Dr Nightmare Alley 🧿
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CFP: Divination, Witchcraft, and The Occult
Call for PresentationsDivination, Witchcraft & the Occult *SPECIAL TOPIC*Popular Culture Association Conference8-11 April 2026Atlanta, GA, USThe broad interest in divination, witchcraft, and th…
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In Memoriam Tom Stoppard
November 30, 2025 at 2:37 AM
In Memoriam Tom Stoppard
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Tom Stoppard (1937-2025), LORD MALQUIST AND MR MOON (Panther, 1968), with cover designed by John Dove.
November 30, 2025 at 2:42 AM
Tom Stoppard (1937-2025), LORD MALQUIST AND MR MOON (Panther, 1968), with cover designed by John Dove.
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Paul Delaney, ed., TOM STOPPARD [1937-2025] IN CONVERSATION (University of Michigan Press, 1994), with cover photo by Gemma Levine.
November 30, 2025 at 2:25 AM
Paul Delaney, ed., TOM STOPPARD [1937-2025] IN CONVERSATION (University of Michigan Press, 1994), with cover photo by Gemma Levine.
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Howard Smith-The Black American Artist Who Found Himself in Finland
The Black American Artist Who Found Himself in Finland
The first retrospective of Howard Smith’s works in his home country beguilingly blurs the distinctions between art, design, and décor.
hyperallergic.com
November 30, 2025 at 1:40 AM
Howard Smith-The Black American Artist Who Found Himself in Finland
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AI won’t replace art, it will replace clipart. It won’t replace music, it will replace muzak. Cheap, ubiquitous, low quality… McDonalds exists but it didn’t replace proper chefs, from Michelin star pros to normies who
Cook Pretty Good at home.
Cook Pretty Good at home.
November 29, 2025 at 8:50 PM
AI won’t replace art, it will replace clipart. It won’t replace music, it will replace muzak. Cheap, ubiquitous, low quality… McDonalds exists but it didn’t replace proper chefs, from Michelin star pros to normies who
Cook Pretty Good at home.
Cook Pretty Good at home.
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🔔 Reminder: Covid-19 was a leading case of death among US children and young people during the pandemic with 821 deaths in the year from August 1, 2021, to July 31, 2022 @jamanetworkopen.com jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...
COVID-19 as the Underlying Cause of Death Among Individuals Aged 0 to 19 Years in the US
This cross-sectional study evaluates whether COVID-19 is among the top 10 causes of death in children and young people aged 0 to 19 years in the US.
jamanetwork.com
November 29, 2025 at 4:30 AM
🔔 Reminder: Covid-19 was a leading case of death among US children and young people during the pandemic with 821 deaths in the year from August 1, 2021, to July 31, 2022 @jamanetworkopen.com jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...
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Reporters asking me about the new KOSA text, here is my official statement:
"Fight for the Future's organizational policy is to oppose any piece of legislation that is unveiled on the eve of a major Federal holiday, regardless of what it says. We feel this is the most principled position."
"Fight for the Future's organizational policy is to oppose any piece of legislation that is unveiled on the eve of a major Federal holiday, regardless of what it says. We feel this is the most principled position."
November 27, 2025 at 5:12 PM
Reporters asking me about the new KOSA text, here is my official statement:
"Fight for the Future's organizational policy is to oppose any piece of legislation that is unveiled on the eve of a major Federal holiday, regardless of what it says. We feel this is the most principled position."
"Fight for the Future's organizational policy is to oppose any piece of legislation that is unveiled on the eve of a major Federal holiday, regardless of what it says. We feel this is the most principled position."
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Once again, “cancelled” just means “subsidized by the media and culture infrastructure that still has robust funding”.
When a cancelled performer reënters the culture, we expect them to offer us a great work, channelling their newfound clarity into the finest art they’ve ever made. With his new comedy show and début novel, has Louis C.K. met the bar?
www.newyorker.com/culture/crit...
www.newyorker.com/culture/crit...
Louis C.K.’s Next Chapter
In a new standup special, and a début novel, the comedian navigates murky, post-#MeToo terrain: not quite exiled, not quite welcomed back.
www.newyorker.com
November 29, 2025 at 7:31 PM
Once again, “cancelled” just means “subsidized by the media and culture infrastructure that still has robust funding”.
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Thing is, we DID hear about it at his confirmation hearing.
Every single senator who voted to confirm Hegseth knew he held these views about the laws of war.
They voted to confirm him anyway.
Every single senator who voted to confirm Hegseth knew he held these views about the laws of war.
They voted to confirm him anyway.
Everyone should read this terrifying thread about Hegseth’s published views wrt war crimes. It’s pretty fucking radical …. We needed to hear about this in his confirmation hearing.
A chapter in Hegseth’s book is literally titled “More Lethality, Less Lawyers.”
It’s almost as if there were signs!
It’s almost as if there were signs!
November 29, 2025 at 6:01 PM
Thing is, we DID hear about it at his confirmation hearing.
Every single senator who voted to confirm Hegseth knew he held these views about the laws of war.
They voted to confirm him anyway.
Every single senator who voted to confirm Hegseth knew he held these views about the laws of war.
They voted to confirm him anyway.
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If you're going to build apps like these make them PWA's that are much more difficult to censor than apps in app stores, that are controlled by gatekeepers.
After pressure from the Justice Department, Apple pulled apps from its App Store that encourage reporting ICE activity. Google followed suit by pulling similar apps from its Play Store.
The government shouldn't be choosing what apps we can download, and neither should tech companies.
The government shouldn't be choosing what apps we can download, and neither should tech companies.
Your Smartphone, Their Rules: How App Stores Enable Corporate-Government Censorship | ACLU
Big Tech Oligopoly helps the Trump Administration crack down on free speech
www.aclu.org
November 29, 2025 at 7:33 PM
If you're going to build apps like these make them PWA's that are much more difficult to censor than apps in app stores, that are controlled by gatekeepers.
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a few candidates have talked about this but any Dem planning to run in 2028 should make it explicit: the next DOJ will, in fact, go after you if you’re funding this awful ballroom, or any other pay to play deals you make with this administration
Dimon on why JPMorgan Chase is not funding WH Ballroom:
We have an issue, which is anything we do, since we do a lot of contracts with governments here and around the world, we have to be very careful how anything is perceived, and also how the next DOJ is going to deal with it.
We have an issue, which is anything we do, since we do a lot of contracts with governments here and around the world, we have to be very careful how anything is perceived, and also how the next DOJ is going to deal with it.
November 29, 2025 at 7:32 PM
a few candidates have talked about this but any Dem planning to run in 2028 should make it explicit: the next DOJ will, in fact, go after you if you’re funding this awful ballroom, or any other pay to play deals you make with this administration
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Looks like it’s time to re-up this thread on the fascist genealogy of the seemingly pablum term “Americanism.”
November 29, 2025 at 7:28 PM
Looks like it’s time to re-up this thread on the fascist genealogy of the seemingly pablum term “Americanism.”
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I could really go for “An Anaïs Nin Yule”
November 29, 2025 at 7:36 PM
I could really go for “An Anaïs Nin Yule”
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No seriously, wtf. Official United States government accounts are REGULARLY tweeting out racist, offensive, Nazi content and it just doesn’t get covered? These are just the three most recent in my camera roll.
November 29, 2025 at 7:22 PM
No seriously, wtf. Official United States government accounts are REGULARLY tweeting out racist, offensive, Nazi content and it just doesn’t get covered? These are just the three most recent in my camera roll.
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And if anything, the lawlessness of this administration *underlines* this fact.
The law has always been applied selectively and unequally, by design.
This regime didn't invent that reality.
They exploit it.
The law has always been applied selectively and unequally, by design.
This regime didn't invent that reality.
They exploit it.
The law is not now, nor has it ever been, a moral instrument.
November 29, 2025 at 7:40 PM
And if anything, the lawlessness of this administration *underlines* this fact.
The law has always been applied selectively and unequally, by design.
This regime didn't invent that reality.
They exploit it.
The law has always been applied selectively and unequally, by design.
This regime didn't invent that reality.
They exploit it.
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Five of Tom Stoppard's plays, over the course of seven decades, were awarded the Best Play Tony.
November 29, 2025 at 7:40 PM
Five of Tom Stoppard's plays, over the course of seven decades, were awarded the Best Play Tony.
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Russia has targeted and destroyed a working school in Dnipropetrovsk region.
An aerial bomb left the main school of the Mezhyv community looking like this.
Local councillors say about 450 children studied there every day.
#RussiaIsATerroristState
An aerial bomb left the main school of the Mezhyv community looking like this.
Local councillors say about 450 children studied there every day.
#RussiaIsATerroristState
November 29, 2025 at 3:52 PM
Russia has targeted and destroyed a working school in Dnipropetrovsk region.
An aerial bomb left the main school of the Mezhyv community looking like this.
Local councillors say about 450 children studied there every day.
#RussiaIsATerroristState
An aerial bomb left the main school of the Mezhyv community looking like this.
Local councillors say about 450 children studied there every day.
#RussiaIsATerroristState
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Wait so there are Peter Thiel-backed landlocked seasteading libertarian cities that the current Honduras govt wants to get rid of that Roger Stone has been advocating for that JOH also supports? And Stone has also been advocating for JOH 's pardon?
www.nytimes.com/2024/08/28/m...
www.nytimes.com/2024/08/28/m...
The For-Profit City That Might Come Crashing Down (Published 2024)
www.nytimes.com
November 29, 2025 at 6:58 PM
Wait so there are Peter Thiel-backed landlocked seasteading libertarian cities that the current Honduras govt wants to get rid of that Roger Stone has been advocating for that JOH also supports? And Stone has also been advocating for JOH 's pardon?
www.nytimes.com/2024/08/28/m...
www.nytimes.com/2024/08/28/m...
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The OpenAI ruling writers should know about 👀 (if your work was scraped for LLM training, this affects you). www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/bus...
OpenAI Loses Key Discovery Battle as It Cedes Ground to Authors in AI Lawsuits
The issue has been a major battleground in discovery. OpenAI could be on the hook for hundreds of millions, if not billions, of dollars if it was aware it was infringing on copyrighted material.
www.hollywoodreporter.com
November 28, 2025 at 3:47 PM
The OpenAI ruling writers should know about 👀 (if your work was scraped for LLM training, this affects you). www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/bus...
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600 ICE agents were supposed to be deployed to Canal Street. Hundreds of New Yorkers gathered instead.
Quick summary by me:
Quick summary by me:
November 29, 2025 at 6:55 PM
600 ICE agents were supposed to be deployed to Canal Street. Hundreds of New Yorkers gathered instead.
Quick summary by me:
Quick summary by me:
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If your business model doesn’t work without breaking the law, you’re not in business.
You’re in organized crime.
You’re in organized crime.
The OpenAI ruling writers should know about 👀 (if your work was scraped for LLM training, this affects you). www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/bus...
OpenAI Loses Key Discovery Battle as It Cedes Ground to Authors in AI Lawsuits
The issue has been a major battleground in discovery. OpenAI could be on the hook for hundreds of millions, if not billions, of dollars if it was aware it was infringing on copyrighted material.
www.hollywoodreporter.com
November 29, 2025 at 7:43 PM
If your business model doesn’t work without breaking the law, you’re not in business.
You’re in organized crime.
You’re in organized crime.
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It brought on violence, gave the Klan mainstream cachet and has stolen laurels from dozens of earlier pioneers (who, coincidentally, were also not pushing white nationalist talking points).
It's been a festering pustule for so long that people are afraid to excise it. I'm not afraid.
It's been a festering pustule for so long that people are afraid to excise it. I'm not afraid.
November 29, 2025 at 5:29 PM
It brought on violence, gave the Klan mainstream cachet and has stolen laurels from dozens of earlier pioneers (who, coincidentally, were also not pushing white nationalist talking points).
It's been a festering pustule for so long that people are afraid to excise it. I'm not afraid.
It's been a festering pustule for so long that people are afraid to excise it. I'm not afraid.
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RIP Tom Stoppard, 88, coruscating wit, paragon of modern British drama
November 29, 2025 at 5:47 PM
RIP Tom Stoppard, 88, coruscating wit, paragon of modern British drama
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Her adoptive dad had sexually assaulted her for years. But when Taylor Cadle told police, she was treated like a “monster.” She was charged with lying to the police and had to write an apology letter to her abuser.
Justice finally came when Taylor took her phone and hit record.
Justice finally came when Taylor took her phone and hit record.
Police didn’t believe a 12-year-old who said she'd been raped. Then she hit record.
“If I didn’t find the evidence for them, I wasn’t too sure they would find it.”
www.motherjones.com
November 29, 2025 at 6:00 PM
Her adoptive dad had sexually assaulted her for years. But when Taylor Cadle told police, she was treated like a “monster.” She was charged with lying to the police and had to write an apology letter to her abuser.
Justice finally came when Taylor took her phone and hit record.
Justice finally came when Taylor took her phone and hit record.