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Trevor Paglen is this year’s winner of the Guggenheim LG Award for technology-minded artists, the New York museum revealed on Tuesday. Through the prize, he will win $100,000, a vast sum that he said will support the costs of his work, which contends with surveillance technology and AI. Read more: artnews.com/art-news/news/…

Coming up: the annual Renato Poggioli lecture delivered by Michael Roth | President of Wesleyan University. The event is co-hosted by the Comparative Literature department and The Public Culture Project. Register at docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAI…

Now available from LUISS UP: an updated, Italian version of my cultural history of coffee consumption with a focus on stovetop coffee makers like the Bialetti Moka Express, including an afterword which reflects on the viability of "made in Italy". luissuniversitypress.it/pubblicazioni/…

Timely intervention cnn.com/2025/09/12/bus…

U.S. corporate media are too cowardly to fully report the Trump/Epstein story, but not Australia’s. archive.org/details/60-min…?

See this Instagram post by @inventorypress instagram.com/p/DNBtsauhHBW/… First English edition of Bruno Munari's Design and Visual Communication

Winner of the 2025 edition of the Premio di saggistica "Città delle rose" (autori stranieri); honored to be in the company of Alberto Manguel, Marc Augé, Michail Chodorkovskji, Edgar Morin, and Tzvetan Todorov, among others. ilsaggiatore.com/libro/storia-r…

Seriously, Mr. Rubio: how can you look at yourself in the mirror every morning. Venezuelan Little League team denied entry into US amid Trump travel ban politi.co/3IF0AT0 via @politico

Historical Performances of Vingegaard and Pogačar on Mont Ventoux | Tour de France 2025 Stage 16 lanternerouge.com/2025/07/22/his… via @LanterneRougeYT -- 54 minutes to the top of Mount Ventoux (if you've ever climbed it you know just how amazing this is).

Kristi Noem Secretly Took Personal Cut of Political Donations propublica.org/article/kristi… -- another model of ethical rectitude in the court of Caligula

When Code Meets Canvas harvardmagazine.com/2025/06/harvar…

Massachusetts is the biggest per capita donor state nytimes.com/2025/06/12/ups… via @NYTimes

On the beginnings of motorcycle racing the, as always, well informed, Matt Oxley motorsportmagazine.com/articles/motor…

Meanwhile, some real news: cnn.com/2025/05/16/cli…

The opening icon in Storia rapida della velocità: running man, from one of Eadweard Muybridge's animal locomotion studies ilsaggiatore.com/libro/storia-r…

The folly of public disinvestment in r&d washingtonpost.com/opinions/2025/…

A searingly eloquent and exhaustive documentation of the Trump regime's crimes against the constitutional order penned by the distinguished conservative jurist J. Michael Luttig. theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/…

Trump administration poised to accept 'palace in the sky' as a gift for Trump from Qatar: Sources abcnews.go.com/Politics/trump… of course, DOJ says this isn't bribery...

Sprinting out of the gate this morning... ilsaggiatore.com/libro/storia-r…