The crisis of imagination that I’ve been loudly talking about for years extends to this: using the most basic art reference to ask the most basic question, “what if there was a back to this room?”

The art of spending time with chair

prompted influencers reacting to prompt theory 😳

This is easily one of the top 10 non-fiction books of the decade. The Epilogue presents the exciting potential of post-secular scholarship in which academia, returning to its roots, takes the miraculous seriously.

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very wound

ummmm William Eliot kind of way better than the painting...

The strangest and most amazing output for "1928 Mickey Mouse with a very, very tall forehead" from flux 1.1 pro ultra

Been making some 'wounds in the wild' type paintings The first one is called Hyde Park Wounds and the second one is as if the whole sky was a wound

Why don’t they just tokenize the oil in the Middle East and transport it across permissionless financial rails, thereby avoiding the Strait of Hormuz altogether

seal doing astral projection

From this month’s Harper’s— a list of taglines from startups that Y Combinator is funding. Chipotle for Africa.

I really, really loved this Hannah Gold piece on Ben Lerner in the new issue of Harper's Magazine. The best piece of criticism I've read in a good long while. This is a repost because I tagged the wrong Hannah Gold the first time — sorry! harpers.org/archive/2026/0…