Nostalgia, geography of youth and the almighty basemap! https://t.co/CFWl5CxieK
— Dylan Moriarty (@DylanMoriarty) Nov 13, 2022
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Nobody goes there anymore. It’s too crowded.Yogi Berra, et al Well, it looks like it's finally happened. As news sites began reporting that Elon Musk had finalised his purchase of Twitter, the fediver
Being very online means witnessing the very birth of trends and tropes, and getting to watch as they dominate popular culture. The term “good for her” was…
For the ten years leading up to 2019, I was the author of a teen advice column, and my agony aunt inbox was often an early warning system for whatever youth-driven phenomenon was on its way down the c
The NDP suffered from a credibility gap with voters during the 2021 federal election, says an internal party campaign review document. The campaign debrief was
The culture wars are fought by volunteer armies, but like Vladimir Putin and the old British navy, they sometimes grab unsuspecting conscripts and force them into battle against their will. Maitland J
13 May 2017 I. My dad emigrated from Colombia to North America when he was 18 looking looking for a better life. For my brother and I that meant a lot of standing outside in the cold. My dad’s preferr
Quick, how many cubes can you rotate in your brain? If you’re struggling to even form the image of a cube in your mind, let alone rotate it, then I’m sorry to say that you’re not a shape rotator. You
Overview: Can we do better than the social media that's dominated Western culture and distorted its democracies for the past decade? CounterSocial says yes—if you're ready for change yourselves. Readi
Drake quoteables are back on "Her Loss", my favourite: "She a ten tryna rap, it's good on mute, yeah (It's good on mute, shh)" Here are my takeaways from the first few listens of the first ever Drake x 21 Savage collab album. https://t.co/j5y2UnePDo
— Her Loss (@DemarJGrant) Nov 4, 2022
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Darin Fisher has been building browsers for decades. Image: Darin Fisher Darin Fisher has built a lot of web browsers. A lot of web browsers. He was a software engineer at Netscape early in his career
On the night of January 7, sitting alone in my room, I hit play on the world’s longest movie. I found the film by accident. Around that time, I was searching for something that could count as the long
I wrote about how I can’t get telephones to work anymore. https://t.co/Q2zCFKiBkk
— Ian Bogost is Already a Halloween Name (@ibogost) Oct 28, 2022
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confirmed that Rahul “Ligma,” who identified himself as a laid off Twitter employee carrying a box out of the building this morning, does in fact not work at Twitter (LOL) https://t.co/o0hG3Doij2
— Alex Heath (@alexeheath) Oct 28, 2022
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Illustration by Alex Castro You fucked up real good , kiddo. Twitter is a disaster clown car company that is successful despite itself, and there is no possible way to grow users and revenue without m
I remember they introduced ads as “really relevant, different, stuff you _want_ to check out” and now the App Store feels like a Dollar store or gas station. https://t.co/4Lb66tyqLr
— Thomas Fuchs (@thomasfuchs) Oct 26, 2022
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I wrote for the National Review about this… thing that keeps happening to me https://t.co/UIK2r95HnX
— Kat Rosenfield (@katrosenfield) Oct 27, 2022
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Photo: Marcus McDonald This article was featured in One Great Story , New York ’s reading recommendation newsletter. Sign up here to get it nightly. Five years ago, on a Wednesday morning in October,
#BREAKING Former Ontario NDP leader @AndreaHorwath is the new mayor of #HamOnt, making her the first woman to take on the role. https://t.co/Vgwx549opF
— CHCH News (@CHCHNews) Oct 25, 2022
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It is a peculiarity of Joan Didion’s work that her most ironic formulations are now read as sincere, and her sincerest provocations taken with a large pinch of salt. Perhaps when your subject is human
For those who love libraries, this renovation is a gooder and this article provides a great photo spread | Toronto library closed for 4 years finally reopened and here's what it's like inside @torontolibrary. https://t.co/ZRC5J70WgP
— Pam Ryan (@pamryan) Oct 19, 2022
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Chris Cagle Kanopy, a streaming service that had long catered quietly to the educational market, began to appear in late 2017 and early 2018 in stories in prominent news outlets with headlines that em
In a blog post last fall at The American Conservative , commentator Rod Dreher waxed apocalyptic about an unpublished but intriguing finding: “Roughly 30 percent of American women under 25 identify as
Fact-checking just requires a little patience, some critical thinking and a few basic skills. stock.adobe.com How do you decide what information is true and what is false on the internet? It’s a quest
The sweater vest descended from the rafters with fanfare. A simple black vest, emblazoned with the number 99, it soon settled above the studio desk. And Wayne Gretzky, arguably the greatest hockey pla
In 2018, #MeToo, the hashtag people around the world use to discuss sexual harassment, was blocked on social media in China. Internet users in the country formed a new hashtag to keep raising awarenes
“To put the point bluntly, I just don’t think that people with guns should be telling you who to vote for,” Orr said. https://t.co/on8435Mlvh
— SEAN ORR #108 (@seanorr) Oct 10, 2022
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Overflowing garbage bins. Crumbling roads and broken water fountains, scattered throughout Toronto. A chaotic downtown core, where cyclists battle with cars for use of the road. For some, the disarray
Life & Culture Longread To launch our new Future of Sex series, author Shon Faye examines the current state of heterosexuality – how it’s been ravaged by the internet, feminism and the media, and wher
Getty Images/Ringer illustration What’s the best way to smash a violin? That was the question at hand as Sudan Archives spoke with director Zach Sulak. For hours they’d been filming the music video fo
Why can’t TTC riders use their cellphones on the subway? Ask Bell, Rogers or Telus https://t.co/g5loGLj023
— Lex Harvey (@lexharvs) Sep 27, 2022
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Do some people have built-in protection against a COVID infection? Laura Gao for NPR Back in the early 1990s, Nathaniel Landau was a young virologist just starting his career in HIV research. But he a
CW: Racist imagery, not discussed by the larger essay One complicating factor in our exegesis of the 9/11/11 Barney Google and Snuffy Smith strip is that the strip exists in two different forms with t
America a Prophecy is a new ongoing blog series on Eruditorum Press. It will post annually. On September 11th, 2011, ten years after the events generally known as 9/11, one of the most extraordinary u
This article was featured in One Story to Read Today, a newsletter in which our editors recommend a single must-read from The Atlantic , Monday through Friday. Sign up for it here. When I leave my hou
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