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Kohut @kohut.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

How much more time do we spend on hold with insurance companies?

Kohut @kohut.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

@mitpress.bsky.social friends: The Kindle version of The Smart Mission is available today only for $1.99. For the price of a large coffee from your local gas station, it's a steal. www.amazon.com/Smart-Missio...

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Dave Goldberg @davegoldbergjazz.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Tune of the day…John Coltrane - Chasin’ The Train. On his 100th birthday today, take 16 minutes and 11 seconds of time, don’t do anything, close your eyes, listen to this 12 bar blues in its entirety and imagine being in that crowd hearing him soar off the stage. #jazzsky youtu.be/bFMRQcxjP2Q

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John Coltrane - Live at the Village Vanguard - Chasin' The Trane

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New York Review Books @nyrb-imprints.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Iana Boukova's Traveling in the Directions of the Shadows goes on sale today. Our first book from Bulgaria, in a fine translation by Ekaterina Petrova. We've been comparing it to Borges and Calvino, so....

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Kohut @kohut.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Auto-correct turned "milestone" into "minestrone." I approve.

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Joseph Rezek @rezekjoe.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

You know what gets a library perpetual access to a book??? Purchasing the physical book. I guarantee the publisher won’t come steal it back!!!

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Deidre Lynch @drbibliomane.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Rereading Calvino's If on a Winter's Night & had forgotten that its villain persuades a thriller author w/ writer's block that "our computers would be capable of completing it easily, programmed as they are to develop all the elements of a text w/ perfect fidelity to the... models of the author."

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The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 06/09/2026

Mary Tsingou Menzel played a key role in a landmark computational physics experiment that helped propel the development of chaos theory and other fields. But it took more than half a century, physicists said, for her to receive appropriate credit.

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Her work was key to a landmark experiment. She was credited in a footnote.

Mary Tsingou Menzel, who has died at 97, played a central role in a Los Alamos physics experiment. A half-century later, she finally got her due.

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Kohut @kohut.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Mei Semones at McCarter Theatre9/4/26.

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Kohut @kohut.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

The sounds that have been in my ears over the past few months. soundsoutoftime.substack.com/p/new-listen...?

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Wurmpth Furdber @purelava.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

My favourite Louis Armstrong recording is 12th Street Rag. 1927. How he's so rhythmically free is just amazing. The gap between him and the other soloists is crazy. youtu.be/BU1VB6BvbPE?...

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Twelfth Street Rag - Louis Armstrong & His Hot Seven (1927)

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Kohut @kohut.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

Charles Lloyd, 60 years ago. Still going strong at 88.

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Bill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

In honor of Ross Douthat's last day at the NYT, let's remember this particular headline tweak from just last year.

The New York Times OPINION INTERESTING TIMES Did Women Ruin the Workplace? And can conservative feminism fix it? Nov. 6, 2025, 5:02 a.m. ET @ Share full article Hosted by Ross Douthat Produced by Victoria Chamberlin

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The New York Times OPINION INTERESTING TIMES Did Liberal Feminism Ruin the Workplace? And if so, can conservative feminism fix it? Nov. 6, 2025 f Share full article A ¢ -11K Hosted by Ross Douthat Produced by Victoria Chamberlin

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Mark Harris @markharris.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

From Ross Douthat's final column: "I lived through the years of peak woke, and it was a McCarthyite experience." Can a sentence die of embarrassment?

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Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD @elizabethjacobs.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

I don’t know fam, my first instinct would be to die of embarrassment.

Tweet from Jay Bhattacharya that says I'm in my last week as acting CDC director, & my good friends there, who know my love of all things @WWE, unveiled this astonishing artifact. I won't let it go to my head, but I will forever remember the amazing people of the @cdc. It's been an honor to serve alongside them.

There is a photo of him standing next to a literal cardboard cutout of himself dressed in wrestling garb with a championship belt thrown over his shoulder.

I apologize but it’s impossible for me to describe how cringe this is.

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Kohut @kohut.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

Jimmy Carter hosted a jazz festival that featured Ornette Coleman. The entire event is here. youtu.be/Zn3hx6diwW4?...

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JIMMY CARTER'S WHITE HOUSE JAZZ FESTIVAL1978-06-18 NPR/WAMU-FM BROADCAST

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Elizabeth Spiers @espiers.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

I love em dashes and I'm not going to give them up because robots that write badly also use them.

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Hank Green @hankgreen.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

What I’ve learned from the trolley problem is that people getting hit by trolleys must have been a pretty big problem back in the day.

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Kohut @kohut.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

Why a greying American still listens to the radio.

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Clare Moriarty @quiteclare.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

Though 'The Third Policeman' is my favourite, 'At Swim-Two-Birds' and 'Country Girls' had bigger impacts on my life, I think. Does one even need to read beyond the O'Briens?! 😄

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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

Reminder! There are alternatives to Substack! Which do not have its ethical problems! (My newsletter is on Ghost, which is fabulous, and Buttondown is among the others I've heard praised.) Thread--

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Kohut @kohut.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

NYT top story while this is happening: “America Celebrates Its 250th Birthday With Parades and Tall Ships”

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London Review of Books @lrb.co.uk · 03/07/2026

Nothing will get better from here on out, That’s what I often think. Cheer me up. Tell me there’s room for doubt The way the sunset goes all in for pink Then indigo, the way there are still stars Beyond the light pollution And satellites. @aestallings.bsky.social: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

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A.E. Stallings · Poem: ‘Auguries’

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Beth Levin @betheena.bsky.social · 21/06/2026

(300) Historic Schubert Quintet played by Brainin, Carlyss, Farulli, Metz and Berlinsky - YouTube www.youtube.com/watch?v=EUgF...

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Historic Schubert Quintet played by Brainin, Carlyss, Farulli, Metz and Berlinsky

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

RIP Mark Rothko. You would have loved how the hydrogen peroxide bleach is only turning the Reflecting Pool blue around the perimeter

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Kohut @kohut.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

Yes. And authors also depend on libraries for books that inform our own works. Try writing a book with a low four-figures advance and buying all your sources.

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The Economist @economist.com · 07/06/2026

Ukraine has become a crucial security partner for Europe. Bringing it into the EU would bolster a continent that looks vulnerable among more predatory great powers

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Ukraine is not a charity case

Europe needs its help just as badly as the other way round

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Kohut @kohut.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

An original and very readable take on the US Constitution as viewed through the lens of The Domesday Book.

Photo of the cover of The Making & Breaking of the American Constitution: A Thousand-Year History, by Mark Peterson

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Kohut @kohut.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

I wrote my last book when ChatGPT was at best a glorified thesaurus. That was then. nymag.com/intelligence...

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Nonfiction Book Publishers Aren’t Remotely Ready for AI

They don’t check facts. How will they check hallucinations?

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Kohut @kohut.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

AI stories over-explain themes and favor tidy, single-track plots while human stories frame protagonist' choices as more morally ambiguous and have increased temporal complexity. arxiv.org/abs/2604.03136

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StoryScope: Investigating idiosyncrasies in AI fiction

As AI-generated fiction becomes increasingly prevalent, questions of authorship and originality are becoming central to how written work is evaluated. While most existing work in this space focuses on...

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Kohut @kohut.bsky.social · 31/05/2026

More New Yorkers are borrowing books from the New York Public Library than 15 years ago. www.nytimes.com/2026/05/31/o...?

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Opinion | Make America Read Again

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Mark Stryker @markstryker.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

Many thanks to Ethan Iverson for hosting my expanded reflections on Sonny Rollins, including a Desert Island list of recordings. substack.com/@iverson/not...

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GUEST POST: The Greatest Ever is Gone: Reflections on Sonny Rollins and a Desert Island List of Recordings

By Mark Stryker

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Michael D. Green, PhD @michaeldgreen.phd · 28/05/2026

President of MIT not mincing words today in @statnews.com www.statnews.com/2026/05/27/s...

So let me say it as clearly as I can: Without basic scientific research, supported by the kind of farsighted public investment that allows large-scale, undirected, curiosity-driven inquiry, the scientific pipeline will run dry.
In daily life, people may not feel the effects right away, or even in 10 years. But we will feel it. And when someone we love needs therapies that could have emerged but didn't or when other countries now
investing in science can launch new science-based industries or run their societies on vast resources of fusion energy or reap the benefits of quantum computing power or advanced medical breakthroughs, America will wish it sustained its leadership in scientific research here and now.
Sally Kornbluth is the president of MIT.

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Beth Levin @betheena.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

'A rice-planting song voices ring out clear and strong how all art began' —Bashō **** Ohno Bakufu 麦風 Rice weeding c.1950 See less

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Kohut @kohut.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

Why wasn't this above the fold in today's @nytimes.com? On p. A17 there's a story about Mikie Sherrill's visit to Delaney Hall. No mention of Andy Kim being pepper-sprayed by ICE agents a few miles from NYC. Wtf? www.nj.com/news/2026/05...

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ICE agents pepper-spray protesters, N.J. senator in clash outside Delaney Hall in Newark

“It’s sad, it’s a sad day," says pepper-sprayed senator.

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Kohut @kohut.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

Sonny Rollins died within hours of Miles Davis's 100th birthday. youtu.be/9IY29EZb1pI?...

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Miles Davis Quintet - Oleo

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