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Author Susan Orlean is living her best quarantine life right life now by being very publicly drunk on Twitter.
This delightul event is being memorialized by The AV Club (to which Orlean has linked), meaww.com, and nj.com
posted by Going To Maine at 10:19 PM PST - 47 comments

Solderpunk named the Gemini project after the American space race program because, like the space program, it has (not too small, not too large) intermediate goals. What goals? The Gemini protocol and the Gemini document format aim to bridge the gap between the austere Gopher protocol (previously) and the modern multi-megabyte web (previously). [more inside]
posted by Monochrome at 5:51 PM PST - 13 comments

Doctors Without Borders Responds To Charges Of 'Racism' From Its Staff Over the last month more than 1,000 current and former staffers with the aid group Doctors Without Borders have signed a letter with an explosive accusation: The vaunted organization, they say, is built on a mindset of "white supremacy" that perpetuates "racism by our staff, in our policies, in our hiring practices, in our workplace culture, and through the imposition of dehumanising 'humanitarian' programmes by a privileged, white minority workforce."
posted by Toddles at 4:23 PM PST - 18 comments

After 50 nights of sustained protest in Portland, Oregon, President Donald Trump has sent in federal police agencies to “quell violence”. The response has been immediate, with protestors and passers by being “disappeared” into unmarked vans by militarized federal police forces. [more inside]
posted by gucci mane at 12:20 PM PST - 500 comments

Iceland Invites the World to Scream It Out. You’ve been through a lot this year and it looks like you need the perfect place to let your frustrations out. Somewhere big, vast and untouched. It looks like you need Iceland. Record your scream and we’ll release it in Iceland’s beautiful, wide-open spaces. And when you’re ready, come let it out for real. You’ll feel better, we promise.
posted by sunset in snow country at 11:57 AM PST - 36 comments

Home Movie: The Princess Bride Oh look, Quibi is good for something! A bunch of (yeah, ok, famous) folks recreate a classic section of a classic movie.
posted by gwint at 11:52 AM PST - 12 comments

For as long as I’ve been raising my own family, my mother has brought rogan josh to me, in frozen bricks, whenever she visits. Periodically, I’d ask her for the recipe. Each time, my mother would hem and haw, saying that she cooks with her eyes. “This much,” she’d say, gesturing to a pile of fennel powder. “Stir until it’s red enough.” Recently, I called my mother to ask her again for the recipe. I reminded her that we had gone without the dish for half a year. She murmured something about shipping me a batch. I pushed back, invoking Kashmir’s disappearing culture. I emphasized the importance of preserving our cuisine, especially since I’d married outside of the community. I used all of the same guilting tricks that mum has been known to wield against me, and eventually she broke: she would walk me through the recipe over the weekend, on Zoom. (New Yorker)
posted by ChuraChura at 10:38 AM PST - 42 comments

The history of Europe: 1000-2020, Agario style, as long as we're doing hypnotizing map animations; here's East Asia too.
posted by Melismata at 8:50 AM PST - 7 comments

Here's a hypnotic animation of the top trending Google search in every state, for every day, in the last decade.
posted by theodolite at 8:18 AM PST - 45 comments

"Caste prejudice and discrimination is rife within the Indian communities in the United States and other countries. Its chains are even turning the work culture within multibillion-dollar American tech companies, and beyond." [more inside]
posted by MiraK at 7:35 AM PST - 40 comments

Hammerhead Shark Song, from the album Domingo, by Chip Tanaka (aka Hirokazu Tanaka, aka Hip Tanaka, composer for Metroid, Kid Icarus and some of Earthbound), video programmed by Toby Fox (Undertale, Deltarune) with help from Temmie Chang and others.
posted by JHarris at 6:24 AM PST - 2 comments

Mae Dean, creator of venerable webcomic Real Life Comics, has come out as transgender in a new series of strips (06/29/20-07/17/20) depicting a long overdue conversation among her ego, id and superego.
posted by Faint of Butt at 4:30 AM PST - 62 comments

Why Singapore Has One of the Highest Home Ownership Rates - "Singapore's affordable housing program worked so well that some of its subsidized apartments now resell for more than $700,000." (via) [more inside]
posted by kliuless at 12:21 AM PST - 15 comments