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Alex Jones, the First Amendment, and the Digital Public Square - "How should we challenge hate-mongering in the age of social media?" [more inside]
posted by kliuless at 7:43 PM PST - 94 comments

Chris Bolin expanded upon his "little experiment" of his offline-only webpage (discussed previously) and developed The Disconnect. When you first try to read an issue, you are greeted by what looks like the cover of a regular online magazine, but over top of it is a pink banner that says: “Please disconnect from the Internet. This is an offline-only magazine of commentary, fiction, and poetry.” The request to disconnect is mostly designed to make a point (Columbia Journalism Review). “I guess it’s kind of like a paywall,” Bolin says. “But it’s more of a pay-attention wall.” [more inside]
posted by filthy light thief at 7:00 PM PST - 10 comments

BlackKklansman (previously, fanfare) is the story of the black cop who infiltrated the KKK and the latest success of director Spike Lee. The film has earned frequent comparisons to Sorry to Bother You, "the most shocking anti-capitalist film ever?", but Boots Riley, frontman of The Coup and director of that movie might have a thing or too to say about that. Lee, meanwhile, very much sees his film as a response to the Trump presidency, which has "given the green light to the Klan".
posted by Artw at 6:35 PM PST - 27 comments

Headis: what you get when you combine the terrain of table tennis with the head-skill of soccer. Lots of great rallies on Youtube. For instance.
posted by dobbs at 4:09 PM PST - 9 comments

Weed'em and Reap is the vlog channel of an Arizona family that turned their home on an acre in the middle of Phoenix into a small goat farm. [more inside]
posted by 80 Cats in a Dog Suit at 12:33 PM PST - 21 comments

Twenty years ago, the earth faced down it's own destruction, twice. Deep Impact was a movie about a comet heading straight for earth. Released only two months later, Armageddon was a movie about an asteroid heading straight for earth, this time with a theme song. [more inside]
posted by LizBoBiz at 12:20 PM PST - 98 comments

"The beginner's guide to the greatest pastimes: Crokinole," written by D. Mark for the CBC. "From Start to Finish," a short documentary by Brittney Ince about Crokinole and the "renowned board maker" mentioned in the article, Willard Martin. Brief time-lapse video of "Crokicurl" also mentioned in the article. Crokinole previously on Metafilter. Relevant entries at BoardGameGeek: Crokinole, Carrom games, and finger flicking games. Other beginner's guides to the greatest pastimes by D. Mark: Cribbage, Euchre, Knitting, Mahjong, Singalongs, Skateboarding, Soccer, and Softball.
posted by Wobbuffet at 12:14 PM PST - 22 comments

“Second home. Second home. That one’s a second home. Second home. Second home. That’s a holiday let. Second home. These people live here all the time. Second home.” St Ives is a lovely seaside town in Cornwall in the UK, home for years to artists because of the quality of its light, and where Virginia Woolf was inspired to write To The Lighthouse. It's still home to thriving culture like the iconic Tate St Ives (one of only four Tate galleries in the world) with its programme of international modern and contemporary art, theatres, museums and art spaces, pubs and restaurants - but Cornwall is one of the most deprived areas in western Europe, and the average house price in St Ives is 18 times the typical local salary. [more inside]
posted by reynir at 10:36 AM PST - 53 comments