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10 votes
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Inside Annapurna Interactive's mass walkout: Internal politics, the surprise Remedy deal, and why it all happened
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AI and the American smile
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We may be close to rediscovering thousands of texts that had been lost for millennia. Their contents may reshape how we understand the Ancient World.
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Sweden's immigrant hip-hop stars are redefining Swedishness – Muslim rappers are dominating the charts with music sharing the Swedish Muslim experience
7 votes -
Why is Finland's biggest retailer urging customers to welcome foreign workers?
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When victimhood takes a bad-faith turn. Wronged explores how the practice of claiming harm has become the rhetorical province of the powerful.
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R.I.P. journalist, editor and counterculture enthusiast, Steve Silberman
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Australians get 'right to disconnect' after working hours
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PinkNews CEO recorded calling trans issues "contentious" on the basis it jeopardises ad revenue
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‘T4T’ isn’t just about dating, it’s about community care
21 votes -
Girl, so confusing: Will the “Brat” memes help or hurt Kamala Harris?
22 votes -
In the Aftermath: Angels Never Sleep (1988)
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Mastermind speedrunner bakes twelve actual cookies in under four minutes, forces site mods to make a whole new category
65 votes -
Set in an otherworldly landscape surrounded by glaciers, forests and lakes – how the Arctic town of Bodø became Europe's Capital of Culture
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In Norway, children walk to school aged six, or even travel across the country. Why do these kids have so much independence, while other countries are so risk-averse?
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An archaeology of personhood and abortion: Opinions about fetal personhood and abortion have fluctuated enormously throughout history and differ in surprising ways between cultures
14 votes -
12,000-year-old Aboriginal sticks may be evidence of the oldest known culturally transmitted ritual in the world
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‘I wouldn't come here, to be honest,’ says the disdainful star of Visit Oslo's latest advert, which has become a viral hit online
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Bro summer waits for us all
55 votes -
Being a hater and the overexposure paradigm
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US FDIC chair says he’ll leave job after toxic workplace report
11 votes -
Weighing in on "Man or Bear" - from a woman that left society to the Alaskan wilderness
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Kabosu, the beloved Shiba-Inu behind the Doge meme, passes away at 18
36 votes -
Why were Ancient Egyptians obsessed with cats?
11 votes -
Home to the largest collection of Nordic art, a converted grain silo is putting Kristiansand in Norway on Europe's cultural map
8 votes -
Five-hour video about the history of North Korean media
20 votes -
The downfall of streaming
4 votes -
China's unmarried 'leftover' women
18 votes -
I gave up meat and gained so much more | A tale of one person's life, culture, and growing up
38 votes -
The land that doesn’t need Ozempic
40 votes -
Unlocking the mystery of Paris' most secret underground society
14 votes -
Everything is Sludge, art in the post-human era
19 votes -
The Sámi museum Siida in Finland was awarded the top prize at this year's European Museum of the Year Awards
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Japan’s “Wasan” mathematical tradition: Surprising discoveries in an age of seclusion
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How (and why) the right stole Christianity
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Why don't we do more food-based activism?
In the past few months I have been reading a lot about historical food culture. It's kind of amazing how much things have changed here in the US. Over the last century or so we have basically...
In the past few months I have been reading a lot about historical food culture. It's kind of amazing how much things have changed here in the US. Over the last century or so we have basically eliminated communal eating and massively changed the economics of prepared meals. At one point we had automats and cafeterias which skipped out on most of the "front of house" service and focused on serving large volumes of people to keep prices low. There were also diners, which are much different from what we consider to be a diner today; they were very small places that only prepared simple things that needed very little labor to prepare; things like hash browns, sandwiches, or pancakes, so the food was still very cheap. But because they were small, they were able to serve smaller markets that other restaurants were not able to capitalize on. Compare that to today, where diners are just restaurants that have 50s style decor.
But the thing I think is much more unusual is how rare we see food used in service of a message. It's something that has a long history across the globe. Most notably, religions operate food kitchens that help to bring poor people into their folds. Some religions actually have a built-in food culture that includes feeding your neighbors. It's really effective too; there's a small chain of restaurants where I live that has inexpensive food which has some bhuddist texts at the dining tables, and honestly it had me considering joining a religion for the first time. If I spoke Chinese they might have got me! Eating food requires a baseline of trust, so if you can get someone to eat at your restaurant you will bypass a lot of the caution that people approach the world with.
With that being said, why isn't food-based activism a lot more popular? I'm sure that it would work for much more than religion. A restaurant that acts as a messaging platform doesn't necessarily need to be funded by food sales, so they can undercut the competition on price and reach an even greater audience. Given the ways I have seen religions use food to further their means, I think that it could even go farther than changing people's minds about topics and actually motivate people to take action and join communities who are actually making real change. Food is both relatively inexpensive and it's something that everyone needs to survive, so it seems to me that food-based activism is the single largest missed opportunity for community organization.
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Missed deadlines and tension among Taiwanese and American coworkers are plaguing TSMC's Phoenix expansion
21 votes -
Making the Macintosh: Technology and culture in Silicon Valley
11 votes -
Inuuteq Storch – who is the first Kaalaleq/Inuit artist to have a solo exhibition at the Venice Biennale – aims to capture ‘the Greenlandic everyday’
9 votes -
Everybody's obsessed with the retro corporate aesthetic
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Christiania, Copenhagen's hippie oasis, wants to rebuild without its illegal hashish market
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How hidden Nazi symbols were the tip of a toxic iceberg at Life Is Strange developer Deck Nine
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California introduces 'right to disconnect' bill that would allow employees to possibly relax
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Half of senior staffers in US Congress are so fed up that they may quit
26 votes -
The end of the MrBeast era
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What Boeing’s door-plug debacle says about the future of aviation safety
13 votes -
Denmark has pledged to put up more statues of women, with the country's culture minister saying the capital has “more statues of mythical beasts and horses”
12 votes -
Join me on the path to Twilightenment
27 votes -
Who created the skull trumpet gif?
37 votes