October 27, 2022
"It's doing some really interesting things with roof."
Architect Michael Wyetzner breaks down the details of five creepy buildings from scary movies for Architectural Digest.
It's Why Wolf Not Where
Building on the international success of AAAH!BA [previously], competition now arises from a new band, Bee Dee Gee's Hee Bee Gee Bees, who bring us Stayin' Alive (performed by a vampire) and Tragedy (performed by a werewolf).
BEST. HOT ONES. EVER. It’s Cate.
Hot Ones with Cate Blanchett. As charming as one could imagine. As interesting and engaging as one could hope. Too much editorializing? Or just cold hard facts? You decide. [more inside]
Online billpay is so cool
Where have all the checks gone? I'll tell you! There's this secret feature credit unions and banks in the US have, hidden behind the obscure nomenclature of "online bill pay." Your financial institution of choice will cut a physical check and put it in an envelope and address the envelope and put a stamp on it and drop it in the mail and typically they don't even charge you for the check, the envelope, the ink, their time, or the stamp! The postal carriers carry on carrying, and then someone else receives the check in the mail!
Dear Twitter Advertisers
@elonmusk says he has "bought Twitter" in a message to advertisers and that he hopes the site doesn't "become a free-for-all-hellscape". However, according to the Guardian, "despite his use of the past tense, he did not legally own Twitter at the time of the post" although "the final paperwork is expected to be completed on Friday afternoon". It's also not certain if a specific former President's banned account will be allowed to return to the site, an event the WSJ calls "a red-line for some brands".
SFF's Big Fat Problem
Meg Elison asks, Has there ever been a richer time to be fat? We live in a time when there is mainstream discourse about body neutrality and fat acceptance. On the other hand, R. K. Duncan says, This is going to be a Jeremiad, not a hopeful essay. ... If you are fat, stay if you need righteous anger, but please don’t make yourself read this if you need something soft right now. This essay is for thin SFF fans and creators.
Energy Blind
Nate Hagens' interviews experts who bring a "systems perspective" on energy, ecology, climate change, the environment, and related aspects of economics, technology, human behavior, and geopolitics, but these animations give the overall theme. [more inside]
No Credible Pathway to 1.5C in Place
The UN has released the 2022 Emissions Gap Report. The report finds that only an urgent system-wide transformation can deliver the enormous cuts needed to limit greenhouse gas emissions by 2030: 45 per cent compared with projections based on policies currently in place to get on track to 1.5°C and 30 per cent for 2°C. This report provides an in-depth exploration of how to deliver this transformation, looking at the required actions in the electricity supply, industry, transport and buildings sectors, and the food and financial systems.
My Octopus Girlfriend: On erotophobia
Are octopuses floods, or are they reservoirs? Are they two-thirds water, like us, or do they explode the body–environment boundary? To be in the (even virtual) presence of an octopus is closely akin to an acid trip, I feel: a hot flood, a visitation of humility, of xenohospitable love, divine trust, comradely fearlessness. [more inside]
“under my leadership, the M.A.S. became a Marilyn solidarity cell”
It’s a funny thing: ever since my mother died, now almost three years ago, I have been fixated on other women who were, like her, impossible, hilarious, horny, suicidal, bookish, and intermittently threatened with psychiatric confinement. First, it was the feminist revolutionary Shulamith Firestone; now, it is Marilyn.–Some Like It Hot, Notes from the Marilyn Appreciation Society by Sophie Lewis, an essay which considers Marilyn Monroe, feminism, her mother, BimboTok, misogyny and a lot else. [Internet Archive link]
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