There are the bleedover emotions. There’s the tendency at a party to hide in a corner with an e-reader app open, looking like readers are scrolling Insta. And then … there’s the budget. - Book Riot
Linda Holmes is not just any critic, but host of NPR’s Pop Culture Happy Hour and an alum of the revered sarcastic review site Television Without Pity. Holmes is also a novelist. How does she deal with reviews of her work, and, more broadly, how does a critic deal with criticism? - Slate
To have such solicitous faculty on hand to advocate for students’ interests is, depending on how you look at it, either wonderfully supportive or repulsively infantilizing. - Hedgehog Review
Evidently, the time is ripe for a survey of the branch of cultural production concerned with the end of the world. And yet, tales have been told about it for as long as we’ve been doing story. - Literary Review
The idea that we have rights is an unquestioned certainty, but rights are also often a source of considerable conflict in the modern world. Which rights do we actually possess? Do animals have rights? - 3 Quarks Daily
Protopias, on the other hand, are achievable. They present a realistic, better tomorrow. But even the protopian visions of more recent iterations of Star Trek, she notes, do not necessarily grapple with our most immediate crises. - NPR
In the contemporary world, the self is no longer a subject but a project. The self is something to be optimised, to be maximised, to be made efficient, cultivated for its capacity for productive output. The worry is that all life activities become viewed as lines on a résumé. - Psyche
Time was the problem, I assumed: There was enough of it; I just wasn’t using it right. Or maybe the problem was my attention span. I couldn’t focus. - Esquire
Hinst for fake-info spotting every day of the year: “Stop when you see something that's 'too good to be true, or too crazy to be believable, or too-anger inducing.’” - NPR
In pursuit of info, the first season of the actor’s podcast “featured guests like Carol Burnett (90), Isabel Allende (81) and Darlene Love (82). The second ... includes Julie Andrews (88), Patti Smith (77) and Ina Garten (76).” That’s many years of accumulated ideas, and, sometimes, wisdom. - The New York Times
The feature debuted in 2019, and has already been cut in France, Germany, and the U.K. "The change comes as tries to scale back news and political content on its platforms following years of criticism about how it handles misinformation.” - Chicago Sun-Times (AP)
“We are positively drowning in shows about the glitzy world of the well-to-do that I can only—facetiously, of course—describe as being catnip for a gay man with a streaming subscription." - Slate
Creative people are uncomfortable with the status quo. For them, a creative life is one of options, opportunities, and alternatives. They do not always accept what others do; rather, they seek multiple responses and views. - Psychology Today
It’s unclear what the ethical line is between scam and regular usage. Some A.I.-generated scams are easy to identify, like the medical journal paper featuring a cartoon rat sporting enormous genitalia. Many others are more insidious, like the mislabeled and hallucinated regulatory pathway. - The New York Times
“I think some bowls should be full,” he said, suggesting that flooding the land would amount to little more than a natural evolution of a man-made system, not unlike the way skyscrapers transformed cities a century ago. “It’s just an update to the machine.” - The New Yorker