Eccles Crisp
@watersedge.bsky.social
Aficionado of low notes — bassoons, cellos, rolling thunder. Whipped cream on my unsweetened apple crumble. Workin’ the pith ‘n’ vinegar beat.
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🚨 💰 WOW — @SenatorHagerty & @MarshaBlackburn snuck a provision into the spending bill that would let them sue the government for $500,000 because Jack Smith looked into their phone records around Trump’s insurrection.
The Republican grifting is endless. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/10/u...
The Republican grifting is endless. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/10/u...
November 11, 2025 at 1:39 AM
🚨 💰 WOW — @SenatorHagerty & @MarshaBlackburn snuck a provision into the spending bill that would let them sue the government for $500,000 because Jack Smith looked into their phone records around Trump’s insurrection.
The Republican grifting is endless. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/10/u...
The Republican grifting is endless. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/10/u...
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Edward Hopper
Locomotive, 1944
Locomotive, 1944
November 10, 2025 at 4:59 PM
Edward Hopper
Locomotive, 1944
Locomotive, 1944
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Every winter, thousands of birds died from something completely preventable. They would land on salted roads and sidewalks, instinctively licking the salty surface for minerals. But traditional rock salt contains dangerously high sodium levels that cause severe dehydration, disorientation, and often
November 10, 2025 at 11:39 AM
Every winter, thousands of birds died from something completely preventable. They would land on salted roads and sidewalks, instinctively licking the salty surface for minerals. But traditional rock salt contains dangerously high sodium levels that cause severe dehydration, disorientation, and often
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"...but draft documents obtained by POLITICO show that officials are planning far-reaching changes to the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) to the benefit of artificial intelligence developers."
Brussels knifes privacy to feed the AI boom
Draft proposals obtained by POLITICO show EU is breaking sacred privacy regime to placate industry.
www.politico.eu
November 10, 2025 at 11:57 AM
"...but draft documents obtained by POLITICO show that officials are planning far-reaching changes to the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) to the benefit of artificial intelligence developers."
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Back in 2017, Trump revealed, in a friendly interview with the NYT, that he literally did not understand how health insurance works. The NYT editors bailed him out instead of following up. I wrote about it then, and I still think about it all the time: www.commonwealmagazine.org/man-who-knew...
November 8, 2025 at 11:01 PM
Back in 2017, Trump revealed, in a friendly interview with the NYT, that he literally did not understand how health insurance works. The NYT editors bailed him out instead of following up. I wrote about it then, and I still think about it all the time: www.commonwealmagazine.org/man-who-knew...
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"i asked grok" "i asked chatgpt" yeah well i asked carl sagan and he said the greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance but the illusion of knowledge 🧪
July 18, 2025 at 4:12 AM
"i asked grok" "i asked chatgpt" yeah well i asked carl sagan and he said the greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance but the illusion of knowledge 🧪
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This is fucking brilliant, and you should read it: lithub.com/maybe-dont-t...
Maybe Don’t Talk to the New York Times About Zohran Mamdani
It’s remarkable, the people you’ll hear from. Teach for even a little while at an expensive institution—the term they tend to prefer is “elite”—and odds are that eventually someone who was a studen…
lithub.com
November 8, 2025 at 3:24 PM
This is fucking brilliant, and you should read it: lithub.com/maybe-dont-t...
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Democrats: "We don't think hard-working people should go bankrupt paying their medical bills just to give tax cuts to billionaires."
Republicans: "Then we're at an impasse."
Republicans: "Then we're at an impasse."
November 4, 2025 at 6:27 PM
Democrats: "We don't think hard-working people should go bankrupt paying their medical bills just to give tax cuts to billionaires."
Republicans: "Then we're at an impasse."
Republicans: "Then we're at an impasse."
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Madre de Dios. A Redditor just asked for help identifying this obscure object.
November 7, 2025 at 9:12 PM
Madre de Dios. A Redditor just asked for help identifying this obscure object.
Hmm, who’s autographed it though ?
November 5, 2025 at 10:23 PM
Hmm, who’s autographed it though ?
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Trump: "Hear me, President Trump, when I say this: to get to any of us, you will have to get through all of us."
November 5, 2025 at 4:41 AM
Trump: "Hear me, President Trump, when I say this: to get to any of us, you will have to get through all of us."
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“Intelligence” added to “artificial” is simply marketing palaver to strut: “Don’t I look good in these words.”
November 2, 2025 at 9:37 PM
“Intelligence” added to “artificial” is simply marketing palaver to strut: “Don’t I look good in these words.”
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"I DON'T NEED YOU TO FUCKING REWRITE WHAT I'VE JUST WRITTEN!"
October 28, 2025 at 10:46 AM
"I DON'T NEED YOU TO FUCKING REWRITE WHAT I'VE JUST WRITTEN!"
Down Cemetery Road is gorgeous photographed/art directed. The blues and greens in ep 1 and 2 are pleasing.
October 29, 2025 at 7:55 PM
Down Cemetery Road is gorgeous photographed/art directed. The blues and greens in ep 1 and 2 are pleasing.
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Farage: epic grifter
October 27, 2025 at 12:45 PM
Farage: epic grifter
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Tokyo’s so-called “phantom” stations no longer serve passengers and are often closed to the public👻 I explored a few of them — weathered, industrial traces of how the city has expanded, reconfigured and adapted to a growing metropolis🎃 www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/10...
Inside Tokyo's 'phantom' stations — and the stories they tell
A sealed 1930s subway platform beneath Shimbashi Station still holds traces of what the capital looked like before the war.
www.japantimes.co.jp
October 28, 2025 at 8:08 AM
Tokyo’s so-called “phantom” stations no longer serve passengers and are often closed to the public👻 I explored a few of them — weathered, industrial traces of how the city has expanded, reconfigured and adapted to a growing metropolis🎃 www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/10...
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Erving Goffman as Social Anthropologist
Richard Handler (2012, 179) once called Erving Goffman “the most anthropological of all the great sociologists.” This trenchant remark draws attention to Goffman’s distinctive relationship with anthropology and, more broadly, to the close—yet often…
Richard Handler (2012, 179) once called Erving Goffman “the most anthropological of all the great sociologists.” This trenchant remark draws attention to Goffman’s distinctive relationship with anthropology and, more broadly, to the close—yet often…
Erving Goffman as Social Anthropologist
Richard Handler (2012, 179) once called Erving Goffman “the most anthropological of all the great sociologists.” This trenchant remark draws attention to Goffman’s distinctive relationship with anthropology and, more broadly, to the close—yet often overlooked—ties between the sociology and anthropology programs at the University of Chicago, where Goffman was trained.
histanthro.org
October 27, 2025 at 8:48 PM
Erving Goffman as Social Anthropologist
Richard Handler (2012, 179) once called Erving Goffman “the most anthropological of all the great sociologists.” This trenchant remark draws attention to Goffman’s distinctive relationship with anthropology and, more broadly, to the close—yet often…
Richard Handler (2012, 179) once called Erving Goffman “the most anthropological of all the great sociologists.” This trenchant remark draws attention to Goffman’s distinctive relationship with anthropology and, more broadly, to the close—yet often…
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Wells Fargo scammed millions of people by opening fake accounts. The Trump Administration just reduced a former Wells Fargo exec's $10 million fine to $0.
Trump is making life more affordable for Wall Street executives — and more expensive for everyone else.
Trump is making life more affordable for Wall Street executives — and more expensive for everyone else.
October 24, 2025 at 6:59 PM
Wells Fargo scammed millions of people by opening fake accounts. The Trump Administration just reduced a former Wells Fargo exec's $10 million fine to $0.
Trump is making life more affordable for Wall Street executives — and more expensive for everyone else.
Trump is making life more affordable for Wall Street executives — and more expensive for everyone else.
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Baltimore high school student Taki Allen was swarmed by police after an artificial intelligence system apparently mistook his bag of Doritos for a gun www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
October 24, 2025 at 4:33 PM
Baltimore high school student Taki Allen was swarmed by police after an artificial intelligence system apparently mistook his bag of Doritos for a gun www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
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Carney: "We can't control the trade policy of the US. We recognize it has fundamentally changed from the policy in the 1980s, 1990s, 2000s, & it's a situation where US has tariffs against every trading partner... what we we can control is developing new partnerships, including w/econ giants of Asia"
October 24, 2025 at 2:02 PM
Carney: "We can't control the trade policy of the US. We recognize it has fundamentally changed from the policy in the 1980s, 1990s, 2000s, & it's a situation where US has tariffs against every trading partner... what we we can control is developing new partnerships, including w/econ giants of Asia"
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8000 years of world history in one glance.
October 24, 2025 at 4:57 PM
8000 years of world history in one glance.