This is heartbreaking. It is astonishing to me that this is a battle that's been won: but we are choosing to go backwards.

Over to the New Yorker, where there are mixed opinions about the suburbs.

—John Cheever, journal

Your Kindle's not obsolete, it just needs a jailbreak - and I'll show you how it's done You can transform your old Kindle - even a bricked device - into the ultimate open-source reader. Here's how.

Your Kindle's not obsolete, it just needs a jailbreak — and I'll show you how it's done
You can transform your old Kindle — even a bricked device — into the ultimate open-source reader. Here's how.
www.zdnet.com/article/your...

A guy asking ChatGPT to review a series of fart sound effects and getting a serious kiss ass response that calls it atmospheric

I can't stop laughing at this post. It's perfect.

... I hadn't even *heard* of it! Will seek out immediately. Wonder if you have seen Eddington, which kind of vanished, I thought that was an amazing depiction of Covid madness, the best I have seen.

Uuuugggghhhh

Thanks for this boost from my fab publisher @saltpublishing.com — I hope you listen to this episode of History's Heroes and 😉 preorder my novel, Wash, out in May. Wash and Em were noble folks, and we could all use some of that, right? www.saltpublishing.com/products/was...

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

Be aware…

😊

I used to really love it. Still love the
music and would have been amazing to hear live! But as time goes on it loses its place in my Big Space Pantheon… it’s thin. But: Matt Damon. The wave.

Totally up for big pants media domination at this point

The NYTimes’s “we” does get my goat on occasion. But should we let it get our goat? 🐐

@john-self.bsky.social you’d like this, I think. Hear, hear.

Photo of extreme hot sauces with names like Venom and Butt Pucker

I was so lucky to call Tobias a friend. I’m so glad his work remains in the world. This is a gorgeous edition from @saltpublishing.com — you will treasure it.

Jan Morris 'could not have hoped for a better chronicler', says @ericawgnr.bsky.social in @theobserveruk.bsky.social of Sara Wheeler's 'engrossing, sensitive and fair-minded' account of Morris's life and times:
observer.co.uk/culture/book....

If you are a foodie, Obor market, the produce market is fab, easy to get to by underground

www.bbc.com/news/article...

I talked about this on @theobserveruk.bsky.social Slow
Newscast. Spoiler alert, the answer is NO. I salute you, Emily Tucker.

Can AI write good literature? observer.co.uk/listen/the-s...

ARTBARF

My journey from foreign correspondent to Uber driver in Trump's America I once documented human displacement and desperation; now I am living it

"Today in America my international experience seems to have little value. Worse, it feels anathema to the values marketed by the ruling class. They are empowering armed agents to prowl the streets of our cities in search of “the other” and encouraging voters to fear them."

MY FAVOURITE

I am so tired

This is rather lovely and somehow relaxing - an interactive map of lighthouses of the northern seas lighthouse-atlas.netlify.app#3/48/-30

"[The government] proposes letting AI firms use copyright-protected work without the owner’s permission – unless the owner has signalled that they want to opt out of the process."
I'm just astonished — I know I shouldn't be — that this is even up for discussion. It's theft. That's the only word.

Today, we're publishing Don't Steal This Book - a (mostly) empty book from almost 10,000 authors, protesting the theft of their work by AI companies.

🧵 1/3

I absolutely treasure my copy of The Deadwood Bible, brilliantly produced by @mzspress.bsky.social and @mattzollerseitz.bsky.social ... Love film and TV? This is the place for you. Check it out, fill your boots.

I really don’t have any skin in the HCB game, but I saw a cheese, savory HCB. I mean, just surely: NOT a HCB at all??? What is the world coming to?

Oh I loved it there…