I hope we all get instant notifications at the exact time when AI bubble bursts. 🤔
December 29, 2025 at 11:14 AM
I hope we all get instant notifications at the exact time when AI bubble bursts. 🤔
Still searching for a permanent cure for this chronic procrastination.
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December 29, 2025 at 11:12 AM
Still searching for a permanent cure for this chronic procrastination.
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What a terrible reading year I had. I need to reclaim my attention span.
Send help!
Send help!
December 21, 2025 at 9:38 AM
What a terrible reading year I had. I need to reclaim my attention span.
Send help!
Send help!
This is where we are now. 🤦🏾♂️🤦🏾♂️
Do not cite an academic paper unless you’ve read it
AI Is Inventing Academic Papers That Don't Exist -- And They're Being Cited in Real Journals
Academic articles from authors using large language model are creating an ecosystem of fake research that threatens human knowledge itself.
www.rollingstone.com
December 21, 2025 at 9:18 AM
This is where we are now. 🤦🏾♂️🤦🏾♂️
T'is the time for best-of-the-year lists!
December 4, 2025 at 12:47 PM
T'is the time for best-of-the-year lists!
Another round for 2025! Deep appreciation for this labour of love.
it's december! life is sometimes bleak! here are my 100 favourite songs, and a man's fumbling swerves about why he loves them so much.
www.saidthegramophone.com/archives/bes...
www.saidthegramophone.com/archives/bes...
December 4, 2025 at 12:45 PM
Another round for 2025! Deep appreciation for this labour of love.
Still waiting for "we met on Bluesky" love stories. Or am I too early? Lol
November 29, 2025 at 9:50 PM
Still waiting for "we met on Bluesky" love stories. Or am I too early? Lol
Another legend journeys home.
Jimmy Cliff, the Jamaican reggae singer who helped popularize the genre with songs like “You Can Get It If You Really Want” and “The Harder They Come,” died at 81 of pneumonia, his wife said. Read more about his life and legacy: nyti.ms/4pxqKao
November 24, 2025 at 2:37 PM
Another legend journeys home.
Imagine if NTA modernised everything: cutting-edge broadcasting equipment, renovated studios across the country, world-class training facilities, and the best creative talent producing high-quality shows from documentaries to dramas. What could Nigerian public television become?
Phew!
Phew!
November 24, 2025 at 2:37 PM
Imagine if NTA modernised everything: cutting-edge broadcasting equipment, renovated studios across the country, world-class training facilities, and the best creative talent producing high-quality shows from documentaries to dramas. What could Nigerian public television become?
Phew!
Phew!
Reposted by balo7
Na Zhong reports on a Silicon Valley killing: ”The intensity and multiplicity of the responses to Yu’s murder fascinated me much more than the murder itself. I started to believe that the case had...thrown open the door to the psyche of post-pandemic China.”
Murder House • EQUATOR
The Silicon Valley killing that exposed the new fault lines in Chinese society
www.equator.org
November 18, 2025 at 3:02 PM
Na Zhong reports on a Silicon Valley killing: ”The intensity and multiplicity of the responses to Yu’s murder fascinated me much more than the murder itself. I started to believe that the case had...thrown open the door to the psyche of post-pandemic China.”
I wonder what happened to the QAnon jokers. That seems to have disappeared from the social media feeds and the news stream.🤔🤔
October 17, 2025 at 11:38 AM
I wonder what happened to the QAnon jokers. That seems to have disappeared from the social media feeds and the news stream.🤔🤔
D'angelo!
WTF?!?! Gosh. At 51? Damn you, cancer!
WTF?!?! Gosh. At 51? Damn you, cancer!
October 14, 2025 at 4:57 PM
D'angelo!
WTF?!?! Gosh. At 51? Damn you, cancer!
WTF?!?! Gosh. At 51? Damn you, cancer!
The Brazilian musical universe is a marvel to me.
October 7, 2025 at 2:11 PM
The Brazilian musical universe is a marvel to me.
Reposted by balo7
Upcoming exhibition from the MFA in Boston: “‘Faces in the Crowd: Street Photography’ explores the evolving techniques photographers have used to record the human experience as it has played out in populous urban spaces…” [mfa.org]
Faces in the Crowd: Street Photography
The ubiquity of camera phones today has very much made all the world a stage. In the modern city, photographers are now less concerned with surreptitiously capturing an image and much more likely to collaborate with their subjects in the street. Drawn to photography’s narrative potential, many emplo
www.mfa.org
October 7, 2025 at 2:06 PM
Upcoming exhibition from the MFA in Boston: “‘Faces in the Crowd: Street Photography’ explores the evolving techniques photographers have used to record the human experience as it has played out in populous urban spaces…” [mfa.org]
The Economics of Complicity:
How Israel Is Buying the Destruction of Gaza
www.theideasletter.org/essay/the-ec...
How Israel Is Buying the Destruction of Gaza
www.theideasletter.org/essay/the-ec...
The Economics of Complicity - The Ideas Letter
The dramatic evolution of Israeli reservists from unprecedented protest before the October 7 attacks to near-total compliance with the Netanyahu administration’s campaign in Gaza cannot be explained b...
www.theideasletter.org
October 7, 2025 at 2:08 PM
The Economics of Complicity:
How Israel Is Buying the Destruction of Gaza
www.theideasletter.org/essay/the-ec...
How Israel Is Buying the Destruction of Gaza
www.theideasletter.org/essay/the-ec...
ILIKEU - Silas Short
🎶 🎵 🎼
🎶 🎵 🎼
October 7, 2025 at 6:52 AM
ILIKEU - Silas Short
🎶 🎵 🎼
🎶 🎵 🎼
When the three running apps you use give three wildly different results...
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🤭🤦🏾♂️
October 5, 2025 at 12:28 PM
When the three running apps you use give three wildly different results...
🤭🤦🏾♂️
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I need to go fetch all my likes and bookmarks—especially all the links to longreads etc—from that other blue app that has now gone to shit.
October 5, 2025 at 12:26 PM
I need to go fetch all my likes and bookmarks—especially all the links to longreads etc—from that other blue app that has now gone to shit.
Reposted by balo7
"I was very lucky to host #DukeEllington and his big band when he came to Ethiopia in 1971 and I played a concert with him at the Addis Hilton hotel. His band honoured me by playing this piece"
'Dewel’ from Mulatu Of Ethiopia (1972) - The Strange World of #MulatuAstatke
buff.ly/l4lvVgp
'Dewel’ from Mulatu Of Ethiopia (1972) - The Strange World of #MulatuAstatke
buff.ly/l4lvVgp
October 5, 2025 at 11:17 AM
"I was very lucky to host #DukeEllington and his big band when he came to Ethiopia in 1971 and I played a concert with him at the Addis Hilton hotel. His band honoured me by playing this piece"
'Dewel’ from Mulatu Of Ethiopia (1972) - The Strange World of #MulatuAstatke
buff.ly/l4lvVgp
'Dewel’ from Mulatu Of Ethiopia (1972) - The Strange World of #MulatuAstatke
buff.ly/l4lvVgp
So much for checks and balances.
Ah well.
Ah well.
October 4, 2025 at 7:35 AM
So much for checks and balances.
Ah well.
Ah well.
Can someone explain to me what would change if the Epstein files were released today?
I am really curious.
I am really curious.
October 4, 2025 at 7:32 AM
Can someone explain to me what would change if the Epstein files were released today?
I am really curious.
I am really curious.
When a president (of a 'powerful' Western nation) posts AI-concocted disinformation videos and the official government social media pages feel like meme accounts, it makes me wonder if other countries (especially in Africa) might see this as unproblematic or even as a good example for them to follow
October 3, 2025 at 6:56 AM
When a president (of a 'powerful' Western nation) posts AI-concocted disinformation videos and the official government social media pages feel like meme accounts, it makes me wonder if other countries (especially in Africa) might see this as unproblematic or even as a good example for them to follow
As a tote bag collector, this is very interesting to note. Lol
"A Dior book tote says nothing about your level of access to elite spaces. A rare biennale bag from a few years ago? That's a conversation starter"
www.linkedin.com/posts/atelie...
"A Dior book tote says nothing about your level of access to elite spaces. A rare biennale bag from a few years ago? That's a conversation starter"
www.linkedin.com/posts/atelie...
Previously, I've explored how spending money on something does not necessarily translate to clout. The tote bag is perhaps the perfect vehicle for that. A niche tote is an extremely potent and… | ...
Previously, I've explored how spending money on something does not necessarily translate to clout. The tote bag is perhaps the perfect vehicle for that. A niche tote is an extremely potent and powerfu...
www.linkedin.com
September 25, 2025 at 11:18 AM
As a tote bag collector, this is very interesting to note. Lol
"A Dior book tote says nothing about your level of access to elite spaces. A rare biennale bag from a few years ago? That's a conversation starter"
www.linkedin.com/posts/atelie...
"A Dior book tote says nothing about your level of access to elite spaces. A rare biennale bag from a few years ago? That's a conversation starter"
www.linkedin.com/posts/atelie...
Who is surprised? Not me.
Conservative White Christians Will Worship Anyone But Jesus. “Seeing White Evangelicals build idols out of people whose lives and public work are the antithesis of Jesus is something we’ve grown accustomed to.” [johnpavlovitz.substack.com]
Conservative White Christians Will Worship Anyone But Jesus
I’d like to say I’m shocked.
johnpavlovitz.substack.com
September 23, 2025 at 8:29 PM
Who is surprised? Not me.