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She is the girl who has everything / Talent and beauty divine
Debutantes, models, fashion writers, publicists, club kids, and assorted demimondaines: A Century of the New York "It" Girl. [article limit before paywall] This sprawling cover story, with many embedded interviews, covers 151 women who drew the camera and made the New York scene over the past 60 years. Although many of them came from money or had family connections, some of them, like Debi Mazar and Connie Girl, just showed up, worked hard, and were themselves.
We are also worried our Western allies are getting tired of helping us.
I think we don't have a current thread for the Russia-Ukraine war, so this is it. Round-up of links inside. Today is day 429 of the invasion.
"On a Hot August Night When the Dry-Flies Shrilled"
Unlike Hemingway, Dos Passos practiced moderation in most things and valued ideological nuance and evolution. The friends operated at different speeds: Hemingway raced; Dos Passos cruised. Take, for example, the annual running of the bulls in Pamplona, Spain. Dos Passos enjoyed the experience primarily for the spectacle, the food, and the drink. Hemingway saw it as a test of manhood. There “were too many exhibitionistic personalities in the group to suit me,” Dos Passos wrote. “The sight of a crowd of young men trying to prove how hombre they were got on my nerves.” from The World at the End of a Line by John Dos Passos Coggin
The Woman Shaping a Generation of Black Thought
Christina Sharpe is expanding the vocabulary of life in slavery’s long shadow — peeling back the meaning of familiar words and resurrecting neglected history. [NY Times Magazine]
What would it mean to understand all of American life as still caught in the wake, still caught in the undertow of the ships that carried the enslaved? Sharpe also put forth the metaphors of the ship (the processes by which Black people are still seen as property), the hold (the ways that captivity and punishment are still central to Black life) and the weather (the ambient anti-Blackness that is as pervasive as climate).
Banned Book Book Club
Banned Book Book Club
[via mefi projects
"Displays information about a book that has been banned in American schools 2021-2022, alongside a readable preview of most books (on desktop only) and a link to buy it. Reload to see another one.]"
The student ordered her own snake, even after I told her not to…
Gretchen McCulloch points out that "...we're in thesis defense season and not everyone has seen the snake fight thesis defense fanfiction."
Hole wake
Astronomers think they’ve discovered a black hole some 20 million times the mass of the Sun speeding away from the core of a distant galaxy. And as the supermassive black hole barrels through intergalactic space, it’s compressing the scant gas and dust available out there, leaving behind a thin line of newly formed stars that's some 200,000 light-years long.
Sleeping elephant seals fall through oceans depths
Sleeping elephant seals fall through oceans depths. Researchers have found elephant seals falling asleep out at sea, tumbling hundreds of metres deep in uncontrolled spirals and sometimes laying motionless on the sea floor.
And How Can This Be? The Return of Lake Tulare
The Ghost Lake Rising in California
- "Tulare Lake used to be the largest freshwater lake in the Western U.S., fed by water flowing down from the Sierra Nevada. It dried up about 80 years ago when the land was re-developed for agricultural purposes." (previously: 1,2)
“Who Jackie?”
Unraveling the Greatest Writers’ Room Story Ever
[Vulture]
Zuker had started a new job as a writer-producer on Grace Under Fire by this time, but that show’s offices were also on the Radford lot, directly above the common area at Roseanne. He remembers hearing explosive laughter from below on the day some former co-workers came running upstairs at lunch to tell him the “Who Jackie” story. “What made this a legend for me,” he says, “is that within 24 hours, you’d be walking around the Radford lot and hearing people say, ‘Who Jackie?’ I was leaving the next night, and I heard two security guards saying, ‘Who Jackie?’ and laughing their asses off.”
Zuker had started a new job as a writer-producer on Grace Under Fire by this time, but that show’s offices were also on the Radford lot, directly above the common area at Roseanne. He remembers hearing explosive laughter from below on the day some former co-workers came running upstairs at lunch to tell him the “Who Jackie” story. “What made this a legend for me,” he says, “is that within 24 hours, you’d be walking around the Radford lot and hearing people say, ‘Who Jackie?’ I was leaving the next night, and I heard two security guards saying, ‘Who Jackie?’ and laughing their asses off.”
Community Free Chat Threads
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People Lived in This Cave for 78,000 Years
People Lived in This Cave for 78,000 Years. Excavations in Panga ya Saidi suggest technological and cultural change came slowly over time and show early humans weren't reliant on coastal resources.
robbery was quick, quiet, & clean, & netted more than 2.2 trillion ISK
EVE Online player uses obscure rule to pull off the biggest heist in the game's history [PC Gamer]
“Instead of betrayal, this theft was dependent upon learning and exploiting the "shares mechanic" in EVE Online in order to leverage a takeover of Event Horizon Expeditionaries, a 299-member corporation that was part of the Pandemic Horde alliance. Using a "clean account with a character with a little history," Flan_Hill and an unnamed partner applied for membership in the EHEXP corporation. After the account was accepted, Flan_Hill transferred enough of his shares in the corporation to the infiltrator to enable a call for a vote for a new CEO. The conspirators both voted yes, while nobody else in the corporation voted at all. This was vital, because after 72 hours the two "yes" votes carried the day. The infiltrating agent was very suddenly made CEO, which was in turn used to make Flan_Hill an Event Horizon Expeditionaries director, at which point they removed all the other corporate directors and set to emptying the coffers. Counting all stolen assets, including multiple large ships, Flam_Hill estimated the total value of the heist at 2.23 trillion ISK, which works out to more than $22,300 in real money.” [The operation—spelled out in detail in this Reddit post.]
The Unbelievable Zombie Comeback of Analog Computing
"Bringing back analog computers in much more advanced forms than their historic ancestors will change the world of computing drastically and forever."
... I consulted Lyle Bickley, a founding member of the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, California. ... “A lot of Silicon Valley companies have secret projects doing analog chips,” he told me. Really? But why?
“Because they take so little power.”
A Satirist in the Abbasid Era
Satire is among the most powerful tools for bringing the powerful back down to earth, and al-Jahiz from ninth-century Iraq was a master of the craft.
Beyond his powerful connections, his financial independence may also have helped make him one of the few writers who could speak freely, not only about the maladies of their age but also its various classes and subclasses.
Education and Censorship in the US
Children's author Maggie Tokuda-Hall lost a deal with Scholastic to license her book about love and the incarceration of Japanese-Americans during World War II because Scholastic (the world's largest book publisher and distributor of children's literature) requested that she remove the mention of racism in her author's note. Scholastic, after the public outcry, has apologized and offered to restart the conversation with her. Meanwhile, book challenges and bans of "woke" material continue to proceed at an alarming rate in the US.
Drug Wars
A little-known drug brought billions to Syria's coffers. Now it's a bargaining chip
- "After more than a decade of boycotting him, Syria's Arab neighbors are now in talks to bring President Bashar al-Assad in from the cold. The Syrian leader has been received in some Arab capitals, but he is yet to be awarded the ultimate normalization with Saudi Arabia, one of Syria's staunchest foes – and the biggest market for its drugs."
First woman appointed director Goddard Space Flight Center
NASA's first female Goddard Space Flight Center director swears oath on Pale Blue Dot by Carl Sagan. NASA's newly appointed director of the Goddard Space Flight Center has claimed two firsts before even starting her official duties. On Thursday, Makenzie Lystrup became the first woman in NASA's history to be appointed the director of the Goddard Space Flight Center. She also became the first person to take their oath of office on a copy of Carl Sagan's 1994 book Pale Blue Dot.
comunità immaginate
Everything I, an Italian, thought I knew about Italian food is wrong
(ungated) - The man I’m dining with is Alberto Grandi, Marxist academic, reluctant podcast celebrity and judge at this year’s Tiramisu World Cup in Treviso. (“I wouldn’t miss it, even if I had dinner plans with the Pope”.) Grandi has dedicated his career to debunking the myths around Italian food; this is the first time he’s spoken to the foreign press.
In Search Of Wikipedia’s Shrug Guy
The real triumph of the “Shrug” article, though, is its sole photo. It’s a man with a perplexing assortment of accessories: a tiara labeled “SCAMPER,” a neon wristband, a comically loose paisley tie. (archive.today link)
It is a solvent, after all
Can water solve a maze? Science YouTube Steve Mould built a couple of models that shows us that it can, but with a couple of interesting limitations (SLYT).
Movie: Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves
A charming thief and a band of unlikely adventurers embark on an epic quest to retrieve a lost relic, but things go dangerously awry when they run afoul of the wrong people.
The Chronoscope: Time Travel with Maps
Chronoscope World is a time machine to explore the history of the world by browsing maps dating back to 14th century B.C. More than 4,200 high-resolution maps can be displayed in a maps application on the correct geo location.
You can just browse the world map or browse cities of the world.
Here's San Francisco with 4 historical maps overlaid on the current city.
Here’s Amsterdam with 10 historical maps. Hint: The slider on the right controls the transparency of the overlaid map.
The site also includes special projects such as mapping the travels of Alexander Humboldt
Want an overview? The site's creator made a short video.
Here's San Francisco with 4 historical maps overlaid on the current city.
Here’s Amsterdam with 10 historical maps. Hint: The slider on the right controls the transparency of the overlaid map.
The site also includes special projects such as mapping the travels of Alexander Humboldt
Want an overview? The site's creator made a short video.
I never see it folded until it’s printed.
Al Jaffee, Now 102, Is Ready to Be Added to Mount Rushmore
An extended version of Mike Sacks’s 2008 interview with the MAD Magazine cartoonist, originally excerpted in And Here’s the Kicker: Conversations With 21 Top Humor Writers on Their Craft (2009).
We have many stories to tell.
Story-Threading is a collection of folktales and childhood memories, narrated and stitched by the embroidery artists of the Rohingya Cultural Memory Centre. The project also showcases 65 stitches practiced (32 page pdf) by Rohingya refugee women in the Cox's Bazar refugee camps in Bangladesh. In Aanr Fua Loi Ador Dow Yas Saa Thay Hulahala Gori Hawta Bat Tara Hoawn (Heart-to-Heart With My Child), the text and embroidery bring to life the complex emotions of a child’s life, and address with sensitivity the dangers that vulnerable children face, including child labour, early marriage, or sexual abuse (92 page pdf).
Hell Never Ends on x86
From CathodeRayDude, two deep-dives into old netbooks doing things they *really* shouldn't.
Pt. 1, Phoenix Hyperspace: Anyone who Computers Pretty Good can tell you that there is no holy way to do this. No priest would bless whatever is going on here. This is bad and wrong, and someone should have stilled the sinful hands of Phoenix's devs. So I knew, at this point, that Phoenix had invented multiple novel technologies in pursuit of an incredibly stupid product that nobody wanted, but I was not yet quite aware of how bad it was going to get.
Pt. 1, Phoenix Hyperspace: Anyone who Computers Pretty Good can tell you that there is no holy way to do this. No priest would bless whatever is going on here. This is bad and wrong, and someone should have stilled the sinful hands of Phoenix's devs. So I knew, at this point, that Phoenix had invented multiple novel technologies in pursuit of an incredibly stupid product that nobody wanted, but I was not yet quite aware of how bad it was going to get.
"I never heard the reverse, that a boy was 'girl crazy.'"
How Rural America Steals Girls' Futures
(Monica Potts for The Atlantic, adapted from her upcoming book The Forgotten Girls)
Early History of the Telescope
In the popular mind, many people believe Galileo invented the telescope. He didn't ... he simply knew how to take advantage of a good thing.
Jack Kramer, of the Lake County, Illinois, Astronomical Society lays it down how we got to see the stars so deeply.
The Crack-Up
We often speak of secessionist and far-right movements such as the neo-Confederates in purely political or cultural terms, as symptoms of a sometimes pathologized fixation on ethnicity that crowds out all economic concerns. But this is wrong. from The Wonderful Death of a State by Quinn Slobodian
The Battle of Manners St
April 3rd marked the anniversary of a 1943 riot between US and New Zealand servicemen over Māori soldiers drinking at the Allied Services Club in Wellington.
News of the brawl was suppressed at the time. And while war clearly forged solidarity between Pākeha and Māori soldiers, New Zealand was still practicing its own local form of segregation.
“Blurred Lines,” Harbinger of Doom
“Blurred Lines” wasn’t supposed to be a meaningful song. It was, by design, a trifle:
Pharrell, in imperial-superstar mode, goofing off with the white soul singer and textbook sex idiot Robin Thicke and tossing in a tongue-twisting T.I. verse later for good measure. It’s safe to assume that no one involved in the making of “Blurred Lines” assumed anything legacy-defining was happening in the room where Pharrell wrote the lines “I feel so lucky/You want to hug me/What rhymes with hug me?” [Pitchfork]
Even Orangutans need lactation consultants.
An orangutan orphaned as a child had no idea how to care for her first child. For the second, a zookeeper with her own human newborn showed the orangutan mother how to breastfeed.
Zoe, a 14-year-old orangutan, grew up with the orangutan equivalent of a high ACEs score. Having never experienced a healthy childhood of her own, or witnessed another orangutan mother, she had no idea how to care for her first baby. The next time she got pregnant, zookeeper Whitlee Turner gave Zoe live breastfeeding demonstrations.
Policies on Trans Issues: Current and Future
This post includes Information from loup about how the site's policies on trans people/issues are currently implemented including how transphobic content, sources and members are dealt with, the information they've given me about planned changes based on some brief feedback I've given, and an invitation for other trans members to share their thoughts, concerns, feedback, and suggestions
Didn't I (Blow Your Mind This Time)
Legendary Philly Soul producer Thom Bell (1943-2022) (Guardian Obit) created some of my favourite songs. He produced and co-wrote music for The Delfonics, The Stylistics, and The Spinners that was very groovy, yet also reflected complex and introspective moods.
Can I Offer You An Egg In This Trying Time?
On the memetic rhetoric of transgender coming-out comics
... but a lot more readable than the subtitle makes it seem like it will be.
Fun outings for visitors with limited mobility
"When I am skimming through the various San Francisco related subreddits, there’s one kind of post guaranteed to get me commenting. It’s when someone asks for tips on where to bring their relatives who are elderly and frail and coming for a visit. The responses are almost uniformly ridiculous." Wheelchair user and disability activist Liz Henry breaks down eight assumptions, and offers ten suggestions for "Fun outings for visitors with limited mobility" plus five ideas for at-home activities.