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Singer Halsey, nee Ashley Frangipane, did a lengthy interview with SHE MD about her pregnancy and its complications. Halsey Part 1: Endometriosis, Lupus and The Unfiltered Truth About Living With Chronic Illness [50m] and Halsey Pt 2: Overcoming Postpartum Depression and Clinical Ketamine Therapy That Changed Everything [40m] were illuminating to me as a gay man with no experience of pregnancy at all. I...

Legalized Sports Gambling Was a Mistake (slTheAtlantic) (archive here)But wait -- there's more! Ontario, Canada legalized virtual casinos and well, that's not going great either. (slTOStar) (archive here)

over the past few weeks and months, the talk around Lichtenstein been more about his appropriation of the work from comic artists and less about his impact on the art world. Jonathan Bailey, Plagiarism Today, 2023The reason for that is the release of a new documentary entitled Whaam! Blam! Roy Lichtenstein and the Art of Appropriation. Though released in November 2022, the documentary has...

John Baez: "Once there was a thing called Twitter, where people exchanged short messages called 'tweets'. While it had its flaws, I came to like it and eventually decided to teach a short course on entropy in the form of tweets. This little book is a slightly expanded version of that course." [PDF, 129 pages]

Intellectual giant Fredric Jameson has died. The LRB has a brief obituary, with links to his reviews. His most famous work--at least the one most frequently seen popping up in graduate English courses--is 1991's Postmodernism, or, The Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism (read a selection here, or the whole thing at the internet archive), but he was a prolific author who kept writing (and...

The neo-modernist faith in the future assumes the potentiality of the not-yet as an ideal; it credulously takes the bait of hype, assuming that technological innovation will continue to produce new aesthetic paradigms, and ideally market value. These cycles of hype go from boom to bust with predictable regularity—see, for instance, the spectacular death of NFTs—but to the believers, individual fads matter less than...

Malicious data sharing to be outlawed in Australia as part of privacy law update. The malicious release of personal data online, known as doxxing, will be outlawed and attract up to seven years in jail under new legislation being introduced to Federal parliament.The bill will impose a maximum six years' imprisonment for publishing private details such as names, addresses and numbers, with the intent...

With recipes, trivia, history, cooking tips, poems and an extensive listing of festivals by US state, country and month, Chef James' 25-year-old, daily-updated foodreference.com is a comforting survival from the early web. (Previously [2002], pointed out by Brian Jeffears on Mastodon)foodreference.com is one of those sites that, every so often, someone links to in passing as part of a different post, but doesn't seem...

Scientists have argued that recursion, a technique that allows chunks of language such as sentences to be embedded inside each other (with no hard limit on the number of nestings) is a universal human ability, perhaps even the one uniquely human ability that supports language. It's what allows us to create—literally—an infinite variety of novel sentences out of a limited inventory of words. from...

"Candy came from out on the Island / In the back room she was everybody's darling" Beautiful Darling [1h26m] is a documentary about the life of Andy Warhol Factory participant Candy Darling. You've heard the lyric, but probably don't know the story.

On his YouTube channel stand-up comic Josh Johnson has released nearly a full day's worth of stand-up videos. They are generally topical routines, so it might make sense to start with the latest one, about the Harris-Trump debate. In a couple of recent interviews, with Vulture and the Los Angeles Times, Johnson explains why the Daily Show writer and correspondent decided to start releasing...

The whale disassemblers are coming. An hour long documentary on the process of moving the contents of a natural history museum that have been in place, in some cases, for almost 200 years. SLYT

The 2024 Ringo Awards were announced last night at the Baltimore ComicCon.The Mike Wieringo Comic Book Industry Awards, also known as the Ringo Awards, have been celebrating creativity within comics since 2017. Winners: Best Cartoonist: Jeff Smith Best Writer: Mariko Tamaki (Instagram Link) Best Artist or Penciller/Inker Team: Elsa Charretier Best Letterer: Stan Sakai Best Colorist: Tamra Bonvillain Best Cover Artist: Chris Samnee (instagram...

"It was a special thing for me to experience that outpouring of grief. It showed the true impact he had on people." With the new release of The Tragically Hip: No Dress Rehearsal documentary (directed by the late Gord Downie's brother, Mike Downie), a Toronto Life interview with the remaining members of the band on their musical legacy.The documentary is currently available on Amazon...

You've heard of Iron Maiden (previously). You've probably heard of singer/songwriter Mitch Benn (previously). You may have heard of cult BBC stop-motion animation The Clangers (previously). Now, thanks to Mitch Benn, we have Iron Maiden's The Clangers. [SLYT, 8m30s)

Turtle rookery's future brighter after feral deer eradicated on Great Barrier Reef island. Authorities wipe out feral deer on Wild Duck Island off the central Queensland coast in a bid to preserve one of Australia's largest flatback turtle rookeries.

Robert Schock, 39, was last seen hiking on the North Cascade's Chilliwack River Trail with his dog on July 31. On August 3, his dog was found on the trail by a forest ranger. Three searches of the 17-mile trail were conducted, but he wasn't found. (archive) One month later, a trail crew with the Pacific Northwest Trail Association was working in the field...

Tamsyn Muir -- creator of a queer gothic necromantic space dystopia/paradise from which only she is personally barred -- has nonetheless invited the rest of us back to her world in a new short story. The multi-genre script that is the story occurs midway through Nona the Ninth inside a nested set of souls and also a graduate seminar and also a British country...

Famed musical writers Howard Ashman and Alan Menken have an abandoned song that I'd never heard of before. Aria For A Cow was made into an animated short several years ago, and it's delightful. 7m

Ten children drew their favourite sea creatures. Then Australia's leading artists responded. Ken Done, Jonathan Zawada, Blak Douglas and others created companion pieces to children's works celebrating sharks and rays. They're now on display at the Australian Museum.

Tishani Doshi (Aeon, 09/16/2024), "Tender, yet creepy": "Tom sits in his box, one blue eye blinkered shut. I reach for him, and I am a girl again, gently rattling his head so his eye can become unstuck." Topics include Freud's "The Uncanny" [PDF], Baudelaire's "The Philosophy of Toys" (a.k.a. "Morale du joujou" and its excerpt "The Plaything of the Poor"), Rilke's "The Unfortunate Fate...