manifesto

In his last novel, 2021’s Harlem Shuffle, Colson Whitehead introduced us to Ray Carney, a vibrant creation of fierce contradictions. A family man and respectable businessman, he’s constantly drawn back into the nefarious legacy of his own father’s villainy. As a furniture salesman and occasional receiver of stolen goods, his dual occupations reflect these polarities. His legitimate enterprise is one of modish interiors and the promise of comfort; his crooked side hustle plays out in the harsh exterior and threat of the…

Sadiq Khan’s first book is ostensibly structured as a self-help title in the vein of, say, Stephen Covey’s 7 Habits of Highly Effective People. It tackles his commitment to “effective climate action” and presents obstacles – fatalism, apathy, cynicism, deprioritisation, hostility, cost and gridlock – and then addresses how to overcome them. But it is also a memoir in which each one of the seven chapters concerns a new episode in the story of Khan’s political career, framed around the personal awakening that took place in…

An Apple developer left one of the strangest Easter eggs hidden in the macOS, offering a surprising and baffling connection between the Cupertino tech company’s mainline operating system to everybody’s (least) favorite cryptographic digital currency. The Biggest Crypto Heists of 2022…So FarOn his Waxy.org blog, tech dev Andy Baio reported Thursday he made a surprise discovery, finding the original bitcoin whitepaper written by the presumed pseudonym Satoshi Nakamoto had been shoved inside every single copy of macOS since…

In her introduction to Manifesto, Bernardine Evaristo recalls her experience of becoming an “overnight success” after four decades of working in the arts. The author won the Booker prize in 2019 for her novel Girl, Woman, Other (she shared the award with Margaret Atwood). The book quickly topped bestseller lists and, as the first Black woman to win the Booker, Evaristo became headline news. At the time, she told interviewers she felt “unstoppable”, though it also led her to thinking about her path to success.Her aim,…

Another lesson we can learn from software engineers: break stuff to make it more reliable.Photo by Soheb Zaidi on UnsplashIt’s midnight in the dim and cluttered office of The New York Times currently serving as the “situation room.”A powerful surge of traffic is inevitable. During every major election, the wave would crest and crash against our overwhelmed systems before receding, allowing us to assess the damage.We had been in the cloud for years, which helped some. Our main systems would scale—our articles were always…

Breadcrumb Trail Links News Culture Canada Books Instead of despairing about tuned-out 18-year-olds, we should be firing up the interest of eight-year-olds A small-scale survey of Grade 6 and 7 students attending a range of Toronto schools found Grade Six students couldn’t say what country Nelson Mandela came from. Photo by Trevor Samson/AFP via Getty Images Reviews and recommendations are unbiased and products are independently selected. Postmedia may earn an affiliate commission from…

The Renault Group's budget-friendly car maker Dacia is rolling into the Paris Motor Show next month with a striking rolling design lab called the Manifesto, which showcases outdoors-focused ideas that may or may not make it into future production vehicles.For the stripped-back Manifesto concept, Dacia has opted to put "no barriers between passengers and the environment" – meaning that the concept lacks doors, windows and windshield. It does sport a roof though, but this seems to have been included to host a fold-out…

The 2023 Cadillac Lyriq feels like it’s taken forever to arrive, and not just because Cadillac first showed it almost two years ago. This electric SUV is also a big step toward fulfilling General Motors’ EV potential. GM showed that it could be a leader in electrification with the Chevrolet Bolt EV, but never seemed confident enough in the little electric hatchback to aggressively promote it. The GMC Hummer EV debuted GM’s next-generation Ultium tech, but in the form of a four-wheeled vanity project targeting a small…

With periodic readings from Robert Tressell’s classic text The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists, documentary maker Daniel Draper gives us a downbeat, sombre film about socialist Merseyside activists and their gruelling experience campaigning for Labour in the 2019 general election – a film which leaves open the question of what exactly they have learned and what exactly they would do differently the next time. Maybe nothing. Maybe the point is that you stick to your guns and keep the pressure on.The film shows party…

Music lovers in the city of Toronto should be marking their calendars for the 16th edition of the esteemed Manifesto Festival, featuring a lineup of talented artists. Manifesto 2022 will be taking over the Budweiser Stage from August 8 to 13. The festival will welcome two of the hottest current names in the music industry as headliners: two-time Grammy-winning artist Jazmine Sullivan and the Billboard-charting Tems.  Image via PublicistSullivan won Best R&B Performance at this year’s Grammys for her project Heaux…