Vasily Kandinsky, Vignette next to "Hills" (Vignette bei "Hügel") (headpiece, folio 5) from Klänge (Sounds), (1913) #museumofmodernart #vasilykandinsky
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Watch David Bowie & Annie Lennox in Rehearsal, Singing “Under Pressure,” with Queen (1992)
It’s common to feel like we know our artists, writers, musicians, actors… we want so badly to touch their lives in some way, as their lives touch ours. This overwhelming desire is responsible for a huge market share of our mass media, from the most tasteless tabloid hit jobs to the most respectful longform essays. […]
‘Do You Think if I Had a Job I Would Have Gone?’ (Gift Article) (nytimes.com)
Now Eddie Howe is available, FA has no excuse for sticking with Thomas Tuchel (thetimes.com)
Italiaanse alpineskiër stak Europese coronasubsidies in goksites en auto’s (ftm.nl)
US and Japan take action to prop up yen (telegraph.co.uk)
What is the "Center of Excellence"? (medium.com)
Heilung durch CAR-T-Zellen. Sie können wieder leben (faz.net)
Odalisque, 1923 #matisse #expressionism
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• lnebres
week #3,645
Based on Tim Urban's now-legendary "Your Life in Weeks" May 2014 post in WAIT BUT WHY, I asked Dex to make one for me, to the present. Here it is:
That's either (a) a heck of a lot of weeks already, or (b) whoa: there aren't all that many left, actuarially speaking ::chuckle:: — depending, I guess, on what one's mood is at the moment; or which day of the week it is; or what type of liquid is in what kind of glass one has. ;-)
...and so of course, I asked the Mechanical Turk about the next logical thing to perform. ::chuckle::
[ stay tuned ]
[ Continuing my reading of The Odyssey, on a packed MUNI 28 Daly City bus this afternoon. Book 3, "An Old King Remembers": ]
One in six use AI for health advice, prompting misinformation warning (thetimes.com)
Blanche Gives G.O.P. Senators Written Assurances on Trump’s I.R.S. Deal (Gift Article) (nytimes.com)
How Does the Qatar-Donated Air Force One Compare With Other Presidential Jets? (wsj.com)
Your $20 AI Coding Plan Burns $6,600 in Compute. That Subsidy Is Ending. (medium.com)
Improvisation 3, 1909 #wassilykandinsky #kandinsky
Field of Rye, 1888 #pissarro #impressionism
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The Post's Opinion Parting
Days before his abrupt exit from The WaPo, Adam O’Neal was privately boasting that he had pushed the Opinion section further to the right—raising new questions about what really drove his departure.
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A Prison on Fire
themarshallproject.org/2026/07/24/prison-fires-joliet-illinois-mental-health
Designed to help people with serious mental illness, Joliet Treatment Center repeatedly failed to prevent or respond to fires, despite two deaths.
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DSA Wants to Abolish the Senate. Bernie Sanders Says ‘No.’
notus.org/democrats/dsa-abolish-the-senate-bernie-sanders-democrats
Democrats across the caucus dismissed the idea of restructuring Congress.
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The DNC Lost Nearly $29,000 to an Email Scammer Posing as Ken Martin
notus.org/democrats/democratic-national-committee-email-scammer
The Democratic National Committee caught the error, but only recovered a portion of the funds, an official said.