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A woman had a hard time making friends -- until she built a group based on arranged marriage. "What makes it work are key elements borrowed from arranged marriages: commit first, lean on structure, and allow for fun and intimacy to emerge and sustain the relationship." Most of the group has now been together almost 10 years. [more inside]
posted by NotLost at 9:57 PM PST - 50 comments

A human plays a harmonica for two geese The geese honk appreciatively Another harmonica performance. As posted on the Instagram account of 奇奇 and 凡凡: "We are a family of ducks and geese living in Daan Forest Park." [more inside]
posted by spamandkimchi at 5:50 PM PST - 15 comments

The Pandora Papers are a gigantic set of data about offshore finance that details hidden wealth, tax avoidance, and money laundering. [more inside]
posted by box at 11:04 AM PST - 43 comments

For [Felicia D.] Henderson, working on Family Matters offered an introduction to a defining feature of her long career in Hollywood. Negotiated authenticity is the phrase she uses to describe what many Black screenwriters are tasked with producing—Blackness, sure, but only of a kind that is acceptable to white showrunners, studio executives, and viewers. Not Enough Has Changed Since Sanford and Son, by Hannah Giorgis.
posted by The corpse in the library at 10:33 AM PST - 10 comments

Seawind Saga: Pilot who crashed in Lake Michigan had 7 crashes in 7 days. A pilot buys a used homebuilt Seawind and does not succeed in getting it home (luckily, without injury).
posted by ShooBoo at 10:07 AM PST - 48 comments

It's the last scheduled day of the regular season in Major League Baseball and every game will be played starting simultaneously at 3 pm Eastern. The AL Wild Card and the NL West are still up for grabs and a bewildering array of two, three, and even four way ties and resulting tiebreaker games is on the table. Root for your favorite team, or just root for chaos.
posted by DirtyOldTown at 7:54 AM PST - 52 comments

Did you enjoy the movie That Thing You Do? Then you might also enjoy this oral history of That Thing You Do. Find out things you've always wanted to know, such as: Who got dysentery? Who went on a date with Madonna? Is Tom Hanks an awful person? And what's the bass player's name?
posted by amarynth at 7:45 AM PST - 42 comments

Beeple and Mohrbacher and others in other words took their works and completely removed them from the one place in which they shine as the art of the present: completely unbounded meme distribution, aesthetic experiences without Aura, without original, without a set history or place. They made art designed for that sphere, and locked it behind a trading mechanism powered by burning rainforests.

Why is all this nft art so, you know? Storming the Ivory Tower tries to explain.
posted by MartinWisse at 12:45 AM PST - 66 comments