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“Tech companies have found a way to market digital goods to lonely people, promising relief through connection, but this kind of connection isn’t the solution; it’s the problem,” writes Samantha Hill. nyti.ms/4ezcAB8

Read Samantha Rose Hill⁩ “The danger is not that A.I. will replace human connection. The danger is that it will make us forget what actual connection requires while eroding our ability to think for ourselves” nytimes.com/2025/07/07/opi… via @NYTOpinion

In which I write about how technology makes people lonely, then sells them a solution to loneliness in the form of technology. nytimes.com/2025/07/07/opi…

"In the last few weeks, I’ve visited Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, and Poland. They are under no illusion about what happens if Ukraine loses." thebulwark.com/p/if-we-dont-s…

Watch PBS DOCUMENTARY//This writer warned us about tyranny years ago. Will we listen now? wapo.st/3TNbXdX

It’s Publication Day for Sonita: Daughters for Sale, the extraordinary memoir in which rap artist and activist Sonita Alizada tells the story of her journey from child bride to global changemaker. Sonita’s message is clear: Dreams have the power to change lives ❤️

phoenix indeed youtube.com/watch?v=fY_mQX…

Poet and translator Mary de Rachewiltz is 100 today. She was born Maria Rudge, the daughter of violinist Olga Rudge and Ezra Pound. She translated her father’s Cantos into Italian.

I'm delighted to be joining the board of Archipelago Books, whose extraordinary list I have admired (and devoured) for many years. There is no better publisher of translated literature anywhere, and the books themselves are beautiful objects. Onward and upward!

Now they tell us.

Trump is going after James Comey and John Brennan. Will they go to jail? The president says "whatever happens, happens." But the damage to free speech may already be done. An aspiring strongman doesn't need to outlaw dissent to limit it. Read Garry Kasparov's latest. Link below.

I just heard from (the inimitable) poet Ann Lauterbach about the passing of (the inimitable) poet Fanny Howe. "Keen, in a deeply Irish way," said Ann.

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Music for New Bodies · Lincoln Center lincolncenter.org/series/summer-…