Hamutal Dotan
@hamutal.bsky.social
editing (magazines, books) and teaching (UofT, TMU); mostly posting journalism longreads; hopefully outside | she/her
So much beauty and heart in this, by @johannawinant.bsky.social — perhaps most of all in its depiction of teaching as a practice of taking your students seriously. www.bostonreview.net/articles/the...
The Claims of Close Reading - Boston Review
Literary studies have been starved by austerity, but their core methodology remains radical.
www.bostonreview.net
November 28, 2025 at 11:59 PM
So much beauty and heart in this, by @johannawinant.bsky.social — perhaps most of all in its depiction of teaching as a practice of taking your students seriously. www.bostonreview.net/articles/the...
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Read this whenever you can. It'll be worth it.
How to Fix a Typewriter and Your Life (Gift Article)
This is the story of how a man traded steady, grinding corporate security for a dying craft and, in the process, found his soul.
www.nytimes.com
November 27, 2025 at 10:28 AM
Read this whenever you can. It'll be worth it.
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Handing back student work that’s been written by ChatGPT with a 0 followed by the comment “This essay will never stand in authentic wonder before the Beauty of God’s creation.”
Pope Leo XIV told students not to use artificial intelligence for homework, saying that AI ‘won’t stand in authentic wonder before the beauty of God’s creation.’
Even God Is Worried About ChatGPT
Pope Leo XIV told students not to use artificial intelligence for homework, saying that AI ‘won’t stand in authentic wonder before the beauty of God’s creation.’
www.vulture.com
November 26, 2025 at 3:35 PM
Handing back student work that’s been written by ChatGPT with a 0 followed by the comment “This essay will never stand in authentic wonder before the Beauty of God’s creation.”
"One can be misled by the range of people to whom Mr. Epstein ingratiated himself... A person he emailed at one moment was often at war with the ideas of another correspondent... This diversity masked a deeper solidarity." A really sharp close reading. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/23/o...
Opinion | How the Elite Behave When No One Is Watching: Inside the Epstein Emails
www.nytimes.com
November 23, 2025 at 5:47 PM
"One can be misled by the range of people to whom Mr. Epstein ingratiated himself... A person he emailed at one moment was often at war with the ideas of another correspondent... This diversity masked a deeper solidarity." A really sharp close reading. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/23/o...
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Beautiful, Color Photographs of Paris Taken a Century Ago—at the Beginning of World War I & the End of La Belle Époque
Beautiful, Color Photographs of Paris Taken a Century Ago—at the Beginning of World War I & the End of La Belle Époque
It may well be that the major pivot points of history are only visible to those around the bend.
www.openculture.com
November 11, 2025 at 5:01 PM
Beautiful, Color Photographs of Paris Taken a Century Ago—at the Beginning of World War I & the End of La Belle Époque
Become an empiricist about yourself — observe what actually gives you joy, meaning, connection, vs the things you assumed would. Install those things at the centre of your life even if that looks different than you thought it would. It is SO NORMAL for it to look different than you thought it would.
Those who are 35+, what advice do you have for people just entering their 30s?
October 6, 2025 at 8:28 PM
Become an empiricist about yourself — observe what actually gives you joy, meaning, connection, vs the things you assumed would. Install those things at the centre of your life even if that looks different than you thought it would. It is SO NORMAL for it to look different than you thought it would.
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"Men who sell machines that mimic people want us to become people who mimic machines. They want techno feudal subjects who will believe and do what they’re told. We, as people, are being strategically simplified. This is a fascist process."
organizingmythoughts.org/some-thought...
organizingmythoughts.org/some-thought...
Some Thoughts on Techno-Fascism From Socialism 2025
"This is the endgame of our isolation."
organizingmythoughts.org
July 5, 2025 at 10:24 AM
"Men who sell machines that mimic people want us to become people who mimic machines. They want techno feudal subjects who will believe and do what they’re told. We, as people, are being strategically simplified. This is a fascist process."
organizingmythoughts.org/some-thought...
organizingmythoughts.org/some-thought...
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Amazing. Ann Telnaes just won a Pulitzer Prize for her work at The Washington Post --- which she resigned from after they refused to run this cartoon.
May 5, 2025 at 8:09 PM
Amazing. Ann Telnaes just won a Pulitzer Prize for her work at The Washington Post --- which she resigned from after they refused to run this cartoon.
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"If members of the executive branch are allowed to issue truth claims that have the consequence that human beings leave the United States, we are in a dictatorship. If we accept that the executive branch can simply deport anyone they call a "foreign alien terrorist," then none of us has any rights."
The evil at your door
The deportation action as regime change
snyder.substack.com
March 17, 2025 at 4:19 PM
"If members of the executive branch are allowed to issue truth claims that have the consequence that human beings leave the United States, we are in a dictatorship. If we accept that the executive branch can simply deport anyone they call a "foreign alien terrorist," then none of us has any rights."
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Why isn't "My special way that I understand and nobody else needs to" an option?
How do you organise your books? Most book owners... don't
Not organised: 45%
By size: 19%
By genre: 17%
Alphabetically, by author: 11%
By whether I've read them: 10%
By colour: 4%
Alphabetically, by title: 2%
Other: 6%
yougov.co.uk/entertainmen...
Not organised: 45%
By size: 19%
By genre: 17%
Alphabetically, by author: 11%
By whether I've read them: 10%
By colour: 4%
Alphabetically, by title: 2%
Other: 6%
yougov.co.uk/entertainmen...
March 8, 2025 at 5:33 PM
Why isn't "My special way that I understand and nobody else needs to" an option?
Every two weeks for more than 50 years. "He never missed a single appointment."
www.npr.org/2025/03/03/n...
www.npr.org/2025/03/03/n...
James Harrison, whose blood donations saved over 2 million babies, has died
Harrison, whose plasma contained a rare antibody, rolled up his sleeve 1,173 times from 1954 to 2018. The Australian is credited with helping 2.4 million babies and advancing scientific research.
www.npr.org
March 3, 2025 at 9:00 PM
Every two weeks for more than 50 years. "He never missed a single appointment."
www.npr.org/2025/03/03/n...
www.npr.org/2025/03/03/n...
A small-but-mighty package of stories if you want to get caught up on key provincial files before the election, especially @kunalchaudhary.bsky.social on higher ed and @alisonmotluk.bsky.social on health care.
🧵 Our special election issue, “7 Years of Doug Ford,” is now live. From health care to education, online gambling to the Greenbelt, this is the best collection of stories about how the lives of Torontonians have changed during Ford’s time as premier. thelocal.to/7-years-of-d...
7 Years of Doug Ford | The Local
After seven years in office, Doug Ford has left his mark on Toronto. From health care to education, online gambling to the Greenbelt, we examine the record of the Progressive Conservative leader seeki...
thelocal.to
February 20, 2025 at 4:31 PM
A small-but-mighty package of stories if you want to get caught up on key provincial files before the election, especially @kunalchaudhary.bsky.social on higher ed and @alisonmotluk.bsky.social on health care.
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The root that tears apart your foundation begins as a seed of distrust, hate, and blame.
The seed that grew into a dictatorship in Europe didn’t arrive overnight.
It started with everyday Germans mad about inflation and looking for someone to blame.
The seed that grew into a dictatorship in Europe didn’t arrive overnight.
It started with everyday Germans mad about inflation and looking for someone to blame.
February 19, 2025 at 7:47 PM
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Every summer, The Local provides training to aspiring journalists from underrepresented communities. The Local Journalism Fellowship is a paid 13-week opportunity to craft a magazine feature and learn from industry mentors. Applications are now open! thelocal.to/local-jounal...
The Local Journalism Fellowship 2025 | The Local
Now in its fifth year, the program provides training and mentorship to aspiring and emerging journalists from communities underrepresented in Canadian media. Applications are now open.
thelocal.to
January 24, 2025 at 3:07 PM
Every summer, The Local provides training to aspiring journalists from underrepresented communities. The Local Journalism Fellowship is a paid 13-week opportunity to craft a magazine feature and learn from industry mentors. Applications are now open! thelocal.to/local-jounal...
"In Cave 5, the researchers discovered a set of particularly stunning artifacts. Not a fleet of intact ships, or protocompasses, or chests of gold and jewels; something much more ordinary, yet indispensable..."
Perfect Sunday read by @ferrisjabr.bsky.social
hakaimagazine.com/features/the...
Perfect Sunday read by @ferrisjabr.bsky.social
hakaimagazine.com/features/the...
The Long, Knotty, World-Spanning Story of String | Hakai Magazine
String is far more important than the wheel in the pantheon of inventions.
hakaimagazine.com
January 26, 2025 at 2:27 PM
"In Cave 5, the researchers discovered a set of particularly stunning artifacts. Not a fleet of intact ships, or protocompasses, or chests of gold and jewels; something much more ordinary, yet indispensable..."
Perfect Sunday read by @ferrisjabr.bsky.social
hakaimagazine.com/features/the...
Perfect Sunday read by @ferrisjabr.bsky.social
hakaimagazine.com/features/the...
"He fits easily into whatever pattern is successful. That is his sole measure of value—success. Nazism as a minority movement would not attract him. As a movement likely to attain power, it would."
From 1941...
harpers.org/archive/1941...
From 1941...
harpers.org/archive/1941...
Who Goes Nazi?, by Dorothy Thompson
harpers.org
January 21, 2025 at 5:03 PM
"He fits easily into whatever pattern is successful. That is his sole measure of value—success. Nazism as a minority movement would not attract him. As a movement likely to attain power, it would."
From 1941...
harpers.org/archive/1941...
From 1941...
harpers.org/archive/1941...
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I would go so far as to say that many of the cishet men I know who make me feel the most respected, loved, heard, safe, treated as an equal, and are most intuitively aware of systemic misogyny around them, would rather die than parade around in public wearing a “Male Feminist” T-shirt or something
in my experience the genuine male feminists are just like, nice to women and treat them normally and don’t start podcasts or seek awards for it. performative behavior should always be a red flag.
Neil Gaiman, Justin Baldoni, and the End of the Male Feminist
This ignominious crew of famous men seemed to align with women against sexist oppression in public as they mistreated women in private.
slate.com
January 19, 2025 at 4:00 AM
I would go so far as to say that many of the cishet men I know who make me feel the most respected, loved, heard, safe, treated as an equal, and are most intuitively aware of systemic misogyny around them, would rather die than parade around in public wearing a “Male Feminist” T-shirt or something
Researchers discover the heart has its own nervous system. A gift from medical science to poetry. (scitechdaily.com/scientists-h...)
January 11, 2025 at 11:42 PM
Researchers discover the heart has its own nervous system. A gift from medical science to poetry. (scitechdaily.com/scientists-h...)
"What we need are better *collective* means of thinking... People can actually think much better collectively than individually, offering prospects for a different understanding of democracy." www.programmablemutter.com/p/were-getti...
We're getting the social media crisis wrong
The bigger problem isn't disinformation. It's degraded democratic publics
www.programmablemutter.com
January 10, 2025 at 1:19 AM
"What we need are better *collective* means of thinking... People can actually think much better collectively than individually, offering prospects for a different understanding of democracy." www.programmablemutter.com/p/were-getti...
Ostensibly about animation; excellent on the limits of realism in art. (By @jacoboller.bsky.social) www.avclub.com/mufasa-the-l...
Mufasa stares Disney’s “live-action” problem in the face
The Lion King prequel Mufasa has plenty of normal prequel problems, but its biggest flaw is inherent to its idiotic "live-action" style.
www.avclub.com
December 26, 2024 at 10:20 PM
Ostensibly about animation; excellent on the limits of realism in art. (By @jacoboller.bsky.social) www.avclub.com/mufasa-the-l...
An unsettling, remarkable obituary: www.economist.com/obituary/202...
Shalom Nagar was picked by lottery to kill Adolf Eichmann
The Israeli prison officer turned ritual slaughterer died on November 26th, aged 88
www.economist.com
December 13, 2024 at 7:38 PM
An unsettling, remarkable obituary: www.economist.com/obituary/202...
WTF, Montreal
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
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Petition by RFK Jr. fan pushes Montreal to stop putting fluoride in drinking water | CBC News
Montreal officials have opted to end water fluoridation in six West Island communities in a move spurred by a petition from a resident who claims he has the support of Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
www.cbc.ca
November 22, 2024 at 3:27 PM
WTF, Montreal
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...