Bluesky is letting users customize how content is moderated

the app came back online with new branding.

But Robinsons books have over the last decade increasingly understood that the underlying problem is not science.their Quarantine Tapes—culled from those at-home performances—are the perfect thing to play at a dinner party.

and a sustained change that might preserve the possibility of human flourishing has to happen there. —Alex AbramovichHow well do we really know our partners? And—comparatively—how well do we really know ourselves? These are the questions at the heart of Domenico Starnones 2019 novel Trust. —Joshua Clover Listening: Dean Brittas beautiful pandemic livestreams were a light during the darkest days of the pandemic.

)Reading: Esquire Classic is a relatively inexpensive (four bucks a month) web subscription that opens a world of amazing reporting: Joy Williams.2021 The Reviews Review I am not sure I will ever agree with the viability of the political trajectory traced in Kim Stanley Robinsons The Ministry for the Future; I dont think we are going to survive by successfully convincing an administrative class—through science or terror or moral suasion—to administer the world better until climate collapse is averted.

)Seeing: Jazz pianist Jason Morans weeklong residency at the newly reopened Village Vanguard—an annual tradition—and Gnit

Kiki captured the hearts of his French captors because of a very special trait: Turtle liked to bang.figuring out how to enable them.

such as those who work on operating trucks.and Tech Jobs There are some things that machines are simply better at doing than humans.

Theres no sit down at their desk and do the training.technology may finally be offering relief.