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Racist Shitstain's Destiny.
Jesse James Comer took exception to a Bungie community manager sharing content by Destiny 2 creator Uhmaayyze. Mr. Comer expressed his ire by engaging in a campaign of "racist, stochastic terrorism" against the campaign manager.
Unfortunately for Mr. Comer, Bungie took him to court over his behaviour and won to the tune of $489,435.52. For trolls more generally, it would appear that this case establishes precedents that may well be applied in future cases.
Best Hard-Boiled Egg Method - tested head to head
We Tried 7 Ways to Hard-Boil Eggs and Found a Clear Winner
Ann Taylor Pittman for The Kitchn. "I was delighted to find that most methods worked quite well. A couple gave less-than-stellar results, and some received higher ratings from me because they produced great eggs with less effort. I rated each method on a scale of 10, with one being the worst, and 10 being the best. While a few scored very well, only one method scored a 10 out of 10. You may also be interested in Do 'Better' Eggs Really Taste Better? by J. Kenji López-Alt at Serious Eats, and 9 Egg Gadgets I’ve Tested (So You Don’t Have to) from www.emmymade.com.
You got a fast car
“On one hand, Luke Combs is an amazing artist, and it’s great to see that someone in country music is influenced by a Black queer woman — that’s really exciting… But at the same time, it’s hard to really lean into that excitement knowing that Tracy Chapman would not be celebrated in the industry without that kind of middleman being a White man.” On the complicated reaction to the Luke Comb’s cover of Tracy Chapman’s Fast Car.
Not Yet, Roger
Really careful....not yet Roger..... Roger!
(SLYT 30s). In which a feline friend demonstrates athletic non-prowess.
The Empty Bigness
The producer is at bottom an allegorical figure. “Jack Antonoff” refers as much to a set of historical processes as it does to a bespectacled guy making beats in his Brooklyn apartment. Call it Antonoffication: the process of the dispersion of the aesthetics of indie rock out from a distinct subcultural enclave and into a general ether that suffuses and unites the major genres of today’s Top 40 pop music. Which is to say, the complex process of cultural mediation through which all pop music today has become a little bit indie rock. from Dream of Antonoffication by Mitch Therieau [The Drift; ungated]
Can we please stop using the term "wheelchair bound" on MetaFilter?
Recently I have noticed several different commenters on MetaFilter using the phrase "wheelchair bound." This is a phrase that a lot of wheelchair users (including myself) find deeply objectionable, as wheelchairs actually give us freedom of movement compared to not having a wheelchair. (Also, a lot of wheelchair users are ambulatory wheelchair users, e.g. they can sometimes walk a very short distance.) The preferred term is "wheelchair user". If using it as an adjective, you can say "wheelchair using", e.g. "My wheelchair-using girlfriend."
MeFi24 in 2023
Today is MetaFilter’s 24th anniversary. To put things in perspective, this invaluable source of knowledge, conversations and learning was founded the same year the Euro launched, boy bands were on the rise, the first Matrix movie was released, and "Believe" by Cher was hitting the top of the Billboard Year-End chart. We'd like to celebrate this milestone by raising a virtual toast to the countless discussions, friendships, and shared knowledge that have blossomed here.
The Most Embarrassing Tombstone of All Time
Greek and Roman epitaphs can be touching. They can also, in the case of Allia Potestas, even be risqué. But they can also be horribly, incredibly embarrassing-- as in the case of Aphrodisios of Alexandria Troas, as seen in this short by the great Stefan Milo. This tombstone at the Louvre, recently translated into English by Chaniotis and posted on Twitter by Roko Rumora, has to be seen to be believed.
Happy birthday, Metafilter!
Cat-Scan.com is one of the strangest sites I've seen in some time. I have no idea how these people got their cats wedged into their scanners, or why.
How to Be Blind
Andrew Leland is a writer, audio producer, editor, and teacher who explores his transition from sightedness to blindness. He has a book coming out this month and recently published an article drawn from it, How to Be Blind. He has also written about reading technologies for the blind.
tomorrow is a very busy day of not talking to you also
Types of Monk, In Order of How Often They Want You To Visit by Daniel Lavery [The Stopgap]
Flooding and weather check in
It is flooding in Vermont, among other places. Are fellow MeFites in weather-battered regions in the US and elsewhere okay? Please check in and let us know, jessamyn and others. Thanks!
Crows are ungovernable
Science nerds in the Netherlands have observed local corvids building bird nests out of anti-bird spikes [PDF], which creates extremely punk homes for their eggs out of the hostile architectural features that are also quite effective at deterring predators.
The Most Hated Man in Hollywood
The reviews are in on you sir, and they are not good.
On Monday, GQ published a story from freelance film critic Jason Bailey summarizing Warner Bros. Discovery CEO David Zaslav's rapid and shameful ascent from anonymous executive to widely loathed cultural villain. Bailey's key observation is that Zaslav seems neither to care about nor especially like movies, which makes his leadership of such a powerful company a tragic outcome for everyone who does.
Within hours of the article's publication, readers observed that the piece had been heavily edited and its sharpness sanded down. Shortly after the edited version of Bailey's story went live, GQ deleted the entire blog from its website.
Great Picture Book of Everything
A Great Wave of Hokusai Drawings Resurfaced at the British Museum
IN 1829, WHEN THE CELEBRATED Japanese artist Katsushika Hokusai was almost 70 years old, he created more than 100 drawings of a dazzling array of subjects: playful cats, serene landscapes, even severed heads. Hokusai’s fame continued to grow after his death in 1849, and the suite of small, elaborate drawings was last purchased a century later, at a Paris auction in 1948. Then it disappeared from the public eye.
Now, a total of 103 drawings have resurfaced.
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The British Museum is planning to exhibit the newly acquired drawings in the future. In the meantime, anyone can view all 103 works online, in high-resolution images made freely accessible on the museum’s website.
(previously)
Printing Hokusai's Great Picture Book of Everything.
A collection of Hokusai's drawings are being carved onto woodblocks and printed for the first time
A few years after their discovery and exhibition at the British Museum, Dave Bull and the team at Mokuhankan are taking the final steps to publish some of Hokusai's drawings that have not previously been printed as wood block prints, following the same processes that would have been used during Hokusai's lifetime. You can subscribe to the production run to receive copies of these prints as they are produced.
Happy Disability Pride! Here, Have a Flag!
The Disability Pride Flag represents everyone with a disability, and the design reflects inclusion
This piece explains what the flag means, has some links out to the history of the making of the flag, and is available in both audio and text formats
Gravity waves. Should we wave back?
Top science explainer Katie Mack (she's eclipsed Neil deGrasse Tyson in ability if not in reach, IMO) covers why gravitational waves make her feel all fluttery inside. (ungated link)
Metatalktail Hour: Local Mysteries
This week, the worker owned bookstore in my city revealed that there is a mysterious old safe on the newly opened second floor of their new permanent location. (Alternate archive link if the soft paywall blocks you ). Any one who can pick the lock during their business hours can keep half the contents, or all of the contents if they turn out to be "gross or cursed." What do you think is in the safe? What do you wish is in the safe? Or what minor unsolved mysteries reside in your home/town/mind palace?
Stupid Rerun Tricks
[MLYT] During his run on Late Night, David Letterman would do intros before reruns - but occasionally, he'd go a little further. Speeding up the episode to cram extra footage in, watching the episode alongside the viewer and offering commentary... but these pale in comparison to the time he had a rerun redubbed by different people - including voice actors from the 60's Speed Racer dub.
"WTF is a Tiny Desk and no!"
April 7th: Big Miggedy Miggedy (@thelovemyke) tweets at NPR and Juvenile asking for a Tiny Desk concert. April 11th: Juvenile refuses, then reconsiders. April 12th, they lock it in. And now, we have it. Juvenile's Tiny Desk Concert, with many special guests whom I won't spoil for those who don't know yet, but suffice to say that NOLA is well-represented. (cw: Juvenile lyrics)
The Americas' biggest monkey returns from the brink of extinction
The Americas' biggest monkey returns from the brink of extinction. Four decades ago there were just 50 northern mariquis left in Brazil's Atlantic forest and the Americas' biggest monkey was threatened with extinction. Now there are 232 in a protected reserve, plus more in the wild.
Language Is a Poor Heuristic For Intelligence
With the emergence of Large Language Model “AI”, everyone will have to learn something many disabled people have always understood.
“Language skill indicates intelligence,” and its logical inverse, “lack of language skill indicates non-intelligence,” is a common heuristic with a long history. It is also a terrible one, inaccurate in a way that ruinously injures disabled people. Now, with recent advances in computing technology, we’re watching this heuristic fail in ways that will harm almost everyone.
CamelCase reminder for tagging new posts?
Relatively small request: Can we change the text above the Tags field when making new posts so that it encourages using CamelCase when combining multiple words into one tag, to help members with visual impairments who use screenreaders? For instance, changing the example in the text "searchengine" to "SearchEngine"? This will help screenreading software better parse the meaning of the tag.
hidden flowers
The palm that flowers underground
"Some inches into the dirt however, structures start to emerge – an entire cluster of fruit, a stem and a crownshaft (the base of the leaves on palm plants), all buried in the soil. The entire reproductive structure existing below the surface means that the flowers are underground too. Highly unusual, even here in this place of great natural diversity."
Australian earless dragon last seen in 1969 rediscovered
Australian earless dragon last seen in 1969 rediscovered in secret location. Victorian grassland earless dragon was once common west of Melbourne but numbers declined due to habitat loss and predators such as feral cats.
my body is a roadmap of, uh, roads
Do you know your town like the back of your hand?
Then prove it, with, uh, Back Of Your Hand, a web game that asks you to identify randomly selected streets on a map and scores you on how close you got.
Disturbing finds in old newspapers...
How a Grad Student Uncovered the Largest Known Slave Auction in the U.S.
Lauren Davila made a stunning discovery as a graduate student at the College of Charleston: an ad for a slave auction larger than any historian had yet identified. The find yields a new understanding of the enormous harm of such a transaction.
“Ich lieb dich nicht, du liebst mich nicht”
Da da da (alternative), by Trio, was a top five hit single in 15 countries in 1982. (Joyful Top of the Pops version) (One hour version). In live performance, lead singer (and only surviving band member) Stephan Remmler played the Casio VL-1 keyboard using the Rock-1 rhythm preset and the Piano voice. (Previously: the demo melody on the Casio VL-1)
Bundesrepublik Casiotone
YouTube channel Keen On Keys
is an (ASMR-worthy) review channel for '80s and '90s electronic toy keyboards. Specimens are introduced, touched up, and capably demonstrated by an unidentified Berlin musician in hands-only videos. The germinal Casio VL-1 gets four of its own, including an in-depth investigation into the origins of "that Casio demo song". Other delightful moments: a tour of VL-1 beats; the presenter gleefully pitch-bending low on their first keyboard (a keytar!). Keen On Keys also have a bandcamp and a soundcloud full of songs made on these instruments.
The SexyCyborg Origin Story
Why Do I Look Like...This? The SexyCyborg Origin Story (YouTube)
Naomi Wu (aka Sexy Cyborg) is "a Chinese DIY maker and internet personality [who] challenge[s] gender and tech stereotypes with a flamboyant public persona, using objectification of her appearance to inspire women" (Wikipedia). This video is her origin story, and it is deeply personal and funny and poignant and so, so eye-opening. It's 38 min. long but worth it.
"Still the walls do not fall, I do not know why;"
H.D.(Hilda Doolittle) epic poem, 'The Walls Do No Fall'. H.D. Reads "Helen in Egypt" (slyt). "HERmione is a lyrical act of sense-making, the reverse of a time capsule—gazing backwards, at a younger self now rendered a stranger in the wistful eye of hindsight." from: 'Dream of a Past. 'Going Through Hell With H.D.’s ‘Eurydice’
It's dangerous to go alone! Take this.
At the bottom of an ancient crater, in a city with buildings made of diamond, German archæologists have discovered a 3000 year old sword so perfectly preserved it 'almost shines.'
A place for images of John Oliver looking sexy.
r/pics users voted 37,331 to 2,329 in favor of sexy John Oliver.
another seven tons of iron taken out of here since last June
Going through a parent's hoard after their illness or death or can be daunting. For five exhausting years, Thalia and Tara blogged at Tetanus Burger about whittling away at the 78 junk cars and mysterious piles left by their father at their family's residential lot. Reader beware, there are truly horrific stories about their childhood. But there are also cute kittens (scroll to the bottom of the linked post)!
An Oral History of The LAWN Hip Hop Message Board
Concurrent with the rise of message boards in the early aughts, there was a group of young, ambitious hip hop artists in North Carolina who were schooled in the trade of that ol’ boom-bap.
In 2001, they launched a message board of their own that created a unique online community that spawned unexpected collaborations and relationships that led to the creation of albums and families alike.
Suffering from Success
The Instant Pot Failed Because It Was a Good Product
The Instant Pot is, by all indications, a perfectly good machine—maybe even a great one. The IP, as the device is known to its many devotees, is a kitchen gadget in the most straightforward sense of the term: It’s a classic labor-saver, promising to turn ingredients into family meals while you clean up, tend to your kids, and do all of the other things you could be doing instead of keeping an eye on the stove. Once you get the hang of the electric pressure cooker, it seems to basically deliver on that promise, chugging along gamely through years’ worth of weeknight dinners of pork green chili or chicken tikka masala. Since its debut in 2010, the Instant Pot has sold millions of machines and spent years as a must-have kitchen sensation.
Sure enough, in 2019, when the private-equity firm Cornell Capital bought the gadget’s maker, Instant Brands, and merged it with another kitchenware maker, the combined company was reportedly valued at more than $2 billion. A few years and one pandemic later, the company filed for bankruptcy on Monday, weighed down by more than $500 million in debt after years of supply-chain chaos and limited success expanding the Instant brand into other categories of household gadgetry. Perhaps counterintuitively, that the Instant Pot remains a useful, widely appreciated gadget is not unrelated to the faltering of its parent company. In fact, it’s central to understanding exactly what went wrong.
What's the next chorus to this song now?
We swung Mack the Knife in Berlin town.
The magnificent Ella Fitzgerald live in West Germany in 1960, singing the obligatory Mack the Knife (very well-known at the time from releases by Bobby Darin and Louis Armstrong). She forgot the lyrics? No problem!!
Global BIPOC Board Meeting #16 Minutes
MetaFilter's Global BIPOC Board has made the decision to publish meeting minutes in the form of a MetaTalk to improve visibility and increase the speed at which minutes are shared publicly! Minutes will continue to be uploaded to the board landing page as well in the form of a PDF. Thanks for reading.
Global BIPOC Board Meeting #15 Minutes
MetaFilter's Global BIPOC Board has made the decision to publish meeting minutes in the form of a MetaTalk to improve visibility and increase the speed at which minutes are shared publicly! Minutes will continue to be uploaded to the board landing page as well in the form of a PDF. Thanks for reading.
Short answer: 'yes' with an 'if'; long answer: 'no' with a 'but'
The Simpsons Is Good Again - after 34 seasons, 750 episodesm and a decades-long funk, the show innovated its way back to popularity and relevance
Every person I spoke to for the story - from Broti Gupta, one of the first writers on The Simpsons to have been born after the show's premiere, to James L. Brooks, one of the series' founders, to the former members of the No Homers Club fan community, infamous for compaining about the decline of the show - agrees that The Simpsons, in 2023, is undergoing a renaissance. The staff, working in the shadow of a looming writers strike when I visited, are putting out some of the most ambitious, poignant, and funny episodes in the show's history - episodes that, after all these years, have managed to broaden our understanding of these familiar characters and why they remain so important to so many people. And thanks to the streaming era, a whole new generation is growing up bingeing The Simpsons, bolstering the sense that the show, once left for dead by critics, may really go on forever.
And all the kings horses and all the kings horses penises
Kingly is a webcomic abougt a very sweet king. if Prince Valient met Hagar the Horrible but was actually funny and with more genitals.