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Celui Qui Tombe -- six people on a rotating platform.
posted by dobbs at 8:36 PM PST - 33 comments

Jemaine Clement turned up on his bicycle for his interview with Moana Maniapoto, for this week’s Te Ao with Moana (19'11). And no one at Toi Whakaari, the New Zealand Drama School in Wellington, where the interview took place, seemed to recognise him. Or maybe they just didn’t want to make a fuss, this being New Zealand and all. Extended transcript.
posted by Start with Dessert at 6:19 PM PST - 13 comments

The The Pharaohs Royal Golden Parade happened in Egypt yesterday.
posted by eotvos at 3:07 PM PST - 11 comments

A delightful conversation between the Stoner Brain, the Sober Brain, and the Tree Person
posted by wowenthusiast at 9:52 AM PST - 7 comments

The US's two-party system has many faults. But what can be done about it? The proposed Fair Representation Act in the US congress: fewer congressional districts, but with multiple congress members per district elected by ranked-choice voting. [SLWaPo]
posted by ShooBoo at 9:00 AM PST - 63 comments

YouTube: 'Limbo' and 'Typhoons' (YT) two latest singles from England's Royal Blood, see them returning (YT) to really ambitious clips after remaining quiet during the pandemic. (Previously)
posted by kfholy at 5:30 AM PST - 2 comments

Trio Mandili are three Georgian polyphonic singers - Tatuli Mgeladze, Tako Tsiklauri, and Mariam Kurasbediani - creators of weapons-grade cute music videos, including videos with a reluctant co-star, a sassy chef , and what might be the best day a grandmother's had in a long time. [more inside]
posted by Mogur at 5:20 AM PST - 15 comments

Ted Chiang (previously) on why computers won’t make themselves smarter (The New Yorker) and on why most fears about A.I. are best understood as fears about capitalism (NY Times/Archive.is)
posted by adrianhon at 4:22 AM PST - 106 comments

We all know it, but nonetheless it’s shocking to discover that the people we watched in our youth don’t stay that age forever — they keep getting older, like everyone does. But for fans of [Emilio] Estevez, that realization may be even more poignant. For years, he seemed permanently young, part of the Brat Pack, a very Gen X thing that, in retrospect, was truly a stupid thing — and, besides, none of them liked being lumped in that group, anyway. But despite the family he was born in and the younger brother he came of age with, Estevez always seemed hard to define or pin down. And because of that, he never could fully shed the Brat Pack straightjacket. In the process, he has aged before our eyes without us really taking it in. from Emilio Estevez and the Scourge of the ‘Brat Pack’ Straitjacket [Mel Magazine] [more inside]
posted by chavenet at 2:50 AM PST - 37 comments