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Presale: ICE Surveillance Zine **THIS ITEM WILL SHIP IN MID JANUARY** We are making a print zine about the surveillance tactics used by ICE, and the ways people are resisting this technology. It is 16 pages and printed on a risogra...

404 Media zine has apparently outsold American Canto. Help continue that trend here:

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Whoever designed the Barbican Complex:

I didn’t mind her Elsa, but it wasn’t her best role. Loved her Brünnhilde, and her Forza Leonora years ago!

She was a brilliant Kaiserin once upon a time!

The Epstein files really are a goldmine if you're a hater

Noams and un-Noams

YouTube video by MARILYN MAZUR'S MUSIC MARILYN MAZUR WITH SPIRIT CAVE

RIP Marilyn Mazur, the great Danish percussionist, composer, and bandleader, whose family announced her death at 70. She's most famous for touring with Miles Davis (1985-88) and Jan Garbarek (1991-2004); her own projects included this killer band with Nils Petter Molvaer, Eivind Aarset & Jan Bang.

Frau ohne Schatten is pretty high up there! Also Lulu, Onegin, Alcina, Carmelites…

omg yes

The Time The FBI Tried To Get Meir Kahane's Jewish Fascists To Murder Black Panthers Picture it: New York City, 1969. COINTELPRO is in full swing. And the special agent in charge of the New York field office has an idea

This weekend @attackerman.bsky.social has a great, strange one for you: A letter written by the FBI in 1964 as part of COINTELPRO's efforts to provoke the murders of Black Panthers. It begins, "Dear Mr. Kahane,"

Donut wall shaped like a whale

At a party with a Moby Donut 🍩 🐋 and this is true literary goals of it weren’t to celebrate a new stout.

“cringe is in!” vogue

You’re Thinking About AI and Water All Wrong Fears about AI data centers’ water use have exploded. Experts say the reality is far more complicated than people think.

new from me: are data centers going to wipe out water supplies? how much water does ChatGPT really use? and what's going on with that big correction in Empire of AI?

i went long on the conversation around AI and water, and how it's actually about what we want resources to be used for:

Irán detiene de nuevo a la Nobel de la Paz Narges Mohammadi La activista por los derechos humanos y de las mujeres, galardonada en 2023, se encontraba en libertad condicional

🔴 ÚLTIMA HORA | Detenida “de forma violenta” en Irán la activista y Nobel de la Paz Narges Mohammadi, que se encontraba en libertad condicional

Canada’s research and scientific spending is declining relative to other nations, report says Low rate of R&D investment plays key role in productivity crisis, according to Council of Canadian Academies

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omg

The 1200 people who bought this all write columns about the dangers of living in a bubble

Ariodante review — it’s astonishing how the singers pull this off The Royal Opera House’s cast revels in a Handel melodrama — though someone should have taken the conductor’s violin away

"Though Emily D’Angelo’s hard-edged timbre is an acquired taste, the intensity of her projection and the thrilling command of her coloratura make her portrayal of Ariodante riveting — a self-centred prince easily riled into jealousy." www.thetimes.com/article/d5b0...

"I think good writing—clear thinking—matters. Not much, but a little! This is a minority position, I am learning." Chris Hooks on Olivia Nuzzi, Joan Didion, and the self-delusions of our current moment newrepublic.com/article/2041...

American Science, Shattered An eight-decade partnership between universities and the federal government made U.S. science preeminent. It took Trump less than a year to shred that

This 10-part series from STAT focuses on the far-reaching effects of cuts to biomedical #research & #publichealth is incredible work so far. I don't know how our country comes back from this... I think about that all the time these days. 🧪
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One of the best things I've read about the AI bubble and how we should think about it from Cory Doctorow

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Ysenda Maxtone Graham · Busiest Thoroughfare of the Metropolis of the World: The Strand After reading​ Geoff Browell and Eileen Chanin’s concise history of the Strand, you will never walk down that street...

‘You will never walk down the Strand again without thinking of the hippopotami that wallowed in a primeval swamp at the Trafalgar Square end.’

Ysenda Maxtone Graham on a biography of the London street.

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Rise of anti-science rhetoric has fundamentally changed the relationship between doctors and patients “The rise of anti-science and anti-vaccine rhetoric has fundamentally changed the relationship between clinicians and patients.”

Rise of anti-science rhetoric has fundamentally changed the relationship between doctors and patients
And it’s getting worse. From @krutikakuppalli.bsky.social www.statnews.com/2025/12/10/a...

YouTube video by Bold Politics with Zack Polanski How Rising Inequality Impacted The Trans Experience | Shon Faye | Zack Polanski

In conversation with Shon Faye.

Premiering now: 👇🏼

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Time Out's new theater podcast, Sitting Ovations, launches today Critic Adam Feldman hosts a weekly chat with top Broadway artists

Start spreading the news! I am thrilled to announce the debut of Sitting Ovations, my new YouTube podcast for Time Out. Each week, I will sit down with the creators of current plays and musicals that I've admired to discuss them at greater length and in deeper detail. www.timeout.com/newyork/news...

Florida school locks down as AI weapons detection system tags clarinet

I'll wait for @craigtimes.bsky.social's report on this. #Florida #AI

obviously

The Royal Opera’s Ariodante shows Handel at the peak of his powers A straightforward modern-day staging of the composer’s opera allows his music to shine

GF Handel's Ariodante is one of the greatest operas of all time. And after a century of neglect it's staging a comeback now. www.ft.com/content/84e5...