"By “unequivocally” rejecting all analogies, it [the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum] has erected a fence around the Holocaust that ensures that its moral lessons will be forgotten." www.nybooks.com/online/2026/...
production of The Muppet Show should not be dependent on petty vulgarities like “ratings” or “revenue.” it should be preserved as a vital function of american culture. it should have a taxpayer-funded budget rivaling the CIA
Holy hell, gang, I’m in the Epstein Files! (No, not like that.) www.justice.gov/epstein/file...
Best TikTok thing going is the two dudes trying food from every country without leaving NYC. If you haven’t seen them yet, it’s incredible. My favorite so far is last week’s. Legit got me emotional.
“It is to hollow out journalism of anything that threatens those reactionary elite sensibilities and replace it with a simulacrum of journalism appeasing those sensibilities, and claim to have saved the profession.” www.forever-wars.com/watching-bar...
This is as Texas as it gets.
You thought you could solve it in one day, but then it miraculously took you eight days instead?
O, horrible, O, horrible, most horrible!
the US is abandoning green energy at precisely the moment it is becoming not just a climate neccesity but also like a strategically important industry
“We use language to think, but that does not make language the same as thought. Understanding this distinction is the key to separating scientific fact from the speculative science fiction of AI-exuberant CEOs.” www.theverge.com/ai-artificia...
Actually, rereading this @adamserwer.bsky.social piece, maybe we should call it “No Chickens.” www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
Need to follow-up the “No Kings” protest with one called “No Cowards.”
I love all of this.
Voted against most of them, knew this would happen, still completely sucks.
This is, per usual, note-perfect.
“One way of thinking about the past half-decade or so of life on the internet is that we’ve all become test subjects in a grand experiment to see just how bad ‘good enough’ can be.”
Yeah! Agreed. Much appreciated @alexfalcone.bsky.social. The Wikipedians will be delighted to hang with you.
"And through it all, my army of well-intentioned dorks keeps documenting every bit." www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/hi-...
ordinary americans are filming ice agents and trying to save their neighbors. for all the hemming and hawing during 2024 about how democracy was an elite concern, the elites gave up far more quickly than average people.
So much love for the matcha and sakura sake flavors.
thread, h/t @yvonnezlam.bsky.social (think about this in concert with how much we value "focus" these days)
“Use strong white flour for a superior product. Form the dough. Knead until it’s as elastic as the truth.” www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/how...
U2.5
Hard agree!
“Fascism is a temper tantrum disguised as an ideology.” www.tiktok.com/t/ZP8SHcorw/
“You can tell the country is free because everywhere you look, there is less and less evidence that slavery ever happened.” www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/...
”Wikipedia is one of the few platforms online where tremendous computing power isn’t being deployed in the service of telling you exactly what you want to hear.” www.theverge.com/cs/features/...
Holy hell. There’s bad, incredibly bad, unbelievably bad, and then, much, much worse than all of those, is this.
Whaaaat? We must agree to disagree. You don’t find the slow mystery of it all entirely gripping? I love the way Clarke totally marinates all her characters in the environment. And the metaphor! All the metaphor!
