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Lemons, oranges, & pomegranates in a wan-li bowl, 1630. Beautiful bounty from Jacob van Hulsdonck of Antwerp, whose day is today.

and you can add as many links as you want with deck.blue by using the [text](link) syntax without wasting your 300 characters!

This quote got me:

“And, more generally, how can we measure our unsettling internal realities if we can’t even name them?”

Such a great essay on the power of naming invisible lived experiences in chronic illness!

An Egyptian dude figured out that if you partially filled a plastic bottle with rice and other grains and threw it into the ocean from Egypt at the correct place given currents the bottles would wash ashore in Gaza within 96 hours so ordinary Egyptians are doing it and... it's worked?

We nEeD vieWPoiNt DivErsITy

Worth a watch:

Head of Signal, Meredith Whittaker, on so-called "agentic AI" and the difference between how it's described in the marketing and what access and control it would actually require to work as advertised.

RFK Jr wants everyone to start using wearables to make us healthy again

The man who wants to create lists of autistic people. Lists of those likely to access abortion. Lists of trans people

If ever there was a time to go analog, this is it

They want your data. And it’s not to make you healthier

Blue banner at the top with a feint public health shield and a blue outline around the edges of the graphic. Text reads, “June 13, 2025, A person with measles visited Boston. Here’s what you need to know. The person with measles visited Boston from June 7 - 8. Unvaccinated individuals who have been exposed should contact their healthcare provider immediately. Unvaccinated exposed individuals need to avoid public places (school, work, public transit, stores, etc.) and monitor for symptoms for 21 days (through June 29, 2025). Measles vaccination is 93%-97% effective in preventing measles and protecting against severe disease. Vaccinated individuals are at low risk for contracting measles. Learn about measles prevention, symptoms, and frequently asked questions at boston.gov/measles” The Boston Public Health Commission logo is at the bottom.

Blue banner at the top with a feint public health shield and a blue outline around the edges of the graphic. Text reads, “June 13, 2025, A person with measles visited Boston. Here’s what you need to know. The person visited several places in Boston while infectious. Any individuals who spent time in the following locations at the specific dates and times may have been exposed to measles: Westin Boston Seaport District Hotel (including restaurants in the hotel) between 5:30 p.m. on Saturday, June 7 and 1:30 p.m. on Sunday, June 8; The Museum of Fine Arts Boston between 1 p.m. and 6:30 p.m. on Sunday, June 8; Logan Airport Terminal C between 5 p.m. and 11:15 p.m. on Sunday, June 8; On June 8, the person then flew on JetBlue flight 639 to Miami on a flight that departed at 9:12 p.m. Learn about measles prevention, symptoms, and frequently asked questions at boston.gov/measles” The Boston Public Health Commission logo is at the bottom.

A person with measles visited Boston. We're working with local partners to notify those who may have been exposed to measles. Unvaccinated individuals who have been exposed should contact their healthcare provider immediately.

Learn more at boston.gov/measles.

You have to understand how egregious this is. Professors who go up for tenure and don’t get tenure are fired. But in addition, the boards job has always been to rubber stamp the decisions made by people who are actually qualified. What does a banking exec know about your portfolio that profs don’t?

For a board of trustees to shut down their approval of promotion and tenure decisions is beyond the pale, and should be questioned and contested through every means available. Shutting down process precedes shutting down...other things.

It's a job loss penalty, if you lose your job, you lose your food assistance. Calling it a work requirement helps MAGA destroy SNAP.

Koyo Kouoh, Curator Tapped for 61st Venice Biennale, Dies at 57 The museum director would have been the first African woman to oversee the Biennale.

Curator Koyo Kouoh, who was selected to lead the 2026 Venice Biennale, died suddenly at the age of 57 on Saturday, May 10. She would have been the first African woman to oversee the international exhibition.

It’s not often a thread will make you see things differently, but this is one such thread. I learned some things. It’s long, and I’ll probably even reread it.

eight years ago today we all watched the glory of zendaya falling madly in love with tom holland and the internet was never the same

At risk of taking this lovely conversation farther than people are ready for…

One of the real difficulties with addressing trauma from societal abandonment during the pandemic is that many people coped with their own abandonment by abandoning others.

okay

this is an emergency assistance thread for anyone who got this National Endowment for the Arts email today

some of you can still get your money and I’m going to tell you how

article to come later this weekend but here is the Cliffs Notes version:

Bookshop: Buy books online. Support local bookstores. An online bookstore that financially supports local independent bookstores and gives back to the book community.

PLEASE don’t buy into Amazon’s booksale this week.

They are intentionally trying to eat into profits from Indie Bookstore Day this weekend, a really important annual event for our important community institutions.

Check out your local fave or bookshop.org.

What is Long COVID? A Beginner's Guide

Worked hard on this, and I hope it will be a useful resource for many.

A beginner’s guide to Long COVID, with a discussion of mechanisms:

www.thegauntlet.news/p/what-is-lo...

Hand holding a blue booklet outside a store front. The booklet is labeled "passport" and the logo Independent Bookstore Day is at the center. The top reads "Metro Boston Indie Bookstore Crawl." A sign for the MIT Press Bookstore is visible in the background.

The MIT Press Bookstore is participating in the inaugural Metro Boston Indie Bookstore Crawl! Get to as many stores as possible by April 26th to be entered to win a gift basket with something from each store. Details including participating bookstores & potential prizes here: bit.ly/42oMpaA

It should not be snowing on April 12.

Those trying to understand the tariffs as economic policy are dangerously naive.

No, the tariffs are a tool to collapse our democracy. A means to compel loyalty from every business that will need to petition Trump for relief.

1/ A 🧵 to explain his plan and how we fight back.

Adobe's HR chief tells staff: We're done with DEI hiring goals Adobe shifts away from DEI hiring targets, joining Google and Meta in scaling back diversity efforts.

Adobe's HR chief tells staff: We're done with DEI hiring goals

Art St. Louis abruptly shutters and fires its staff, citing unexpected financial burdens The nonprofit’s board told artists it would cease operations and furlough staff while considering a possible — but uncertain — restructuring process.

Art St. Louis abruptly shutters and fires its staff, citing unexpected financial burdens

Nona Faustine, Photographer Who Pictured Enslavement’s Unseen Histories and Black Women’s Perseverance, Dies at 48 Nona Faustine, whose provocative self-portraits exposed the 'true lives of Black women,' has died at 48.

This is sad news. Just saw her show at the Brooklyn Museum last year: www.artnews.com/art-news/new...

Purchase

László Moholy-Nagy, Double Loop, 1946
https://botfrens.com/collections/14377/contents/1136334

Denying the Seriousness of Long COVID Is Dangerous for Me – and You What is Long COVID? Are there treatments? A guide to the illness that affects millions, but is hardly talked about.

It’s Long COVID Awareness Day, and I want to thank @zeteo.com for inviting me to write about it!

Politicians & media can’t keep pushing endless COVID reinfections as an acceptable condition of our “new normal”- while failing to communicate the risks.

zeteo.com/p/denying-th...

We can upload 3 minute videos now.

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