October 3, 2022
"We got weights in fish!"
Don't you want to try the potato wedges?
Go ahead, Taste the Biscuit, then dig in and discover the background behind this quirky fun by Toasters'N'Moose.
“[F]or parody to work, it has to plausibly mimic the original.”
Anthony Novak made a parody facebook page of the City of Parma’s police department.
The cops arrested him, charged him with a felony, and lost. Novak sued the cops for ignoring that his site was a parody. He lost his case. He appealed to the sixth circuit and lost again.. Now, it’s on the docket for this Supreme Court term.
Most importantly (to me), The Onion has filed an amicus brief in support of Novak that jokes around but makes a serious argument.
The cops arrested him, charged him with a felony, and lost. Novak sued the cops for ignoring that his site was a parody. He lost his case. He appealed to the sixth circuit and lost again.. Now, it’s on the docket for this Supreme Court term.
Most importantly (to me), The Onion has filed an amicus brief in support of Novak that jokes around but makes a serious argument.
The chapter on how real estate agents and the KKK are similar...
Introducing the Airport Book Harm Index
Type/Intensity of harm: When the book does harm, how bad is it? Who is harmed? And how are they harmed?
Influence/Scope: How many people read this book or were directly exposed to its contents? How influential was the book on society? Did it spawn other books in its harmful image?
Persistence: How long was the book able to do its harm?
Type/Intensity of harm: When the book does harm, how bad is it? Who is harmed? And how are they harmed?
Influence/Scope: How many people read this book or were directly exposed to its contents? How influential was the book on society? Did it spawn other books in its harmful image?
Persistence: How long was the book able to do its harm?
Meta Game Spot Critic Guide Giant Game Cord FAQs Comic Cutters Vine... Bomb
In a big roll-up of culture-junkie style websites, Fandom has acquired GameSpot, Metacritic, TV Guide, GameFAQs, Giant Bomb, Cord Cutters News and Comic Vine in a deal worth an amount "in the mid-eight figures". Fandom already acquired Screen Junkies, Curse Media and Fanatical in the past few years. [more inside]
SelfRIGHTeously exposing voter fraud in U.S. counties
Activists Flood Election Offices With Challenge, New York Times, 9/28/2022 [alternate archive.today link] — Activists driven by false theories about election fraud are working to toss out tens of thousands of voter registrations and ballots in battleground states, part of a loosely coordinated campaign that is sowing distrust and threatening further turmoil as election officials prepare for the November midterms. [This is happening from Maine to Missouri to Montana across the USA: check with your local election office.]
Signing with pride
Deaf Korean members of the LGBT community are working to change Korean Sign Language. From official signs for "lesbian" and "gay" which evoke sexual acts rather than identities, to the lack of distinction in the vocabulary between HIV and AIDS, to established-but-unofficial negative facial expressions associated with queer vocabulary, KSL has some aspects which are being called out as problematic, and a network of activists has been working since 2019 to build and propose alternative vocabulary. Found via Language Log.
Who made Kanye Quest 3030?
They found Drago, they found Desperado... now giggly Australian journalism degree dropouts cum urban legend sleuths Cameron James and Alexei Toliopoulos are... Finding Yeezus
Whatever I Write Will be Proven Wrong, Likely in Catastrophic Fashion
Who Will Win the 2022 Nobel Prize in Literature? is Alex Shepard's annual guess [archive] [more inside]
This is Kaos
Home is always, always, always worth it.
Things that no longer comfort me Finding comfort in the wrong things kept me complacent. Perhaps it’s the same for you. This is a list of things that no longer comfort me, and why. [more inside]
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