After every war someone has to tidy up. Things won’t pick themselves up, after all. Someone has to shove the rubble to the roadsides so the carts loaded with corpses can get by. -Wisława Szymborska, “The End and the Beginning” (t. Cavanagh & Barańczak) #everynightapoem #war

Books.

A random thought: it’s possible that the very same tool Russia used to divide other countries - social media - might be the tool that brings him down - as horrific images from this unjustified war are beamed out to the rest of the world.

Every American policy poll is like? Would you like *outcome*? Yes - 78% No - 22% Would you like to do the stuff necessary to achieve *outcome*? Yes - 16% No - 84%

It happened again: Amazon's online sales dropped for the second quarter in a row. Never thought I would see this. Stock is down 8 percent.

The saddest display of books in a public library is in Uvalde, Texas.

A Brief History of Nobody Wants to Work Anymore 🧵

We pretty seamlessly moved from Trump being the protagonist of reality to Musk

This change to Roald Dahl is so preposterously, laughably pointless it makes you wonder whether the publisher is aware that fiction is an act of creatively making things up.

60 Minutes I’m a HUGE fan of 60 Minutes, so I was surprised it did not give credit to the original reporting on this story. I read about it in The New York Times last year. It’s an important story, and glad it’s getting airtime, but credit where it’s due, please. nytimes.com/2022/09/16/tec…

incredible dedication to making sure guests have something to read on the toilet

Pretty clear this is the most likely scenario: - Wagner Group coup fails, leadership eliminated, widespread chaos. - Russia civil unrest, post-coup military aggression escalates. - International sanctions intensify, Russia's economy crippled. - Eurozone in chaos, Ukraine

WSJ Editor-in-Chief Emma Tucker to the newsroom this morning: “We need to remind people that we have an innocent journalist behind bars.” Please help us #FreeEvan and support his family. #IStandWithEvan #100Days

Amazon warehouse injury trial Day 4: interesting testimony from a state ergonomic expert witness who conducted inspections of an Amazon warehouse. She's painting a picture of a snitches get stitches culture in the warehouse with supervisors obstructing their data collection.

Silicon Valley needs the humanities—and humanity, writes David Streitfeld nytimes.com/2023/11/02/tec…

The Russian army has eliminated almost all Ukrainian literature in the occupied territories of Donetsk & Luhansk reg. Acc. to the National Resistance Center, any Ukrainian books published in 1994-2021 are positioned as “extremist literature”. At the same time, in 2023, about 2.5M

Most know Paul Volcker as the legendary Fed Chair. Fewer know how he loved cooking turkey for Thanksgiving & was a master at it. He never told me the secret recipe but hinted that port basting was key. So now I make gravy with port as an homage to the big guy Happy Thanksgiving