Peter C. Baker

Fine and good, but dwarfed by the problem of people (*not* clinicians) simply going straight to AI with therapeutic/clinical questions.

this is good but missing a big node... many ofyou know him as "Dubya," but his full name was "George W. Bush"

Patient, sobbing: But Doctor, I AM Pagliacci!
ChatGPT: Apologies. I didn't realise when recommending Pagliacci's epic show to cure your depression that you were the genius himself. I'm impressed! With regards to your initial question, I can recommend seeing the Great Clown Pagliacci.

wow, vanity fair wrote something about me, very honored.

Evanston tenants form union to fight private equity landlord - Evanston RoundTable Tenants in Evanston form a union to fight for better lease terms and address maintenance issues in apartments owned by North Park Ventures.

New from me today: tenants in three vintage apt bldgs in SE Evanston have formed a tenants union to negotiate with their private equity landlord, who they say has jacked up the rent/fees while letting the buildings deteriorate: evanstonroundtable.com/2025/07/30/q...

wow. just wow. truly her best yet.

I have a verrrry soft spot for "Burndt Jamb," it's true

cc @whetmoser.com , cc @lukeoneil47.bsky.social , cc any other =w= freaks in the building

Release the Weezer Files! The first band I fell in love with. The first band I fell out of love with. The first installment of a new series.

Starting a series at TRACKS ON TRACKS on my longtime obsession with the triumphs and failures of WEEZER. “You will see the 1990s become the 2000s. You will see the relationship between music and the Internet change. You will see me backstage, playing ping pong with Rivers Cuomo.”

Chart showing risk of being murdered in the subway if you rode 500 times last year (0.4 in 100,000) versus other risks such as that of dying in a traffic accident in the US last year (12.1 in 100,000)

The subway risk chart you've been waiting for (Sawyer County, Wisconsin, is where Sean Duffy is from). Gift link: www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...

I am on the brink of opposing the very term 'The Epstein Files.' It makes it sound like there's a box somewhere and they're all in it. Or a big filing cabinet. Or thumb drive or whatever. And in some way this is peak aesthetic liberalism. Similar slip to 'the Epstein client list' actually.

'all liberals should read Marx and take it seriously, all socialists should learn how to lib out hardcore, great things will happen.'

-Art of War, Peter C Baker Version

Must Repression Always Fail? In art? In life?

I blogged a bit about repression in narrative art, with assists from Coetzee, Lonergan, Haushofer, and, uh, my own fiction.

open.substack.com/pub/petercba...

Best and smartest thing you've read about Epstein? I mean the case itself and also the broader psycho-cultural phenomenon?

my 'boys' and in some cases 'gals'

a sitting congressman is singing 'Release the Epstein files' to the tune of Jason Isabell's 'Dreamsicle'

can't wait to find out if I got a NEA fellowship for writers of prose. I don't read the news.

when you become ambassador to Japan and leave Chicago and get to Japan and see a train arrive on schedule for the first time in your life

An open letter from educators who refuse the call to adopt GenAI in education

A strong statement of resistance to the relentless marketing of "AI" in education spaces. I encourage all educators to have a look and consider signing on:

openletter.earth/an-open-lett...

perfect analogy but not for the reason she thinks

The most 'hysterical' early 2000s liberal/left predictions about the Department of Homeland Security (which houses ICE) have all come true, or really been significantly surpassed.

salami rolled up with cream cheese inside is mid

My friend who runs a restaurant in Austin sent me this video of the ads that are playing on Pandora Spanish radio stations. Every commercial kitchen in America is hearing this.

Straight out of a dystopian horror film.

In The Paper of Record, Horseshit

disabled, hungry children will just need to set up fake companies to acquire fraudulent ICE contracts — problem solved

NYC Mayoral Candidate Was "No Angel"

I see the hulu italian beef show is back

brie omurice