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Zero Books is a leader in publishing current critical theory, radical philosophy, aesthetics, film theory, experimental fiction, and the avant-garde. They "aim to publish books that make our readers uncomfortable, books that require authors go beyond hot takes and received opinions. Zer0 Books is on the left and wants to reinvent the left." Zero Squared is a philosophy podcast from Zero Books. The latest guest is Shaun Scott, a Seattle-based writer, historian, and filmmaker who wrote a column entitled "In Defense of Call-out Culture." Unrelated but loosely connected on topic is 'The problem of hyper-liberalism'. [more inside]
posted by spaceburglar at 11:57 PM PST - 32 comments

Denver news anchor Kyle Clark has had it with your trite photos of snow-covered patio furniture.
posted by Johnny Wallflower at 10:31 PM PST - 29 comments

Teens are sniffing condoms through their noses and having them come out of their mouths.
posted by Literaryhero at 8:58 PM PST - 68 comments

In an alternate universe, the recruiting alien from The Last Starfighter got together with the mom from the Partridge Family and the narrator from Arrested Development and filmed a musical together. OH WAIT THAT'S THIS UNIVERSE!

I've had the 1962 Original Movie Soundtrack for The Music Man [YT playlist] memorized for so many decades I once freaked out an entire room of people by doing Rock Island and Iowa Stubborn along with the movie while it was playing on TCM. Side A: Main Title / Rock Island / Iowa Stubborn, Ya Got Trouble, Piano Lesson & If You Don't Mind My Saying So, Goodnight My Someone, Ya Got Trouble & Seventy-Six Trombones, Sincere, The Sadder But Wiser Girl, Pick-A-Little Talk-A-Little [more inside]
posted by hippybear at 8:23 PM PST - 76 comments

Last year, Trans Queer Pueblo protested Phoenix Pride’s pride parade. This year, conflict over police presence, and sponsorship by corporations viewed as anti-immigration, remains unresolved, despite the theme of this year’s Pride Festival being “United We Stand: Equality For All.”
posted by Grandysaur at 7:49 PM PST - 4 comments

Every couple has one core fight that replays over and over again, in different disguises, over the course of their relationship. In Slate's One Fight series, "couples analyze the origin and mechanics of their One Fight". Recent fights include Stability vs. Adventure , The Scorekeeper vs. the Pitcher-Inner, and Fast vs. Slow.
posted by ThePinkSuperhero at 4:31 PM PST - 91 comments

'Minit' Is a Speedy Triumph, Where The Goal Is Simple: Live, Die, Repeat [Waypoint] “You wake up in your little house. There’s a little dog. And a timer, counting down sixty seconds. Shit! Time to get going. You stumble out into a sprawling, monochrome map. North? West? One way is blocked. Thirty seconds. You find a lighthouse. You climb up, as the timer ticks down. As the seconds slip away, you find an important quest item. Ding! Sixty seconds done. You wake up in your little house. There’s a dog… and oh yeah, you have that quest item now. So you use this run to explore a new area or use your new ability.” [YouTube][Gameplay Trailer] [more inside]
posted by Fizz at 2:33 PM PST - 23 comments

A collector is putting a huge collection of scooters up for auction. The auction begin on 8 April in Vienna. Here's the link to the auction catalogue
posted by MovableBookLady at 1:09 PM PST - 19 comments

"After Richard Linklater’s Slacker became an unexpected box-office hit in 1991, every major studio in the United States dropped untold amounts of money trying to clone its success — that is, to duplicate a film that cost $23,000 to make and whose entire raison d’etre was that it did not care about success. Some offerings, such as Cameron Crowe’s Singles (1992), succeeded in spite of their own distributors’ low expectations. Others, such as then “indie comic” (!) Ben Stiller’s Reality Bites, succeeded in spite of, or probably because of, their own craven cynicism. (There was also Threesome, Lord help us all.) These films relied, without exception, on two crucial tropes: the cynical cool of rejecting ambition and popularity, and the mopey, tortured Gen X man-child who embodied that cool." Rebecca Schuman writes for Longreads, You’ve Reached the Winter of Our Discontent: A half-assed elegy for the Cool-Loser Dream Boy of Gen-X cinema.
posted by everybody had matching towels at 1:00 PM PST - 93 comments

Meshell Ndegeocello has released an album of covers, including a reinvention of TLC’s Waterfalls. Other tracks include Prince’s Sometimes it Snows in April and Tina Turner’s Private Dancer. [more inside]
posted by roger ackroyd at 11:50 AM PST - 9 comments

John Cena and Ike Barinholtz narrate a makeup tutorial.
posted by ellieBOA at 11:21 AM PST - 8 comments

At this start of the fiscal year of 2018, we now have the Internet to answer the age-old question: Is there any way you can use leftover coffee from yesterday morning? [SLYT]
posted by Smart Dalek at 10:14 AM PST - 52 comments

New York City's monument to racism and apathy in the criminal justice system is set to be shuttered - but that might not be enough. Closing Rikers Island. (The Nib) Half The People Awaiting Trial In NYC Jails Are There Because They Can't Afford Bail. (Gothamist) The Case For Closure (PDF). Bail and speedy trail reforms left out of Coumo’s State budget.
posted by The Whelk at 10:04 AM PST - 9 comments

Point: I am tired of being a Jewish man’s rebellion

Counterpoint: How Dare Jewish Men Keep Breaking Up With Me [more inside]
posted by griphus at 9:57 AM PST - 244 comments

Seagulls, Tourists, Pepperoni and eventually, Redemption. A Dartmouth, Nova Scotia man gets his ban from the Fairmont Empress Hotel in Victoria lifted after 17 years. Story by Anjuli Patil.
posted by Navelgazer at 9:55 AM PST - 26 comments

Lindsay Ellis takes a look into what went down in the making of The Hobbit trilogy in her long-form retrospective review.
Part 1: A Long-Expected Autopsy
Part 2: The Battle of Five Studios
posted by Christ, what an asshole at 9:50 AM PST - 38 comments

Braille Neue is a combination of OCR-styled Latin characters and Braille dots, readable by the blind and sighted equally well. It's not the first of its kind, and the site cites a few earlier examples, but it's a new (and to my eyes more attractive) design. The author hopes to see it used at the 2020 Tokyo Olympics.
posted by wanderingmind at 8:42 AM PST - 32 comments

What to do with design thinking? ... It can be superficial, it can be misleading, and it can produce bad design... Even so, design thinking is still a useful lesson in how we, as designers, think about the democratization of our craft.

- Khoi Vinh talks about the democratization of design at the School of Visual Arts' Master's Program in Design Research. [more inside]
posted by jenkinsEar at 6:46 AM PST - 34 comments

Apple will reportedly ditch Intel chips in Macs as early as 2020. [SL The Verge]
posted by Juso No Thankyou at 5:58 AM PST - 167 comments

Tash Sultana is a young multi-instrumentalist who filmed her jams. Jungle (8 min), Mystic (4 min), Synergy (6 min), and more. Here's a Notion (12 min) of what she is like live. Want more? Here's an hour of Sultana performing a couple of weeks ago at Lollapalooza, Chile. [more inside]
posted by Thella at 5:39 AM PST - 10 comments