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"The whole story of why we'll never get an LBD movie." Over a year ago, Ashley Clements started producing The Look Back Diaries. After all of the episodes were discussed, she's started discussing the behind-the-scenes tea, specifically with regards to Bernie Su screwing her and the other Pemberley Digital castmates out of a lot of money and in the last episode, categorically ending hopes of a movie. [more inside]
posted by jenfullmoon at 11:14 PM PST - 5 comments

New study finds octopus sleep similar to humans, and might even be dreaming. The study found the octopuses had a similar sleep pattern to REM which is when most mammals dream.
posted by chariot pulled by cassowaries at 10:29 PM PST - 23 comments

The sweet vulnerability of creating an accessible home with the person you love and the tenderness towards yourself it requires “That’s how I feel about anyone seeing proof of my disabilities before I’ve wrapped my head around the fact of the disabilities: like I’ve reached a fragile peace with it, and any harsh comment, any misguided sentiment, any gawking could wreck my growing understanding and acceptance of how much I’ve changed.” (Happy Disability Pride Month!)
posted by Bottlecap at 5:58 PM PST - 17 comments

It's the 4th of July [more inside]
posted by chavenet at 2:40 PM PST - 14 comments

Indeed, opossums are odd, a creature an exhausted God might have thrown together with parts leftover from a busy week of creation. Whatever He had lying around the shop (grippy hands, snaky tail, crippling anxiety), He chucked into the opossum and sent it down to the Garden of Eden to tip over Adam’s garbage cans and eat the cat food off Eve’s back porch.
posted by spamandkimchi at 12:00 PM PST - 50 comments

Some of the nation’s top ‘gurgitators’ shared their award-winning techniques CW: gluttony (archive.today link)
posted by Etrigan at 9:50 AM PST - 41 comments

The recent SCOTUS decision 303 CREATIVE LLC ET AL. v. ELENIS ET AL. [PDF link, decision] was decided on the basis that Laurie Smith might be asked to make a gay wedding website. In the original court filings was included a possible inquiry about such a website that included a name and phone number and other identifying information. The New Republic called that phone number, and reports that is false information. Maybe SCOTUS will reexamine it, Salon summarizes thinking about that. NYT's The Daily discusses the case and context for a half hour. [more inside]
posted by hippybear at 9:21 AM PST - 118 comments

Do you love your cloud-connected personal assistant, but wish it had a bit more of a Jim Henson than a George Orwell vibe? Are you good with a soldering iron? Maybe you'd like to try your hand at building your own Animatronic Alexa.
posted by Popular Ethics at 8:43 AM PST - 13 comments

An often overlooked insight on this "holiday."
posted by Scout405 at 8:34 AM PST - 11 comments

I got to know a man willing to discuss nearly anything but his own literary significance. Openly sharing the most intimate minutiae of his life—finances, hookup apps, Depends—he recoiled with Victorian modesty whenever I asked why he’d written his books or what they meant to his readers. “I write, I don’t speculate about what I’m writing,” he reminded me a bit sharply after an interpretative question. For Delany, decency entails remembering that the author is dead even when he’s sitting across the table.

–How Samuel R. Delany Reimagined Sci-Fi, Sex, and the City by Julian Lucas.
posted by Kattullus at 1:31 AM PST - 40 comments