Blaze

Seems to have fixed some of the federation issues (some instances still experience some, but that probably needs to be investigated by the local admins)

cross-posted from: https://feddit.uk/post/6599809

Reading stories regularly strengthens social-cognitive skills—such as empathy—in both children and adults. And this, in turn, ensures that we can empathize with characters more effectively and more quickly when we are reading. This is the subject of linguist Lynn Eekhof's Ph.D., which she will receive at Radboud University on 15 January. "I think we need to capitalize more on the wonder of what stories do, rather than merely seeing reading as a practical skill."

The Best American Magazine Writing 2023
Edited by Sidney Holt for the American Society of Magazine Editors
Columbia University Press, November 2023

The Battle for Baby L.
Rozina Ali - New York Times Magazine

She Never Hurt Her Kids. So Why Is a Mother Serving More Time Than the Man Who Abused Her Daughter?
Samantha Michaels - Mother Jones

Aristocrat Inc.
Natalie So - The Believer

Monuments to the Unthinkable
Clint Smith - The Atlantic

The Landlord and the Tenant
Raquel Rutledge & Ken Armstrong - ProPublica & Milwaukee Journal Sentinel

Death Sentence
Nicholas Florko - Stat

The Time to Pass Paid Leave Is Now
Natasha Pearlman - Glamour

A Post-Roe Threat and The Post-Roe Era and Is Abortion Sacred?
Jia Tolentino - New Yorker

"We Need to Take Away Children"
Caitlin Dickerson - The Atlantic

The Militiamen, the Governor, and the Kidnapping That Wasn’t
Chris Heath - Esquire

How a Nepo Baby Is Born
Nate Jones - New York

Tinder Hearted
Allison P. Davis - New York

Acid Church
Courtney Desiree Morris - Stranger’s Guide

"She’s Capital!"
Namwali Serpell - New York Review of Books

Viola Davis, Inside Out
Jazmine Hughes - New York Times Magazine

Light and Shadow
Raffi Khatchadourian - New Yorker

Winter Term [Paywalled]
Michelle de Kretser - Paris Review

Untold
Tom Junod & Paula Lavigne - ESPN Digital

cross-posted from: https://literature.cafe/post/5745653

cross-posted from: c/ebookdeals @ Literature.cafe

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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/9593312

10 years after Zod's snapped neck, Martha, "some kinda Suicide Squad", CGI moustache, rennouncing your wish, the hiearchy of power changing, and Speed Force PS1 graphics, the DC Extended Universe finally comes to a close. And it ends the same way it started - with a Rotten score.

Looking back at all this wasted potential, what would you have done differently with the DCEU, and what are your hopes for James Gunn's DC Universe?