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Bart DeCoursy retweeted
Imagine...your team is in the playoffs, is facing elimination, and you decide to reach out over the field and mess with a well hit ball that's still in play like this. I'm by no means Yankees fan but this kind of made me mad as a matter of principle. Maybe, just maybe, this is bigger than you and you don't need to try and catch the ball.
Bart DeCoursy retweeted
The yellowjackets are winding down for the year. Their nests are a few weeks from collapse. And they're hangry.
All summer long, the workers were hunting protein: caterpillars, flies, grubs - all of the stuff eating your garden. They fed it to the larvae, and the larvae fed them back a sugary secretion. That was the deal.
But in late summer, the queen stops laying. The larvae pupate. No new larvae replace them. With no more larvae, there's no more sugar. That leaves a few thousand workers with nothing to do and nothing to eat.
So they go looking. Your soda, your trash can, the peach on the ground, all good options. The same insect that ignored you in June is now in your face in September because its food supply ended and you've got the good stuff.
Pretty much none of them will survive the first real frost. The workers, the queen, the whole colony dies. Only the new queens make it, scattered and alone under bark, and they'll never come back to that nest. The big gray one in the tree is either already empty or about to be, and it won't be reused.
Cover your drinks, keep the trash lid on, and give them a few weeks. They've been working for you all summer, let them die in dignity.
Bart DeCoursy retweeted
The time Dolly Parton and Kermit jammed to Sly and the Family Stone.
This is always how I will remember her.
Bart DeCoursy retweeted
Erik Satie ushered in a whole new century, he was a one person quiet riot, he definitely won the long game.
Do you feel it?
In late 19th-century Paris, while concert halls demanded massive orchestral sound and technical speed, Erik Satie took a radically different path. They made fun of him. They tried to ignore him.
Working as a pianist in the cabarets of Montmartre, he composed Gymnopédie No. 1 in 1888—a work that stripped Western classical music to its barest essentials.
The piece operates on a deliberate paradox. Though peaceful on the surface, Satie marked it lento e doloroso (slowly and painfully).
That underlying melancholy prevents the music from becoming purely decorative, giving every suspended chord weight and quiet gravity.
Watching it played, you see the thought and weight put into each simple note as it pulls on something inside you.
To many it is not to make you feel good but to feel. And in this is something shared. Perhaps a rainy-day memory.
In this 1966 broadcast, French pianist Jacques Février demonstrates the strict discipline Satie’s music requires. Chosen by Maurice Ravel and Francis Poulenc to premiere their works, he understood that performing Satie demands utter emotional restraint, letting the space between the notes carry the composition’s weight.
By removing resolving harmonies and traditional momentum, Satie laid the groundwork for modern minimalism and ambient music nearly a century before either genre had a name.
Bart DeCoursy retweeted
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Bart DeCoursy retweeted
One of the most evil things imaginable to me
🦔AI companies are bulk-buying rare books, scanning them through high-speed machines that cut the spines off, and shredding the originals. A service called ISBNdb facilitates orders of up to a million books and keeps buyers anonymous. Pre-2022 books are premium because they're free of AI-generated text. A federal judge ruled the practice is fair use because eliminating the original means only one copy exists at a time. Anthropic hired the former head of Google Books partnerships to obtain "all the books in the world."
My Take
This got to me. A bookseller told 404 Media that rare books with almost no surviving copies are being fed into this pipeline. Books that survived wars, fires, and centuries of handling are being shredded so an AI can learn to write a better marketing email.
ISBNdb's website literally says "'AI company destroys two million books' is not a headline that generates sympathy," and they still built an entire business around making it happen quietly. They offer NDAs as a feature. They coach clients to call it "digital preservation."
I've covered AI companies scraping the internet, torrenting libraries, and stealing music. This is worse because it's irreversible. You can re-upload a website. You can reprint a bestseller. You can't replace the last three copies of an 18th-century botanical text once someone shreds them for training data. And the judge said it's legal. So it's going to accelerate.
"We shred rare books and offer NDAs so nobody finds out" is a legitimate business model in 2026. What a timeline.
Hedgie🤗
Bart DeCoursy retweeted
Not adjusting the mic and going full spread eagle.
Essentially running away from presenters after.
I love him so much
Bart DeCoursy retweeted
This is why the DOJ had to downplay its phony Cartel of Suns allegations against Maduro in its new indictment
Not only does the Cartel of the Suns not exists as a real criminal syndicate, it was literally founded by the CIA to traffic cocaine into American cities
Here's the 1993 60 Minutes report on how the CIA recruited a Venezuelan military officer, General Ramón Guillén Davila, to help them ship 22 tons of cocaine into American cities
The Cartel of the Suns disappeared once it lost its utility to the CIA, and was resurrected by the US government when it began targeting Venezuela
Bart DeCoursy retweeted
New research published in The Lancet finds that Western unilateral sanctions have caused 38 million deaths since 1970. The average death toll ranges from 400,000 to over 1 million per year.
Staggering levels of violence. This system is intolerable and must be replaced.
Bart DeCoursy retweeted
Please read. -YB. All proceeds from the GoFundMe will go to cover funeral costs and as temporary replacement of loss of income.
ALT This is YB, @stuffhedoes Leslie’s spouse. I am sad to share with you the tragic news of his passing on Monday, November 10th, aged 43. Leslie Lee III was a beloved husband, son, brother, uncle, cousin, nephew, and friend. He left us much too soon. I appreciate your kindness at this time, while we process our grief. If you wish, you can donate directly to his gofundme linked in his profile, any later news I will post from this account. A private service for family is being held this week with a memorial service to be held at a later date in NYC. He was to me, my everything. He was an advocate for others with Long COVID. He was an amazing writer and passionate podcaster.