It absolutely is. Every word a sword of truth. Every word.

Business! bit.ly/4wbkbym

“‘Viollet-le-Duc Drawing Worlds’ is easily the most accomplished architectural exhibition of the year in New York. And maybe of the last two or three.” bit.ly/4nadvfN

“Nordbor” at Nordiska museet inventively organizes 500 years of history in three overlapping ways — by century, by season, and along three parallel tracks: family, nature, and thought. It is a rich experience and was extremely helpful as an orientation to my new home. bit.ly/4n7HYeu #WPFD2026

Once again, @dahlialithwick.bsky.social and her guests on Amicus help me hold onto some shreds of sanity and remain focused amidst the chicanery that threatens to flood our legal system. Her talk this week with @audrelawdamercy.blacksky.app about Louisiana v. Callais is a must-listen. bit.ly/4cNwZU3

Irene Hsiao highlights performing arts events during Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month @chicagoreader.com bit.ly/4uhwSFT

It felt inevitable that violist Whitney Johnson, cellist Lia Kohl, and violinist Macie Stewart would form a trio. Their creative lives were already intertwined. https://bit.ly/4eTtXie

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traveling companions: Bowie and Iggy in Copenhagen, 29 April 1976 (Jan Persson)

Residents of an Atlanta suburb learned that Flock had been accessing cameras in the town—including in a children's gymnastics room—to demonstrate the company’s surveillance technology to police departments around the country. The city renewed the contract anyway. www.404media.co/city-learns-...

Last night at Konstnärshuset I caught a performance by Jordana Loeb and Anders af Klintberg of “Wooden Feedback – Nine Boards,” now available from independent, nonprofit record label and book publisher ɪʀlɪçt t.ly/1NCOR

Beetles of Mexico City, 2025 🇲🇽

“Even as needs mount, the philanthropy sector behaves as if the greatest risk is to itself, while our communities and our democracy shoulder the consequences,” argue Abigail Disney and Carolina García Jayaram. t.ly/0nLVi

The vibe today in Stockholm is festive, as it is both Valborg and King Carl XVI Gustaf of Sweden’s 80th birthday. Jet formations flew over the Royal Palace this afternoon 🇸🇪👑🔥🥳

Alexander Ekman’s HAMMER is back on European stages this spring. Because his 2022 hit is so much a warning from the edge of the abyss — the endless, rapacious cycle of capture, imitation, and replication — its layers of references work with, instead of against, its plea to unsubscribe. t.ly/WqpYw

Chicago-based artist Robyn Mineko Williams presents work in Sweden for the first time next month. “Beams” is a new iteration of her multi-year series that grew out of research into her ancestors’ experiences before, during, and after their incarceration as Japanese Americans. t.ly/D6bBq

Jenny Holzer, Marquees, Times Square, 1993

The Dan Ryan Expressway, by Wesley Willis American, 1963-2003 1986 More info: https://www.artic.edu/artworks/204579

Chicago-based artist Robyn Mineko Williams presents work in Sweden for the first time next month. “Beams” is a new iteration of her multi-year series that grew out of research into her ancestors’ experiences before, during, and after their incarceration as Japanese Americans. t.ly/D6bBq

Grattis till my husband Ashik Zaman and his twin brother Koshik Zaman for yet another year on the Barnebys list of Sweden’s most powerful people in art t.ly/dSW8-

Trump fires the entire National Science Board

“The behavior in some scenes looks as barbaric as the set does futuristic — a contrast that mirrors our current moment, wherein powerful people unleash powerful technology not to solve problems or advance discoveries, but to widen ancient divides and affirm deeply seated beliefs.” t.ly/3ipIq

Perfect case of what we termed academic content assetization in a recent paper, where HE institutions use their learning platforms to gather teaching materials from staff to then repurpose as future revenue-generating derivative products

“The behavior in some scenes looks as barbaric as the set does futuristic — a contrast that mirrors our current moment, wherein powerful people unleash powerful technology not to solve problems or advance discoveries, but to widen ancient divides and affirm deeply seated beliefs.” t.ly/3ipIq

The Woolworth Building in the clouds, New York City, 1927, by Fairchild Aerial Surveys.

Grok told a simulated delusional AI user concerned that a dark entity was trapped in their mirror that they were likely being haunted by a doppelgänger, citing Malleus Maleficarum and suggesting they smash a nail through their mirror while reciting Psalm 91 backwards: futurism.com/artificial-i...

RIP MTT. His arrival at the S.F. Symphony, in 1995, brought the most excitement for a conductor I've seen directly. He made it one of the most vaunted, proudly daring orchestras in the world. It was thrilling, for a kid, to watch someone remake his creative world. www.nytimes.com/2026/04/23/a...

"Waymo has told advocates that expecting it to respect bike lanes is 'too high a bar' because customers expect to be dropped off in them." To be crystal clear, it's illegal for a car to be in a bike lane. It doesn't matter what Waymo's customers expect; the company shouldn't be doing it.

🌸 Postcard from Kungsträdgården 🌸

"Pancreatic cancer mRNA vaccine shows lasting results in an early trial: Scientists caution that more research is needed, but nearly all of the patients who responded to the personalized vaccine are still alive six years later."

Using facial recognition tech, the Knicks surveilled a trans woman, tracking her every move out of fear she'd show up on MSG's tv broadcast And they can do it to any "enemy" of Jim Dolan, who's built his own deep state. From @noahshachtman.bsky.social & me @wired.com www.wired.com/story/madiso...

Highlights from the Contemporary Art and Design auction at Bukowskis: an Andy Warhol creepshot of Pope John Paul II (1975), Bert Stern’s silhouette of JFK Jr. (1996), Max Modén’s capture of Greta Thunberg with Barack Obama (2019), and Terry O’Neill’s portrait of Isabella Rossellini in London (1984)

She was granted withholding of removal from India *decades* ago, and had been living and working legally (including for the U.S. government!) ever since. But with third country removals now a real option, TSA shared her data with ICE and they arrested her at the airport on her way to a job.

NEW: A new pre-print study offers the first causal evidence that outsourcing reasoning tasks to AI can rapidly erode users' independent performance AND their will to persist despite difficulty. "People’s persistence drops... they’re also not willing to try without AI.” futurism.com/artificial-i...

“The fear of retaliation is 100 percent real.” bit.ly/4tTtVvk

Bukele will give Google access to the health data of all Salvadorans. elpais.com/america/2026...

Helpful summary of our current waking digital nightmare from @rusty.todayintabs.com bit.ly/484Sflf

The Chicago Police Department by the end of 2025 had fully complied with 25% of the court order that requires CPD to stop routinely violating Black and Latino residents’ constitutional rights. https://to.wttw.com/4cJVdOM

The nonprofit that runs the successful, Pulitzer-winning Baltimore Banner is going to take over the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. Of all the possible outcomes here, this is likely the best we could have hoped for. apnews.com/article/pitt...

Many thanks to @espiers.bsky.social and @leannetenbrinke.bsky.social for having and sharing this conversation, especially what it includes about recognizing and responding productively to psychopathy in the workplace bit.ly/4mtAHFx

“In my view this stuff isn’t complicated. You say, ‘don’t set the cookie.’ They set the cookie. The regulators see a fox going into the henhouse and the fox says, ‘I’m just here to count the eggs, not to eat any chickens.’ And they take them at their word."

Danish choreographer Mette Ingvartsen’s SKATEPARK has been on tour almost continuously for the past three years. Kids seem to dig it but I thought it too often seemed satisfied with its premise — skateboarding onstage! — alone. bit.ly/3PY0rOd

“This is the detail that ‘The Pitt’ gets right that most workforce commentary misses.” bit.ly/4dMUOw8

Danish choreographer Mette Ingvartsen’s SKATEPARK has been on tour almost continuously for the past three years. Kids seem to dig it but I thought it too often seemed satisfied with its premise — skateboarding onstage! — alone. bit.ly/3PY0rOd

“One of only three private homes known to have been designed by the late architect I.M. Pei is coming to market in Texas for $22 million.” bit.ly/4mojLzY

“Chicago’s fair week is a microcosm of the churning, tense, contradictory discourse surrounding art and its support networks in the city.” bit.ly/4dKET1i

"When a long-awaited rail link opens between northern Finland and Sweden, it will be possible to travel some 5,000km by train from Portugal's Algarve to Kolari in Lapland – Finland's northernmost station." #Trains #ClimateAction 🛤️ yle.fi/a/74-20220038

NEW: Trump accepted $37m worth of donated steel for his WH ballroom project from the Luxembourg-based company ArcelorMittal. Days later, the WH made adjustments to Trump's tariffs that could benefit ArcelorMittal.