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Perhaps the strain of maintaining the nation's COVID-19 liveblog got too much for the Australian national broadcaster today, as the Australian Broadcasting Corporation's local Facebook pages went to war... with themselves [slFB, very silly] [more inside]
posted by prismatic7 at 11:36 PM PST - 11 comments

The history of Soviet jazz began on Oct. 1, 1922, when the first jazz concert with amateur musicians was held in Moscow. Several years later the popular American jazz bands of Frank Witers and Sam Wooding (Archive.org recordings) visited the Soviet Union, giving a series of concerts with huge success. [...] At first, Soviet jazz bands played American jazz, but gradually more works by Soviet jazz composers became popular. However, soon the Soviet leadership’s relation towards jazz changed. In the 1930s jazz was proclaimed as an example of bourgeois culture and hugely criticized. Why American Jazz was first welcomed and later banned in the USSR (Boris Egorov for Russia Beyond) [more inside]
posted by filthy light thief at 10:15 PM PST - 9 comments

Step-by-step tutorial on the Hands Challenge for the viral clapping rhythm that got popular on Tik Tok a few years back. Are you rhythmically untalented? Did you never figure out the cup song from 2013's Pitch Perfect? Now's your time to shine!
posted by spamandkimchi at 8:48 PM PST - 5 comments

In the wake of yet another food personality showing themselves to be problematic, Buzzfeed's Scaachi Koul (pre vious ly) profiles Guy Fieri, the last unproblematic food person.
posted by thecjm at 7:46 PM PST - 75 comments

As summer nears, a Swedish chicken company rolls out a TV ad that celebrates “grilling for the next generation.”
posted by Bella Donna at 2:55 PM PST - 26 comments

Wolgang Grasse was a temporal misfit.
His metaphysical and magical realistic , often apocalyptical and disturbing, work can be traced back to Bosch, Bruegel and Max Beckman
A gallery with provenence. (This is an Art post so some pictures are NSFW)
posted by adamvasco at 1:58 PM PST - 4 comments

15 years ago, a certain video was uploaded to the internet "documenting" a raid in World of Warcraft going horribly wrong with the exuberant cry of "LEEROY JENKINS!" [more inside]
posted by NoxAeternum at 1:53 PM PST - 47 comments

Meet Mojo Lens, a smart contact lens with a built-in display. (digital trends)
posted by adept256 at 1:15 PM PST - 42 comments

How Chris Hayes Makes Sense of the “World-Historical Cataclysm” — The New Yorker's Isaac Chotiner interviews MSNBC's Chris Hayes on a wide range of topics, including the impact of COVID-19 on the informational value of cable news and the difficulties of bringing leftists and liberals together after a divisive Democratic primary.
posted by tonycpsu at 12:14 PM PST - 4 comments

Cancer has taken his voice, but the unlikeliest movie star in Hollywood history still has a lot he wants to say. Content Warning: This story is not about coronavirus, but it is very much informed by the pandemic.
posted by Etrigan at 11:33 AM PST - 51 comments

Elon Musk Meets Mlon Eusk (SLYT)
posted by splitpeasoup at 11:31 AM PST - 14 comments

The Old Town of Ghadamès, an ancient city in the Libyan desert, is a beautiful and excellent example of a "desert urbanism," of a pre-Roman oasis town on the caravan routes across the Sahara. [more inside]
posted by the man of twists and turns at 11:30 AM PST - 6 comments

“Double Rainbow Guy” Paul Vasquez / yosemitebear has passed on at 57. (Modesto Bee, Washington Post, CNN)
posted by Going To Maine at 10:20 AM PST - 33 comments

A preemptive eulogy for the cassette adapter: As we move into an era of increasingly convoluted and exclusionary music-playing options, a moment of recognition is in order for the last great car stereo equalizer. (The Outline) The Car Cassette Adapter: A Legend of Technology: The car cassette adapter is one of the most underrated pieces of technology ever devised. (Interesting Engineering) Aux to Cassette Adapter Teardown and Explanation (Youtube), How to make a Bluetooth Cassette Adapter (Youtube)
posted by not_the_water at 9:26 AM PST - 46 comments

Twitch roulette helps you find the loneliest streamers “The site randomly shuffles live Twitch.tv streams and connects you to ones with empty rooms and no other viewers. This breaks out of the algorithmically-selected and most popular streamers you've probably already watched, and allows for something new.” [via Vice]
posted by Fizz at 9:06 AM PST - 20 comments

Philadelphia native Gene Demby reports for NPR on the day the day the Philadelphia police bombed 62nd and Osage Avenue in West Philadelphia. "I started revisiting the story of MOVE in earnest when the issue of race and policing in the United States had again become a regular focus of the national news. Almost every chord from that larger metastory — the mutual distrust between the police and black communities, the militarization of local law enforcement agencies, incidents of police brutality — seemed to play out in the particular story of the MOVE bombing — except in the case of MOVE, the volume and scale was ratcheted way up: Philadelphia's police had killed nearly a dozen people and, in the process, leveled an entire swath of a neighborhood full of middle-class black homeowners."
posted by ChuraChura at 9:05 AM PST - 21 comments

Yahya Hassan is / was a young Danish-Palestinian poet.
His most notable work, Yahya Hassan, was the best-selling debut poetry collection in Denmark, and has been printed in more than 120,000 copies.
He died last week at the age of 24.
Here's Poems of Rage, an interview with English subtitles
posted by growabrain at 4:30 AM PST - 6 comments

Suzelle demonstrates how to get fluff off a jersey. I don't know how well known Suzelle DIY is outside of South Africa. I love these early videos of hers, that all have a bit of a twist to them. How to chop an onion and How to change a plug
posted by Zumbador at 12:47 AM PST - 13 comments