Navneet Alang
@navneetalang.com
One of a few editors @ Toronto Star Opinion. Pitch me op-eds, essays at [email protected].
Writer, columnist, bylines all over. PhD. https://navneetalang.com/categories/blogposts/
Writer, columnist, bylines all over. PhD. https://navneetalang.com/categories/blogposts/
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Navneet Alang
@navneetalang.com
· Dec 31
Bluesky: I’m a better person than you
Twitter: I’m a better person than you because I’m white
Instagram: I’m a better person than you because I’m hot
LinkedIn: When people say “I’m a better person than you” this is what it teaches me about B2B marketing
Twitter: I’m a better person than you because I’m white
Instagram: I’m a better person than you because I’m hot
LinkedIn: When people say “I’m a better person than you” this is what it teaches me about B2B marketing
Yeah, I'm now inclined to read more by her
February 12, 2026 at 6:01 PM
Yeah, I'm now inclined to read more by her
Yeah, I've done it a few times, sometimes for a month or two at a time. Sometimes it's amazing... others not so much
February 12, 2026 at 5:41 PM
Yeah, I've done it a few times, sometimes for a month or two at a time. Sometimes it's amazing... others not so much
Ah, that's so nice!
February 12, 2026 at 5:25 PM
Ah, that's so nice!
I went to Iceland solo a few years ago and I was so miserable the highlight of my trip was sitting in my AirBnB, drinking some sauvignon blanc while watching Fleabag for the first time...?
February 12, 2026 at 5:19 PM
I went to Iceland solo a few years ago and I was so miserable the highlight of my trip was sitting in my AirBnB, drinking some sauvignon blanc while watching Fleabag for the first time...?
Here's a lovely story about someone falling in love in the way that falling in love often happens - when you weren't looking for it and it was the last thing you expected. www.thestar.com/life/travel/...
Iceland love story: I took a girls’ trip and met my husband
It was the worst year of my life. So I rented a villa and told my closest friends to book flights. On our last night, I met the man I would marry
www.thestar.com
February 12, 2026 at 5:18 PM
Here's a lovely story about someone falling in love in the way that falling in love often happens - when you weren't looking for it and it was the last thing you expected. www.thestar.com/life/travel/...
oh hey, great minds etc. bsky.app/profile/navn...
i wonder what happens to poptimism in the era of slop
February 12, 2026 at 5:00 PM
oh hey, great minds etc. bsky.app/profile/navn...
Ah ok, interesting!
February 12, 2026 at 4:14 PM
Ah ok, interesting!
At the food court, a sushi counter, next to a bagel place selling lox. What did the salmon do to so offend God??
February 12, 2026 at 3:44 PM
At the food court, a sushi counter, next to a bagel place selling lox. What did the salmon do to so offend God??
The only Atwood novel I ever read was Alias Grace nearly 30 years ago, so I had this very mistaken idea of her as a “traditionally CalLit” author. Picked up Oryx and Crake on a whim at the library recently and… (I have also not read The Handmaid’s Tale. Please feel free to yell at me)
February 12, 2026 at 3:12 PM
The only Atwood novel I ever read was Alias Grace nearly 30 years ago, so I had this very mistaken idea of her as a “traditionally CalLit” author. Picked up Oryx and Crake on a whim at the library recently and… (I have also not read The Handmaid’s Tale. Please feel free to yell at me)
I thought this post was about Threads the social network
That phrase made me wince too.
The WHOLE POINT of Threads is its utter hopelessness. That's literally what it's about.
The WHOLE POINT of Threads is its utter hopelessness. That's literally what it's about.
Threads director Mick Jackson has expressed worry over the upcoming remake’s focus on finding “hope even in the most challenging of times.”
“That one phrase worried me,” he tells Empire. “Hope is not part of nuclear war.”
Read more: www.empireonline.com/movies/news/...
“That one phrase worried me,” he tells Empire. “Hope is not part of nuclear war.”
Read more: www.empireonline.com/movies/news/...
February 12, 2026 at 1:27 PM
I thought this post was about Threads the social network
Reposted by Navneet Alang
“Right now the focus should be on supporting the community in mourning, not weaponizing this event as hate against a vulnerable group at large.”
I hate profoundly that articles like this need to be written when, like Mel says, the focus should be on community. But thank you Mel for writing ❤️
I hate profoundly that articles like this need to be written when, like Mel says, the focus should be on community. But thank you Mel for writing ❤️
NEW from me today:
Tumbler Ridge is mourning a horrific loss. But how the shooter's identity is being talked about online, and the dangerous links being made to trans people at large, will have resounding and dangerous impacts in the months and weeks to come.
xtramagazine.com/power/tumble...
Tumbler Ridge is mourning a horrific loss. But how the shooter's identity is being talked about online, and the dangerous links being made to trans people at large, will have resounding and dangerous impacts in the months and weeks to come.
xtramagazine.com/power/tumble...
The Tumbler Ridge shooting is already fuelling anti-trans hate in Canada | Xtra Magazine
Bad actors on the right are leaping to connect the shooter’s trans identity to the violence
xtramagazine.com
February 11, 2026 at 8:36 PM
“Right now the focus should be on supporting the community in mourning, not weaponizing this event as hate against a vulnerable group at large.”
I hate profoundly that articles like this need to be written when, like Mel says, the focus should be on community. But thank you Mel for writing ❤️
I hate profoundly that articles like this need to be written when, like Mel says, the focus should be on community. But thank you Mel for writing ❤️
Reposted by Navneet Alang
if you played sonic the hedgehog and put down the controller, sonic would look at you and tap his foot impatiently. this was proof that sega genesis cartridges had souls. the decision was made to make the storage cases a lot larger than the cartridges so they would have room to move around in there
February 11, 2026 at 3:58 PM
if you played sonic the hedgehog and put down the controller, sonic would look at you and tap his foot impatiently. this was proof that sega genesis cartridges had souls. the decision was made to make the storage cases a lot larger than the cartridges so they would have room to move around in there
Reposted by Navneet Alang
No son, they are not "magically delicious." The workers made them delicious. This is a slogan meant to mystify the social conditions of labor
February 11, 2026 at 1:46 AM
No son, they are not "magically delicious." The workers made them delicious. This is a slogan meant to mystify the social conditions of labor
Yeah, this is the kind of thing that may be interesting on a personal level... but I also wonder if it's the kind of thing that an "agent" might eventually do? No idea, though, if it's the kind of thing that saves one time or becomes a time suck of its own
February 11, 2026 at 3:16 PM
Yeah, this is the kind of thing that may be interesting on a personal level... but I also wonder if it's the kind of thing that an "agent" might eventually do? No idea, though, if it's the kind of thing that saves one time or becomes a time suck of its own
Yeah reminds me of a piece by Tressie Mcmillan Cottom re educated workers being replaced by someone asking ChatGPT questions... except that you have to know what questions to ask (which is where the knowledge part of being a knowledge worker comes in)
February 11, 2026 at 2:39 PM
Yeah reminds me of a piece by Tressie Mcmillan Cottom re educated workers being replaced by someone asking ChatGPT questions... except that you have to know what questions to ask (which is where the knowledge part of being a knowledge worker comes in)
I can see the argument that there’s a kind of literacy issue - one might somehow benefit from, say, creating your own specialized or customized software, but most people don’t think that way. Perhaps, from the perspective of AI makers, there’s education that needs to happen first. And yet…
February 11, 2026 at 2:35 PM
I can see the argument that there’s a kind of literacy issue - one might somehow benefit from, say, creating your own specialized or customized software, but most people don’t think that way. Perhaps, from the perspective of AI makers, there’s education that needs to happen first. And yet…
Something I’ve been thinking: if you create software, or do something that is potentially “a software problem,” AI can seem like it would be incredibly transformative. But are most things software problems?
Coders freaking out that it's replacing them and extrapolating from their extremely weird domain (as in: unusual among knowledge work) to "all of work" is going to be a major theme of 2026 and kind of embarrassing by 2027.
twitter essay designed to one-shot bosses everywhere x.com/mattshumer_/...
February 11, 2026 at 2:33 PM
Something I’ve been thinking: if you create software, or do something that is potentially “a software problem,” AI can seem like it would be incredibly transformative. But are most things software problems?
Reposted by Navneet Alang
The small-town paper in Tumbler Ridge is going to need support. This is its front page right now. Their subscription page is here:
www.patreon.com/tumblerridge...
www.patreon.com/tumblerridge...
February 11, 2026 at 4:52 AM
The small-town paper in Tumbler Ridge is going to need support. This is its front page right now. Their subscription page is here:
www.patreon.com/tumblerridge...
www.patreon.com/tumblerridge...
Maybe my nephews all want to be YouTubers not for the fame but because it's the only way to distinguish oneself from the mass -- to be the person toward who attention is turned.
February 11, 2026 at 3:23 AM
Maybe my nephews all want to be YouTubers not for the fame but because it's the only way to distinguish oneself from the mass -- to be the person toward who attention is turned.
This is really good. Makes a link between the attention economy, the superhero era and what it means to be the person paid attention to vs. being "a normal" i.e. the faceless no-one who is part of the crowd.
“To watch KPop Demon Hunters,” writes Kevin Power, “is to recognize that the corporate entertainment industries and the fandoms that they solicit and serve have now entered into a sort of closed loop.”
Promo Time | Kevin Power
“This is what it sounds like…” Readers of a certain generation will perhaps automatically complete this phrase by saying “when doves cry.” But it isn’t
www.nybooks.com
February 11, 2026 at 3:22 AM
This is really good. Makes a link between the attention economy, the superhero era and what it means to be the person paid attention to vs. being "a normal" i.e. the faceless no-one who is part of the crowd.
Going to vibecobe a split screen app that rapidly flits between Bluesky and Twitter Clockwork Orange-style and radicalize myself into becoming a reactionary centrist
February 11, 2026 at 12:04 AM
Going to vibecobe a split screen app that rapidly flits between Bluesky and Twitter Clockwork Orange-style and radicalize myself into becoming a reactionary centrist
Well I for one find this positively shocking www.nytimes.com/2026/02/10/w...
Bridge Owner Lobbied Administration Before Trump Blasted Competing Span to Canada
www.nytimes.com
February 10, 2026 at 10:55 PM
Well I for one find this positively shocking www.nytimes.com/2026/02/10/w...
You write things and then years on you don't exactly feel the same way. For example, I wish I were more sympathetic to homeowners or people's sense of their own safety in this.
February 10, 2026 at 5:21 PM
You write things and then years on you don't exactly feel the same way. For example, I wish I were more sympathetic to homeowners or people's sense of their own safety in this.
I think that's a definite step. But I suppose it's another one of those issues in which the solution to some genuine problems produces its own problems and/or exacerbates existing ones
February 10, 2026 at 5:20 PM
I think that's a definite step. But I suppose it's another one of those issues in which the solution to some genuine problems produces its own problems and/or exacerbates existing ones