There's been a surge of popular art about the first years of the AIDS crisis. In this new essay, I try to honor and explore a charged moment in which custody of that art-making is shared by people who lived through those dark years and people who didn't. Gift link. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/19/t...

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Belfi Rivera was 14 when the Arizona Diamondbacks made a handshake deal that would pay him $1.8M after he turned 16. But $630K went to a trainer who brokered the deal, and $950K+ went to a lender whose business partner is Red Sox legend David Ortiz.

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Tonight’s jams

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It can be quite nice to complain about something everyone else likes more than you think it deserves. If you need it my dm's are open! I have thoughts!!!

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they want a future in which we are locked into using a few big American LLM providers, free of foreign competition, with us giving them our money and having to passively tolerate their bizarre and insane subcultures sitting on top of a Smaug’s horde of treasure

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