Andy Warhol would have hated safe spaces. So why keep dragging dead artists into today’s culture wars? - The Guardian

I was due to be a Gen X-er. By waiting a week past my due date, I not only lost my father his 1980 tax deduction but also became a Millennial. Not that being born in the first few days of a sociologically designated generation (or claiming a cool label like “Cusper” or “Xennial”) is really that much of a distinction. But I have come to realize that entering one’s generational cohort at the beginning of an arbitrary twenty-year span means not being quite so wholly subsumed in the zeitgeist as are one’s slightly younger peers. Add to that a family whose scant middle-class means and slight Luddite tendencies meant that we were never technological early adopters. Multiply that by a choice to homeschool when such an election still produced a marked cultural wince. Subtract any culturally defiant choices such as those of my friends who did not even own a television. It totals a childhood not outside the mainstream culture—certainly not paddling against it—but holding water as the cultural drift moved us all along.

ManitobaA federal judge recently said the way Canada has continued to "shirk its responsibilities" to a group of Manitoba First Nations since signing a landmark agreement meant to resolve historic treaty land shortages "is simply not acceptable. "'Disheartening' to see 'more broken promises' under landmark 1997 Manitoba agreement: Justice Julie BlackhawkOzten Shebahkeget · CBC News · Posted: Oct 04, 2026 7:00 AM EDT | Last Updated: October 4Listen to this articleEstimated 5 minutesThe audio version of this article is generated by AI-based technology. Mispronunciations can occur. We are working with our partners to continually review and improve the results. The Manitoba Framework Agreement was signed in 1997 by the federal government, the provincial government and the Treaty Land Entitlement Committee of Manitoba, to give land to eligible First Nations. (CBC)A federal judge recently said the way Canada has continued to "shirk its responsibilities" to a group of Manitoba First Nations since signing a landmark agreement meant to resolve historic treaty land shortages "is simply not acceptable.

NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has captured some remarkable phenomena in space, from the Horsehead Nebula to the unbelievable “Pillars of Creation.” Things just got a little bit wilder with brilliant images of the Lion Nebula (NGC 2392) captured by the telescope’s NIRCam (Near Infrared Camera) and MIRI (Mid Infrared Instrument). The shape is formed by the remains of a dying star now at a phase known as a white dwarf, when a very dense stellar core remains as it sheds its outer layers. On NGC 2392, the bright center looks like a little nose. “The central dying star is so hot that its radiation is ‘cooking’ everything from the inside and producing a bubble of ionized hydrogen gas as it does,” NASA says. “The gas bubble, which is the lion’s ‘face,’ features cavernous shells and rings with tendrils that are expanding and destroying dust upon encounter.” The lion’s “mane” is actually the inside of one of these shells, illuminated by the star’s core.

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