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You might already know that political / reporting / general nonfiction comics outlet The Nib is closing down at the end of August. It was too good to last.
You might not know that The Nib is making all fifteen issues of the magazine free to download as PDFs! Consider kicking back a few bucks to help them preserve the website in the meanwhile.
posted by Going To Maine at 11:43 PM PST - 8 comments

Scientists successfully reintroduce locally-extinct Australian mammals to safe fenced-in zones. Species which once roamed freely (including bilbies, shark bay bandicoots and golden bandicoots) now thrive in a fenced-in safe haven (free from feral cats and feral foxes) created in Sturt National Park, part of one of the world's biggest mammal reintroduction projects.
posted by chariot pulled by cassowaries at 11:39 PM PST - 4 comments

The Marion Kansas Police Department raided the offices of the Marion County Record which was investigating allegations that Marion police chief Gideon Cody had retired from his previous job with the Kansas City, Missouri Police Department to avoid punishment over incidents of sexual misconduct.. [more inside]
posted by Reverend John at 9:34 PM PST - 51 comments

Luke O'Neil asked a bunch of people for their top 5 favorite R.E.M. songs. (scroll down a bit, or CTRL-F "andrew sacher")
posted by Etrigan at 9:12 PM PST - 78 comments

U.S. judge sends FTX’s Sam Bankman-Fried to jail over witness tampering
posted by buffy12 at 12:49 PM PST - 66 comments

Wes Anderson looks around one of the last remaining video stores in Paris and enthuses about some of his favourite movies; Christopher Nolan and Cillian Murphy do the same. These are the latest in a series of Video Club clips at YouTube featuring directors, actors & others waxing lyrical about cinema. [more inside]
posted by misteraitch at 12:31 PM PST - 8 comments

There's only one internet, but strains can show when it connects countries that are at odds, for example when the Chinese government blocks Google and Facebook or US companies sever their connections to Russia's internet. These techno-political tensions have spread to the world of subsea cables. from The Secret Life of the 500+ Cables That Run the Internet
posted by chavenet at 10:53 AM PST - 19 comments

Anarcha-feminist writer RiotLinguist on Qanon: It is important to understand that QAnoners consume QAnon AS pornography. it is NOT about "protecting children," it's about the consumption of children's bodies as sites of highly sexualized boundary violation, the "violated innocence" fantasy (link to original twitter thread).
They've (under the name narcissus) written about the problems with the book Harmful to Minors, how body autonomy [of children and adolescents] is not synonymous with “sexual availability,” and misogynists and pedophilia apologists in anarchist movements. Content warnings for (non-specific) discussions of child sexual abuse and predatory behavior, additional content warnings in individual essays.
posted by spamandkimchi at 9:12 AM PST - 56 comments

I don't really have an issue with car rental companies except the cost of car insurance and extra expenses but thought this link on returning rental cars with an empty tank was amusing. [more inside]
posted by Narrative_Historian at 3:07 AM PST - 26 comments