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Refuge In Kakistocracy "... in a month with few bright spots, here is a glimmer of hope: Team Trump's most human failings may thwart some of their most evil plans."

PBS explains the cozy mystery. Cozy mystery is alive and kicking. Cozy mysteries, serially. Katharina Vester's "Bodies to Die for: Negotiating the Ideal Female Body in Cozy Mystery Novels" gets to the bones of the matter.There are many posts touching on cozy mysteries on MetaFilter, but no actual posts on the blue so tagged.

London musician So Good (Sophie Bokor-Ingram) makes music she calls "ignorant brat pop" that's a rough mix of drill, hip hop and punk. HATE is about the things she fucking hates, but her hate for America gets its own song. She kicks off I Hate It Here with "We had the worst prime minister EVAR/And then we had the worst prime minister EVAR/And now...

Play the Hidden Book Game.Prizes appear to be UK only, but the game is available everywhere. Books seem to trend toward popular and classic books, as defined by UK booksellers; a skim of the BBC Big Read list or similar might be helpful. Past years (with answers!) are also available.

The Otherwise Award (formerly the Tiptree Award) celebrates science fiction, fantasy, and other forms of speculative narrative that expand and explore our understanding of gender. Recommendations are open for the 2024 award - the deadline is November 15.The Otherwise Award has a long history honoring a ton of great works, including: Light from Uncommon Stars — Ryka Aoki They Will Dream In the Garden...

In this time of madness, Heather Cox Richardson shares wisdom and small seeds of hope* regarding the days to come. "The rift between the pre-2016 leaders of the Republican Party and the MAGA Republicans is still obvious, and Trump's reliance on Elon Musk and his stated goal of deconstructing the American government could make it wider."While Trump is claiming a mandate to do as...

[Ars Technica] Sep 2024 "Software fixes are now responsible for more than 1 in 5 automotive recalls. That's the key finding from a decade's worth of National Highway Traffic Safety Administration recall data, according to an analysis from the law firm DeMayo Law. While that's a sign of growing inconvenience for drivers, the silver lining is that a software patch is usually a much...

I've been reading about Magentic-One: A Generalist Multi-Agent System for Solving Complex Tasks,and thinking I could use it for an image segmentation task (tree canopies in aerial images), but maybe this is not a system to let run unwatched ... Even more concerning were cases in which agents, until explicitly stopped, attempted to recruit human assistance by posting on social media, emailing textbook authors,...

Koala intruder in bedroom startles couple getting home from work. Something soft and cuddly on a bed can be a welcome sight if that something is inanimate, like a pillow — but in the early hours of Wednesday morning an Adelaide couple were forced to contend with a friendly, if unexpected, intruder.

My great-aunt went on to earn her master's degree at Smith College School for Social Work, and then settled in a teaching position in the newly formed Richmond Professional Institute at the College of William & Mary in Virginia. That's where she briefly mentioned meeting "Anne, a newcomer from Ohio" in 1929. The two would be together for the rest of their lives. from...

'About Sensations', 1948 Aviator film (slyt, 5:30) ((CW warning, sexism)) "In 1943, Lt. Robert Osborn, in collaboration with Commander Seth Warner, created the "sage of safety" character for a column in the BUAER News Letter produced by the Bureau of Aeronautics to address the increasing aircraft mishap rate. Osborn's illustrations commingled with Warner's narrative accounts of aircraft accidents." " Case in point: this 1945...

Content Warning: Incredibly ugly upcoming U.S. Politics. Stephen Miller and Donald Trump's public promise for a "bloody story" - plans for sweeping raids and mass deportations of 10 to 20 million people living in America are expected to start when Trump assumes office and begins on day one.People living all across the United States, from farm camps in the backwaters of Florida to the...

"To look at the Earth from space is like a child looking into a mirror and realizing for the first time that the person in the mirror is herself" [ap: Samantha Harvey's space-station novel 'Orbital' (g) wins the Booker Prize for fiction]

100,000 Chinese students join 50km night-time bike ride in search of good soup dumplings 100,000 Chinese students join 50km night-time bike ride in search of good soup dumplings

Don't know about you, but I had a pretty rough week so I'm indulging myself with Jinjer and Spiritbox, starting with one of the greatest collabs of the current millenium: Spiritbox - Circle With Me ft. Tatiana Shmayluk of JinjerMegan Thee Stallion - TYG (feat. Spiritbox) Jinjer - Who Is Gonna Be The One - Live Spiritbox - The Mara Effect - live Jinjer...

I Hate it Here - Wilco I Must Not Think Bad Thoughts - X Everybody Knows - Leonard Cohen Hot Girl Bummer - Blackbear A short list of songs to have on repeat in the post-election era. Add as you see fit! Hot Girl Bummer is the general vibe of late stage whatever as far as I can tell.

The Mushroom Color Atlas is a resource and reference for everyone curious about mushrooms and the beautiful and subtle colors derived from dyeing with mushrooms. But it is also the start of a journey and a point of departure, introducing you to the kaleidoscopic fungi kingdom and our connection to it. My hope is that through this Atlas everyone will be inspired to learn...

Aftermath, the tech and gaming blog founded by webugees from Kotaku, is one year old! In a lengthy post on their site, founders Luke Plunkett, Gita Jackson, Riley McLeod, Nathan Grayson and Chris Person discuss what running their little co-op business is like, and the issues they face in keeping it afloat.

"Everlasting Love" is one of two songs to become a Billboard Hot 100 top 40 hit in the 1960s, 1970s, 1980s, and 1990s* and the only song to become a UK top 40 hit in the 1960s, 1970s, 1980s, 1990s, and 2000s.Written by Buzz Cason and Mac Gayden, "Everlasting Love" was a hit for Robert Knight in 1967. Love Affair's 1967 cover, the most...

"I find it reassuring that in a game that is in some ways a libertarian power fantasy (you and your spaceship, go anywhere do whatever you want), and a PvP universe, one of the first things people did was create a volunteer ambulance service." Over on Mastodon, Dave Anderson walks us through the story of the Fuel Rats, the emergency refueling service of Elite:Dangerous.

Mobile Crisis Construction is an Australian initiative to turn rubble back into homes, schools and hospitals in war-torn or disaster-hit countries like Ukraine. Its Lego-like MCC Crisis Blocks "employ simple technology that works with standard brick coursing height and length, and can be laid with unskilled labour due to their interlocking design". They need no mortar and are produced on site with a mobile...

Hidden changes are warping the already broken ecosystem that determines how many citizens—particularly in America—construct their sense of reality. (slSubstack)Y'all, I know there are folks who don't like Substack/NYT links but here we are and I thought this was worth posting in the aftermath of a disastrous election.