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Technofeudalism is a new system in which the techno-lords are extracting a new power to make the rest of us do things on their behalf.
posted by clew at 11:06 PM PST - 28 comments

DON'T YOU LECTURE ME WITH YOUR THIRTY DOLLAR HAIRCUT
Make music with emoji and meme sounds. The name itself references a specific meme, but what people have done with it already transcends that. [more inside]
posted by Mr.Encyclopedia at 5:45 PM PST - 11 comments

Low-wage workers in Chinese immigrant communities often lack access to the social safety nets intended to help people living in poverty — in part because of “model minority” stereotypes. Since the pandemic began, it's had disastrous consequences in New York City. [more inside]
posted by praemunire at 3:00 PM PST - 25 comments

Today sees the release of Stylophonika, the debut album from the Kingston University Stylophone Orchestra. As both the album title and band name suggest, the Stylophone features heavily throughout... [more inside]
posted by deeker at 12:56 PM PST - 10 comments

A anti-vax protest convoy of vehicles reached their destination of Ottawa today. Many exaggerated claims as to the size of the convoy have been made, including the false one of the convoy having set a new Guinness World Record, but according to David Aikin, Chief Political Correspondent for Global News, several police sources put the numbers at: 8 separate convoy captains ("core organizers"); 230 tractors/tractor-trailers & 725 personal vehicles from Toronto and Western Canada; 200 vehicles out of NB/NS; possibly 2000 pedestrians from QC; and an unknown number of other actors. Antihate.ca traces the racist, violent, far right roots of this protest. Ottawa Police Chief Peter Sloly says there will be numerous police cameras recording Saturday's demonstration and warns this evidence will used to prosecute any crimes that may occur. The protestors have also not applied for a protest permit. Thankfully, an estimated 90% of Canadian truckers are vaccinated, remain on the job, and grocery stores across Canada are currently well-stocked.
posted by orange swan at 12:52 PM PST - 346 comments

The New York Times goes long on Amy Schneider, who with 40 wins now has second-longest winning streak on Jeopardy! after Ken Jennings:

• A short interview by Julia Jacobs at the streak’s end: “Amy Schneider on the Final Game of Her Whirlwind ‘Jeopardy!’ Run”
• Shane O’Neil with a profile of Schneider and a dive into the whole experience: “‘Jeopardy!’ Hasn’t Had a Player Like Amy Schneider”

(Nothing should be paywalled, go nuts.)
posted by Going To Maine at 11:23 AM PST - 30 comments

In which London's venerable Vagina Museum asks and answers the burning question: did Paris and Janeway fuck? If so, how did they fuck? [SLtwitter thread/threadreader alt] [more inside]
posted by Ten Cold Hot Dogs at 10:17 AM PST - 44 comments

Statistician David Cox, known among other things for the proportional hazards model, died last week [paywalled WSJ].
posted by eotvos at 8:56 AM PST - 7 comments

On Writing an Abcedarian. 26 intensely short essays on writing. [more inside]
posted by storybored at 7:57 AM PST - 4 comments

Art Spiegelman's Pulitzer Prize-winning graphic novel, Maus, has been banned by a Board of Education in Tennessee. It's now sold-out on Amazon. Spiegelman has made a statement.
posted by valkane at 7:47 AM PST - 190 comments

Saga is back. That's it, that's the post. [more inside]
posted by signal at 6:59 AM PST - 24 comments

CNN: Snow-covered bridge in Pittsburgh collapses hours before scheduled Biden visit to talk infrastructure [more inside]
posted by tonycpsu at 6:16 AM PST - 42 comments

CW: sexual assault
In the ’80s, Susan Headley ran with the best of them—phone phreakers, social engineers, and the most notorious computer hackers of the era. Then she disappeared. Searching for Susy Thunder
posted by juv3nal at 2:10 AM PST - 37 comments