A small pizza, breadsticks, and two sodas in red cups on a red + white checkerboard tablecloth
Seeing this photo in the Times brings back such potent multisensory memories! PizzaHut launched Book It!, its reading incentive program, in 1984.
There was a PH right next door to my family’s hardware store, and I was a voracious reader — so we cashed in our stars for 🍕 weekly 📚⭐️
You, an individual, cannot "fix" the whole world. You can act at the scale of your life. You should act at the scale of your life.
People can say it’s utopian or dreamy but it’s a fact that you have to believe new things are possible, fundamentally, in order to make them real. You have to make the choice to believe that more than this is possible & not be resigned to this being the way things have to be because it’s not at all.
The rule of law is good.
some of you are looksmaxxing when you need to be booksmaxxing
They deliver! Fun little action comedies for kids. Carey is really good in them.
Iron Man meme, edited, Obadiah Stane yelling, "Your ancestors made timeless art in a cave! With berries and ash!"
"I need AI to make art, human art is only for the rich and privileged-"
AMEN. 👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾
“I learned what I consider to be the two principles of journalism. The first is that objectivity is not the same as neutrality. If there is an aggressor and a victim, a liar & an honest person, a corrupt individual and an honourable one, then your task is to describe all that clearly & forcefully.”
Ian McKellen performs “The Strangers’ Case” speech from “Sir Thomas More” on Colbert.
It‘s really disturbing to see. To defend this stuff and call into doubt the claims of so many victims — women and CHILDREN — is real moral monstrosity.
Bezos isn't destroying the Washington Post because it isn't profitable. He's destroying the Washington Post because he's calculated that a robust free press threatens the ability of his class to warp society around their interests
Sometimes I wonder if the world is going to have to rebuild journalism from the ground up.
Like, we obviously, desperately need it. And if the super-rich are going to buy up all the legacy outlets and destroy them - or turn them into propaganda machines -- we're going to have to start over.
My favourite song about Maine is by Donovan Woods, and the chorus goes "🎶 Portland, Maine? I don't know where that is...🎶"
“Tell your children who the cowards were.”
Bilbo looking at his phone top on bottom is ChatGPT After all, why not? Why shouldn't I keep it? You're absolutely right — you found it, it's been with you a long while, and it's only natural to feel fond of something that's served you so well, especially when someone like Gandalf suddenly seems to want it for himself.
This is very funny.
Sometimes the most radical thing you can do is educate normal people on complex subjects in ways that are engaging and digestible.
This is it. People may sound smart using “inside baseball” terminology, but it doesn’t help other people learn.
I've literally had this thought.
This, to me, is the real story of the game. Yes, Eagles offense took a nap. Predictable. AJ Drops hurt.
But Philly's pas rush did zilch for four quarters. 9ers O-line neutralized them. That's part of how Purdy played so well. Clean pockets the whole time.
They went backwards!
How about they lead 20-6 at halftime and the game ends 26-23 after four quarters. Winner? Who knows?
Just completely unable to choke out teams like they used to.
And too scared to call a downfield pass.
"Academics literally cannot make genAI go away" we also can't make underage drinking go away and we're not advocating for installing bar carts in every classroom.
Help us send 2,000 books to readers who are incarcerated this winter through our Books Not Bars program
A thing we've gotta get better at is recognizing that WHEN YOU CHOOSE to write a story about something, debate something, invite people to opine about something, those CHOICES are not politically neutral!
There's no "just asking questions."
You're CHOOSING the topics that take up public space.
What a relief to mark a paper these days and see a comma where it shouldn't be -- to find evidence that a person who makes mistakes has written this essay!
Food for thought.
