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Cooking and dog-eared pages are my love languages, music, riding ebikes across foreign cities and Briony Tallis’s POV.
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my personal favorite science (and technology studies) diagram

submitted 7 hours ago • 2 comments

Happy birthday times 4! As a birthday, Feb. 21 has given us an abundance of notable authors, but we think you may agree: they have nest to nothing in common with one another: Anais Nin amzn.to/4bbjFGm Erma Bombeck amzn.to/41cmmmE W.H. Auden amzn.to/434UTWs David Foster Wallace amzn.to/4bclTW4

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

At this rate, I think I would prefer to be governed by *actual* children.

submitted 3 days ago • 20 comments

How could the Times print Tom Friedman’s useless word salad? Was Patrick Healy catatonic doing the “interview?” Idiots. Sorry.

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

@mattbucher.bsky.social, author of the sublime novel Belan Deck, is talking. Bibliophiles listen.

submitted 4 days ago • 0 comments

I think about this sentence, pulled from a NYTBR, kinda all the time.

submitted 4 days ago • 5 comments

My brilliant friend, Mona Luna Baguette caught by the sandman

submitted 8 days ago • 0 comments

I don’t know who the showrunner is on 2025 and I know we’re not that far into the season, but the writing feels really heavy-handed and honestly barely plausible so far

submitted 9 days ago • 13 comments

"Progressive taxation is the single most important policy lever for reducing the power of the rich—not because it raises revenue...but because it imposes a defacto statutory maximum on income or wealth, eliminating the incentive to hoard the economy’s resources." www.bostonreview.net/articles/a-r...

submitted 11 days ago • 3 comments

i don’t think he did!

submitted 11 days ago • 3 comments

Loved this essay

submitted 11 days ago • 0 comments

The big takeaway here is that Reuters won this case against the AI company on grounds they violated fair use—the judge found the AI company was guilty because, in using copyrighted works to generate its output, it “meant to compete... by developing a market substitute.” Huge.

submitted 12 days ago • 56 comments

In a world of overwhelming choice, I love the whittled-down book selection at my local street library | Jane Howard

submitted 13 days ago • 3 comments

This is the most relevant article to NIH and research cuts I’ve seen. Imagine if this was today , how many people would be saying “Why are we studying Gila Monsters and their impact on diabetes ? That’s wasted money !” globalnews.ca/news/9793403...

submitted 14 days ago • 1165 comments

“Tightens its restrictions on free speech”

submitted 13 days ago • 4 comments

The ASL version of “Not Like Us” is magnificent.

submitted 13 days ago • 179 comments

Warming stripes on an electric bus in Kiel, Germany. #ShowYourStripes @edhawkins.org

submitted 13 days ago • 7 comments

Whenever you hear someone sneer about scientific research that seems useless to them — “they’re studying the spit of lizards?!” — remind them that’s exactly how we got Ozempic. globalnews.ca/news/9793403...

submitted 14 days ago • 530 comments

This framing is their framing, and NYT took the bait. The correct and accurate framing is: “Deep cuts to medical research threatens progress on cancer and heart disease research, costs the economy $80B, and threatens 300,000 jobs across red and blue states”

submitted 15 days ago • 24 comments