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I don’t collect stamps but I always like seeing a post office and appreciate the work the mail carriers do, even when they make me mad

Graphic artist Chris Ware has created a set of 20 stamps for the US Postal Service’s 250th anniversary in his iconic style. The stamps will be available in July but you can pre-order them now.

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Narrator: Cuomo didn’t win.

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Pavements Original Cast, Slanted! Enchanted! Finale!" (Jukebox Musical Version)

The film ‘Pavements’ is now available for download / purchase and I think it’s going to be streaming on Mubi at some point, if not already.

This movie is a miracle. 

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The Jesus & Mary Chain, ft Hope Sandoval, Sometimes Always

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Central Park

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X-Girl fashion week show in Soho, c1994, organized by Sofia Coppola, Spike Jonze, Kim Gordon, and Daisy von Furth. 

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Midtown

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Bob Dylan, Edinburgh 1966

[photo by Barry Feinstein]

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GOP Congressman tempers the Vice President’s enthusiasm with a quick fact-check.

[note: Massie is not someone you should be rooting for, but he’s been regularly shitting on the current administration for not being right-wing enough]

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OBIT [voice mail] by Victoria Chang

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A federal judge has sided with Anthropic in an AI copyright case, ruling that training — and only training — its AI models on legally purchased books without authors’ permission is fair use. It’s a first-of-its-kind ruling in favor of the AI industry, but it’s importantly limited specifically to physical books Anthropic purchased and digitized. Judge William Alsup of the Northern District of California also says in his decision that the company must face a separate trial for pirating “millions” of books from the internet. The decision also does not address whether the outputs of an AI model infringe copyrights, which is at issue in other related cases.

On its face, this looks like a victory for AI companies to steal copyrighted material, but the judge’s rulings has a very narrow scope and leaves Anthropic vulnerable to ongoing lawsuits that involve anything more than “training” their AI models.

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Northern Ireland, c1978

[photo by Chris Steele-Perkins]

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Françoise Sagan, June 21, 1935 – September 24, 2004.

Frank Horvat, Françoise Sagan, writer, hiding in her loge, Paris, 1958.

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What do the upper 5% have in common with the lower 6%? Well, for one thing, they’re both delusional. For another, the Venn Diagram of these 2 groups would end up with the 5% circle fully inside the 6% circle, leaving one percent of the country possessed by the unique confidence found only in abject ignorance: smart enough not to want to fight a war with Iran but still addle-brained enough to think they could beat up a grizzly bear with just their bare hands.