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href weekly | June 9 – June 15 2024

Bits

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cara.app a social media and portfolio platform for artists. “With the widespread use of generative AI, we decided to build a place that filters out generative AI images so that people who want to find authentic creatives and artwork can do so easily.”

Sound & Music

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Comics

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Politics & Economics

“As Canadian news media becomes even more concentrated in Ontario, this local provincial voice is even more needed.” https://www.halifaxexaminer.ca/morning-file/top-10-reasons-you-should-subscribe-to-the-halifax-examiner/

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less than one per cent of rentals are both vacant and affordable for the majority of Canadian renters. https://newsinteractives.cbc.ca/features/2024/rentals-affordability-crisis/

“If you want a picture of the future,” George Orwell wrote in “1984,” “imagine a boot stamping on a human face — forever.” But it seems to me instead that in 2035 will be more like an aging relative, increasingly lost in memories and fantasies and complaining that you don’t take them as seriously as they take themselves https://www.noemamag.com/china-in-2035/

Professional wrestling’s profitable use of also offers a prism for understanding the trajectory of conservative today. https://www.publicbooks.org/permission-to-jeer/

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href weekly | April 28 – May 4 2024

Bits

But the most common errors that make are the ones we don’t notice, because they’re perfectly camouflaged as the truth. https://pluralistic.net/2024/04/23/maximal-plausibility/#reverse-centaurs

She stares back at the viewer, one eyebrow slightly raised. https://thewalrus.ca/me-my-selfies-and-i/

Sound & Music

You will eat, bye and bye
In that glorious land above the sky
Work and pray, live on hay
You’ll get pie in the sky when you die -that’s a lie!

Humor

No one has ever gotten pregnant while listening to the music of Rush. Clinical studies show that when combined with watching a male sexual partner play air bass along to the extended solo in “Freewill,” the contraceptive efficacy of Rush approaches 100 percent. https://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/an-faq-about-your-new-birth-control-the-music-of-rush

Politics & Economics

In 1945 and 1946, immediately following the end of World War II, Encyclopedia Britannica’s films division produced two educational short films, one on democracy and one on despotism, exploring how societies and nations rank on the spectrum from democracy to despotism by measuring the degree to which power is concentrated and respect for individuals restricted. More than half a century later, these analyses remain a compelling metric of social harmony and discord, in an era when we’re still struggling to understand the psychology of riots in a global political climate where the tension between despotism and democracy is in sharper focus than ever. https://archive.org/details/youtube-sP-c4ST_PVQ