scholars: "There will be no mass emigration of scholars from the U.S. during the second Trump administration like there was from Europe during World War II." From @bakerdphd.bsky.social in @insidehighered.com

Current listening: "Bay of Rainbows" (ECM, 2018) by Danish jazz guitarist Jakob Bro. Mellow music for the morning. Recommended.

Wondering if a man who does not ride a horse can wear a bandana and not look ridiculous. (I'm leaning toward no)

The good news: hard, local news drives subs. The bad news: it doesn't produce enough subs to cover the salaries of the reporters producing it. @joshuabenton.com breaks down the academic study. www.niemanlab.org/2026/06/what...

Well, that photo will haunt my dreams.

Sorry to be that guy posting from another l site, but I prone Teams for first time in a while and have to wonder if it’s a platform for highly precocious newborns.

Other people's prose: "There is no investigative act less dramatic than trying to find people by peering into their Facebook profiles..." -- @tomjunod.bsky.social from "In the Days of My Youth I Was Told What It Meant to Be a Man."

"First Love and Other Sorrows" has to be one of the best titles ever for a story collection. Haven't read it since high school. I should find a copy.

Otto Dix (German, 1891-1969) “Tanzsaal” 1922

"not everything is a competition" i say, louder than everyone else

“This is not actually productive.” “IT’S WORKING FOR ME.” The kind of comeback most of us only dream of.

Ben Shahn, Man, 1946 https://botfrens.com/collections/14377/contents/1134936

In Lima and wandered across Fonda de Cultura Económica. I read so many books from this press in grad school.

that student? herman melville

YOU’RE LISTENING TO SISYPHUS FM, THE HOME OF NON-STOP ROCK

I keep thinking about this and imagining a circle of bsky elders hanging out in the clinic courtyard smoking, blinking a little in the sun, making the occasional sardonic joke. Is it any wonder we can only sigh and stare when someone comes by all hyped to tell us how it’s going at the old club.

Oh, everyone is talking about L.L. Nunn today. Have I got stories for you.

If the actor with British accent is evil then you’re watching Sci fi. If the actor with a British accent is good then it’s Fantasy. If the actor with a British accent knocks something over then it’s a Rom com.

MIT announces “the number of grad students will be 20 percent less than it was in 2024 — about 500 fewer students” www.washingtonpost.com/education/20...

I don't understand how this is even difficult.

“This idea of superintelligence or consciousness [of LLMs] is pushed by the companies building these things. So when you talk about the systems as conscious, you’re actually doing marketing for these companies.” @timnitgebru.blacksky.app nails it, in this on point opinion piece by Arwa Mahdawi.

Fascinating Personage https://www.wikiart.org/en/joan-miro/fascinating-personage

That has to be photoshopped, right?

Finally saw "Perfect Days" (2023). What a quiet, deft film. I want to go back to Tokyo and visit all those public toilets. (I also want the protagonist's wardrobe, minus the blue jumpsuit.)

I did not believe this was real. Shows my lack of imagination, I suppose.

Reading some stories in the LA Times, and, oh boy, are the AI-generated bullet points at the top of each piece embarrassing.

Bryant Rousseau, named in this story as the NYT editor whose work history matches the anonymous coward in the complaint, is selling AI-generated art and music on his website. The copyright watermarks on work he didn’t do — with fake NYT quotes! — is just chef’s kiss narcissistic entitlement.

Other people's prose: "But Mrs. Sánchez Bezos is the star of the Met Gala because she represents what fashion, buffeted by social and technological change, has surrendered to: economic inequality in human form, with pink, glossy lips, cinched up in a couture corset." Robin Givhan in the NYT.

Gave this some more thought overnight. In a local news context, this would be business, crime and entertainment.

Hear me out: Politics reporter, religion reporter, entertainment reporter No I will not explain myself

we may as well make bonfires on May Day

After working Jazz Fest for years, I don't get much FOMO when it rolls around each spring and I'm not there. But damn, reading that Jason Isbell played "Outfit" has me wishing I's been in New Orleans last weekend. www.nola.com/gambit/event...

Sports journalists should be talking more about the gambling epidemic in this country but a lot of them can’t because there are like three companies that still employ sports journalists and all of them have some kind of business deal with a sportsbook.

Ha. Jeff Tweedy named himself as one of America's greatest living songwriters. On the other hand, fair. (Looking forward to catching Wilco this Saturday. Will also be grateful that Tweedy saved Niles Cline from having to get a day job.)

Not only is @apnews.com attending the White House correspondents dinner, they invited one of the Trump staffers who kicked them out of the press pool as their guest. This is all so wrong. apnews.com/article/whit...

Pay attention to the look on the woman’s face as the question is being asked.🤣 That’s the look of a woman who can’t wait to write a book.🤣

Other people's prose: "So many things feed forgetting and undermine memory, including news that reports the events of the moment without the context that gives them coherence by showing the patterns into which they fit." @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social from "The Beginning Comes After the End"

RFK Jr: "A Democratic senator claimed it's mathematically impossible to have a drug drop by 600%. I said, 'Well, if the drug was $100 and it raises to $600, that would be a 600% rise. If it drops from $600 to $100, that's a 600% savings.'" Trump: "Right"

This feels like one of those rules that has a ... very specific ... genesis.

Watts Theatre Osage, IA

hint nothing

That's a lot of misconduct to squeeze into a year. I can understand why the secretary had to get her family involved.

If you don’t believe we are in a bubble you are in denial

Reading Didion's "Notes to John," a journal she kept while undergoing psychotherapy. At one point, she says, "I'm not good at communication," which is both ridiculous and completely believable. (Needless to say, she does not sound like a great parent.)

So many bangers from @colsonwhitehead.com — “Studies show that overreliance on these digital tools causes cognitive decline, but if current events are any indication, nobody’s making much of a contribution anyway. Go ahead and use A.I. however you like.”

“Why is it that the most vocal cheerleaders of generative A.I. are always the hackiest motherfreakers around?” Love u @colsonwhitehead.com

the fact that he’s using it for propaganda makes me regret ever painting this