I'm sitting in a coffee shop opposite Haymarket Station in Edinburgh. Just up the road, the Institute for New Economic Thinking (INET) is holding its conference. I'm supposed to be there, as I was yesterday and the day before. But I am not at all sure I want to go. The last two days have left a very…

Everyone wants to be popular online. Some even pay for it. Inside social media’s black market. Everyone wants to be popular online.Some even pay for it. Inside social media’s black market. Celebrities, athletes, pundits and politicians are buying millions of fake followers. While the world’s social…

Building an IndieWeb Reader: https://t.co/pR5Co5bfDj — Aaron Parecki (@aaronpk) March 13, 2018 Tweeted by @aaronpk

Climb every mountain macOS 10.13 High Sierra: The Ars Technica review A focus on foundation makes for an important but nigh-invisible update. Andrew Cunningham – Sep 25, 2017 1:00 pm | 218 High Sierra wallpaper. The low-hanging clouds in the background may or may not be related to the name. Credit:…

Fun concept for a column: partners deconstruct that one fight they always have: https://t.co/OxLmlY8Sav pic.twitter.com/GSbkIWm2UI — Darren Barefoot (@dbarefoot) January 16, 2018 Tweeted by @dbarefoot

Arguments on basic income by Gordon and others inspired my first blog post back in August 2016: https://t.co/DyZquYQ0U7 — Stephen Tweedale (@MrSteveTweedale) November 20, 2017 Tweeted by @MrSteveTweedale

A Reporter at Large How the ex-spy tried to warn the world about Trump’s ties to Russia. March 5, 2018 Steele told friends that Trump supporters were using him as a “battering ram” to “take down the whole intelligence community.”Illustration by Cristiana Couceiro; Source Photograph by Victoria Jones…

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Dundas Square - and the 10 Dundas Street development across the street - is probably Toronto's greatest lost opportunity. https://t.co/oqK5QK5h0r — Sean Marshall (@Sean_YYZ) March 9, 2018 Tweeted by @Sean_YYZ

To conceive of another person’s pain is to undertake an obscure endeavor, one that’s often muddled by vexation, strained analogies and, at the crux of it all, doubt. We test the limits of empathy, questioning whether we can grasp another person’s reality—we probably can’t—and whether the sufferer…

On Email, Powerlessness, and Maintaining Sanity in a Pathologically Plugged-In World March 02, 2018 | Filed in: Your Brain When I was growing up, I yearned for a cell phone, though I wasn’t allowed to have one until after high school. That first flip phone, acquired when I was a college freshman in…

hit list EMAIL this page to a friend: LINKfor this page Share this page on Facebook DATE : Darren O'Donnell Urban cultural planner In transit February 28, 2018 Darren O’Donnell is an urban cultural planner, novelist, essayist, playwright, filmmaker, performance director and the Artistic and Founding…

By: Laura Beth Solomon Many people don't understand the differences between a rotary and a modern day roundabout. If you try to google "rotary" or "roundabout" most sites say the terms are interchangeable. In Massachusetts, this confusion is extremely evident. Rotaries were the old way of designing…

Brad Kim’s mother recently found Jesus, which is nice but a little bit of a problem for him. “I don’t know how to tell my mom, like, ‘I don’t think I can ever get religious, as long as I’m on the internet. It’s kind of the anti-Bible. You learn everything terrible about human beings.’” Kim has been…

Editor's note: This story originally ran in March 2018. We are reposting it after Ichiro announced he will retire Thursday. Day 1: Feb. 4, 2018 "There is timing in the whole life of the warrior, in his thriving and declining, in his harmony and discord." --Musashi Miyamoto (circa 1584-1645), samurai…

Lingerie is expensive. In a world where you can buy a T-shirt for $4, a pair of jeans for $8, and shoes for $12, a $60 bra seems downright unreasonable. How in the world can such a tiny piece of clothing cost so much? While in some ways, lingerie has never been more visible (Exhibit A: The…

He threatened to shut down “Frida” if I didn’t comply with his demands. Chad Batka for The New York Times ‘I don’t think he hated anything more than the word no.’ ‘No to opening the door to him at all hours of the night.’ ‘Why do so many of us, as female artists, have to go to war?’ ‘Women are…

revisiting the map, which is not the territory https://t.co/pFmBbHjq6N — Sonya 🌐 Mann (@sonyaellenmann) March 6, 2018 Tweeted by @sonyaellenmann

My life with Mao’s good soldier – Andrea Worden Each year, as March 5 – known in China as “Learn from Lei Feng” Day – approaches, I feel sort of nostalgic. In

I turned this thread into a blog post, including correcting the date of WorkSpace opening to 2005 https://t.co/rdsmsmMtii — Boris Mann (@bmann) March 4, 2018 Tweeted by @bmann

If there was one thing Patrick Brown's advisers never stopped worrying about, it was the women. It was an all-encompassing concern virtually from the outset of his ill-fated leadership of the Ontario Progressive Conservative party. Today, more than a month after a CTV report alleging sexual…

Stewart Butterfield, Slack co-founder and CEO, seen at the company’s office in Vancouver on Feb. 16,Rafal Gerszak On arrival at the Vancouver office of Slack Technologies Inc. – in a Yaletown warehouse that was home to rum runners back in the 1920s – visitors are greeted by a bright white…

Wrote a thing about @RainWorldGame https://t.co/9btBQSGdjD — Sam Zucchi (@samzucchi) February 27, 2018 Tweeted by @samzucchi

This feels like a pretty naive approach to fighting American gun violence: https://t.co/Y598giVTPz First, @MEC is a comparatively undeserving target. Why aren't people going after @CanadianTire and @SportChek, who also stock @vistaoutdoorinc brands? — Darren Barefoot (@dbarefoot) February 28,…

Hello I wrote a column about the psychogeography of the new subway line + Downsview park in the @TorontoStar but never once used the word psychogeography. Thank you. https://t.co/hqQKbjs74W — Shawn Micallef (@shawnmicallef) March 2, 2018 Tweeted by @shawnmicallef

Renters in BC! https://t.co/bFSgSW7WVv — Renée Stephen (@ReneeStephen) March 3, 2018 Tweeted by @ReneeStephen

Wrote a @BoardandGame piece on why I still love Race for the Galaxy so much, including the excellent new app: https://t.co/pullTC5itp — Andrew Bucholtz (@AndrewBucholtz) March 3, 2018 Tweeted by @AndrewBucholtz

This article is for subscribers only. This article is part of the March 5, 2018 issue of businessweek. China’s decision to repeal presidential term limits marks the moment when President Xi Jinping dropped any pretense of following the rules. The move, which may extend his tenure beyond 2023, shows…

I don't necessarily come to the same conclusion, but I love the metered and patient logic of this. Super smart! https://t.co/kA5kbikuqV — Kevin Nguyen (@knguyen) March 2, 2018 Tweeted by @knguyen

A train carrying Chinese goods leaves the dry port in Khorgos, heading west. https://t.co/Bwdd3TsjcF — Tiny Assistant (@TinyAssistant) March 2, 2018 Tweeted by @TinyAssistant

#BlackPanther star Chadwick Boseman appears on our cover. Here's how he and Ryan Coogler created the most radical superhero movie of all time https://t.co/yNTgjp8mN3 pic.twitter.com/Vo5Bz8NQIJ — Rolling Stone (@RollingStone) February 18, 2018 Tweeted by @RollingStone

This article is for subscribers only. Back when he was president, Barack Obama told me that only two people treated any interaction with him as a zero-sum game. One was Vladimir Putin, the other congressional Republicans. Both behaved as if there was no such thing as a win-win situation: Any gain…

It was 1993 and Monty O’Toole was living at the Silver & Avalon, a single-room occupancy hotel on Pender Street just west of Vancouver’s Chinatown. He was in his late thirties and had moved to the west coast after being released from the Kingston Penitentiary, where he’d served time in…

Laurel Lawson and Alice Sheppard performing in December 2016. Robbie Sweeny In 1937, ascending leaders of the Third Reich hosted two art exhibitions in Munich.

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Cultural Comment February 23, 2018 Many of the leaders of the Never Again movement are indeed actors, thrust into roles that no teen-ager should have to play.Photograph by Rhona Wise / AFP / Getty One of the less inspiring things about the movement led by student survivors of the Marjory Stoneman…

Al Carbone chose from a menu of five angry hands. One was angular, and looked like a modern city skyline, which he liked, but it wasn’t direct enough, when it

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After you see Black Panther, check out my thoughts on its questions about blackness and power https://t.co/2LZBKpHYxf — bringing my baby to a theater near you (@fivefifths) February 16, 2018 Tweeted by @fivefifths