Finally saw the Taj Mahal after a year and eight months of living in India. Here are some brief and ill-considered thoughts on the experience. cyberb.space/notes/2026/e...

Finally got around to watching Kelly Reichardt's The Mastermind. Very good subversion of genre expectations. Also maybe the best final scene of any movie I've seen in the past few years? Bugonia could take some notes.

“The Dream” by F. Brossler, from a 1912 issue of Der Guckkasten. One of 900+ prints in our online shop: publicdomainreview.org/product/the-...

Almost 650 years ago something very interesting happened throughout the kingdom of England. Unfortunately, most of the records that would help us know exactly who and what this was were burned in the process. cyberb.space/shelf/juliet...

Makenna Goodman's novel "Helen of Nowhere" is a sneaky trick pulled on unsuspecting readers — and I loved it. cyberb.space/shelf/makenn...

This Melville guy knew Americans better than anyone else

The Bookworm archive continues to be an incredible resource. This old interview with Chris Ware has so much packed into its short 30 minutes. The term “geometries of perception” is perfect and this is the only place I’ve heard it used. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/b...

Jürgen Habermas, whose work on communication, rationality and sociology made him one of the world’s most influential philosophers and a key intellectual figure in his native Germany, has died. He was 96.

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Can’t believe this book is 16 years old already. But Egan’s fragmented examination of angst, ambition, and redemption holds up surprisingly well, all things considered. cyberb.space/shelf/jennif...

Can confirm. I’ve done this a few times without any bylines or projects attached to my name (just my own curiosity) and still had 100% success.

feeling this one today

Inside of me are two wolves. One of them whispers that I should spend my time collecting every experimental guitar album that Bill Orcutt has put out. The other immediately pre-orders every Mitski album.

A project I've been involved with the past few years is almost done, but it needs funding to get over the hump. I'm physically incapable of fundraising, so instead I wrote up a brief post about what it is and why it would great if you threw the project a few dollars. cyberb.space/notes/2026/a...

It’s one of fate’s rare gifts that, while spending a semi chaotic morning with my wife and son, I can look into my wife’s eyes and say “I missed my chance, Jerry!” and she knows exactly what I mean.

Wuthering Heights this, Wuthering Heights that, I want to talk about Robert Tinney's January 1980 cover of Byte

Mass call for laid-off workers, students, and allies on Sunday, Feb 22nd at 11am PT/2pm ET ‼️ We hope you can join the call, register @ wwwrise.org 🎟️

been watching the olympics and i think i found a solution to the male loneliness crisis

Took some time to write about coming back to Midwestern suburbia after 1.5 years of living in Mumbai. cyberb.space/notes/2026/o...

A perfectly ouroboric piece of media. Can’t wait for the film adaptation.

No one prepares you for your toddler forcing you to read random books so much they become spectral texts that stalk you through your dreams.

i remember when the computer still demanded blood. my dad's Tandy took a mere pinprick from your finger, which was a revolutionary advancement from the bulky machines of the 80's that required a thimbleful to access usenet for a day. that itself was an improvement on the pint needed to join ARPANET

Going to start remaking hit songs with more direct language. Be on the lookout for my forthcoming Britney Spear’s cover: “Impress upon me that you care once again”

Bruce Lee’s bruised knees bashed a bundle of bumbling bandits.

« But the times are ours and how can we disown them? If our history is our hell, still we cannot avert our faces. » — Albert Camus; The Rebel, p248

If you want to spread democracy, start with your workplace.

you’re right! it feels mostly awful to Go Online™, these days. the internet in a sad state, for reason after reason after reason. but there is a way to fix it; to trade the voidful howling for a quiet & joyful song. here’s how to win the war for the soul of the internet, and build the Web We Want.

I wrote something to mark the final day of the year. cyberb.space/notes/2025/r...

Please, I am begging you, do not tell AI to translate for you. Do not just use a translate button on languages you can't read. Please ask a human being to help you. Machine translations are often close enough on a sentence level but that is NOT good enough for anything you take seriously.

Merry Christmas to everyone, but especially to Mrs. Karl Slartman who submitted this never fail rice pudding recipe that keeps me company every year.

Someone who keeps believing the local crockpot’s prophesies? That’s a seer sucker.

Finished up what will likely be my last full read of the year today. cyberb.space/shelf/olga-t...

Each time a person asks you for an antidote to their big money algorithmic recommendation model, share the work of one blogger 💫

As the old saying goes, if you can’t beat them, join them… so as to better sabotage them from within.

as part of a demonstration organized by @techworkerscoalition.org, members of unions like cwa and uaw, as well as other assorted supporters of the 34 rockstar workers fired for organizing activity, have gathered outside rockstar’s office in nyc to protest

Careful out there tonight for it's #Krampusnacht! Popular in German-speaking Alpine folklore, the figure of #Krampus is a devil-like horned creature who punishes badly-behaved children the night before St Nicholas' Day. More Krampus cards here: publicdomainreview.org/collection/g...

Quite clear that I am becoming a literary sicko as I grow older.

"I recently spoke with Santa Claus, who is currently coordinating his staff of immortal blue-collar elves, about the morality of children and his friendship with a creature whom many carolers consider a war criminal: Krampus." www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/the...

One of the nice things about the Nobel Prize for literature is that it generates a surge in interest an author's work across linguistic boundaries. One of the weird things is that the author's old books will appear in your native language marketed as "new" or "the latest from" the author.

In many ways the legacy of a philosopher’s work is formed by the actions of its most successful misreaders.

Snow, rain, or shine - we're out here on the picket lines ☃️ It's DAY NINETEEN of our national ULP strike. Our striking baristas in Rockford, IL are braving the weather to make sure Starbucks hears our demands loud an clear: stop union busting and settle a fair contract! #nocontractnocoffee

What will enter the #publicdomain in 2026? Each day through December we’ll open a window in our advent-style calendar to reveal our highlights! https://publicdomainreview.org/features/entering-the-public-domain/2025/ (+ for the impatient/curious we've links to lists of new entrants.)

A very happy birthday to the ever-beguiling and brilliant William Blake, born #onthisday in 1757. Pictured here, his depiction of the biblical story of Jacob's Dream. One of several Blake prints for sale in our online shop: publicdomainreview.org/shop/fine-art-prints/artist/w... #otd

I once asked a bookseller at a large indie store how many people would have to buy a book for it to get the attention of the store buyer and cause an additional order and they said: Three.

My least consequential English usage bugbear? “from whence” is redundant and it’s incredibly annoying more writers don’t realize this.

The most pressing issue of our time is that horrible situations are developing faster than the creative class can provide new metaphors to understand them. As evidence, I present the fact that people are saying “circular economy” and “bubble” rather than “malignant tumor on the market economy.”

work on the creative project that pays me money and that i am under contract for and that people like????? no thanks, im busy thinking about my creative project that im kind of bad at and somehow costs me money and that nobody asked for

I've started to take on freelance software work again. Here's some context: cyberb.space/notes/2025/k...