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Composer and musician Gabriel Kahane's essay, In Defense of Friction is a thought-provoking manifesto that advocates getting rid of your smartphone. Only the first third is about music. (previously)
posted by eotvos at 4:31 PM PST - 36 comments

In his blog post "Can you be sure to clear a line at Tetris?", theoretical computer science researcher Antoine Amarilli asks: can you be sure to clear a line at Tetris? Specifically, even if the computer hates you and doesn't want to let you? [more inside]
posted by cortex at 10:56 AM PST - 14 comments

"Written for me" (link directs you to a CBC Radio interview on Q, with Tom Power): it was a long journey from his roles in Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom and The Goonies, but Ke Huy Quan's appearance in Everything Everywhere All at Once (previously) is a cosmically satisfying development. Stick around for a discussion on DALL-E 2 (previously)
posted by elkevelvet at 10:56 AM PST - 15 comments

Eat well, ride a motorcycle. A small celebration of Two Fat Ladies, the joy of eating, travel, and not giving a hoot. Episodes can be found on Youtube.
posted by PussKillian at 8:23 AM PST - 22 comments

A sad and infuriating true story by Domenica Feraud about power dynamics in a relationship, show business, and bad behavior by men. (SL Medium) [more inside]
posted by nayantara at 7:47 AM PST - 44 comments

Nobody will read this essay in 200 years.
posted by box at 7:00 AM PST - 68 comments

Beyond all reason is a real-time strategy game. It has been described as “an homage to Total Annihilation.” It is available for free.
posted by No Robots at 6:47 AM PST - 12 comments

Mattea Roach has paid off her student loans at just 23 years old, thanks to winning 15 games on Jeopardy!, the fourth double-digit win streak in the current season. She has qualified for the Tournament of Champions in November, where she will compete with Amy Schneider, Matt Amodio, and a bunch of other people who have got to be thinking Oh come on! at this point.
posted by Etrigan at 6:22 AM PST - 26 comments

A couple of weeks ago the outline of Lithuania featured in Worldle. The peculiar appendix pene-exclave blurfing into Belarus from the SE border is called Dieveniškės [Polish: Dziewieniszki, Belarusian: Дзевянішкі]. In a border-fluid region of Europe, Dieveniškės came to be Lithuanian because of a petition by the inhabitants in Soviet times. Since shortly after Lithuania joined the EU in 2004, because Schengen, the border has been marked by a neighbour dividing chain-link fence. Dieveniškės is about the size of Liechtenstein or Martha's Vineyard.
posted by BobTheScientist at 3:17 AM PST - 11 comments