A morning of light so thick and lovely I want to slather it all over myself

I remember watching this live! Leave it to the Georgetown grad to get the picture done. Yes, Bradley Cooper is a Georgetown grad (College, Class of 1997, majored in French). Anthony Clark Arend Tom Nichols

Well, that about sums it up nicely.

This week in the #wordsworth I got down and dirty in the Russian word-soup of fakes, frauds, falsities and fallacies. Lots of f-words. Lots of interesting ways to break the law. Be careful out there! themoscowtimes.com/2024/03/22/fak…

How a person would see you 80 light years away

I just found out Mandy Patinkin also sings, and it's a bit unnerving that one person can have this much talent and still be humble. Geez. Listen to his gorgeous rendition of "Somewhere Over the Rainbow."

Someone reportedly self-immolated outside the Manhattan courthouse where the Trump trial is happening

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As the good-enough chickens come home to roost, the AI techbros flap their wings, and some translators squawk/cluck, read this: Did we give up before AI arrived? seths.blog/2024/06/did-we…

BIDEN HAS WITHDRAWN FROM RACE. Just breaking on his X account. Announcement attached.

Fin'l xlators: it occurs that this article by Martin Sandbu would be good fodder for a slam. Topical, insightful, nuanced. Kamala Harris and America’s broken capitalism ft.com/content/41d31b… via @ft

Welche Sprache sind am schwierigsten zu lernen? Unser Sprachkolumnist Lane Greene erklärt warum econ.st/3ZgIOLP Dieses Video wurde mithilfe von KI übersetzt

I do in fact speak German. But this is my voice, taken from the English original, translated and turned into audio German (and corresponding mouth movements) by AI. I think its German is better than mine is, to be entirely honest.

"But reading in bed is more than just a way to pass the time; it is a kind of solitude. One retreats into oneself, letting the body rest, making oneself distant, inaccessible, hidden from the world." Alberto Manguel, "A History of Reading"

Entering Oxford. Feeling a rush of emotions. I just left Amsterdam, where my aunt lives. She told me that my education was revenge. Vengeance against her father, who banned women of our family from school, vengeance against the Taliban, and those who fear an educated woman.

This is today! At the The Center for Fiction and online—please join us at lunchtime* if you can! *NY. Brunchtime Chicago, dinnertime Lviv. Etc. Angelenos’ smoothietime.

And remember when all those dudes piled on to diss the work of a first-time translator back in 2016? If she hadn't challenged herself and gone out on a limb to champion the work of a writer she loved, Han Kang might still be unknown outside Korea. Thank you, Deborah Smith! ❤️❤️

I am honoured to find my translation shortlisted for this inaugural edition of a new prize celebrating the Entente Cordiale.