Emily Lee

I’m a sucker for a new NYT game.

Goddamn. What a sobering and poignant piece of conceptual art. What an amazing artist.

All of the penicillin in use worldwide comes from a strain of mold that was growing on a cantaloupe bought at a grocery store in Peoria, Illinois in 1942.

Look, I like wasps, ok? They're fighty little bastards and I like their snazzy outfits, pest-control abilities, skill with paper, and total lack of compromise

Well, now I’m singing “nasal detritus” - so there’s my morning sorted.

Thank you

A New Shearwater Album Help beloved indie-rock band Shearwater produce, distribute, and publicize a new LP. | Check out 'A New Shearwater Album' on Indiegogo.

Only a few more hours to go for the fundraising campaign to complete, distribute, and promote our next album. www.indiegogo.com/projects/a-n...

This is incredible

one of the single best deals in streaming. i've been paying for PBS Passport for years. it rules

[quoting a tweet by fractalcounty that reads, “today I learned that there are actual people irl who get genuinely upset if they catch you using chatgpt. like they view it as a serious moral failing in certain circles”]

If you're using AI to write essays, eulogies, a text to your wife, I do think less of you as a person. Ceding your mental and creative abilities to a machine is an embarrassing thing and people should be ashamed to admit doing it in public.

absolutely buck wild that as a child he had this kind of grasp on blocking and composition

A New Shearwater Album Help beloved indie-rock band Shearwater produce, distribute, and publicize a new LP. | Check out 'A New Shearwater Album' on Indiegogo.

Needless to say, we're still a bit bewildered by the success of the campaign; we spent the last two weeks in the studio, and we're getting close to landing this thing.

Thank you for making our dreams come true.

JM / SW

www.indiegogo.com/projects/a-n...

We hadn't seen some of these in many years; posters tend to get pretty beaten up on tours, or lost in the shuffle. But Mark O, bless him, had kept a few of them in one piece, and he signed 'em too. (So did I).

Dear Friends -

For the final week of the crowdfunding campaign for The New World, we've added a few more perks courtesy of our pal Mark Ohe, who sent us a care package of tour posters from our Matador and Sub Pop days.

Message Hidden Backward In Black Sabbath Album Wishes Everyone A Good Time Listening To Rock And Roll OMAHA, NE—Subliminally influencing those who have purchased the 1971 album to sit back and enjoy the music, a hidden message discovered Wednesday when local heavy metal fans played Black Sabbath’s Mas...

Message Hidden Backward In Black Sabbath Album Wishes Everyone A Good Time Listening To Rock And Roll

The most depressing AI pieces are always going to be the thoughtful, nuanced, open-minded considerations by respected writers who are transparently responding to the publicity incentive created by editors whose owners want this kind of content

"i asked grok" "i asked chatgpt" yeah well i asked carl sagan and he said the greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance but the illusion of knowledge 🧪

Today would be a great day to donate (set up a continuing donation?) to your local PBS or NPR station. If you want to donate to mine, it’s WNET, but the little stations will need you more.

I have no idea what this will mean for my work (at WNET) in the coming days. It’s truly frightening what is happening across the board.

WeTransfer TOS says they can use all your uploaded content for genAI

Bye forever, WeTransfer.

Currently in TX hill country, and this is happening back home. Apparently, floods are anywhere I am.

Public Broadcasters Brace for Vote on Sharp Funding Cut

This week will be pivotal for the future of PBS and NPR, as the Senate plans to vote on ~$1.1 billion in funding.

I spoke to station directors in South Dakota and Alaska about what this could mean:

www.nytimes.com/2025/07/14/b...

Suspicious number of aliases

Sometimes when I think about my school projects, I realize they were all a little too ambitious, too creative, and too weird for a kid growing up in the NJ suburbs. My teachers were probably all like - there’s that really quiet asian girl doing her thing again…

In 8th grade, I did a presentation about satanism in which I made the class go into the hall while I draped a “blood” splattered sheet over this, while it played a police video describing a satanic ritual. I surrounded the tv with a ring of candles, & turned off the lights, invited the class back in

Bc my bf moved to the Poconos, I spend about 1/3 of my time there (the rest in NYC), & it's grown on me, mostly bc of the ability to be in the woods (& not the Dollar Generals). If you mainly do antique shops, ice cream stands, & hikes... you almost feel what it must've been like in some better time

Please consider us gob-smacked, and deeply grateful.

Thanks for more-than-exceeding our first day expectations for our new album’s crowdfunding campaign! There are still many days to go and great perks, but we wanted to express our gratitude after a banner day.

www.indiegogo.com/projects/a-n...

Friends,

Four years ago, we launched a crowdfunding campaign for a new Shearwater album—and you helped us create, promote & distribute an LP we loved, without the support of a label.

We’re doing that again now, for our nearly-complete new album The New World.

www.indiegogo.com/projects/a-n...

Haha, That's JM's pitched prequil to my prequil. He would like a dinosaur-only movie with no humans in it that ends with a mosquito in amber.

Mine is like a space race / espionage film between two companies.

Why hasn’t anyone made a Jurassic Park prequel yet? I think there’s way more meat in that movie than in continuous sequels.