John Last
@johnwlast
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🇨🇦 writer & journalist in 🇮🇹 | regular contributor @NoemaMag | covers Europe for @CBCNews | bylines all over
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Joined March 2011
“Building a stage worthy of God is one of humankind’s most ancient obsessions. But in the West at least, it is a dying art.” —@johnwlast
https://t.co/eEcA5EaDWM
noemamag.com
In the age of the algorithm, the West has lost its philosophy of spiritual architecture, and with it the language of holy enchantment.
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Back in @NatGeo with an article that's been in the works for some time, about wolfdog hybrids and the dangers they present to owners and conservationists alike. Read it here: https://t.co/NF1JRgluCa
nationalgeographic.com
Wolfdogs are becoming a popular choice worldwide with people looking for furry companions. Conservationists are growing increasingly concerned these hybrids could interbreed with wild wolf populati...
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Once upon a time, “it went largely unquestioned that government experts, working for no one but the public, could help define the best products & practices in the marketplace,” @johnwlast writes. What happened? https://t.co/418feiXbrE
noemamag.com
Once upon a time, there was a federal government department that helped design and distribute tools for living the good life. What happened to that vision?
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The Catholic Church has been undergoing a long, slow shift, playing out on the timescale of centuries: a shift to distance itself from the popular enthusiasms of its most devout parishioners. Read @johnwlast on the tensions within sainthood:
longnow.org
The Catholic Church has been undergoing a long, slow shift, playing out on the timescale of centuries: a shift to distance itself from the popular enthusiasms of its most devout parishioners.
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The "great" America MAGA traditionalists harken back to was built on the bones of this exact kind of government. So why are they trying now to tear it down?
noemamag.com
Once upon a time, there was a federal government department that helped design and distribute tools for living the good life. What happened to that vision?
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This used to be uncontroversial: government had a role to play in the market. It wasn't supposed to be run like a business. It was the thing that made business possible. /2
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The reason the U.S. is the way it is now is because Americans have deeply internalized the idea that all government is bad government. But the best governments have been big governments that spend lots of money on making life better. /1
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“For an administration that campaigned on making America ‘great again,’ there is remarkably little curiosity about what version of government, exactly, elicited such widespread acclaim.” —@johnwlast
https://t.co/bXmAeVmL9A
noemamag.com
Once upon a time, there was a federal government department that helped design and distribute tools for living the good life. What happened to that vision?
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As Ottawa’s ties with Washington fray, the Commonwealth could be increasingly valuable for Canadian foreign policy, @johnwlast writes.
foreignpolicy.com
The monarchy came to Ottawa’s defense when it faced previous U.S. threats.
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Saying the government should be run like a business lmfao
What’s a sign of very low intelligence?
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The CBC has provided vital coverage during the American attack on our sovereignty, really drilling down on, for example, questions around our military vulnerabilities. Getting rid of CBC now, during a sovereignty crisis, would be insane.
Do you still support Pierre Poilievre’s plan to defund the Carney Broadcasting Corporation? The CBC has made Canada weak. It portrays us as a villainous country with sins that are irredeemable, whose history is without defense.
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Danielle Smith tiny box of shame
Team Canada is strong and united. Today, Prime Minister @MarkJCarney and Canada’s premiers agreed on the need to cut red tape and streamline approvals to get big things built faster, including unleashing the enormous economic potential of the Ring of Fire. The prime minister
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"If it could be proven that the church was built on the foundation of holy fungi, not only would figures like Allegro be vindicated — psychedelics, too, could no longer be considered so taboo." John Last for @longnow: https://t.co/ifWY2yiUZD
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In 1970, a controversial scholar published a book making an outlandish claim: Jesus Christ, he said, was a magic mushroom. 50 years later, we've never been less certain that he was wrong. 📄👇 https://t.co/3tH8YByHA5
longnow.org
New research into the role of psychedelics upends our understanding of spirituality — and with it, our vision of the cosmos.
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“If preserving nature & vulnerable species means policing nonhuman life, from the purity of DNA to the timing of reproductive cycles, very important questions arise: Does saving the world’s ‘wild’ places mean controlling them entirely?” —@johnwlast
https://t.co/0YMOReS7Fh
noemamag.com
Concerned that the wilderness might actually be too wild, some conservationists are wondering if the future of their field must be more intensive human control over nature.
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Was Jesus a magic mushroom? The answer is, perhaps surprisingly, a longer and more complex story than first appears. In Long Now Ideas, @johnwlast goes deep into the intertwined histories of psychedelics and spirituality.
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Experimental birth control for wild animals offers a seductive solution to a thorny conservation problem: managing problematic animal populations without the messy business of killing them, @johnwlast writes https://t.co/0YMOReRzPJ
noemamag.com
Concerned that the wilderness might actually be too wild, some conservationists are wondering if the future of their field must be more intensive human control over nature.
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Interesting to the responses to this piece here and on BS. There, it's all extreme optimism about the EU riding to Canada's rescue. Here, this is more the speed: https://t.co/PQjXrzmPBE
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Could Canada's way out of a trade war be a new alliance?
cbc.ca
Relations between Canada and the U.S. are coming under serious pressure — and that has some commentators offering an unlikely — though not impossible — solution. What if Canada joined the European...
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the people who want to forcibly take over Canada are moving an event indoors because it is -6C outside. lol. lmao, even.
BREAKING: Donald Trump's swearing-in will be moved indoors to the Capitol Rotunda because of forecasted frigid temperatures.
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