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The Student Body Is Deaf and Diverse. The School’s Leadership Is Neither. Student protests over the hiring of a white hearing superintendent have roiled a school for the deaf that serves mostly Black and Hispanic students in the Atlanta area and have focused attention on whether school leaders should better reflect the identities of their students. (non-paywall link available here) [more inside]
posted by Toddles at 10:33 PM PST - 8 comments

It might Break Your Pinky Heart is a a playful, innuendo-laden mockery of China’s unappeasable, triumphalist and xenophobic ‘Pink Culture’ and its champions, known as ‘pinkies’ by Namewee 黃明志Ft.Kimberley Chen 陳芳語 . Here's some context.
posted by FungusCassetteBicker at 8:18 PM PST - 22 comments

The Facebook Papers: In the wake of last week's Congressional testimony, "[j]ournalists from a variety of newsrooms, large and small, worked together to gain access to thousands of pages of internal company documents obtained by Frances Haugen [@FrancesHaugen], the former Facebook product manager-turned-whistleblower." [more inside]
posted by Kadin2048 at 5:30 PM PST - 113 comments

Laura Kampf, previously and previously, gets a really good deal on some mysterious storage boxes.
posted by Bee'sWing at 2:16 PM PST - 24 comments

How to Turn Any Vague Concept Into a Sexy Halloween Costume. Step 1: Pick a decidedly unsexy concept.
posted by spamandkimchi at 11:34 AM PST - 66 comments

From Scientists to Salesmen - A Review of Noah Hutton’s In Silico.

Pervasive corporate managerialism has made it such that the number and prestige of publications in prestigious for-profit journals has become the key metric of one’s value, and the critical currency through which stable, managerial-class jobs are procured. Meanwhile, the deliberate ballooning of for-profit student programs in STEM, coupled to an ever-shrinking job market, keep the labor pool highly skilled, oversaturated, and ever more desperate to compete. Taken together, these conditions have helped precipitate a euphemistically named “replication crisis” that, seen as the natural outcome of competitive social credit-seeking behaviors within a corporate system, is less a crisis of statistical power than it is a crisis of social disempowerment: negative results, however truthful, simply do not sell.

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posted by Alex404 at 9:56 AM PST - 22 comments

The Red Diet, a halloween comic by Sarah Hopkins. [more inside]
posted by simmering octagon at 9:36 AM PST - 7 comments

The Four Seasons Total Landscaping Documentary trailer has dropped. [CW: Giuliani]
posted by chavenet at 9:11 AM PST - 16 comments

After sexual misconduct allegations, mounting unpaid royalties, one of its founding partners resigning and another "walking away," Chicago independent music label Bloodshot Records seemed to be shutting down. Independent music company Exceleration Music announced it has struck an agreement with label founders Rob Miller and Nan Warshaw to acquire Bloodshot Records and to assume full operational control of its catalog. [more inside]
posted by DirtyOldTown at 9:09 AM PST - 9 comments

Two scifi stories of underdog revenge in an unfair future. "The Last of the Redmond Billionaires" by Peter Watts is a very dark vignette in a climate refugee future. "The Stillness of the Stars" by Jessica Snell (formerly McAdams) is a happier space thriller on a generation ship, about escaping past the steerage-class wall.
posted by brainwane at 8:46 AM PST - 4 comments

Sometimes it's obvious when you need to break your own rules. [more inside]
posted by wenestvedt at 6:39 AM PST - 41 comments

Everything is Fine [more inside]
posted by ChurchHatesTucker at 4:52 AM PST - 14 comments