Anna M. Klobucka

Thank you for asking 🙏🏼

Precisely: 1986.

I emigrated long before Witcher, but I’d also never heard the circus/monkeys saying while living in Poland 🤷🏻‍♀️

I hate it that my first association was Cory Lewandowski instead of Robert.

The fact they jumped straight to AI actors modeled after women when, if I’m not mistaken, male actors are a higher labor cost kind of says it all doesn’t it,

Jabba the Rat, wow

Opinion | Civility Is a Fantasy

I wrote about the dangerous fantasy of the civility framework in political discourse. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/24/o...

I can also imagine 7) Use to further blackmail universities (major H1B visa hubs) into submission.

That's my question exactly! There's no language exempting universities in the proclamation itself afaik...

Thinking of all the college faculty on H1Bs who may be flying back home from a conference this Sunday. I was one myself for 4-5 years in the 1990s, and my visa status felt extra safe and unproblematic then.

hear, hear

Yup, did this today (in RI), no issues whatsoever.

Same here, except later in the day.

Motto

In the dark times, will there also be singing?
Yes, there will be singing.
About the dark times.

Bertolt Brecht

A Majestic Knight Rides Past - Words Without Borders Cape Verdean writer Joaquim Arena paints a picture of the life of Afro-Portuguese nobleman João de Sá Panasco in this excerpt from his memoir-history hybrid Under Our Skin, out now from Unnamed Press.

There's a wonderful essay inspired by this image, by the Cape Verdean writer Joaquim Arena: wordswithoutborders.org/read/article...

Tailor-made for manufactured outrage: How dare you pollute children’s literature with GENDER?!

Painting by Gustave Caillebotte, with a woman reading a newspaper in the foreground and a man reclining on the sofa with a book in the background.

The exhibition was amazing! Here’s one of my favorites.

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EVERYONE SHOULD READ THIS infuriating, deplorable account of what one trans woman in the U.K. has gone through as a result of the country's shifting laws (particularly as they have moved toward explicit hatred this year).

Just read it. My God.

Just a heads up. I was able to schedule my COVID vaccine appointment. Online it will ask “do you have a condition that puts you at high risk for severe outcomes from COVID-19 virus.”

Click yes and it will allow you to schedule an appointment.

No questions asked.

No proof required.

Pass it on.

thank you for sharing 🙏🏼

In the same category, “Cheeto Benito” tops them all imho (rhyme is so important).

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My name is Graham Platner and I’m running for US Senate to defeat Susan Collins and topple the oligarchy that’s destroying our country.

I’m a veteran, oysterman, and working class Mainer who’s seen this state become unlivable for working people. And that makes me deeply angry.

Photo of armed customs and border patrol agents and cars on the plaza in front of the Japanese American National Museum in Little Tokyo.

We are outraged and deeply distressed that armed federal agents came onto our campus—making arrests on the very ground where, in 1942, Japanese American families were forced to board buses bound for concentration camps. It was a deliberate act of provocation and intimidation.

That was my experience, too! Too minor/peripheral for every university press at the time except Bucknell. A huge loss.

Mine were two academic edited volumes, a textbook, and a whole bunch of articles. Infuriating.

Search LibGen, the Pirated-Books Database That Meta Used to Train AI Millions of books and scientific papers are captured in the collection’s current iteration.

Here's a gift link for anyone unable to access the Atlantic article: www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...

Search LibGen, the Pirated-Books Database That Meta Used to Train AI Millions of books and scientific papers are captured in the collection’s current iteration.

"If your books were uploaded to LibGen/fed into the LLMs, add your name to the potential class action lawsuit by tomorrow." Details:

LibDem database: www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...

Attorney form: www.lieffcabraser.com/anthropic-au...

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Aug. 14, 1925: Splashing, playing and painting on the beach at Deauville, France.