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Sharks on a plane: An ambitious international project is helping save this endangered species. A world-first shark rewilding project is helping the endangered zebra shark, but it could also provide a template to help save other threatened marine species.
posted by chariot pulled by cassowaries at 6:44 PM PST - 1 comments

Jury finds Sam Bankman-Fried guilty. Not a big surprise for anybody who has been casually following the whole crypto "industry" or trial. For newcomers, FTX is (was?) a cryptocurrency exchange well known for their explosive growth and valuation and Sam Bankman-Fried (commonly abbreviated as SBF) was hailed as the genius CEO. A lot of people wondered how they managed it, and unsurprisingly, it turns out the magic ingredient was fraud. Some previous hits involving FTX include SBF describing their business model as essentially a ponzi scheme and being hailed as a visionary by Sequoia Capital for hit pitch while playing League of Legends. His inability to shut up and dig himself into a deeper hole can't have helped.
posted by ndr at 5:27 PM PST - 113 comments

Bob Dylan with Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers, Orchard Park NY July 4 1986
What it says on the tin. [more inside]
posted by y2karl at 4:32 PM PST - 19 comments

Legendary drummer Bill Bruford has an official YouTube channel, and it features 140+ archival videos covering his 40-year career as a rock and jazz musician. You can start with a 1972 BBC look at Yes in their prime, watch a 1976 clip from his time in Genesis, enjoy a 1982 King Crimson concert from Munich, listen to ABWH play Close to the Edge in 1989, and finish with his jazz group Earthworks from Chile in 2002. Most videos feature personal descriptions from Bruford that provide additional context for each performance. [more inside]
posted by JZig at 2:36 PM PST - 10 comments

Washington D.C. Attorney General Brian Schwalb is suing RealPage and 14 of the city's biggest landlords, which he dubbed a "cartel," for allegedly inflating rent costs based on calculations from RealPage Revenue Management Software. Big landlords are colluding to raise rents, D.C. lawsuit alleges, April Rubin, Axios. Previously. [more inside]
posted by kristi at 11:41 AM PST - 23 comments

Investigative journalist David Forbes (previously) writes on the US gun control debate: "As a journalist I've investigated police departments for over 20 years. The reality is that they will not enforce gun laws against white supremacists, the far-right or the kind of abusive guy that makes up 95 percent of mass shooters on any scale that matters. They do not do so now and they won't in the future." Her post "A reality check on cops and gun laws", published June 5, 2022, aims to rebut assumptions "often held unconsciously by people who are in good faith trying to find an answer to appalling violence." Content warning: police and gun violence, hate crimes, domestic abuse. Disclaimer: I know David Forbes and she is a friend of mine. [more inside]
posted by brainwane at 11:37 AM PST - 25 comments

But the ensuing tsunami of spandex proved to be too much of a good thing, and the demands of churning out so much programming taxed the Marvel apparatus. (slVariety Magazine) [more inside]
posted by Kitteh at 11:15 AM PST - 68 comments

"Perhaps the inner life of these patients tells us something more universal about the search for meaning: For most of us, self-worth depends on being useful to others. And we, like Harry, are always struggling to find human connection—but he and others with psychosis might get that need met more easily by communicating telepathically with fictional strangers than in person with family or friends. As Isham said, “This is a very misunderstood group of people.”"
posted by Tehhund at 10:13 AM PST - 22 comments

Healthcare activist Ady Barkan has died of complications of ALS at the age of 39. [more inside]
posted by Lyn Never at 7:49 AM PST - 36 comments

Slate.com reveals how talk show writers formulate each night's topical jokes. "When you have to write more than 100 topical jokes each day, there’s no time to wait for inspiration to strike. You need a reliable algorithm." (SLYT)
posted by zaixfeep at 7:48 AM PST - 31 comments

"More than 1.5 billion years ago, a momentous thing happened: Two small, primitive cells became one. Perhaps more than any event — barring the origin of life itself — this merger radically changed the course of evolution on our planet. One cell ended up inside the other and evolved into a structure that schoolkids learn to refer to as the 'powerhouse of the cell': the mitochondrion. This new structure provided a tremendous energetic advantage to its host — a precondition for the later evolution of complex, multicellular life. But that’s only part of the story." Where the heck did all those structures inside complex cells come from? by Viviane Callier, in Knowable Magazine.
posted by mittens at 6:20 AM PST - 30 comments

The home movies served as a stern reminder to conceal the parts of myself that seemed to bother people. I lived under the assumption that I’d make Dad and others explode in anger if I wasn’t careful. So I tiptoed through life, aware that my obsessive enthusiasm could set people off like a bomb. from Off Camera
posted by chavenet at 1:43 AM PST - 45 comments