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A Street Photography community

Posted on July 7, 2026 by Robert Basil

The day I started these new feeds, I came upon a video in Fstoppers by Peter Forsgård, a photographer from Helsinki, Finland, discussing what street photographers could learn from the musician Brian Eno. I watched it twice, the second time taking … Continue reading →

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Our news feeds

Posted on June 6, 2026 by Robert Basil

We’ve added some arts-focused news feeds here, and taken down the ones for “Artificial Intelligence” and “Social Media Policy,” topics that are painfully ubiquitous practically everywhere else. Our “Graphic Novels” news feed is filled with tributes to Marjane Satrapi, creator … Continue reading →

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Heavy morning rotation

Posted on April 30, 2026 by Robert Basil

It’s not true din without a diverse display, which we don’t really provide in my corner of the world. — — — — — My longtime staples: The New York Times (despite everything), The NewYorker, Atlantic (itself a din), and … Continue reading →

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Apropos

Posted on April 24, 2026 by Robert Basil

Clarissa is not alone. On X writer Tyler A. Harper darkly assesses university administrators’ embrace of AI. “A lot of the push for AI (therapists! health care professionals! tutors!) is predicated on a tacit acceptance that the broken institutions cannot … Continue reading →

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“Whatever you think you can write.”

Posted on April 15, 2026 by Robert Basil

So says the wonderful Bryan Garner in today’s LawProse Lesson. Anything that can be thought can be written. That dictum is both challenge and liberation for the legal writer. If a concept can take shape in your mind—even faintly, even clumsily—it can be … Continue reading →

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This will be worth an outing

Posted on March 18, 2026 by Robert Basil

I don’t want to miss this. Unsurprisingly, I could not find any list of distributors, tables, events, etc., anywhere. It will be a surprise! — Addendum:

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Bryan Garner’s “Tip of the Day”

Posted on May 19, 2025 by Robert Basil

You really must subscribe. Today’s was delightfully humbling: racket; racquet. For the implement used in net games, racket is standard in American English and British English alike. The variant racquet appears in some proper names (e.g., the Palm Springs Racquet Club) seemingly because the “fancy” … Continue reading →

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Preparing ourselves for November

Posted on August 25, 2024 by Robert Basil

Dr. Kate Starbird and her colleagues at the University of Washington’s Center for an Informed Public (CIP) have launched a Substack newsletter devoted to tracking rumours and misinformation concerning the upcoming United States Presidential election. This newsletter is part of the … Continue reading →

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Autofilling the Data Gaps

Posted on February 6, 2024 by Robert Basil

My macroeconomics professor at The University at Buffalo told our class, at semester’s end, that people in his profession “had a lot to be humble about.” I loved that line and have used it hundreds of times since, to describe … Continue reading →

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