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Help! I've discovered essays
Please recommend me some good collections or anthologies of essays (in physical book or kindle format). Classic/seminal works and/or modern takes all welcome. So either: a collection of essays by a single author, or a collection by multiple authors on a single theme (or perhaps just a collection?!)
Movie: The Big Sleep
Private detective Philip Marlowe is hired by a wealthy family. Before the complex case is over, he's seen murder, blackmail, and what might be love.
Movie: C.H.U.D.
Photographer George Cooper (John Heard) is documenting the lives of subterranean homeless people, a population that has mysteriously dwindled. After receiving information from a reporter, George becomes aware of a conspiracy theory about cannibalistic monsters lurking in the sewers. He teams up with the reporter, a policeman (Christopher Curry) and an eccentric who runs a soup kitchen (Daniel Stern) to fight two battles: one against the cannibals and the other against corrupt government conspiracy.
Jeopardy!: Tournament of Champions 2022
Jeopardy! gears up for what may be the biggest slugfest in TOC history, with superchampions Amy Schneider (40 games won), Matt Amodio (38), and Mattea Roach (23) skipping the first round.
Musk rolling up his sleeves and getting dirty in new Twitter role.
Get your code personally reviewed by Elon Musk! On paper!
This service is sure to massively disrupt software development, bro. Multiple pricing tiers appropriate to whatever level you're on. Meet Elon Musk personally, and get your code shot into space! But the video explains it better than I could.
Mashed Potatoes on Monet
NY Times: Climate Activists Throw Mashed Potatoes on Monet Painting
“After throwing mashed potatoes at a painting by Claude Monet, on exhibit in Potsdam, Germany, the climate protesters each glued a hand to the wall“
Fiona Apple has a story for you. And it’s incredible.
Fiona Apple Claims Maryland Officials Blocked Access for Court Watchers Over Pretrial Detention Suit: The singer-songwriter, who's been observing court proceedings for a couple of years, was one of several people to file an affidavit in support of plaintiffs suing over allegedly unlawful system
Why make yourself uncomfortable when you can be in a comfortable place?
NPR is not our friend. Let’s take a closer look at why this is.
“… like much other media, NPR has become a partisan news service with a sterile, professional tone that belies an underlying allegiance to a very narrow range of political viewpoints that are largely inoffensive to those in power. Today, NPR is a product stuffed with advertisements. It receives relatively little in government funding and is mostly paid for by corporations and a small percentage of its listeners who come from a very specific demographic: white, well-educated liberals.“
Bad Sisters: Rest in Peace
After his near-drowning experience, JP is convinced someone is trying to kill him, while Grace is convinced he was trying to kill himself.
Im Westen nichts Neues
A German film of _All Quiet on the Western Front_
The trailer for a new movie adaptation of Erich Maria Remarque's 1929 novel All Quiet On The Western Front appeared.
‘A new way of life’
The climate crisis will spiral out of control unless the world applies “emergency brakes” to capitalism and devises a “new way of living”, according to a Japanese academic whose book on Marxism and the environment has become a surprise bestseller. [SL Guardian]
The message from Kohei Saito, an associate professor at Tokyo University, is simple: capitalism’s demand for unlimited profits is destroying the planet and only “degrowth” can repair the damage by slowing down social production and sharing wealth.
The History of Gasoline
Jalopnik's multi-part series on the history of gasoline by Jamie Kitman:
Prelude: A Century And A Half Of Lies
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Part 1: How Gasoline Got Into Our Lives
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Part 2: They Trashed Pennsylvania First
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Part 3: How Standard Oil Built Its Toxic Monopoly
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Part 4: How Standard Oil Got Away With It
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Part 5: Better Things For Deader Living ... Through Chemistry
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Part 6: The Original Sin Of General Motors
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Part 7: They Lied About The Science
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Part 8: Searching For The Magic Bullet
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Part 9: Charles Kettering, Prophet Of Profit
Welcome, Programs.
Forty years ago, one of Disney's weirdest failures started changing movies forever.
TRON stumbled, so that Neo could be the One and Ralph could break the Internet.
The History of Modern Linguistics
History and Philosophy of the Language Sciences
or hiphilangsci to its friends, is a podcast about linguistics, from its earliest stirrings as a science. It is hosted and produced by James McElvenny, and tries to cover all major intellectual currents in linguistics, from a historical perspective. The associated blog is co-edited by Chloé Laplantine, and has evolved to feature long video interviews and a book series.
You like my body the way it is
Backxwash is the performing name of Ashanti Mutinta, blending hip-hop with doom metal, avante-noise, pagan spirituality and trans representation. She discusses her latest album, 2021's 'I LIE HERE BURIED WITH MY RINGS AND MY DRESSES' in various interviews, and
has a fantastic half hour studio-live set presented by Audiotree.
Abba in Hell
Propaganda are back after 37 years, with a new album and performing live
Famously described as "Abba in Hell", Düsseldorf synthpop duo Propaganda (Susanne Freytag and Claudia Brücken) released the astounding album "A Secret Wish" in 1983. (Here are the tracks Duel and Dr Mabuse.) Then they split up, leaving behind a cult following and a handful of remix albums based on the original master recordings by ZTT's Trevor Horn (see also). But now they're back as xPropaganda with a new album, The Heart Is Strange, and it's like they'd never left.
Journey to Wisconsin's Oldest Tree
"The oldest known tree in Wisconsin is a scrawny, scrubby little red cedar growing out of the side of a cliff. It’s not majestic. Actually, it’s so unremarkable that it’s easy to miss.
I should know. I might’ve missed it myself, even when — after years of searching for it — this tree was right in front of me."
The Dome Should Have Been Better and Bigger, Okay?
A former Foxconn executive tries to explain what went wrong in Wisconsin.
If you don’t quite remember, the Foxconn project in Wisconsin was announced in 2017 as a massive deal to build the first “Generation 10.5” LCD factory in North America. It was also one of the first big moments in the Trump presidency, complete with President Trump holding a golden shovel at a lavish groundbreaking ceremony where he said the factory would be “the eighth wonder of the world.”
Welcome To Year Zero
Nine Inch Nails' 2007 album Year Zero foretold of a dystopian future, set in 15 years in the future, 2022, where the Religious Right was taking over the country, terrorism inspired mass surveillance, drugs for population control were in the water, and something from beyond the planet is trying to reach out with a message. But let's not start with the music... let's start with the plot [Reddit, top answer has a very good synopsis of the setting and storyline].
Game Was Her Middle Name
RIP Betty Davis, the Trailblazing Queen of Funk and former wife of trumpeter Miles Davis. They said she was different, and they weren't lying. You can learn more by watching the 2017 documentary (Betty: They Say I'm Different), or maybe just playing some of her tunes (a lot of which really are NSFW). More here, here, and hear the last song she wrote here.
100 hundred years of Bloom
Friends of Shakespeare and Company read Ulysses by James Joyce
To celebrate one hundred years since Sylvia Beach, publisher and bookseller, published James Joyce’s ULYSSES, Hay Festival is partnering the iconic bookshop Shakespeare and Company, Paris, on a global read-along of the complete text to be released as a free podcast between the 100th anniversary of the publication on 2 February 2022 and Bloomsday on 16 June 2022.
If you are planning to read the novel for the first time you can do no better than use ulyssesguide.com as your guide. The author of this website has also just published it as a book.
JEOPARDAMY!
The New York Times goes long on Amy Schneider, who with 40 wins now has second-longest winning streak on Jeopardy! after Ken Jennings:
- A short interview by Julia Jacobs at the streak’s end: “Amy Schneider on the Final Game of Her Whirlwind ‘Jeopardy!’ Run”
- Shane O’Neil with a profile of Schneider and a dive into the whole experience: “‘Jeopardy!’ Hasn’t Had a Player Like Amy Schneider”
Promises
Promises
is a 2021 studio album by British electronic musician Sam Shepard, aka Floating Points, and American jazz saxophonist Pharoah Sanders.
The NFTs must flow! (not)
SPICEdao mistakenly believed it had acquired copyright to produce NFTs
"Crypto group shamed for spending $3m on ‘Dune’ book, mistakenly believing it had acquired copyright to produce NFTs"
1997 Forever and Ever
Left Alive And Unchanged
is the story behind the still extant website of the Heaven's Gate cult, whose infamous 1997 mass suicide in a mansion near San Diego, CA is still being talked about today.
The adventures of Novax Djacovid
"We’d stop writing about the guy if he stopped giving us fresh crap to write about."
"Why on earth would Australia let in a reckless, twice-infected, antivaxxer who is clearly not interested in following rules, and quite possibly played fast-and-loose with the exemption protocols so that he could hit a yellow ball with a racket?"
There Was a Time Once When the World Was Beautiful
The year is 2022. Our overpopulated planet is experiencing catastrophic climate change, megacorporations have excessive power over the government, and clean living is a luxury only the 1 percent can afford. from In 1973, ‘Soylent Green’ envisioned the world in 2022. It got a lot right.
Le positivisme
Massimiliano Simons (@MassSimons), a philosopher of science at the University of Ghent, is tweeting charming illustrated threads about French philosophers of science and positivists from the turn of the 19th/20th century, figures who sometimes get forgotten or lazily lumped together in anglophone history and philosophy of science.
Water around the toilet where it shouldn't be (good times!)
I just noticed some water around the base of a toilet in our basement. Do I need a wax ring replacement? How hard is that to DIY?
Lil Nas X is the boundary-smashing pop revolutionary of 2021
Lil Nas X is the boundary-smashing pop revolutionary of 2021 [NPR medium read] "Nas' creative output is fully on trend with today's renaissance in Black LGBT+ pop culture that includes everything from ball culture TV series Pose, risqué HBO teen melodrama Euphoria and the irreverent, sexually-frank, Black gay Pulitzer Prize-winning musical A Strange Loop."
"you are asked to believe them. But I am an unreliable narrator."
"Impairment phenomenology is different from other kinds of phenomenology in that it does not assume a subject in command of their own faculties." Scholar Jonathan Sterne has written a forthcoming book, Diminished Faculties: A Political Phenomenology of Impairment; the introduction is now available (PDF, 54 pages, 2.5MB). The introduction briefly explains what phenomenology is, and discusses disability simulations, Sterne's own experience of thyroid cancer and an acquired impairment in his voice, the "humanities 'we'", policy implications, the interior voice, and more. It also includes excerpts from Sterne's blog posts about his disability, and a cute illustration called "Things That Are 7.5 Centimeters".
The mandate has arrived
The President finally announced new requirements for vaccination.
In the speech made Thursday, President Biden outlined new rules that would require all federal workers and contractors, as well as employees of all businesses with over 100 employees would be required to be vaccinated, or would face weekly testing and social distancing restrictions in the workplace.
Ursula K. Le Guin’s blog archive is back online
“In 2010, at the age of 81, Ursula started a blog. 2017's No Time to Spare collected a selection of her posts into a book, and for a time, those posts were unavailable online. They've now been restored.” Here’s Le Guin’s introductory post. [via]
Now Hear This
Ear Trumpets work better than modern digital hearing aids.
"...Ear trumpets and speaking tubes not only yielded a sound amplification of 10 to 25 decibels, they also suppressed sounds that came from other directions, further improving their workings. The speaking tube also reduced the noise between speaker and listener."
It's a Rio de Janeiro bouncy ball
Dry Cleaning is a post-punk band from South London featuring a tight rhythm section, sweet guitar riffs, and wonderfully scattershot spoken word vocals. A song with a fun arty music video. A song about the Duchess of Sussex. The title track from their new album.
What exactly was the point of [ “x$var” = “xval” ]?
Shellcheck developer Vidar Holen asks and answers a question about arcane command-line syntax in about 1000 words.
Next Bubble Pop When?
If you sell a house these days, the buyer might just be a pension fund.
Yield-chasing investors are snapping up single-family homes, competing with ordinary Americans and driving up prices. This bubble might be different due to the expansion of rents as opposed to mortgages, but the effects mirror the growth rates seen in 2005.
What does it mean if I (32F) keep failing things?
It feels like there is something deep inside me which wants me to fail and I don't understand what is happening to me. Equally I feel a burning jealousy at those who have succeeded academically as I know I was once capable of the same thing.
Live Now, Die Later
Do you want a break from feeling worried? Do you want to live in an alternate reality of upbeat funk mixes and Geocities aesthetics? Then you want Neonriver.party, a site with no context, no signature, just hours and hours of curated grooves.