"The willingness to travel long distances by train has increased dramatically...The Berlin-Paris ICE is a great success, 80%+ occupancy. We thought 50% of passengers would travel the full 8h, but 75% do. Talking to SNCF about a 2nd Berlin-Paris train in 2028."
www.berliner-zeitung.de/article/chef...
"When Badin died, he left behind diaries, a vast book collection, private letters and an autobiography offering a window into his life in 18th- and 19th-century Stockholm." New Black Europe exhibition at the Swedish National Museum #earlymodern 🗃️
Black and white photograph of the photographer model etc Lee Miller curled up and sleep so I Underside her hands just below her face
Lee Miller Sleeping — Man Ray, 1930
The Nazis at Elon's Nazi bar are, unsurprisingly, playing "guess which Nazis were SPLC informants."
A woman in an elegant strapless dress at a jazz concert
Larry Fink
Jazz Arts Society, New York, 1962
A rectangular poster with its shorter sides as its vertical edges. The text occupies the lower fifth of the poster. The painting appears to bebe a watercolour, or at least suggests the same. The engine of the train is composed of geometric shades, many of which - the wheels for example- are transparent. The train is coloured in a mix of black and grey. It appears to be flying over a green landscape, which rises to peaks at top-left. In the mostly blue sky are a bright moon and stars. The moon is shown as a reflection in what seems like a lake that the engine appears to be flying above.
“The Night Scotsman Leaves King’s Cross nightly at 10.25”, by Alexandre Alexeieff, prior to 1932.
feel the loss of every poet who dies in these times more than ever because poems are one of the few writings left which feel truthful
thank you J. H. Prynne.
The Oribe ware tea bowl showcases a characteristic blend of asymmetry and vibrant glaze, with green dripping patterns iconic of early 17th-century Japanese ceramics. Originating from the Mino region, this style reflects innovative design inspired by the aesthetic sensibilities of Japanese tea ceremonies.
Oribe Ware Tea Bowl www.brooklynmuseum.org/opencollection/objects/1...
J. H. Prynne wrote a guide to reading works of literature for Cambridge students. This was the postscript:
FWIW I've also just added to my new website a short reflection on why us human editors are superior to AI.
If you or anyone you know is in need of editorial assistance, please get in touch.
This is a pitch perfect response from @aoc.bsky.social -- she mocks their whining, she brings the receipts and then she uses this move as a sign that Democrats are moving to offense now.
In honor of #EarthDay, here is a reminder that there is a bot account that posts a photo of the whole Earth from a million miles away, taken by the Deep Space Climate Observatory, several times daily. You can view all the images (and zoom in) here: epic.gsfc.nasa.gov
Long enough ago some people may not know the details, so I'll tell you. Lawrence & his friend Duwayne Brooks were going home on the bus. At the stop a group of six white kids set upon Lawrence unprovoked. 'What, n-----? What? What?' they said. They stabbed Lawrence. He bled to death on the spot.
The Spectator verdict on MacMillan during the Profumo affair was that he was caught in “an intolerable dilemma from which he can only escape by being proved either ludicrously naïve or incompetent or deceitful—or all three”.
"6 ... it is the plain fact that nowadays there are no conservative or reactionary ideas in general circulation. This does not mean, of course, that there is no impulse to conservatism or to reaction. Such impulses are certainly very strong, perhaps even stronger than most of us know. But the conservative impulse and the reactionary impulse do not, with some isolated and some ecclesiastical exceptions, express themselves in ideas but only in action or in irritable mental gestures which seek to resemble ideas." - Lionel Trilling, The Liberal Imagination: Essays on Literature and Society
American conservatives have long criticized Lionel Trilling for saying this, and yet every day they keep saying and doing things that confirm his point.
Waters, wearing sunglasses, hitch-hikes on a New York street with a sign, "Frick Collection", scrawled on a piece of cardboard.
For his birthday today, this great photo of John Waters at 12th St and 6th Ave 🎂
📷 Christopher Anderson, 2014
"The mainstream has in the last 10 years begun to accept me. For reasons I’m not sure I understand. Maybe because they can’t get rid of me."
Mood
Sources say that if Kash Patel cannot stop binge drinking and spending taxpayer dollars on his personal travel, Donald Trump is prepared to fire the highest ranking woman at the FBI.
Mood
In regards to the Virginia gerrymandering, the scholar David Bateman writes about "democracy-reinforcing hardball" and it's going to be important to be able to tell the difference between systemic reforms that undermine democracy and those that do the opposite journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
When I worked on legislation that would make platforms pay journalists for scraping journalism it got called a “link tax,” but when platforms make journalists pay the platform to post links it’s just good ol capitalism.
Estimated redistricting shift so far:
Texas +5 R
California +5 D
Utah +1 D
Missouri +1 R
North Carolina +1 R
Ohio +1 to +2 R
Virginia +4 D
Net: roughly +1 to +2 Democratic seats nationally
Amidst all the GOP whining tonight, a reminder that the Democrats would currently control the House were it not for the late, illegal GOP gerrymandering in GA & NC in 2024.
most gerrymanders are republican legislators saying fuck the voters
these ones are the voters saying fuck republican legislators
Remember, Democrats have repeatedly advanced measures to ban partisan gerrymandering and Republicans have voted against them time after time.
This is the game Republicans wanted to play. OK, then.
"They went door-to-door to tell their neighbors what the city had not told them: The data center would use twice as much electricity as all of Monterey Park."
The city’s notification in English reached only 40 people living within 500 feet. Activists worked in English, Chinese, Spanish & more!
"ai" is not a genie that can't be put back in a bottle, it's a pillar of smoke that dissipates unless you keep burning money
New gas-powered data center projects linked to OpenAI, Meta, Microsoft, and xAI could emit more greenhouse gases than entire nations, according to a @wired.com investigation from @mollytaft.com --
happy earth day, don't miss this one!
Speaking as a lawyer, it is shocking the extent to which those with bottomless pockets can and will litigate, regardless of winning a case, because it's about using a legitimate form of conflict resolution as a shortcut to punishment.
You know who else famously used paid informants to infiltrate extremist groups?
The Justice Department.