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Facebook’s Monopoly Is Imploding Before Our Eyes. Competition, miscalculations, and regulatory scrutiny have all but killed the advertising giant's dreams of diversifying its business and rolling up the digital world into its platform.
posted by team lowkey at 10:09 PM PST - 124 comments

Ross Chastain (driving the red and black car) picks up five places to qualify for the winner take all NASCAR 2022 Cup Series championship in the Phoenix on Nov. 6 with the most Hollywood move I've seen in five decades of watching stock car racing. SLYT to compilation of dozens of views. Some NSFW language. [more inside]
posted by Mitheral at 8:20 PM PST - 52 comments

Pick your nose. Don't pick your nose. [more inside]
posted by clawsoon at 7:22 PM PST - 28 comments

Want to know more about Halloween Customs, Games Connected with Halloween? Or maybe you’d prefer Strange Happenings on Halloween Night or a Ghost Story? [more inside]
posted by scorbet at 1:58 PM PST - 5 comments

Less than 12 hours after Taylor Swift’s 10th album, Midnights, dropped on Oct. 21, a 25-year-old New Zealander posted a video on Twitter in which he recorded himself correctly guessing, one by one, upon first listen, every song on the album produced by Jack Antonoff. “I’m able to instantly detect if Jack Antonoff worked on a song due to a visceral hatred of his production style,” Caleb Gamman captioned his clip, which currently has over 84,000 likes. (archive.ph link)
posted by Etrigan at 12:53 PM PST - 61 comments

In advance of the 2022 US midterms, Apollo Academic Surveys is reporting an expert survey on threats to American democracy. At a time of potential risks to American democratic norms and institutions, we report the results of a survey of 682 experts in political science. The expert email list was constructed from the faculty list of U.S. institutions represented in the online program of the 2016 American Political Science Association conference. [more inside]
posted by bluesky43 at 9:05 AM PST - 32 comments

Language justice is a practice based on the concept that everyone has the basic human right to speak in the language(s) in which we feel most comfortable at a given time, where no one language is dominant in a space or discussion. Decentering English is liberation-based in principle but difficult in practice. [more inside]
posted by jessamyn at 8:24 AM PST - 30 comments

Lego Mindstorms will be discontinued at the end of 2022. RIP. [more inside]
posted by Nanukthedog at 5:19 AM PST - 35 comments

What we have here is what we call a non-repeating phantasm, or a class-5 free roaming thread, real nasty one too. [more inside]
posted by taz at 3:58 AM PST - 171 comments

Lula defeats Bolsonaro to again become Brazil’s president. "Twenty years after first winning the Brazilian presidency, the leftist defeated incumbent Jair Bolsonaro Sunday in an extremely tight election that marks an about-face for the country after four years of far-right politics." Background on Luiz Inácio “Lula” da Silva: 'Our phoenix': Lula's ups and downs in Brazil defy belief; background on the election: All you need to know about most divisive vote in Brazil’s history.
posted by taz at 12:57 AM PST - 40 comments

1 Billion is Tiny in an Alternate Universe: Introduction to p-adic Numbers - "The p-adic numbers are bizarre alternative number systems that are extremely useful in number theory. They arise by changing our notion of what it means for a number to be large. As a real number, 1 billion is huge. But as a 10-adic number, it is tiny!" (previously ;)
posted by kliuless at 12:12 AM PST - 11 comments