Activity from Kattullus

“Both of them knew that the time garden was dying.”
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MeFi post - 12 hours 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 - 13 hours 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 - 16 hours ago

Alice Munro, 1931-2024
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MeFi post - 21 hours ago

The Vast Jalapeño Conspiracy
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MeFi post - Yesterday

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 - 3 days ago

. Such life. Much joy. Wow. [more]
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MeFi comment - 3 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]
favorited 24 times, recently by SeedStitch, Lexica, Bella Donna, adamsc, ambrosen, nofundy, gudrun, camyram, bombastic lowercase pronouncements, Proofs and Refutations, paduasoy, rosiroo, Kpele, jedicus, lalochezia, queensissy, seawallrunner, jenfullmoon, Absolutely No You-Know-What, Frowner, Neronomius, craniac, Wordshore, wenestvedt
MeFi comment - 4 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 - 4 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 - 5 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]
favorited 4 times, recently by Bella Donna, queensissy, ob1quixote, box
MeFi comment - 5 days ago

“All art is propaganda … on the other hand, not all propaganda is art”
favorited 19 times, recently by Bella Donna, star gentle uterus, mollweide, Alvy Ampersand, kitten_hat, mediareport, verbminx, blue shadows, sophieblue, junebug, Torosaurus, mfoight, Joeruckus, S'Tella Fabula, jeffburdges, DSime, GenjiandProust, pracowity, JHarris
MeFi post - 5 days ago

“Sawney Freeman, likely America’s first published Black composer”
favorited 24 times, recently by of strange foe, mediareport, under_petticoat_rule, Johnny Wallflower, stet, LobsterMitten, donatella, The_Auditor, daisystomper, y2karl, JHarris, Oliva Porphyria, Saxon Kane, busted_crayons, jim in austin, nightcoast, Think_Long, trip and a half, googlebombed, Smart Dalek, jzb, adrienneleigh, rory, nat
MeFi post - 6 days ago

. You can find a gallery of her work here. [more]
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MeFi comment - 6 days 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]
favorited 3 times, recently by adamsc, adrienneleigh, GenjiandProust
MeFi comment - 7 days 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 - 8 days 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 - 10 days 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 - 10 days 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]
favorited 8 times, recently by From Bklyn, rosiroo
MeFi comment - 10 days 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 - 10 days 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 - 11 days 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 - 12 days 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 - 12 days 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 - 14 days 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 - 14 days 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 - 2 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 - 2 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 - 2 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 - 2 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 - 2 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 - 2 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 - 2 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 - 2 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 - 2 weeks ago

"Women in philosophy have always needed a special stroke of luck."
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MeFi post - 2 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 - 2 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 - 2 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 - 2 weeks ago

Also, on voting, in Finland non-citizen residents such as myself get to vote in local elections. This is fairly common practice in Europe. So while I don’t get to vote for the president or parliament, I get to vote who my mayor is and for city and… [more]
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MeFi comment - 2 weeks ago

The Supremes, Marvin Gaye, Martha and the Vandellas and so many more
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MeFi post - 2 weeks ago

Unsurprisingly, Sheba Blake Publishing is well represented. Here’s a blogpost about them, with many examples. Excerpt: Had the whole Sheba Blake collection been a series of random covers, it would make more sense. But someone seems to actually be… [more]
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MeFi comment - 2 weeks ago

An essay about errors in Ulysses by James Joyce
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MeFi post - 2 weeks ago

Käärijä was supposed to announce the points from Finland, but he’s stepped down. There was a kind of weird incident a couple of days ago where the Israeli singer was filmed dancing with him, and he didn’t want to be filmed, and there was fallout. In… [more]
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MeFi comment - 3 weeks ago

There might be more absences tonight than just Joost Klein. Icelandic media is reporting that Ireland’s Bambie Thug didn’t show up for practice or the flag carrying thing (translating from Icelandic, don’t know what it’s called in English), and the… [more]
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MeFi comment - 3 weeks ago

Like a lot of people who normally tune in, I haven’t watched this year, and probably won’t tonight either. I’m sure the show will be good, but the EBU’s cack-handed attempts to depoliticize their show has made it so it’s impossible to watch without… [more]
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MeFi comment - 3 weeks ago

Oh, and also, while there is a real chance that Israel wins the televote, and might win the whole thing, the 40% of the televote thing in Italy might not be particularly representative, if it turns out to be true. The Big Five countries, which pay… [more]
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MeFi comment - 3 weeks ago

Until about an hour ago I thought the EBU would be able to pull themselves out of this PR hole, given that it’s an organization made up of media professionals. Then I saw that Swedish public radio is reporting that Jean Philip De Tender, who’s EBU’s… [more]
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MeFi comment - 3 weeks ago

“spaghettification is just 12.8 seconds away”
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MeFi post - 3 weeks ago

. I read the chapter about him in Our Band Could Be Your Life and concluded that he was unable to see the world from a perspective outside his own, and was pleasantly surprised by how much he grew as a person in the last two decades. It’s an… [more]
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MeFi comment - 3 weeks ago

“There is an episode of Bluey that Disney does not want you to see”
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MeFi post - 3 weeks ago

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