This Is Not an Interview with Poppy What do you think people will think of social media in the future? People aren’t going to think in the future. We will become one knowing consciousness. What drove you to YouTube as a medium for your work? I like YouTube because it is owned by Google. Google […]
How to Pay Programmers Less To create software, you need programmers. Unfortunately. They are expensive, lazy, and almost impossible to control. The software they create either works or doesn’t, but you still have to pay them, every month. Of course, it’s always better to pay less. However, sometimes they may figure out they are being […]
How Half Of America Lost Its F**king Mind i am usually loath to comment on specifics of American politics. As a Canadian, i am conscious that i have no standing in the affairs of another country. Mostly though, i wish for a Canada where those affairs don’t matter to us. More than enough politics that […]
Life-Hacks of the Poor and Aimless […] obsessive ritualization of self-care comes at the expense of collective engagement, collapsing every social problem into a personal quest for the good life. “Wellness,” they declare, “has become an ideology.”
What Chinese corner cutting reveals about modernity If what you’re making represents a world utterly out of reach to you, why bother to do it well? via reddit
Why Canadian bands (sometimes) can’t make it in the States “It doesn’t fucking matter that The Hip had limited success in the U.S.,” wrote music journalist and broadcaster Alan Cross in the days after Downie’s diagnosis went public. “There’s only one reason why things didn’t work out: bad record contracts. It had nothing to do […]
The Friday Poem: “Monica”, by Hera Lindsay Bird And to be able to maintain a friendship Through the various complications of heterosexual monogamy Is enormously difficult Especially when you take into consideration What cunts they all were
Believing that life is fair might make you a terrible person Confronted with an atrocity they otherwise can’t explain, people become slightly more likely, on average, to believe that the victims must have brought it on themselves.
The Maple Leafs’ Collapse Is A Victory For Rationality This is not me being overdramatic. This was a season with a built-in black-and-white storyline, making it a referendum on who better grasps hockey—those who know how to interpret the numbers, or those actually running a team.