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Robbie Fulks dives headfirst into the strangely messy world of Gordon Lightfoot. [more inside]
posted by blue shadows at 8:28 PM PST - 67 comments

The Inspector-General of the Australian Defence Force (IGADF) has released the Brereton Report, which includes evidence that Australian soldiers committed war crimes in Afghanistan between 2005 and 2016. [more inside]
posted by Fiasco da Gama at 6:35 PM PST - 20 comments

Last year, a member came to SFWA’s Grievance Committee with a problem, which on the surface sounds simple and resolvable. He had written novels and was not being paid the royalties that were specified in his contract. The Grievance Committee is designed to resolve contract disputes like this. As part of our negotiating toolbox, we guarantee anonymity for both the writer and the publisher if the grievance is resolved. When it is working, as president, I never hear from them. When talks break down, the president of SFWA is asked to step in. We do this for any member. In this case, the member is Alan Dean Foster. The publisher is Disney.
posted by Catblack at 5:10 PM PST - 96 comments

Act I (via McSweeny's. May be not safe for work.) [more inside]
posted by a non mouse, a cow herd at 4:28 PM PST - 16 comments

AI researchers made a sarcasm detection model and it’s sooo impressive (Venture Beat): "Researchers in China say they’ve created sarcasm detection AI that achieved state-of-the-art performance on a dataset drawn from Twitter. The AI uses multimodal learning that combines text and imagery since both are often needed to understand whether a person is being sarcastic. [...] On a dataset drawn from Twitter, the model achieved a 2.74% improvement on a sarcasm detection F1 score compared to HFM, a multimodal detection model introduced last year. The new model also achieved an 86% accuracy rate, compared to 83% for HFM." Previous research from 2016: Researchers have developed an extremely effective “sarcasm detector” (Quartz). Also: Inside the surprisingly high-stakes quest to design a computer program that ‘gets’ sarcasm online (Washington Post) [more inside]
posted by not_the_water at 3:44 PM PST - 47 comments

ball of fluff (via metafilter chat). Please post your round cute things.
posted by aniola at 1:44 PM PST - 21 comments

Twitter yesterday launched “fleets”, ephemeral tweets that disappear after 24 hours (similar to Stories in other social media apps), and it’s testing voice-based chat rooms (similar to Clubhouse, previously). Casey Newton muses on what this means for the future of the company, while Neven Mrgan reveals Norton Commander’s Stories.
posted by adrianhon at 1:35 PM PST - 50 comments

Die Eigene was published from 1896 - 1932. The Man Who Made Magazines Gay. University of Toronto's Fisher Library acquires copies of Der Eigene. Project Gutenburg.
posted by adept256 at 9:49 AM PST - 5 comments

Ivanka Trump was my Best Friend. (SLVanity Fair)
posted by box at 9:10 AM PST - 80 comments

"North Dakota currently has the highest daily mortality rate...of any domestic state or country in the world" That's not one out a thousand infected have died, that's one out of thousand from the total population - 769 of the roughly 762,000 residents of North Dakota are dead after testing positive for COVID-19
posted by Paladin1138 at 6:46 AM PST - 303 comments

The Stencil Archive is a searchable archive for thousands of photographs, videos, and more, related to stencil art from around the world.
posted by carter at 6:41 AM PST - 4 comments