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Pro tip: If "Harvard and Trump" are in the news, start with @theharvardcrimson.bsky.social for the most up-to-date and well-sourced coverage. Their story right now: www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...

“…there’s still time to disenchant AI, to provincialize it, to make it uncompelling and uncool.” www.nplusonemag.com/issue-51/the...

Something I think we’re not talking about enough with all this autism bullshit is how, no matter what, it’s always blamed on the pregnant mother.

Claudia Cardinale and Robert Redford dying in the same week puts the world in a hotness deficit not seen since at least the 19th century

Last night was the 90th anniversary ceremony of the Anisfield-Wolf Book Awards. I can’t think of a more relevant time to reflect on books that help us understand race and human diversity. Grateful to the jury led by the brilliant Natasha Tretheway and to the Cleveland Foundation.

As you cancel streaming services, here is a casual reminder that only 16% of Americans read for pleasure anymore, and your local library has hundreds or thousands of books you haven't read. They would love to see you stop by and renew your library card.

How to delete your account without agreeing to the new TOS: In the dialogue box asking you to agree, DO NOT click agree. Instead, click on the TOS link which will open another tab. In the top right of that tab you can go to your account settings and delete your account.

Academia.edu wants permanent rights to your likeness, signature, voice, name, etc. to be used in any setting. My answer was "absolutely not." Log in, click on "privacy policy" when prompted to accept the new terms (don't accept!" then find "account settings" @ dropdown, scroll down to delete.

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“Any man’s death diminishes me, because I am involved in mankind. And therefore never send to ask for whom the bell tolls.” -John Donne, Meditation XVII, Devotions on Emergent Occasions

We don’t yet know what motivated the person who shot and killed Charlie Kirk, but this kind of despicable violence has no place in our democracy. Michelle and I will be praying for Charlie’s family tonight, especially his wife Erika and their two young children.

Happy namesake-rubbed-out-by-the-Mob-OTD-in-history-day to all who celebrate. Wait. I guess that’s just me. Anyway, my Mafia namesake got rubbed out #OTD in 1931. Cheers.

O @kellylink.bsky.social, I'm asking your advice on building a library of classic fairy tales for my daughter (now 5). I'm planning age-appropriate purchases over time (and happy to make them from @bookmoon.bsky.social). What should I get, at what ages? No one knows this better than you.

Putting the focus back on art today. If you need something to read over the weekend, may I humbly suggest “Through the Machine.” If reading for awards, please keep it in mind. Find it here in print and audio: www.lightspeedmagazine.com/fiction/thro...

The great @jfallows.bsky.social on the NYTimes’ peculiar and repeatedly peculiar coverage of Trump’s attack on Harvard.

GRUMPYE TEENAGE SHAKESPEARE: "Thys ys just a stage, son." "ALL THE WORLDE YS A STAGE, DAD!!!! UGH!'

tell me what ridiculous thing you're going to do with your settlement money: me, I'm going to build a dovecote.

🧵I’m putting the MRM contract ordeal behind me to focus on making more art, but I just had 1 more thing to say related to this. Throughout the past several months many writers have reached out to say things like, “I wanted to push back, but I’m a nobody” or “my piece was just a little poem.” 1/5

Update on the Must Read Magazines contract situation from somebody on the front lines. tl;dr it's bad. open.substack.com/pub/pacornel...

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Twitter is owned by a neo-Nazi, the LA Times, Washington Post, and Wall Street Journal are owned by pro-Trump billionaires, and CBS News will soon be run by a far-right Likud extremist. American media still has a liberal bias problem.

Statement tonight from Alan Garber, 31st president of Harvard. Good for him. Good for Harvard. Good for standing up to defend "core values of American higher education." And (again) what about all those "Harvard about to cave" stories? Main point: Worth reading what Garber says.

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Fifteen years ago, Jon noticed that Penguin's new Modern Classic edition of Nabokov's Lolita had stripped out the foreword by "John Ray, Jr." - who needs this yawnsome old intro! - ...which is actually part of the novel. A contact at Penguin told me the following Monday morning was not a jolly one.

Save theatre, libraryes, parkes, indie bookestores, museums, cinema, local restaurantes, coffee shoppes, meetinge places, qualitye public educacioun, communitye marketes, lyve musique, weirde places, goode places. All the thinges that corporate logic ys so eager to distorte and remove.

In this Ohio diner, cancer research is what astrologers do for people born in late June and July. But they do know this: President Trump's landslide 49% of the vote gives him a clear mandate to defund America's scientists.

"Read for pleasure. Read for beauty. Read because you are restless, your mind alone, whirring in your own consciousness, and you seek the profound enchantment of, through reading a book, seeing the world through someone else’s eyes."

smart people who disagree with you but are fun to talk to anyway are a precious resource

One of the problems is that civilians hear “grant“ and think it’s a “fill out a form and get money” process, not a “harrowing Hunger Games competition against the brightest minds in the country” process.

Trump's splotchy hand and swollen ankles raise new questions about Joe Biden's health.

A great read on UChicago, arguing we’re seeing the result of decades of mismanagement: “The university’s trustees and leaders view it preeminently as a tax-free technology incubator, and its debt load is so great that it is abandoning ideals it once held dear in order to sustain that goal.”

Florence and the Machine Covir Bandes: Siena and the Devyce Milan and the Contraptioun Orvieto and the Mechanism Venyce and the Gadget Spoleto and the Apparatus

There’s a certain poetry in the past in @jamesjmarino.bsky.social’s new story “The Ghost Lyrics.” Sing along if you know the words. kaleidotrope.net/summer-2025/...

Just to hammer this in: I don't know of an example in US history of comparable *in-person humiliation* for a US president. And of course for the country. Trump will soon realize how visibly he was "owned." In view of the whole world.

Here it comes! #Arden4

Cyberpunke dystopia ys a cautionarye tale not a businesse plan

Hey #BookSky I found an interesting series on youtube! Crafting with Ursula Series by Between the Covers Podcast (Not sure if they are on bsky tinhouse.com)

“Among college graduates ages 22 to 27, computer science and computer engineering majors are facing some of the highest unemployment rates, 6.1 percent and 7.5 percent respectively, according to a report… That is more than double the unemployment rate among recent biology and art history graduates”

Would 100% watch a sitcom in which Cuomo and Dershowitz end up roommates, Dershowitz is denied a pierogi every episode in exactly the same way, and Cuomo runs for successively lower-stakes office each week, only to lose again.

"Many chefs I know get upset at me … But this is the truth: If you can’t cook everything you make in a microwave thats a skill issue. You need to learn now because when everything is cooked in a microwave you’ll be out of a job." www.colincornaby.me/2025/08/in-t... (h/t @olivia.science )

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This is real: President Trump is standing on the roof of the White House briefing room right now and no one knows why

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Important details from this story: 1) Yet another news-break by student journalists (this time @theharvardcrimson.bsky.social) www.thecrimson.com/article/2025... 2) Harvard saying "see you in court," not "let's make a deal." 3) Per Garber, WH/MAGA leaked news of a "deal." NYT then ran with it.

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In China, the projected GDP-growth rate, and province-by-province output rates, always proved to be exactly correct! The party would forecast 11.3% annual growth for a given province, and—surprise!—the provincial officials would report 11.3% at year's end. Somehow this comes to mind today.

Great day for everyone whose 2024 brand move was claiming that Dems were exaggerating how bad Trump would be.