The first AI video I’ve found compelling.
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The first AI video I’ve found compelling.
The Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation Gift, Peggy Guggenheim, 1979 © 2016 Man Ray Trust/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York/ADAGP, Paris
Young Girl by Man Ray, 1916
https://botfrens.com/collections/212/contents/137216
Evening Landscape with Rising Moon - 1889
https://botfrens.com/collections/46/contents/14560
Gift of the artist, through Jay Leyda
Aleksandr Rodchenko, Non-Objective Painting, 1919
https://botfrens.com/collections/14377/contents/1134852
On the occasion of Britney Spears' DUI, it's worth reading this piece by Chal Ravens in the @lrb.co.uk which points out that if you turn a child into a sex-and-money machine, this enormous cruelty is going to fuck them up for life.
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Trigger laws enabled some states to ban abortion the second the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade. Now Virginia is considering one that would limit political spending if the Court ever overturns Citizen United. bit.ly/3OYOEOV
This is AI in a nutshell: Somebody gets rich while the masses are rendered stupid
Mrs. John Hay Whitney Bequest and The Sidney and Harriet Janis Collection (both by exchange), and gift of Irving Blum
Ellsworth Kelly, Spectrum IV, 1967
https://botfrens.com/collections/14377/contents/1135471
Even putting aside the implications for the laws of war, someone who describes mass killing in this way is not well, nor is the society that empowers that person to kill.
"The World Beyond" by Remedios Varo depicts a surreal vessel navigating through a dreamscape, featuring elegantly intricate structures and whirlpools that suggest a mystical voyage. Varo's characteristic style blends elements of fantasy and metaphysics, creating a composition that invites viewers to explore the realms of imagination and the unknown.
The World Beyond
https://botfrens.com/collections/69/contents/20030
A majority of the contributors to the federal judiciary's reference manual on scientific evidence accused court officials on Monday of letting partisan politics shape its latest edition by yielding to demands by Republican state attorneys general to cut a climate change chapter.
Gift of Mrs. David M. Levy
Jacob Lawrence, Housing for the Negroes was a very difficult problem, 1940-41
https://botfrens.com/collections/14377/contents/1134645
From Thuringewald
From Thuringewald 1905
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I think about this Tony Benn speech much more than I used to
When Van Gogh painted Cypresses (1889), he said they were “like Egyptian obelisks.” Their flame-like forms rise through swirling skies, turning stillness into motion.
@samadlerbell.bsky.social and @mattsitman.bsky.social commented on this in their OBAA episode. Apparently it was just a cosmic coincidence (per PTA’s interview in Sight and Sound)
Honestly we should have all known we were in a dangerous global decline as soon as Hollywood struggled to make a new movie about Blade
I wrote something about my friend Asad Haider for the new issue of @nybooks.com www.nybooks.com/articles/202...
Yes, there is a certain strain of conservative pop-history that always pretends that things like the 1832 and 1867 Reform Acts or the 1911 House of Lords bill happened because The English People Wisely Chose, instead of a vicious internal political fight that their side lost.
VW workers have voted by 96% to ratify their first union contract, @lfelizleon.bsky.social reports. Read his piece this month on the deal, which comes with a 20% wage increase (equal to around a $7 wage bump for production workers) over the 4-year contract labornotes.org/2026/02/majo... 1/2
Even the special effects in THE MATRIX had a poetic quality—I don’t think people were going to see that film for the story. (1999)
Jesse Jackson carried the fire. a true American hero prospect.org/2026/02/17/t...
whew this piece by a Minnesota law prof says the "destabilization" rn is "not the breakdown of legal protection, but the migration of those cracks inward [...] That migration from margin to center is visible not only on the street but in constitutional doctrine itself"
lpeproject.org/blog/whistli...
i think jesse jackson was one of the most important american political figures of the post-war era and i think that his 1984 and 1988 campaigns for the democratic nomination still have a great deal to teach about forging a path to a more egalitarian world. RIP.
Black Relationship
Black Relationship
https://botfrens.com/collections/74/contents/22624
ICE OUT
Europeans also have the opportunity to follow Sanchez's lead and argue for the benefits of immigration and the downsides of not attracting migrants.
Gift of Philip Johnson
Francesco Somaini, Sanguinary Martyrdom, 1960
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Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York Purchased with funds contributed by Mr. and Mrs. Andrew M. Saul, 1984 © Anselm Kiefer
Seraphim by Anselm Kiefer, 1983
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If one is looking for left-FP ideas from electeds in the US, could do worse than follow the lead of Ilhan Omar, who has repeatedly put forth a repeal of the Hague Invasion Act as a core necessity for international rule of law. US alignment should not function as a backstop against justice for crimes
