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You know that girl who fell through a portal to the surreal future of year 3000 and has been Instagramming from it ever since (previously)? She's still there (seriously, President Prez refuses to let the year number change), and she's just uploaded an EP of music from the future: Unanimous Girth's Shard of Girth (list of other services it's on). It is... extremely 'Normal'. More audio from weird worlds after the jump. [more inside]
posted by BiggerJ at 10:41 PM PST - 11 comments

Comet C/2020 F3 (NEOWISE) is in the neighborhood this month and it's giving the best performance by a comet visible in the Northern Hemisphere since Comet Hale-Bopp in 1997. NEOWISE — named for NASA’s Near-Earth Object Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer, the telescope which first spotted the comet on March 27th — is certainly a very good comet, though it remains to be seen if it’s what astronomers would call a ‘great comet’. There actually isn’t a settled definition for a 'great comet' aside from it having an exceptional brightness, but astronomers assure us they know one when they see one. So let’s revisit the acknowledged greats of the 21st Century so far before getting into more detail on our current, quite nice visitor. [more inside]
posted by theory at 8:45 PM PST - 31 comments

As the National Basketball Association looks to resume its season inside a protective "bubble" in Orlando, FL, the Philadelphia 76ers' rookie Matisse Thybulle has been doing YouTube videos that he records and edits and publishes. The 3rd installment of "Welcome To The Bubble", where he gets his ankles taped for practice, discovers Florida weather, and battles teammates while trying to solve a rubix cube went up today.
posted by cashman at 5:16 PM PST - 25 comments

But most of all, Applegate said, they cried about the realization their dream job of working in the NFL came with what they characterized as relentless sexual harassment and verbal abuse that was ignored — and in some cases, condoned — by top team executives.

The Washington Post reports that 15 women experienced widespread sexual harassment while working for the soon-to-be-renamed washington football team. [more inside]
posted by jenkinsEar at 4:21 PM PST - 13 comments

In a massive hack, the Twitter accounts for Barack Obama, Joe Biden, Elon Musk, Apple and others were taken over to promote a bitcoin scam yesterday. As part of their response, Twitter silenced verified accounts, leading to general rejoicing as the “blue checkmark” accounts were reduced to retweeting @everyword to spell out distress messages. While some were thankful the hackers didn’t attempt to start WW3, others wondered why the hackers didn’t try to manipulate the stock market (hint: it’s harder than it looks).
posted by adrianhon at 2:30 PM PST - 67 comments

No MILFs, No Squirting, No Gang Bangs: How the Porn Industry Is Changing During COVID-19 by EJ Dickson, Rolling Stone [more inside]
posted by chavenet at 2:28 PM PST - 37 comments

Prepare for Artificial Intelligence to Produce Less Wizardry: A paper by MIT research scientist David Thompson et al. argues that the deep-learning approach to AI is "rapidly becoming economically, technically, and environmentally unsustainable".
posted by Cash4Lead at 2:17 PM PST - 25 comments

The astounding 646 tracks isn't the only thing that makes Jacob Collier's newest single absolutely remarkable - the second chorus modulates to C half-sharp major, a key most of us have never heard. [more inside]
posted by Lutoslawski at 2:16 PM PST - 30 comments

Harmony, an emotional doodle from multidisciplinary artist Michal Levy.
She is remembered from her 2001 animation short, Giant Steps, which captured a part of her synesthesia, and showed a bit how she sees music.
But there were other jazzy animations
Giant Steps previously on Metafilter
(Via) [more inside]
posted by growabrain at 11:59 AM PST - 5 comments

Meet Sarah Shook, Country Music’s Radical And Ordinary Hero (Fader): "The other thing that is really important to me is having a very diverse audience. This genre of music attracts a certain kind of person sometimes who is very close-minded and I want to tell those people, 'Look, you're welcome to be a fan. But full disclosure, I'm a fucking civil rights activist, and I'm a bisexual, and I'm an atheist, and I'm a vegan,' you know what I mean? That's a whole lot of non-redneck shit right there." (Rolling Stone) [more inside]
posted by not_the_water at 11:47 AM PST - 8 comments

The next Mars rover, named Perseverance, is approaching its launch window of July 30 - Aug. 15, 2020; in addition to having a full dance ticket of its own, will be carrying a passenger: Ingenuity, a helicopter, the first extraterrestrial powered aircraft (that we know of, or of human origin), set to make its first flight on the Red Planet in the spring of 2021. [more inside]
posted by Halloween Jack at 10:59 AM PST - 15 comments

Gary Foley was sitting in his home in the Sydney suburb of Redfern one Summer afternoon when ‘some Pommie bloke rings up and says he’s Joe Strummer from the Clash’. [more inside]
posted by prismatic7 at 6:41 AM PST - 5 comments

Composer Adam Neely looks at how the world's second most covered song came to be seen as a national cultural icon, as kitsch elevator music and as a work of daunting harmonic complexity - all at the same time (and as to why it matters culturally whether you play it in F or D flat): The Girl from Ipanema is a far weirder song that you thought. [more inside]
posted by rongorongo at 3:42 AM PST - 87 comments

US passports are now much less valuable than they used to be. Thanks to...this (gestures around), US citizens aren't welcome in as many countries as we used to be, and that's not changing any time soon.

Also: CNN context, IATA map of restrictions, Fox (shared CNN link) [more inside]
posted by lon_star at 2:10 AM PST - 156 comments

The house used for the exterior shots of Blanche Devereaux's Miami home in the The Golden Girls television series is on the market for the first time ever. [more inside]
posted by Iris Gambol at 1:00 AM PST - 21 comments