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Takeo Ischi and Schmoyoho, of Chicken Attack fame (previously), are back with two new videos for your listening pleasure. Also, pigs and rats. And an accountant. No but wait! They're a CHICKEN accountant. All slyt. (Turn on the subtitles for additional descriptions) Takeo Ischi previously.
posted by Rufous-headed Towhee heehee at 10:44 PM PST - 6 comments

On January 30th 2020, NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope will complete its mission.

NASA is saying goodbye to one of its Great Observatories after a successful 16-year mission. The telescope will soon transmit the last of its science data and will be sent commands to power down. It will remain in space indefinitely, slowly drifting away from the earth. [more inside]
posted by peeedro at 10:19 PM PST - 13 comments

The same 80s Aerobics video with different songs is a Facebook account that does what it says:

Dragula
Shake it Off
Psychosocial
(the original video)
posted by Johnny Wallflower at 6:50 PM PST - 31 comments

Phillip Agnew's 'With These Hands' – Powerful Bernie Rally Moment. (YouTube 5min16sec) Phillip Agnew works for the Sanders campaign and the clip is a very unique approach to politics that took a turn to something almost spiritual when he asked the crowd to get their neighbours permission to hold their hand. Big but good emotions follow. Rep. Ocasio-Cortez, later during her speech, remarked that, Phillip "took them to church". Sen. Sanders wasn't there, as he had to work on the Trump impeachment in D.C. [more inside]
posted by phoque at 3:20 PM PST - 44 comments

The current proliferation of visual information mirrors a similar moment in the early nineteenth century, when the advent of new printing techniques coincided with the rapid expansion of education. Schoolrooms from the Atlantic seaboard to the Mississippi frontier made room for the children of farmers as well as merchants, girls as well as boys. Together, these shifts created a robust and highly competitive market for school materials, including illustrated textbooks, school atlases, and even the new genre of wall maps. No individual exploited this publishing opportunity more than Emma Willard, one of the century’s most influential educators. Emma Willard's Maps of Time (Public Domain Review) [more inside]
posted by filthy light thief at 2:04 PM PST - 5 comments

Game Urara (ゲームウララ) was a Japanese magazine focused on underground gaming culture (and BBSes and fetish material and warez and hacking and piracy) with a short lifespan of just five issues in the mid-1990s. The content could be described in one word: Madness. Every issue of Game Urara is available online at the Internet Archive [NSFW]. [more inside]
posted by youarenothere at 1:37 PM PST - 12 comments

The music is more than a personality trait. (Shuja Haider, The Outline)
posted by Think_Long at 1:12 PM PST - 45 comments

What happens when "relatable" YouTubers quit their day jobs to influence full time?
posted by backseatpilot at 11:00 AM PST - 34 comments

How to design AI that eliminates disability bias (Financial Times, Twitter link in case of paywall issues) — "As AI is introduced into gadgets and services, stories of algorithmic discrimination have exposed the tendency of machine learning to magnify the prejudices that skew human decision-making against women and ethnic minorities, which machines were supposed to avoid. Equally rife, but less discussed, are AI's repercussions for those with disabilities." [more inside]
posted by tonycpsu at 10:37 AM PST - 29 comments

MeFi's own Adam Savage gets to play with the best toys. (SLYT) Boston Dynamics previously.
posted by valkane at 10:05 AM PST - 30 comments

As Trump’s lawyers begin their defense in the impeachment trial and Republicans rally around the president, an unpublished draft book by John Bolton asserts Trump tied Ukraine aid to the inquiries he sought (reprint), and provides an outline of what Mr. Bolton might testify to if he is called as a witness (reprint). Depending on what comes next, a final vote on whether to remove Donald Trump from office could happen before his State of the Union address on February 4. [more inside]
posted by katra at 8:05 AM PST - 1539 comments

The “Roguelike” War Is Over by jeremiah This blog post is an open letter (against my better judgment) to the roguelike community and specifically to the r/roguelikes subreddit. And on this subreddit, a war rages constantly. A war of words. [more inside]
posted by Fizz at 7:47 AM PST - 112 comments

Is it possible to out-eat the price you pay for a buffet? How do these places make money? Zachary Crockett of The Hustle looks at "the dollars and cents behind the meat and potatoes."
posted by Etrigan at 7:37 AM PST - 73 comments

Samantha Irby (whole buncha previously), NYT Bestselling author of We Are Never Meeting In Real Life and writer behind the best episode of Hulu's Shrill is featured in The New Yorker with an excerpt from her forthcoming book, Wow, No Thank You.
posted by Maaik at 7:13 AM PST - 8 comments

She dropped a coin into the cup
Of a blind man at the gate...
“...Probably my favorite Dylan cover on what is easily my favorite Jerry Garcia Band recording. If not my favorite of any of Jerry's live output, The "After Midnight- Kean College 1980" show.
Then watch the show from the next night, 03/01/80 ... Two of his best ever....”
Via late night Local Stain MLTSHP
Dylan's version from Blood on the tracks (and Live from around Rolling Thunder)
Other covers:
Joan Baez from "Diamonds & Rust"
Jeff Twiddy
Diana Krall
others
wikipedia [more inside]
posted by growabrain at 12:26 AM PST - 6 comments

How was school? Disabled people's experiences of education over the last century. Public Disability History, with narratives including depression in Nazi Germany and an amputee in Napoleonic France. Disabled people at Oxford University. Cabinet of Curiosities: How Disability was kept in a Box (performance by Mat Fraser). On Twitter, David Turner posts about disability history. [more inside]
posted by paduasoy at 12:20 AM PST - 4 comments