“Internet addiction” has lived a strange life since the Nineties. In 1995, a New York psychiatrist introduced the term, not to describe a real affliction of internet users, but to parody certain diagn
In late 1936 George Orwell, like so many young idealists from Europe and the USA, went off to fight fascism in Spain. By the spring of 1937 he realized he was in a war with not two but three sides. Th
Sign up here for the CityLab Daily newsletter. On Randall’s Island in New York City, near the headquarters from which parks commissioner Robert Moses once ruled his asphalt empire, four iron monkeys a
The "Hands Off Rafah" rally in Toronto on Monday has become national news, denounced by politicians at all levels over a few moments outside Mount Sinai Hospital during the hours-long protest.
But what really happened? My in-depth look. https://t.co/8iM6D15VT9
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Feb 7, 2024
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What were they thinking? Craig Meerkamper traces the history of Metrolinx advertising campaigns about the much-delayed Eglinton Crosstown LRT project, leading up to the extraordinarily hostile reactions to its latest ads. https://t.co/AKhkeLyvoV
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The other day, my agent was asking me about the rest of my career. My next team, my next city, where I see myself. I’ve been in trade rumors for so long I…
This week it was announced that Conde-Nast was laying off half the full time staff of Pitchfork, a website they acquired in 2015, and merging it with GQ, whatever that means. Like imagine working as a
Photo illustration by Slate. Images by Pitchfork. When did music critics lose their ability to kill? It happened gradually. And we never quite stopped to acknowledge the sea change. Look at Pitchfork:
A little more than a year ago, Elon Musk began his reign at Twitter with an elaborately staged pun. On Wednesday, October 26, 2022, he posted a tweet with a video that showed him carrying a sink throu
One motivation for exploring a square each week, come rain or shine, was to make being out in nature part of my routine. I hoped that becoming connected with where I live, with its weather and seasons
People & Culture Losing track: The importance of passenger rail corridors What does it mean for Canada if we continue to pull up train tracks? Jan 12, 2024 4,438 words 18 minutes with illustrations by
This article is adapted from The Rebels: Elizabeth Warren, Bernie Sanders, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, and the Struggle for a New American Politics by Joshua Green. If you were to go looking for one eve
Subscriber-only Newsletter Read Like the Wind Not all books tell readers what to call the main character. An editor recommends two that don’t. Jan. 13, 2024 By Dear readers, Where did all the Brendas
Margot Robbie on movie trailers: “There’s got to be an element of mystery. I hate trailers that have the whole movie condensed to two minutes. Everyone’s like, ‘It tested really high.’ Of course it did; you gave someone the whole movie.”
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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
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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:
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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."
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