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Nineteen years after their last live appearance, the satirical Melbourne band TISM have announced their comeback.
posted by Fiasco da Gama at 5:51 PM PST - 13 comments

For the 1-year anniversary of his project, YouTuber BamaBass finally adds Bass to his 5-Acre Pond. Come for the detailed behind-the-scenes shots of stocking a pond, stay for the footage of owls taking a dust bath! [5-acre pond playlist]
posted by rebent at 5:47 PM PST - 23 comments

The Rwanda asylum plan is a controversial new immigration policy introduced by the British (conservative) government. Asylum seekers will be relocated to Rwanda for processing/asylum/resettlement and will not be allowed to return to the United Kingdom to seek asylum. Today the first UK deportation flight to Rwanda was cancelled after an intervention by the European court. [more inside]
posted by Lanark at 4:33 PM PST - 35 comments

Three days before Congress was slated to certify the 2020 presidential election, a little-known Justice Department official named Jeffrey Clark rushed to meet President Donald Trump in the Oval Office to discuss a last-ditch attempt to reverse the results. ... [K]ey witnesses have provided Congress with a fuller account of Clark’s actions, including new details about the confrontation that took place in the Jan. 3 Oval Office meeting, which lasted nearly three hours. [alt link] ... [more inside]
posted by Artifice_Eternity at 1:05 PM PST - 86 comments

On Monday, [Lizzo] announced that she has released a new version of her single "GRRRLS," changing the lyrics to eliminate an ableist slur that received some backlash over the weekend.
posted by Etrigan at 10:21 AM PST - 40 comments

Though we last heard from Zadrożniak and the Floppotron 2.0 in 2018, this month we learned that it is time to goodbye to Floppotron 2.0, and witness the power of the 16 hard disks, 4 scanners and 512 floppy drives of the fully armed and operational Floppotron 3.0.
posted by mhoye at 8:22 AM PST - 24 comments

Last month, YouTuber Ben Kidd—aka: 8-bit Music Theory (previously 1 2)—released his first album, Let's Play, a jazz fusion reimagining of classic Nintendo GameCube era music. In a recent video on his YouTube channel, 8-bit breaks down how he created his arrangement of the Rainbow Road theme from Mario Kart: Double Dash!! [more inside]
posted by Mister_Sleight_of_Hand at 7:33 AM PST - 3 comments

"LIV Golf is supercharging the professional golf landscape and creating value for fans and players alike." [more inside]
posted by box at 7:05 AM PST - 69 comments

"Datamoshing is a technique of damaging video clips to create a glitch effect wherein frames that should change don't. It's most noticeable between cuts and across motion. Datamoshing is the process of corrupting, removing or replacing I-frames, causing P-frames to be applied to the wrong picture."
posted by gestalt saloon at 6:13 AM PST - 18 comments