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A Universal Germanic Dialogue (SLYT, make sure sound is on) Is it possible to construct a paragraph in Dutch, German, English, Danish, Norwegian, and Swedish that are all mutually comprehendible? That is my plan.
posted by gwint at 8:05 PM PST - 46 comments

Worst to Best: Music Videos Set in Movie Worlds (SLThe Reveal, a Substack that's mostly about movies)
posted by box at 3:37 PM PST - 33 comments

"Well, one day I found out he was actually coming into town to play as the featured soloist with the Wichita Symphony Orchestra." A sweet story by a pianist about a risk she took when she was much younger, and what happened next. Told in a Mastodon thread, 8 posts long (you'll have to tap/click "Read more" to read each post in its entirety).
posted by brainwane at 3:32 PM PST - 15 comments

Yet within the sport, and even for the larger world, the Giants remain a cautionary tale: a high-profile example of what can happen when prejudice derails a talented organization or team, when discord and distrust become everyday elements in a workplace. Instead of dominating the big leagues with their core of talented Latino and African-American players, the Giants were perennial also-rans for most of the 1960s. from Giant Missteps
posted by chavenet at 3:19 PM PST - 1 comments

A semester inside the siege: New College professor defends her progressive haven from DeSantis’ conservative coup. “If I just walk away,” she thought, “who will stand up for this place? ... I want to try to preserve the things that make New College unique and wonderful." Amy Reid, a professor of French language and the director of the gender studies program, has worked at New College of Florida her whole career — nearly half her life.
posted by spamandkimchi at 11:52 AM PST - 60 comments

From million-dollar slide shows to Steve Jobs’s introduction of the iPhone, a bit of show business never hurt plain old business. (archive.today link)
posted by Etrigan at 10:04 AM PST - 18 comments

The failure of Luna 25 cements Putin’s role as a disastrous space leader. [Ars Technica] The destruction of the lunar probe--which would have been Russia's first lunar mission since a Soviet uncrewed probe in 1976--is the latest in a long line of failures and downgradings of the program that once accomplished the first successful satellite launch, the first man and woman in space, and the first spacewalk. [more inside]
posted by Halloween Jack at 8:49 AM PST - 68 comments

"Saudi border guards have killed at least hundreds of Ethiopian migrants and asylum seekers who tried to cross the Yemen-Saudi border between March 2022 and June 2023. Human Rights Watch research indicates that, at time of writing, the killings are continuing. Saudi border guards have used explosive weapons and shot people at close range, including women and children, in a pattern that is widespread and systematic." Saudi Arabian Mass Killings of Ethiopian Migrants at the Yemen-Saudi Border (HRW report) (One of the many consequences of the Tigray War where it's "estimated 162,000–⁠600,000 people were killed" between 2020 and 2022)
posted by kmt at 5:07 AM PST - 9 comments

How methane from food waste contributes to climate change and why small efforts to stop it can make a big difference.
posted by chariot pulled by cassowaries at 1:21 AM PST - 44 comments