Jeffrey Zuckerman

If Not, Winter (Anne Carson’s translation of Sappho) & Enig Marcheur (Nicholas Richard’s translation of Riddley Walker)

Michael Burry Returns With Two Big Shorts: Palantir and Nvidia Signs of an AI bubble abound: Stock valuations have become uncomfortably rich, AI-related debt is ballooning, and a sustainable financial model for the technology has largely yet to emerge. Now Michae...

The guy who got famous betting against the housing market in 2007 just before that bubble burst - played by Christian Bale jn “The Big Short” - just wagered $1 billion on the collapse of the AI boom.

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Why You Should Write Every Day (Even if You’re Not a Writer) Writing Is Thinking With the Training Wheels Off

"Don't do it with publication in mind, don't do it for posterity, don't do it for the likes…Just write for the sake of it. Write to see what your own thoughts look like when you force them into sentences"

Joan Westenberg on how regular writing debugs cognition www.joanwestenberg.com/p/why-you-sh...

You want a special Halloween early-voting sticker, don’t you? Go vote Mamdani before the polls close at 4!!! 🎃

What heartbreaking news—the last time I saw you was at that dinner you joined us for! I was so looking forward to more conversations with him in his retirement... sending my sincere condolences and deepest sympathy, dear Shelley x

A way to have a good weekend is to go to a local bookstore this afternoons and buy something random and counterintuitive from the staff picks shelf, and spend the next two days reading it.

Residents climb up the wall with ladders during the annual replaster of the Djinguereber Mosque, also known as Djingareyber or Djingarey Ber, in Timbuktu on October 12, 2025. The 2025 replaster marks the 700th anniversary of the construction of this mosque, erected in the 14th century during the reign of Emperor Kankou Moussa. (Photo by Hameye Capii/AFP)

Building up: The annual replastering of the Djinguereber Mosque, also known as Djingareyber, in Timbuktu. It was erected in the 14th century during the reign of Mansa Kankou Moussa and is 700 years old.

Photo: Hameye Capii/AFP

🇦🇺Australian doctor Nada Abu Alrub volunteering in Gaza City writes:

“Today’s shift cannot be written down; not even in a hundred years could words capture how horrific it was; not even in the worst imagination of any human being. So, I’ll only write this: This Was The Worst Day Of The Genocide...

If being anti-fascist is "antiamerican" then supporting America is __________?

Such a weird feeling to know that On the Calculation of Volume 6 just came out in Danish a month ago—and NOT want to know anything about it

More than 50,000 Palestinians have been left homeless in less than a week due to “large-scale destruction” caused by Israeli attacks across Gaza City, according to Gaza’s Civil Defence.

🔴 LIVE updates: aje.io/eb39up

"Adèle Rosenfeld’s surreal exploration of deafness and intimacy arrives in English through Jeffrey Zuckerman’s luminous translation. As the protagonist slips further into hearing loss, the novel immerses us in a shifting sensory world, rendered with nuance and lyricism. Zuckerman masterfully preserves Rosenfeld’s balance of melancholy and absurdity, attuning English to the novel’s pulse of sonic absence. Jellyfish Have No Ears expands the vocabulary of loss—and listening—in a translation that feels both precise and otherworldly."

Aww, this makes my heart so full! JELLYFISH HAVE NO EARS has been longlisted for @littranslate.bsky.social's National Translation Award! literarytranslators.org/awards/2025-...

@jeremytiang.bsky.social: "It’s not an either/or. I commend you, Jacques, for paying your translators well, but you could do that and put our names on the front cover." —On Translation: Como Conversazione VI (Passing Judgment)

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"All of the translators in this conversation, for reasons of temperament and structure, seem to have a masochistic relationship to their work. But as in masochism, the pain is a kind of pleasure, too." —On Translation: Como Conversazione III (Shame, Seams, Scars)

Scientists found the missing nutrients bees need — Colonies grew 15-fold Scientists have developed a breakthrough food supplement that could help save honeybees from devastating declines. By engineering yeast to produce six essential sterols found in pollen, researchers pr...

This feels like a spot of good news

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I'm starting a movement. Every time you, or someone you know, gives AI agency, replace it with "Big Tech". See for example:

"Big Tech" is killing my job.
"Big Tech" is reading my CT scan.
"Big Tech" is writing my paper.
I asked "Big Tech" to be my girlfriend.

Maybe that will speed up regulation.

Just finished ANIMA FATUA by Ana Lidia Vega Serova, tr. @robmunb.bsky.social and pub. @amaurea-press.bsky.social 🕊️

I’ve never read a book like this: it traces the story of a young Cuban-Russian girl growing up in the USSR. Brutal, tender & utterly memorable. Wonderful translation, Robin!
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Do you think Medusa could stay underwater forever if she used her hair like little snake snorkels? My guess is that each hair snake would probably have its own little respiratory system and it wouldn’t be enough to oxygenate a full Medusa, but this is an important conversation to have

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CIA approved tactics for populations under hostile occupation

A fake Boston Globe front page for April 2017. Headlines include, “deportations to begin: President Trump calls for tripling of ice force, riots continue,” “US soldiers refuse orders to kill Isis families,” “ market sink as trade wars loom,” “ new libel law targets ‘absolute scum’ in press” “ Trump on Nobel Prize shortlist,”

In 2016, before Trump secured the GOP nomination, the Boston Globe made a fictional dystopian front page of what a nightmare world it would be if Trump won. And those just pretty much are our actual headlines now.

A friend recently said "I used ChatGPT to look up (I forget what exactly)." My look of disbelief followed by my "You did what?" completely caught them off guard. Like, people just think "well, it's there so that's what we're supposed to use."

Kat hit it here. The sycophantic sentience is the drug.

ALEX DE WAAL: So, let me say that I've been working on this field of famine, food crisis and humanitarian action for more than 40 years, and there is no case, over those four decades, of such minutely engineered, closely monitored, precisely designed mass starvation of a population as is happening in Gaza today.

Few if any experts know more about the deliberate use of starvation as a war crime than Alex de Waal. If he says it's happening, it's so.

il n'est d'idées que dans les choses

"There were empty pools, as old as time itself, where the memory of water still lingered." —Karim Kattan, EDEN AT DAWN

The first time Charlie Chaplin used his voice in a film, he wielded it to forcefully condemn the rising forces of fascism around the globe.

Will we listen to his words today?

Know Your Enemy: UNLOCKED: Why the New Deal Matters (w/ Eric Rauchway) on DeepCast Historian Eric Rauchway elucidates how the New Deal, driven by Roosevelt's anti-fascist impulse and vision for a rejuvenated democracy, fundamentally shaped American society while grappling with the compromises necessitated by its racial politics, ultimately establishing an enduring legacy that continues to inspire contemporary initiatives.

"You can see that Roosevelt's [New Deal works programs for discontented young men] are immediately defusing rightwing threats, *which is what Roosevelt means them to do.*"

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I went back to this 2021 podcast w/ @rauchway.bsky.social It's so relevant. 1/

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