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Fantastically Wrong: The Inventor of the Airliner Also Invented This Hilariously Absurd 'Science'. Alfred Lawson and 'Manlife' Documentary Explores Lawsonomy & Its Last Crusader
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ConcernedApe, creator of Stardew Valley, has released the name of his new game: Haunted Chocolatier (article) and some early gameplay footage (direct to youtube). [more inside]
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Trump Plans to Regain Social Media Presence with New Company (Bloomberg) [more inside]
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She allges that there were dangerous working conditions on the set. Other articles on this topic here and here. Rose discusses their neck injury and being pressured to come back to work, witnessing a crew member being burned, filing during Covid, watching someone's pants being steamed while wearing them(!), Dougray Scott's yelling at others, and the PA who was paralyzed due to an on-set injury. [more inside]
posted by jenfullmoon at 10:52 AM PST - 14 comments

Nils Berglund creates beautiful physics simulations of simple particle and wave simulations. (Multiple links to YouTube) [more inside]
posted by biogeo at 10:16 AM PST - 5 comments

This delightful blog summarizes and reviews (mostly) YA lit spanning (roughly) five decades, from the well-known to the obscure. Judy Blume is here, and so is Beverly Cleary’s Leave it to Beaver tie-in, V.C. Andrews’ “second-most infamous book”, Barthe DeClements, Paul Zindel, and Stephen King. Celebrate the holidays with the Wakefield Twins of Sweet Valley High, learn how to babysit from the Baby-Sitters Club, and browse vintage issues of Seventeen. The entire sagas of Ginny Gordon and Polly French are covered here, as is a fair chunk of Silhouette's First Love series and some Nancy Drew, sort of. What about that book that you read when you were younger which you just can’t remember the title of? Maybe Molly or her readers can help!
posted by May Kasahara at 9:46 AM PST - 24 comments

Quartz Weekly Obsession: CAPTCHA. A newsletter full of fascinating facts about CAPTCHA. "The demise of the CAPTCHA is mainly the result of rapid improvements in the field of AI. CAPTCHA’s research mission has succeeded so thoroughly that machines are now as good or better than humans at every task we’ve turned into a CAPTCHA test. We’re running out of challenges that humans are universally good at, but machines can’t handle." [more inside]
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Breaking Britain: With growing rifts between its regions, how much longer can the UK survive? From the economic to the constitutional, Novara Media explores the divisions and contradictions within the union today. [more inside]
posted by Ten Cold Hot Dogs at 9:16 AM PST - 18 comments

A Reuters photographer was the only journalist invited to the funeral of Xingu Chief Aritana of the Yawalapiti people whose death was a result of COVID-19.
In related news a Brazilian Senate Panel urges Pres. Bolsonaro be Charged with Crimes against Humanity for killing 150K by worsening Pandemic.
An earlier draft had called for Bolsonaro to be indicted for homicide and genocide as well, given how the ravages of the coronavirus have disproportionately hit Brazil’s Indigenous groups.
The Xingu river basin has had a rate of deforestation 40% higher than in the same period last year. Rolling Stone has called Bolsonaro the most dangerous climate denier in the world.
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The Intersection is a short film (YouTube, 16:25) (also Vimeo) that journeys from a violent present to a cooperative future. Commissioned by the Omidyar Network, produced by Superflux, screenplay by Tim Maughan, author of Infinite Detail.
posted by Strutter Cane - United Planets Stilt Patrol at 2:44 AM PST - 5 comments

Because, sadly, no one has yet stepped up, it seems it falls to me *AHEM* SOMETHING ABOUT SOME SALMON AND TOAST/ SOMETHING ABOUT A CROCKETY BLOAT/ SOMETHING ABOUT A DRUNK ON THE DOCK/ HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO ME TURN ON YOUR CAPS LOCK [more inside]
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