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"I'm sure you have the same question about this that I did."
"Who's Having Sex on the Wienermobile?"
(Slate, adapted from the book Raw Dog: The Naked Truth About Hot Dogs)
"Say it’s because your dad was a fool. Don’t defend me."
Stereogum's interview with Insane Clown Posse, of note is the following paragraph:
And the amount of gay Juggalos out there is really surprising. I think about them doing their research and getting the old records, getting excited about it, and getting their hearts broke or something, you know? I tell my daughter, “For the rest of your life, when your friends ask why your dad said that, say it’s because your dad was a fool. Don’t defend me. Say I was a fool then, but I’m not now.” There’s no excuse. I was going with the flow, and that’s the very thing we preach against — being a sheep. And that’s what I was doing.(some details under the cut about this passage in particular)
For every winter I take my basket and ride down the river
Indigitalization [slYT, 1h9m] is a talk by digital artist Jon Corbett (not that one) on the creation of a computing framework that honors and applies Indigenous culture to computing--including a new programming language and hardware using Cree syllabary.
Tina Turner Dead at 83
The Queen of Rock dies in Switzerland at 83
Another 60's icon passes on. Tina Turner died at her home in Küsnacht, Switzerland, at 83.
Her publicist Bernard Doherty announced the death in a statement but did not provide the cause, although she had suffered a stroke in recent years, according to the NY Times obituary.
Matt Murdoch's Murder-Free 34 Hours
Daredevil is Present and the Police Arrive Later - David Brothers dissects Daredevil #304 and takes a look at superheroes, race and policing.
I'd never really thought about longboards, but now I want one
Lotfi Lamaali is a longboard dancer. But what is longboard dancing? A sort of hybrid of freestyle trick skateboarding and dance, on bigger, looser, more flexible longboards. Just as much focus on using smooth dance steps and twirls to move around the board as on moving the board itsel. The end result when done well is mindblowing. [SLYT]
Cheetah immigration, tiger personality tests, lion triplets
Good news in big cat news.
First cheetah cubs born in India since extinction 70 years ago. Tigers that scored higher on words such as confident, competitive, and ambitious fell under what the researchers labeled as the “majesty” mindset. With her third litter (three cubs!), Florence the lioness has now given birth to approximately one third of Senegal’s Niokolo Koba National Park 's lion population.
Andy Warhol v. Goldsmith: Historic SCOTUS Ruling on Fair Use and IP
In a landmark 7-2 decision that many artists forewarned could have significant implications for fair use doctrine, the Supreme Court ruled on Thursday that the Andy Warhol Foundation failed to honor photographer Lynn Goldsmith's copyright when Warhol, in the 1980s, used her portrait of Prince to create a work of art. Justice Sotomayor wrote the majority opinion with Justice Kagan penning a fiery dissent in which she alleged Sotomayor had, "adopted a 'posture of indifference' and left 'in shambles' part of a fair-use test used in copyright cases." Some point to the ruling's possible consequences for generative AI artwork while art museums have expressed concerns of their own.
Wilde and Wonderfull
Isabella Rosner: I've come across A LOT of good 17th- and 18th-century Quaker names over the past 3.5 years, as I've worked on my thesis. Now that my thesis is done and submission is near, it's time to share the more than 90 wildest early Quaker names I've found. (SLTwitter)
Free man on the land!
CW: Police violence in beginning of video
münecat on a Metafilter perennial favorite topic: Sovereign Citizens: Pseudolaw & Disorder (yes this is nearly 2 hours of video essay goodness)
münecat on a Metafilter perennial favorite topic: Sovereign Citizens: Pseudolaw & Disorder (yes this is nearly 2 hours of video essay goodness)
Video clips from the coronation (with the Succession opening soundtrack)
SLYT
What it says on the tin.
Only Five To Blame
I don't know who exactly is going to watch all three hours of this, aside from me. Duran Duran: Only Five To Blame is a pop culture time capsule of a single band's career. A non-narrative documentary told entirely through popular media appearances, this is the chronicle of a band in their infancy, through into meteoric fame, across breakups and reformations, and finally into the literal present, ending on New Years Eve 2023. It's an astonishing chronological collage demonstrating the enduring capacity of a collection of art school lads from Birmingham and the power of massive egos to keep rock alive in the 2020s.
Lord Richards of Herstmonceux will carry the Sword of Spiritual Justice
Meanwhile, on Normal Island, Charles the third is getting crowned this Sunday. The coronation for the billionaire King-to-be is funded by commoners. As popularity for the monarchy falls and protests are planned, various petitions have been rejected, and the mass swearing of an oath of allegiance has been raised. The Proclaimers have been dropped from the official soundtrack, though many more Scots have their own jovial song. And another Scot, Frankie Boyle, has [very NSFW] examined the monarchy over the ages. Americans don't care and their presidents are traditionally no-shows. [post title]
Ah! Hello Adventurer!
Epic NPC Man is a web series by New Zealand comedy group Viva La Dirt League "parodying the gameplay, glitches, bugs and physics of a range of role-playing games such as World of Warcraft, Skyrim and the Witcher. Set in the fictional world of Azerim in the fictional MMORPG called Skycraft, the series features a range of recurring non-player characters with varying levels of self-awareness." Also: chickens.
"a very one-sided attempt at a contract"
"The older kids have been playing with the concept of contracts, which has often involved attempts to trick the other into signing something." Jeff Kaufman shares the "various forms of contract fraud" recently explored by his children and his attempts at explaining that forging your sister's signature on a handwritten note stating "I _Lily_ Wise will let Anna hav wutevr she wonts from me" does not constitute a valid contract with her.
Apu hasn't uttered a word on "The Simpsons" in six years.
In 2017, Hari Kondabolu created The Problem with Apu: a documentary that examined and criticized the character of Apu on The Simpsons, voiced by white actor Hank Azaria. Azaria, notably, did not appear in the film, and was not available for comment. Now, nearly six years later, Azaria and Kondabolu sat down with NPR's Codeswitch to discuss what came out of that callout.
"Gun policies... are downstream from culture"
Gun Violence Is Actually Worse in Red States. It’s Not Even Close.
Colin Woodard, author of American Nations (summary), runs Nationhood Lab which is "focused on counteracting the authoritarian threat to American democracy and the centrifugal forces threatening the federation’s stability."
Cobalt Supply Chain to a Hell on Earth
The race for high-tech metals has sparked a cobalt boom in the Democratic Republic of the Congo that has come at a steep human cost.
e360: You talk about “industrial” mines and “artisanal” mines. What does that latter word mean?
Kara: The term is just nonsensical in its inaccuracy. It makes you think of craftsmen or people baking bread or something. In fact, it’s grindingly poor people scraping and scrounging in pits and trenches with pickaxes, shovels, their bare hands, strips of rebar... And that’s called artisanal mining, meaning people with their hands as opposed to heavy equipment.
e360: You talk about “industrial” mines and “artisanal” mines. What does that latter word mean?
Kara: The term is just nonsensical in its inaccuracy. It makes you think of craftsmen or people baking bread or something. In fact, it’s grindingly poor people scraping and scrounging in pits and trenches with pickaxes, shovels, their bare hands, strips of rebar... And that’s called artisanal mining, meaning people with their hands as opposed to heavy equipment.
“What are you?”
MIXED! Stories of Mixed Race Californians.
“People are defining you according to this boundary, that you have to be ‘this much’ this,” said Fulbeck. “You have to speak this language. You have to take off your shoes, whatever it is. It's like if you're going to go off those definitions, then you're going to be in a world of hurt. You have to find your own way to define yourself."
Make sure to say hi to Blathers
All the art in Animal Crossing...in person
One man's mission. Fingers crossed he doesn't find any forgeries.
What Happens When You Mix Beads And Milk
In preparation for the physical release of Cuphead in Japan, Studio MDHR has released a video of legendary illustrator Yoshitaka Amano creating the limited edition artwork for the first run of the game's soundtrack. (SLYT)
Bargaining With Your Lyft Driver
They almost did a car swap!
This guy's account of a long, strange exchange with his Lyft driver in Las Vegas is funny and delightful.
Household Formation Is Destiny
Home-based workers became younger, more diverse in pandemic
- "People working from home became younger, more diverse, better educated and more likely to move during the worst part of the COVID-19 pandemic, according to survey data from the U.S. Census Bureau." (More People in All Race/Ethnic Groups Worked From Home 2019-2021) [CW: link-heavy FPP]
Welcome to Crab Fragment Cay
Internet lore tells us the story of Cheapass Games, founded by prolific gamemaker James Ernest in 1996. Their gimmick was, they printed small and cheap games, sold in small folders, that came with rules and maybe a board and cards. You would then supply all the other parts yourself: tokens, dice, play money, playing cards and other commonly-available parts that you could scavenge from other board games you might have lying around. In 2020, Ernest reentered the publishing industry with Crab Fragment Labs, offering an array of both pay-what-you-want-to-print and paid-for-physical products: card games, board games, quick-playing and easy-to-learn pub games, solitaire games and a wide assortment of the best of the old Cheapass Games, in Cheapassic Park.
Eldritch Horror of the Deep
The Japanese spider crab, up to 3.7m (12ft) from claw to claw, is the largest living arthropod. They're not angry, though, they mostly just eat dead things; and you can eat them. Watch a Japanese spider crab live cam at the Monterey Bay Aquarium (as of this writing, the crab was just chillin'). More facts. Finally, marvel at their majestic glory (DDG image search results).
Flipping the surveillance state
After the Los Angeles Police Department voluntarily turned over 9300 police officers' photos, names, ranks and badge numbers in response to a public records request, it is now suing a reporter and the Stop LAPD Spying Coalition to return these materials, over a concern for undercover officers' privacy.
Do YOU dare to enter the threatening labyrinth of… GEARWORLD?
Come, unwary adventurers, into the strange, wondrous yet terrifying land of GEARWORLD! Documented by the distinguished travel author Eland the Younger, Gearworld is best described as “an access tunnel under reality.” Originally created by MeFi favorite Hugo and Nebula award winner Ursula Vernon (previously) as the draft for a Twine game, Gearworld has taken on a life of its own with multiple interactive fictions, written in Vernon's distinctive style.
The Town Without Television
The Town Without Television is an illustrated series (Part 1: Notel, Part 2: Unitel) about the research studying how television affected the culture of a Canadian town that had gone without it. These stories will soon be collected in to a book.
Yeah, no problem man!
My guy on the tooth picks:
"I was skiing a zone with a partner when I passed by a snowboarder upsidedown and buried in a tree well. I only caught a glimpse of his board but it was enough to get my attention."
ASMR at the Museum
Watch - and listen - as museum conservation staff work on or demonstrate objects at the Victoria & Albert Museum in London. For example: Conserving a Eurovision dress; Humidifying a ballet tutu; Conserving a PJ Harvey costume; Handling a puppet book; Turning the pages of a medieval choirbook; The handling and care of precious books; Massaging hands with bath rasps from Iran; Preparing a Bollywood poster for stretching; Unlocking a 17th-century strongbox. The full playlist. (MLYT).
Some Stylish Substance
The trailer for Asteroid City, Wes Anderson's latest film, is finally out.
The poster was revealed yesterday and the opening date is set for June 16th (6/21 for wider release).
Berber Music / ⵜⴰⵏⵎⵎⵉⵔⵜ
In pursuit of music to study/work/live to, may I present this 1.5 hr spotify playlist of north African music featuring bands such as Bombino, Imarhan, and Ali Farka Toure.
Sociocracy: Democracy as It Might Be
Peace activist and educator Kees Boeke (previously) wrote Sociocracy: Democracy as It Might Be, a Quaker-inspired view of what democracy could look like.
Neon - A Short Skate Film
Neon is five minutes of mindblowing freestyle skateboarding from Andy Anderson, Isamu Yamamoto, and Kilian Martin.
Law Roach and the Politics of Celebrity Style
Superstar celebrity stylist Law Roach unexpectedly announced his retirement via Instagram right after the Oscars, then sat down for a long interview about celebrity styling and the white world of Hollywood gatekeepers.
How Movies Design Los Angeles (And Which One Got it Right)
“For over a century, movies have been our window into Los Angeles, capturing a mean, superficial, car-infested city. How much if that is actually true, though?”
i'm in a pipe / i cannot gripe
Nirvana's Nevermind but with the Super Mario 64 soundfont