My heart breaks for mathematicians whose lives and careers are being destroyed by AI — and especially this PhD student, who doesn’t even know he is a poet
Rep. Delia Ramirez Introduces Landmark Bill to Abolish DHS, ICE, and CBP truthout.org/articles/rep...
Rep. Delia Ramirez Introduces Landmark Bill to Abolish DHS, ICE, and CBP
The Department of Homeland Security was established in 2002 as part of the Bush administration’s war on terror.
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Breaking News: The Nobel Prize in Literature was awarded to the Canadian poet and essayist Anne Carson. nyti.ms/4yCUebH
Anne Carson Is Awarded Nobel Prize in Literature
The writer joins a list of laureates that includes Toni Morrison, Samuel Beckett and Bob Dylan.
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Congratulations to Francis Halzen, founder of the IceCube Neutrino Observatory, for receiving the Nobel Prize in physics. Halzen is recognised for his contributions to neutrino astrophysics, using the observatory at the South Pole that he proposed and led. ☄️🔭⚛️🧪 www.nobelprize.org/prizes/physi...
Nobel Prize in Physics 2026
The Nobel Prize in Physics 2026 was awarded to Francis Halzen “for decisive contributions to the IceCube Neutrino Observatory and the discovery of high-energy neutrinos of astrophysical origin.”
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The IceCube neutrino detector has won the 2026 Nobel Prize in physics. The Trump administration has proposed slashing its budget in half in 2027.
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The Border Wall Just “Decapitated” a 7,000-Year-Old Arizona Carving Created Before Stonehenge and Egypt’s Pyramids
A newly dated 272-foot rock carving in Cabeza Prieta National Wildlife Refuge was severely damaged by border contractors, exposing a growing threat to public lands, outdoor access, and sacred Indigeno...
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George Saunders on using AI: "Writing is the most precious way one person can communicate their essence to another person. I’ve spent a lifetime trying to get better at making myself present in my writing. Why would I want to sacrifice even one iota of that?"
Choosing an episode of Grand Designs to watch: "And how much hubris do we want?"
Unpaid volunteers are the backbone of institutions like these, and their work often goes unsung. So when a governing body, for instance, lets go of a museum's volunteer coordinator in the dead of night, that tells you they might not, in fact, have said museum's best interests in mind.
NBC News' Claudio Lavanga asked Pope Leo if he had anything to do with Chicago White Sox 'miraculous' historic ride to the playoffs during the pope's flight to Paris.
The full trailer for You Can See Everything is out today. And my first thought is that it should be required that Nathan Fielder film for 48 hrs at every tech CEO’s home.
One year ago this week we lost the great writer Kaleb Horton. I am still very sorry that I won't ever get to read anything new by him ever again. Today his partner @katehascats.bsky.social joins us to write about her experience of loss and grief.
There is only before and after he died
Losing Kaleb
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RFK Jr. wants people to get sick. He wants them to get sick and he thinks it is a good thing if they die, since those who live will have "natural immunity" and emerge stronger and fitter.
Kathleen Bachynski@bachynski.bsky.social · last mo.“On Thursday, Mr. Gorton said that “the success of the polio vaccine was a massive medical fraud” and that widespread vaccination was a “public health disaster.” He received a standing ovation… Mr. Kennedy spoke next, linking arms with the group even as measles cases continue to rise”
if canada can join the EU i think they should find a way to sneak new orleans in there too
Let me tell you a story about how top-end menswear retail transformed over the last hundred years. 🧵
The piece of writing that has most stuck with me from the immediate aftermath of 9/11 is this from Hunter S Thompson www.espn.com/page2/s/thom...
The Roaring 20s are back baby, everyone is still mentally ill from a plague and a war, importing Canadian booze is illegal, James Carville is alive
A long-awaited title is finally available for preorder! As usual, a wide variety of info on display: neighborhoods that have survived the most foreclosures, where to grab a Chicago dog, or where peregrine falcons have been spotted. I’d love to hear guesses/predictions for what else made it in!
Chicago in 50 Maps
By Daniel Block & Andrea Craft April 6, 2027 This is a pre-order. Copies will ship in April 2027. Creative, colorful, original new maps of Chicago from local cartographers. For Chicagoans new and ...
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The rules are fake. My mouth is AGAPE. If you know the racial dynamics of academia, this is WILD. "Mr. Bundi estimates he wrote more than 2,500 essays over the next 12 years, sometimes three a day. He balanced completing his public health degree with helping faraway students [...] finish theirs."
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My personal art theft story: a guy got drunk at a street fest, ran out of money, stole a sculpture from a museum I worked at, tried to sell it at an antique store down the street for more beer money
The New York Times@nytimes.com · 2mo agoTwo men stole a diamond necklace once owned by an Egyptian queen from a museum in Vienna on Thursday, the Austrian police said, adding that they were searching for the thieves.
To anyone who does not live in Paris but visits the city at regular intervals (as I do), the transformation has been staggering: Paris has been reclaimed from cars. It can be done, and could be done in London too. It is all about political will and taking the risk of being unpopular - for a while.
Brent Toderian@brenttoderian.bsky.social · 2mo ago“Paris has embarked on a grand transformation, planting 155k trees, adding hundreds of kms of bike lanes, pedestrianising 300 school streets and banning cars from the banks of the Seine. Parking has been turned into green space…Fewer parents fear their child being run over when they walk to school.”
Our son likes Legos so we've put together many many sets over the years. Inevitably I get to the point with one or another where I think there was a mistake: they forgot a piece or missed a step in the directions. And just as inevitably I realize the error was mine. Their quality control is insane.