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The Bookworm's Rules | Reading advice from Michael Silverblatt biblioklept.org/2026/02/16/t...
The Bookworm’s Rules | Reading advice from Michael Silverblatt
The great reader Michael Silverblatt, host of Bookworm, has passed away at 73. Silverblatt was a powerful influence on my development as an adult reader, and his approach to reading helped shape my…
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February 16, 2026 at 4:33 PM
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it’d been a few yrs since the show had produced new eps., but 1) bookworm was a truly important, mass media venue for in-depth discussion abt books, presided over by Silverblatt’s incredible spirit; 2) tho it sounds hyperbolic, his death may seem to mark the end of an era in USA (broadcast bk media)
February 16, 2026 at 1:46 PM
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blurst of times
timkellogg.me Tim Kellogg @timkellogg.me · 1d
Token Anxiety

i think i mostly echo this for myself. with so much that can be done, i often feel like i *should* be doing something, always
Token Anxiety Nikunj Kothari C @nikunj • Feb 13 A friend left a party at 9:30 on a Saturday. Not tired. Not sick. He wanted to get back to his agents. Nobody questions it anymore. Half the room is thinking the same thing. The other half are probably checking the progress of their agents. At a party. All the parties are sober now. Young people don't drink because they're going back to work after. Not inspired by Bryan Johnson, although that's probably a factor. The buzz they want now runs on tokens per day. I keep noticing it on walks through the Mission. Laptops glowing everywhere. Cafes, sidewalks, heck even park benches. People walking with screens open like a flashlight guiding them somewhere. Less drunk laughter on the streets these days. More keystrokes. Dinner conversations used to start with "what are you building?" That's over. Now it's "how many agents do you have running?" People drop the number the way they used to drop their follower count. Quietly competitive. The flex isn't what you've accomplished anymore. It's what's working while you're sitting here not working. The vocabulary is what really gets me though. People describe models the way sommeliers describe wine. This one has better taste. That one hallucinates with more confidence. Opus is bold, Codex is smooth. They talk about harnesses and reins like they're controlling horses. Invisible whips directing invisible labor. Someone at a dinner said they keep labor. Someone at a dinner said they keep "Claude on a tight leash for code review but give it more slack for creative work." We've started borrowing the language of how we treat animals for something none of us actually understand yet. Waking up and checking what your agents produced overnight is the first thing now. Before coffee. Before texts. You open your laptop and grade homework you assigned in your sleep. Some of it is good. Most needs rework. But you start shipping a plan before you sleep just so you can wake up to more code written overnight. Saturdays became uninterrupted build windows. No meetings, no Slack, twelve hours of you and your agents. Sunday morning X is all terminal screenshots and shipping receipts. "What'd you ship this weekend?" replaced "what'd you do this weekend?" The anxiety is rational, which is why it sticks. Every week some new benchmark drops that makes last month's workflow feel prehistoric. Codex ships overnight processing. Opus gets faster. Context windows double. None of it reduces the pressure. It multiplies it. You can do more now. And someone already is. The window to be first at anything feels like it's shrinking by the day. Literally, by the day. I replaced Netflix with Claude Code. I lie in bed thinking about what I can spin up before I fall asleep, what can run while I'm unconscious. Reading a novel feels indulgent now. Watching a movie without a laptop open feels wasteful. This voice in my head that says "something could be running right now" just doesn't shut off. I'm not even building a company. I'm just addicted to building my random ideas. Everyone here knows they should step away more. That's not the problem. The problem is what your brain does when you try. I still take a x ss walks. The agents come with me now.
February 16, 2026 at 1:40 PM
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February 15, 2026 at 7:54 PM
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“The Entire Morning” by Jay Lynch. From Bijou Funnies #3, October, 1969, The Print Mint.
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February 15, 2026 at 4:22 PM
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The psycho pedophile regime who kidnaps and kills us is polling unfavorably
February 1, 2026 at 2:16 AM
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Happy Captain-Cook-Getting-Executed-by-Hawaiians-and-Ritually-Roasted-to-Remove-His-Bones-That-Contained-All-His-Mana-So-Some-Could-Be-Presented-to-His-Crew-and-the-Rest-Distributed-Around-the-Island-iversary!
February 15, 2026 at 3:49 AM
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Friday covers
February 13, 2026 at 7:58 PM
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Friday the Thirteenth, Leonora Carrington

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Friday the Thirteenth — Leonora Carrington
Friday the Thirteenth, 1965 by Leonora Carrington (1917-2011)
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February 13, 2026 at 5:26 PM
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radioactive, hybrid terror, pig, boom
you amorous mothers, slam but neck, right? right
February 13, 2026 at 2:11 PM
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greatest headline of my adult life
February 13, 2026 at 1:02 PM
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very normal and cool country to live work and raise kids in
Web interface showing sound comparisons: pistol, balloon, assault rifle, and fireworks, each with audio players.
February 12, 2026 at 8:49 PM
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Blog about George Saunders' novel Vigil, a novel I have not yet read (Book acquired 11 Feb. 2026) biblioklept.org/2026/02/11/b...
Blog about George Saunders’ novel Vigil, a novel I have not yet read (Book acquired 11 Feb. 2026)
I’ve been reading a lot of David Ohle lately — the Moldenke cycle, specifically. I read The Pisstown Chaos (2008) late last year, then kept going with The Old Reactor (2013), and then r…
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February 12, 2026 at 1:26 AM
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Blog about George Saunders' novel Vigil, a novel I have not yet read (Book acquired 11 Feb. 2026) biblioklept.org/2026/02/11/b...
Blog about George Saunders’ novel Vigil, a novel I have not yet read (Book acquired 11 Feb. 2026)
I’ve been reading a lot of David Ohle lately — the Moldenke cycle, specifically. I read The Pisstown Chaos (2008) late last year, then kept going with The Old Reactor (2013), and then r…
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February 12, 2026 at 1:26 AM
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Your Cherokee words for today.
The top word is English followed by how it is written in the Cherokee language followed by how it is spelled in English then how to pronounce it phonetically. The translation is "he/she/they is/are chopping it off with an axe/sharp instrument
Image is line paper with writing showing an English word followed by how it is written in the Cherokee language followed by how it is spelled and pronounced. The word is guillotine and pronounced ahskoodahkee-ah
February 11, 2026 at 10:24 PM
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I wrote a tribute for BYTE Magazine's amazing cover artist, Robert Tinney, who died Feb 1st

Tinney painted 80 vivid and surreal covers illustrating various concepts in early personal computing from 1978-1990, usually airbrushed with gouache. May he RIP ❤️

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A trio of Robert Tinney illustrated magazine covers: Floppy Disk, Software Piracy, Smalltalk Balloon
February 11, 2026 at 10:04 PM
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Donnie, from Donnie Darko, with a speech bubble.
February 11, 2026 at 10:13 PM
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Bud Cort taking flight in BREWSTER MCCLOUD.
February 11, 2026 at 9:07 PM
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"Blake Oblique" -- David Ohle biblioklept.org/2026/02/10/b...
“Blake Oblique” — David Ohle
“Blake Oblique” by David Ohle (from Io #29, 1982) When Blake was eighteen, he was sent to the United States where he attended Oral Roberts University. He solved the problem of school ex…
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February 11, 2026 at 1:04 AM
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Mass-market Monday | Philip K. Dick’s The Divine Invasion biblioklept.org/2026/02/09/m...
Mass-market Monday | Philip K. Dick’s The Divine Invasion
The Divine Invasion, Philip K. Dick, 1981. Timescape Books (July 1982). Cover by Rowena Morrill. 223 pages. I love Rowena’s cover for PKD’s second entry in the VALIS trilogy. (Saddam Hu…
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February 9, 2026 at 11:47 PM
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The spectator, at this point, is certain to wonder whether he must now endure a football game in print | Don DeLillo biblioklept.org/2026/02/08/t...
The spectator, at this point, is certain to wonder whether he must now endure a football game in print | Don DeLillo
(The spectator, at this point, is certain to wonder whether he must now endure a football game in print — the author’s way of adding his own neat quarter-notch to the scarred bluesteel of combat wr…
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February 8, 2026 at 6:50 PM
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B. Kliban’s back cover for Arcade #7, Fall 1976, The Print Mint.
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February 8, 2026 at 3:41 PM
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February 7, 2026 at 9:04 PM
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A million things to love about "Marquee Moon" of course, but the little drop Smith adds when everything breaks down into a million pieces is genius — like a boat going over Niagara Falls
February 6, 2026 at 10:30 PM
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Hat Questionnaire -- Claes Oldenburg biblioklept.org/2026/02/06/h...
Hat Questionnaire — Claes Oldenburg
Claes Oldenburg’s response to the hat questionnaire. From, “The Hat Issue,” Milk Quarterly #11 & 12, 1978.
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February 6, 2026 at 9:50 PM