YOU CAN SEE THE SEAMS. damn.

I've been quite hard on myself lately, but in the last couple of days I bussed and trained and metro'd from Bilbao to Barcelona by myself using only my limited Spanish and I posted a piece I've been working on for a year. So... maybe I get a little treat today.

The Time of a Painting I visit the Oakland Museum of California. I visit the Minneapolis Museum of Russian Art. I walk to the Cantor Art Center at Stanford…

I've been engaging in a bit of a double side-project. First, I've been trying to build a relationship with visual art that I've never really had; and second, writing without masking my neurodivergent patterns.
This piece is one I've been building for about a year.
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Give them a few more years and they'll invent an "internet bypass video system" that will beam video signals regionally to TV's that will use a specialized 'antenna' to receive it.

RIP Khanmigo & Edtech Industry Dreams of AI Tutors Never forget.

This is golden. danmeyer.substack.com/p/rip-khanmi...

Good point!

I like Edutopia because they so often come at Ed topics with nuance. Like... anyone TEACHING knows we have to take a little bit from everything and anyone trying to tell you there's one right way that works every time is selling you something.

When I saw the run-time on the episode....

The King's Speech The story from Washington is victory. The story in the region is much messier.

Over the course of a single day, the President moves between declaring victory and hinting at dramatic escalation; between touting negotiations and claiming there is no one left to talk to.

He is both erratic and in over his head and the usual guard rails are gone.

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It's wild how "I am friends with some of the coolest and best people I've ever met in the world and they legitimately like me" can exist at the same time as "I suck and am fully unlikeable" can exist in my brain at exactly the same time.

Have you read Mary Roach's book 'Packing for Mars' there's a whole chapter on how to poop in space.

Data centers are creating ‘heat islands’ and warming the land around them by up to 16 degrees | CNN The vast data centers that power artificial intelligence are so energy hungry that they’re heating up their surroundings, according to new research. It’s an alarming finding given the number of data c...

Oh cool... 'heat islands' around data centers.... thank god ai is totally worth it.

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"CEO Said A Thing!" Journalism "CEO said a thing!" journalism involves parroting the claims of a business leader or executive with absolutely no context, correction, or challenge whatsoever, no matter how elaborate the delusion.

Over at the newsletter I wrote about the unholy scourge that is "CEO said a thing!" journalism:

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The Shuddering Awe of Standing Feet From the Works of Rennaissance Masters Compared to How Their… I’ve worked at plenty of jobs where bosses were full of ideas but easily distracted and never seemed to finish anything they started. In…

"To complete, as art historians and experts have called it in whispers and dreams, ‘A Full Ninja Turtle,’ I have to wake up early on my last day in London..."

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The Shuddering Awe of Standing Feet From the Works of Rennaissance Masters Compared to How Their… I’ve worked at plenty of jobs where bosses were full of ideas but easily distracted and never seemed to finish anything they started. In…

"To complete, as art historians and experts have called it in whispers and dreams, ‘A Full Ninja Turtle,’ I have to wake up early on my last day in London..."

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Love her writing and previous work, and very very excited for this one!

Last week, I went to two of the most impressive art museums I've ever been in and had a profound experience standing in front of the art of masters... but have also been thinking ever since of all the art and thought we missed by only paying white dudes to make it.

Book Output Topped Four Million in 2025 The total number of books published in the U.S. in 2025 jumped 32.5% over 2024, according to statistics compiled by Bowker, led by a boom in self-published titles. The number of traditionally publishe...

There's a few good reasons that selling books (or even getting attention for one) is very hard.

And yet, like 4 million of us were dumb enough write one anyway. www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/...

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404 did some great reporting on this...

Love that Fetterman has ALREADY announced he'll vote for Mullin's confirmation. I'm not even sure Noem knows yet... that fuckin' guy.

Touchingly, it was mainly women who did this work.

The minerals were then shipped to specialists in remote areas. It was their business to put them into the ground, to hide them cleverly, so they would never hurt anybody ever again.

- Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse Five

When the bombers got back to their base, the steel cylinders were taken from the racks and shipped back to the United States of America, where factories were operating night and day, dismantling the cylinders, separating the dangerous contents into minerals.

But there were still a few wounded Americans though and some of the bombers were in bad repair. Over France though, German fighters came up again, made everything and everybody as good as new.

The containers were stored neatly in racks.

The Germans below had miraculous devices of their own, which were long steel tubes. They used them to suck more fragments from the crewmen and planes.

The formation flew backwards over a German city that was in flames. The bombers opened their bomb bay doors, exerted a miraculous magnetism which shrunk the fires, gathered them into cylindrical steel containers , and lifted the containers into the bellies of the planes.

Over France, a few German fighter planes flew at them backwards, sucked bullets and shell fragments from some of the planes and crewmen. They did the same for wrecked American bombers on the ground, and those planes flew up backwards to join the formation.

It was a movie about American bombers in World War II and the gallant men who flew them. Seen backwards by Billy, the story went like this: American planes, full of holes and wounded men and corpses took off backwards from an airfield in England.

I've been thinking, as I often do, about Kurt Vonnegut. There's this scene in Slaughterhouse Five where Billy, who is having some time-traveling issues, watches a war movie backwards. It's just such a powerful example of speculative fiction, of imagining a world that could be better... here it is:

Worth remembering that many of these students spent high school under Florida's education censorship laws allegedly meant to protect them from learning "divisive" material or feeling a bit sad or icky about the history and current state of race relations in the US.