This is the best obituary for James Watson I've read this week.
A Sharon Begley byline, almost 5 years after her death.
Upon hearing the news James Watson had died, a STAT reporter said in our Slack, "I wish I could read what Sharon would have written."
Incredible news: Sharon in fact did pre-write a Watson obit. And it is masterful and excoriating.
🧪🧬🧫
Upon hearing the news James Watson had died, a STAT reporter said in our Slack, "I wish I could read what Sharon would have written."
Incredible news: Sharon in fact did pre-write a Watson obit. And it is masterful and excoriating.
🧪🧬🧫
James Watson, dead at 97, was a scientific legend and a pariah among his peers
James Watson, the co-discoverer of the structure of DNA who died Thursday at 97, was a scientific legend and a pariah among his peers.
www.statnews.com
November 9, 2025 at 1:24 AM
This is the best obituary for James Watson I've read this week.
September/October movies
November 7, 2025 at 10:11 PM
September/October movies
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i think this is a pretty good take on pelosi, who is unquestionably one of the most consequential house speakers in the history of the institution
Opinion | Nancy Pelosi Is an American Political Giant
www.nytimes.com
November 7, 2025 at 3:00 PM
i think this is a pretty good take on pelosi, who is unquestionably one of the most consequential house speakers in the history of the institution
Wer einen spannenden Artikel zum Phänomen Dimes Square lesen möchte:
Seit Jahren wird über Dimes Square berichtet, eine Straßenkreuzung mit vielen Bars in Manhattan, wo sich während der Lockdowns einige Artists und solche, die es sein wollten, trafen. Doch existierte diese Szene wirklich als die kulturelle Avantgarde, zu der sie von Medien weltweit gemacht wurde?
New York: Wie einflussreich war der antiwoke Dimes Square wirklich?
Die neurechte Avantgarde, die keine war: Vor wenigen Jahren machte Dimes Square weltweit Schlagzeilen. Ausgerechnet im liberalen New York hatte sich eine antiwoke Avantgarde gefunden. Was ist daraus g...
www.faz.net
November 6, 2025 at 2:45 PM
Wer einen spannenden Artikel zum Phänomen Dimes Square lesen möchte:
In Bonn Kunst für @beritmiriam.bsky.social
November 2, 2025 at 4:00 PM
In Bonn Kunst für @beritmiriam.bsky.social
Flying back home yesterday, reading the only book I bought, Sapiro's updated essay on separating the author from their work.
Sapiro's most famous works deal with the morality and responsibility of authorship, focusing especially on French writers.
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#booksky
Sapiro's most famous works deal with the morality and responsibility of authorship, focusing especially on French writers.
www.instagram.com/p/DQU1Z6DCn4...
#booksky
October 28, 2025 at 3:29 PM
Flying back home yesterday, reading the only book I bought, Sapiro's updated essay on separating the author from their work.
Sapiro's most famous works deal with the morality and responsibility of authorship, focusing especially on French writers.
www.instagram.com/p/DQU1Z6DCn4...
#booksky
Sapiro's most famous works deal with the morality and responsibility of authorship, focusing especially on French writers.
www.instagram.com/p/DQU1Z6DCn4...
#booksky
Because other books had priority, I'm only now getting to read RF Kuang's new book: Katabasis.
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October 21, 2025 at 4:35 PM
Because other books had priority, I'm only now getting to read RF Kuang's new book: Katabasis.
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“Are you Haitian?”
An ICE agent, who is being arrested for drunk driving and nearly killing his little kids & others, tries to stop the arrest by racially profiling the officers arresting him. Amazing to watch the courtesy given to him as he is belligerent and uncooperative
October 17, 2025 at 3:41 PM
“Are you Haitian?”
Bin entsetzt wie gut meine Freunde und Bekannten schreiben. Beispiel 7000: @comeonbaehr.bsky.social
October 15, 2025 at 2:44 PM
Bin entsetzt wie gut meine Freunde und Bekannten schreiben. Beispiel 7000: @comeonbaehr.bsky.social
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For no particular reason (*cough* #nobelprizeineconomics) I recommend looking up (usually neo Marxist) critiques of Joseph Schumpeter's theory of imperialism.
October 14, 2025 at 1:33 AM
For no particular reason (*cough* #nobelprizeineconomics) I recommend looking up (usually neo Marxist) critiques of Joseph Schumpeter's theory of imperialism.
"Halo: Guns, Clones and Indigeneity" - in this essay I will...
October 14, 2025 at 2:56 PM
"Halo: Guns, Clones and Indigeneity" - in this essay I will...
For no particular reason (*cough* #nobelprizeineconomics) I recommend looking up (usually neo Marxist) critiques of Joseph Schumpeter's theory of imperialism.
October 14, 2025 at 1:33 AM
For no particular reason (*cough* #nobelprizeineconomics) I recommend looking up (usually neo Marxist) critiques of Joseph Schumpeter's theory of imperialism.
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Congratulations to László Krasznahorkai. A frequently great, sometimes excellent novelist who is absolutely deserving of the award. His most recent translated novel isn't his best but that's par for the course for Nobel winners. In his best writing he deals with fears and terrors embedded in history
October 9, 2025 at 11:31 AM
Congratulations to László Krasznahorkai. A frequently great, sometimes excellent novelist who is absolutely deserving of the award. His most recent translated novel isn't his best but that's par for the course for Nobel winners. In his best writing he deals with fears and terrors embedded in history
I really deeply hope Christian Kracht doesn't win the #NobelPrize today. Not because he is a bad writer. Because what anglophone critics consider playful engagement with German history reads very different to Germans where he's become one of the new neo-Nazi Intelligentsia's favorite novelists.
October 9, 2025 at 9:56 AM
I really deeply hope Christian Kracht doesn't win the #NobelPrize today. Not because he is a bad writer. Because what anglophone critics consider playful engagement with German history reads very different to Germans where he's become one of the new neo-Nazi Intelligentsia's favorite novelists.
"When trouble comes to town, it usually takes the North Shore Line."
Let's fucking gooooooo
Let's fucking gooooooo
October 7, 2025 at 11:48 PM
"When trouble comes to town, it usually takes the North Shore Line."
Let's fucking gooooooo
Let's fucking gooooooo
Sometimes people have such appalling aesthetic opinions you feel like maybe you should stage an intervention. I mean of course taste is subjective but DEAR lord.
October 5, 2025 at 12:28 AM
Sometimes people have such appalling aesthetic opinions you feel like maybe you should stage an intervention. I mean of course taste is subjective but DEAR lord.
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a heartwarming story of how being an unethical and talentless hack is no barrier to success when you are willing to endlessly flatter the wretched views of rich dipshits
Bari Weiss is set to be named the editor in chief of CBS News, the New York Post reports
October 2, 2025 at 8:12 PM
a heartwarming story of how being an unethical and talentless hack is no barrier to success when you are willing to endlessly flatter the wretched views of rich dipshits
Books I bought on my holiday in France. Very happy about the Hebert in particular.
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September 20, 2025 at 5:25 PM
Books I bought on my holiday in France. Very happy about the Hebert in particular.
www.instagram.com/share/p/BAgF...
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For anyone talking about how the American right believes in honoring deaths: the memorial that marks the spot where Emmett Till's body was found had to be replaced with bulletproof steel, because white people kept shooting it.
*Bulletproof*
www.nytimes.com/2019/10/20/u...
*Bulletproof*
www.nytimes.com/2019/10/20/u...
Emmett Till Memorial Has a New Sign. This Time, It’s Bulletproof. (Published 2019)
www.nytimes.com
September 16, 2025 at 11:12 AM
For anyone talking about how the American right believes in honoring deaths: the memorial that marks the spot where Emmett Till's body was found had to be replaced with bulletproof steel, because white people kept shooting it.
*Bulletproof*
www.nytimes.com/2019/10/20/u...
*Bulletproof*
www.nytimes.com/2019/10/20/u...
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wrote on charlie kirk for the newsletter this weekend
Opinion | Charlie Kirk Didn’t Shy Away From Who He Was. We Shouldn’t Either.
www.nytimes.com
September 13, 2025 at 3:35 PM
wrote on charlie kirk for the newsletter this weekend