A reminder that the LACMA now has over 22,000 images for reuse in the public domain—out of which, over 3,000 are from premodernity. Open access! collections.lacma.org/search?publi... (side note, I love this late antique Sassanian pear-shaped 🍐 bottle from modern Iran! I am sure Augustine would too…)
Lincoln: “It is not ‘can any of us imagine better?’ but ‘can we all do better?’…The fiery trial thru which we pass will light us down in honor or dishonor to the latest generation…We know how to save the Union. The world knows we know...We shall nobly save or meanly lose the last best hope of earth“
When People or TMZ report on a lawsuit filed on a Saturday, and don’t link to the complaint, they’re more or less acting as the plaintiff’s PR team, not as journalists. It’s clear they got leaked a copy (or in People’s case maybe just a summary) and decided to run what amounts to a press release.
What happens to DOJ under Todd Blanche? What does a new DNI mean for Section 702? Are unsubstantiated voter fraud claims in LA a preview of 2026?
@sranderson.bsky.social, @michael-feinberg.bsky.social, @mollyroberts.bsky.social & @benjaminwittes.lawfaremedia.org discuss: youtu.be/0E4Mg2uHcYo?...
If orbital A.I. data centers are a good idea because space is cold (an idea that puts the B in Dum), why not save the huge extra cost and maintenance hassles by just building them in the arctic? Greenland has lots of undeveloped frigid tundra, for example.
ohhhh my god I didn’t realize this existed, this is still terrifying 🖤🙀
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Phil Tippet test footage for Jurassic Park
Ok DC. What are you live-streaming tonight, now you’ve got the taste for it?
Cake season in the Calarco house continues with a perennial favorite: a homemade giant squid-attacking-a-pirate-ship cake for my 9-year-old's birthday party.
Sarah E. Bond
This is an interesting article most of all for the glimpse inside D'Souza's head, which appears to not understand that people who are not rich are human, and contains this ending statement, which is not startling for its conclusion, but instead the question.
Trouble is, some GOP lawyers must also have read James C Scott and know about foot dragging, false compliance, evasion, dissimulation etc. The Kennedy Centre now even looks like the cover of his book.
