On this day 104 years ago, one of the most important events in America labor history occurred that very few know about: the Battle of Blair Mountain 🧵

"It Rains" by French poet, playwright and novelist Guillaume Apollinaire born #onthisday in 1880. From his posthumously published Calligrammes (1918), a collection of poems in which typeface + arrangement of words on the page add to their meanings: publicdomainreview.org/collection/apo… #otd

"...increasing reports of people having delusional conversations with chatbots..." one doesn't know whether to cry or laugh or shrug or scroll to the next absurdity.

This article places the Davis-Paul exhibition alongside sports-entertainment events like the Savannah Bananas and the NBA Slam Dunk contest. That assessment feels about right to me.

You could also put on your Nikes and go to THE LONG WALK. Preems the same day.

an unexpectedly touching/uplifting ending to Spike Lee's "Highest 2 Lowest." a kind of urban Black fairy tale that could have swerved in a very dark direction but instead takes an unpredictable turn toward the light confirming family, values of loyalty & friendship.

all depends upon the quiet power of Denzel Washington to invest a somewhat underwritten figure with nobility, warmth; though overall not so galvanizing a film as the great "Malcolm X" or excruciatingly suspenseful "BlackkKlansman" -- still very engaging & ingenious in the

shhh!--don't tell T***p, he would immediately rescind this. "too DEI.... all this 'equality.'"

The Waterfall #artbots #rousseau

Joyce Carol Oates In the 90s with Usenet we could start seeing empathy erode where folks would go online and flame and troll others without any caring for its effects. It mushroomed to cyberbullying which turned lethal. Internet brought isolation and erosion of empathy this is the result.

yes, we are all Harry Lime on the ferris wheel peering down at "tiny scurrying ants...." would it really matter, Harry Lime/ Mephistopheles asks, if one of those tiny ants dies? in "The Third Man" the protagonist is appalled by the query; in the era of the Internet, the query

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between "Sinners" & "Highest 2 Lowest" what is celebrated is music; in both films, absolutely riveting music scenes. (& in "Sinners," fantastic dance scenes like none other.) yet, one film ends with a Tarantino-type bloodbath (in the racist South of decades ago) & in the other

not sure about this. isn't ICE recruiting for unpaid volunteers to help with their detaining, arrests, incarcerations? these would indeed be MAGA volunteers who would supply their own weapons.

Joyce Carol Oates I heard they were paying very high starting salaries and forgiving student loans as well. South Park mocked this in a recent episode where the school’s guidance counselor is fired so he goes to work for ICE.

Sometimes I wonder if the ghost of Nixon is looking up at Rump America and seeing all the rot and snarling in disgust: "Watergate, really? A break-in? Are you kidding me?" Joyce Carol Oates .

What a photo. If I was Charlotte I would have this framed.

Fascinating! I've never heard of this before.

A Bresson I've never seen! I hope this has a blue Ray release soon.