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Smothered - The Censorship Struggles Of The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour [1h32m, 2002, Archive.org link] is a quality documentary about a lot of things, but mostly about how a folksy charming comedy show got too edgy for network television.
posted by hippybear at 8:36 PM PST - 27 comments

Netflix will end DVD-by-mail service in September of this year. A nation mourns. [more inside]
posted by Johnny Assay at 3:42 PM PST - 104 comments

The Michigan Daily's The Daily Book Review recommends for National Poetry Month: Devotions by Mary Oliver, Civil Service by Claire Schwartz, Be Holding by Ross Gay, and Asylum: A Personal, Historical, Natural Inquiry in 103 Lyric Sections by Jill Bialosky. [more inside]
posted by joannemerriam at 3:04 PM PST - 11 comments

Elvis Costello performed 240 songs from his 600+ songbook over ten nights at the Gramercy Theater in New York from Feb. 9-22. Costello superfan (and comedian) Connor Ratliff brought us the highlights from every night of the historic run. Catch up on his reports from Night One, Night Two, Night Three, Night Four, Night Five, Night Six, Night Seven, Night Eight, Night Nine, and Night Ten.
posted by nicwolff at 1:26 PM PST - 15 comments

Pun generator [via mefi projects]
posted by mandolin conspiracy at 12:37 PM PST - 46 comments

Christina Hartmann and Michael Siegrist at the Technical University of Zurich have discovered that people’s disgust concerning food can be broken into eight distinct scales. The factors that determine why people differ on the various triggers for food disgust are not well understood, but the authors hope their instrument will contribute to a greater mapping-out of individual differences in this regard. [more inside]
posted by curious nu at 11:35 AM PST - 95 comments

Dr. Mary Doherty is a consultant anaesthetist, intensive care doctor, and clinical research fellow. She is also autistic. In 2019 she founded Autistic Doctors International, which currently represents over 700 autistic medical doctors. She argues that while medicine selects for autistic traits, the healthcare system presents systemic barriers to access for autistic adults. She also argues strongly against recent attempts to subcategorize autistic people based on "severity", highlighting that [u]nreliability of speech for usually fluent autistic people, and the speed at which we can go from articulate and competent to completely unable to access speech, is not generally appreciated.
posted by heatherlogan at 9:05 AM PST - 6 comments

The Library of Congress has added 25 recordings to the National Recording Archive. [more inside]
posted by box at 5:09 AM PST - 39 comments

It is tempting to ignore this transaction because the business is some pervy corner of the internet. But I would argue that Pornhub (and by proxy its parent company MindGeek) is one of the most important websites in the world. Pornhub had over 2B visits last year and 100M+ daily active users. Visitor’s average time on site is 9 minutes and 54 seconds. Meaning that in 2022, a grand total of ~38,026.51 years of time was spent at this URL. Anything that aggregates this much attention matters. from We Don’t Know Enough About the Pornhub Acquisition by Evan Armstrong [all links SFW but the topic is PornHub] [more inside]
posted by chavenet at 2:54 AM PST - 26 comments