Thinking about his (impending?) mortality.

A look under the skin of a hyper-realistic robot

What you doing in this situation?

Kirk Cui bono?

Once again, Epstein has been pushed off the radar screen.

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These seven words from William Butler Yeats leave a more lasting impression than 700,000+ words of psychometric wrangling over the linkages between personality and ideology

Very impressive

This is how orphaned ravens are fed to keep them wild before release

as an English professor, I’d go as far to say these days I’m excited to see typos & fragments & run on sentences & page-long paragraphs & awkward word choices & any imperfection that suggests a human being sat down to do the very hard thing of writing a college paper.

Demolition crews have begun tearing down part of the White House to build President Trump’s long-desired ballroom — despite his pledge that construction of the $250 million addition wouldn’t “interfere” with the existing building. wapo.st/3WOyU1A

Just another day in OZ

Of course this is what he is doing to America itself as well.

Great and optimistic take on literary fiction nytimes.com/2025/10/20/opi…

Mamdani didn't just beat Cuomo -- he also defeated the NY Post, the Wall Street Journal, Elon Musk, the New York Times, Dem establishment, Republicans, Donald Trump, real estate guys, Chuck Schumer, billionaires. That's impressive.

Mamdani was what so many politicians, law firms, universities, media companies, and others have not been: totally, completely, authentically unafraid. That's the only way to defeat authoritarianism.

Airhead to the max.

If you read one thing today, this week, this month or this year, make it Anthony Quinn's tribute to his wonderful wife Rachel Cooke, the most powerful, funny and affecting thing I've seen in print I can remember. observer.co.uk/style/features…

Irony is dead.