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[amritamoon]

View from work :) #macewan #albertacollegecampus #fallweather #fall #fallweather #myfavourite #SAMU #samUnotsamOOO #wearenotawhale (at Grant MacEwan University)

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Two screens, too much work, too little time. #procrastination #haventmoved #haventinstagrammedinforever #succumbingtothesocialmedias #sellout? #instalife #lies #thelieslife @nairpooja12

[theparisreview]

Michelangelo’s only surviving bronze sculptures, a fire in one of Russia’s largest libraries, and reassessing T. S. Eliot’s early years. Read more in today’s arts and culture news.

[staff]

Don’t let this happen to your internet

The internet belongs to all of us. It’s an open, fair, democratic place that we’ve all helped to create, together. On February 26, the FCC is going to decide whether to leave the internet in our hands…or whether to turn it over to the cable companies.

You don’t want them to pick the cable companies. 

Join everybody on the internet and help the FCC do the right thing.

This is it, guys. We’ve been been fighting this fight together for a long time now. You did a sensationally good job back in September, making 135,343 calls in a single day and shifting the political momentum back toward real internet freedom. You been pulling more and more policymakers—including the president himself—over to the side of internet freedom. We’re almost there. Let’s bring this one home.

[newyorker]

ISIS is less like a conventional authoritarian or totalitarian state than like a mass death cult. Most such cults attract few followers and pose limited threats; the danger is mostly to themselves. But there are examples in modern history of whole societies falling under the influence and control of a mechanism whose aim is to dictate every aspect of life after an image of absolute virtue, and in doing so to produce a mountain of corpses.

George Packer on the Islamic State. (via newyorker)

[newyorker]

While the N.F.L. may have been the catalyst for more conversation about domestic violence this year, being drafted to a professional football team doesn’t automatically make players perpetrators. In fact, the arrest rate for domestic violence is lower among players than the general U.S. population. But with an audience of millions, the league has the power to drive this conversation, and maybe even effect some change.

Caitlin Kelly on the N.F.L.’s Super Bowl ad on domestic violence. (via newyorker)

[newyorker]

A daily cartoon by Emily Flake.

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#dailytonic #thebestmedicine

[nationalgeo]

Snow Fall Photograph by Stefano Unterthiner

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#beautifulplanet

[newyorker]

Kathryn Schulz writes:

Like its animal-kingdom analogues, cockroaches and rats, wintry mix showed up in the big city, looked around, and saw that it had found its spiritual home. It is in cahoots with cabbies and dry cleaners. It has kin in the creepy precipitation that falls on subway...

[newyorker]

One week ago, the magazine relocated to 1 World Trade Center. Photo editor Jackson Krule documented the move on our photo department’s Instagram feed.

[theparisreview]

“It’s not like you walk around thinking about it all day. But as you grow up with this sense of yourself being singular, in some way you get hooked on the singularity of yourself. To be an artist is to be singular. I think, in some people, before the desire to write there is the desire to be special.”

Richard Price (via theparisreview)

[theparisreview]

I thawed my winters thinking spring and now am always cold, with reason, for bombs can blossom any season. The pheasants chicks scratch posted ground, children are game the whole year round skating the thin ice of the pond gay and innocent and spruce: while I in a grave of once-were flowers and stiffer than their thready bones forget these seen to be green trees too mindful of the forest.

—Isabella Gardner, from “Children Are Game.” Photography credit Mohammadreza Mirzaei.

[theparisreview]

A new edition of James Joyce’s Ulysses by Los Angeles-based artist Charlene Matthews features all 265,000 words written by hand on thirty-eight wooden poles. As Booktryst comments,

Ulysses as a landscape to physically move through; the novel as literary grove, Ulysses as trees of life with language as fragnant, hallucinatory bark, and trunks reaching toward the sky.

The edition is based on Sylvia Beach’s first edition, with all its typos included. (via)