>"What the digital worlds of Japan’s imageboards and America’s alt-right reveal about real-life precarity."

The Atlantic: Hybrid Work Is Doomed.

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"Elephant-sized rats? City-building dolphins? Ever-cleverer crows? Life on a scorching hot, post-human planet will be otherworldly."

>"Some people need to feel an emotional bond before developing attraction. Many people don't accept this as a sexual orientation — but demisexuals say that’s misguided."

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"The party is set to become a partner to the SNP, but it faces a raft of new challenges, says Guardian columnist Andy Beckett"

"Lockdown revolutionised women’s access to home treatment – and strengthened the anti-abortion backlash"

‘On Broadway’ documentary offers hope for New York theater

"When the pandemic freed employees from having to report to the office, some saw an opportunity to double their salary on the sly. Why be good at one job, they thought, when they could be mediocre at two?"

"In his sci-fi trilogy The Three Body Problem, author Liu Cixin presents the dark forest theory of the universe. When we look out into space, the theory goes, we’re struck by its silence. It seems…"

>"The recent effort to make the anniversary a federal holiday is undermined by the simultaneous attack on critical race theory and _...Read More_