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Boji spends his days traveling Istanbul's subway trains, ferries, buses, and historic trams. His calming presence is infectuous. Boji sometimes travels 30 kilometers a day. Most days he passes through at least 29 Metro stations and take at least two ferry rides. He has learned how and where to get on and off of trains and ferries. He is A Good Boy.
posted by dancestoblue at 8:59 PM PST - 18 comments

SL Jezebel from 2019. "I don’t believe in ghosts, but maybe I do, just a little. I certainly believe in the power of haunted tales, and the Lady in White is one of the most common structures for ghost stories... she’s often cast as a thin woman with long flowing hair, wearing a Victorian-style nightdress and wandering along roadsides, through cemeteries and churches, under bridges, and through the woods. She exists in contrast to the Woman in Black and the Woman in Red, two other ghostly types that flit through our history. They are always mysterious, dressed in monochrome, lacking distinguishing features— blurred non-people—reeking of sadness. Even in death, what a woman wears is important. Even after death, her outfit still matters." [more inside]
posted by The Underpants Monster at 8:45 PM PST - 10 comments

Liberty University, an Evangelical college in central Virginia, requires all students to adhere to the Liberty Way, an honor code that forbids, among many other things, alcohol consumption and pre-marital sex. Pro Publica investigates how the college has used threats of disciplinary action for violations of the Liberty Way, as well as other practices that violate Federal law, to discourage sexual assault survivors from coming forward and to punish survivors who pursue justice. [more inside]
posted by ArbitraryAndCapricious at 7:50 PM PST - 29 comments

Finally, a questionable sixteen-year journey comes to an end: the finale of Charlie the Unicorn, in which they finally explain what the hell is up with those two other obnoxious unicorns. Previously and again. Here are the previous parts, in one video.
posted by JHarris at 1:17 PM PST - 15 comments

Conservationists See Rare Nature Sanctuaries. Black Farmers See a Legacy Bought Out From Under Them.
Tony Briscoe, photography by Rashod Taylor, special to ProPublica (Oct. 14, 2021) [more inside]
posted by Not A Thing at 11:00 AM PST - 15 comments

The Methods of Moral Panic Journalism Michael Hobbes (of You're Wrong About fame) shows how stories about 'left-wing illiberalism' are the latest moral-panic stories.
posted by box at 10:50 AM PST - 78 comments

The point is that longtermism might be one of the most influential ideologies that few people outside of elite universities and Silicon Valley have ever heard about. I believe this needs to change because, as a former longtermist who published an entire book four years ago in defence of the general idea, I have come to see this worldview as quite possibly the most dangerous secular belief system in the world today.

–Against longtermism by Phil Torres, an essay about the dangers of a philosophical movement that prioritizes all future potential humans over actual living ones.
posted by Kattullus at 10:06 AM PST - 56 comments

In ways both large and small, American society still assumes that the default adult has a partner and that the default household contains multiple people. Many who live by themselves are effectively penalized at work too. “Lots of people I interviewed complained that their managers presumed they had extra time to stay at the office or take on extra projects because they don’t have family at home,” Eric Klinenberg, the author of the 2012 book Going Solo: The Extraordinary Rise and Surprising Appeal of Living Alone and a sociologist at NYU, told me. “Some said that they were not compensated fairly either, because managers gave raises to people based on the impression that they had more expenses, for child care and so on.”
posted by folklore724 at 9:32 AM PST - 146 comments

Historiansplaining is a history podcast by Samuel Biagetti, a historian (and antique dealer) with a Phd in early American history. [more inside]
posted by dmh at 8:53 AM PST - 5 comments

Mainland Chinese Horror & Censorship [11:11]
Thai Horror Is So Underrated [13:35]
A Brief Overview on J-Horror (Part 1) [15:08] (Part 2) [13:18] [more inside]
posted by ChurchHatesTucker at 8:53 AM PST - 3 comments

Don’t take candy from strangers and don’t feed your personal information to bots. If you spend any time on Facebook you’ve probably noticed a blizzard of question memes coming from clickbait accounts. You’ve likely either commented on them yourself or seen comments from close friends. Many of these posts look like they’re probing for answers to security/verification questions, but the ugly reality is that your passwords are nearly worthless. Chances are your passwords are already circulating on the dark web, sold in batches of millions for as little as a few thousand dollars. Unless you hold the password to something wildly valuable, like major corporate or government assets, nobody cares except kids playing around.
posted by mecran01 at 7:29 AM PST - 51 comments

A video-series about two Dutch guys building a Celtic Roundhouse in Ireland. They're trying to keep the use of modern tech to a minimum.
posted by Kosmob0t at 1:20 AM PST - 4 comments