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Rest in peace, Michael Silverblatt: stephenschenkenberg.com

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An extraordinary film with a raw and unforgettable climax: Jafar Panahi‘s “It Was Just an Accident.”

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Cultural Year in Review: 2025 \"\" : stephenschenkenberg.com

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The velvet worm, a squishy little predator that looks like the stretch-limo version of a caterpillar, has a whimsical MO: it administers death by Silly String.

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That’s how you write a lede. From Elizabeth Anne Brown’s “Slime Attack,” a short front-of-book piece for Scientific American.

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“The Game She Wrote on a Boat Kept Her Afloat” — Lovely NYT profile (with a few scene-setting GIFs) of a young game designer living the life she seemed destined to live.

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The models also became less ethically aligned and more psychopathic according t... stephenschenkenberg.com","summary":"","url":"https://stephenschenkenberg.com/2025/10/23/from-ai-models-get-brain.html","date_published":"2025-10-23T12:59:43+00:00","author":{"name":"Stephen Schenkenberg","url":"http://www.stephenschenkenberg.com","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2025%2F10%2F4351.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"schenkenberg"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2025-10-23 12:59","date_timestamp":1761224383,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":false,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":false,"note":"","syndication":["https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:mq6jrfijov347nvntr2qgmpj/post/3m3ug357pn62t"]}},{"id":"76335753","content_html":"Great conversation: For his podcast The Rebooting — which explores sustainable media businesses — Brian Morrissey interviews Monocle’s Tyler Brûlé. I believe I first became a Monocle subscriber around 2010, when Tamara and I were living in Berlin. We still subscribe to a dozen magazines at the house, but t... stephenschenkenberg.com","summary":"","url":"https://stephenschenkenberg.com/2025/10/21/great-conversation-for-his-podcast.html","date_published":"2025-10-22T02:53:00+00:00","author":{"name":"Stephen Schenkenberg","url":"http://www.stephenschenkenberg.com","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2025%2F10%2F4351.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"schenkenberg"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2025-10-22 02:53","date_timestamp":1761101580,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":false,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":false,"note":"","syndication":["https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:mq6jrfijov347nvntr2qgmpj/post/3m3qtpyjl3l2v"]}},{"id":"75637381","content_html":"From “The Coming Wave” by Mustafa Suleyman:\n\n\"Proliferation is catalyzed by two forces: demand and the resulting cost decreases, each of which drives technology to become even better and cheaper. The long and intricate dialogue of science and technology produces a chain of insights, breakthroughs, and tools that build and reinforce over time, productive recombinations that drive the fu-ture. As you get more and cheaper technology, it enables new and cheaper technologies downstream. Uber was impossible without the smartphone, which itself was enabled by GPS, which was enabled by satellites, which were... stephenschenkenberg.com","summary":"","url":"https://stephenschenkenberg.com/2025/10/12/from-the-coming-wave-by.html","date_published":"2025-10-12T23:04:34+00:00","author":{"name":"Stephen Schenkenberg","url":"http://www.stephenschenkenberg.com","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2025%2F10%2F4351.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"schenkenberg"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2025-10-12 23:04","date_timestamp":1760310274,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":false,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":false,"note":"","syndication":["https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:mq6jrfijov347nvntr2qgmpj/post/3m2zsqq5nmm2h"]}},{"id":"73955389","content_html":"Maggie Gram, early on in her fascinating new book “The Invention of Design: A Twentieth-Century History”:\n\n\"People all over the world tried to ride these waves in ways that might preserve their own dignity and power. Our contemporary idea of design—that hopeful amalgam of a concept—was born in the process. Inventing design helped people imagine reversing some of the damage wrote by the Industrial Revolution. It helped people convince themselves that capitalism fundamentally served human interests; that positive social change could be achieved without politics and governmental action; that problem sol... stephenschenkenberg.com","summary":"","url":"https://stephenschenkenberg.com/2025/09/19/maggie-gram-early-on-in.html","date_published":"2025-09-20T02:32:41+00:00","author":{"name":"Stephen Schenkenberg","url":"http://www.stephenschenkenberg.com","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2025%2F10%2F4351.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"schenkenberg"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2025-09-20 02:32","date_timestamp":1758335561,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":false,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":false,"note":"","syndication":["https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:mq6jrfijov347nvntr2qgmpj/post/3lzadnvbdni2u"]}},{"id":"72817132","content_html":"

@schenkenberg.bsky.social Thanks for the note — and for making the site!

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A Surprising Find: “Finding Freedom” \"\" : stephenschenkenberg.com

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“American culture was shifting Si-ward”: stephenschenkenberg.com

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Weeknotes 03: Rams, Asawa, Morris: stephenschenkenberg.com

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Great weekend trio: Rewatching “Before Sunset,” then reading a thoughtful and admiring take by Jonathan Rosenbaum (for years my favorite writer on film) and listening to The Rewatchables crew lovingly discuss its many charms.

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NYT: The Best 100 Movies of the 21st Century: stephenschenkenberg.com

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“Revisiting ‘Columbus,’ a Thrilling Drama of Growing Up Modernist”: Lovely appreciation from Richard Brody. Have seen it twice. Planning for a third. (Here’s the trailer.)

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Strategy at the Getty: Not Just Our Art, but All Art: stephenschenkenberg.com

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@timjeby.bsky.social Agree, the team is doing great daily work.

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@schenkenberg.bsky.social If you’ve already seen it, here’s an interesting Vanity Fair interview with writer/director Jonathan Glazer and DOP Łukasz Żal: www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/zo…

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@kottkrig I just saw some errors here: www.dropbox.com/s/c90nuqb…

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(If you’d prefer email, I’m at schenkenberg at hey dot com. Here is fine too, though. Thanks!)

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@kottkrig Thanks so much for the quick and polite response. You were right — that was the name of my page that the bookshelf shows up on: stephenschenkenberg.com/reading-2…

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I have tried to use the code this way: {{< bookshelf shelf=“Reading-Log-2022” variant=“grid” >}} But I can’t get it to work. I don’t see any errors on that logs page you mentioned: www.dropbox.com/s/ov1fglq…

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Here’s my attempt at the page: www.dropbox.com/s/m5c0oe3…

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Thanks again for your help!

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@kottkrig Thanks so much for making this. I’m struggling to have it show up for me. Do I just create a page, paste in the code, replace part of your example (”{{< bookshelf shelf=“finishedreading” variant=“grid” >}}) with my own page? If so, I’ve tried that with {{< bookshelf shelf=“reading-2022” variant=“grid” >}}, but I can’t get it to work. I’m sure it’s user error on my part. Thanks!

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@manton Thanks!

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@manton Is it possible to create a page like that based on Epilogue-related pages that aren’t technically part of goals/progress? For example, I keep a list of what I’ve read in 2022 here: stephenschenkenberg.com/reading-2… Wondering if I can have those appear as the grid like you’ve shown. Thanks.

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