Lane Becker

Never Again, Once Again | Peter E. Gordon A few years ago, in the early summer of 2019, the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum declared on its website that it “unequivocally rejects efforts

"By “unequivocally” rejecting all analogies, it [the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum] has erected a fence around the Holocaust that ensures that its moral lessons will be forgotten." www.nybooks.com/online/2026/...

production of The Muppet Show should not be dependent on petty vulgarities like “ratings” or “revenue.” it should be preserved as a vital function of american culture. it should have a taxpayer-funded budget rivaling the CIA

Holy hell, gang, I’m in the Epstein Files! (No, not like that.) www.justice.gov/epstein/file...

Best TikTok thing going is the two dudes trying food from every country without leaving NYC. If you haven’t seen them yet, it’s incredible. My favorite so far is last week’s. Legit got me emotional.

Watching Bari Weiss Murder Investigative Journalism at CBS Notes from someone who's withstood White House demands to stop an explosive story—and who once even had a 60 Minutes piece spiked

“It is to hollow out journalism of anything that threatens those reactionary elite sensibilities and replace it with a simulacrum of journalism appeasing those sensibilities, and claim to have saved the profession.” www.forever-wars.com/watching-bar...

This is as Texas as it gets.

You thought you could solve it in one day, but then it miraculously took you eight days instead?

O, horrible, O, horrible, most horrible!

the US is abandoning green energy at precisely the moment it is becoming not just a climate neccesity but also like a strategically important industry

Is language the same as intelligence? The AI industry desperately needs it to be The AI boom is based on a fundamental mistake.

“We use language to think, but that does not make language the same as thought. Understanding this distinction is the key to separating scientific fact from the speculative science fiction of AI-exuberant CEOs.” www.theverge.com/ai-artificia...

Lower Than Cowards The surrender of America’s elites

Actually, rereading this @adamserwer.bsky.social piece, maybe we should call it “No Chickens.” www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

Need to follow-up the “No Kings” protest with one called “No Cowards.”

I love all of this.

Voted against most of them, knew this would happen, still completely sucks.

This is, per usual, note-perfect.

Platform Temperance Notes on a new wave of the Techlash

“One way of thinking about the past half-decade or so of life on the internet is that we’ve all become test subjects in a grand experiment to see just how bad ‘good enough’ can be.”

Yeah! Agreed. Much appreciated @alexfalcone.bsky.social. The Wikipedians will be delighted to hang with you.

Hi, It’s Me, Wikipedia, and I Am Ready for Your Apology “Wikipedia, the constantly changing knowledge base created by a global free-for-all of anonymous users, now stands as the leading force for the dum...

"And through it all, my army of well-intentioned dorks keeps documenting every bit." www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/hi-...

ordinary americans are filming ice agents and trying to save their neighbors. for all the hemming and hawing during 2024 about how democracy was an elite concern, the elites gave up far more quickly than average people.

So much love for the matcha and sakura sake flavors.

thread, h/t @yvonnezlam.bsky.social (think about this in concert with how much we value "focus" these days)

How to Make Strudel Like Magda Goebbels “My grandfather used to say ‘and Magda Goebbels made a great strudel’ and I never knew what it meant until after he died my grandmother explained s...

“Use strong white flour for a superior product. Form the dough. Knead until it’s as elastic as the truth.” www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/how...

U2.5

Hard agree!

there’s no such thing as hypocrisy when you’re worldview is that you can just do whatever you want. * * * enjoy my rant. views are my own TikTok video by Abbie Richards

“Fascism is a temper tantrum disguised as an ideology.” www.tiktok.com/t/ZP8SHcorw/

A Beautiful Day for Saying Nothing That chill in the air isn’t Jimmy Kimmel’s show being suspended. It’s just autumn!

“You can tell the country is free because everywhere you look, there is less and less evidence that slavery ever happened.” www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/...

Wikipedia is under attack — and how it can survive The site’s volunteers face threats from Trump, billionaires, and AI.

”Wikipedia is one of the few platforms online where tremendous computing power isn’t being deployed in the service of telling you exactly what you want to hear.” www.theverge.com/cs/features/...

Holy hell. There’s bad, incredibly bad, unbelievably bad, and then, much, much worse than all of those, is this.

Whaaaat? We must agree to disagree. You don’t find the slow mystery of it all entirely gripping? I love the way Clarke totally marinates all her characters in the environment. And the metaphor! All the metaphor!

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