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Tbh I didn’t realize until this very moment that Rachel Cusk and Rachel Kushner are different people
In “Life of M,” the writer Rachel Cusk’s supposed portrayal of the actress Natalie Portman has caused a literary scandal. Cusk “is its perpetrator, victim and beneficiary,” Parul Sehgal writes.
Rachel Cusk Tried to Caricature Natalie Portman. She Only Caricatured Herself.
Her latest novel appears to savage a celebrity. But Cusk has, once again, managed to turn herself into the victim.
nyti.ms
August 29, 2026 at 2:52 PM
Tbh I didn’t realize until this very moment that Rachel Cusk and Rachel Kushner are different people
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KAREN O is a perfect anagram of KOREAN
July 27, 2026 at 7:23 PM
KAREN O is a perfect anagram of KOREAN
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never forget that they shouldn’t even be here
July 19, 2026 at 9:38 PM
never forget that they shouldn’t even be here
MOARRRRR
Chicago bike lane ticketing program records big fines against delivery companies. Solid reporting by @adquig.bsky.social @taliasoglin.bsky.social www.chicagotribune.com/2026/07/19/b...
Chicago bike lane ticketing program records big fines against delivery companies
A bike lane ticketing program meant to make busy downtown streets safer for cyclists and pedestrians has found package delivery giants among its most consistent scofflaws.
www.chicagotribune.com
July 19, 2026 at 3:36 PM
MOARRRRR
Blessed with 2 swallowtails today 🫶
July 7, 2026 at 4:38 PM
Blessed with 2 swallowtails today 🫶
the meaty forehead of harry kane
July 6, 2026 at 1:28 AM
the meaty forehead of harry kane
It does seem to me, that herein we see the rare virtue of a strong individual vitality, & the rare virtue of thick walls, & the rare virtue of interior spaciousness. Oh, man! […] model thyself after the whale! Do thou, too, remain warm among ice. Do thou, too, live in this world without being of it.
July 4, 2026 at 8:20 PM
It does seem to me, that herein we see the rare virtue of a strong individual vitality, & the rare virtue of thick walls, & the rare virtue of interior spaciousness. Oh, man! […] model thyself after the whale! Do thou, too, remain warm among ice. Do thou, too, live in this world without being of it.
The coneflowers are finally popping off
July 2, 2026 at 4:37 PM
The coneflowers are finally popping off
Time for carajillo to dethrone espresso martini
June 27, 2026 at 7:11 PM
Time for carajillo to dethrone espresso martini
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english isn't for cowards. if you're not saying 'torpify,' that's a skill issue. there's no Académie Française telling you what to do. if you try to type 'pallific' and freak out when you see a little red underline, maybe you're not ready to roll with the big dogs.
June 5, 2026 at 5:52 PM
english isn't for cowards. if you're not saying 'torpify,' that's a skill issue. there's no Académie Française telling you what to do. if you try to type 'pallific' and freak out when you see a little red underline, maybe you're not ready to roll with the big dogs.
Another beautiful morning on the blue line 🚬
May 13, 2026 at 1:15 PM
Another beautiful morning on the blue line 🚬
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For me, the question isn’t whether generating art with AI is good or bad. It’s just definitionally impossible. Art is what humans create to express the nonliteral. An algorithm, however much data it has, has no sense of the nonliteral. It might make something that pleases you, but it can’t make art.
It may “soon be unpersuasive to say that art made with A.I. is automatically fake or bad,” Joshua Rothman writes. “The tools themselves won’t determine what counts as art; that will depend on how they’re used.” www.newyorker.com/culture/open...
Is It Wrong to Write a Book with A.I.?
The horror novel “Shy Girl” was cancelled for being generated at least partly through artificial intelligence. Would we ever accept such a book as art?
www.newyorker.com
April 4, 2026 at 4:39 PM
For me, the question isn’t whether generating art with AI is good or bad. It’s just definitionally impossible. Art is what humans create to express the nonliteral. An algorithm, however much data it has, has no sense of the nonliteral. It might make something that pleases you, but it can’t make art.
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Today is also the anniversary of FDR's signing of Executive Order 9066, which authorized the forced removal of 120,000 Japanese Americans from the West Coast.
February 19—not a great day in American history!
February 19—not a great day in American history!
On this day in 1923, the U.S. Supreme Court *unanimously* decided that people of South Asian descent could not be American citizens, and retroactively stripped citizenship from many who had already been naturalized. Years of organized persecution followed. www.saada.org/explore/publ...
United States of America vs. Vaishno Das Bagai | SAADA | TIDES Magazine
The Thind decision dealt a devastating blow to all South Asians in the United States, especially those who had become naturalized citizens. It disrupted dreams. It put already vulnerable people at fur...
www.saada.org
February 19, 2026 at 6:15 PM
Today is also the anniversary of FDR's signing of Executive Order 9066, which authorized the forced removal of 120,000 Japanese Americans from the West Coast.
February 19—not a great day in American history!
February 19—not a great day in American history!
Final project for my letterpress class:
“Those / with the smallest hearts have / the greatest freedom.”
Louise Glück
“Those / with the smallest hearts have / the greatest freedom.”
Louise Glück
February 14, 2026 at 4:00 PM
Final project for my letterpress class:
“Those / with the smallest hearts have / the greatest freedom.”
Louise Glück
“Those / with the smallest hearts have / the greatest freedom.”
Louise Glück
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Really hard to look at this and all the other examples of bravery and kindness from ordinary people in this moment not think also of the tremendous cowardice exhibited over the past year by some of the richest, most well-protected people in business, media and politics
Let us all have the courage displayed by the residents of Minneapolis.
January 25, 2026 at 2:24 PM
Really hard to look at this and all the other examples of bravery and kindness from ordinary people in this moment not think also of the tremendous cowardice exhibited over the past year by some of the richest, most well-protected people in business, media and politics
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Kare 11 local news just read, in full, this statement from Michael and Susan Pretti, the parents of Alex Pretti.
"Please get the truth out about our son."
"Please get the truth out about our son."
January 25, 2026 at 12:43 AM
Kare 11 local news just read, in full, this statement from Michael and Susan Pretti, the parents of Alex Pretti.
"Please get the truth out about our son."
"Please get the truth out about our son."
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Alex Pretti, the man shot by ICE in Minneapolis, appears to have previously worked with the federal government at the VA.
There is a photo of him on the VA website, where he’s cited as part of a medical research team.
www.vacsp.research.va.gov/CSP_2004/CSP...
There is a photo of him on the VA website, where he’s cited as part of a medical research team.
www.vacsp.research.va.gov/CSP_2004/CSP...
January 24, 2026 at 7:34 PM
Alex Pretti, the man shot by ICE in Minneapolis, appears to have previously worked with the federal government at the VA.
There is a photo of him on the VA website, where he’s cited as part of a medical research team.
www.vacsp.research.va.gov/CSP_2004/CSP...
There is a photo of him on the VA website, where he’s cited as part of a medical research team.
www.vacsp.research.va.gov/CSP_2004/CSP...
Counterpoint: there are no records to break. Birding is not a competition.
He's done it again
I first wrote about Tarik Shahzad last year after he broke the Cook County birding record with 294 species
This time he did it with 296 species and his record-breaking bird was a whooping crane, an animal that was almost extinct 80 years ago
blockclubchicago.org/2026/01/15/n...
I first wrote about Tarik Shahzad last year after he broke the Cook County birding record with 294 species
This time he did it with 296 species and his record-breaking bird was a whooping crane, an animal that was almost extinct 80 years ago
blockclubchicago.org/2026/01/15/n...
Northwest Sider Breaks Birding Record Again — This Time With Rare Whooping Crane Sighting
Norwood Park resident Tarik Shahzad spotted 296 species of birds in 2025, breaking the Cook County Birding Big Year record for the second year in a row.
blockclubchicago.org
January 15, 2026 at 5:44 PM
Counterpoint: there are no records to break. Birding is not a competition.
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And now your moment of zen:
January 12, 2026 at 3:26 PM
And now your moment of zen:
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Protesters Urged Not To Give Trump Administration Pretext For What It Already Doing https://theonion.com/protesters-urged-not-to-give-trump-administration-pretext-for-what-it-already-doing/
January 12, 2026 at 4:00 PM
Protesters Urged Not To Give Trump Administration Pretext For What It Already Doing https://theonion.com/protesters-urged-not-to-give-trump-administration-pretext-for-what-it-already-doing/