Me: Onion rings and a bottle of wine for the table
waiter: white or red?

Me, trying to impress my date: whichever onion the chef prefers

Part 5:

A lot of people live their lives as though a few missteps might one day cost them tenure, but the reality of the job market is that they may never get a tenure track job in their field, much less tenure itself. Do the fucking thing and live your life! Other forms of success can happen.

From an interview I did re. publishing/art organizing:

I think a lot of people assume they won’t be taken seriously if they do something that isn’t at the invitation of an institution. But we create our own authority for our projects based on the level of seriousness that goes into them.

FBI agent Denise played by David Duchovny and Dale Cooper, played by Kyle Maclachlan, Twin Peaks 1990

David Duchovny played a transgender woman, Denise, on Twin Peaks in 1990 and when greeting Cooper, the show's protagonist, she says, "I prefer Denise, if you don't mind" and Cooper responds with "OK" and her identity is settled within a couple seconds and was a non-issue, 36 years ago.

FBI Extracts Suspect’s Deleted Signal Messages Saved in iPhone Notification Database The case was the first time authorities charged people for alleged “Antifa” activities after President Trump designated the umbrella term a terrorist organization.

NEW: The FBI was able to forensically extract copies of incoming Signal messages from a defendant’s iPhone, even after the app was deleted, because copies of the content were saved in the device’s push notification database, multiple people present for FBI testimony in a trial told 404 Media.

This but Banksy (and I literally wrote the worst who-is-Banksy story)

Remember when USPS had a contract to buy a fleet of EVs and Trump made them cancel it and go back to gas?

the judge was like “oh yeah! the first amendment”

Trump Shifts Federal Student Loan Management From Education Department The Trump administration is transferring management of the $1.7 trillion federal student loan portfolio from the Department of Education to the Department of the Treasury, the most significant step ye...

Trump administration is shifting a $1.7 trillion federal student loan portfolio from Education to Treasury, a step in the direction of dismantling Ed and a (perhaps doomed) push to start collecting on overdue student debt. Big get from @liamknox.bsky.social www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

One of several "ramblas" in Barcelona (not the one tourists visit). Photo by me.

We need to stop asking how much street width we can use for cars and start asking how much we can use for playgrounds.

Fuck tenure, I want revenge.

Dream River was the first album of his that hit me. I got into Bill Orcutt recently, and late and he similarly has a huge back catalog I'm playing catch up on.

Cattle-ac
Sidney, MT

I’m repeatedly struck by the fact that GenAI co’s have stolen zetabytes of copyrighted material, and the federal govt repeatedly defaces ©️ material through its vile memes — yet I had to waste three years, and potentially lose two yrs’ salary, bc a troll was mad I used a photo, w credit, in a class

I searched "architecture" in the linked report and among the "DEI" projects are restoring a Dutch colonial house, expanding the Metal Museum in Memphis, a SF walking tour, a book on Boston's Southwest Corridor ...

The Lume, the Controversial Immersive Digital Art Gallery at the Indianapolis Museum of Art, Closed at the End of February The Lume, the immersive digital art gallery at the Indianapolis Museum of Art at Newfields, closed at the end of February after five years.

The Indianapolis Museum of Art changed its name to Newfields and turned a whole floor of its building into an immersive room for digital video. A predictable fiasco and an example of a museum forgetting its mission to embarrassing effect. It's finally over

www.artnews.com/art-news/new...

secretary hegseth to disclose which of our fallen warfighters were fatties

Linda's Whimseys
Palouse, WA

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Have you read Stages? thickpress.com/product/stag... I received it by accident a fews years ago and really enjoyed it.

This guy gets it.

This is why I’ll never accept AI art. A whole industry just to recreate & reorder reality. Yet the beauty of human emotions don’t need enhancement. We’re doing it every day. Look at Alysa Liu's face. The JOY. Fuck off, AI.

Credit to human photographers: Matthew Stockman/Getty & Christophe Ena/AP

"Please keep priority seating available for riders with disabilities. Remember: not all disabilities are visible" is the announcement I just heard on the Light Rail in Seattle. I have never heard that second sentence before, hooray for progress, wherever we can find it.

Leave it like this! Fall of empire! Wabi sabi! Don't fix a damn thing.

Striking Starbucks workers urge customers to delete coffee chain’s app Unionized baristas continue to fight for a fair contract and ask public for solidarity as strike stretches into third month

Starbucks workers are asking customers to delete the mobile app amid their ongoing strike to push the corporation to reach a first contract with the union and to stop union busting
www.theguardian.com/business/202...

This is horrible. When we lived at the Belvedere we would wonder over 3 times a week.

The Shop — Minnesota Center for Book Arts

#MNcenterForBookArts needs some love ❤️ since they’ve been closed so much during the month of January due to the ICE occupation. Do your #ValentinesDay shopping 🛍️ with them!

mnbookarts.org/shop

He was doing what many have been saying white men should be doing. He went outside to observe, he documented, he put his body on the line to protect another person and for this he was murdered by the gatekeepers of the fascist regime.

Memory is a fragile thing in this moment, so it is important to keep in mind that Hakeem Jeffries refused to whip his caucus against ICE funding earlier this week.