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Shannon Mattern @shannonmattern.bsky.social · 3h

This is John Cage’s handmade paper, composed of milkweed, cattail, pigweed, honeysuckle, saffron, and more — at the NYPL

Very fibrous handmade paper with different colored globs and flecks from various plants

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Nate Chinen @natechinen.bsky.social · 3h

Real talk: this concert was unbelievable. Daaaaamn. (I know @brucehodges.bsky.social will corroborate)

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dave wagner @davewagner.bsky.social · 7h

prosecutors in Nigeria allege that a man showed up at a government building, gave himself a job that didn't exist, claimed an office was now his, and somehow got other people to fund his expenses. they say this is illegal, yet cats do this to us every day and are CELEBRATED

Freya, a fluffy gray cat, lounges imperiously in a woven basket by a glass door, one paw hanging over the edge as she stares at the camera with a stern, unimpressed expression.

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7/4 @sevenfour.bsky.social · 6h

Terry Riley’s June 11, 1977 performance of "Shri Camel" at the Holland Festival in Amsterdam. Concert starts at 07:51, after an interview by John Bird. I totally forgot about this rare movie of Terry Riley performing in the '70s. Enjoy! youtu.be/ZfHmEblM1Dk

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OmegaMom (she/her) @omegamom.bsky.social · 8h

Do this. But also notice just how adorable that little girl playing the violin is. 🥰

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Internet Archive @archive.org · 14h

The Wayback Machine lets you travel through more than a trillion saved web pages. 🏛️ ‣ Find an old website. ‣ See how a familiar site changed. ‣ Recover something that's disappeared. ‣ Check what a page looked like years ago. The web has a history. Go explore it. web.archive.org #ToolsYouCanUse

Four "Tools You Can Use" Wayback Machine campaign tiles arranged in a 2x2 grid. Top left, a cream and blue tile with a folder icon reading "Wayback Machine" and "Explore more than 1 trillion web pages saved over time." Top right, a cream tile with bold black text: "Explore more than 1 trillion web pages saved over 30 years." Bottom left, a cream tile with a screenshot of the Internet Archive Wayback Machine homepage, with its search field circled in red. Bottom right, a cream tile with bold black text, "See how the web has changed over time," and a small multicolor line-art icon of the Internet Archive's columned building.

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Rima I Anabtawi @rimaanabtawi.bsky.social · 12h

Good family attorneys sue fed officials/agents under the KKK Act. Attorney Ben Berkman: "Renee's death was the predictable result of a coordinated campaign by senior administration officials, a campaign to silence Somali and Hispanic Minnesotans and to silence anyone who dared to raise their voice."

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Marie Ruiz-Vidal @ruizvidal7.bsky.social · 13h

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Bruce Hodges @brucehodges.bsky.social · 15h

Detroiters, you know that old clarinet, unused for years, sitting in the garage? This month, Detroit Harmony is collecting instruments for kids who want to play. Part of a program created by the Detroit Symphony Orchestra (@detroitsymphony.bsky.social) to help the city's growth and well-being

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Skot Armstrong @skot.bsky.social · 15h

Good morning!

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Heather Randell @heatherrandell.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Minnesotans: I just watched this excellent new documentary on the history, present, and future of the Mississippi River from @minnesotapbs.bsky.social. You can stream it for free here! www.wearetheriver.us#watch

We are the River
HOW THE MISSISSIPPI SHAPED MINNESOTA

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Forever Louise Brooks @foreverlouiseb1.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

French actress Alice Delysia in costume for the hit stage musical "Afgar,” 1920.

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Old Hollywood @theoldhollywood.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Count Basie performing on the set of Made in Paris (1966)

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ΜΑΝΟΣ ΤΡΑΧΙΑΣ™ @trahias.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Ansicht von Subiaco, View of Subiaco (1924) by Alexander Kanoldt(1881-1939), German magic realist painter and one of the artists of the New Objectivity Oil on canvas 100 × 61 cm Museum of Fine Arts, Leipzig, Germany #art #painting #artist #BlueSkyArt

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ΜΑΝΟΣ ΤΡΑΧΙΑΣ™ @trahias.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

East 61st – NYC (2026) by multi-award-winning American artist, author and architect Thomas W. Schaller (born in 1956). Graphite pencil on paper 51 x 36 cm #art #painting #artist #BlueSkyArt

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ΜΑΝΟΣ ΤΡΑΧΙΑΣ™ @trahias.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Nina Berggren (American, b.2002) "Prayer," 2026 Oil on canvas 38 x 54 in #art #painting #artist #BlueSkyArt

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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Repair

An artistic mosaic embedded in the ground where there was damage, featuring colorful tiles in various shapes. The design includes shades of orange, green, blue, and white, creating a vibrant pattern against a wet, dark surface. The word "FLACKING" is prominently in the middle.

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Paulo da Fonseca @paulodafonseca.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

John Foster. 9 years – Accidental Mysteries

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Bruce Hodges @brucehodges.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Morning listening, a first hearing: ELEVEN GATES (2006) by Anders Hillborg, with Esa-Pekka Salonen and the Los Angeles Philharmonic

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Hillborg: Eleven Gates

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Tom Reagan’s Hat @rufustsuperfly.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Ian McShane is 84 On how he came to be narrator on Grace Jones’ Slave To The Rhythm: ‘I was in a chip shop with my wife Gwen, & Trevor Horn came in, who I’d known forever. He said ‘Ian, what are you doing after supper?’ ‘Why?’ ‘Well, I need a voice & Orson Welles is dead.’ youtu.be/nAerTAjLpF0?...

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Grace Jones - Slave To The Rhythm (HQ)

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Matthew Facciani @matthewfacciani.bsky.social · 27/08/2025

Adding just six hours of media literacy training to an American Government course significantly improved students’ ability to identify credible sources and boosted their confidence in evaluating where information comes from. theconversation.com/college-stud...

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College students are bombarded by misinformation, so this professor taught them fact-checking 101 − here’s what happened

Just 2½ hours of online instruction made students a lot better at identifying misinformation on YouTube and TikTok.

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Shana The Harpy! @shanahipharpy.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Ah, arpa mariachi is totally a thing & I’m a huge fan girl! This photo is of the mariachis who awaited us as walked out on to the plaza after Austin Opera’s production of the mariachi opera Cruzar la Cara de la Luna. my.austinopera.org/cruzar/595

A photo of four mariachi musicians, all in black, with a harp in the foreground.

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Bruce Hodges @brucehodges.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Earlier tonight, a rebroadcast of a @philorch.bsky.social concert from November 2025 that I missed, and worth it for the Still alone. The Philadelphia Orchestra Yannick Nézet-Séguin, conductor Emanuel Ax, piano William Grant Still: Wood Notes Beethoven: Piano Concerto No. 3 Brahms: Symphony No. 3

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Emanuel Ax plays Beethoven, and Yannick conducts Still and Brahms

Join us on Sunday, Sept. 27 at 1 p.m. on WRTI 90.1 FM and Monday, Sept. 28 at 7 p.m. on WRTI HD-2 for an encore presentation of The Philadelphia Orchestra in Concert, as Yannick Nézet-Séguin leads Bra...

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David @archaeomather.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

And the whole thing once more.

The historic Palace Theater in Luverne, Minnesota.

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David @archaeomather.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Details of the Palace Theater in Luverne, Minnesota - constructed in 1915 and listed in the National Register of Historic Places.

Cool wallpaper and sconce on the wall by a stage.

A lovely lady on the wall with a bow. I suspect she is Diana.

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William Gibson @greatdismal.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Pretty sure this contained my first taste of Wm. Burroughs. Found it on rotating wire racks in a local drugstore when I was about 13. Cost a me a quarter and a dime!

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Dr. Jonathan Foley @globalecoguy.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

EVs are awesome. I have a Hyundai Ioniq 5, which has a range of 300-350 miles. I charge it at home, which is convenient, and it costs me about $10 to completely recharge the battery. (84 kWh at 12 cents a kWh) Compare that to a similar size gas car, at 25-30 mpg, which would cost $54 to fill up.

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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Norway produces more oil than Venezuela. And yet, between January and August 2026, electric vehicles made up 97.8 percent of all new cars sold in that country. Moving to EVs is often based on intelligence, not need. Which is why it lags in the notoriously short-sighted and stupid United States.

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Bart Gazzola @bartgazzola381.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Ellsworth Kelly, Yellow Orange, 1968

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David M Rubin @six18sfoundry.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

October Country from 6th grade has been schlepped around to ~18 houses & apartments

Scribbled on $1.50 ray bradbury October Country.

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Tom & Lorenzo @tomandlorenzo.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

People seem to think this is problematic but I think it's not only hilarious, it speaks of someone with a lot of gay people around him

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Andy Bass @andybassny.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Linda McCartney was commemorated by the U.S. Postal Service with a pane of Forever Stamps featuring five images of her work as a photographer. A First Day of Issue ceremony was held at MoMA in New York City on Sept. 25, 2026. Her daughter Mary McCartney spoke at the event. youtu.be/W1M6JPt1hjg?...

A sidewalk sign advertising the dedication ceremony for the Linda McCartney Forever Stamps stands outside the Museum of Modern Art on West 53rd Street in New York City shortly before the event on September 25, 2026. (Andy Bass photo)

Participants in the dedication ceremony for the Linda McCartney Forever Stamps stand beside a backdrop with images of Linda and the new stamps at the conclusion of the event. Standing left to right are Angie Martoccio, Senior Writer for Rolling Stone magazine, who served as Master of Ceremonies; Mary McCartney, photographer and daughter of Paul and Linda McCartney; David Steiner, Postmaster General and CEO of the United States Postal Service; and Rachel Smith, Partner at Benrubi Gallery in New York City. The images on the backdrop feature a 1992 self-portrait of Linda behind a camera and a vertical strip of the five distinct stamps issued as a pane of 20 by the USPS. (Andy Bass photo)

A smiling Mary McCartney stands beside a backdrop showing a vertical strip of the five distinct stamps of her mother's still-life and landscape photography. From top to bottom, the five photos featured on the stamps are "Shadow, Sussex" (1984); "Sunflowers" (1990s); "Through a Glass Teapot" (1996); "Carnation, Sussex" (1985); and Cherries, Antigua" (1969). The last photo was taken in the same photo shoot as the cover art from Paul McCartney's 1970 debut solo album, McCARTNEY. Derry Noyes, an art director for the USPS, designed the stamps using Linda's photos. (Andy Bass photo)

Programs were distributed to all attendees of the Linda McCartney Forever Stamps dedication ceremony. Above, a cover of the ceremony program bears a "Shadow, Sussex" stamp with the official First Day of Issue cancellation. The cover is hand-signed by Mary McCartney directly below the cancellation. (Andy Bass collection)

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Arthur David Spota @adaspota.bsky.social · 22/09/2025

American photographer Louis Faurer, a key member of the New York School of street photographers that included Diane Arbus, Robert Frank, and William Klein. The San Gennaro Festival, Little Italy NYC, 1950 #SanGennaroFeast

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Did I remind all of you in NYC to make sure to take yourselves and your children to see "He Built This City" at the Museum of the City of New York yet? The exhibit closes October 12: www.mcny.org/exhibition/h... - I cannot say enough about this exhibit and I think that you will be amazed. GO!

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He Built This City

Explore Joe Macken’s monumental model and discover the extraordinary vision behind one of the most ambitious handmade representations of New York City ever created.

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MoMA Paintings and Sculpture @moma.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Giorgio de Chirico, Great Metaphysical Interior, Ferrara, April-August 1917 botfrens.com/collections/14377/cont…

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Greg Priest @gregpriest.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Rachel Carson’s Silent Spring was published OTD in 1962. “[W]e have now acquired a fateful power to alter and destroy nature. But man is a part of nature, and his war against nature is inevitably a war against himself.” 🌱🐋 # HistSTM 🧪🌎 #philsci #philsky #WomeninSTEM

Caricature of Rachel Carson by David Levine for the New York Review of Books.

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SK @sk-76.bsky.social · 25/09/2025

Sunday Sunday Sunday (1933)

Classified ads for lectures on atheism, astrology, communism, and various other religious and philosophical topics.

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Dean Frey @dean.bsky.social · 26/09/2025

Gérard Uféras, Louvre, Paris, 2018 Looking at Théodore Géricault's "The Raft of the Medusa", 1819

Two young boys stand under the huge painting, looking up. One boy points to a feature in the painting.

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Bruce Hodges @brucehodges.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

With soprano Leah Hawkins, mezzo-soprano J'Nai Bridges, tenor Issachah Savage, and bass-baritone Ryan Speedo Green — plus the 80-voice Philadelphia Symphonic Choir — @nezetseguin.bsky.social and @philorch.bsky.social opened the season with a powerfully detailed Beethoven Ninth.

A photo from opening night of The Philadelphia Orchestra's new season, showing the curtain call at Marion Anderson Hall, with artists onstage (from left): bass-baritone Ryan Speedo Green, tenor Issachah Savage, soprano Leah Hawkins, mezzo-soprano J'Nai Bridges, conductor Yannick Nézet-Séguin, and director of the Philadelphia Symphonic Choir, Joe Miller

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Melissa @2023chastete.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Provocation (1957) by Victor Brauner

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Max Derrickson @musicprogramnotes.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

More Happy Birthday, Dmitri Shostakovich! (September 25, 1906 – August 9, 1975) Here, the intimate, not so chilling (but which later found its way into Shostakovich’s very chilling Symphony No. 10) “What’s in my name to you” for basso and piano: www.youtube.com/watch?v=SU2O...

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4 Monologues, Op. 91: No. 2. Shto v imeni tebe moyom? (What's In My Name To You?)

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Bruce Hodges @brucehodges.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Tomorrow at 5 pm CDT, watch Houston's River Oaks Chamber Orchestra (ROCO) with conductor Delyana Lazarova and alto saxophone soloist, Alison Shearer Jonathan Peters: Sonus Colorum (2024) Alison Shearer: The Light Paintings (2026) Leanna Primiani: VISIONS (2026) Nino Rota: Symphony No. 3 (1956-57)

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🌊 SEP 25-26: Embark on the ROCO Odyssey!

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SK @sk-76.bsky.social · 25/09/2025

Self-portrait (ca. 1932) Photo: Berenice Abbott / National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution

Posed head and shoulders close-up portrait of a young woman resting her chin on her hand and looking directly at the camera.

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Matt Ford @mford.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Ezra Klein asked Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang about AI making kids worse at math and reading. Huang’s reply: “Does it matter?” Then he said he doesn’t know his own address or phone number. “We’re going to lose some fine intellectual dexterity.” www.nytimes.com/2026/09/23/o...

So the message of this research out of China, where you were seeing a lot of kids using A.I. to help them, was that when they were using the A.I., they were getting things done faster. But it turned out that the skills they were learning were not holding, that their actual personal performance, at least in the way we traditionally measure it, was degrading.

What do you think when you hear that?

The last part — I completely agree. Try to get a kid to do long division right now. The multiplication table is starting to be forgotten. Doing square roots, my goodness. Basic math is being forgotten. Does it matter?

That’s my question for you.

Yeah. I don’t think it does. I don’t think it does.

But there must be some set of skills that matter.

Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. But maybe not those. We’re going to discover new ones. Just maybe not those.

There are a lot of skills that don’t matter. My first confession, I actually don’t know my address.

And I ——

I don’t really believe that to be true.

It’s completely true. Janine will tell you and Lori will tell you.

One day I had to pump gas — it was a few years ago. They needed my ZIP code, and I panicked. I didn’t know my ZIP code. I don’t know my telephone number. I forget these things. I can live with it.

But let me take the other side because I don’t want to fall into a thing where, because some skills can be safely offloaded ——

Yeah.

I also can’t get anywhere without a mapping system now. Never could, frankly. But I’m a big reader. And one of the skills I really value, one of the capacities I have that I really value is an attention span formed on physical books.

You’re a big reader. I’ve read about the kind of reading you do. And there is, prior to A.I., a lot of concern and noticing among college professors and others that the way people use the internet has probably shortened attention spans.
Some skills can be safely given away. Others are valuable. They are capacities that are needed for that flexibility, for that creative thinking, for that focus. It can’t be the case that everything can be traded off.

Some skills can be safely given away. Others are valuable. They are capacities that are needed for that flexibility, for that creative thinking, for that focus. It can’t be the case that everything can be traded off.

Yeah. Well, I think that we’re going to lose some finer intellectual dexterity, but we’re going to be better systems thinkers.

Today’s engineers are far better systems thinkers than I was when I graduated from school. But I was a much better transistor thinker.

What do you mean by systems thinker?

They think of large systems. Today’s computers have trillions, hundreds of trillions of transistors in them. When I first graduated from school, the first chip I worked on had 200 transistors. I knew every one of them by name. No engineer does that today. Most engineers now work well above the transistor, well above the functionality, and they’re cobbling things together to do things.

So you need to think much more about systems and interactions of systems. So some of the lower-level knowledge is gone.

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7/4 @sevenfour.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Morton Feldman (center) and the Kronos Quartet photo George Newsom, circa 1980s

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