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YouTube video by Royal Academy of Music Gavin Bryars interviewed by Paul Morley: ‘The Sinking of the Titanic’

No matter how old I am. No matter how bleak the future seems.

I will never stop experiencing wonder at the fact that I can think about an artist I admire, type their name into a box, and moments later watch them talk in depth about their process.

Truly miraculous stuff.

White Text on a red background reads: "Since its founding in 1988, The Baffler has articulated an unapologetically pro-worker and pro-union politics in the reportage and criticism it has published. In seeking to reflect those values throughout the organization, we are proud to announce that we have formed a union as part of the Workers United New York New Jersey Regional Joint Board."

We, the staff of @thebaffler.com, are proud to announce that we have formed a union with @workersunitednynj.bsky.social. Read more about why we have formed a union here:

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And @tastinghistory.bsky.social is the perfect example of taking this to its absolute limits.

This information has rocked my world.

So when I was a kid and we went "gimme five, up high, down low, too slow," the high five part was not even a decade old?

My man Herman clocked the true spirit of America 150 years before peak post-modernism.

But also:

So yeah, if we insist on anthropomorphizing, let’s at least do it properly.

He’s charming and he’s prolific but a hack who cares more about being invited to the party than doing the work properly.

If any modern scholar had the track record of ChatGPT they would be an academic pariah.

How many professor do you know who’ve been caught multiple times fabricating sources and plagiarizing their peers and are still consulted for their opinion?

placing.technology/notes-on-geo... blogged through my dissertation ambivalence some notes on types of labor involved in geospatial software

A picture of a stack of books wrapped in brown paper and wrapped with multicolored twine and a bookmark. Stamped onto the paper is the name of the bookstore “Pilsen Community Books” and the phrase “A better world is possible”. The text frames an illustration of a rose.

I recently learned that some independent bookshops ship to any U.S. address — including diplomatic pouch addresses.

This is very dangerous knowledge.

Anyway much love to the people at @pilsencommbooks.bsky.social for beautifully gift wrapping the order!

A soulless cartoon of a family generated by a machine. Below the pseudo-idyllic scene the non-sensical phrase "EXHAIITH THE FULEAPS" is written as if it's supposed to mean something.

Been down a mildly obsessive rabbit hole lately around faith-based apps that rely heavily on "GenAI" to "strengthen your relationship with God" and just gotta say... this stuff sucks.

Were I in a eschatological mood, I might think "Exhaiith the fuleaps" was a phrase meant to summon the end times.

Libraries Pay More for E-Books. Some States Want to Change That.

Public library ebook access can be as much as 10 times more expensive than print books. 🧐

Hey thanks, Bert!

An update: management has chosen not to recognize our Product, Engineering, and Humble Bundle colleagues as part of IGNCG, instead insisting on a time-consuming NLRB hearing, which took place last week.

Help us spread the word: we will not be divided. We are IGN, and we will always stand together.

3D Country, by Geese 11 track album

Officially boarded the Geese train and not planning to disembark anytime soon.

geesebandnyc.bandcamp.com/album/3d-cou...

it has taken me far too many years on god’s green earth to realize that “deli” is a clipped word for “delicatessen”

I haven’t been this excited for a middling book cover design since Bleeding Edge.

AI Can’t Gaslight Me if I Write by Hand - Electric Literature There are all kinds of slow movements, slow food, slow families. Perhaps it’s time for slow writing

Something zeitgeist-y going on here. This lovely essay from @debwerrlein.bsky.social just hit my inbox: electricliterature.com/ai-cant-gasl...

Pencil Me In On first drafts and psychological quirks

Broke my own rule (a little bit) and wrote about writing.

cyberb.space/notes/2025/p...

Alternatively, I will accept the proposition that they are tapping the shoulder of the wrong data in a group because from the back it looked like their girlfriend.

LLM outputs are based on proximity within multidimensional space.

It follows that models don’t experience hallucinations, they take wrong turns and end up in unfamiliar neighborhoods.

Please update your metaphors accordingly.

Not surprised to learn that the world wasn’t ready for my Habermas-inspired graphic novel pitch.

✅ Yes, Snopes is unionizing. Fact-checkers deserve transparency too!

Back from Yet Another Globetrotting Adventure, Indiana Jones Checks His Mail and Discovers That His Bid for Tenure Has Been Denied January 22, 1939 Assistant Professor Henry “Indiana” Jones Jr. Department of Anthropology Chapman Hall 227B Marshall College Dr. Jones: As chairman...

It's Harrison Ford's birthday today, thus we are contractually obligated to point you to this ridiculous classic from our archives.

I also say this fully aware that my first bit of paid writing was via a substack and made possible because of lovely people who worked or continue to work at that company.

I can recognize the benefits and still pine for a better world.

seriously, cf. Blogger, Medium, &c. &c.

I just really want literary people to build and host their own writing so that it won’t inevitably be bent to serve the purpose of achieving a return on VC investments.

Is that too much to ask?

I know that this is a niche opinion since I’ve worked as a software engineer and maybe understand web technology a bit better than most BUT it’s so sad to see the literary community embrace another privately owned platform again (substack) after watching the boom bust cycle play out over & over

BOMB Magazine | Crack Open a Cold One For this new series, BOMB asked artists and writers to list ten pieces of advice that reflect on how they approach their practice and process.

Great stuff here.

bombmagazine.org/articles/202...

We’re all familiar with Superman, but few are ready to accept the existence of Supraman who exercises power on behalf of a global constellation of sovereign nations in order to maintain the global order.

In the future this will be studied as a time capsule of 21st c. English.