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Montana G.O.P. Bars Transgender Lawmaker From House Floor - New York Times (ghostarchive.org)
posted by buffy12 at 8:03 PM PST - 74 comments

The amazing story of how Philly cheesesteaks became huge in Lahore, Pakistan
posted by Fiasco da Gama at 7:32 PM PST - 15 comments

In a lengthy and deeply personal video, Kevin Smith revisits his recent mental breakdown, discusses his decision to part with cannabis, and details the practical breathing and mindfulness techniques that have aided his journey to recovery. Content warning (CW) for discussion of sexual abuse.
posted by Gordion Knott at 7:17 PM PST - 23 comments

After Disney laid off more than half of FiveThirtyEight's 35 staff members earlier this week, editor-in-chief Nate Silver said on Twitter that he was unlikely to renew his contract when it expires this summer. [more inside]
posted by dyslexictraveler at 4:01 PM PST - 63 comments

Our collective memories are what give us historical consciousness. We currently have next to nothing we can point to and say: this happened, it is still happening, here is what we’ve lost, and here’s why this must never happen again. from Hollywood Pretends There Is No Pandemic by Violet Blue
posted by chavenet at 3:41 PM PST - 48 comments

Disney Sues Ron DeSantis (Reuters, NPR, NYT, AP)
posted by box at 11:58 AM PST - 172 comments

Gravity batteries are a means of storing and using energy by raising and lowering mass. They are being put into production.
posted by dances_with_sneetches at 10:39 AM PST - 67 comments

Sarah Palin Forever: A short film by AI researcher Eryk Salvaggio, made with Midjourney and AI-generated voice narration, and based on a short story he wrote -- which itself was based on his real-life experience covering a 2008 Sarah Palin rally as a college journalist. As he explains in his newsletter, it is somewhere between a "horror story" and a "joke that goes on too long".
posted by Cash4Lead at 10:27 AM PST - 10 comments

Christina Sharpe is expanding the vocabulary of life in slavery’s long shadow — peeling back the meaning of familiar words and resurrecting neglected history. [NY Times Magazine] What would it mean to understand all of American life as still caught in the wake, still caught in the undertow of the ships that carried the enslaved? Sharpe also put forth the metaphors of the ship (the processes by which Black people are still seen as property), the hold (the ways that captivity and punishment are still central to Black life) and the weather (the ambient anti-Blackness that is as pervasive as climate).
posted by Ahmad Khani at 10:14 AM PST - 2 comments

Burp and Fart Piano. That's it.
posted by slater at 8:21 AM PST - 23 comments

Dan Cannon said in a YouTube video that he had purchased not-yet-released March of the Machine: Aftermath booster boxes on Friday from a local dealer while thinking they were part of the recently released March of the Machine set. It seems likely that someone in WotC’s distribution network had screwed up, perhaps sending out the wrong boxes due to the similarly named product lines, and he ended up with MtG cards that aren’t supposed to be for sale. After he posted about these cards online, Pinkerton agents showed up to intimidate him into giving the cards back to WotC. (Wizards of the Coast has confirmed to Kotaku via email that it employed the private detectives as part of its investigation.)
posted by Etrigan at 8:15 AM PST - 109 comments

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." [more inside]
posted by joannemerriam at 5:55 AM PST - 67 comments

The state of modded Skyrim in 2023: [Ray Tracing Shader | RTX 4090 | 4K DLSS] [FPS Test With RTGI Shader | 3440x1440] [RTX 3060TI] [Reshade RTGI - 1400+ MODS]
posted by Fizz at 5:47 AM PST - 14 comments

Northern hairy-nosed wombat numbers seem to be increasing (text article and embedded video). The northern hairy-nosed wombat species (the rarest of Australia's three wombat species) almost became extinct in the 1980s when numbers plummeted to 30 wombats at the Epping Forest National Park, about 400 kilometres south-west of Mackay. The first translocation of wombats from Epping to RUNR happened in 2009, and it is believed about 350 wombats now live between the two sites. Given the finite space of the current two sites and the predicted population growth of the large animals, the Queensland Government announced last month that a third wombat protection site had been added to its wombat recovery program.
posted by chariot pulled by cassowaries at 4:02 AM PST - 12 comments