~metafilter | Bookmarks (947)

An archive puts Indigenous punks in the spotlight. You can also find the Indigenous Punks Archive Instagram here.Posted because I thought this Unreserved episode and article was really cool! It reminds me of the Latino punks in the Hernandez Bros Love & Rockets.

Author and critic David Lodge, best known for his Booker Prize-nominated comic campus novels Small World and Nice Work, has died at the age of 89.

Requiring a driver's license for employment is now prohibited in California if driving is not reasonably expected to be part of the job duties. This is great - requiring a driver's licence for jobs that involve zero driving is used to discriminate against Disabled people including wheelchair users; Blind/Low Vision people; many people with Autism; many people with Anxiety.Also people who grew up in...

"From that period, Hutter has been exhibiting in numerous art galleries both in Germany and abroad. In his abysmal, detailed works, he focuses on eroticism, religion and the cosmic horror. His passion and commitment for art resulted in remarkable surreal and magical pieces." Hutter's official site and Instagram. A little writeup over on John Coulthart's website.

These are my modern English translations of jisei or Japanese death poems. Many such poems fall into a category called Zen Death Haiku. However, not all the poems here are haiku: some are tanka or waka. And not all the poems have to do with Zen as I apprehend it: some of the poets seem to be seeking enlightenment and a few, perhaps, to...

In the vast majority of cases the research group believes these non-summits are due to honest mistakes or justifiable ignorance, rather than willful dishonesty. Above 8,000 meters, climbers are physically and mentally extended, in no state to be conducting accurate topographical surveys or historical comparisons. Poor visibility, bad weather, fear about the descent, and concern for partners exacerbate the difficulties. The group does not...

"Even quite simple Newtonian systems can harbor uncaused events and ones for which the theory cannot even supply probabilities. Because of such systems, ordinary Newtonian mechanics cannot license a principle or law of causality. Here is an example of such a system fully in accord with Newtonian mechanics. It is a mass that remains at rest in a physical environment that is completely unchanging...

"It was so surreal: UK quarry worker uncovers 150-metre dinosaur highway. Researchers say the 166-million-year-old fossilised footprints could be one of the world's biggest dinosaur track sites.

The portable crop that renters can take with them: crocus. [gift link] In case you'd like 2025 to be your year of living deliciously, growing your own crocus could be a lovely way to start...There's a cake recipe which sounds incredible: Gers Ogaily from Kuwait, a fragrant saffron and cardamom cake that's as beautiful as it is delicious. https://www.iccadubai.ae/stockpot/saffron-cake-with-rose-mahalabia

"While I typically prefer my fantasy art to look like the surreal and colorful Paul Lehr, McBride's moody, detail-rich artwork always pulls me in. Take a moment to soak in "Ambusher 2," his 1987 cover to MERP's Assassins of Dol Amroth. The ornate cloak. The two lizards with sinister expressions. The bats. The hazy blue reflection of a distant town in a lake. That...

The problem is that, for a book that's supposed to be about wrestling with God, Peterson doesn't actually want to fight that hard. It turns out that, upon reflection, the Almighty's views are pretty straightforwardly those of the average North American conservative. God doesn't much like "Marxists," trans people, environmentalists, atheists, materialists, ChatGPT wokeness, or "Tinker Bell, the porn fairy." from Jordan Peterson's Take...

Formerly known as "Queen of Shitty Robots," YouTube's plucky "Inventor and breaker of things" Simone Giertz has been featured a lot on the blue, and deservedly so. Recently Simone invited YouTube channel Never Too Small to tour her exceedingly charming and efficiently laid out 630 square foot (58 square meter) house. Expect to observe loads of DIY, and delightful use of space.

Because better things aren't possible, an enlightened centrist at The Atlantic tries to move liberals more to the right on the topic of RFK Jr, mask mandates, medication, MMR vaccines, flu vaccines, birth control, IUDs, vaccination incentives, "vaccine hesitancy is not the same thing as anti-vax", fluoride, and the FDA. (Side note: Here's how to cancel your Atlantic subscription.)The Behind the Bastards podcast has...

LinkMe, 2025 Edition: Come across an interesting link recently that you'd like to share, but don't want to work it up into a full post? Share it here for our perusal, nbd. And if you'd like to post something but need some inspiration, check out the links here to see what other members have found interesting and would like to read more about! Just...

Seedlings of an Animalic Imagination. In recent years, some cinema has taken a bold turn away from anthropomorphism in its depiction of nonhuman animals, refusing to "make tame." (Olivia Popp, MUBI Notebook)

[tw celebrity deaths] The annual Death List has been posted for 2025. What famous people will probably drop in the coming year? Only 6 of the predicted 50 died in 2024 (the worst prediction in 30 years); the record was 2020, when 20 died. (Previously from 2010)

Digital Threat Report: Telegram's Toxic Recommendations (SPLC, BBC)"Telegram users are regularly suggested extremist channels, even when browsing channels that are ostensibly about nonpolitical subjects such as celebrities or technology. Even users who elect to consume extremist content from one ideology or belief system, such as antigovernment conspiracies or election disinformation, can find themselves being "suggested" channels from other extremist ideologies such as antisemitism or...

"If you go woke, famously you always go broke. That's why the woke miniatures of Trench Crusade smashed their Kickstarter fundraising target just hours after launching. At the time of writing, the Kickstarter has reached 12x its initial goal, with well over half a million pounds raised to bring these miniatures to life. So is this game woke? Because it's definitely not broke. Maybe...

You could think of a mind as having a dial that is usually turned way down, except on those occasions when we need to solve a specific problem, but even then, we only turn it up a little. What would happen if you set it to maximum, all the time? from The torture of an unphilosophical life by Agnes Callard in Unherd.

Caltrops: 33 minute video exploring the weapon from Ancient Rome to modern Ukraine.Javelin and warbow experts teach each other how to use their weapons (34m). How would a katana master fight with a longsword (7m)? Was the seax even Saxon (8m)? Did Normans wear chainmail onesies (20m)? Were knights muscle-bound or skinny (11m)? Should you defend your tower with a crossbow or longbow (11m)?...

The Carol Reed series (Facebook), the annually-released Swedish indie point-and-click adventure game series (similar to the formerly annual but still going Nancy Drew game series), has just released its TWENTIETH installment, Murder Malady. If you don't want to buy/play any of them, YouTuber Arglefumph has done Let's Plays of the first eighteen (Ctrl+F 'Carol' in the playlists), and here's someone else's commentary-free playthrough of...

Sea sponges under WA tourist attraction could hold cancer-fighting compounds. Scientists from the University of Western Australia are investigating the anti-cancer properties of sea sponges found under Busselton Jetty in Western Australia.