"By the end of 2030," reports NYT, the amount of energy used by data centers"is expected to quadruple, eclipsing the power used by all countries in South America and Africa combined." This is extinctionism.
We are given only a limited number of truly perfect summer days in our time on Earth. One of the more insidious cruelties of fossil fuel greed is how it slowly strips those days from us, more and more throughout our lifetimes, perhaps without us even realizing what we have lost.
Another stolen summer day
What are we still waiting to learn?
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‘dear rax, my middle class parents are ashamed that i clean houses for a living’ www.patreon.com/posts/160262...
sorry, i work at a university in a red state, and it’s illegal for the women & gender studies faculty to spend research money to attend their conferences. what in the fuck are they talking about
Larry Glickman@larryglickman.bsky.social · 3mo agoWhat “distressing” ideas? How are they “cocooned”? It’s amazing how much publicity one can get by reinforcing cliches that accord so little with the experiences of so many of us who actually teach college students.
“Another enormous release day. Where is the benign millionaire who will fund a new book criticism publication so that more of these books will get coverage? Where are you??? Were you at the Met Gala last night looking stupid?” Go @maris.bsky.social Go! www.themarisreview.com/the-maris-re...
The Maris Review, vol 103
This week's theme is the excesses of girlhood What I read this week Last Night in Brooklyn by Xochitl Gonzalez It's been a long time since a novel has captured a particular time and a place with s...
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“Within a week she seemed back to normal. What I didn’t know was that measles can cause long-term complications. A child can seem fine while the virus slowly replicates in her brain, poised to exact a terrible toll years later…. Parents should know just how dangerous this disease is.”
Opinion | Measles Took My Daughter. This Is What I Want Everyone to Know.
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All our best qualities as human beings are the ones we also share with animals
Thrilled to write about @waynekoestenbaum.bsky.social and his new novel, an immersion in gay sex, erotic yearning and religious self-knowledge unlike any I've ever read. Glad @nymag.com and @vulture.com let me wax rhapsodic on this one. www.vulture.com/article/wayn...
I’m Obsessed With This Novel About a Gay Romance
Wayne Koestenbaum’s My Lover, the Rabbi is a hilarious depiction of an intense infatuation.
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Had the good fortune to talk a bit about Oldster Magazine with Kasia Pilat at The New York Times. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/03/s...
When Life Gave Her Ageism, She Created Oldster
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Thank you to the folks at @literaryhub.bsky.social for publishing this essay about, among other things, what I learned from my teacher Louise Glück, and from reading @garthgreenwell.bsky.social
Lit Hub@literaryhub.bsky.social · 6mo ago@ds-waldman.bsky.social considers his own poetic voice alongside those of mentors and peers like Louise Glück and Garth Greenwell.
Sort of gives away the lie that they're arresting hardened criminals who are drags on society when they're setting up traps to lure in Good Samaritans
Tina-Desiree Berg@tinadesireeberg.com · 6mo agoCCTV footage appears to show DHS agents posing as people having car trouble in order to lure a target out of his house before arresting them. The target comes out and starts helping them before 3 vehicles surround the scene. The car "experiencing" trouble then drives off with them.
The current regime took a week to abolish USAID, which is three times as old and was not in the news every day for brutalizing children
Veerender Singh Jubbal@veerenderjubbal.bsky.social · 6mo ago“We cannot just abolish ICE!” Bestie, you are older than ICE.
After 20 years, I've been laid off at The Washington Post. substack.com/home/post/p-...
I’ve Been Laid Off. I’m Not Done.
After 20 years at The Washington Post, I’m suddenly on my own — and still writing about books.
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As Bezos's Washington Post announces sweeping layoffs this morning ...
Peter Baker@peterbakernyt.bsky.social · 6mo ago
Definitely worth noting since it wasn't announced in that way.
Jonathan L. Fischer@jonfischer.bsky.social · 6mo agoIt is worth noting the Post slashed the bulk of its arts coverage, including most of the critics, ending a great tradition in journalism.
BREAKING: Bernie Sanders is introducing an amendment to cut ICE’s $75 billion funding increase, and to use those funds to restore the federal cuts to health care.
I had an election night stress dream in which I was really happy Biden won (embarrassing), and also he had a mullet (very cool, actually)
Thanks to @thebaffler.com for publishing “Pt. Reyes,” a poem about love and microdosing with friends it’s drawn from ATRIA, out next month w/ @liveright.bsky.social @wwnorton.com
I wrote about @somers.bsky.social's The Ten Year Affair, which is not only one of the funniest novels I've read in a long time, but one of the most thought provoking: patricknathan.substack.com/p/the-horror...
The Horror of the Husband
Anna novels, Emma novels, and the original romantasy: fiction about affairs
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The environment flows through our bodies, altering our trajectories in ways medicine is just starting to see. "Your 'environment' could be the refinery a town over, the lead in the paint of your mother’s home, the plastic sheath of a Hot Pocket you microwaved in 1996." www.wired.com/story/scient...
Scientists Thought Parkinson’s Was in Our Genes. It Might Be in the Water
New ideas about chronic illness could revolutionize treatment, if we take the research seriously.
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The Ten Year Affair is NPR’s Book of the Day. Thank you, NPR!!!
'The Ten Year Affair,' 'Sex of the Midwest' look at the role of sex in domestic life : NPR's Book of the Day
Two new books examine how sex fits into suburban and small-town life, respectively. First, Erin Somers explores marriage and desire in her novel The Ten Year Affair. In today’s episode, she speaks wit...
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At this point, anyone—a university, a law firm, a corporation, a Democrat—bending the knee to Trump is doing it because they want to, not because of any political reality.
Amazon is helping fund a $300 million build of a ballroom for the White House. Independent bookstores are donating to food banks and organizations that help with food insecurity. They are not the same.