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"Larkin claimed that sexual intercourse began in 1963..A better (if rhyme-busting) bet might have been 1965, when BBC One broadcast Up the Junction, a riotous group portrait of women at work in a Battersea chocolate factory..."

#ToReadLater essay has drawn me in starting with a reference to Larkin
David Trotter · Don’t go quietly: Ken Loach’s Fables
It's largely thanks to Loach's example that social realism remains a potent and versatile cultural resource for young...
www.lrb.co.uk
February 5, 2025 at 11:57 AM
Trump’s Foreign Aid Spending Freeze – a Combination of Chaos and Cruelty...

Ilan Goldenberg, Special Advisor on the Middle East under Vice President Kamala Harris and author of Dialogue and Dissonance. #ToReadLater
Trump’s Foreign Aid Spending Freeze – a Combination of Chaos and Cruelty
The global consequences of the administration’s 90-day funding pause have already begun
contrarian.substack.com
January 29, 2025 at 6:25 PM
Stories and literature: Our narrative prison

The three-act ‘hero’s journey’ has long been the most prominent kind of story. What other tales are there to tell?
...essay by Eliane Glaser #ToReadLater
Why does every film and TV series seem to have the same plot? | Aeon Essays
The three-act ‘hero’s journey’ has long been the most prominent kind of story. What other tales are there to tell?
aeon.co
May 18, 2025 at 10:57 AM
One that I need to save for later but don't know how to do that on here

#toreadlater
#Quinnersbookmark
January 26, 2025 at 10:01 PM
Cubikahd—or cu'bikad, depending on the dialect—was a Mandalorian strategy hologame. A strategic and tactical board game, players would control blades and move them around a cube-shaped board and grid. In 2 BBY, the Mandalorian rebel Sabine Wren played cubikahd against the Mandalorian Protector Fe...
April 2, 2025 at 3:59 PM
November 29, 2024 at 5:25 PM
How to take action
Okay, here’s the deal: RIGHT NOW is the time for concrete, direct action.

If you’re following me, it’s probably because you care about trans art and trans literature. The article below lays out my suggestions for dozens of concrete actions you can take to preemptively combat literary censorship.
January 24, 2025 at 12:09 PM
"@heatherfro: @GretchenAMcC have a look around <a href="http://wordhoard.northwestern.edu." class="hover:underline text-blue-600 dark:text-sky-400 no-card-link" target="_blank" rel="noopener" data-link="bsky">http://wordhoard.northwestern.edu. I bet you'd be able to find examples..." #toreadlater
November 1, 2024 at 5:35 AM
Instead of jotting down titles, I take pictures of books I want to read. I found this while thinking I need mentors and advice on my MLIS journey. The book gods apparently heard me, and they're being blunt. #FriendsOfTheLibrary #ToReadLater
March 2, 2025 at 4:47 PM
Flash fiction....from Sasha Brown, "a Boston writer, gardener, and dad whose surreal stories have been called “Creative! But in a bad way.”"

#ToReadLater #ShortStories
January 15, 2025 at 6:56 PM
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Not a tech substack for those who understand the jargon or are in the compsci field but Atlantic usually does a good job for layperson like me
www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...

Also:
www.exponentialview.co/p/deepseek-e...

geopoliticsunplugged.substack.com/p/deepseek-v...
China’s DeepSeek Surprise
What to make of China’s suddenly popular new AI model.
www.theatlantic.com
January 27, 2025 at 10:30 PM
#ToReadLater - How the Horrors of the 20th Century Shaped the Ongoing Moral Catastrophe in Gaza

Pankaj Mishra on Nationalism, Modernity and How We Can Best Confront Contemporary Atrocity
lithub.com/how-the-horr...
How the Horrors of the 20th Century Shaped the Ongoing Moral Catastrophe in Gaza
Jews in nineteenth- and early-twentieth-century Europe may not seem to share much with colonized peoples in Egypt, India or China. They were a mostly despised minority within large European empires…
lithub.com
February 11, 2025 at 9:33 PM
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How the Social Security Administration and DOGE are gaslighting Americans
(Judd Legum, Mar 31, 2025)

popular.info/p/how-the-so...
How the Social Security Administration and DOGE are gaslighting Americans
The Social Security Administration (SSA) sent an email on March 27 to beneficiaries saying that reports that field offices were closing was an invention of fake news media.
popular.info
April 3, 2025 at 1:59 AM
#ToReadLater - In Sparks, Ian Johnson writes of Chinese people who risk their careers and even their lives to uncover suppressed truths about their country’s modern history.
China’s Counter-Histories | Perry Link
In Sparks, Ian Johnson writes of Chinese people who risk their careers and even their lives to uncover suppressed truths about their country’s modern history.
www.nybooks.com
February 17, 2025 at 11:35 AM