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Arbor Day
Arbor Day
Should we sing a song about the trees on Arbor Day? Should we sing a song about the trees that proudly sway? Should we be so simple and as sweet a story tell? No, we yell! What’s there to tell?
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Arbor Day
Mats and mattresses
Mats and mattresses
Going to the mat, going to the mattresses: what’s the difference?
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Mats and mattresses
1940s NYC
1940s NYC
Julien Boilen’s 1940s NYC, which links points on a map to their WPA tax photographs in the New York City Municipal Archives, now accepts stories about NYC addresses from readers.
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1940s NYC
Headaches
Headaches
A passage from Steven Millhauser’s “The Invention of Robert Herendeen.“
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Headaches
Eleven at ninety
Eleven at ninety
“I feel like I’m eleven!” says Carol Burnett, who turns ninety tomorrow.
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Eleven at ninety
Backstayges and Roys
Backstayges and Roys
I finally realized what the group trips of Succession remind me of: the group trips of Mary Backstayge, Noble Wife, the Bob and Ray radio-serial spoof.
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Backstayges and Roys
Harold and Mel
Harold and Mel
Bloom accuses former grad student Tormé of murder.
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Harold and Mel
“Early American”?
“Early American”?
An Atlantic crossword calls a 1940s comedian and musician “early American.”
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“Early American”?
AppleScript, defying intelligence
AppleScript, defying intelligence
David Sparks, in an episode of the Mac Power Users podcast: “My test for these AI engines that say they can program is asking them to make an AppleScript, because I’m convinced that AppleScript is the hardest language for a computer to learn how to program. And they routinely fail at it.”
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AppleScript, defying intelligence
NYT, sheesh
NYT, sheesh
“She has also been suffering from a deterioration in her short-term memory and her ability to hold conversations for more than a year.”
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NYT, sheesh
The stuff bots are made of
The stuff bots are made of
The Washington Post analyzed Google’s C4 data set, “a massive snapshot of the contents of 15 million websites that have been used to instruct some high-profile English-language AIs.” The data set includes half a million blogs. Including this one.
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The stuff bots are made of
Overheard
Overheard
“Do you want to come over to my house? It is gorgeous.”
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Overheard
Figs and wasps
Figs and wasps
I’m not sure what I’d rather believe: that I didn’t eat a cookie with wasp parts, or that I did.
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Figs and wasps
Reading as a civil-rights issue
Reading as a civil-rights issue
From The New York Times: “Fed up parents, civil rights activists, newly awakened educators and lawmakers are crusading for ‘the science of reading.‘ Can they get results?” With news about a new documentary, The Right to Read. From the trailer: “This is a civil-rights issue.” LeVar Burton is the executive producer.
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Reading as a civil-rights issue
Daylight and shadows
Daylight and shadows
The Daylight Cafeteria, at New Utrecht and 62nd. This photograph is here because I like the cafeteria’s name, and because the arrangement of lines and surfaces makes me think of the paintings of Charles Sheeler.
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Daylight and shadows