Janis Robinson makes the case for old vine Zinfandel, as if the case needed to be made. www.ft.com/content/4dab...
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Why I’m not watching the State of the Union – and you shouldn’t either | Robert Reich
Seems accurate.
DH is dead. Long live AI?
Is gravity next?
The point of the AI project is to provoke despair in creative people. They haven’t produced profits or anything anyone wants, just a steady stream of articles about how us artistic types can’t do the thing we’re already doing, making art. Jokes on them, we’re even better at despair than they are.
Modern factories: are those from 1700s, the 1800s, or the 1900s?
Let’s see this all over Maine.
My top ten Westerns (in no particular order)
Rio Bravo
McCabe and Mrs Miller
The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
Shane
Little Big Man
Red River
The Searchers
Lone Star
High Noon
Here’s looking at you, Pittsburgh.
CNN is Fox News light.
Anyway congrats to our Free Speech Champions(tm) who helped usher in the most censorious American government since the Palmer Raids
The World of Leonard Cohen at the CUP Bookstore in Cambridge.
From climate change, to Chinese politics, to Leonard Cohen, we've got a very wide range of new titles this week! 🙌
📖 'Still No Miracles Needed' by @mzjacobson.bsky.social
📖 'The Communist Party of China' by Ben Hillman and Fengyuan Ji
📖 'The World of Leonard Cohen' by @nearleft.bsky.social
Who could have guessed?
Yes.
CBS
Also, may I say that I don’t agree with people saying ICE and CBP need “more training.” They’re doing exactly what this administration has trained them to—impose a reign of fear in blue cities. They don’t need more training. They need to be ripped up root and branch.
Trump’s “Board of Peace” is a Board of Dictators — ICE terror at home, cash for autocrats abroad, and Trump deciding who’s protected. That’s not peace. It’s a protection racket.
READ & SHARE NEW SUBSTACK🙏⬇️
Vote them all out.
This is the most astonishing graph of what the Trump regime has done to US science. They have destroyed the federal science workforce across the board. The negative impacts on Americans will be felt for generations, and the US might never be the same again.
www.nature.com/immersive/d4...
Hey beautiful losers, this week the books series has ed David Shumway @nearleft.bsky.social talking new collection THE WORLD OF LEONARD COHEN w/ contribs @touchofallright.bsky.social, @eweisbard.bsky.social & Sarah Hill. Wed 5:30 pm ET, achieve satori here: iaspm-us.wildapricot.org/Popular-Musi...
In the past year especially. Garbage in, garbage out.
It is hard for me not to regard the failure to recognize that the AI boom is inextricable from totalitarian creep as willful ignorance, as either the delusions of those who believe they are immune or an endorsement that doesn’t require a vulgar red cap.
But AI boosterism is Trumpism now. Full stop.
If you are a wealthy landlord.
This was published in the dead week between Christmas and New Year’s. If you work in education & were, reasonably, taking a break, maybe you missed it.
Don’t miss it.
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Apparently taking lessons from the NY Times.
