Last night I was struggling through some writing, and as I often do when I hit a rough patch, I went looking for some assistance. Sometimes I'll play music, or watch a scene I like from a movie, or lo
Popular on Variety Bada bing! Warner Bros. Discovery ‘s HBO and Max are celebrating the 25th anniversary of “ The Sopranos ” with an array of events for the iconic franchise. Among them: HBO has launc
Photo-Illustration: Intelligencer; Photos: Getty Airway UM688 cuts an invisible path through the air from Samsun, Turkey, on the Black Sea coast down through Basra, Iraq, on the Persian Gulf and is us
Imagine you’re a farmer searching for eggs in the chicken coop – but instead of a chicken egg, you find an ostrich egg, much larger than anything a chicken could lay. That’s a little how our team of a
This review of The Politics of Decolonial Investigations by Walter D. Mignolo (Duke University Press, 2021) is reprinted from Catalyst: A Journal of Theory and Strategy , a publication from the Jacobi
Untangling Threads Back in the fall, I wrote a series of posts on a particularly horrific episode in Meta’s past . I hadn’t planned to revisit the topic…
The most grotesque videos on YouTube fit into a specific category. It consists of old footage run through an AI upscaler. Sometimes the videos are colorized,…
December 10, 2021 With contribution from Karl Salgo and Stephen M. Van Dine. Autonomy? Not Yet. December 11th will mark the 90 th anniversary of the British…
Every day, as the Internet becomes more indispensable to modern life, the drawbacks of deep engagement with the virtual realm capture as much attention as the wide-ranging benefits. On the Internet, o
opener.rtf Someone told Daniel [Raffel] tonight that if they ever wanted to work at Yahoo! they would want to work on Pipes. I think that is the ultimate compliment. — Pasha Sadri , co-creator of Yaho
Astronomers have discovered an uncommon star system located just 100 light-years away from us, with six planets huddled immensely close to their host star — so close, in fact, that all their orbits co
If you use my What's Overhead shortcut on your phone/watch/etc., you should upgrade to the latest version, which has lower latency. And if you're interested in what aircraft are flying over you and don't know what What's Overhead is, check out https://t.co/DBK8iimXF7
— John Wiseman (@lemonodor)
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In the early 2000s, I moved into a new condo building in the Garment District south-west of Queen and Spadina. The area had been mostly an employment area for…
'What China is Reading'
Our round-up of untranslated Chinese books from the Sinophone world, from “everyday feminism” to working-class struggles, and a globetrotting frog.
Read @nazhongwriting's book list:
https://t.co/KnKKtQDQBv
— China Books Review (@chinabksreview)
Nov 28, 2023
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What was it like using Flickr in early Web 2.0, in the age of digital cameras and before Instagram changed everything? 📸 By | January 26, 2023 As I’ve been writing my “Web 2.0 memoir” this year, I’ve
I ’m standing on my back stoop looking out at the eighty or so people jammed into the backyard for my retirement party. They’re here to celebrate my forty…
I didn’t watch the Montreal Alouettes win the Grey Cup against the Winnipeg Blue Bombers on Sunday. Since I’m not really a fan of Canadian football, I only found out Montreal had won when I checked so
Perhaps you've seen the word "longtermism" in your social media feed. Or you've stumbled upon the New Yorker profile of William MacAskill, the public face of longtermism. Or read MacAskill's recent op
The York South-Weston Tenant Union holding a rally on Weston Road in Toronto, after they decided to withhold rent from their landlord. Hundreds of tenants
“We can see from the turnout here that there’s an enormous amount of demand for riding bikes in the city of Toronto.”
Spieker added that while the bike lanes might look empty, it’s because they move people quickly."
@FFSafeStreets https://t.co/GN74cnXqYA
— The Biking Lawyer (Dave…
How public benches can turn a street into a place of connection: https://t.co/afQTl2m9o6
— Project for Public Spaces (@PPS_Placemaking)
Nov 5, 2023
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Seems I was taking pictures of the backup caused by this bit of insanity
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— I'll be Frank with you (@syncros)
Nov 9, 2023
Tweeted by @syncros
In 2015, Google hatched a plan to save the mobile web by effectively taking it over. And for a while, the media industry had practically no choice but to play along. It began on a cheery October morni
BY ZOLTAN VARADI • MAP DETAIL AND PHOTO COURTESY OF ALEX MCPHEE Saskatchewan-based cartographer Alex McPhee makes western Canadian maps with a high level of
Black Life: Untold Stories is an epic eight-part documentary series that reframes the rich and complex histories of Black people in Canada over 400 years. Watch now on CBC Gem. Each episode is directe
In January of this year, over the objections of players, Major League Baseball commissioner Rob Manfred announced that a pitch clock would be introduced in the…
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A year and a half into Russia’s brutal war against Ukraine, Vladimir Putin’s ambitions have become clear to all. Both expert and public opinion accept that his goal, at the very least, is to reassert
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@nytimes WaPo's effort to provide a resource to educate readers largely edifies w/o misinforming or cheerleading /5 https://t.co/gPuDRQwfUm
— Critical AI : first issue coming in Aug. 23! :) (@CriticalAI)
May 25, 2023
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Exploring The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy film - Part 2 The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy. Image shows from L to R: Zaphod Beeblebrox (Sam Rockwell),…
It's #TowelDay, celebrating writer Douglas Adams. Here's our new long-read two part look into the 'development hell' he went through to try and make a Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy film: https://t.co/ldIcDVVFJ8 https://t.co/r7Msq31Kc6
— British Comedy Guide (@BritishComedy)
May 25, 2023
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You learn the alphabet from an eight-foot-tall yellow anthropomorphic bird that irrevocably imprints on you. Big Bird may as well be your dad. You move on to bigger birds (i.e., dinosaurs) and take an
OpinionGuest Essay My Hair Was Always a Source of Tension Between My Mother and Me. Then We Met Charlotte. Credit... Photographs and Text by Ms. Fezehai is a Swedish Eritrean photographer and visual r
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