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How the Ford F-150 Lightning's Chief Engineer Linda Zhang Brought the World an Electric Pickup - "Zhang came to the U.S. when she was eight years old without knowing any English. Now she's the brains behind the Ford F-150 Lightning."
posted by kliuless at 10:19 PM PST - 154 comments

Legendary fencing coach David Dushman, 98, and the last surviving Soviet soldier involved in the liberation of the Nazi death camp at Auschwitz, has died. [more inside]
posted by Mitheral at 9:56 PM PST - 26 comments

Photographs of Fire Island’s Cherry Grove Show Its History as a Gay Sanctuary Vogue profiles photography exhibit Save/Haven, with 8 or 9 really delicious photos from the show.
posted by hippybear at 9:21 PM PST - 6 comments

The indie bundle for Palestinian Aid has 1000+ projects for $5+, with the possibility of more to come, is up and available until this Friday, June 11. The bundle's featured game is Liyla, a game based on actual events about a little girl in Gaza during the war in 2014. It also includes games like Mini Metro, VVVVVV, Pikuniku, Orwell and Calico, among many, many others. [more inside]
posted by simmering octagon at 4:52 PM PST - 24 comments

What has been lost? The materiality of control panels, and the peculiar layouts of their buttons, potentiometers, etc., have always made an aesthetic statement as well as a tactile experience, a gym for the fingers, exercise in tailoring precision movements to the variable surface tension of painted alloys and plastics. The satisfying resistance of a well-designed knob, the almost imperceptible click of the needle in a VU meter, the tapping of keys, the gentle whirring of reels and discs… simple pleasures. from The Control Panel Archive: The Tactile Beauty of Buttons, Meters, Knobs and Dials [more inside]
posted by chavenet at 12:31 PM PST - 118 comments

Librarian and researcher Dorothea Salo teaches an information security and privacy class that "asks students to investigate various aspects of the privacy/security situation surrounding their choice of campus-related data." Based on what they dug up, Salo requested records of her own library usage data at the University of Wisconsin, and published the dataset. It's big and detailed, goes back to 2002, and violates traditional library-patron privacy expectations. Librarian Kendra K. Levine: "The circulation data should not exist. I know it’s valuable for collection assessment but to the level of granularity tied to an individual?" Salo wrote a follow-up to "give you some idea where to go looking if you’re curious about a library’s stated practice".
posted by brainwane at 8:33 AM PST - 29 comments

No food security without food sovereignty. John, an Inuit hunter from Northern Canada, and Carolina, the Indigenous Knowledge and Science Advisor for the Inuit Circumpolar Council in Alaska, discuss how food security fits into a bigger picture of Inuit self-determination. Then, we hear from Mumilaaq, who’s addressing that bigger picture on an even larger stage: in Canada’s Parliament. [more inside]
posted by infinite intimation at 8:29 AM PST - 2 comments

The NHL Says ‘Hockey Is For Everyone.’ Black Players Aren’t So Sure. This is about how overwhelmingly white professional hockey is and whether Black Canadians and Black Americans feel safe playing hockey while adapting in a very conformist culture that does not support the same level of activism like NFL and NBA....several coaches like John Tortorella who changed their anthem kneeling stance reluctantly...... [more inside]
posted by Broncos 1999 at 7:42 AM PST - 21 comments

Germany faced its horrible past. Can we do the same? SLWaPo essay. [more inside]
posted by mumimor at 5:41 AM PST - 35 comments