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Robert Thau Oct 2, 2024

For your amusement: Billy Graham quoting Saint Paul on why people should stay the hell away from Donald Trump.

(He's reading from the beginning of 2 Timothy chapter 3, J.B. Phillips translation. He gives the source himself in the full sermon, linked to from the Evangelicals for Harris ad page, which has sources for everything.)

Robert Thau Jan 31, 2024

How not to be trending:

Robert Thau Dec 1, 2023

Worth seeing if you're in New York, this weekend, in Chelsea art galleries -- Raqib Shaw's lavish dreamscapes at Pace on 25th St (between 10th and 11th). Also at Pace, a collection of Picasso sketchbooks (to go with a retrospective at Gagosian on 21st which somehow has pictures on loan from museum collections, including MoMA). https://www.pacegallery.com/exhibitions/raqib-shaw-space-between-dreams/

Raqib Shaw: Space Between Dreams | Pace Gallery

Pace is pleased to present an exhibition of new paintings by Raqib Shaw at its 540 West 25th Street gallery in New York.

Robert Thau Apr 9, 2023

So, here's the kind of excuse Conservatives are making for the Hitler memorabilia collection of Harlan Crow, which includes two of the landscapes he made in his abortive career as an artist, and a signed copy of Mein Kampf.

Y'know, Hitler's *paintings* are not generally considered good, but I've never seen them described as among the great "horrors of the 20th century". If Crow is collecting the art, there's another reason.

Robert Thau Jan 27, 2023

State of Twitter engineering (from an Elon bud doing a trip report on a visit with the engineers left there): After they fired all the staff that built and used to tend the moderation machinery, there's no one left there who understands what it's doing -- which clearly shows what a lousy job those people were doing before they were fired.

Robert Thau Dec 20, 2022

In case you're wondering, Elon presumably *does* think that "deep state bots" were also active in the "let Trump back on" poll. But he thinks they wanted to keep Trump off.

(He actually said as much *while that poll was still running*, and abided by the results anyway -- I guess he thinks the bots were agin' it, because there couldn't possibly be corrupt agents of chaos who want the same thing as he does.)