Ananya Anupam
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I was more often caught in the middle of the storm than controlling it from the eye
a normal 2025We can partially thank Steven Sondheim for creating frenzy for the puzzles in the States decades later; he created cryptic crosswords in New York Magazine in the late 1960s.
Reflective Play – SyllabusWith these tools, AI edited photos can reflect the reality you wanted to have experienced, rather than the reality as you actually experienced it.
A Strange Kind of Memory - by Julia B Kieserman - RebootThe more I see his haggard face, the more I start to wonder if I do in fact remember him as the face that lives in my Memory™.
A Strange Kind of Memory - by Julia B Kieserman - RebootTo usher in a new era, the British "Raj", a new architectural tradition was sought, marrying the existing styles of India with imported styles from the West, such as Gothic (with its sub styles of French gothic, Venetian-Moorish), Neoclassical and, later, new styles such as Art Deco.
Indo-Saracenic architecture - Wikipediamore emphasis on arches and beams, which flourished with Mughal and Taluqdars by building and incorporating Indian architecture, especially Rajasthani temple architecture and Imperial Indian palace/fort/urban architecture as well.
Indo-Saracenic architecture - Wikipediapart of a 19th-century movement to project themselves as the natural successors of the Mughals".
Indo-Saracenic architecture - Wikipediawhere Indian architects rather "randomly grafted European stylistic elements, as details and motifs, on to a skeleton derived from the Indo-Islamic school." This is known as the "Nawabi style."[4]
Indo-Saracenic architecture - Wikipediaadopted by architects and engineers in British Ceylon (present-day Sri Lanka) and the Federated Malay States (present-day Malaysia). The style was sometimes used, mostly for large houses, in the United Kingdom itself, for example at the royal Brighton Pavilion (1787–1823) and Sezincote House (1805) in Gloucestershire.
Indo-Saracenic architecture - WikipediaThe word chintz comes from the Hindu chint, which means “variegated,” “spotted,” or “sprayed.”
Toile de Jouy: Art, Industry, and Popular CultureWhat he diagnosed was the novel’s cycle of birth and rebirth as a Theseusian recurrence; for the novel to be a living form, it must always be, like all living things, dying.
Death Driven: A brief, living history of the novel as a form – SyllabusAs old restraints crumble, Americans have seen a new heat seep back into politics
The Forgotten Precedent for Our ‘Unprecedented’ Political Insanity - POLITICOThe problem with democracy was that it was too loud, too busy, too convulsive. Instead of suppressing the vote, what if they could just make participating less compelling?
The Forgotten Precedent for Our ‘Unprecedented’ Political Insanity - POLITICO“government by indignation.”
The Forgotten Precedent for Our ‘Unprecedented’ Political Insanity - POLITICOI must be Usain Bolt if Usain Bolt was a maladjusted gay man with zero athletic ability and a BPD diagnosis.
The Gay Art Of Walking FastIn an age of ecological collapse, bridging the gap between the abstract notion of “The Cloud” and its tangible, physical form becomes critical.
Elemental Internet – Syllabus“Girl” is a valuable marketing term in the same way that “authenticity” is. It is performed, refined, but never able to be perfected—hoisted upon us and impossible to embody.
Linking the g(URL) – Syllabusif something doesn’t have a social outlet, feel good to my body, regulate me emotionally, or make me a more accepting person, it’s probably not worth my effort long term…at least for now.
The Pleasure x Effort Matrix – SyllabusThe Pleasure x Effort Matrix is not a tool for self-optimization or being able to do more—it’s about relieving the burden of chronically misunderstanding yourself and being able to do anything at all with as little resistance as possible.
The Pleasure x Effort Matrix – SyllabusAt worst, it makes M. Night Shyamalan‘s 2010 The Last Airbender film feel like a mercy because at least that poor effort was only 2 hours long
Netflix's Avatar: The Last Airbender Dishonors the Original Seriesavant-garde, neoclassical approach for which the composer is known, using ideas of the past in a modern context, in this case 17th-century Italian commedia dell’arte, reimagining Baroque sounds with more rhythm, colour, and harmony
Stravinsky’s Pulcinella - Toronto Symphony Orchestraand then, by the time I posted it and I realized it wasn’t getting any likes or whatever, I was too high to delete it, so I fell asleep,”
How Noah Kahan Went from Vermont to TikTok to the Grammys | The New YorkerImportantly, we find these results while not impinging on human agency
Leveraging AI for democratic discourse: Chat interventions can improve online political conversations at scale | PNASFor both outcomes, partners of individuals who received one or more rephrasing reported significantly higher conversation quality and willingness to grant their political opponents democratic reciprocity:
Leveraging AI for democratic discourse: Chat interventions can improve online political conversations at scale | PNASf writing about art has persisted through the twilight of media, it’s because there are some of us who will do it to the bitter end. Unpaid or underpaid, viral or barely read, influential or gathering dust in the depths of a Discord.
The Official Pitchfork ObituaryThere is plenty of work that we do as a labor of love, dispelling the myth that we’re all only in it for a paycheck.
The Official Pitchfork Obituaryin an effort to bridge his experience of uprootedness, thinking of meals made and packed in our home kitchen as a way of softening his geographical and cultural dislocation
Home in a Red Tiffin Lunchbox - VittlesIf youth is ever fatally confrontational, they say it is misdirected will, gone too soon. It is without history.
Exporting the Revolution – The New Inquirygrowing digitization of policing solidifies the confluence of colonialism and caste.
Building Blocks of a Digital Caste Panopticon: Everyday Brahminical Policing in IndiaGirlhood, instead, is an opting out of the whole calculation, a low-risk way to participate in mass cultural femininity.
Woman in RetrogradeIt doesn’t help that the major touchstones of the past several years — MeToo, Donald Trump, COVID, Dobbs — are fucking miserable, and the cultural objects that accompanied them have tended to be correspondingly somber or pedantic.
Woman in RetrogradeAs the text on one Secretariat entryway reads to this day: “Liberty will not descend to a people. A people must raise themselves to liberty: It is a blessing that must be earned before it can be enjoyed.”
Narendra Modi’s New New Delhi | The New YorkerIn the centuries before British rule, India had been a patchwork of empires and fiefdoms; borders often shifted, and customs blended, in life and in architecture. Many artisans, for instance, found themselves working for rulers of a different faith.
Narendra Modi’s New New Delhi | The New YorkerAs an architect told Frazier, verdigris is not opaque. It is “crystalline … you’re looking into it.” You’re seeing a century of change and molecular growth. You’re seeing into the past.
The Paris Review - Verdigris: The Color of Oxidation, Statues, and ImpermanenceLately, I’ve found myself becoming increasingly skeptical about the value of authenticity as a goal.
The Paris Review - Verdigris: The Color of Oxidation, Statues, and ImpermanenceTo use verdigris was to accept that your lovingly rendered scene would one day sour. The bright cloaks would turn dark, the soft grass would fade, the foliage turn. But such is the nature of cloth and plants and paint. Such is the nature of beauty.
The Paris Review - Verdigris: The Color of Oxidation, Statues, and Impermanence“Verdigris with aloes, or gall or turmeric makes a fine green and so it does with saffron or burnt orpiment; but I doubt whether in a short time they will not turn black,” he wrote.
The Paris Review - Verdigris: The Color of Oxidation, Statues, and ImpermanenceAny power capable of creating a system of law cannot itself be bound by them
Super Position – The New InquirySometimes I think it’s because our nostalgia loop is so small—so tight
On Killing Charles Dickens, by Zadie Smith | The New Yorkerf you think of a human judgment as (truth + random error + systematic bias), when you take the average of a bunch of human judgments, you're tending to cancel out the random error. And if those judgments are diverse, based on different sources of information and different mental models, that will tend to cancel out systematic bias, so your estimate is going to get closer to the truth.
How to Predict the Future - by Santi Ruiz - StatecraftThe battle for Omegle has been lost, but the war against the Internet rages on. Virtually every online communication service has been subject to the same kinds of attack as Omegle; and while some of them are much larger companies with much greater resources, they all have their breaking point somewhere. I worry that, unless the tide turns soon, the Internet I fell in love with may cease to exist, and in its place, we will have something closer to a souped-up version of TV – focused largely on passive consumption, with much less opportunity for active participation and genuine human connection.…
OmegleHe moves so deliberately that he resembles a person underwater.
China’s Age of Malaise | The New YorkerThe Levenshtein distance can also be computed between two longer strings, but the cost to compute it, which is roughly proportional to the product of the two string lengths, makes this impractical. Thus, when used to aid in fuzzy string searching in applications such as record linkage, the compared strings are usually short to help improve speed of comparisons
Levenshtein distanceRiverdale is an exemplary postmodern text, prone to self-consciousness, intertextuality, and Camp.
Riverdale References: Notes on Campshow so audacious and unhinged that it warrants more meaningful attention than it has thus far received.
Riverdale References: Notes on Campmany of the early rockets, including the very first Nike-Apache, were assembled in front of the altar.
When ISRO’s office was a church, its launchpad a beach | Condé Nast Traveller Indiahas been used by American judges, especially members of a multiple-judge panel who dissent from the majority's opinion on a particular matter, to refer to an inaccurate or tortured interpretation and/or application of a particular legal doctrine to the specific facts at issue
Potemkin villageThe most lasting image of Giuliani will not be of a valiant public servant inspiring a grieving city but of a cynical mook lying about stolen votes on Trump’s behalf while rivulets of hair dye course down his cheek. Is there no honor among thieves?
The Mobster Cosplay of Donald Trump | The New Yorkerthe affect and sometimes the communication style of a mobster. It’s a combination of clear signalling as to who has power and the source of that power with an obliqueness of expression that, intentionally, barely conceals the threat.
The Mobster Cosplay of Donald Trump | The New YorkerEasy ironies are blooming like dandelions.
The Mobster Cosplay of Donald Trump | The New Yorker