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I'm guessing they just didn't simulate light coming in from most of the sky?

Once you cross the event horizon, your light cone tips over to face the center. It's not the case that you can point away from the black hole but no matter how hard you try, you get sucked in. Instead, every direction you look at is away from the black hole center, but the center is in the future and space is crunching together around you. So it should be the case that inside the black hole,... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by Humanzee at 4:11 PM on May 8, 2024

Nerd of the North: “if you should find yourself in or near Detroit, the tour of the Motown studios is well worth the short amount of time it takes.”

By coincidence one of my people was in Detroit today. I told them you said to visit the Motown museum, so they did. They had a great time and got emotional getting a moment alone in Studio A. Sincere thanks for the suggestion.... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by ob1quixote at 7:06 PM on May 8, 2024

I'm actually afraid to start listening for fear that I will never be able to do anything else. This is all gold.
posted to MetaFilter by ceejaytee at 1:14 PM on May 8, 2024

As a deeply weird kid growing up in Missoula, Montana in the 80s, I cannot tell you how much it meant to have someone who came out of the same quiet little, white-bread, redneck mountain town be Steve Albini. He may have tried too hard for a little too long to be Steve Albini, but he started to figure himself out lately. He made great music, he recorded great music, and the world is poorer for his absence.... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by BReed at 1:56 PM on May 8, 2024

I remember rolling my eyes whenever my mom used to say 'So young!' of anyone dying in their sixties. Well, now that I'm past my 60s, I'm not rolling them anymore these days. Might sprain them and end up all Jack Elam, for one thing...

"When you realise that the dumbest person in the argument is on your side, that means you’re on the wrong side.”

Which reminds me of Timothy Olyphant's line in... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by y2karl at 12:42 PM on May 8, 2024

(You might enjoy Numero's series of Eccentric Soul compilations.)
posted to MetaFilter by box at 4:28 AM on May 8, 2024

Meet AdVon, the AI-Powered Content Monster Infecting the Media Industry - Remember that AI company behind Sports Illustrated's fake writers? We did some digging — and it's got tendrils into other surprisingly prominent publications.
posted to MetaFilter by Artw at 8:05 AM on May 8, 2024

As Sabine Hossenfelder has pointed out, for any given distance to the object, a star is actually more deadly than a black hole. They get a bad rap for no reason.

Also, the liner notes to the video state, "To simplify the complex calculations, the black hole is not rotating." As far as we know, all real world astronomical bodies have angular momentum. A non-rotating black hole would rarer than a dropped pencil perfectly balancing on its point. And crucially,... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by xigxag at 12:11 PM on May 8, 2024

The angels are a little quieter in heaven tonight.

(Because Steve mixed them down in the vocals so you could better hear the drums.)
posted to MetaFilter by DirtyOldTown at 12:20 PM on May 8, 2024

I feel like if you were of a certain generation you were most likely one degree of separation away from Steve Albini.

Yep, even more so if you're from/in Chicago - the indie music scene here is just small. Was just talking about this with a coworker and found out Albini always supported the band he was in, and they toured Europe with Shellac one year. My coworker said there was no way his band was big enough to play the Primavera festival, but that... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by misskaz at 12:11 PM on May 8, 2024

I can't explain it, but Steve Albini always felt like one of us. I feel like if you were of a certain generation you were most likely one degree of separation away from Steve Albini. You knew someone who had known him, because he was everywhere. Steve Albini won a World Series of Poker bracelet while wearing a shirt advertising a band called Cocaine Piss who sounded exactly like what you think they would sound like. He experienced a remarkable amount of personal growth without ever losing sight... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by HunterFelt at 12:04 PM on May 8, 2024

That's too bad. That sucks. His commitment to the punk spirit and his loathing of corporate rock culture were refreshing.

I loved his work on Rid of Me by PJ Harvey. Her debut Dry was a work of genius, but the drum sound was so thin it drained a lot of the power out of frenzied rockers like "Joe." Albini took a lot of shit for his recording of Rid of Me, but he made the band sound awesome. "50 Foot Queenie" is a thrilling song.
posted to MetaFilter by Fritz Langwedge at 11:53 AM on May 8, 2024

The Evolution of Steve Albini (Guardian)
“When you realise that the dumbest person in the argument is on your side, that means you’re on the wrong side.”
posted to MetaFilter by indexy at 11:45 AM on May 8, 2024

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I met Albini about 20 years ago, when I lived in Chicago as a journalism student working on a school assignment. Believe it our not I wasn't writing about music - I was writing about baseball.

I had decided to write about my neighborhood park on the north side of Chicago - Winnemac Park - kind of a slice of life/history/John McPhee-type attempt. Anyway, there's a baseball field there and I'd noticed that these men's league teams played there... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by cmaxmagee at 11:30 AM on May 8, 2024

Even stranger would be an instance where an entire solar system enters the event horizon of a supermassive black hole with enough orbital velocity to just sort of remain in orbit there for a long long long time. Gravity at the event horizon, spanning half a light year for the largest of supermassive black holes, would be close to one G, and you wouldn't even feel the pull once you entered orbit. I'm guessing one side of the sky would be filled with stars, the other would be black where... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by jabah at 7:03 AM on May 8, 2024

Life goal: do not fall into a black hole.
posted to MetaFilter by GenjiandProust at 4:09 AM on May 8, 2024

The Complete Stax/Volt Singles, 1959-1968 (AllMusic review) is an excellent box set. The Complete Stax-Volt Soul Singles, Vol. 2: 1968-1971, the second box set, has some good stuff.

I have separate playlists for '60s Soul and '70s Soul, including Motown, Stax, Northern Soul. The dividing line is fuzzy, somewhere around 1968-1971. Compare the straight-up '60s sound of Marvin Gaye & Tammi Terrell's version (1967) of "Ain't No Mountain High Enough" with Diana... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by kirkaracha at 3:42 PM on May 7, 2024

Aww yeah. Thanks for this!
posted to MetaFilter by freethefeet at 10:38 PM on May 6, 2024

I make no secret of my love for the Grateful Dead and to a lesser extent classic rock. By the time I graduated from HS circa 1979 I had been to two dozen Dead shows, 5 or 6 Allman Brothers, a Lynyrd Skynyrd show, etc. What my friends never got was my love for Motown. My favorite album of all time is the Four Tops Live and in Concert. The Spinners, the Tops, The Supremes and so many more are just amazing music.

What many people don't know is that the Grateful Dead play... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by JohnnyGunn at 9:38 PM on May 6, 2024

The Supremes were the best ‘60s musical group, and, when I stood in my cowboy boots on his coffee table to tell him that, Paul McCartney agreed with me.The first time I visited the Motown Studio was a week or two after Paul McCartney had played a tour date at one of the large venues in Detroit. The guides at the museum had a number of fresh anecdotes concerning McCartney's visit to tour the studio while he was in the area and his enthusiasm for the items on display, to some of which, since he... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by Nerd of the North at 9:19 PM on May 6, 2024

I loved Moon Palace. I didn't like The New York Trilogy, despite the fact that I like Noir fiction and experimental fiction. Maybe I should give it another shot.
posted to MetaFilter by ovvl at 5:49 PM on May 6, 2024

The Stax Museum of American Soul Music in Memphis is also well worth visiting if you're in the area and have an interest in music. For those who are not familiar with soul music, Stax Records was another music label that recorded and distributed soul music at about the same time as Motown. Stax artists included Otis Redding, Booker T. and the MGs (the label's house band who supported most of the artists signed to the label when they recorded in the studio), and Isaac Hayes.... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by ElKevbo at 8:11 PM on May 6, 2024

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posted to MetaFilter by clavdivs at 6:40 PM on May 6, 2024

The Supremes were the best ‘60s musical group, and, when I stood in my cowboy boots on his coffee table to tell him that, Paul McCartney agreed with me.
posted to MetaFilter by box at 4:35 PM on May 6, 2024

if you should find yourself in or near Detroit, the tour of the Motown studios is well worth the short amount of time it takes.

oh
Yeah.

I actually heard of this collection before.

Adam White did a nice piece on devereux and his ingenious catalog .

modern jive dancer also wrote a nice piece.

I remember 25 years ago having a beer with my... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by clavdivs at 4:02 PM on May 6, 2024

It's not really relevant to the material in the write-up, but since this post seems to be attracting Motown fans I'm just going to say: if you should find yourself in or near Detroit, the tour of the Motown studios is well worth the short amount of time it takes.

I lived within striking distance of it for a long time and blew it off as something I wouldn't be interested in, until a local convinced me otherwise. There's a good bit of interesting historical information... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by Nerd of the North at 2:55 PM on May 6, 2024

I don't know that I have a single favorite Motown song--there's just too much to choose from. Stevie Wonder, from child prodigy to adult genius, Diana Ross and the Supremes, Marvin Gaye duets, that's not even scratching the surface.

(The Complete Motown Singles is a series of fourteen compilations that takes us from, not inappropriately, Barrett Strong's 1959 'Money' all the way to, not inappropriately, Gladys Knight and the Pips' 'Neither One of Us... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by box at 2:29 PM on May 6, 2024

The best Motown music is so underrated. To pick one group at random, the Supremes put out the following singles in less than one year:

Where Did Our Love Go - June 1964
Baby Love - September 1964
Come See About Me - October 1964
Stop! In the Name of Love - February 1965
Back In My Arms Again - April 1965

And that is in between all the other classic tunes being cranked out by... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by fortitude25 at 12:44 PM on May 6, 2024

A true labor of love
posted to MetaFilter by DJZouke at 11:52 AM on May 6, 2024

Adding to favorites, sight unseen.

Yep me too.

Huge thanks, Kattullus! This is fabulous.
posted to MetaFilter by kristi at 11:47 AM on May 6, 2024

Thanks so much for sharing this - it looks fascinating!

Last year, I picked up used copies of two Motown box sets: Hitsville USA: The Motown Singles Collection 1959–1971 and Hitsville USA: The Motown Singles Collection Volume 2 1972–1992. The first one is an incredible collection of music - it's monster hit after monster hit and it makes it clear just how good the songwriters, musicians, and engineers of that label were during that time. The second box set is much more... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by ElKevbo at 11:15 AM on May 6, 2024

Ohhhhhhh, deLIGHT
posted to MetaFilter by rrrrrrrrrt at 11:07 AM on May 6, 2024

this is brilliant, there are 80+ episodes on mixcloud! words fail to express the depth of my thanks, but that sh*t is deep. Thank you
posted to MetaFilter by owalt1 at 10:32 AM on May 6, 2024

Had not seen Sleepytime yet linked either separately or in a compilation.
posted to MetaFilter by ego at 10:01 AM on May 6, 2024

This Will take up so much of my time.
posted to MetaFilter by Jon_Evil at 10:03 AM on May 6, 2024

Adding to favorites, sight unseen.
posted to MetaFilter by dances_with_sneetches at 9:10 AM on May 6, 2024

Google Kneecaps Loads Of Very Big Websites After SEO Change

As tech expert Ed Zitron says, it appears the changes "target websites that make money using affiliate marketing links...and major publishers that have turned a lot of their content into link-driven stuff". Which, fine, the line from Google whenever these tweaks are made is that they're trying to improve the search experience for the average users, but those sites are only built this way... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by Artw at 11:20 AM on May 5, 2024

In 1990 I was a student at the California Institute of Technology and took a creative writing class from an instructor or professor named Douglas Messerli. It turns out that Messerli was also a publisher, running "Sun & Moon Press" (whose offices I coincidentally later lived about a mile away from). One of his strong recommendations to us students was of an author he had published named Paul Auster. I read the New York Trilogy and for years later everything else Auster wrote, and I... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by Slothrup at 1:11 PM on May 5, 2024

If you love Muffin, you need to watch the episode Granny Mobile (clip). It’s her tour de force.
posted to MetaFilter by clicking the 'Post Comment' button at 6:05 PM on May 3, 2024

[[and this post and kattullus's comment have been added to the sidebar and Best Of blog]]
posted to MetaFilter by taz at 12:31 AM on May 4, 2024

Watching a few more of these, they are just wonderfully sweet.
posted to MetaFilter by rikschell at 2:33 PM on May 3, 2024

Well, that's my first introduction to this Bluey show that I've heard about, and ... it's hilarious. Well done.
posted to MetaFilter by hydra77 at 1:56 PM on May 3, 2024

The past two years have included some hard times. But occasionally MetaFilter lights a candle, with remarkable news that adds incremental hope, and remarkable stories from fascinating people. Thanks for this, everyone.
posted to MetaFilter by angiep at 12:08 PM on May 3, 2024

Back in the 1970s a friend of mine who was a grad student in psychology told me about a professor of hers at Tulane who brought a chimpanzee to one lecture. He demonstrated that making prolonged eye contact with the chimpanzee upset it and it began screaning and hitting its hands on the floor in a threat display. But when he looked down, extended his arm and smacked his lips, the chimpanzee immediately ran over and started grooming him by picking through the hair on his arm as if it were... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by y2karl at 6:30 AM on May 3, 2024

Mostly surprised this wasn’t seen in chimps / bonobos first. Orangutans likewise pass the mirror test but less frequently and with longer periods of familiarization / higher ages, IIRC (much better than gorillas, though). Demonstrating the foundational elements of identity and observed tool use do not perfectly correspond (corvids, cephalopods both have the latter without the former), but they typically come paired in the highest tier of animal intelligence. Pretty impressive showing by my... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by Ryvar at 4:39 AM on May 3, 2024

That was hilariously bonkers. Lordy, I love Bluey.

~Is “Dad Baby” considered sex education?
~In today's America? Sadly yes.

Yeah, I’m thinking Disney has a pretty good grasp on just how detached from reality and super-reactionary a particular segment of the US population is, and just decided to not even chance it. I mean, a man carrying a baby? A... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by Thorzdad at 3:52 AM on May 3, 2024

Orangutans are my favorite primate (yes, even more than humans) and it thrills me to no end to see something like this. I look forward to us discovering even more about them.
posted to MetaFilter by tommasz at 4:22 AM on May 3, 2024

Maybe that's where Pterry got this:

“Consider orangutans. In all the worlds graced by their presence, it is suspected that they can talk but choose not to do so in case humans put them to work, possibly in the television industry. In fact they can talk. It’s just that they talk in Orangutan. Humans are only capable of listening in Bewilderment.”

― Terry Pratchett, Men at Arms
posted to MetaFilter by mikelieman at 4:00 AM on May 3, 2024

There's some Indonesian or Malaysian saying that goes like, "Orangutans can converse like people, but choose not to for fear of being pressed into labor."
posted to MetaFilter by AlSweigart at 2:58 AM on May 3, 2024

I remember seeing a documentary several years ago showing a chimpanzee eating a particular plant to alleviate what they thought was a stomach ailment. It’s interesting that this is the first animal observed to treat a wound with a plant. This paper reviews observations of animals using plants to self medicate parasite infection is a common ailment.
posted to MetaFilter by waving at 2:51 AM on May 3, 2024