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I think Wikipedia is great. I spend tons of time on it. I especially like to read about history, because it allows me to quickly jump into obscure details about anything, without the need to scout for specialized literature that might be super hard to find. But one question always creeps in the back of my mind: am I reading something as fair as...

Marvellous surprise as rare endangered coastal emu eggs found in New South Wales state forest. A New South Wales Forestry Corporation employee has stumbled across a nest of eggs belonging to the endangered coastal emu during a routine pre-harvest inspection.

I'm not saying that art has to involve tedium. What I'm saying is that art requires making choices at every scale; the countless small-scale choices made during implementation are just as important to the final product as the few large-scale choices made during the conception. It is a mistake to equate "large-scale" with "important" when it comes to the choices made when creating art;...

While labor's net assets have risen 225% since 2010, membership has declined by 1.8 million workers. According to the latest Gallup poll, approval of unions is at the highest level since the 1960s, yet only one-tenth of one percent of workers in the private sector got the chance to vote for a union.

Matt Bernstein has a podcast. This one is good. Yes, I just linked to an entire youtube channel, but a bit fruity is also available on spotify and anywhere you like to get your podcasts.Some episodes I've liked: JK Rowling's Spiral Into Madness, with guest ContraPoints Amber Heard & The Myth of the Perfect Victim, with Kat Tenbarge (NBC) The Mom Who Invented Gender...

A generator that will make images for a word you give it using landsat imagery! Each letter gets its own picture, labeled with its location, and the collage can be downloaded.

The high that most adult weed smokers remember from their teenage years is most likely one produced by "mids," as in, middle-tier weed. In the pre-legalization era, unless you had a connection with access to top-shelf strains such as Purple Haze and Sour Diesel, you probably had to settle for mids (or, one step down, "reggie," as in regular weed) most of the time....

Rescued Baby Walrus Requires Round the Clock Care. From thatgoodnewsgirl on YouTube. Her tagline, "I'm Jen and I post something positive every day." Many cute additional links provided.stray narwhal adopted by beluga whale pod may soon have "narluga" babies (it is rare but it is a thing!) City officials have unexpected response to ducklings being threatened in Alabama park Ben Afquack the duck gets...

It's your Monday free thread, and also the first week of September! The heat of summer is beginning to ease in the north, marking the beginning of meteorological Autumn, while the cold of winter will be lifting soon in the south as meteorological Spring begins. Kids are back to school in countries with long summer vacations. How are you preparing for the seasonal change...

Father of Labor Day was Black lawmaker from Cleveland. The first Black person elected to office in Cleveland. The second African-American elected to the Ohio House of Representatives. The first African-American elected to the Ohio Senate. As a state representative from Cleveland's Glenville neighborhood, he introduced the 1890 bill that made Labor Day a state holiday, four years before the US Congress established the...

Pivot-to-AI reports: In an official position statement on AI [archive], the NaNoWriMo organization declares: "We also want to be clear in our belief that the categorical condemnation of Artificial Intelligence has classist and ableist undertones, and that questions around the use of AI tie to questions around privilege." This year's new sponsor is ProWritingAid.com, which has now added unspecified "AI" functionality. [archive]

"An employee who spoke with KPNX on the condition of anonymity said a colleague found her at her desk while walking around the building and that several people had smelled a foul odor, but believed it to be faulty plumbing. Wells Fargo confirmed she sat in an under-populated area of the building."This is far from the first time someone has died at work and...

"The crisis in Sudan is catastrophic," Macklemore said in an Instagram post on Monday. Some food security specialists estimate up to 2.5 million people could die of starvation and illness by October. [bbc]Sudan, previously

Casy Calver's Authors Take Sides on the Spanish War: A Dossier is an annotated edition of the eponymous 1937 pamphlet [previously], containing "many influential writers' opinions on one of the most significant conflicts of the twentieth century." Calver includes related unpublished documents plus background on contributors like C.L.R. James, Marcus Garvey, Sylvia Townsend Warner, Victor Gollancz, Sylvia Pankhurst, Cecil Day-Lewis, Arthur Koestler, Rebecca West,...

At OpenSea, once the largest marketplace for NFTs, more storms have gathered. One of the most valuable private startups to come out of the incubator Y Combinator is now facing pending litigation from the Securities and Exchange Commission, a previously unreported "matter" with the Federal Trade Commission, inbounds from US and international tax authorities, heightened competition, accusations of gender discrimination, and employee attrition. Interviews...

Linda Deutsch, AP Trial Writer Who Had Front Row to Courtroom History, Dies at 80 "One of America's best-known trial reporters, she covered a who's who of criminal defendants — Charles Manson, O.J. Simpson, Michael Jackson, Patty Hearst, Phil Spector, the Menendez Brothers, "Night Stalker" Richard Ramirez, "Unabomber" Ted Kaczynski and the police officers charged in the beating of motorist Rodney King."I was fortunate...

An Ontario woman is left with a hefty repair bill after a bear breaks into her car, rips the upholstery apart, and then falls asleep.

Hurrying through the National Gallery of Art five minutes before closing, I passed a Navajo weaving with a complex abstract pattern. Suddenly, I realized the pattern was strangely familiar, so I stopped and looked closely. The design turned out to be an image of Intel's Pentium chip, the start of the long-lived Pentium family.

July and August 2024 in space. Let's check in on humanity's exploration of space from late this summer.Sun NASA's Parker Solar Probe is now the fastest human-made artifact, orbiting the Sun "at 635,266 kilometers (394,736 miles) per hour." Not to be outdone, our sun fired off a very massive solar flare, thankfully pointing away from the Earth, as observed by the European Space Agency...

Sandor Bodo is an artist who collects and then photographs heavily distressed U.S. pennies. You can find 16 of them on that project page, or scan through this video montage for a whole bunch more.Excerpted from the artist statement image-block:With macro photography, the work takes a close up look at found pennies in states of distress with surface features that impose, obscure and distort...

No one keeps an official list of uninhabited islands worldwide. If they did, it would be long. Norway and Sweden alone have hundreds of thousands of desert islands, including some that are astonishingly remote. One glacier-covered Norwegian island, Bouvetøya, is more than 1,000 miles from the nearest point of land. Desert islands conjure isolation so effectively they've become our go-to metaphor for it. We...

The Olympics but high fashion, 30 looks for 30 countries (Threadreader version, original Twitter, video on TikTok). See also the request to make an outfit for every year since the beginning of time. Wisdom Kaye previously on MeFi.