Bud Parr

YouTube video by Amanpour and Company The “Ensh*ttification” of the Internet and How to Fix It | Amanpour and Company

Worth your time, even though the "how to fix it" part seems quite distant!

I call it the beginning of Bourbon season

Wow, some great #photography exhibits at ICP this fall, following up on the amazing Burtynsky exhibit.

www.icp.org/exhibitions

Photographer Graciela Iturbide: ‘Working with my heart is the only rule – nothing else’ The revered 83-year-old Mexican photographer talks about her groundbreaking career as she received her first ever retrospective in New York

“I never prepare my self-portraits; it’s something that happens in the moment, usually when I’m in a bit of a crisis” Graciela Iturbide. www.theguardian.com/artanddesign...

Have tickets for Sunday, with the director present!

You need to see this:

“The show of force is the point. They want these images to be out…The Department of Homeland Security is walking around Chicago with a film crew.” @jacobsoboroff.bsky.social

Read his books! www.ndbooks.com/author/laszl...

I think out of the ashes of this horrific period we will see arise some true leaders and she may very well be one of them.

Why do headlines say "norms shattered" when what is meant is "laws broken" or "Constitution violated"?

I saw this exhibition and it is profound. If possible, see it in person so you can take in the scale of these images

Unnoticed…

A federal judge blocked the hasty deportation of hundreds of Guatemalan children, saying the Trump admin had misleadingly presented its actions as a ‘reunification’ effort. Judge Kelly, a Trump appointee, said the govt relied on false pretexts that “crumbled like a house of cards“

The Classroom and the Crowd | Columbia University Press For more than a decade, Al Filreis has taught a free online course about experimental poetry, known as “ModPo,” that has drawn some 435,000 students from... | CUP

The Classroom and the Crowd is about the wonderful community Al Filreis has created for anyone to study poetry along with others and led by a smart group of students. It's a great experience and I'm looking forward to the book of Al's reflections.

cup.columbia.edu/book/the-cla...

"How Are the Very Rich Feeling About New York’s Next Mayor?"

A Dramatic Reading of The Recent New York Times Dispatch from the Hamptons.

Presented by The Gilded Age's Morgan Spector.

YouTube video by WIRED How ICE Spies On American Citizens | Incognito Mode | WIRED

You are being monitored. Yes, you…

On social media monitoring on all of us:

Just a lunch place, but surprisingly wonderful middle eastern place called Roum Cafe: www.instagram.com/roumcafe/

this bakery!: levainetlevin.com

For Indonesian, there's Warnu Baru (same block as Levain...), but they might be closing. It's a simple neighborhood restaurant, but I really like it.

Though, these AI waters have unpredictable undercurrents!

I just deleted my Perplexity account:

Ghost 6.0 Networked publishing, native analytics, and $100M earned by indie publishers

@ghost.org publications are now connected with an open network. People can discover, follow, like and reply to your posts across Bluesky, Flipboard, Threads, Mastodon, WordPress, Ghost, and any other social web platform. Distribution is now built-in.

Introducing Noema VI: Paradigm Shifts | NOEMA Profound transformations occurring simultaneously mark our new Age of Upheaval.

Latest issue of @noemamag.com:

“As politicized cultural battles and the churning geopolitical economy further unfold, a paradigm shift of a significance similar to planetary awareness is taking place that will redefine what it means to be human.”

(Actually, hard to find a quote that captures it)

@ghost.org is an excellent alternative!

Remember, I pointed out two years ago that Substack made a specific, deliberate choice to say "we welcome Nazis."

www.techdirt.com/2023/12/26/s...

Me too, but I'm haunted by the fact that Gary Winogrand left behind 2,500 rolls of undeveloped film.

Perplexity Discover Stay informed on the biggest stories happening around the world across tech, finance, sports, entertainment and more with Perplexity Discover.

I increasingly get my news from AI aggregators rather than socials or directly from sources. I value their topic-based approach where you see many sources on the same headline.

www.perplexity.ai/discover
(Perplexity also is coming out with a new browser)

www.newsminimalist.com

Nick Cave - The Red Hand Files - Issue #332- Is changing your mind about things a sign of weakness? Sometimes, it feels that way. The reason I have such regard for the song ‘Tupelo’, and why we've performed it at nearly every Bad Seeds concert since it was first writt...

Open letter to Nick Cave: Nope. This AI is still in the uncanny valley, lacks cohesion and gives me the sense of a shallow tribute to your great song.

So 70 million people in this country are okay with this? This is what they voted for? Watch the video. It’s sickening.

A wall containing thousands of books

I love the wall of books at Brooklyn’s Center for Fiction

Francis Ford Coppola Teases a ‘Megalopolis’ Recut to Make the Film ‘More Weird’: I ‘Can Do Anything I Want’ Francis Ford Coppola teased a 'Megalopolis' recut to make the film 'more weird.'

This film should not exist, in my opinion.

Seemed an abrupt ending and felt to me that vol2 should have been together.

www.tiktok.com/t/ZT62MfFgR/

It’s worthwhile to read through the poll, and read it upside down (i.e. think about the numbers of people who approve or DON’T think there’s a threat, esp Reps). Every finding is outrageous!

maristpoll.marist.edu/polls/u-s-at...

How to Reclaim Social Media from Big Tech “Middleware” is an idea whose time has come.

How to Reclaim Social Media from Big Tech
www.persuasion.community/p/how-to-rec...