Shirsho Dasgupta
@shirsho.bsky.social
journo @miamiherald.com in dc. man utd fan. ex-soccer writer. usually cooking, fiddling with a camera or encouraging americans to start watching cricket. 📩: dshirsho@protonmail.com; Signal: shirsho.09 📍dc
The capital’s rapid transit system, a testament to the value of good public design, is a work of Brutalist beauty and timeless civic dignity. on.wsj.com/4a22tUk
The Washington Metro, a Wonder Underground
The capital’s rapid transit system, a testament to the value of good public design, is a work of Brutalist beauty and timeless civic dignity.
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Delighted to be named a @umwallacehouse.bsky.social Livingston Award finalist for the SECOND (!!!) time in 3 years, after a year that was personally difficult and challenging in many respects. Thanks to David Smiley and @bwieder.bsky.social for the edits! wallacehouse.umich.edu/announcing-t...
Announcing the 2026 Livingston Awards Finalists
We proudly introduce this year's Livingston finalists and showcase their exceptional reporting. Read their names and work here.
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Jürgen Habermas, a philosopher and public intellectual who was one of the most influential and cited thinkers in postwar Germany, died on Saturday. He was 96.
Jürgen Habermas Dies at 96; One of Postwar Germany’s Most Influential Thinkers
In dozens of books, he rejected postmodern cynicism about truth and reason, arguing that rational communication was the best way to redeem democratic society.
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The Criterion Collection’s series of restored international films returns with a set featuring movies from Algeria, Burkina Faso, India and Kazakhstan. on.wsj.com/4r0wx9u
From Martin Scorsese’s World Cinema Project, a Gratifying Global Tour
The Criterion Collection’s series of restored international films returns with a set featuring movies from Algeria, Burkina Faso, India and Kazakhstan.
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“We (English) grow up with the narrative that Australian cricket has always reflected its red-rock interior: a place where hard men toil on hard wickets.” But an #Ashes trip Down Under shows #Australia protecting cricket’s soul in a way #England has lost www.theguardian.com/sport/2026/j...
England ruthlessly privatised cricket – Australia embraces it with constant public displays of affection | Emma John
If there is one takeaway for England from this Ashes tour it should be how cricket thrives in a nation where it is readily and freely available as the dominant summer pastime
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NEW: SEC was investigating Epstein before his death, Epstein Files reveal amp.miamiherald.com/news/busines...
SEC was investigating Epstein’s financial activities, new file release shows
Epstein claimed that his wealth was derived from managing money for wealthy clients, and famously bragged that he only took on billionaires.
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Ann Hermes spent six years photographing American newsrooms, from Juneau to St. Louis, forming a witty and elegiac portrait of local journalism in action. See her images. https://newyorkermag.visitlink.me/YCzYut
The Offices Only a Newsperson Could Love
Ann Hermes spent six years documenting American newsrooms, from Juneau to St. Louis, forming a witty and elegiac portrait of local journalism in action.
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NEW ESSAY — In the 17th century, emanating from Antwerp, a new genre of artwork came on the scene: paintings of paintings, works populated by a lush array of meta-images. Thea Applebaum Licht charts the course of this alluring aesthetic tradition: publicdomainreview.org/essay/cabine...
Niki Lauda batting during a charity cricket match featuring most Formula One drivers. It took place on July 21st 1974, the day after the British Grand Prix, at Brands Hatch
A high-grade copy of Superman No. 1, from 1939, closed at $7.6 million on Heritage Auctions on Thursday, making it the most expensive comic book sold at auction.
Superman Comic Sets Auction Record, Selling for $9.12 Million
A family’s forgotten copy of Superman No. 1, from 1939, was sold by Heritage Auctions.
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Other potential people Epstein considered included deceased Nobel Prize-winning scientist James Watson and Norwegian diplomat Terje Rød-Larsen.
Epstein turned to academic Chomsky, others to rehab image after Herald investigation
Other potential people Epstein considered included deceased Nobel Prize-winning scientist James Watson and Norwegian diplomat Terje Rød-Larsen.
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my favorite work-album turned 50 today
The Quietus@thequietus.com · 9mo ago'Another Green World is a thoughtful, melancholy, fragile record, arguably one of Eno’s most emotionally resonant moments...' Listen to John and Luke discussing this seminal album as #BrianEno's Another Green World turns 50 today! buff.ly/CiQ7g6F
40 years ago, three Norwegians turned a homemade melody into a pop revolution. “Take on Me” fills dance floors and still earns a formidable income for A-ha. The Post caught up with the 80s band to discuss the song’s unexpected afterlife.
‘Take On Me’ has been stuck in our heads for 40 years. Here’s how it got there.
“Take On Me,” the 1980s synth-pop hit song from the band A-ha, marks 40 years of global ubiquity even while personal disputes have chilled the Norwegian trio.
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NEW @miamiherald.com: Seniors in Miami-Dade — the county with the highest share of food stamp beneficiaries with one elderly member in the household — risk going hungry as federal government shutdown continues (GIFT LINK)
New shutdown problem: Miami is the U.S. capital for seniors on food stamps
Florida is warning families not to expect their EBT cards to be reloaded next month, increasing pressure on Congress to end the government shutdown.
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"Think not, is my eleventh commandment; and sleep when you can, is my twelfth." — Herman Melville; MOBY-DICK OR, THE WHALE
Last year a @merrillcollege.bsky.social grad student told me she wanted to build a news app about evictions in DC. Given the schedule and amount of work, it was an ambitious project. Taylor Nichols not only did it but got it published by a DC news org! streetsensedc.github.io/evictions-ap...
Mapping evictions in Washington, D.C.
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Buz Ecker, 67, and other dads his daughter has recruited have since spent hours writing to strangers looking for pick-me-ups — including to many whose fathers have died. The volunteer-run group is called the Dad Letter Project. https://wapo.st/4ngbcH0
One more note on Robert Redford and his particular type of on-screen hero: www.nytimes.com/2025/09/17/m...
Robert Redford’s Many Types of Heroes
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SCOOP: Over 200 contractors who work on improving Google’s AI products, including Gemini and AI Overviews, have been laid off, sources tell WIRED. It’s the latest development in a conflict over pay and alleged poor working conditions.
Hundreds of Google AI Workers Were Fired Amid Fight Over Working Conditions
Over 200 contractors who work on improving Google’s AI products, including Gemini and AI Overviews, have been laid off, sources tell WIRED. It’s the latest development in a conflict over pay and alleg...
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Books, magazines. and classrooms are great antidotes to the toxic rabbit holes of cable news, social media, ChatGPT, and video games. Unfortunately the resources of our society are devoted to building up the latter and destroying the former.
I guess this has probably already gone viral somewhere but I am simply dying at this picture of a bear that looks like it hired a photographer to do a glamour shoot
national gallery of art, washington, dc 📸 canon ae-1 program 🎞️ cinestill 800t [more photos on insta] #FilmPhotography #art
a wonderful, moving piece on the universe and the sublime!
The Vatican Observatory Looks to the Heavens
It’s run by a Michigan-born Jesuit—and a meteorite expert—known as the Pope’s Astronomer.
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Some French publishers are giving AI revenue directly to journalists. Could that ever happen in the U.S.? www.niemanlab.org/2025/09/in-f...
Some French publishers are giving AI revenue directly to journalists. Could that ever happen in the U.S.?
Le Monde agreed to give journalists 25% of revenue from licensing deals with OpenAI and Perplexity. Now, other French publishers are following suit.
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amtrak station, reno, nevada 📸 canon ae-1 program 🎞️ cinestill 800t [more photos on insta] #FilmPhotography
