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"The Nonsense Laboratory uses machine learning to let you poke at, mangle, and play with the spelling of words." And: "The tools in the Nonsense Laboratory let you manipulate these letters and mouth movements to make strange and new words... a bit like playing a musical instrument or modeling clay." Five toys: the Mixer ("Mix together existing words to make new meanings"), Mouthfeel Tuner ("Change how text feels in your mouth"), Respeller ("Spell the sound of a text with different letters"), Sequencer ("Invent new words by sequencing mouth movements"), and Explorer ("Investigate an endless field of nonsense"). Led by MeFi's own aparrish.
posted by brainwane at 4:57 PM PST - 7 comments

The 30 Best Action Movies of the 1990s, Ranked
posted by chavenet at 4:01 PM PST - 73 comments

Building new market housing downtown to catch high-income renters - yuppie fishtanks - as a way to keep them from pushing renters out of older working-class residential neighborhoods. As a TikTok video. [more inside]
posted by russilwvong at 2:37 PM PST - 46 comments

The Myth of the Millennial Aesthetic
posted by backseatpilot at 1:03 PM PST - 31 comments

I said goodbye today to River, who most of you know as Fallout 4’s Dogmeat. Heartbroken doesn't cover it, but I won’t eulogize her here. For twitter, I thought it'd be appropriate to look back at her impact on that game. (plus, writing about game dev hurts less than grieving) [Twitter link] - Game Developer @JoelBurgess explains how knowing a dog changed a video game. Threadreader link.
posted by hippybear at 10:24 AM PST - 21 comments

The fighting on Blocher's Knoll, Barlow's position, is brutal & fierce. 19-year old Bayard Wilkeson, commanding Battery G, 4th US Artillery, is unhorsed by a rebel shell, his leg horrifically mangled. Still directing the fire of his guns, he amputates his own leg with a penknife

One detail that stood out for me from Angry Staff Officer's currently still ongoing retelling of the Battle of Gettysburg
posted by MartinWisse at 10:01 AM PST - 11 comments

We were not superior, we were simply luckier. We were less depressed because we’d had better luck. The machinery of society had operated to our benefit, and we’d been able to do more interesting things. But a lot of us enjoyed feeling contempt for Trump’s followers, just as they enjoyed feeling contempt for us.
posted by latkes at 9:01 AM PST - 77 comments

Texas’s Best Young Accordionists Carry on a Conjunto Legacy. Conjunto is a working-class Texas Mexican music, blending traditional Mexican folk music with the polkas, waltzes, and accordions of the Germans who settled in Texas and northern Mexico in the mid-1800's. At TexasMonthly.com, Roberto José Andrade Franco writes about how the 2020 and 2021 class of young accordion players are coping with the interruption of their lives and aspirations, and how they are carrying on both personal and cultural legacies. (The article has several links to music, interviews, and further reading.)
posted by soundguy99 at 6:22 AM PST - 23 comments