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Various countries in East Africa are trying to curb the import of used clothing from the West not just to support their local textiles industries but also to protect "the dignity of its people". However, their efforts to do so have led to severe backlash from Western countries like the United States, who have threatened to remove these countries from trade deals geared towards building economic growth in the region.
posted by divabat at 10:00 PM PST - 48 comments

Nearly three hours of David Mitchell (previously 1, 2). being hilarious on the BBC show, Would I Lie To You: Posh and repressed?; Barbigerous Harbinger of Exuberance; Mitchellian rants and outbursts.
posted by Room 641-A at 4:52 PM PST - 83 comments

TripAdvisor removed warnings about rapes and injuries at Mexico resorts, tourists say
posted by crazy with stars at 1:07 PM PST - 59 comments

from 2013: Critical Perspectives on Waluigi
Guest Post: More Critical Perspectives on Waluigi [more inside]
posted by the man of twists and turns at 12:35 PM PST - 13 comments

Why Burial’s Untrue Is the Most Important Electronic Album of the Century So Far (Simon Reynolds, Pitchfork). [more inside]
posted by sapagan at 10:49 AM PST - 45 comments

4K time-lapse footage of monsoons [more inside]
posted by Gorgik at 10:23 AM PST - 7 comments

Nintendo’s old promotional Flash games are being brought back to life. [Origami64] “A modder, programmer, and all-around Nintendo enthusiast who goes by the name Skelux has been working on restoring all of Nintendo’s old promotional Flash games. As these creations only lived online, many of them eventually disappeared without a trace. Over time, Flash became less popular and dedicated Flash-based game websites were often deleted once they had aged past the release they were designed to promote. However, Skelux has made it a mission to restore and make available all of Nintendo’s Flash games, spanning from 1999 to 2010.” [Flash Games Nintendo Made, MEGA Collection!][YouTube] [via: The Verge]
posted by Fizz at 8:39 AM PST - 2 comments

@Jack has been a busy boy recently: Twitter banned a popular account because dumb nazis fell for a prank (or pretended to). In fairness, so did fox. Twitter announced new rules to prevent abuse and harassment - the main outcome of which appears to be banning bisexuals. Nazis, an extremely favored user group on Twitters, are likely to be okay. A Twitter engineer identified Russian bots in 2015 and was told to "stay in lane". The thing Jack does want from employees, instead of raising obvious problems? Relentless optimism.
posted by Artw at 8:33 AM PST - 126 comments

A man with a steady job leaves it behind to start a restaurant. If at any point during reading this you think, "Eesh, what else could go wrong?" just wait a few paragraphs. You'll find out.
posted by veggieboy at 7:03 AM PST - 172 comments

The Observer celebrates 10 years of the Observer/Cape/Comica graphic short story prize with a Graphic Novel special [more inside]
posted by fearfulsymmetry at 2:11 AM PST - 16 comments