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Why Is Everyone Watching TV With the Subtitles On? (SLAtlantic - archive) [more inside]
posted by ShooBoo at 10:57 PM PST - 155 comments

What it’s like to be 14 in a new school, a new city away from home—and the wrong ethnicity in a divided country. Just a few months earlier, Aida—a bright, energetic 14-year-old girl with olive skin and long black hair bouncing behind her back—had managed a perfect score on Turkey’s national high school entrance exam, and this earned her the right to attend the most prestigious private high school in all of Turkey, a country of nearly 80 million people. Her first day, therefore, should’ve been a celebration. She’d made it; she was where she belonged. [more inside]
posted by dancestoblue at 10:42 PM PST - 5 comments

Well, the time has come. I’ve decided that our 41st season, which begins in September, will be my last. It’s been a wonderful ride, and I’ll have more to say in the coming months. Many thanks to you all. (If nothing else, it’ll keep the clickbait sites busy!)
posted by reductiondesign at 5:27 PM PST - 61 comments

Anger over an astronomical increase in Reddit's API prices [prev.] boiled over this week as multiple third-party app developers were forced to close down, with one -- Apollo dev Christian Selig -- posting a scathing exposé detailing the company's shady dealings... including a recorded phone call disproving CEO Steve "spez" Huffman's claim that Selig blackmailed them. Huffman took to the site's vaunted AMA format to do damage control, only to double down, ignore tough questions, and reap thousands of downvotes. In response, the community has organized a massive subreddit "blackout" to protest the rate hike that will bankrupt popular apps, hamper critical moderation tools, and exclude blind users. While such protests are not new, this one is unprecedented in scope: 20,000+ mods from over 7,000 subreddits with more than 2 billion collective readers, from familiar mainstays like /r/aww, /r/videos, and /r/todayilearned to niche subs like /r/Eragon and /r/Panda. Facing layoffs, a major pre-IPO valuation cut, and a runaway user revolt reminiscent of Digg [prev.], could this be the end of the "front page of the internet"? Watch the site wink out in real time [livestream], join the fight on /r/Save3rdPartyApps and /r/ModCoord, backup your data, or check out some up-and-coming /r/RedditAlternatives. [more inside]
posted by Rhaomi at 8:36 AM PST - 717 comments

Silvio Berlusconi è morto, aveva 86 anni: domani la camera ardente a Mediaset [Corriere della Sera] [more inside]
posted by chavenet at 8:16 AM PST - 40 comments

Newsradio station 1010 WINS is reporting that two days after projectionists at a NYC-area Alamo Drafthouse (it isn't clear which, there are three (four if you count Yonkers)) filed a petition to unionize with the National Labor Review Board, Alamo sent an internal email notifying staff of the company's intention to do away with the projectionist position and replace it with a more expansive “technical engineer” role. [more inside]
posted by The Pluto Gangsta at 7:29 AM PST - 41 comments

School's out for summer. A friend graduated from high school this weekend, and I asked her what she was going to do with all her free time, and she said "sleep in!". And then proceeded to list all the things she had to do this week. Here's our Monday free thread!
posted by Gorgik at 6:35 AM PST - 109 comments

Starfield Gets The Gameplay And Story Reveal You've Been Waiting For [Kotaku] [Starfield Direct] [Starfield Story Trailer] “While we’ll have to wait until September 6th to take to the stars, explore its 1,000 worlds, and listen to its 250,000 lines of dialogue, we now have a much better sense of what you’ll actually do in the game. And during today’s Xbox showcase, Bethesda pulled the curtain back even further, giving us our best glimpse yet of what’s likely going to be one of the biggest games of 2023.” [more inside]
posted by Fizz at 6:24 AM PST - 63 comments

Happy Pride Month! Louisa Jo Killen [Wikipedia] was a folk singer in the UK tradition. She spent most of her career performing under her birth gender and name Lou Killen [5m, 2008 performance]. Here is a 2010 performance in her preferred gender. [6m, very low audio] Her transition shortly before her death led a very conservative community into enlightenment. On this day: The Clancy Brothers' Louisa Jo Killen dies in 2013 [Irish Times belated obituary] Before Caitlyn Jenner, Louisa Jo Killen, Folk Song and Shanty Singer [Old Salt Blog] Thank you nebulawindphone for mentioning her. [more inside]
posted by hippybear at 5:26 AM PST - 9 comments

Reddit users are on strike.
posted by sammyo at 4:57 AM PST - 129 comments

Joni Mitchell Returns to the Stage, Golden, Glorious and in Control | A crowd of more than 20,000 on Saturday night at the scenic Washington venue the Gorge Amphitheater got to experience Joni Mitchell's first ticketed live performance in more than 20 years. And it was indeed glorious. [more inside]
posted by I_Love_Bananas at 4:39 AM PST - 9 comments