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Like in Sweden, the far-right fared poorly in Finland, with the winners being the centre-right and the left-wing parties. The other parties are happy enough with their outcomes. The result for the Left Party’s Li Andersson was especially remarkable… [more]
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MeFi comment - 37 minutes ago

I realize this is getting into the weeds of electoral systems, but in elections for the European Parliament, excitement and inspiration translates to real political gains. So, basically, parties get seats apportioned proportionally to their vote… [more]
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MeFi comment - An hour ago

. I never get tired of looking at Earthrise. It’s a transcendent piece of art. [more]
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MeFi comment - 3 days ago

“clientelism is the main organizing force within Hobbit politics”
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MeFi post - 4 days ago

Jesus fuck, that article ob1quixote linked to is the most damning yet. Excerpt: Much more troubling, AI Overview is occasionally willing to answer questions about racial superiority or inferiority. When I asked Google which race is the fastest, AI… [more]
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MeFi comment - 4 days ago

Another Sleepy Dusty Delta Sweete
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MeFi post - 4 days ago

I have a sneaking feeling Belgium will win the Euros this year, which is odd for me because I usually have no feeling, sneaking or otherwise, for an eventual winner of an international tournament. They’re not as absurdly blessed with talent as they… [more]
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MeFi comment - 4 days ago

Atreides: Is he the Master? I had the same thought about Qimir. [more]
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FanFare comment - 5 days ago

I enjoyed this episode as much as the first one. I’ll admit that I went in worrying that it would be as unsatisfying as Ahsoka. Don’t get me wrong, there were aspects of Ahsoka I really liked, but overall it left me feeling meh. The Acolyte, while… [more]
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FanFare comment - 5 days ago

I was telling a friend about my out there Dybbuk theory, and I realized that one thing wasn’t clear. I meant that the when the parasite created Mae in Osha’s mind, the knowledge about the crimes was transferred there, allowing Osha to believe she was… [more]
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FanFare comment - 5 days ago

Okay, so this is basically Wuxia Star Wars. On some level I’m surprised it took so long for that to happen. I’ll forgive a lot if a show has good fight scenes, and it opens on a really good one. It’s fairly clear that they’ve decided that this… [more]
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FanFare comment - 5 days ago

“Sawney Freeman, likely America’s first published Black composer”
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MeFi post - 6 days ago

“All art is propaganda … on the other hand, not all propaganda is art”
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MeFi post - 6 days ago

“Both of them knew that the time garden was dying.”
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MeFi post - 6 days ago

When I was there I had bagels both from St Viateur and Fairmount, to compare the two. Honestly, they’re both good bagels. [more]
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Ask MeFi comment - 8 days ago

A decade ago, Google seemed an immensely beneficial part of society, organizing all the world’s information like a modern-day Library of Alexandria, available to everyone with a connection to the web. Our Library of Alexandria burned so slowly we… [more]
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MeFi comment - 10 days ago

Marina Hyde has started a series of articles in the Guardian called Campaign Trail 2024. Here’s an excerpt from her piece on the Liberal Democrats: Nine times out of 10 the Liberal Democrats’ campaign stunts are so on the nose that they are… [more]
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MeFi comment - 10 days ago

Alice Munro, 1931-2024
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MeFi post - 10 days ago

The Vast Jalapeño Conspiracy
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MeFi post - 10 days ago

Icelandic state broadcaster RÚV has a range of good livestreams. Following RÚV English is a good bet for up-to-date, accurate information. This eruption looked a bit scary at first, as it was the biggest so far and there was quite a bit more ash,… [more]
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MeFi comment - 12 days ago

. Such life. Much joy. Wow. [more]
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MeFi comment - 12 days ago

Those poor children, that was my first thought. My second thought is that Kleeman went into this assignment thinking she’d write a quirky human interest story, and clearly had no idea how to reframe it after she saw Collins strike his son in… [more]
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MeFi comment - 13 days ago

Google’s “AI Overview” can give false, misleading, and dangerous answers is an article by Kyle Orland for Ars Technica, where he and his colleagues recreated many of the viral weirdnesses of Google’s AI Overview, and divided them into categories of… [more]
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MeFi comment - 13 days ago

Yeah, somehow it’s both entirely what I expected, but also a disappointment. Generally, if people have bought into one ludicrous far-right idea, they tend to have bought into many others too, but cartoonishness of that couple is just so boring. [more]
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MeFi comment - 14 days ago

'Pronatalist' parents are under fire after the dad publicly slapped his toddler — and they think the criticism is racist by Katie Balevic. Excerpt: The couple both said they found the backlash they faced on social media to be racist since, they… [more]
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MeFi comment - 14 days ago

. You can find a gallery of her work here. [more]
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MeFi comment - 2 weeks ago

What Raisi’s Death Means for the Future of Iran by Robin Wright for the New Yorker [archive]. Excerpt: Raisi’s demise also comes at a time when the regime is down to a small core. Like other revolutions, Iran’s has eaten its own. Past Presidents of… [more]
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MeFi comment - 2 weeks ago

So apparently in the cabinet meeting preceding the election announcement Michael Gove told Rishi Sunak “Who dares wins. You dared — and you will win.” Michael Gove to stand down at general election. Excerpt: Michael Gove has joined the now… [more]
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MeFi comment - 2 weeks ago

Orangutans are clearly highly intelligent, have complex societies that transmit knowledge across generations, and yet were unable to communicate with them. I sometimes suspect our galaxy is full of interstellar chitter-chatter between intelligent… [more]
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MeFi comment - 2 weeks ago

“Over the course of the summer, the other participants grew to hate me and constantly chastised me for betraying the integrity of the experiment.” This is giving me flashbacks. My earliest stable role-playing group was largely made up of queer… [more]
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MeFi comment - 2 weeks ago

I’d feel a lot better about this news if Keir Starmer didn’t have huge “you had one job” energy. That said, it feels almost impossible to imagine any other outcome than him being Prime Minister by July 5th. [more]
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MeFi comment - 2 weeks ago

I’ve been listening to a lot of early Ella Fitzgerald songs lately, and coming across a reference to The Dipsy Doodle created a weird feeling of connection across time, that Laura Perea had also listened to that same song. [more]
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MeFi comment - 2 weeks ago

<Moe Szyslak voice> You know what I blame this on the shutdown of? Reader. </Moe Szyslak voice> [more]
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MeFi comment - 2 weeks ago

ashbury: Come Sail Away is ridiculous? Yes? I mean, yes. And that’s what makes it great. A normal band would’ve written a song about wanting to escape humanity by going out on a boat. An out there band would’ve written a song about a guy… [more]
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MeFi comment - 2 weeks ago

A week ago I was at a cookout and a young hipster was telling horrifiex me how much he liked Creed and I was instantly transported to my past of being a young hipster telling a horrified older someone else how much I liked Styx and Hall & Oates… [more]
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MeFi comment - 2 weeks ago

Reuters published a short explainer of what is supposed to happen if the President of Iran dies in office. Most notably, there is meant to be an election no later than 50 days after the president dies. [more]
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MeFi comment - 3 weeks ago

DoveBrown: The More Civilised Age podcast had an episode where they recorded their impressions of going on it. I believe it was a tier goal for their Patreon so they weren’t quite spending their own money I just recently listened to that… [more]
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MeFi comment - 3 weeks ago

Her aesthetic is very heavily “of the Internet”, but it feels like it’s the Internet of twenty years ago. This reminded me of nothing so much as Salad Fingers. I really need to watch and listen to more of her work. [more]
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MeFi comment - 3 weeks ago

. Earlier this year I went back to her final collection, Dear Life, and found it really profound, in a way that it hadn’t struck me when I first read it. I used to think that the 1982 collection Moons of Jupiter was the place to start with her… [more]
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MeFi comment - 3 weeks ago

Oh, another book you might like because of the force of its writing (though its subject is very, very different), is Helen DeWitt's Last Samurai (nothing to do with the Tom Cruise movie). Note, sometimes it's called The Seventh Samurai. [more]
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Ask MeFi comment - 3 weeks ago

This may be common on Reddit, but I was shocked to see comments by AI-bots on the HBomberguy thread about the episode, specifically a product summary about the book The Pink Triangle: The Nazi War on Homosexuals. Absolutely not the time, topic and… [more]
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MeFi comment - 3 weeks ago

On his other channel HBurgerGuy Brewis has posted a 20-minute supplemental video called Iilluminaughtii and the perils of lazy video essays which pretty much explains itself, but is still fairly jaw-dropping. [more]
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MeFi comment - 3 weeks ago

Old cases are now being brought up, like when the podcast Chilluminati plagiarized historian Jonathan M. Katz last year. [more]
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MeFi comment - 3 weeks ago

There’s a Reddit thread where people are making recommendations and also contributing additional plagiarisms that they find in the videos of Internet Historian and James Somerton. [more]
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MeFi comment - 3 weeks ago

. Paul Auster had a real profound effect on me. I knew of him early, because my dad really liked his works. Sometime in the early 90s, my dad interviewed him for Icelandic radio, and Auster said he should be in touch when he was in New York. My… [more]
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MeFi comment - 3 weeks ago

If, like me, your eyes bulged at the figure of 500 thousand pieces of type being thrown in the river by just one man, Robert Green helpfully works it out in the video linked in the article. That’s a 170 trips, 12-15 pounds each time. That’s literally… [more]
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MeFi comment - 3 weeks ago

"Women in philosophy have always needed a special stroke of luck."
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MeFi post - 3 weeks ago

How One Crack in the Line Opened a Path for the Russians by Marc Santora for the New York Times [ungated]. Excerpt: Russian infantry storm across mine-strewn fields on foot and use dirt bikes and dune buggies to try and outrace Ukrainian exploding… [more]
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MeFi comment - 3 weeks ago

Putin removes Sergei Shoigu as Russia’s defence minister by Pjotr Sauer in the Guardian. Excerpt: Shoigu’s position appeared to have weakened last month when the security services arrested his long-term confidant Timur Ivanov, a deputy defence… [more]
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MeFi comment - 3 weeks ago

There were lots of protests in 2012, when Azerbaijan hosted Eurovision, and Loreen, the winner that year, met with human rights campaigners in the country and criticized the government. That said, I agree that there should be more focus on… [more]
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MeFi comment - 3 weeks ago

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