People don't have the literacy to comprehend satire
What are the perils when political satire leaves too much open to interpretation?
That was running through my mind after Tina Fey’s recent appearance on “Weekend Update: Summer Edition,” which is “Saturday Night Live’s” bid to stay relevant amid a summer hiatus and a news cycle churning faster and furiouser than ever.
When political satire — whoops! — reinforces ideas it means to skewer
For most of human history, around 50% of children used to die before they reached the end of puberty. In 2020, that number is 4.3%. It’s 0.3% in countries like Japan & Norway.
To Grow, We Must Forget… but Now AI Remembers Everything. “What if human forgetting is not a bug, but a feature? And what happens when we build machines that don’t forget, but are now helping shape the human minds that do?”
100 Notable Small Press Books of 2025
Literary Hub – “…There were times our definition of “small press” was tested. Was Tin House still a small press after it was acquired by Zando in March?
Yes, we decided, since Zando was not a big five publisher. Were university presses that published well over 50 books yearly small presses? We decided they were so long as their creative offerings fell under that number. We tried to stay nimble and responsive, while sticking to the project’s principles.
There are a few important things this list is not: This is not a best of list. This is not a comprehensive survey of all small presses. This is not a juried selection of books. This is instead the product of a group of enthusiastic, committed reviewers reading hundreds of small press books from the past year and choosing the few they heartily recommend.
Ours is not the first list to highlight small press books. One of the joys of this project was finding the many other venues already doing this work. If our list interests you, find more small press books highlighted at CLMP, Foreword Reviews, and Necessary Fiction, to name a few. Without further ado, 100 Notable Small Press Books of 2025:
This photo-organizing app is so good it made me ditch Lightroom’s library
MakeUseOf: “…digiKam is a free, open-source app that’s available on Windows, macOS, and Linux. No monthly fees, no paywalled features, no cloud lock-in, just free software that actually works.
It doesn’t force your photos into a predetermined structure like Lightroom’s collections model. Instead, digiKam works alongside your existing folder structure. Your photos can be stored on your internal drives, external SSDs, network storage, wherever you want. The software will build a database around your photos without demanding you move or reorganize everything to fit in its system.
And unlike Lightroom, digiKam can automatically tag your photos for you. The program comes with AI-powered features that run locally on your computer to analyze your photos and generate keywords automatically. It doesn’t get the keywords right always, but it’s fast and accurate enough to quickly make a large photo collection easily searchable…”
