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Ancient Graffiti. Back in 2011, Prof. Benefiel starting developing an idea for a Pompeii and Herculaneum database for graffiti. It turned into the digital humanities project known as the <a href="https://ancientgraffiti.org/Graffiti/graffito/AGP-EDR148378">Ancient Graffiti Project</a>. <span class="smallcopy">[<a href="/208023/Labyrinthus-Hic-habitat-Minotaurus" target="_self">more inside</a>]</span><br> <span class="smallcopy postbyline">posted by <a href="/user/74645" target="_self">Fizz</a> at 5:25 AM - <a href="/208023/Labyrinthus-Hic-habitat-Minotaurus" target="_self" class="more">4 comments</a> </span></div> <br> <h2 class="posttitle front"><a href="/208022/Reference-and-Citate" target="_self" style="text-decoration:none;">Reference and Citate!</a></h2> <div class="copy post">Love video games? Can't remember how to reference? Then Western Sydney University has the game for you. <a href="https://refquest.westernsydney.edu.au/">Refquest</a>. Defeat the ghouls, gremlins and orcs. Save your campus and get your distinction! <br><br> <em>Accelerate your students referencing understanding</em> 2020, Western Sydney University, viewed 14 March 2025, https://refquest.westernsydney.edu.au/ <span class="smallcopy">[<a href="/208022/Reference-and-Citate" target="_self">more inside</a>]</span><br> <span class="smallcopy postbyline">posted by <a href="/user/139322" target="_self">Bluepenguin05</a> at 3:10 AM - <a href="/208022/Reference-and-Citate" target="_self" class="more">6 comments</a> </span></div> <br> <div id="inline-ad"></div> <h2 class="posttitle front"><a href="/208021/Disarrayed-Democrats-Debate-DC-Defunding-Dilemma" target="_self" style="text-decoration:none;">Disarrayed Democrats Debate DC Defunding Dilemma</a></h2> <div class="copy post"><a href="https://www.cnn.com/2025/03/13/politics/deadline-federal-government-shutdown-congress/index.html" title="CNN: What’s at risk if Congress doesn’t fund the government by Friday’s deadline">The federal government is about to run out of cash to operate</a> (or not). Democrats hoped a House Republican budget plan would faceplant, but Speaker Mike Johnson <a href="https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/house-passes-spending-bill-government-shutdown-looms/story?id=119686681" title="ABC: After House votes to avert government shutdown, Senate Democrats face 'stark' choice">improbably held his razor-thin majority together</a> to pass a blueprint that would <a href="https://www.politico.com/news/2025/03/08/gop-funding-patch-boosts-defense-and-deportations-cuts-other-programs-00219797" title="Politico: GOP funding patch boosts defense and deportations, cuts other programs">further slash social spending, boost defense</a>, and <a href="https://www.commoncause.org/articles/house-republicans-new-spending-plan-is-a-power-grab-for-trump-and-musk-democrats-must-say-no/" title="Common Cause: House Republicans’ Spending Plan is a Power Grab for Trump and Musk – Democrats Must Say No">reinforce an ongoing executive power grab</a>. After House Democrats united (<a href="https://www.the-independent.com/news/world/americas/us-politics/gop-funding-bill-shutdown-democrats-vote-b2713049.html" title="The Independent: Only one House Democrat votes for Republican bill to avoid a government shutdown">save one</a>) to oppose this, it <a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/congress/schumer-senate-democrats-votes-gop-funding-bill-shutdown-rcna196029" title="NBC: Senate Democrats say they will reject GOP's funding bill as shutdown draws near">initially looked like the Senate Dems would follow suit</a>, leveraging their 47 seats to deny the GOP cloture on the continuing resolution (CR) and trigger a government shutdown. But <a href="https://talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/black-thursday-in-the-democratic-senate-an-explainer" title="TPM: Black Thursday in the Democratic Senate: An Explainer">this proved to be an attempt by Minority Leader Chuck Schumer to finesse a symbolic protest vote that would ultimately allow the budget bill to pass</a>. His gambit's messy and very public unraveling has led to a fracture in the caucus: on one side, <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/13/us/government-shutdown-senate-democrats.html" title="NYT: Schumer Will Clear the Way for G.O.P. Spending Bill, Breaking With His Party">Schumer and a coterie of establishment figures insist</a> that a shutdown would <a href="https://www.slowboring.com/p/sixteen-thoughts-on-an-averted-shutdown" title="Matt Yglesias: Sixteen thoughts on an averted shutdown">further empower Trump and Musk to gut the civil service, with no clear offramp</a>. On the other hand, the progressive wing (and even <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2025/03/13/politics/ocasio-cortez-schumer-democratic-shutdown-plan/index.html" title="CNN: Ocasio-Cortez mobilizes Democrats against Schumer plan as colleagues privately urge her to consider primary challenge">some centrists</a>) believe that endorsing the Republican budget would be <a href="https://www.politico.com/news/2025/03/13/chuck-schumer-surrender-shutdown-00230481" title="Politico: Schumer’s shutdown ‘surrender’ sends the left into a rage">political malpractice, weaken attempts to challenge DOGE's moves in court, and do nothing to stop Trump's seizure of the spending power</a>. With the final vote scheduled today, both sides see a defining moment for what Democratic opposition to Trumpism will look like over the next few years. And it's not too late to <a href="https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:sxpionx2qekfltporvcd3x7a/post/3lkcoj25efk2f" title="Bluesky roundup of pro-CR Democratic senators to call">make your voice heard</a>. <br> <span class="smallcopy postbyline">posted by <a href="/user/62135" target="_self">Rhaomi</a> at 3:07 AM - <a href="/208021/Disarrayed-Democrats-Debate-DC-Defunding-Dilemma" target="_self" class="more">83 comments</a> </span></div> <br> <h2 class="posttitle front"><a href="/208020/Chinese-Democracy" target="_self" style="text-decoration:none;">Chinese Democracy</a></h2> <div class="copy post"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=idudNrLy8ek">Good Enough Ancestor</a> - "This is the story of Taiwan's democratic transformation as seen through Audrey Tang's eyes, amid a global crisis for democracy." (<a href="https://www.metafilter.com/190277/The-first-democratic-elections-happened-in-1996">Taiwan</a>, <a href="https://www.metafilter.com/195711/The-Sunflower-Movements-Useful-Fictions-and-Consensus-Reality">Sunflower Movement</a>, <a href="https://www.metafilter.com/contribute/search.mefi?site=mefi&q=audrey+tang">Audrey Tang</a> previously) <span class="smallcopy">[<a href="/208020/Chinese-Democracy" target="_self">more inside</a>]</span><br> <span class="smallcopy postbyline">posted by <a href="/user/3217" target="_self">kliuless</a> at 2:34 AM - <a href="/208020/Chinese-Democracy" target="_self" class="more">1 comment</a> </span></div> <br> <h2 class="posttitle front"><a href="/208019/Philosophical-questions-require-more-speculative-scenarios" target="_self" style="text-decoration:none;">Philosophical questions require more speculative scenarios</a></h2> <div class="copy post">Mathematics is extremely precise, but it’s limited to a specific domain. Scientists who speak different languages can use the same mathematics, but they still have to rely on their native languages when they publish a paper; they can’t say everything they need to say with equations alone. Language has to support every type of communication that humans engage in, from debates between politicians to pillow talk between lovers. That’s not what mathematics is for. We could be holding this conversation in any human language that we both understand, but we couldn’t hold it in mathematical equations. As soon as you try and modify mathematics so that it can do those things, it ceases to be mathematics. from <a href="https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/life-is-more-than-an-engineering-problem/">Life Is More Than an Engineering Problem</a>, an interview with <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ted_Chiang">Ted</a> <a href="https://www.metafilter.com/contribute/search.mefi?site=mefi&q=ted+chiang">Chiang</a> [LARB; <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20250310023207/https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/life-is-more-than-an-engineering-problem/">ungated</a>] <br> <span class="smallcopy postbyline">posted by <a href="/user/96486" target="_self">chavenet</a> at 1:47 AM - <a href="/208019/Philosophical-questions-require-more-speculative-scenarios" target="_self" class="more">4 comments</a> </span></div> <br> <h2>March 13</h2> <h2 class="posttitle front"><a href="/208018/Im-just-gonna-dance-all-night" target="_self" style="text-decoration:none;">I'm just gonna dance all night</a></h2> <div class="copy post">Everything is terrible, so for a few moments of levity, how about revisiting <em>Saturday Night Live</em>'s Taran Killam, Vanessa Bayer, Bobby Moynihan, and Abby Elliott doing a <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YbEOr5Weqb8">joyful 4:30 AM interpretation</a> of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robyn">Robyn</a>'s <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F6ImxY6hnfA">"Call Your Girlfriend"</a> back in 2011? And yes, <a href="https://www.metafilter.com/119299/Why-work-when-you-have-flashlights-and-a-camera">this was posted about here more than a decade ago</a>, but surely it's worth revisiting. Especially since the gang did a <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M9E_SLORQ24">follow-up video</a> in 2020, featuring <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CcNo07Xp8aQ">"Dancing On My Own"</a>! <br> <span class="smallcopy postbyline">posted by <a href="/user/203600" target="_self">Synesthesia</a> at 10:53 PM - <a href="/208018/Im-just-gonna-dance-all-night" target="_self" class="more">4 comments</a> </span></div> <br> <h2 class="posttitle front"><a href="/208017/700-years-of-Mexico-City" target="_self" style="text-decoration:none;">700 years of Mexico City</a></h2> <div class="copy post">700 years ago, an <a href="https://www.thoughtco.com/aztec-origins-the-founding-of-tenochtitlan-170038">eagle with a snake in its mouth</a> landed on a cactus growing on an island in a marshy lake in the mountains of Mexico. This was a sign foretold by the god <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hu%C4%ABtzil%C5%8Dp%C5%8Dchtli">Huitzilopochtli</a> and so the Mexica people founded a city there: Tenochtitlán, meaning <a href="https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/tenochtitlan">prickly pear cactus growing on a stone</a>. <span class="smallcopy">[<a href="/208017/700-years-of-Mexico-City" target="_self">more inside</a>]</span><br> <span class="smallcopy postbyline">posted by <a href="/user/46570" target="_self">ssg</a> at 6:09 PM - <a href="/208017/700-years-of-Mexico-City" target="_self" class="more">6 comments</a> </span></div> <br> <h2 class="posttitle front"><a href="/208016/Some-thoughts-on-the-masterpiece-1976-album-2112-by-Canadian-band-Rush" target="_self" style="text-decoration:none;">Some thoughts on the masterpiece 1976 album 2112 by Canadian band Rush</a></h2> <div class="copy post"><em>When other bands cite us as an inspiration or an influence, [the theme of 2112 is] what they're talking about, more than anything. I've often read when we're mentioned as an influence for a band they'll say, 'We're big Rush fans, because they did it on their own, they did it their own way, and that told me that I could do the same thing. If I stick with it, persevere, I can do things the way I want them to be.'" </em> via <a href="https://www.npr.org/sections/therecord/2016/04/30/476268876/all-the-gifts-of-life-40-years-of-rushs-2112">NPR</a> <br> <br> <em> ‘2112’ can be considered many things – a band manifesto, a conceptual landmark, maybe even the birth of prog metal – but above all, it was the band’s play for creative independence. </em> via <a href="https://www.udiscovermusic.com/stories/rush-2112-album-explained/">udiscovermusic</a> <span class="smallcopy">[<a href="/208016/Some-thoughts-on-the-masterpiece-1976-album-2112-by-Canadian-band-Rush" target="_self">more inside</a>]</span><br> <span class="smallcopy postbyline">posted by <a href="/user/11088" target="_self">ashbury</a> at 5:44 PM - <a href="/208016/Some-thoughts-on-the-masterpiece-1976-album-2112-by-Canadian-band-Rush" target="_self" class="more">12 comments</a> </span></div> <br> <h2 class="posttitle front"><a href="/208015/Patricia-Highsmiths-Little-Tales-of-Misogyny" target="_self" style="text-decoration:none;">Patricia Highsmith's "Little Tales of Misogyny"</a></h2> <div class="copy post">Graham Greene: The great revival of interest in <a href="https://www.the-independent.com/arts-entertainment/books/features/patricia-highsmith-ripley-author-netflix-bio-novels-b2518279.html">Patricia Highsmith</a> continues with the publication of this legendary, cultish short story collection. With an eerie simplicity of style, Highsmith turns our next-door neighbors into sadistic psychopaths, lying in wait among white picket fences and manicured lawns. In the darkly satiric, often mordantly hilarious sketches that make up Little Tales of Misogyny, Highsmith upsets our conventional notions of female character, revealing the devastating power of these once familiar creatures — "The Dancer," "The Female Novelist," "The Prude" — who destroy both themselves and the men around them. This work attests to Highsmith's reputation as "the poet of apprehension". <span class="smallcopy">[<a href="/208015/Patricia-Highsmiths-Little-Tales-of-Misogyny" target="_self">more inside</a>]</span><br> <span class="smallcopy postbyline">posted by <a href="/user/342988" target="_self">Lemkin</a> at 4:45 PM - <a href="/208015/Patricia-Highsmiths-Little-Tales-of-Misogyny" target="_self" class="more">7 comments</a> </span></div> <br> <h2 class="posttitle front"><a href="/208014/Reddit-Is-Restricting-Luigi-Mangione-DiscourseBut-It-Gets-Weirder" target="_self" style="text-decoration:none;">Reddit Is Restricting Luigi Mangione Discourse—But It Gets Weirder</a></h2> <div class="copy post"><a href="https://slate.com/technology/2025/03/reddit-elon-musk-luigi-mangione-censorship.html">Reported by Slate</a> [<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20250313203719/https://slate.com/technology/2025/03/reddit-elon-musk-luigi-mangione-censorship.html">archive.org</a>]: “I remember r/LuigiMangione got banned, then r/LuigiMangione2, then r/LuigiMangione3, and I think it went up to r/LuigiMangione6 before people were like, ‘We’re not going to keep doing this,’ ” she told me in a phone conversation. “I’d made one called r/LuigiFever, which was just photos of him, and that got banned too.” <br> <span class="smallcopy postbyline">posted by <a href="/user/104587" target="_self">AlSweigart</a> at 4:01 PM - <a href="/208014/Reddit-Is-Restricting-Luigi-Mangione-DiscourseBut-It-Gets-Weirder" target="_self" class="more">44 comments</a> </span></div> <br> <h2 class="posttitle front"><a href="/208013/Hand-made-covers" target="_self" style="text-decoration:none;">Hand-made covers</a></h2> <div class="copy post">The German musician <a href="https://www.youtube.com/@derschaelm/videos">der schaelm</a> specializes in the art form of manualism—the art of squeezing air between one’s hands to produce melodious sounds. But back when we (yes, I’m including you) were doing this at eight years old, we called it “hand farting.” <a href="https://popculturista.com/p/hand-farting-musical-covers">There’s a lot that goes into hand farting</a>. The musician must precisely arrange his or her hands and engage differing levels of tightness in order to achieve higher or lower or shorter or longer notes. It <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KvNjEdLw4HU">can</a> <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZZJfG7NPUnk">take</a> <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Xsa0yxBtu0">decades</a> to <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B_01zTJ5Oc0">master</a> the <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s-wsGIHyl54">craft</a> and der schaelm has <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pAJ98dkmw6E">done</a> <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8CAztLM5CPU">the</a> <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Og9sV1TOs4">work</a>. <br> <span class="smallcopy postbyline">posted by <a href="/user/96486" target="_self">chavenet</a> at 12:59 PM - <a href="/208013/Hand-made-covers" target="_self" class="more">16 comments</a> </span></div> <br> <h2 class="posttitle front"><a href="/208012/PBS-Am-Masters-The-Disappearance-of-Miss-Scott-2025" target="_self" style="text-decoration:none;">PBS Am. Masters The Disappearance of Miss Scott (2025)</a></h2> <div class="copy post"><a href="https://www.pbs.org/wnet/americanmasters/hazel-scott-documentary/35137/">PBS American Masters Season 39, Ep 1</a> Learn about jazz virtuoso and screen superstar Hazel Scott, the first Black American to have their own television show. An early civil rights pioneer, she faced down the Red Scare at the risk of losing her career and was a champion for equality. The film features interviews with Mickey Guyton, Tracie Thoms, Amanda Seales, and Sheryl Lee Ralph as the voice of Hazel Scott. <br> <span class="smallcopy postbyline">posted by <a href="/user/113324" target="_self">Ideefixe</a> at 12:41 PM - <a href="/208012/PBS-Am-Masters-The-Disappearance-of-Miss-Scott-2025" target="_self" class="more">1 comment</a> </span></div> <br> <h2 class="posttitle front"><a href="/208011/Mediterranean-monk-seals-make-a-remarkable-comeback" target="_self" style="text-decoration:none;">Mediterranean monk seals make a remarkable comeback</a></h2> <div class="copy post">Mediterranean monk seals make a remarkable comeback. <a href="https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-03-13/mediterranean-monk-seals-return-from-brink-of-extinction-greece/105047230">Once on the brink of extinction, the rare marine mammal's populations are rising, thanks to conservation efforts</a>. <span class="smallcopy">[<a href="/208011/Mediterranean-monk-seals-make-a-remarkable-comeback" target="_self">more inside</a>]</span><br> <span class="smallcopy postbyline">posted by <a href="/user/324939" target="_self">chariot pulled by cassowaries</a> at 12:05 PM - <a href="/208011/Mediterranean-monk-seals-make-a-remarkable-comeback" target="_self" class="more">2 comments</a> </span></div> <br> <h2 class="posttitle front"><a href="/208010/Now-youre-playing-with-power-Super-power" target="_self" style="text-decoration:none;">Now you're playing with power. Super power.</a></h2> <div class="copy post">An unexpected discovery in the age of planned tech obsolesce: <a href="https://www.404media.co/super-nintendo-hardware-is-running-faster-as-it-ages/">Super Nintendo Entertainment System (SNES) hardware appears to be running faster and faster as the devices age</a>. <br> <span class="smallcopy postbyline">posted by <a href="/user/17458" target="_self">NotMyselfRightNow</a> at 9:45 AM - <a href="/208010/Now-youre-playing-with-power-Super-power" target="_self" class="more">30 comments</a> </span></div> <br> <h2 class="posttitle front"><a href="/208009/Torontos-new-landlords" target="_self" style="text-decoration:none;">Toronto's new landlords</a></h2> <div class="copy post"><a href="https://www.westendphoenix.com/stories/torontos-new-landlords">“Make no mistake, they’re not doing these renovations out of the kindness of their hearts."</a> <span class="smallcopy">[<a href="/208009/Torontos-new-landlords" target="_self">more inside</a>]</span><br> <span class="smallcopy postbyline">posted by <a href="/user/112463" target="_self">Kitteh</a> at 8:56 AM - <a href="/208009/Torontos-new-landlords" target="_self" class="more">57 comments</a> </span></div> <br> <h2 class="posttitle front"><a href="/208008/Pulped-Fiction" target="_self" style="text-decoration:none;">Pulped Fiction?</a></h2> <div class="copy post">Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Magazine, Analog Science Fiction and Fact, Asimov’s Science Fiction, Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine, and The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction have been acquired by Must Read Magazines, a division of a new publishing company, Must Read Books Publishing. All editorial staff from the magazines have been retained in the <a href="https://locusmag.com/2025/03/details-on-the-new-owners-of-analog-asimovs-and-fsf/">acquisitions.</a> <span class="smallcopy">[<a href="/208008/Pulped-Fiction" target="_self">more inside</a>]</span><br> <span class="smallcopy postbyline">posted by <a href="/user/29435" target="_self">storybored</a> at 7:53 AM - <a href="/208008/Pulped-Fiction" target="_self" class="more">11 comments</a> </span></div> <br> <h2 class="posttitle front"><a href="/208007/The-world-filtered-through-the-apps-is-not-the-world-we-want" target="_self" style="text-decoration:none;">The world, filtered through the apps, is not the world we want</a></h2> <div class="copy post">This sounds spectacularly self-centered: that you can only quit a thing, or modify your usage of it, when it fails to serve you. But if we think of our phones and social media as addictive products, which they certainly are, then the classic addiction model makes sense: you only consider quitting when the negative impacts (the dead feeling of the soft-brain scroll, the loss of attention span, the weight of comparison, the exposure to trolls, the lack of control over the algorithm) outweigh the positive benefits (the distraction, the serotonin hit, the semblance of connection, the loose ties, the business benefits). from <a href="https://annehelen.substack.com/p/the-social-media-sea-change">The Social Media Sea Change</a> by <a href="https://www.metafilter.com/contribute/search.mefi?site=mefi&q=anne+helen+petersen">Anne Helen Petersen</a> <br> <span class="smallcopy postbyline">posted by <a href="/user/96486" target="_self">chavenet</a> at 1:47 AM - <a href="/208007/The-world-filtered-through-the-apps-is-not-the-world-we-want" target="_self" class="more">48 comments</a> </span></div> <br> <h2 class="posttitle front"><a href="/208006/Why-you-should-treat-wombats-with-respect" target="_self" style="text-decoration:none;">Why you should treat wombats with respect</a></h2> <div class="copy post">Most wombats are shy, gentle, and timid unless you make them angry, but they are very muscular and have sharp claws. <a href="https://www.abc.net.au/news/2010-04-06/wombat-mauls-bushfire-survivor/2602206">A man in 2010 had the misfortune of accidentally startling a wombat that had sought shelter from a bushfire under his caravan: 20 minutes later, he was in a condition that resulted in him being admitted to hospital with significant injuries to his arms and legs</a>. (And yes, if this had happened to the influencer who kidnapped a baby wombat, I would have been on team wombat.) <a href="https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-03-13/us-influencer-wombat-video-visa-under-review/105047538">Meanwhile the woman who kidnapped a baby wombat is having her visa reviewed and may not be allowed back into Australia again</a>. <span class="smallcopy">[<a href="/208006/Why-you-should-treat-wombats-with-respect" target="_self">more inside</a>]</span><br> <span class="smallcopy postbyline">posted by <a href="/user/324939" target="_self">chariot pulled by cassowaries</a> at 12:43 AM - <a href="/208006/Why-you-should-treat-wombats-with-respect" target="_self" class="more">22 comments</a> </span></div> <br> <h2>March 12</h2> <h2 class="posttitle front"><a href="/208005/Thats-a-lot-of-sites" target="_self" style="text-decoration:none;">That's a lot of sites</a></h2> <div class="copy post">While it's self-proclaimed, it's easy to believe that <a href="https://fmhy.vercel.app/">this is the largest collection of links to free sites on the internet</a>. <br> <span class="smallcopy postbyline">posted by <a href="/user/23306" target="_self">JHarris</a> at 9:02 PM - <a href="/208005/Thats-a-lot-of-sites" target="_self" class="more">17 comments</a> </span></div> <br> <h2 class="posttitle front"><a href="/208004/Finalists-for-the-60th-Nebula-Awards" target="_self" style="text-decoration:none;">Finalists for the 60th Nebula Awards</a></h2> <div class="copy post">The Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers Association has <a href="https://nebulas.sfwa.org/8528-2/">announced</a> the <a href="https://nebulas.sfwa.org/award-year/2024/">finalists for the Nebula Awards</a>. <span class="smallcopy">[<a href="/208004/Finalists-for-the-60th-Nebula-Awards" target="_self">more inside</a>]</span><br> <span class="smallcopy postbyline">posted by <a href="/user/235243" target="_self">Wobbuffet</a> at 8:42 PM - <a href="/208004/Finalists-for-the-60th-Nebula-Awards" target="_self" class="more">12 comments</a> </span></div> <br> <h2 class="posttitle front"><a href="/208003/Where-to-start-with-the-National-Film-Board-of-Canada" target="_self" style="text-decoration:none;">Where to start with the National Film Board of Canada?</a></h2> <div class="copy post"><a href="https://www.nfb.ca/film/leonard_maltins_animation_favorites/">Leonard Maltin’s Animation Faborites from the National Film Board of Canada!</a> The National Film Board of Canada is such an amazing wealth of riches! This movie has 9 short animations that start with a brief description by Leonard Maltin, and they are all amazing. Some of them have been staples of Canadian school curriculums for half a century and many Canadians will watch these, as I did, with the realization that they have seen them before but forgotten. With a runtime of 1:34, it’s well worth the time either all at once or in little snippets. <span class="smallcopy">[<a href="/208003/Where-to-start-with-the-National-Film-Board-of-Canada" target="_self">more inside</a>]</span><br> <span class="smallcopy postbyline">posted by <a href="/user/11088" target="_self">ashbury</a> at 8:21 PM - <a href="/208003/Where-to-start-with-the-National-Film-Board-of-Canada" target="_self" class="more">23 comments</a> </span></div> <br> <h2 class="posttitle front"><a href="/208002/Stan-Brakhages-The-Act-of-Seeing-With-Ones-Own-Eyes" target="_self" style="text-decoration:none;">Stan Brakhage's "The Act of Seeing With One's Own Eyes"</a></h2> <div class="copy post"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QG6VE8LUw1I"><i>The Act of Seeing With One’s Own Eyes</i></a> is a grueling, fascinating experience only made bearable by our sense of the real human being gripping the camera for dear life. There’s a moment when Brakhage brings the camera around to take in the newly emptied cranium of one of the autopsied corpses, peering down into the gaping skull, where I felt that he and I were experiencing exactly the same great and horrible feeling of dumbstruck awe at what had become of a human life. It’s enervating but surprisingly humanist in its aspirations -- if it’s ultimately despairing, it remains clearly the work of a master exploring the human condition in every facet. - <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20040625210600/http://www.deep-focus.com/flicker/bybrakha2.html">Bryant Frazer</a> <small>(h/t: <a href="https://www.metafilter.com/48443/Autopsy-Life-and-Death#1180113">languagehat</a>)</small> <br> <span class="smallcopy postbyline">posted by <a href="/user/342988" target="_self">Lemkin</a> at 6:14 PM - <a href="/208002/Stan-Brakhages-The-Act-of-Seeing-With-Ones-Own-Eyes" target="_self" class="more">8 comments</a> </span></div> <br> <h2 class="posttitle front"><a href="/208001/On-a-Mission-to-Fix-Wikipedias-Famously-Bad-Celebrity-Portraits" target="_self" style="text-decoration:none;">On a Mission to Fix Wikipedia's Famously Bad Celebrity Portraits</a></h2> <div class="copy post">Wikipedia portraits are famously bad, so much so that there's an <a href="https://www.instagram.com/badwikiphotos/?ref=404media.co">Instagram page dedicated to them</a>. They're amateurish. They're old. Sometimes, like in the case of English footballer <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kyle_Bartley?ref=404media.co">Kyle Bartley</a>, they're just weird. (Is that a referee’s finger in his mouth?) <a href="https://www.404media.co/photographers-are-on-a-mission-to-fix-wikipedias-famously-bad-celebrity-portraits/">WikiPortraits, a group of volunteer photographers, has been covering festivals and shooting celebrities specifically to improve images in the public domain.</a> (404Media) <br> <span class="smallcopy postbyline">posted by <a href="/user/113784" target="_self">DirtyOldTown</a> at 3:11 PM - <a href="/208001/On-a-Mission-to-Fix-Wikipedias-Famously-Bad-Celebrity-Portraits" target="_self" class="more">19 comments</a> </span></div> <br> <h2 class="posttitle front"><a href="/208000/They-used-our-building-so-now-were-using-their-typeface" target="_self" style="text-decoration:none;">"They used our building, so now we’re using their typeface."</a></h2> <div class="copy post">The office of London design studio <a href="https://dude.it/london/">DUDE</a> was vandalized... so they turned the graffiti into <a href="https://revengefont.com/">a free* typeface for everyone to use</a>. <span class="smallcopy">[<a href="/208000/They-used-our-building-so-now-were-using-their-typeface" target="_self">more inside</a>]</span><br> <span class="smallcopy postbyline">posted by <a href="/user/10411" target="_self">40 Watt</a> at 1:50 PM - <a href="/208000/They-used-our-building-so-now-were-using-their-typeface" target="_self" class="more">9 comments</a> </span></div> <br> <h2 class="posttitle front"><a href="/207999/BS" target="_self" style="text-decoration:none;">B.S.</a></h2> <div class="copy post"><strike>the letter S is never included — the <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2021/12/09/crosswords/spellingbee-tips.html">editor <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sam_Ezersky">Sam Ezersky</a> said that using an S would make the puzzle way too easy</a></strike> <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/puzzles/spelling-bee">Today's (March 12, 2025) New York Times Spelling Bee Puzzle</a> is #2,500. It has an "S." <span class="smallcopy">[<a href="/207999/BS" target="_self">more inside</a>]</span><br> <span class="smallcopy postbyline">posted by <a href="/user/96486" target="_self">chavenet</a> at 12:29 PM - <a href="/207999/BS" target="_self" class="more">33 comments</a> </span></div> <br> <h2 class="posttitle front"><a href="/207998/I-dont-want-the-system-to-collapse-Dudek-said" target="_self" style="text-decoration:none;">“I don’t want the system to collapse,” Dudek said.</a></h2> <div class="copy post"><a href="https://www.propublica.org/article/recording-reveals-leland-dudek-thoughts-trump-doge-social-security">Terrifying reporting from ProPublica about the SSA</a> describes a meeting held by acting head of the Social Security Administration Leland Dudek in which he seems to admit that the "DOGE kids" may very well actually break the social security payments process and tries to disavow all responsibility because he is clearly alarmed by what he is being asked to do. <span class="smallcopy">[<a href="/207998/I-dont-want-the-system-to-collapse-Dudek-said" target="_self">more inside</a>]</span><br> <span class="smallcopy postbyline">posted by <a href="/user/120957" target="_self">Frowner</a> at 11:43 AM - <a href="/207998/I-dont-want-the-system-to-collapse-Dudek-said" target="_self" class="more">55 comments</a> </span></div> <br> <h2 class="posttitle front"><a href="/207997/The-dam-the-myth-the-legend-50-years-of-the-beaver" target="_self" style="text-decoration:none;">The dam, the myth, the legend: 50 years of the beaver</a></h2> <div class="copy post"><a href="https://canadiangeographic.ca/articles/the-dam-the-myth-the-legend-50-years-of-the-beaver/">Canadian Geographic explores Canada's national symbol.</a> <span class="smallcopy">[<a href="/207997/The-dam-the-myth-the-legend-50-years-of-the-beaver" target="_self">more inside</a>]</span><br> <span class="smallcopy postbyline">posted by <a href="/user/112463" target="_self">Kitteh</a> at 10:36 AM - <a href="/207997/The-dam-the-myth-the-legend-50-years-of-the-beaver" target="_self" class="more">9 comments</a> </span></div> <br> <h2 class="posttitle front"><a href="/207996/Im-gonna-do-it-on-purpose-forever-you-said" target="_self" style="text-decoration:none;">“I’m gonna do it on purpose forever,” you said.</a></h2> <div class="copy post">elodieunderglass (<a href="https://www.metafilter.com/118736/Set-phasers-to-Hulk-Smash#4500268">previously quoted on MeFi</a>) and derinthescarletpescatarian <a href="https://gallusrostromegalus.tumblr.com/post/756913292665028608/gallusrostromegalus">wrote a moving, funny composite narrative about human biology</a>: <i>“Wait a minute,” you say a couple of generations later, because you’re not actually a small animal but an evolutionary process personified and simplified to the point of dangerous inaccuracy for the purposes of a Tumblr post...</i> That link won't work well unless you're logged into Tumblr, so <a href="https://gallusrostromegalus.tumblr.com/post/756913292665028608/gallusrostromegalus">here's a repost that everyone should be able to read</a>. <br> <span class="smallcopy postbyline">posted by <a href="/user/98835" target="_self">brainwane</a> at 8:52 AM - <a href="/207996/Im-gonna-do-it-on-purpose-forever-you-said" target="_self" class="more">19 comments</a> </span></div> <br> <h2 class="posttitle front"><a href="/207995/Freedom-Cities" target="_self" style="text-decoration:none;">Freedom Cities</a></h2> <div class="copy post">Plans are underway to create <a href="https://www.wired.com/story/startup-nations-donald-trump-legislation/">"Freedom Cities"</a> around the United States on large open tracts of protected federal lands, following in the footsteps of California Forever, Próspera, Yatai New City and other law and regulation free Special Economic Zone safe-havens for anarcho-capitalists, libertarians and criminals. <span class="smallcopy">[<a href="/207995/Freedom-Cities" target="_self">more inside</a>]</span><br> <span class="smallcopy postbyline">posted by <a href="/user/304007" target="_self">rambling wanderlust</a> at 8:43 AM - <a href="/207995/Freedom-Cities" target="_self" class="more">79 comments</a> </span></div> <br> <h2 class="posttitle front"><a href="/207994/It-is-possible-to-arrest-someone-for-crimes-against-humanity" target="_self" style="text-decoration:none;">It is possible to arrest someone for crimes against humanity</a></h2> <div class="copy post"><a href="https://www.cnn.com/2025/03/11/asia/rodrigo-duterte-philippine-arrest-icc-hague-plane-intl/index.html">Former Philippine president Rodrigo Duterte was arrested on an ICC warrant for crimes against humanity in Manila.</a><a href="https://www.cnn.com/2025/03/11/asia/rodrigo-duterte-philippine-arrest-icc-hague-plane-intl/index.html"> According to his daughter, who is currently the country's vice president, “As I write this, he is being forcibly taken to The Hague tonight. This is not justice – this is oppression and persecution.”</a> Internal Philippine politics made the arrest possible, as a<a href="https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c6253ly20p4o"> former power-sharing agreement between the Marcos family currently in power and the Dutertes broke down.</a> <br> <span class="smallcopy postbyline">posted by <a href="/user/295700" target="_self">toastyk</a> at 7:43 AM - <a href="/207994/It-is-possible-to-arrest-someone-for-crimes-against-humanity" target="_self" class="more">26 comments</a> </span></div> <br> <h2 class="posttitle front"><a href="/207993/Flight-Attendant-Uniforms" target="_self" style="text-decoration:none;">Flight Attendant Uniforms</a></h2> <div class="copy post"><a href="http://www.uniformfreak.com/">1,891 different flight attendant uniforms</a> from 632 airlines <small>(<a href="https://www.metafilter.com/105850/Stewardess-Uniform-Collection">previously</a>) (<a href="https://www.metafilter.com/34571/StewUnis">previouslyer</a>) (<a href="https://www.metafilter.com/29981/Hobby-or-Fetish">previouslyest</a>)</small> <span class="smallcopy">[<a href="/207993/Flight-Attendant-Uniforms" target="_self">more inside</a>]</span><br> <span class="smallcopy postbyline">posted by <a href="/user/342988" target="_self">Lemkin</a> at 6:01 AM - <a href="/207993/Flight-Attendant-Uniforms" target="_self" class="more">19 comments</a> </span></div> <br> <h2 class="posttitle front"><a href="/207992/Jewish-comedian-dropping-truth-bombs" target="_self" style="text-decoration:none;">Jewish comedian dropping truth bombs</a></h2> <div class="copy post"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P5oTOqirMEg">Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelenskyy Addresses General Assembly, 78th Session</a> (<a href=" https://gadebate.un.org/sites/default/files/gastatements/78/ua_en_rev.pdf">pdf</a>) - "Terrorists have no right to hold nuclear weapons." <span class="smallcopy">[<a href="/207992/Jewish-comedian-dropping-truth-bombs" target="_self">more inside</a>]</span><br> <span class="smallcopy postbyline">posted by <a href="/user/3217" target="_self">kliuless</a> at 5:55 AM - <a href="/207992/Jewish-comedian-dropping-truth-bombs" target="_self" class="more">14 comments</a> </span></div> <br> <h2 class="posttitle front"><a href="/207991/Photographer-Jacob-Holdt-A-Message-of-Love" target="_self" style="text-decoration:none;">Photographer Jacob Holdt: A Message of Love</a></h2> <div class="copy post"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4-pnGip0f8U">A Message of Love</a> is a long interview with Danish photographer/activist Jakob Holdt. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacob_Holdt#">Long haired hippy Jakob Holdt</a> hitchhiked in the US for 5 years in the early 70's, documenting the lives of the most marginalized people, as well as some of the most affluent. His "adventures" resulted in an output of 15,000 harrowing photographs, which he later published as the book "<a href="https://archive.org/details/americanpictures0000hold/">American Pictures</a>". (CW: Abuse, Racism, Deprivation, Poverty, KKK). <span class="smallcopy">[<a href="/207991/Photographer-Jacob-Holdt-A-Message-of-Love" target="_self">more inside</a>]</span><br> <span class="smallcopy postbyline">posted by <a href="/user/17751" target="_self">growabrain</a> at 5:05 AM - <a href="/207991/Photographer-Jacob-Holdt-A-Message-of-Love" target="_self" class="more">5 comments</a> </span></div> <br> <h2 class="posttitle front"><a href="/207990/Dont-pick-up-wild-baby-wombats" target="_self" style="text-decoration:none;">Don't pick up wild baby wombats</a></h2> <div class="copy post">Don't pick up wild baby wombats. Picking them up can injure them; can cause their mother to abandon them (a death sentence if they are still breastfeeding); and could cause you to get seriously injured by an angry mother wombat (wombat claws can disembowel a person if the wombat gets angry.) US influencer criticised for temporarily taking joey wombat from mother. <a href="https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-03-12/us-influencer-removes-joey-wombat-from-mother/105041800">A US influencer is under fire after posting a video of herself capturing a wild baby wombat off the side of the road</a>. <span class="smallcopy">[<a href="/207990/Dont-pick-up-wild-baby-wombats" target="_self">more inside</a>]</span><br> <span class="smallcopy postbyline">posted by <a href="/user/324939" target="_self">chariot pulled by cassowaries</a> at 4:17 AM - <a href="/207990/Dont-pick-up-wild-baby-wombats" target="_self" class="more">21 comments</a> </span></div> <br> <h2 class="posttitle front"><a href="/207989/Welcome-to-the-wild-west-of-Glasgows-waterways" target="_self" style="text-decoration:none;">Welcome to the wild west of Glasgow’s waterways</a></h2> <div class="copy post">“Not many people come out in the rain,” says Goody, with a smile. “But we just batter on. You never know, we could pull out Rob Roy’s sword, fingers crossed”. They fish “for the history,” he adds. A lot of this history seems to be embodied by weaponry, judging from the list Goody reels off. Unexploded ordnances are a particular pain. “We’re a bit scared of pu’ing them oot — feart in case the police will do us wi a public disorder or suhhin like that. It becomes a bit of nuisance when you have to phone the polis and get the MOD out.” from <a href="https://www.glasgowbell.co.uk/magnet-fishing-scottish-canals-glasgow/"> Magnet fishing is supposed to be a wholesome hobby. Why all the beef?</a> <br> <span class="smallcopy postbyline">posted by <a href="/user/96486" target="_self">chavenet</a> at 1:06 AM - <a href="/207989/Welcome-to-the-wild-west-of-Glasgows-waterways" target="_self" class="more">15 comments</a> </span></div> <br> <h2>March 11</h2> <h2 class="posttitle front"><a href="/207988/Jim-Goldbergs-Rich-and-Poor" target="_self" style="text-decoration:none;">Jim Goldberg's "Rich and Poor"</a></h2> <div class="copy post">"By depicting <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/gallery/2014/jul/03/jim-goldberg-rich-and-poor-americas-great-social-divide-in-pictures">the rich</a> and <a href="https://jimgoldberg.com/projects/rich-and-poor">the poor</a> in their <a href="https://www.magnumphotos.com/newsroom/society/jim-goldberg-rich-and-poor/">respective environments</a>, we see life as it is lived by our means, which tells a far different story than would portraits taken outside of these contexts. <a href="https://saint-lucy.com/conversations/jim-goldberg/">Jim Goldberg</a>’s other key innovation in this book is how he has allowed his subjects to attempt to capture themselves. As part of his process, he asks for their commentary on their own photos, giving the subject an opportunity to add context, personality, and self-perception to each photo in handwritten reflections. These annotations change not only the meaning of the book, but also the meaning of the act of taking the photos." - <a href="https://medium.com/writing-with-photographs-book-reviews/rich-and-poor-book-review-9bca26eb1bf0">Abbey Lee</a> <br> <span class="smallcopy postbyline">posted by <a href="/user/342988" target="_self">Lemkin</a> at 6:00 PM - <a href="/207988/Jim-Goldbergs-Rich-and-Poor" target="_self" class="more">9 comments</a> </span></div> <br> <h2 class="posttitle front"><a href="/207987/What-the-size-of-your-book-collection-says-about-you" target="_self" style="text-decoration:none;">What the size of your book collection says about you</a></h2> <div class="copy post"><a href="https://www.penguin.co.uk/discover/articles/what-your-book-collection-says-about-you">What the size of your book collection - potentially - says about you</a> "Are you a minimalist or a mini-librarian? Do you let your books pile up around your home, or do you treat your collection like a carefully curated gallery of your best self? Time to find out." <span class="smallcopy">[<a href="/207987/What-the-size-of-your-book-collection-says-about-you" target="_self">more inside</a>]</span><br> <span class="smallcopy postbyline">posted by <a href="/user/109322" target="_self">Faintdreams</a> at 2:22 PM - <a href="/207987/What-the-size-of-your-book-collection-says-about-you" target="_self" class="more">108 comments</a> </span></div> <br> <h2 class="posttitle front"><a href="/207986/The-Manipulative-Bastards-corner-is-especially-interesting" target="_self" style="text-decoration:none;">The Manipulative Bastards corner is especially interesting</a></h2> <div class="copy post">You may be wondering: <em>What makes a villain “best”?</em> That, friends, is really up to you. You can vote for the most iconic villains, the most memorable villains, or the most villainous villains. You can vote for the villain you enjoyed reading about the most, or the one that kept you up at night. You can vote for the cutest villain, if that’s your thing. The point is, there are no rules. Villains are rule-breakers, and so are we. from <a href="https://lithub.com/the-best-villains-in-literature-bracket-the-not-so-sweet-16">The Best Villains in Literature Bracket: The Not-So-Sweet 16</a> [LitHub] <br> <span class="smallcopy postbyline">posted by <a href="/user/96486" target="_self">chavenet</a> at 1:22 PM - <a href="/207986/The-Manipulative-Bastards-corner-is-especially-interesting" target="_self" class="more">41 comments</a> </span></div> <br> <h2 class="posttitle front"><a href="/207985/It-was-already-pointless-fellas" target="_self" style="text-decoration:none;">It was already pointless, fellas</a></h2> <div class="copy post">After a very positive reception at the Cannes Directors' Fortnight, Carson Lund's directorial debut <em><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7g-bxQwmU0s">Eephus</a></em> is opening this week to <a href="https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/eephus/reviews?type=top_critics">very good reviews</a>, touted as "the best baseball movie since ‘Moneyball’". <span class="smallcopy">[<a href="/207985/It-was-already-pointless-fellas" target="_self">more inside</a>]</span><br> <span class="smallcopy postbyline">posted by <a href="/user/36508" target="_self">smcdow</a> at 12:41 PM - <a href="/207985/It-was-already-pointless-fellas" target="_self" class="more">5 comments</a> </span></div> <br> <h2 class="posttitle front"><a href="/207984/Finding-the-source-music-from-The-Dirty-Cowboy" target="_self" style="text-decoration:none;">Finding the source music from The Dirty Cowboy</a></h2> <div class="copy post">A short doc about a musical obsession, perseverance and git'n r done ...<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gB3xqbmVpDk">The Mystery of the Dirty Cowboy</a> <br> <span class="smallcopy postbyline">posted by <a href="/user/22527" target="_self">foodeater</a> at 12:17 PM - <a href="/207984/Finding-the-source-music-from-The-Dirty-Cowboy" target="_self" class="more">1 comment</a> </span></div> <br> <h2 class="posttitle front"><a href="/207983/Christ-What-an-Asho" target="_self" style="text-decoration:none;">Christ, What an Asho</a></h2> <div class="copy post">In a triumph of graphic design and branding, <a href="https://www.sbnation.com/mlb/2025/3/10/24382064/mlb-new-overlap-hats-tetas-anaels-new-era">Major League Baseball’s new ‘Overlap’ hats are going viral for all the wrong reasons.</a> <br> <span class="smallcopy postbyline">posted by <a href="/user/25448" target="_self">mbrubeck</a> at 10:57 AM - <a href="/207983/Christ-What-an-Asho" target="_self" class="more">56 comments</a> </span></div> <br> <h2 class="posttitle front"><a href="/207982/People-stay-around-a-long-time-The-result-is-that-they-go-bananas" target="_self" style="text-decoration:none;">People stay around a long time. The result is that they go bananas.</a></h2> <div class="copy post"><a href="https://www.telephonecollectors.info/index.php/browse/document-repository/catalogs-manuals/western-electric-bell-system/4619-at-t-workers-drugged-bugged-and-coming-unplugged-mother-jones-1981">AT&T Workers: Drugged, Bugged and Coming Unplugged</a>; <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DGegneT9KfQ">Moving the Indiana Bell Central Office</a>; <a href="https://www.telephonecollectors.info/index.php/browse/document-repository/catalogs-manuals-educational-docs-by-company/western-electric-bell-system/publications-and-educational-documents-by-date/bell-system-history-reference-books">History of Engineering and Science at Bell Labs</a>; <a href="https://www.telephonecollectors.info/index.php/browse/document-repository/catalogs-manuals/stromberg-carlson-2/1766-sc1905howthetelephonehelpsthefarmer-tl">How the Telephone Helps the Farmer</a>; and much more of the lore of telecommunications from the library of <a href="https://www.telephonecollectors.info/">Telephone Collectors International</a>. <br> <span class="smallcopy postbyline">posted by <a href="/user/254085" target="_self">ContinuousWave</a> at 8:45 AM - <a href="/207982/People-stay-around-a-long-time-The-result-is-that-they-go-bananas" target="_self" class="more">14 comments</a> </span></div> <br> <h2 class="posttitle front"><a href="/207981/Its-down-at-the-end-of-Infinite-Street-Hilbert-Hotel" target="_self" style="text-decoration:none;">It’s down at the end of Infinite Street… Hilbert Hotel</a></h2> <div class="copy post">A six minute video illustrating <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OxGsU8oIWjY">Hilbert’s paradox of the Grand Hotel</a> with cute blobby monsters. <br> <span class="smallcopy postbyline">posted by <a href="/user/342988" target="_self">Lemkin</a> at 6:33 AM - <a href="/207981/Its-down-at-the-end-of-Infinite-Street-Hilbert-Hotel" target="_self" class="more">55 comments</a> </span></div> <br> <h2 class="posttitle front"><a href="/207980/There-are-no-ghosts-in-Galley-House" target="_self" style="text-decoration:none;">There are no ghosts in Galley House</a></h2> <div class="copy post"><em>Why don't you come down to Galley House this Saturday evening?… I have recently acquired something to keep you interested if you decide to come. It's not perfect, but sometimes when you close your eyes, it's like someone else is in the house…</em> <a href="https://william-rous.itch.io/type-help">Type Help</a> is a new, free, browser-based, text-based deductive mystery game by William Rous. <span class="smallcopy">[<a href="/207980/There-are-no-ghosts-in-Galley-House" target="_self">more inside</a>]</span><br> <span class="smallcopy postbyline">posted by <a href="/user/4515" target="_self">bcwinters</a> at 5:49 AM - <a href="/207980/There-are-no-ghosts-in-Galley-House" target="_self" class="more">12 comments</a> </span></div> <br> <h2 class="posttitle front"><a href="/207979/Just-the-perpetual-caretaking-of-the-museum-of-human-history" target="_self" style="text-decoration:none;">Just the perpetual caretaking of the museum of human history</a></h2> <div class="copy post">Fukuyama’s pining for past ideological struggles suggests that the Last Man would eventually get bored with technocracy, consumerism, and the stultifying constraints of middle management—and seek new monsters to fight. America’s flirtation with an authoritarian leader who promises he alone will fix the nation’s problems and restore the country’s past glory is a manifestation of this phenomenon. The greatest challenges to liberal democracy would not come from new ideological competitors but rather from complacency. from <a href="https://newrepublic.com/article/189218/francis-fukuyama-right-liberal-democracy">Francis Fukuyama Was Right About Liberal Democracy</a> [The New Republic; <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20250306050621/https://newrepublic.com/article/189218/francis-fukuyama-right-liberal-democracy">ungated</a>] <br> <span class="smallcopy postbyline">posted by <a href="/user/96486" target="_self">chavenet</a> at 2:03 AM - <a href="/207979/Just-the-perpetual-caretaking-of-the-museum-of-human-history" target="_self" class="more">22 comments</a> </span></div> <br> <h2>March 10</h2> <h2 class="posttitle front"><a href="/207978/Lifesling-in-action" target="_self" style="text-decoration:none;">Lifesling in action</a></h2> <div class="copy post">Following up <a href="https://www.metafilter.com/207466/How-three-WA-boaters-developed-a-lifesaving-device-thats-used-worldwide">last month's post on the development of the Lifesling</a>, two sailors participating in the Possession Point Race <a href="https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/video-by-some-miracle-overboard-sailors-rescued-from-puget-sound/"> were rescued from Puget Sound</a> (Seattle Times, <a href="https://archive.is/swR9X">archive</a>) after falling off one of the contending boats, while <a href="https://cdn.jwplayer.com/previews/jMJLeMj6">videoed from a ferry</a>. <span class="smallcopy">[<a href="/207978/Lifesling-in-action" target="_self">more inside</a>]</span><br> <span class="smallcopy postbyline">posted by <a href="/user/31977" target="_self">ShooBoo</a> at 11:04 PM - <a href="/207978/Lifesling-in-action" target="_self" class="more">7 comments</a> </span></div> <br> <h2 class="posttitle front"><a href="/207976/Scientists-genetically-modify-Victorian-lizard" target="_self" style="text-decoration:none;">Scientists genetically modify Victorian lizard</a></h2> <div class="copy post">One of Australia's smallest skinks has undergone a big genetic change in an attempt to fight the risk of extinction due to climate change. Biologists bred and released four tiny genetically modified Guthega skinks in an outdoor enclosure on Victoria's High Country in December. <a href="https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-03-01/guthega-skinks-genes-climate-change-falls-creek/104969250">It is one step away before the tiny lizards are released into the greater wild when biologists are hopeful the offspring of the critters can be set free in about a year</a>. <br> <span class="smallcopy postbyline">posted by <a href="/user/324939" target="_self">chariot pulled by cassowaries</a> at 7:36 PM - <a href="/207976/Scientists-genetically-modify-Victorian-lizard" target="_self" class="more">6 comments</a> </span></div> <br> <h2 class="posttitle front"><a href="/207975/The-Best-Sports-Moments-of-the-last-Quarter-Century" target="_self" style="text-decoration:none;">The Best Sports Moments of the last Quarter Century</a></h2> <div class="copy post">From The Ringer: <a href="https://www.theringer.com/project/100-best-sports-moments-of-the-century/">The Best Sports Moments of the (last) Quarter Century</a> <br> <span class="smallcopy postbyline">posted by <a href="/user/10964" target="_self">saladin</a> at 6:55 PM - <a href="/207975/The-Best-Sports-Moments-of-the-last-Quarter-Century" target="_self" class="more">34 comments</a> </span></div> <br> <h2 class="posttitle front"><a href="/207974/Then-listen-to-this-plus-my-Roland" target="_self" style="text-decoration:none;">Then listen to this, plus my Roland</a></h2> <div class="copy post">The <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roland_TR-808">Roland TR-808</a> had a larger impact on <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CYdOUyPcUm4">commercial music</a> than any other branded musical instrument except perhaps the Fender Stratocaster. So someone made a <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&v=FF61A9XEb9c">documentary</a> about it. <span class="smallcopy">[<a href="/207974/Then-listen-to-this-plus-my-Roland" target="_self">more inside</a>]</span><br> <span class="smallcopy postbyline">posted by <a href="/user/342988" target="_self">Lemkin</a> at 5:25 PM - <a href="/207974/Then-listen-to-this-plus-my-Roland" target="_self" class="more">15 comments</a> </span></div> <br> <h2 class="posttitle front"><a href="/207973/RIP-Calpundit" target="_self" style="text-decoration:none;">RIP Calpundit</a></h2> <div class="copy post">Kevin Drum, one of the earliest left wing political bloggers, has <a href="https://jabberwocking.com/health-update-100/">passed away after a long battle with cancer</a>. <span class="smallcopy">[<a href="/207973/RIP-Calpundit" target="_self">more inside</a>]</span><br> <span class="smallcopy postbyline">posted by <a href="/user/178854" target="_self">NoxAeternum</a> at 4:51 PM - <a href="/207973/RIP-Calpundit" target="_self" class="more">38 comments</a> </span></div> <br> <p class="copy">« <a href="/index.cfm?page=2" target="_self">Older posts</a> </p> </div> <div id="menu" style="width:175px;"> <div id="menufooter" class="sidebar" style="margin-top:10px;"> <div id="sidebar-funding"> <div class="funding"> <div class="funding-link"> <a href="https://login.metafilter.com/funding.mefi">Help fund MeFi!</a> </div> <div class="funding-text"> We rely on reader and community funding to operate. 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