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@thedialmag.bsky.socialThis past spring in Brussels, a group of citizens gathered to discuss the city’s trash problem—and how to fix it. They were also participating in an experiment that some hope will revive democracy. @esthermavis.bsky.social reports on the growing movement to give citizens a greater voice in politics.
@thedialmag.bsky.social“It’s hard for the reader not to wonder, at this point, if the real victims of the moral injuries are not those working in Google’s pristine offices, but rather those on the outside.” Jessica Traynor on two new Big Tech memoirs: www.thedial.world/articles/new...
@thedialmag.bsky.socialIn 2024, Mauritania signed an agreement with the EU aimed at stopping migrants from traveling to Europe’s southern border. Now the country is deporting people who never wanted to leave Africa. Maribel Izcue and Anna Surinya report: www.thedial.world/articles/new...
@thedialmag.bsky.socialHow convincing are former tech employees' appeals to pity? In a review of Claire Stapleton’s "Don’t Be Evil" and Sarah Wynn-Williams’s "Careless People," Jessica Traynor wonders whether you can really have good intentions working at a tech giant. www.thedial.world/articles/new...
@thedialmag.bsky.socialTen years after Umberto Eco’s death, what has become of his legacy? Bartolomeo Sala attended the first academic conference on the Italian writer and philosopher, where no one could agree.
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@thedialmag.bsky.socialIn Regina Pernaz’s short story, two friends visit a temazcal to cleanse their bodies and spirits from everything that no longer serves them. “Have you set your intention already?” “Of course! A new life. A completely different life from the one I have now.”
@thedialmag.bsky.socialMyanmar’s military regime is canceling and rejecting passports for people it deems a national threat. Andrew Nachemson reports on how the new law is affecting dissidents abroad. www.thedial.world/articles/new...
@thedialmag.bsky.socialHow is the world reacting to the U.S. in 2026? What can Americans learn from writers and journalists abroad? Join Dial editors Madeleine Schwartz and Hannah Rosefield, journalist Taran Khan, and Proximities editor Barry Malone to discuss these questions and more: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/panel-disc...
@thedialmag.bsky.socialCan citizens’ assemblies solve democracy’s problems? Reporting from Belgium, a hub for democratic innovation, @esthermavis.bsky.social follows one attempt to give people more power to shape public policy: www.thedial.world/articles/new...
@thedialmag.bsky.socialRemanso Valerio is one of the last urban fishing communities in Argentina. In this photo essay, Sebastián López Brach shares how the community continues to organize its life around the Paraná River even as commercial shipping transforms the landscape.
@nyrb-imprints.bsky.socialReposted by @thedialmag.bsky.social"Reading Grossman's dispatches alongside a slew of new books written about the war in Ukraine, I found myself wondering: What lessons might Grossman hold for the modern war reporter?" Excellent article about war correspondents past & present, anchored by Vasily Grossman's From the Front Lines.
@thedialmag.bsky.socialWriters confront a series of choices when documenting war. Should they focus on the hard facts or detail its psychological effects? Report from border crossings or combat zones? Perhaps, @nickholdstock.bsky.social posits, “the best war reporter is not a war reporter at all.”
@nickholdstock.bsky.socialReposted by @thedialmag.bsky.socialI wrote about war correspondents, past and present, especially the great Vasily Grossman, for @thedialmag.bsky.social @nyrb-imprints.bsky.social www.thedial.world/articles/new...
@hannahrosefield.bsky.socialReposted by @thedialmag.bsky.social"Before I banned all devices from my lectures, I would walk around the classroom as I spoke, watching my students engage in blatant day trading of cryptocurrency, sports gambling and placing Polymarket bets on everything under the sun."
@thedialmag.bsky.social"These days, I tell my students that the four walls of our classroom must become a citadel to keep out the distractions and speculations that define the outside world," Gill writes. "The response has been broadly positive, with students acknowledging the benefits of a tech-free space."
@thedialmag.bsky.socialWe are failing to see the dire consequences that AI has brought to education, Dónal Gill argues. AI in the classroom tells students they don’t need to struggle — that focus, reason, creativity and problem-solving skills are not important. www.thedial.world/articles/new...
@marsnova.bsky.socialReposted by @thedialmag.bsky.socialI have a new translation out today in @thedialmag.bsky.social
The Urbanist is a story of clout chasing, authoritarianism and paranoia. This is Anna’s first time in the English and I hope you spend some time with our piece. www.thedial.world/articles/lit...
@thedialmag.bsky.social“So it was that my great grandmother Anđa and her angel blew through like a refreshing breeze from Mount Vlašić after a long, heavy, humid spell.”
In “Akrap,” a short story Miljenko Jergović, a visit from an angel unites a town and divides a family: www.thedial.world/articles/lit...
