This article was probably written with an eye on selling the movie rights.

I always wonder - usually in vain - just how big auction houses determine provenance information. Thanks to the Epstein Files, we can see exactly how a seemingly rock-solid provenance was built on shifting sands for this Hercules. 🧵

1. "Here's an extreme idea. We're platforming it, so that people can watch out."
2. "This idea is gaining traction. We're publishing an op-ed in favour, for balance."
3. "This idea is popular now. Why does the left refuse to consider it?"

You would get so many more amazing books if you had Universal Basic Income. Not even the most dream-scenario AI could compete with the creativity of a world of authors no longer afraid of affording rent.

The Largest Physician Organization In The US Reaffirms Gender-Affirming Care Is Medically Necessary The American Medical Association is setting the record straight on trans people’s health care—expressing its full support of keeping decisions in the hands of doctors, patients, and their families.

1. The largest medical organization in the United States, the American Medical Association, has reaffirmed that gender affirming care for trans youth is medically necessary.

It disavowed the New York Times reporting.

Incredible development for trans youth.

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There should be a warning on my website that i am very mad about careers and also very mad about grad school

I think it's also so hard to navigate a career post PhD that it's even harder (and a bit traumatic) to give careers advice based on the experience

It's probably a good idea to listen to the people who were saying "abolish ICE" ten years ago and pay attention to what dangers they're pointing out now and maybe get on board with that stuff too

I don’t get why anyone would want to create schooling contexts that make it harder for us to get all kids to do this kind of stuff

Yglesias rewriting his same “Dems must moderate” take for the 5,000th time and Peters credulously advancing a right-wing, anti-left story/framing for the 1,000th time is almost boring.

The real damage is that they launder their BS through the NYT, which gives it mainstream legitimacy.

Friends.

I have officially completed all of the available Main Episodes of @andrewhickey.500songs.com 's A HISTORY OF ROCK MUSIC IN 500 SONGS (Song 183, Part I- PINBALL WIZARD).

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Contributor: Anti-trans laws aren’t protecting women or anyone, only doing harm A new Kansas law instantly invalidated the licenses of 1,700 people who had been allowed to update their gender on their state ID. To what end?

In a new @latimes.com Op-Ed, I discuss how Kansas’s recent law invalidating 1,700 transgender individuals’ driver’s licenses raises significant questions about proportionality and administrative purpose. It criminalizes trans folks for no benefit to anyone. www.latimes.com/opinion/stor...

It’s one of the relatively quiet tragedies of our social form that we have somehow created a system that dangles the possibility for an impassioned meaningful life on the other side of a random number generator job lottery meat-grinder

"We started a war of aggression for no reason & commenced it by accidentally bombing an elementary school & killing over 100 kids."

That simple fact is so horrific that it's just kind of bouncing on the surface of our collective consciousness. We can't absorb its full implications & significance.

"the precursor to Doing is Saying" is an admirably precise way of explaining why more Dems need to be Saying, loudly, even if they do not currently have the power to Do

I use Gemini when I'm bored — and it's better than doomscrolling It became my ultimate distraction

WHAT IF YOU JUST READ A FUCKING BOOK

This is very unfortunate! And I’m sorry both for the staff of the Bodleian and all of us who rely on its resources. Does this make you and your colleagues at the Bodleian rethink your partnership with OpenAI given that their guiding principle is likewise to exploit the data from your collections?

Trump did not announce a U.S. policy then walk it back. That is not what happened, and media presenting it that way does a disservice.

Trump said words he thought might appeal to his audience in the moment, with no connection to actual policy, then did that again with a different question/asker.

I doubt he lives long enough for nuremberg style trial, but how is anyone ok with this flippant shit. Just misogynistic bullshit.

Pictures emerging from today’s heavy bombing of Isfahan. Damages to the mirror works, tiles, floors, and carved wooden doors of Safavid palaces of Aali Qapu and Chehelsotoon. Both of these are within the UNESCO Heritage complex of Naqsh-e Jahan Square. These are 16th-17th century bldgs.

EXCLUSIVE: I’m the Palestinian Who Has Been in ICE Detention for Almost a Year Don't forget us on International Women's Day, writes Leqaa Kordia.

On International Women's Day, and the 1-year-anniversary of when Mahmoud Khalil was first detained, read this powerful first-hand account from Leqaa Kordia — a young Palestinian woman who is *still* in detention after being detained shortly after Mahmoud was:

An original Nashville sit-in member, along with Diane Nash, James Bevel, and John Lewis. Trained in non-violence by James Lawson. At age 21, he signed a will before the Freedom Rides, knowing he could die.

May his soul be at peace, and may we all have such courage in the face of oppression.

Ah man, RIP Mark Dodson, voice of Salacious Crumb. I have my own at work, he‘s a great help at the circulation desk.

we appear to have four competing fascist movements jockeying for control: blood & soil nazism under miller and hegseth, darwinian ecofascism from rfk, technofascism under vance and musk, and one Big Wet Hitler who understands the true animating core of the american volk is a deep love for shopping

let’s fucking go

Back in the day we taped a polaroid camera to a stick. Hilarity ensued.

We're all gonna die.

Netflix CEO Ted Sarandos to visit White House Thursday to discuss Warner Bros. bid Top of the agenda: Netflix’s bid for the media giant and President Donald Trump’s demand that Netflix fire board member Susan Rice.

Saturday: Trump demands Netflix fire board member Susan Rice or face "consequences."
Monday: Netflix co-CEO Ted Sarandos declines, says, “This is a business deal. It's not a political deal."
Tuesday: Warner Bros. reopens door to Paramount's bid, putting Netflix deal in doubt.
Wednesday:

Pro Trump, Pro Netanyahu fanatics Larry and David Ellison will most likely now control Paramount, CBS, CNN, HBO, Warner Bros, and TikTok