Minor Canon

Would be nice if @literaryhub.bsky.social had linked www.minor-canon.com in the post, though! 🙃

Thanks to @literaryhub.bsky.social for the dubious honour of being mentioned in their “What Was Literary Twitter?” bracket, in which “literary hats” were swiftly beaten by “the world is crap.” Oh well!

Acclaimed for his paintings, this artist is now exploring the world of scent | CBC Arts When Manuel Mathieu arrived in Paris, he secretly hoped to become a ‘nose.’ Now, the Haitian Canadian artist has launched a brand of perfumes inspired by his scent memories.

Excited to share this article I wrote for CBC Arts about the new line of fragrances from Haitian-born Montreal artist Manuel Mathieu, how it taps into the rising cultural relevance of perfume, and how scent is filtering into the rest of his practice!
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Vagina dialogues When I learned I had precancerous lesions on my cervix and that my doctor was recommending I remove them surgically, my reaction went as follows: One, muted panic. Two, I’m definitely going to die. Th...

"When it comes to understanding what’s going on with our bodies, who can we trust?" asks @desiredpaths.bsky.social in this important feature on AFAB health care from our Spring 2025 issue.

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Check out this fantastic researched feature on how the internet has changed feminist health activism by my lovely partner, @desiredpaths.bsky.social!

The Modality of Necessity: On Clover's Riot. Strike. Riot

Devastated to learn of the tragic and untimely passing of Joshua Clover. His revolutionary intelligence and conviction (and great sense of humor) will be missed.
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God I hope they reissue Éloge du Traître, I’m going to be so bummed when mine runs out

Hmm can we see a chart

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The Fool Card from the Marseille tarot, set on a red background. The French card-title text "Le Mat" has been replaced by "Minor Canon"

Minor Canon is three years old today! So, for one day only, you can take 15% off of any order with the code THEFOOL
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Lately, my Spotify seems borderline obsessed with the idea that, after any music that I have currently chosen, I will want to hear “It’s Gonna Take an Airplane” from Destroyer’s classic 2004 album Your Blues. I regret to report that the algorithm has me dead to rights 😔

it's been years upon years of labored "campus culture" op-eds from salaried writers hectoring students about free speech, and now the state is kidnapping students for their speech in broad daylight

I’m more of a Pepperoncini Kettle Chips guy but I’m not mad at this

New drop! Four new designs, multiple colorways:
https://minor-canon.com/collections/all?filter.v.price.gte=&filter.v.price.lte=&sort_by=created-descending

Dear Diary: Writing ourselves through fact & fiction Writing ourselves through fact & fiction

Out now! “Dear Diary…”, @artistorian.bsky.social’s deep dive into the diary as a site for the reproduction of girlhood, is now available on notyrgirls. Read
& subscribe: notyrgirls.beehiiv.com/p/dear-diary

I heard about the DC helicopter plane crash last night and asked if Trump had blamed "woke" yet. Woke up to find that he had 😩

OpenAI says it has evidence China’s DeepSeek used its model to train competitor White House AI tsar David Sacks raises possibility of alleged intellectual property theft

OpenAI says it has found evidence that Chinese artificial intelligence start-up DeepSeek used the US company’s proprietary models to train its own open-source competitor, as concerns grow over a potential breach of intellectual property. The San-Francisco-based ChatGPT maker told the Financial Times it had seen some evidence of ‘distillation’, a technique used by developers to obtain better performance on smaller models by using outputs from larger, more capable models. This allows them to achieve similar results on specific tasks at a much lower cost. OpenAI declined to comment further on details of its evidence. Its terms of service state users cannot “copy” any of its services or “use output to develop models that compete with OpenAI”.

I'm so sorry I can't stop laughing. OpenAI, the company built on stealing literally the entire internet, is crying because DeepSeek may have trained on the outputs from ChatGPT. They're crying their eyes out. What a bunch of hypocritical little babies. Cry more, freaks.

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Oh no! Did someone use your work to train their AI? Didn’t they pay you?

Thank you for your support! 😄

New hat who dis

Cover of the Olivia Tremor Control album, Black Foliage. Abstract coloured shapes.

R.I.P. #WillCullenHart, co-founder of #Elephant6 Recording Company and the #OliviaTremorControl

https://buff.ly/4eVUZSG

Define A Transparent Dream

rip to a truly irreplaceable musician, the world is dimmer without Will

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Silent protest at Concordia art gallery following student arrests and director’s dismissal | News Artists Ésery Mondésir and Miryam Charles staged a silent protest at the Leonard & Bina Ellen Art Gallery, following student arrests and the dismissal of gallery director Pip Day.

Why was Pip Day fired??

7,523 Concordia students set to strike in solidarity with Palestine | News In solidarity with Palestine, Concordia students plan a two-day strike on Nov. 21 and Nov. 22 to push for transparency and an end to university partnerships with Israeli military-linked corporations.

Close to 85,000 students, 9 student associations across Quebec voted in favour of a two-day student strike for yesterday and today to demand their universities divest from companies with ties with Israel and weapons manufacturers, and for an end to genocide. thelinknewspaper.ca/article/7523...

So I have all of 29 followers on here but if any of you are on Letterboxd, I am now too, hmu

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