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I fucking hated it.
posted by Foci for Analysis at 11:29 PM PST - 151 comments

Bit-field patterns created from applying simple formulas (small subset of work available in unrolled thread)
posted by They sucked his brains out! at 4:26 PM PST - 43 comments

A24, who brought us the American-Swedish folk romp Midsommar (product), as well as Hereditary and The Lighthouse, have a new movie out: Lamb. It's set in Iceland, seems to be about sheep and lambing, and the trailer features a Beach Boys song.
posted by Wordshore at 3:18 PM PST - 33 comments

In America, losing a job means making a hundred phone calls to a state unemployment-insurance system. Getting hit by a car means becoming your own hospital-billing expert. Having a disability means launching into a Jarndyce v. Jarndyce–type legal battle. Needing help to feed a toddler means filling out a novel-length application for aid. ...at some point, I started thinking about these kinds of administrative burdens as the “time tax”—a levy of paperwork, aggravation, and mental effort imposed on citizens in exchange for benefits that putatively exist to help them.
posted by latkes at 2:39 PM PST - 75 comments

At a time when so many Millennials like her have become less interested in marriage and children and are also delaying having children for their careers, she [Tyra Reeder] is a new kind of female fertility archetype: nurturing and distant at the same time. Portrait of a Professional Baby Maker [more inside]
posted by Laura in Canada at 12:41 PM PST - 26 comments

The time a "stiff" caught fire.
posted by blue shadows at 12:39 PM PST - 34 comments

For decades, poppers have been the go-to sex drug for gay men. But where do they come from?
posted by death valley compound at 11:46 AM PST - 40 comments

His leadership ushered in alternative conceptions of gender, race, and political power that would, eventually, shake the world.
posted by Ahmad Khani at 11:22 AM PST - 17 comments

What I Want to Bring to Light on the Jan. 6 Committee (Adam Kinzinger, R-IL, NYT) [more inside]
posted by box at 7:10 AM PST - 84 comments

Something peachy this way comes: Dope Lemon's 2019 Give Me Honey is a nice vibe and odd, initially tense, but ultimately feelgood video, apparently an homage to The Knife's mesmerizing, lo-fi Pass This On, 2003. (Wikipedia: Dope Lemon, AKA Australian folk singer-songwriter Angus Stone; Swedish electronic music brother-sister duo The Knife. Stone has also performed in a sibling duo as Angus & Julia Stone) [more inside]
posted by taz at 6:07 AM PST - 4 comments

How TV Went From David Brent to Ted Lasso (NYT – non-paywalled link) – Two decades ago, TV’s most distinctive stories were defined by a tone of ironic detachment. Today, they’re more often sincere and direct. How did we get here?
posted by bitteschoen at 1:17 AM PST - 106 comments