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After promising in her Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame speech that she'd now have to make a rock and roll album.... Dolly Parton has come through, in ways only Dolly Parton could! Rockstar, coming out in November, has the most ridiculous cast of rock musicians you can imagine. But not only that! This sister isn't holding back because this rock album is THIRTY TRACKS LONG! Anyway, here's the lead-off single, World On Fire.
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World Wildlife Fund tracks wildlife recovery from Black Summer bushfires with AI, machine learning. Wildlife experts are surprised to see animal populations recovering across eastern Australia following the devastating 2019–2020 Black Summer bushfires. [more inside]
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Street chess player explains the rules of chess to someone who might just have played before. [more inside]
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CW: Police violence in beginning of video
münecat on a Metafilter perennial favorite topic: Sovereign Citizens: Pseudolaw & Disorder (yes this is nearly 2 hours of video essay goodness)
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Moderator Mayhem is a game about moderating a fictional social network. It's hard! And that's the whole point. It was co-written by Techdirt and Engine as a way to help inform emergent conversations about content moderation.
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goblin.tools is a collection of small, simple, single-task tools, mostly designed to help neurodivergent people with tasks they find overwhelming or difficult. [more inside]
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MLB’s plan to integrate Negro League numbers and statistical legacies with its own remains years from completion. More than two years after its announcement, MLB is still in the initial phase of the project: data acquisition. (archive.today link)
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Alasdair Gray, who passed away in 2019, was and is one of Scotland's most prolific authors. Yet in spite of his lifetime of work, none of his novels have ever been adapted into a feature film until now. The teaser for "Poor Things", directed by Yorgo Lanthimos and starring Emma Stone, has dropped.
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When done well, both giving and taking create what psychologists call affordances: features of the environment that allow you to do something. Physical affordances are things like stairs and handles and benches. Conversational affordances are things like digressions and confessions and bold claims that beg for a rejoinder. Talking to another person is like rock climbing, except you are my rock wall and I am yours. If you reach up, I can grab onto your hand, and we can both hoist ourselves skyward. Maybe that’s why a really good conversation feels a little bit like floating. from Good conversations have lots of doorknobs by Adam Mastroianni
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Beweging Is Leven is an eldercare initiative by Azmi Alubeid & Joël Kruisselbrink and it's the most charming, clever, and funny use of every-day objects and whatever is around. Seriously, the videos are just the best. By far the most content seems to be in Instagram so these are Instagram links I'm afraid! But so worth it. [more inside]
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