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Detective fiction was in full swing by the mid-twenties. The literary sociologist Q. D. Leavis, in “Fiction and the Reading Public” (1932), would soon associate this respectable entertainment with the enthusiasm for crossword puzzles, each “a not unpleasurable way of relaxing” via the application of “ratiocinative faculties on a minor non-personal... See more
We are now seeing the result. Stephen Miller’s anti-immigrant scourge. Russell Vought’s retributive targeting of universities, law firms, and the media. Kash Patel’s eagerness to investigate Trump enemies; Pam Bondi’s eagerness to prosecute them. Kristi Noem’s cruelty. Robert Kennedy Jr.’s paranoia. JD Vance’s misogyny. Marco Rubio’s and Pete Hegseth’s brainless sycophancy.
Collections
On Sublime, we have collections instead of tags.
Collections can be private or public, and you can invite collaborators.
On the surface, collections look a lot like tags, but in practice, they are used very differently. Collections are less of an input mechanism and more of an output mechanism. They change the function from – what is this... See more
On Sublime, we have collections instead of tags.
Collections can be private or public, and you can invite collaborators.
On the surface, collections look a lot like tags, but in practice, they are used very differently. Collections are less of an input mechanism and more of an output mechanism. They change the function from – what is this... See more
Are You Experiencing Posting Ennui?
Are You Experiencing Posting Ennui?
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During the Black Lives Matter protests of 2020, many individual users and corporate accounts were hesitant to post any content unrelated to activism. That feeling has returned now amid events such as Israel’s war in Gaza and President Trump’s mobilization of ice against migrants. “The contrast between global crisis and personal update is so stark,... See more
Are You Experiencing Posting Ennui?
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The Vignelli Canon
The Vignelli Canon outlines fundamental design principles, emphasizing semantics, syntactics, and pragmatics, along with the importance of discipline, appropriateness, and visual power for effective and timeless design practices.
rit.eduThe idea of having this giant graph where all your data is hyperlinked is cute, but in practice, it’s completely unnecessary. Things live in separate apps just fine. How often, truly, do you find yourself wanting to link a task in your todo list app to a file in Dropbox?