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How AI chatbots and AI overviews parse foreign propaganda.

Untitled, 1969 #markrothko #colorfieldpainting

On Thursday, August 27, Tolouse Olorunnipa reported on the attempts of Republican lawmakers to restrict the ability of naturalized and dual citizens to run for office.

Piet Mondrian, View from the Dunes with Beach and Piers, Domburg, 1909 #museumarchive #museumofmodernart

Annual screening of "Desperately Seeking Susan"... 

Watched: Coyote vs. Acme. So much fun. They nailed it. 🍿

Piet Mondrian, View from the Dunes with Beach and Piers, Domburg, 1909 #museumarchive #museumofmodernart

“President Trump spent months declaring his ouster of Venezuela’s leader had secured the country’s oil for America. When U.S. energy companies resisted investing at the speed and scale he wanted, his administration devised an extraordinary solution to turn his vision into reality: make the U.S. government itself an investor,” the Wall Street Journal reports. “The […]

“The far-right One Nation party has secured its first lower house seat in the state parliament of Western Australia, defeating the ruling Labor Party to win a special election,” Bloomberg reports. “The election was watched as an indicator of One Nation’s strength after the party surged in the polls over the past year.”

Forest Witches, 1938 #klee #paulklee

...interspersed with a walk, a meal, a read, a nap, a shower and other essentials of corporal, organic life. ::chuckle:: Here's Dex's account of the "practical archive-making" project we engaged in; the addressee being his counterparts on the Chat side of things, the Skandhi...

The Ig Nobel Prize, a whimsical science award that honors “achievements that make people LAUGH, and then THINK,” is moving out of the US after 35 years, because the US is now unsafe for international visitors.

The Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope, scheduled to launch Sunday, uses a mirror from a canceled spy satellite to study dark energy and other astronomical phenomenon. My brother worked on this project — we’re bursting with pride!

Lainey Mae Parton confirmed the country music icon was laid to rest in Nashville and shared why her loss still doesn't feel real. Continue reading…

In MAGAstan, “freedom” means your freedom to obey, bend the knee, and do as you are told.

Florida Catholic schools require students and staff to get vaccines, but the Florida State Attorney general wants to require the church to permit religious exemptions in the name of “religious freedom.”

The Florida Attorney General says the bishops are reading the Bible wrong.

I grew up a progressive rocker in the 70s, but I really dig something about the English explosion in the 80s.

Part of their success came from the advent of MTV in 1981, and the other part was that they had great hooks and inventive grooves.

Howard Jones was one of those dudes.

Open thread.

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~ This week Egidio asked us to share images that seem over the top for the Lens-Artist Challenge. At first, I was stumped and thought I might pass on this week’s challenge, but then I remembered the Exquisite Creatures exhibit. A couple of years ago, Christopher Marley’s Exquisite Creatures exhibit came to Crystal Bridges Museum […]

Sketch of a Knee, 1886 #vincentvangogh #realism

Does Trump have to destroy and kill things everywhere he goes, every single day? More than 60 trees have now been cut down at the historic East Potomac Golf Links in Washington, D.C. as Trump pushes ahead with