“Ten decisions shape your life, you’ll be aware of five, about.” It’s a lyric from The Strokes. It’s also a surprisingly deep description of the relationship between choice, circumstance, and luck.| Nathan Peck
You know you're middle aged or it's fast approaching when you go to kiss your significant other to see them off to work in the morning and your glasses tap| Jeffrey Pillow
Some AI agents can execute code or connect to services. If you're not careful, you could be the victim of prompt injection and RCE attacks.| www.aleksandrhovhannisyan.com
To be is to become. Change is the only constant in life, in love, in the evolution of humanity and all species. It is inevitable. Fighting against change is counterproductive; molding or shaping change is only logical. To explore, to endeavor to find humanity’s pontentialities is the objective of humans — finding limits and constructed… Continue reading Queer/Trans Liberation| Malik Speaks!
I don’t understand the lack of urgency in this genocide. Countries are careful not to be “too quick” to call it a genocide. War crimes, “sure,” they say, breaches of international laws, “yeah, maybe,” but genocide, they won’t say. Perhaps because that would mean they HAVE to act. And act in a substantive manner. Currently, the best they can do is recognize Palestinian statehood. Years late, as 150 countries already do, but France is the first “influential” one? It’s insa...| Malik Speaks!
BY TAPPY LUNG *Editor’s note: The following story was a runner-up in our first ever annual NüStories personal essay contest. This year’s theme was Chinese identity – read more here. I’m [ … ]|
Sixty years later, I often find myself deep within our den in my dreams. The post The Lost Dens of Leicester by Sharon Tyers appeared first on Little Toller Books.| Little Toller Books
Social doctrine and labor unions In 1891, Pope Leo XIII wrote in Rerum Novarum that a worker’s wages should support the worker and his family. His understanding of marriage and family—which together form the nucleus [...]| Catholic World Report
The Vatican announcement that Pope Leo has approved a motion to make St. John Henry Newman the thirty-eighth Doctor of the Church elicited great joy in many Catholics, especially those who attribute their conversions, under [...]| Catholic World Report
What can we learn from bugs about the tense awkwardness of life on Earth?| Dark Properties
回忆2000年代初期中国互联网的启蒙时光。一个写作者的早期网络经历，见证了中国互联网从开放走向封闭的变迁历程，构成了一代人独特的数字童年记忆。| JustGoIdea
电竞的成功捷径？| Lei Mao's Log Book
很牛逼的无糖咖啡因气泡水| Lei Mao's Log Book
感觉没啥卵用的新套餐| Lei Mao's Log Book
无利不起早| Lei Mao's Log Book
I love camping out at cafes in Main Street towns writing, people-watching, and eavesdropping on the conversations that float past.| BEEW
I have always imagined that Paradise will be some kind of library. | BEEW
This is Part 2 of a two-part essay on AI’s growing grip on human relationships.| BEEW
And we have the receipts. We have history's ledger as proof. Run your finger through any century and you'll come upon entries so appalling they read like ...| BEEW
22.1 contributor Zoe Ballering discusses life spans and storytelling.| The Cincinnati Review
From hearing Teardrops on My Guitar at 15 to crying over her engagement at 33, Taylor’s songs have always found me where I was. The post I remember it all too well: Growing up with Taylor Swift appeared first on The POST.| The POST
Naast het oorlogsmonument van Kamp Vught staat een ‘moslimdetentiecentrum’ waarin mensen worden vastgehouden onder mensonwaardige omstandigheden. Als racisme zich steeds opnieuw kan vormen, moeten ook de middelen waarmee we het bestrijden voortdurend worden vernieuwd. Universiteiten kunnen hier een rol in spelen.| De Groene Amsterdammer
Devin Leong on the poetics of Michael Roemer's 1976 documentary, Dying. The post Faces in Death: Michael Roemer’s ‘Dying’ appeared first on Ultra Dogme.| Ultra Dogme
WILLIE PERDOMO You didn’t go to school to learn how to be a writer. You wrote. So, I dropped out of my first attempt at college after my second year. Dropped out of my second attempt at college after two semesters. You can’t learn to be a writer. But you can wear yourself out garnering experience.| The Common
WILLIE PERDOMO You didn’t go to school to learn how to be a writer. You wrote. So, I dropped out of my first attempt at college after my second year. Dropped out of my second attempt at college after two semesters. You can’t learn to be a writer. But you can wear yourself out garnering experience.| The Common
American cinema is nothing short of the dramatization of the desires and fears of an entire people. The post The Desired Image: On Dramaturgy of the Western appeared first on Cleveland Review of Books.| Cleveland Review of Books
My life before Long COVID was very busy. I was in college, partying a lot and working as an artist and activist. I didn’t make time to rest, and it caused me to burn out. I tried to do everything at once and became overwhelmed. The post Long COVID taught me to slow down and stop trying to meet able-bodied benchmarks first appeared on The Sick Times.| The Sick Times
by Elizabeth Lhuede A post in our 2025 series featuring works published in 1935 (or by authors who died in 1935). Last year my colleague, Whispering Gums (WG), unravelled the mystery of “J. M. Stevens”. Stevens turned out to be not one person, but two, sisters Jane Marianne and Joan Marguerite. The less prolific younger […]| Australian Women Writers Challenge Blog
In this essay I explore techno-surveillance and its normalization in society. I summarise a new study revealing how WiFi and 5G signals can be used to identify us with high accuracy - WhoFi. Current regulatory frameworks are inadequate to protect against such ambient surveillance. This is not something to resign ourselves to, as it could be used to usher in a more authoritarian response to disruption and collapse. We can join a political push towards stricter regulations, such as requiring co...| Prof Jem Bendell
Post by @jembendell.| Prof Jem Bendell
I started writing before the generative AI became popular. Even a simple article always took me a lot of time to write. Nowadays, authors can produce1 and publish high-quality content faster than ever before, with almost zero effort. On the other hand, consumers no longer have to search and browse the Internet for the answers – they can generate curated content on almost any topic just for themselves. If any answer can be instantly generated by an LLM, what’s the point of writing?| Szymon Krajewski
The anime adaptation of Takopi’s Original Sin is the extraordinary result of a bold producer, an overlooked director, and an up-and-coming studio joining hands to make choices others don’t dare to. A tough path, but in the end, a stunning embodiment of the series’ plea for communication. If you are sensitive to depictions of physical abuse and suicidal behavior, I would advise approaching Takopi with care. Even if those topics aren’t outright triggering for you, this is a show best......| Sakuga Blog
In this new essay for The Clearing Ysella Sims explores her family's history, one of migration, of slow acceptance and finding a home.| Little Toller Books
"We cannot defend trans youth without confronting the carceral, racialized, and reproductive logics that underpin this moment, nor can we treat gender-affirming care as separate from the broader struggle for bodily autonomy, housing, healthcare, and family dignity." Read more via Scalawag: Freak Generations: The Moral Panic Playbook from Crack Babies to Trans Kids.| Scalawag
The Economist has recently published an article titled “The working-from-home illusion fades” (archived version). The title has been wisely edited from its previous, more incendiary title, which called working from home a “delusion”; you can still spot it in the URL. As a researcher with a little knowledge in the field, I was concerned to … Continue reading Evaluating The Economist’s claim that remote work is less productive→| Advait Sarkar
Describing our interaction with Artificial Intelligence (AI) systems as ‘collaboration’ is well-intentioned, but flawed. Not only is it misleading, but it also takes away the credit of AI ‘labour’ from the humans behind it, and erases and obscures an often exploitative arrangement between AI producers and consumers. In this article, I explore how the AI … Continue reading Enough with ‘human-AI collaboration’→| Advait Sarkar
The “metaverse” is the collective marketing term for a set of virtual reality media experiences. It is accessed using headsets such as the Oculus Quest, Valve Index, and HTC vive. It is often prese…| Advait Sarkar
牧师的堕落和女福尔摩斯探案| Lei Mao's Log Book
科学的健康的运动| Lei Mao's Log Book
公道何在| Lei Mao's Log Book
Crafting your application with intention is the first step toward a successful and authentic medical school interview. When I was a medical school| Student Doctor Network
What a freaking summer. Gaza, Iran, Epstein, Mamdani, Exploding debt, Imploding Dems, B2 Bombers, Active Shooters, AI Doomers… wtf!!!.| BEEW
In the wake of George Washington’s death, Congress struggled not over whether to honor him but how. An excerpt from a new book shows how the answer shaped the future of the country. The post Where to Bury the Father first appeared on ARC: Religion, Politics, Et Cetera.| ARC: Religion, Politics, Et Cetera
A student shares her experience with vulnerability and argues that it is crucial to connect with others.| The Temple News
A Tisha B'Av parable for today, as told by Rabbi Tirzah Firestone.| Ayin Press
How do we face a generic crisis, a sense—a dread—that a subject exceeds the bounds of the genre that seeks to contain it? In retrospect, the generic crisis of the film It Ends With Us (2024) was easy to predict. Like its source text, Colleen Hoover’s 2016 novel of the same name, the film has […]| Mid Theory Collective
What happens if we are never bored? Boredom is a thoroughly modern feeling; or rather, one etymologically contiguous with modernity. The noun did not enter the language until the middle of the nine…| Mid Theory Collective
有人说「人生如建塔」。材料是命运给予的，但塔的形状却由我们亲手雕琢。在既定边界内，我们先是「发现原料」——天赋、环境、机遇；随后通过无数个「选择与行动」来创造独特结构。我们的人生意义因此既带着出生的烙印，也闪烁着自我塑造的光芒。而正是后者，决定了人生这座塔最终呈现怎样的高度与轮廓。| JustGoIdea
Moving between my experience in a Men's Group and in facilitating 'sociocracy', I explore how a focus on new processes for meetings might perpetuate power dynamics rather than transcend them. I identify some specific limitations of sociocracy, including facilitator power, lack of accountability, and potential bias against non-participants who are, nevertheless, intended beneficiaries. I conclude on the importance of mindfulness regarding intentions in group settings, so that participation is ...| Prof Jem Bendell
As a conservation writer and photographer, Jessica Groenendijk travelled the world to promote awareness of endangered environments and species. Due to her collapse awareness, she shifted focus on h…| Prof Jem Bendell
Crafting content for weavers who, like me, weave on a rigid-heddle loom provides endless avenues for exploration. The weave-alongs are often an extension of my own weaving practice or perhaps my practice is a result of crafting content for a living. Who can say which drives which. Over the past year, I’ve done a lot ... Read more| Yarnworker
中国各大体育竞技赛事充斥着 Durex 的赞助和广告| Lei Mao's Log Book
破戒的僧人和寺院| Lei Mao's Log Book
美国经典打僵尸电影| Lei Mao's Log Book
Use these engaging narrative essay prompts and tips to help students find creative, meaningful moments from their lives to share!| JournalBuddies.com
The pier at the end of the road harboured a dredger and a few small work boats. The post Between Sea and Sky – Rewilding Lewis by Ian Grosz appeared first on Little Toller Books.| Little Toller Books
In this new essay for The Clearing the writer climbs Arenig Fawr in Wales and considers the work of the painter John Dickson Innes and his versions of the mountain.| Little Toller Books
I’m happy to have contributed a new essay to the “No Future Lexicon” series commissioned over at Public Books, “a magazine of ideas, art, and scholarship,” with Matthe…| Ekostories by Isaac Yuen
Myths are born, they serve a purpose, and they die. When we reside inside them, we swear by them, we invest in them, we think they precede us, and we think they will survive us. They define us, and they alienate us. Myths provide vehicles of meaning, sources of hope, and ways to make sense| ARC: Religion, Politics, Et Cetera
What I call the cowboy apocalypse is a fictional trope, seen in movies, video games, and other media. It is drawn from a dark fantasy of the American frontier blended with a desire for return to that frontier environment after an apocalyptic transformation. In the cowboy apocalypse, America’s frontier past is idealized, depicting white gun-toting| ARC: Religion, Politics, Et Cetera
🧄 This short book is an essay written by Jean-Claude Izzo, a native Marseilles poet and writer. The main theme of the essay are his love of Marseilles - its sea, its cuisine, its people and culture; and the subject that made him famous: Mediterranean Noir. Izzo wrote three noir novels of the Marseilles Trilogy: Total Chaos (Total Khéops), Chourmo, and Solea. | Fanda Classiclit
An essay by Alexander Glass examining the many facets of Bryan Talbot’s ARKWRIGHT sequence| IZ Digital
The Buckley Institute is excited to announce that the 2025 Yale undergraduate and high school essay contests are now open! Yale undergraduates and American high school students can submit an essay to possibly win $250, $500, or even $1,000. Winning writers will receive their awards at our annual conference in New Haven on November 14, 2025. […]| Buckley Institute
Emma Fuchs on the 'subtle science fiction' approach to depicting the vicissitudes of climate change and modernity in Still Life, Lazzaro Felice and Bacurau.| Ultra Dogme
自来翔| Lei Mao's Log Book
If you've ever been to our apartment, you will know that the top shelf of our bookshelf is reserved for my favorite authors and their collection of works. Ov...| clover.poe
We can’t seem to get ahead, and we can’t get off either. Romantasy, a mash-up of romance and fantasy, is one of the hottest subgenres in romance today. If you have just woken from a years lon…| Mid Theory Collective
Plath is simply not in Larkin’s league of bigots. The post Essay | Sylvia Plath’s Private Jewish Problem appeared first on Moment Magazine.| Moment Magazine
From Wikipedia: >The dog days or dog days of summer are the hot, sultry days of summer. They were historically the period following the heliacal rising of t...| hlog
In a David Bowie–inspired show in Scottsdale, Steven J. Yazzie and Erika Lynne Hanson confront earthly disillusionment through landscape-based abstraction. The post Is There “Life on Mars?” This Arizona Exhibition Makes the Case for Focusing on Earth appeared first on Southwest Contemporary.| Southwest Contemporary
Exquisitely detailed and experimental depictions of the Southwest abound in today's video games—so why aren't they considered landscape art? The post If You’re Looking for the Best Southwest Landscape Art, Become a Gamer appeared first on Southwest Contemporary.| Southwest Contemporary
I’ve had this book with me for a while, and so I thought it was time to read it. When he was reading a book and he discovered a beautiful sentence, or a beautiful passage, Brian Dillon copied it out in his diary. Across the years, these diaries filled with his favourite sentences accumulated on […]| Vishy’s Blog
by Whispering Gums A post in our 2025 series featuring works published in 1935 (or by authors who died in 1935). This post includes a column that was published in the Women’s Supplement of Th…| Australian Women Writers Challenge Blog
As the world faces or experiences collapse, feelings of loneliness can arise among those aware of the situation and who refuse to turn inward. A new community initiative invites interested individuals to engage in monthly webinars starting September 1st, 2025. Participants explore various topics related to collapse and share personal experiences. Membership is required for participation.… Continue reading Some help with being fully alive during a metacrisis and collapse→| Prof Jem Bendell
The text discusses how the current monetary and banking systems contribute to a metacrisis, exacerbating environmental issues due to their focus on endless growth, debt, and commodification. The au…| Prof Jem Bendell
Du Bois’s vision was the beginning of a new world movement of thought. Amid the crisis of Western civilization today, Du Bois is a prequel to the future.| Avant-Garde: A Journal of Peace, Democracy, and Science
There is a path for America and China towards peace — that is, through the revolutionary vision and example of Afro-America.| Avant-Garde: A Journal of Peace, Democracy, and Science
In America, Black geniuses created great music, so that we may have, renew and create great music again.| Avant-Garde: A Journal of Peace, Democracy, and Science
What could the soul of John Brown mean to the American people today? Could we, in our time of great confusion and moral crisis, see such a spirit live again?| Avant-Garde: A Journal of Peace, Democracy, and Science
It’s time to experiment if I could go back and stand on my own.| Minsuk Kang
Much of the history of Free Will Baptists in the nineteenth century is limited to analyzing the events that occurred within the movement but fails to connect the hopes, dreams, pursuits, and fears of our movement fully to the broader cultural and political context. In this essay, I provide some context to the culture of […]| Helwys Society Forum
Spicy food cravings became my therapy during culinary school stress in Paris—because sometimes, we need vulnerability more than advice.| Seonkyoung Longest
CITY: The Animation is finally here, through an unusually close collaboration between author Keiichi Arawi and Kyoto Animation. To capture his original charm, the team led by Taiichi Ishidate found themselves experimenting with all sorts of inventive, fresh techniques. This is the story of the circumstances and creative choices that led to this adaptation, which you can already enjoy in its first episode. If you liked the Nichijou anime back in 2011, congratulations, you’re on the same page...| Sakuga Blog
BY Pi3 *Editor’s note: The following story was a runner-up in our first ever annual NüStories personal essay contest. This year’s theme was Chinese identity – read more here. I still [ … ]|
BY TARA SUN VANACORE *Editor’s note: The following story was a runner-up in our first ever annual NüStories personal essay contest. This year’s theme was Chinese identity – read more here. [ … ]|
BY FRANCES ZHU HISGEN *Editor’s note: The following story was a runner-up in our first ever annual NüStories personal essay contest. This year’s theme was Chinese identity – read more here. [ … ]|
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In this new essay for The Clearing Martin Maudsley reflects on nature's ability to fight back, once it is given a chance.| Little Toller Books
The other day I happened across a pair of Lululemon shorts on Facebook marketplace. They were beautiful, they were my size, and they were a deal: only $35! I wanted to buy them. I left the tab open for a while, then I closed it.| The Autodidacts
Quentin Tarantino was all the rage following the great success of Pulp Fiction. One of his goals, he said in his numerous interviews during that period, had been to adapt a novel into a film, which... The post The Man from the South, from Rio, and from Hollywood appeared first on The Quentin Tarantino Archives.| The Quentin Tarantino Archives
Our archive of Matthew Remski’s post to Bluesky on June 20, 2025 Erica Chenoweth is getting a new wave of attention with a recent appearance on @podsaveamerica.crooked.com and acolytes scorin…| Three Acres And A Cow
食品安全与鼠患| Lei Mao's Log Book
The conclusion to Devin E. Naar's series Sephardic Art and the First Modernist Sephardic Artists. The post Conclusion: Sephardic Art and the First Modernist Sephardic Artists appeared first on Ayin Press.| Ayin Press
The third and final installment of Devin E. Naar's series Sephardic Art and the First Modernist Sephardic Artists.| Ayin Press
we are living at the nadir of flooring: an essay | McMansion Hell For Patreon, I wrote about developer slop flooring, the history of walking on plastic, and what fake floors say about the world we live and build in.| McMansion Hell
What is it about The Holiday (and Nancy Meyers) that keeps me coming back for more even though I know it's going to annoy the fuck out of me?| Woman in Revolt
