I love these 1936 newsreel clips of Zdeněk Koubek, a Czech track star who publicly transitioned gender after his transition, he came to New York to perform on Broadway. this seems to be the only surviving video Koubek is the center of my book, THE OTHER OLYMPIANS — out June 4!

and this debt impacts pretty much everything—once you glimpse how municipal debt shapes inequality, it's really hard to unsee

American cities and towns regularly turn to private investors to raise funds for schools and basic infrastructure and on the private bond market, the rich ones win and the poor inevitably lose wrote about the long arc of municipal debt for @TheAtlantic: https://t.co/iZ1k2leB9p

if any, like, German or Czech publishers want in, let's keep this energy going...

not on here so much anymore but just have to share that the Japanese edition arrived! it's a family :)

This should be on every major news site.

beautiful. http://t.co/e1sw26Y

Love Elon. He deserves $1T. The sheer will he shows in solving problems for so many people around the world, makes it well deserved. The envious will not understand. They wont do what is right. They would rather hate what is right. They sign the back of checks, not the front.

DSA chapters across the nation need to instantly be reviewing their core cadre and sorting by hotness in advance of an all out nationwide electoral push

election day 🤝 E•MO•TION anniversary

Time to make sure he actually delivers on this promise.

Already back out protesting for Palestine. What a legend.

NEW: "Where is the outrage over Skrmetti?" On the far right's campaign to create uncertainty over gender-affirming medical care for minors — and the powerful institutions that helped along the way. Tonight, at Law Dork.

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scooters deployed

I wrote abt u-mich hiring undercover investigators to spy on pro-Palestinian campus groups. Investigators drove a car at a student, pretended to be disabled, accused a student of robbing them, etc. Incl jaw dropping video

archivists are all waiting for the really big challenge—what happens when they're tasked with processing a person's entire cellphone?

i will always love Edmund White for being such an iconic gossip throughout CITY BOY but the thing I will never forget is his description of the perfect day job in the early 1970s

Using memory with LLMs reduces token usage 60-80% (depending on the memory solution you choose), while improving context and accuracy. If you use Memori OSS, you will have 80% savings, token usage and total costs drop to 20% of the original: $11.25 → $2.25 per 1 M tokens

I wrote for @TheAtlantic about how archivists are contending with our digital detritus — whether we'll be able to save emails, texts, Discord chats, etc and what that means for how we tell history: https://t.co/0BuDbtDGjw

Read this horrifying testimony from Israel's massacre of people just trying to get food:

in one week: to celebrate the paperback of The Other Olympians, @9BillionTigers, @Hugh_Ryan, Sabrina Imbler, and I are presenting on our research obsessions hear about historical love affairs, sexually active popes, and much more June 3 @ 7 pm! https://t.co/P749E2BtDy

you unfortunately just know the party is going to be filled with gay boys the moment you walk in and see this

Noor Abdalla was eight months pregnant when her husband, Mahmoud Khalil, was arrested, in March. She hasn’t seen him since, and now has a one-month-old son. https://t.co/AjyTB2ihQJ

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