Kilmar Ábrego García says he was tortured in El Salvadorian prison . Hundreds of people are still there, sent there from the US by the Trump administration to be tortured, all sanctioned by the Supreme Court and Congress.
If you want to sit in this chair, you have to be able to solve a Rubik’s Cube because the chair is a Rubik’s Cube . (Ok, technically it looks like you only need to place the four leg corners of the chair correctly, but we’re not going to pick nits on this because it is fun and
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American science to soon face its largest brain drain in history . “Over the first half of 2025, the US has cut science as never before. This disaster for American science may be a gift to the rest of the world.”
An independent review found “a series of missteps” related to the initial decision to drop the Lebanese-born artist as well as curator Michael Dagostino.
Architect David Romero has built several digital models of Frank Lloyd Wright’s unrealized buildings , including a mile-high Chicago skyscraper with 528 floors . 💬 Join the discussion on kottke.org →
A new translation of a beloved Argentine comic, artists over 50 tell their stories, diasporic Puerto Rican art history, and more to enjoy by the seaside (or your A/C).
Mungo Thomson examines the mundane, Esiri Erheriene-Essi reflects on Black life, Llyn Foulkes satirizes Americana, and more.
“Nearly 63 years of progress in Indigenous higher education and artistic expression is at risk," said IAIA President Robert Martin.
Cheang is concerned with the ways technology enables commodification and control, from communication to nourishment to sex.
“One must be a seer, make oneself a seer,” Arthur Rimbaud wrote, “by a long, gigantic and rational derangement of all the senses.” As more and more of our senses are being amputated by the blade of our image-centric culture, reducing the vast and delicate sensorium of human
8 Forgotten Figures From the American Revolution , including Margaret Corbin, Joseph Brant, James Armistead Lafayette, and Joseph Plumb Martin. 💬 Join the discussion on kottke.org →
On global homogenetic culture . “GHC is Trader Joe’s bags outside of the States. GHC is people en masse wearing the same exact outfits on accident in public. GHC is adult dorms. GHC is a Louis Vuitton in every city. GHC is Shake Shake going global.” 💬 Join the discussion on
I read this piece by Jessica Winter a few months ago and it’s come in handy a few times so I thought I’d share. If you want something from someone, adopting the pose of the Kindly Brontosaurus might go a lot further than throwing a fit. A practitioner, nay, an artist, of the
Before he died, David Lynch talked to Natasha Lyonne about AI . “Natasha, this is a pencil. Everyone has access to a pencil, and likewise, everyone with a phone will be using AI, if they aren’t already. It’s how you use the pencil. You see?”
"For six years, two photographers have carefully followed the canines and documented their secret lives."
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That Dropped Call With Customer Service? It Was on Purpose. “Not hiring enough agents leads to longer wait times, which in turn weeds out a percentage of callers. Choosing cheaper telecom carriers [can mean] many of the calls disconnect on their own.” 🤬 💬 Join the discussion on
Editorial Template for Every Time the United States Goes to War . “President [GUY WHO HAS COMMITTED MULTIPLE WAR CRIMES], a [REPUBLICAN / DEMOCRAT], sidestepped his [COMPLICIT / COWARDLY / TOTALLY INEPT] Congress…”
In her dazzling portraits of a metropolis on the rise, Berenice Abbott captured the city that never sleeps
"A rough-hewn A-frame in a snowscape or a tiny log shack by a lake—why off-grid, simple living has long captured the American imagination, and our online attention."
Research into James Baldwin's archives reveals incisive details about the writer's personal relationships, both platonic and romantic, with other men
A cherished local tradition keeps memories of the departed alight in this tiny village on England’s southwest coast - by Aeon Video Watch at Aeon
Typesetters did not like the laser printer. Wedding photographers still hate the iphone. And some musicians are outraged that AI is now making mediocre pop music. One group of esteemed authors is demanding that book publishers refuse to use AI in designing book covers,
It may have crossed your mind, while beholding paintings of Vincent van Gogh, that you’d like to own one yourself someday. If so, you’ll have to get in line with more than a few billionaires, and even they may never see one go up on the auction block. This would probably come
In English, most of the words we’d use to refer to insects sound off-putting at best and fearsome at worst, at least to those without an entomological bent. Dutch, close a linguistic relation though it may be, offers a more endearing alternative in beestjes, which refers to all