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RIP Gene Hackman

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It's embarrassing, destructive, and looks like shit: AI-generated art is the perfect aesthetic form for the far right argues @garethwatkins.bsky.social newsocialist.org.uk/transmission...

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Very sad news.

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Roberta Flack, rest in peace.

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President Donald Trump abruptly fired Air Force Gen. CQ Brown as chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff on Friday, sidelining a history-making fighter pilot and respected officer as part of a campaign to rid the military of leaders who support diversity and equity in the ranks.

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Only an idiot would think we should eliminate: - Emergency response in natural disasters - Education and healthcare for disabled children - Clean air and water programs - Gang crime investigations - Monitoring of nursing home abuse - Nuclear reactor regulation - Cancer research

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"[Musk] is trying to gut everything good in America for his own private profit. This is the culmination of what oligarchy is all about...the fusion and the capture of the billionaire class of our democracy." - @aoc.bsky.social with @fedworkersunited.bsky.social today #SaveOurServices

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School play gets canceled for "inappropriate content". In response students write [REDACTED], their own anti-censorship play skewering the school district, sells out performances, and ultimately takes gold at the Lenaea High School Theatre Festival. www.kqed.org/arts/1397192...

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And get her book on Weber, it’s essential.

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Go help your neighbor shovel, clear off a car. Share some salt if you can. Don’t be a jagoff.

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[Walt Whitman tries to tell a joke] A priest, rabbi, and minister walk into a bar, sailor-men, merchant-men, walk into a bar, Workmen and Workwomen! into a bar, Blacksmiths with grimed and hairy chests, the carpenter dressing his plank, president and prostitute walk into a b

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When someone says “why isn’t anyone DOING anything,” it sometimes seems to me that they’re looking for a superheroic action that saves the day rather than the kind of steady, human-scale work that actually is happening and could use your help if you have some time

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Charles Dickens (botd) to George Eliot, 18 Jan. 1858: “In addressing these few words of thankfulness to the creator of the sad fortunes of Mr. Amos Barton, and the sad love-story of Mr. Gilfil, I am (I presume) bound to adopt the name that it pleases that excellent writer to assume.

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Kit Kat Club, by Jeramy Turner, c. 1988

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Mobydick Hudson?

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Early film animation pioneer Lotte Reiniger’s poster, “The Tenth Muse,” with cut-out silhouette images of the nine traditional muses, plus the muse of cinema, “Cinoterpe,” rushing in with a reel of film.

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It’s a constitutional crisis yes. But it’s also theft. They’re looting public resources for private gain.

submitted 26 days ago • 11 comments

Smart science and real people working and writing ftw.

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These people are literally villains in a Charles Dickens novel

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“Looking round at the company with unearthly eyes.”

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George Eliot on AI-generated nonsense. From Impressions of Theophrastus Such.

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The angry response to the Bishop’s sermon is telling. They can't control our capacity for empathy, it's their kryptonite. It's a bucket of water on the wicked witch.

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New section just added: Wednesdays 2-4pm. www.newberry.org/calendar/mid...

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On @tcmtv.bsky.social at 1:45pm (ET), The Great Dictator, in which Charlie Chaplin found his voice: www.newyorker.com/culture/rich...

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i would like to celebrate david lynch by sharing maybe my favorite thing he ever did … a comic strip. www.lynchnet.com/angrydog/

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That's right. www.wbez.org/city-hall/20...

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Coming soon: Read & discuss George Eliot's Middlemarch in eight progressive sessions, starting March 6. We'll meet Thursday afternoons, via Zoom, as part of the wonderful Newberry Library Adult Education Program. For details see stevenjventurino.com. To register see www.newberry.org/calendar/mid...

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Neat little (6”x4”) volume of George Eliot’s Middlemarch, with illustrations by A. A. Dixon, published around 1910 as part of the Collins’ Illustrated Pocket Classics series.

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I know that as we begin the new year, there may be a sense of unease. Let me reassure you that Illinois remains a place of stability and competent governance. We will always invest in the well-being and prosperity of our people, no matter who is in the White House.

submitted 51 days ago • 120 comments

You’ve been kidnapped. The characters from the last TV show you watched are trying to rescue you. Who is coming to save you?

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Okay 2025, let’s go.

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“Dr Hamburger usefully reminds us that the fictional world is a verbally created world, not to be confused with the real world.” - David Lodge

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I would love to see a bunch of musical artists and celebrities put on a nationally televised tribute concert for Pres. Jimmy Carter on inauguration day with all proceeds going to Habitat for Humanity.

submitted 59 days ago • 2054 comments

RIP, Mr. President 💔

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Lois Weber’s SHOES teaches us that women’s wage equity is vital bec entire family eco-systems depend upon it — and that sexual predators thrive in environments of precarity. Still relevant 100+ years on.

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Not an overstatement to say Wikipedia is the greatest achievement in information ever. It's also the backbone of the internet. Google doesn't work without it, for instance. It's kind of the last, best thing really working for humans on the shared knowledge front. Can't let him mess with this.

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