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anyway, do you guys want to hear a story: "two weeks ago a mysterious cursed root appeared on my front doorstep. it was the length of my forearm and shaped like a fucked up turkey leg. look here it is"
posted by JamesBay at 9:18 PM PST - 47 comments

Noble charter schools, which cover about 10% of Chicago's high school students, have discipline policies that have been described as dehumanizing. These includes strong restrictions on bathroom use, including for girls on their periods. [more inside]
posted by ErisLordFreedom at 8:32 PM PST - 62 comments

What do you do with a de-faced doll? You could stick on eyes from a magazine and call it a day, or make them look more realistic (multiple links to Poppen Atelier doll make-over videos; Poppen Atelier on Instagram)
posted by filthy light thief at 7:58 PM PST - 7 comments

SB Nation editor and fan favorite Jon Bois and friends field up another episode of Dorktown. This time, the discussion is about Adam Dunn, being a "four true outcome" hitter, and how he created nearly $7M of pointless labor. (SLYT) [more inside]
posted by NoxAeternum at 6:34 PM PST - 17 comments

"The company has forged a chain uncommon in mainstream publishing: an unbroken line of black women, from the novel's protagonist, via the author, to the editor, to the art director who created the cover art (featuring a black woman). This was a 'black on all sides' mainstream publishing project. And it worked." Novelist Alyssa Cole, editor Esi Sogah, and art director Kris Noble discuss with Bim Adewunmi the development, packaging, publication, and reception of Cole's Loyal League series, a trio of romances centered around black women and men during the U.S. Civil War. [more inside]
posted by mixedmetaphors at 3:23 PM PST - 16 comments

Hasbro agrees to acquire the Power Rangers and other IP from Saban Entertainmen for about $520 million in cash and stock. Hasbro is trying to recover losses following the bankruptcy of Toys 'R Us.
posted by hanov3r at 3:02 PM PST - 38 comments

Build Your Own PC Inside the PC You Built With PC Building Simulator [Ars Technica] “The "simulator" genre of PC games was already pretty meta, but it has now reached a new level with PC Building Simulator, a game currently available via Steam Early Access. In it, you build desktop PCs (mostly the gaming variety) by opening up the case, installing components, plugging them into the motherboard for power, and more, all in a 3D simulation. (Sorry, no VR.)” [more inside]
posted by Fizz at 12:31 PM PST - 88 comments

Only a few years after federal courts recognized sexual harassment as a form of discrimination, Terry Karl tried to get Harvard to hold her harasser accountable. And despite the time spent trying to get Harvard to do something and many other complaints, Jorge Dominguez's career has flourished
posted by brookeb at 11:52 AM PST - 22 comments

Telephone World hosts, among other gems, Evan Doorbell's Phone Tapes, where he explains exactly what you're hearing in Ma Bell's wires in the 70s and 80s. [more inside]
posted by the man of twists and turns at 11:15 AM PST - 8 comments

Natives Photograph opens today. The site highlights Native American visual journalists, to "bring balance to the way we tell stories about Indigenous people and spaces." It also offers a database for editors seeking to assign indigenous photographers in North America, "to tell the stories of their communities and to reflect on how we tell these stories." [more inside]
posted by zarq at 10:05 AM PST - 3 comments

Does Socialism Have a Future in Texas?
posted by Artw at 9:35 AM PST - 33 comments

After a baby squirrel fell down their chimney, a Vancouver couple reunited it with its mother by putting it in their backyard and playing baby squirrel sounds from a YouTube video to attract her. "It was amazing. Within less than a minute of playing this sound, we saw this squirrel dashing across the neighbours' yard. Like on a mission," Woo said. "We were both crying because we didn't know the mum would come, and come so quickly." She swung by, looked over the baby and then scooped it up. They both scurried off together. "I'm not sure we'll see them again but it was an amazing reunion," Woo said. "I was bawling my eyes out because it was so beautiful." CBC has a link to the video of the [squirrel] mother and [squirrel] child reunion.
posted by hurdy gurdy girl at 9:21 AM PST - 20 comments

Hardware hackers recently disclosed a Nintendo Switch exploit that allows anyone with the portable gaming device to load Linux on the Switch without much fuss. This is Ubuntu 18.04 Running on the Nintendo Switch.
posted by Juso No Thankyou at 9:11 AM PST - 41 comments

"Here is my audition to be in a movie as lady we hate because she is temporarily keepin the people w the symmetrical faces from bein together" (1:38)
"Here is my audition 2 be lady who shakes vaguely dissatisfied white man out of malaise w her accessible eccentricity" (0:58) [cw: suicide]
"In MA 4 family reunion so here's my audition 2 b in a BOSTON film as lady who represents rough past noble male hero is striving not 2 repeat" (0:52)
See the thread for more treasures. Natalie Walker previously.
posted by Countess Elena at 9:07 AM PST - 11 comments

Jay Owens writes a fascinating essay on the relationship between the idea of "authenticity", truth, and the current generation's use of memes. What does it mean to be authentic and real online? What does our drive for authenticity in media and in self-presentation say about how we interact online? And most importantly, what can American Chopper memes contribute to the conversation? [more inside]
posted by redct at 8:47 AM PST - 19 comments

“... the gap between tech theory and tech practice has grown increasingly difficult to ignore. Even the tech press — Wired and its ilk — has lost faith. Many now know the tech elite as a hive of misogynists and sociopaths, and their companies to be indiscriminate vacuums of sensitive personal data that they package and sell to the nation’s intelligence agencies (and the Trump campaign). According to polls, the majority of the public still maintains a positive view of the industry’s biggest companies. But the scales have fallen from the eyes of many of its workers.” Code Red - the Tech Solidarity and the Tech Workers Coalition, a history of tech industry worker action, and the growing movement to unionize tech from the bottom up. (N+1)
posted by The Whelk at 8:36 AM PST - 9 comments

i wanna get WASTED

• W ake up early
• A nticipate a productive day
• S tay hydrated
• T ake a multivitamin
• E xercise
• D on't stay up too late

Respectful Memes is the #1 Source of Memes to show your Grandma!
posted by Johnny Wallflower at 7:42 AM PST - 20 comments

Taking the long war round Starting in late 1941 Pan Am flight 18602, the California Clipper, flew to New York via an unusual route. (part 2, part 3)
posted by doctornemo at 5:43 AM PST - 25 comments

Without magnetic compass, clock, or GPS, how do you navigate in the North Atlantic when it's cloudy and you're out of sight of land? Vikings may have used sunstones and their ability to polarize light to find the hidden sun. [more inside]
posted by Eyebrows McGee at 5:43 AM PST - 12 comments

In the 90s, MIT's Athena system devised a system known as "stopit" to handle online harrassment. One feature of the system was that the notice of reported abusive behaviour sent to the accused user began with the phrase "Someone using your account…". Users were advised to re-password their accounts, as they may have been hacked. Password resets by UYA recipients were taken in good faith by staff, but the most astonishing thing was that the offending behaviour nearly always stopped there. [more inside]
posted by rum-soaked space hobo at 4:12 AM PST - 58 comments

A prize for Wildlife Photographer of the Year has been withdraw when judges noticed the anteater pictured is almost certainly stuffed. 'There's a lot of fakery': insiders spill on the dirty tricks behind wildlife photos
posted by fearfulsymmetry at 3:01 AM PST - 42 comments

Pure CSS Vignes, Zigario, and Francine are a series of projects where Diana Smith (GitHub) creates art using only CSS and HTML under the following constraints:

1. All elements must be typed out by hand
2. Only Atom text editor and Chrome Developer Tools allowed.
3. SVG use is limited, and all shapes can only use hand-plotted coordinates and bezier curves - without the aid of any graphics editor.

(best viewed in Chrome)
posted by juv3nal at 1:27 AM PST - 31 comments