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Brandy Zadrony asks Journalism Twitter, and gets some great story links in reply. [more inside]
posted by wowenthusiast at 8:56 PM PST - 6 comments

When thieves retire. What the pirate kingdoms of Madagascar can tell us about the Enlightenment. [more inside]
posted by tavegyl at 8:32 PM PST - 12 comments

After the Afro-Cuban writer H. G. Carrillo died, his husband learned that almost everything the writer had shared about his life was made up—including his Cuban identity. [New Yorker]
posted by Ahmad Khani at 7:54 PM PST - 21 comments

LAST COMISKEY - Story of the 1990 White Sox and the Final Season (slyt) is a 3-part video series on the last season of old Comiskey Park in 1990. Interviews, photos, videos of players, fans, coaches, sportwriters, and stadium staff, this is a great homage to a beautiful old baseball park for the Chicago White Sox, focusing on the last year in 1990 (before it was torn down) and with a good amount of flashbacks to previous eras. [more inside]
posted by j810c at 6:40 PM PST - 3 comments

Cat-Gpt.com is one of the strangest sites I've seen in some time. I have no idea how these people got their cats wedged into their large language models, or why.
posted by chavenet at 3:50 PM PST - 10 comments

Court Reinstates Adnan Syed’s Murder Conviction in ‘Serial’ Case and Orders New Hearing (NYT gift link) The Appellate Court of Maryland ruled that a lower court had violated the right of the victim’s brother to have been notified of and to attend a hearing. [more inside]
posted by jenfullmoon at 2:30 PM PST - 38 comments

A beautifully illustrated deep dive into the magical, complicated physics of bicycles.
posted by loquacious at 12:43 PM PST - 22 comments

Exactly what it says in the title This YouTube Channel is probably already some of the best of YouTube. But this particular episode may be among the best of the webs.
posted by mumimor at 12:40 PM PST - 9 comments

A series of YouTube videos where regular people are interviewed about their fashion choices. Just regular Parisians & Parisiennes, talking about what they're wearing and why. On the sidewalk. Mostly thrifted. Totally unscripted and awesome. [more inside]
posted by wenestvedt at 12:38 PM PST - 10 comments

Defrag your brain and pipeline the instruction set of your soul with Personal Computer, the most recent heavy-as-balls chiptune metal album from the always-excellent (and MeFi's Own) Master Boot Record. [more inside]
posted by cortex at 10:45 AM PST - 11 comments

As the old Soviet joke goes, how can you tell that someone is an American in Russia? They’re smiling. AI and the American Smile "Why do you smile the way you do? A silly question, of course, since it’s only “natural” to smile the way you do, isn’t it? It’s common sense. How else would someone smile? As a person who was not born in the U.S., who immigrated here from the former Soviet Union, as I did, this question is not so simple..."
posted by gwint at 8:25 AM PST - 67 comments

Parents, be warned! There will be art in this art class! National treasure Alexandra Petri with a disclaimer.
(Washington Post gift link)

"Just wanted to let you know that in this art class, we’re going to be showing the students some art. Will that be okay? You signed up for a classical education, in theory — at least, that word is in the name of our school! — so I had sort of hoped it would be!" [more inside]
posted by kirkaracha at 7:34 AM PST - 78 comments

Wednesday is a Q&A with Ryan North, webcomic writer. Friday is a Q&A with Drew Curtis, founder and maintainer of Fark. Learn more here.
posted by NotLost at 6:13 AM PST - 9 comments

‘Fallout 4’ has aged beautifully. You should play it again. [Washington Post][Launcher] “In early 2022, I revisited “Fallout 4.” It had been seven years since I played a Fallout game, and I had a hankering for that lone-wanderer roving that the series so gorgeously enables. I am a wasteland weeb. What I discovered was that 2015’s “Fallout 4” might be the best game in the franchise, and even one of the best open-world role-playing games ever made. It is time to give it its flowers. [...] “Fallout 4” is consistently Fallout at its best — a gritty, stylish, post-apocalyptic Americana vision board so rich you can get lost for hours. You’ll melt into the wasteland as you surf curious character arcs and grim quest lines. And what “Fallout 4” nails — perhaps more so than its two predecessors, 2008’s “Fallout 3” and 2010’s “Fallout: New Vegas” — is exploration.”
posted by Fizz at 6:11 AM PST - 61 comments

PBS Space Time is a long-running series of videos about high-level physics, ranging from about five to twenty-five minutes long. It was hosted by Gabe Perez-Giz and is currently hosted by Matt O'Dowd. The videos can be watched both on YouTube and the PBS website. With 300+ videos it's hard to know where to start, but they've sorted them into over thirty playlists, such as Futurism and Space Exploration, Standard Model Lagrangian Playlist and Dark Matter and Dark Energy Explained.
posted by Kattullus at 2:23 AM PST - 13 comments