Sarah Emily Duff

Wonderful!

Interesting!

I haven’t read that—I must!

It sounds really good—this review has persuaded me to read it!

Constantin Blendea
Electricitate, 1973

Working manuscript of Satie’s Waltz in C Major for piano solo (Tendrement), dated 1902.

Jonathan Coe · Don’t we all want to be happy? Satie against Solemnity Erik Satie is the progenitor of torch songs and lounge music, systems music and minimalism, even (with his later...

‘he told Debussy, à propos the first movement of La Mer, ‘De l’aube à midi sur la mer’, that he particularly liked the bit at a quarter to eleven.’

By @jonathancoe.bsky.social in the @lrb.co.uk

Patricia Lockwood · Diary: Back to the Rectory It was our first visit to Kansas City since before the election and the rectory seemed to have grown smaller, darker,...

‘The purpose of criticism: to read into people who have really existed, to raise the ceiling on your own intelligence. Are you doing it against something? And is it fair to say?’

@tricialockwood.bsky.social in the @lrb.co.uk

Leaked Logs Show ChatGPT Coaxing Users Into Psychosis About Antichrist, Aliens, and Other Bizarre Delusions Dozens of chatlots show that ChatGPT would validate a user's delusions while feeding new ones it had invented.

‘In a nearly five-hour exchange, ChatGPT helped a user invent a new physics called "The Orion Equation." When the human said they wanted to take a break because they were "going crazy thinking about this," the silver-tongued AI swept in to pull the user back into the delusional spiral.’

chatgpt has been a social experiment on behalf of the blueberry marketing board. we thank you all for your participation

addicted to saying “it’s not looking good for Madame Bovary” as i finish each chapter

RAINY DAY BATS In Japanese, #bat is 蝙蝠 komori; they are associated with happiness and good fortune. Here their wings are seen to resemble the folding and unfolding of an umbrella
Image: Yoshitoshi

i carry your heart with me(i carry it in my heart)i am never without it(anywhere i go you go,my dear;and whatever is done by only me is your doing,my darling) i fear no fate(for you are my fate,my sweet)i want no world(for beautiful you are my world,my true) and it’s you are whatever a moon has always meant and whatever a sun will always sing is you here is the deepest secret nobody knows (here is the root of the root and the bud of the bud and the sky of the sky of a tree called life;which grows higher than soul can hope or mind can hide) and this is the wonder that's keeping the stars apart i carry your heart(i carry it in my heart) - e.e. cummings blooming ruby red peony against a black background

Kamal Boullata, Mandala, (silkscreen), 1978.

Seattle's 'Hot Rat Summer' mosaic is now here to stay After locals watched the beloved mural get painted over multiple times by Seattle work crews, officials now say they will stop trying to cover up the mural.

‘The large unauthorized artwork looks like a stained glass window in a church showing a rat with a halo. At the bottom of the mural “Hot Rat Summer” is spelled out.

Walking by the art piece, Skully Mccommis said, “That’s the most beautiful mosaic I’ve ever seen in my life.”’

Book Tour: World Enough and Time Phil Christman reviews Putting Ourselves Back in the Equation by George Musser, Mathematica: A Secret World of Intuition and Curiosity by David Bessis, Fully Alive by Elizabeth Oldfield, and Making Ti...

‘“When there is loving attention to how the process of life unfolds, the human heart yearns to join in”’

From a review essay by @philipchristman.bsky.social in @plough.bsky.social

all the things that God would have us do are hard for us to do

[me, screaming at students filing out of the room after I've just revealed our "American Literature Survey" class meets on a doomed whaling vessel]

Watch as the AHA finds new, exciting—and seemingly weekly—ways to irritate the entire historical profession

What absolute nonsense—to be a fine public intellectual you have to be a first-rate researcher too. You are clearly both!

Black and white photograph of the poet and actress Iris tree looking really lovely a close up just to her head and shoulders

Iris Tree — Man Ray, 1923

One like, one Presses universitaires de France book cover from the 1990s

Portrait of a girl, possibly Catherine of Aragon (or Juana, her sister) at age 11. Painted by Juan de Flandes, a Flemish artist in Spain, in 1496. Today is his day.

Maine Solar System Model adds dwarf planets Haumea and Makemake For the first time since 2008, two new planets are being added to one of northern Maine's most famous, and scientifically accurate, roadside attractions - the Maine Solar System Model.

‘Dwarf planets Haumea and Makemake are the latest additions to the Maine Solar System Model, billed as the largest solar system model in the western hemisphere.

In mid-August, a pea-sized model of Haumea will be installed in the Aroostook County town of Lille, and one of Makemake in Madawaska.’

let’s have a crisis of femininity, as a treat

David Ligare - 1980. Penelope

Sikra-z (1966) gouache geometric painting, various shades of blue and green with black

Studio International Journal of Modern Art, May 1967

Cover: Victor Vasarely

A revelatory new view of Barbara Hepworth The Fondation Maeght’s stunning show brings the British sculptor into dialogue with European modernists

‘In all her carving, she believed “it was not dominance which one had to attain over material, but an understanding, almost a kind of persuasion”.’

Chocolate cartels: the rise of cocoa smuggling Surging global prices have fuelled an illicit bean trade ‘like cocaine in Colombia’

‘these smuggling routes were used to finance guns and rebels during past Ivorian civil wars. “They’ve just set it all back up again.”’

Inside the Private Equity Scam—and the Livelihoods It Has Destroyed Financiers have bamboozled the public for years about their expertise in “fixing” companies. Yet they often—and sometimes deliberately—run them into the ground.

‘Years later, I still acutely remember the shock of watching a few guys armed with little more than inspirational quotes turn a functional if imperfect company into a series of spammy content farms.’