on an unrelated note is it actually possible to lose weight by just walking around for like 45 minutes every day

Public art that isn’t - Chicago Reader Chicago takes its public art seriously—which is why a Big Tech-funded mural of slain Ukrainian refugee Iryna Zarutska has drawn scrutiny.

"Remember Iryna is not a grassroots memorial; more so, it is a political campaign funded by men who have been explicit about their ideological goals."

Opinion | Just Because I Wrote This Doesn’t Mean I’ll Be On Your Panel About A.I.

“Everybody’s using AI for everything nowadays, and if you don’t, you’re a misfit outsider who should be stoned to death in the town square, and then resurrected virtually from your data so you can be stoned to death in the virtual town square, for infinity.” www.nytimes.com/2026/04/15/o...

But shall this crazed old man be tamely suffered to drag a whole ship’s company down to doom with him?

love how we killed the old, frail anti-nuke ayatollah just to have him replaced with his young, healthy son who wants nukes and who just had his father, mother, wife, and child murdered on the same day by his mortal enemy. surely this will bring peace to the region

Seu Jorge’s Lovely Tribute to David Bowie For his 2004 film The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou, Wes Anderson enlisted Brazilian musical artist Seu Jorge to perform several of David Bowie’s songs in Portuguese. Jorge released an album of the songs about a y

An hour-long set of Seu Jorge singing David Bowie covers in Portuguese (from Wes Anderson's Life Aquatic) to mark the 10th anniversary of Bowie's death. "Just an acoustic guitar, a microphone, and the beautiful coastline of São Paulo." [kottke.org]

wow, just learned that Robert Moses died 10 years before the release of the song "Life is a Highway" RIP Robert Moses you would have loved that song

I'm convinced AI is our generation's radium - a discovery with genuinely useful applications in specific, controlled circumstances that we stupidly put in everything from kid's toys to toothpaste until we realised the harm far too late where future generations will ask if we were out of our minds.

A reminder to the news media: “conflicting accounts” is what you say BEFORE the incontrovertible video evidence appears. After that, your job is to ask why one side is lying, not to repeat the lie and pretend no one knows the truth.

The Librarians As part of the fascist war on “woke”, tens of thousands of books have been pulled from the shelves of libraries around the country over the past few years. On the front line are the nation’s librarians, “first responders

Trailer for The Librarians, a documentary film about censorship & persecution of librarians in the US. “In The Librarians film, librarians emerge as first responders in the fight for democracy and our First Amendment rights.” [kottke.org]

They literally ruin everything they touch

Coalition Launches Historic $50 Million Initiative to Bolster Nonprofit Literary Arts New fund is dedicated to strengthening the field, advancing support for creative writers and ensuring their contributions to American literature for generations to come.

I've said it elsewhere, but if you're a young organization in the South that meets the eligibility criteria for the new literary fund (budget over $50k) but has not yet gained 501(c)(3) status, @hubcitypress.bsky.social might be able to serve as your fiscal sponsor.

www.mellon.org/news/coaliti...

One of Columbia’s ‘best kept secrets.’ Can Rosewood sustain charm amid growth? The classic Columbia neighborhood looks to guard its charm amid broader growth across the city and seemingly inevitable change in the region.

I had the latest entry in the Communities in Transition series for @thestate.com. We took a look at Rosewood, the classic Columbia neighborhood that is working to retain its charm amid broader growth and change across the city and region. Tracy Glantz shot the pics.

I'm not sure you can get more marie antoinette than taking away food stamps before thanksgiving while you build a gold and marble dance hall so the other crooks can bring bribe you over a badly-cooked (argentinian) steak

Holy crap Kara Walker chopped up a Stonewall Jackson statue and revealed a monster

when was the last time you heard someone mention NFTs?

gotta remember to savor these little things

San Francisco Wants to Destroy a 96-Year-Old’s Defining Artwork

Public art is never permanent as long as people don’t continuously value the pieces and the reasons they were created in the first place. Even the odd and complicated pieces deserve love. (Gift Article)
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/12/a...

OFF BOOK: Silvia Moreno-Garcia YouTube video by Richland Library

One of my favorite parts of author visits is the Richland Library "Off Book" recording. Here's the most recent one with @silviamg.bsky.social. We still want to know what @sgj.bsky.social thinks about his cameo in The Bewitching! youtu.be/EtL31zGFZhw?...

Today is a day when arts degrees are worthless, but the product of those degrees is so valuable it would kill an entire industry if they were made to pay for it.

quick while the government is shut down let’s all switch to metric

What is happening? This is all posted by @thestate.com in the last five days.

this is truly an era of blather and balderdash. we are up to our eyeballs in claptrap and i for one have had just about my fill

"…and Magda Goebbels made a great strudel.”

i find this image so fascinating. it is both a literal example of authoritarianism but also a second-hand reproduction of the aesthetics of other authoritarian states. it's like a simulacra of authoritarianism whose purpose is to attempt to make the simulacra real.

‘Victims of changes’: Why Columbia public art gets taken down, painted over “Busted Plug” was found in a field. Hunter-Gatherer and its mural were knocked down. How do these losses impact Columbia’s push to build identity with public art?

“Busted Plug” was found in a field. Hunter-Gatherer and its mural were knocked down. How do these losses impact Columbia’s push to build identity with public art?