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Is *Lupin* back??? Please say yes please say yes please say yes....

This 2-season series, which I caught back in 2017 is now re-streaming on Tubi & I recommend it. Bland's writing is assured, it has a queer storyline & it explores Black millennials' existential challenges in our contemporary with aplomb. Also, the episodes are short but enthralling!

Sun Ra Arkestra at S.O.B.'s in New York City - October 8th 1985

Wow, Canvas is still down? Guess I can't grade.

I did hear about it. I'm a huge fan of Sun Ra, so I hope to see it at some point (soon).

The trailblazing transgender rights activist Miss Major has passed away at the age of 78.

Miss Major was a lifelong organizer and participant in the ballroom scene. She took part in the 1969 Stonewall Riots and was injured by the police — but she kept fighting.

A pile of books by Virginia Woolf, Henry Gould, Stefan Zwieg, Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Tove Jansson, John Keene, Joanna Pocock, and others.

some TBR - we live in hope

Pope Leo calls for news agencies to stand as bulwark against "post-truths," lies and manipulation Pope Leo XIV has encouraged international news agencies to stand firm as a bulwark against the "ancient art of lying" and manipulation.

Pope Leo turned to and quoted extensively from Hannah Arendt in his remarks, endorsing her detailed analysis of the factors that give rise to authoritarianism and totalitarian rule. He made clear that this analysis is again appropriate to developments found around the world, and notably in the US

Quote from book HIDING IN PLAIN SIGHT

Www.hidinginplainsightbook.com

Very true. But I did want to note how researchers from a range of fields are finding immense value in her work.

“Sátántangó” was also the first novel published by Tuskar Rock, a wonderful imprint by Colm Toíbín and Peter Straus, initially published through Atlantic Books, and subsequently Serpents Tail

BlackRock is seeking to buy Aligned Data Centers, a data center construction company.

It’s also going to buy AES, one of the major power providers for Big Tech data centers.

While these data centers drive up your electricity costs, wealthy financiers are going to make a killing.

Casually announcing plans to murder American citizens for wrongthink.

So scrap that earlier post, bc as Kári Tulinius pointed out, the great José Saramago (Portugal) did receive the Nobel Prize. No Brazilian or Lusophone African writer has ever won it, though a number of the former have been nominated. Some very good ones writing today too!

Ah yes! They did honor him. How could I have forgotten?

Basic income support scheme for artists to be made permanent and opened to new entrants in budget Negotiations down to the wire, with five big-spending departments yet to agree their budget allocations

Heading in the correct direction: After success of pilot, Ireland expands basic support payments for artists, making them permanent: www.irishtimes.com/politics/202...

It just struck me that no Lusophone writer has ever received the Nobel Prize for Literature. Is this correct? There are many great contemporary writers across the Lusophone world, so some should be in the mix over the next few years.

More from the Nobel passed-over list: Kraus, Huch, George, E.A. Robinson, Croce, Wilder, Dreiser, E.L. Masters, Valéry, Feuchtwanger, Jammes, Remarque, Čapek, Upton Sinclair, Beerbohm, Ortega y Gasset, Chesterton, Unamuno, Masefield, Freud, Giono, Huxley, Sandburg, Silone, etc.

List of nominees for the Nobel Prize in Literature - Wikipedia

More Nobeliana: Fascinating to see the list of Nobel nominees, including numerous major authors who were passed over (Zola, Tolstoy, Meredith, Swinburne, Twain, Howells, Loti, Strindberg, James, Pérez Galdos, Hofmannsthal, HG Wells, Huidobro, Claudel, Wharton, etc.): en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of...

Lauren Williams awarded MacArthur ‘genius grant’ — Harvard Gazette Math professor honored for theoretical breakthroughs with sometimes surprising applications across phenomena such as tsunamis, traffic.

Congrats to this year's MacArthur Foundation Fellows, incl Harvard math prof Lauren Williams, whose mathematical work has applications for an array of phenomena (tsunamis, protein synthesis, etc): news.harvard.edu/gazette/stor...

2025 MacArthur Foundation Fellows: www.macfound.org/programs/awa...

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PS: I will say that I met him a few years ago at Greenlight Bookstore in Brooklyn & he was very nice. We talked briefly about how Gerald Murnane had learned Hungarian to read works in the original in that language!

Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2025 The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2025 was awarded jointly to Susumu Kitagawa, Richard Robson and Omar M. Yaghi "for the development of metal–organic frameworks"

This account of the series of discoveries by this year's Nobel Prize laureates in #chemistry, honored for creating a tool with immense storage & potential, akin to Hermione's magical handbag in the Harry Potter novels, is enthralling (takeaway: don't give up): www.nobelprize.org/prizes/chemi...

László Krasznahorkai New Directions was founded in 1936, when James Laughlin (1914–1997), then a twenty-two-year-old Harvard sophomore, issued the first of the New Directions anthologies.

Reposting some things I posted on the devil's site: Congrats to László Krasnahorkai & all of his translators & publishers, including New Directions Publishing Corp. You can find quite a catalogue of his work in English translation here: www.ndbooks.com/author/laszl...

They rapelled down from Blackhawk helicopters in this raid.

I promise you this raid was done for a cinematic 4K promo video that will be released shortly. This stuff doesn’t just happen. It’s almost always for digital content.

As president of @aaup.org I stand with Governor Newsom. Every single democratic governor should follow suit

Grantchester, Season 10: A Day on Set with Rishi Nair Have you ever wondered what a day on the set of Grantchester is like? Rishi Nair gives us a behind-the-scenes look at a day of filming. #GrantchesterPBS

the show, is apparently directing this episode, so he's walking around in 21st-century clothes and hairstyle, but talking in Leonard's voice, which is particularly striking. https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/masterpiece/clips/grantchester-s10-a-day-on-set-with-rishi-nair/# [2/2]

Yes! How could I forget? 😀

I mean, he's invited to the camp for the weekend too🤷🏾😜