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posted by aniola at 10:38 PM PST - 34 comments

From Frutiger Aero to Global Village Coffeehouse to Wacky Pomo, the Consumer Aesthetics Research Institute is committed to cataloging the design trends of turn of the century, referred to broadly as Y2K.
posted by subocoyne at 10:29 PM PST - 28 comments

Aaron Reed's 50 Years of Text Games (intro) so far covers 1971-1986, e.g. Oregon Trail, ROCKET, Hunt the Wumpus, Super Star Trek, dnd, Adventure, Zork, Pirate Adventure, CYOA novels, MUDs, and HHGTTG. But dissertations by Carra Glatt on "... Counterfactual Plotting in the Victorian Novel" [PDF], Alex Solomon on "The Rhetoric of Probability" [PDF] in 17th-18th C. lit (including proto-science fiction by Kepler and Godwin), Jessica Saxon on "... Paratexts, Narrative Interventions, and the Queering of Possible Worlds ..." [PDF] in "illicit" 19th C. narratives, and Peter Sorrell on "Narrative Worlds and Fictional Worlds" [PDF] in novels by Queneau, Simon, and Robbe-Grillet take up Meinong's Jungle, "Truth in Fiction" [PDF], and especially "Possible Worlds" narratological theory to reconsider texts from the further past in similar terms: "machine[s] for producing possible worlds" [PDF]. Incidentally, Reed's uniquely-generated horror novel Subcutanean is a current finalist for a Lambda Literary Award.
posted by Wobbuffet at 3:03 PM PST - 26 comments

I'm a part time employee halfway through a two week notice [SLTwitter video]
posted by Ahmad Khani at 2:29 PM PST - 99 comments

Linux kernel maintainer Greg Kroah-Hartman reacted to the discovery that researchers at the University of Minnesota had been submitting bogus patches by banning all code submissions from UMN. The University's CS&E has since put a halt to the research. [more inside]
posted by axiom at 1:20 PM PST - 106 comments

You may have heard that one should be very careful about opening files from untrusted sources; there’s always the possibility that they could pose a risk to the integrity of your computer. When you’re in the business of providing your law-enforcement customers with software whose whole point it is to handle data from extremely untrusted sources, you might think that this is particularly salient advice. If you don’t heed it, your customers might have to immediately stop scanning mobile phones of suspects who may be using the popular Signal instant-messaging app. Indeed you would be giving them, and defenders and courts, very good reasons to doubt this kind of evidence altogether. Moxie Marlinspike (previously) first broke the news about the hack of Cellebrite’s digital forensics software in an entertaining post on the Signal blog.
posted by wachhundfisch at 11:25 AM PST - 71 comments

A clear, attractive guide to caring for all your many plants. via Laura Olin
posted by BuddhaInABucket at 9:12 AM PST - 24 comments

Post-kill, two thirsty lions encounter a brazen turtle. (SLYT). [more inside]
posted by Iris Gambol at 9:05 AM PST - 25 comments

Alan Lomax's field recordings are available on a newly-redesigned site. Alan Lomax started making recordings for the Library of Congress in 1933, with his father John, and recorded folk music and interviews from around the United States and the world on reel-to-reel tape between 1946 and 1991. These field recordings are the source material that sparked the American folk revival in the 1950s and 1960s. [more inside]
posted by goingonit at 8:42 AM PST - 14 comments

The Antikythera Cosmos "The UCL Antikythera Research Team struggle to solve the front of the Antikythera Mechanism—a fragmentary ancient Greek astronomical calculator—revealing a dazzling display of the ancient Greek Cosmos" [previously]
posted by dhruva at 8:23 AM PST - 11 comments

Defund the Police? An Abolition Curriculum. "In the wake of continued high profile police shootings across the United States, many people in the [Mennonite] church pushed for an Anabaptist-oriented response and resources that helped us to move as a church into solidarity with the pain and brutality being felt and witnessed on Black, brown and Indigenous people. This curriculum is our response...This curriculum is an initial guide for congregations who are desiring to begin or continue their reflection on what it means to engage the forces of state, their commitments to non-violence and how to act to end policing and police brutality." [more inside]
posted by MonkeyToes at 8:20 AM PST - 4 comments

“The history of photography is based on the experiments of amateurs,” Samuel Trachsel, photographer. The wheel has never been reinvented because the design is simple enough to preclude it. Not so the camera. Here are 15 photographers/tinkerers who do just that.
posted by From Bklyn at 5:28 AM PST - 9 comments

The opening seven minutes of the new Mortal Kombat.
posted by sapagan at 1:59 AM PST - 36 comments

Known for playing villains in the U.S. and more nuanced roles in Denmark, he takes everything and nothing seriously. [Vulture] Bonus: Mads Mikkelsen being himself for 3 straight minutes
posted by ellieBOA at 1:23 AM PST - 34 comments