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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 1d

BlackRock is seeking to buy Aligned Data Centers, a data center construction company.

It’s also going to buy AES, one of the major power providers for Big Tech data centers.

While these data centers drive up your electricity costs, wealthy financiers are going to make a killing.

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Eliot Higgins @eliothiggins.bsky.social · 2d

Casually announcing plans to murder American citizens for wrongthink.

Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 2d

My gosh. After the US bombed multiple boats in the middle of the ocean, murdering people on grounds that they were allegedly "carrying drugs," the US Attorney General says "Just like we did with cartels, we're going to take the same approach, President Trump, with Antifa."

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Jstheater @jstheater.bsky.social · 1d

So scrap that earlier post, bc as Kári Tulinius pointed out, the great José Saramago (Portugal) did receive the Nobel Prize. No Brazilian or Lusophone African writer has ever won it, though a number of the former have been nominated. Some very good ones writing today too!

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Jstheater @jstheater.bsky.social · 1d

Ah yes! They did honor him. How could I have forgotten?

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Jstheater @jstheater.bsky.social · 1d

Heading in the correct direction: After success of pilot, Ireland expands basic support payments for artists, making them permanent: www.irishtimes.com/politics/202...

Basic income support scheme for artists to be made permanent and opened to new entrants in budget

Negotiations down to the wire, with five big-spending departments yet to agree their budget allocations

www.irishtimes.com

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Jstheater @jstheater.bsky.social · 1d

It just struck me that no Lusophone writer has ever received the Nobel Prize for Literature. Is this correct? There are many great contemporary writers across the Lusophone world, so some should be in the mix over the next few years.

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Jstheater @jstheater.bsky.social · 1d

More from the Nobel passed-over list: Kraus, Huch, George, E.A. Robinson, Croce, Wilder, Dreiser, E.L. Masters, Valéry, Feuchtwanger, Jammes, Remarque, Čapek, Upton Sinclair, Beerbohm, Ortega y Gasset, Chesterton, Unamuno, Masefield, Freud, Giono, Huxley, Sandburg, Silone, etc.

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Jstheater @jstheater.bsky.social · 1d

More Nobeliana: Fascinating to see the list of Nobel nominees, including numerous major authors who were passed over (Zola, Tolstoy, Meredith, Swinburne, Twain, Howells, Loti, Strindberg, James, Pérez Galdos, Hofmannsthal, HG Wells, Huidobro, Claudel, Wharton, etc.): en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of...

List of nominees for the Nobel Prize in Literature - Wikipedia

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Jstheater @jstheater.bsky.social · 1d

Congrats to this year's MacArthur Foundation Fellows, incl Harvard math prof Lauren Williams, whose mathematical work has applications for an array of phenomena (tsunamis, protein synthesis, etc): news.harvard.edu/gazette/stor...

2025 MacArthur Foundation Fellows: www.macfound.org/programs/awa...

Lauren Williams awarded MacArthur ‘genius grant’ — Harvard Gazette

Math professor honored for theoretical breakthroughs with sometimes surprising applications across phenomena such as tsunamis, traffic.

news.harvard.edu

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Jstheater @jstheater.bsky.social · 1d

😆
PS: I will say that I met him a few years ago at Greenlight Bookstore in Brooklyn & he was very nice. We talked briefly about how Gerald Murnane had learned Hungarian to read works in the original in that language!

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Jstheater @jstheater.bsky.social · 1d

This account of the series of discoveries by this year's Nobel Prize laureates in #chemistry, honored for creating a tool with immense storage & potential, akin to Hermione's magical handbag in the Harry Potter novels, is enthralling (takeaway: don't give up): www.nobelprize.org/prizes/chemi...

Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2025

The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2025 was awarded jointly to Susumu Kitagawa, Richard Robson and Omar M. Yaghi "for the development of metal–organic frameworks"

www.nobelprize.org

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Jstheater @jstheater.bsky.social · 1d

Reposting some things I posted on the devil's site: Congrats to László Krasnahorkai & all of his translators & publishers, including New Directions Publishing Corp. You can find quite a catalogue of his work in English translation here: www.ndbooks.com/author/laszl...

László Krasznahorkai

New Directions was founded in 1936, when James Laughlin (1914–1997), then a twenty-two-year-old Harvard sophomore, issued the first of the New Directions anthologies.

www.ndbooks.com

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Pedro Yokes @pedroyokes.bsky.social · 8d

They rapelled down from Blackhawk helicopters in this raid.

I promise you this raid was done for a cinematic 4K promo video that will be released shortly. This stuff doesn’t just happen. It’s almost always for digital content.

Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 8d

ICE is running around Chicago harassing people for not being white.

Just a year ago, that was illegal in the United States and now it’s commonplace.

That’s not making America great again.

South Shore Residents Return To Ransacked Apartments After ICE Raid: 'It Looks Like Hell'

A "now renting" sign outside touts granite countertops. Inside, residents are trying to make sense of the raid that made their already neglected building even worse.

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Todd Wolfson @proftwolf.bsky.social · 8d

As president of @aaup.org I stand with Governor Newsom. Every single democratic governor should follow suit

Governor Gavin Newsom @governor.ca.gov · 8d

IF ANY CALIFORNIA UNIVERSITY SIGNS THIS RADICAL AGREEMENT, THEY'LL LOSE BILLIONS IN STATE FUNDING — INCLUDING CAL GRANTS — INSTANTLY.

CALIFORNIA WILL NOT BANKROLL SCHOOLS THAT SELL OUT THEIR STUDENTS, PROFESSORS, RESEARCHERS, AND SURRENDER ACADEMIC FREEDOM.

New York Times: "Trump Administration Asks Colleges to Sign ‘Compact’ to Get Funding Preference."

The White House asked nine top universities to pledge support for President Trump’s agenda to help ensure access to research funding.

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Mitch Wagner #DEI @mitchw.blog · Aug 2

the show, is apparently directing this episode, so he's walking around in 21st-century clothes and hairstyle, but talking in Leonard's voice, which is particularly striking. https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/masterpiece/clips/grantchester-s10-a-day-on-set-with-rishi-nair/# [2/2]

Grantchester, Season 10: A Day on Set with Rishi Nair

Have you ever wondered what a day on the set of Grantchester is like? Rishi Nair gives us a behind-the-scenes look at a day of filming. #GrantchesterPBS

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Jstheater @jstheater.bsky.social · 8d

Yes! How could I forget? 😀

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Acidio Menophen @techteddy.bsky.social · 8d

I mean, he's invited to the camp for the weekend too🤷🏾😜

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Jstheater @jstheater.bsky.social · 8d

It's all about Varley, but....

Acidio Menophen @techteddy.bsky.social · 8d

Roy from #BeautyinBlack could be my Broke Back Mountain fantasy 😈

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Jstheater @jstheater.bsky.social · 8d

I'm enough years old (I was in high school) to recall Suzanne Somers'* popular book of poetry. (I may be misremembering the popularity part, though).

*She was one the stars (& a poet!) of the hit show *Three's Company.*

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Indrapramit Das @indrapramitdas.bsky.social · 8d

Just in time for horror season, my story 'You Will Survive This Night' (1st pub in Nightfire's audio anthology COME JOIN US BY THE FIRE s2) is reprinted in the latest issue of @tasavvurnama.bsky.social. A woman navigates a winter house party in the poshest part of Kolkata & finds it deeply cursed:

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Bill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 8d

Chicago, Illinois, 2025:

"They had the Black people in one van, and the immigrants in another van."

"They was bringing the kids down, had them zip-tied to each other."

"I kept asking, 'What is the morality?' One of them laughed. He said, 'Fuck them kids.'"

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ICE agents raid South Shore apartments; Trump says Chicago could become military training ground

ICE agents raided a South Shore apartment building overnight as the city braces for a possible military deployment.

abc7chicago.com

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Nicole Chung @nicolechung.bsky.social · 8d

I spoke w/ over 2 dozen birth mothers for this story. Though I could only include a fraction of their stories here, all they shared about their experiences since placement, their love & their grief, & their hopes for their children helped inform this piece & deepen my understanding of open adoption.

At first, she had no reason to doubt that her wishes would be honored. The adoptive couple attended her prenatal appointments and birthing classes, and they were present for the delivery of her baby girl, she said. After the birth, planning visits was easy, because the two families lived close to each other. Lindsay was invited to birthday parties; the families exchanged emails, texts, and photos. When her biological daughter turned 7, however, something shifted. She said that her daughter had apparently started asking the adoptive parents questions about her adoption, and that they asked that Lindsay not discuss the subject with their daughter unless they were present. She agreed but then was not invited to the next birthday party. And when she asked the adoptive parents for letters and updates, it began to feel “like pulling teeth.” Eventually, she said, the adoptive mother told her that the father would no longer allow visits. Lindsay has never been given an explanation.

Her daughter is now 13. Lindsay told me that she occasionally reaches out to the adoptive parents, “just to kind of remind them that I’m still here; I still very much love my daughter and want to be part of her life.” It has been more than two years, she said, since she received any photos or updates. Her primary reason for choosing an open adoption was to be available to answer her daughter’s questions. Losing contact, she told me, “is like having one of my biggest fears come true.”

The PACA, Erin explained to me, stated clearly that she wanted to see her child twice a year. But shortly before her daughter’s first birthday, she said, the adoptive parents informed her that they were moving abroad—something they had long hoped to do yet had not mentioned before the adoption.

Erin told me that the family has made trips back to the U.S., but that she has seen her now-8-year-old only once in person since the family relocated. She said that she recently had a virtual call with her daughter, and that she hopes to establish a closer relationship with the adoptive parents, whom she considers to be excellent parents. She explained that she does not wish to involve a court; in the past, she was also advised that, because the adoptive parents now live outside the United States, holding them to their original, legally binding agreement would be challenging. Although Erin told me that she appreciates her agency’s efforts to help her reestablish regular communication with the adoptive family, she also wishes that she had added “tougher” language to their initial contact agreement, to more explicitly protect her rights. She had chosen open adoption “leaning on the fact that no matter what happened, I would get to see my daughter, and I’d get to be a part of her life,” she said. “That’s not what happened."

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NPR @npr.org · 8d

Office of Management and Budget Director Russ Vought said the funding was for projects in 16 states, all of which voted for former Vice President Kamala Harris.

The Energy Department canceled billions in funding. Democrats say it's retribution

Office of Management and Budget Director Russ Vought said the funding was for projects in 16 states, all of which voted for former Vice President Kamala Harris.

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Jstheater @jstheater.bsky.social · 8d

In other words, these were extrajudicial killings that he's now creating a shifting, justifying narrative for. Surprise, surprise....

Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 8d

So at the time the admin bragged they were cartel drug runners, then they joked about killing fisherman, then it seems someone realized all of that proves it was simply murder, and now they're retroactively claiming it was an undeclared war.

Still just murder, still can't blow up civilian boats.

Brian Finucane @bcfinucane.bsky.social · 8d

Spoke with @charliesavage.bsky.social about how the administration is trying to backfill a legal rationale for US strikes in the Caribbean.

Seems by "determining" there is an armed conflict—without any basis in fact or law—POTUS is giving himself a license to kill.
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/02/u...

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