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How Tucker Carlson Stoked White Fear to Conquer Cable. [more inside]
posted by storybored at 6:53 PM PST - 64 comments

Announced by Indiana.edu (Sept 2021) "Our latest paper “Neutral bots probe political bias on social media” by Wen Chen, Diogo Pacheco, Kai-Cheng Yang & Fil Menczer just came out in Nature Communications. We find strong evidence of political bias on Twitter, but not as many think: (1) it is conservative rather than liberal bias, and (2) it results from user interactions (and abuse) rather than platform algorithms." [more inside]
posted by hippybear at 5:36 PM PST - 5 comments

Falls Church, VA bike shop owner Nick Clark was many things, a former cycling champion, former CEO, a scholar (3 Bachelors, 3 MBAs, and a PhD), former soldier and more. Or so he would have you believe. The truth, as outlined by Cycling Tips, is much, much different. (Note: long read)
posted by tommasz at 1:09 PM PST - 40 comments

Machado de Assis (1870), "Captain Mendonça": "'So you think her eyes are pretty?' 'As I said, they have the rarest beauty.' 'Would you like to have them?' the old man asked." Quotes from other stories by Machado de Assis appear throughout Paul Christopher Johnson's prize-winning open access book Automatic Religion, which "reanimates one of the most mysterious ... questions in trans-Atlantic thought: what is agency?" in discussions of "hysteria" and Charcot's monkey [PDF], the trial of a "possession priest," the popular saint Escrava Anastácia [PDF], Ajeeb the chess automaton, the spiritist Chico Xavier, Locke's Brazilian parrot, and more. See also suggestions made by P. Gabrielle Foreman, et al., in "Writing about Slavery/Teaching about Slavery: This Might Help."
posted by Wobbuffet at 11:59 AM PST - 3 comments

After doing audio production services for The Arboria Institute*, Benge from Memetune Studio has released TMP-01 Vintage Synth TV Series. [more inside]
posted by 2N2222 at 9:28 AM PST - 10 comments

iCalendar (.ics) files (electronic calendar invitations) are specially formatted text and, if you're a programmer, maybe you'll enjoy Christine Spang's "Email as Distributed Protocol Transport: How Meeting Invites Work and Ideas for the Future" (34 minute video) (an Open Source Bridge talk from 2015), as I did. And/or: if you need to make a slightly complicated .ics file to attach to a message or make available as a download/feed, to invite people to several events in a series, Marudot's iCal Event Maker makes that easier.
posted by brainwane at 4:32 AM PST - 8 comments