June 11, 2021
Holding Out For A He-Man
Netflix has dropped a teaser trailer for the long awaited Masters of the Universe: Revelation series. [more inside]
"The assumption is that queer history begins at the city gates.”
The total percentage of rural queer Americans mirrors the percentage of rural Americans overall: around 15-20% of queer Americans live in rural areas, while around 19% of total Americans live rurally. Rural Queer History: Hidden in Plain Sight from The Daily Yonder ["Keep It Rural"]. [more inside]
How America Fractured into Four Parts
Four Americas by George Packer. Longform essay at the Atlantic on how the United States has ended up where it is.
"Greed. Kidding. Well, sort of, greed."
The Rise and Fall of Planet Hollywood ; or, 'Planet Hollywood Origin Story History Interview'
We’re still at the point of collecting factlets
The brain's representations of the world are surprisingly unstable. Ed Yong at the Atlantic reports.
The nadir of a lifetime of eating cereal
Cereal taster (and occasional New York Times columnist) Jamelle Bouie (previously) takes on Kellogg's Green Onion Chex from South Korea (previously). Spoiler alert: it did not go well for him.
Free Photoshop? In my browser? It's more likely than you think!
Photoshop, but in the browser and completely free. (Found via which also has a bit of discussion on how interesting/useable this is.)
From Doomsday Preppers to Doomsday Plotters
Far-right movements have long dreamed of a moment that ends society as we’ve known it. Now, experts say, so-called accelerationist thinking is proliferating in ways that could destabilize democracy. [more inside]
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