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My visual critique of this Sunday's New York Times Magazine cover. I haven't read the article yet, but I vehemently object to its premise. Why should we "learn to live with A.I.?" So-called large language model A.I. is a tech-bro fraud. #AI #fraud #techbro

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Ovaries & anthers exposed. Peonia "Coral Sunrise," near the end of its bloom. #flowers #peonies #botany #spring

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Sun-drenched Lolabelle. #dogs #sleep #bliss

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A poem so intimate, Samuel Johnson wrote it in Latin—perhaps to encode it, perhaps to distance himself from its too powerful emotions. Johnson composed it in 1784, shortly before his death. The friend he refers to near the end of the poem may be Edmund Hector, who grew up with him in Lichfield.

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Neighborhood flotsam and jetsam. "Oh, Oh, oh, that Shake-spa-herian jazz..." Player piano by Brahms. Not Johannes, I don't think. #discovery #piano #strangebuttrue

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On this last day of #aprilpoetrymonth, a poem by Seamus Heaney about a wife's reproaches to her dead husband & her condemnation of the hare-brained vocation that robbed her—and their children—of so many hours of his life. #Dante #Inferno @joriegraham.bsky.social @aestallings.bsky.social

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For #aprilpoetrymonth. One of Shakespeare's most famous prose-poem rants. Note that while Edmund eviscerates #astrology, he substitutes Elizabethan "biological" determinism in its stead. #selfdelusion #character #contradiction #Irony

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All too true.

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“Cowardice is contagious — so is courage.” “That’s what we’ve been seeing month after month... Starting with some people demonstrating courage, and then other people looking around and saying I can do that, too. It’s in my power. I’m not just a victim of world events.” - @ezralevin.bsky.social

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And for National Poetry Month, one of favorite poems by Louise Glück: "The Queen of Carthage." The last line is like a knife to the chest. (The link below contains an audio file of Glück reading the poem, too.) @jfranklinpoet.bsky.social @bdralyuk.bsky.social voetica.com/poem/7935#:~...

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When a court sits in judgment on an entire class of people, or institutions, they know nothing about. There isn't a single LGBTQIA justice on #SCOTUS, and six of them went to private Catholic schools as children. #Injustice #bias #Ignorance #wrong www.nytimes.com/2025/04/22/u...

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I knew some of @harvard.edu's donors, like Ackman, are right-wingers who would love to personally police "viewpoint diversity" among faculty & students, but didn't realize some of the oligarchs on the Harvard Corporation were such schmucks. #cashwithstrings #excessivepower #defy #resist #refuse

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This is despicable. ICE is out of control.

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Monastery doors. Portgual. January 2025. Cloistered. Seclusion. Exclusion. Baffled and aroused by what lies behind. Contemplation? Agony? Solitude and peace? #monasteries #Portugal #lockedin #lockedout

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I can SO relate tho this Thai monk's cracked "I." #WhiteLotusVibes #monks #monkeymind

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People who told everyone that masking was the worst possible thing to be asked to do are now telling USians that "sacrifice" and it's so ridiculous.

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NEW The HR Department of the Social Security Administration sent an email to the entire staff today warning of "abolishment of organizations and positions, directed reassignments, and reductions in force (RIF)" The email asks staff to "volunteer" for reassignment before these actions take place.

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The irony of Americans electing a fascist because they were more concerned about getting lower grocery prices than saving democracy and then they end up losing democracy AND getting higher grocery prices 🤦🏽‍♂️

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Idiots & scoundrels in charge. "Left to their own devices." @newyorker.com #Incompetence #torussiawithlove #securitybreach #Insecurity

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What is Trump doing now that he has sabotaged the US economy with massive tariffs? He's at his golf club in Florida, where the Saudis are paying him to host a professional golf tournament.

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Just in case you retain any shred of hope that Trump isn't planning on establishing a dictatorship or monarchy... www.nytimes.com/2025/03/30/u... #trump #dictatorship #thirdterm #mayhem #constitutionalcrisis

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Thinking, today, of James Merrill, one of our greatest 20th century poets whose reputation, mysteriously, seems to have faded since his death. Here's one of his most beautiful poems:

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We’re building the largest one-day mobilization in years. Nothing stops authoritarians in their tracks like organized people power — and we’re organizing it in communities throughout the country. All this work depends on people taking real life action. Join us on April 5: handsoff2025.com/?SQ...

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Why did Hegseth, Walz, Ratcliffe, and Gabbard all lie about the sharing of war plans on their SIGNAL chat when they knew Goldberg had copied their messages? It was just an invitation for him to do this: www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc... They're all so incredibly stupid.

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A reaction for our moment. A marble flaying of Marsyas at the Met. #anguish

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A object and its shadow. Chiaroscuro. A study in Portuguese browns and sunlight. Even broken pots contain a power. #portugal #ceramics #kintsugi #evora #pots

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At yesterday's #Boycott #Tesla protest in Neconset, Long Island. Remember, if you buy a Tesla, you may get a #Nazi surprise. (About 400 people showed up.) @chrislhayes.bsky.social @maddow.msnbc.com @lawrenceodonnell.msnbc.com @bdralyuk.bsky.social @teslatakedown.com

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This is what it looks like when we're all pushing together: a clear narrative emerges. The GOP is terrified of voter backlash and they're in hiding. But if they won't do their job of getting out and talking to their own constituents, we'll do it for them. www.startribune.com/calls-for-go...

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Gazpacho Police all over again.

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My father, a few weeks old in January 1921. (He was born in late December 1920, more than a 104 years ago.). Makes me feel a tad old now, myself. LOL. #baby #babyphoto #fathers #dads

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Pursuant to @maddow.msnbc.com's recent discussion of all the things that Trump & cronies are doing to make Amerika safe for Putin & Russia. #trumprussia

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Behold the Sturmtroopfers of #ElonMusk's dodgy #DOGE!

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The creepy, faux-bronze hands on a side table in the office of Mark's hand surgeon two week ago. They looked monstrous, mendicant, and Gothic. The improbably red poinsettia—in February—was plastic and dusty. Ugliness is a Platonic ideal just as powerful as Beauty.

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