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Andrew Cuomo has conceded in the New York City mayoral Democratic primary to state assemblyman Zohran Mamdani in a stunning political upset. "Tonight is his night," Cuomo, 67, said. If elected, Mamdani would be the first Muslim and Indian American to lead the nation's largest city.
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Ubuweb (many previouslies) is hosting an extraordinary compilation: the 476-song History of Electronic/Electroacoustic Music, originally a 62 CD set .
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First images of space from world's biggest digital camera stun astronomers. A stunning nebula and a sky dotted full of stars and dancing galaxies are in a set of three images released by the Vera C. Rubin Observatory as a taster of more to come.
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Toni Basil: 60s Go-Go Goddess, 70s Locking Queen, 80s “Mickey” Icon
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"In November of 1963, A. R. Ammons, known to family and friends as Archie, the author of a single, privately printed book of poems and a manager at his father-in-law’s glass factory, picked up a roll of adding-machine tape at a local store and began to “contemplate . . . some fool use for it" Alas, "Ammons’s poems, from the first to the last, are a record of American life, speech, and imagination in the twentieth century, a master inventory of the vicissitudes of human existence, worked by genius into memorable shapes."
'American Expansion.'.
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In late July 1965, the John Coltrane Quartet performed at the Antibes Jazz Festival. It played a quartet arrangement of "Ascension", which the saxophonist had recorded in the studio with large forces just four weeks earlier. If I could present only one piece of evidence to someone to show them why John Coltrane is a big deal, I would show them this.
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New Supreme Court decisions have dropped, nearly all of them appalling if you happen to be a fan of the rule of law or constitution. 1. The US supreme court has limited federal judges’ power to block trump orders (which seems to have repercussions involving birth-right citizenship). 2. The US Supreme Court allows parents to opt out of lessons with LGBT books. Other decisions were also handed down today but your OP is too exhausted with sorrow to include those.
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Bruce Gaston, ed., (2024), Saki (H.H. Munro): Original and Uncollected Stories: "This book reprints--for the first time in over a hundred years--thirteen stories originally published in newspapers and magazines ... Three ... have so far been missed by anthologists." The title character of "Mrs. Pendercoet's Lost Identity: A Tragedy of the Chelsea Arts Club Ball" (alt. edition) would not yet have had access to Dennison's Party Magazine but could have consulted Ardern Holt's Fancy Dresses Described, perhaps referring Rollo to Gentleman's Fancy Dress. "The Optimist" (alt. edition) was published only about two months after "The Open Window," a more famous story with multiple adaptations and a notable analysis. And "The Romance of Business" has context that the editor explains in "Saki and Mr Selfridge." Previous unanthologized stories by Saki.
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“And how we burned in the camps later, thinking: What would things have been like if every Security operative, when he went out at night to make an arrest, had been uncertain whether he would return alive and had to say good-bye to his family? … If… if… We didn't love freedom enough. And even more – we had no awareness of the real situation. … We purely and simply deserved everything that happened afterward.”
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The New York Times conducted a massive poll of “directors, actors, and notable Hollywood names” to come up with the Best 100 Films of the 21st Century. Individual ballots from folks like Mel Brooks, Sofia Coppola, John Waters, and Stephen King have been published as well. (NYT link for those with access.)
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Why More People Should Respect High-Volume Kitchens
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Miniature cats fighting the American Civil War. Located in Gettysburg, PA, Civil War Tails at the Homestead is a unique presentation of key battles from the American Civil War (1861-65) using dioramas filled with thousands of inch-high uniformed clay cats. Built and operated by two sisters. Go expecting kitsch, and you will be disappointed to learn that they are extraordinarily learned scholars of the war who have turned a hobby into a livelihood (for one sister; the other practices law in her spare time). I have visited twice and plan to return! (And, yes, you can by souvenir cat soldiers; we own two.)
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In Pas d'armes and Late Medieval Chivalry, Marina Viallon's essay on "a Roleplay Game from the Pas des Armes de Sandricourt (1493)" says "the 'knights-errant challenge,' was held in the nearby wood dubbed the forêt dévoyable (Labyrinthine Forest)" and its participants "left the castle ... to wander at random, two by two, in the nearby forest and its surrounding fields ... 'looking for adventure as the lords of the Round Table used to do.'" Source. Related project website and database of events. Virtual exhibition: "This event ... was an example of a pas d'armes ... a type of chivalric tournament inspired by themes from courtly literature." See also Ringhieri's 1551 parlor game "Giuocho del Cavalliero" in which players invented emblems, mottoes, and clothing colors for imaginary knights at a joust, or see Azgaar's Armoria, which can generate them for you.
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Hip-hop group clipping.'s fifth album "Dead Channel Sky" is as SFF-inal as you might expect from its title and the fact that they're the only hip-hop act nominated for the Hugo twice.
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Today's death toll in Gaza. Israeli settlers shoot, injure 3 people in West Bank. Note: Al-Jazeera is reporting from Amman, Jordan, since they've been banned in Israel and the West Bank. Since May 27, at least 583 Palestinians have been killed and 4,186 injured at food distribution sites. Haaretz has published an expose confirming that IDF soldiers have been ordered to deliberately shoot at unarmed Gazans waiting for humanitarian aid. ungated. trump has threatened on Truth.Social to withhold funding for Israel for prosecuting Netanyahu on corruption charges. Hamas is also battling to survive, facing "defiant" clans and doubts over Iran.
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Sorry for the late post, but Frank Zappa's Cheaper Than Cheep a live TV special from 1974 that never aired due to audio sync issues is streaming on youtube this weekend for free.
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Square Theory The story starts in Crosscord, the crossword Discord server. ... Something about this concept—two sets of synonyms (PUB and BAR, QUIZ and EXAM), which when paired together, form phrases that themselves are not synonyms (PUB QUIZ and BAR EXAM)—captured the minds of Crosscord. Suddenly, the floodgates were open...
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Connecticus Diggs sits in his office sipping whiskey and waiting for a knock at the door. But his clients don't need him to solve mysteries—they need answers of a different kind. In Episode 1, Diggs helps a woman in her search for meaning. In Episode 2 a young boxer wants to make a change in his life. Short comics by Clifford Thompson in Cleaver magazine out of Philadelphia.
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Scientists capture first evidence of orcas using seaweed to make tools. For the first time, researchers say they have captured footage of orcas making tools out of seaweed to seemingly groom each other.
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Whenever Doug Biggert (1941-2023) picked up a hitch-hiker in Northern California he took their picture: Riding With Strangers: California Hitchhikers in the 1970s
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So why would someone like Oprah — supposedly a symbol of empathy and empowerment — show up to a billionaire pageant in a city drowning from climate change? The same Oprah that mainstreamed anti-vaxx, Dr. Phil, and Dr. Oz is the billionaire who is happy to show up for a fellow billionaire in a city drowning from climate change. [view]
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Meanwhile, Mackenzie Scott has spent $19B on philanthropy since the divorce. There’s a spectacle worth toasting. Much classier than the Masque of the Red Death party Bezos is spinning up in Venice. [view]
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As someone who was born and raised Malaysian, but as the "wrong" kind of Muslim (Bangladeshi) and also queer and neurodivergent and artsy: this article is spot on and doesn't have Muslim-bashing. Some of the respondents in that article are themselves Muslim! Some of the targets of repression and censorship are Muslim! But if you don't... [more]
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“We know that they are lying, they know that they are lying, they even know that we know they are lying, we also know that they know we know they are lying too, they of course know that we certainly know they know we know they are lying too as well, but they are still lying. In our country, the lie has become not just moral category, but the pillar... [more]
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I’ve written and self-published six tech books about how to write tests for PHP code. My books are in the training sets these companies used. They are not in there with my consent. It’s very clear these companies are working on a way to wiggle out of having to pay people like me for having taken my books and used them to train their systems. So... [more]
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If you visit Pag, Croatia, you'll see a desert-like landscape. The island, which was once covered in trees, was completely clear cut to build the foundations that Venice was built on, and to build the ships that Venetians sailed on. Venice is without question a classic example of hyper capitalism: built by wealthy businessmen exploiting the... [more]
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One of my favourite quotes: “If only it were all so simple! If only there were evil people somewhere insidiously committing evil deeds, and it were necessary only to separate them from the rest of us and destroy them. But the line dividing good and evil cuts through the heart of every human being. And who is willing to destroy a piece of his own... [more]
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The polite, clean chicken shop that puts a blandly pleasant and cheery face on their christofascist homophobia has been sinister since long before the current political circumstance. [view]
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oh my god baby you’re in a hospital eat all the chik-fil-a you want, i’m a queer cancer survivor, it’s fine but if you have access to a fridge you can get a multi pack of sammies and soups from panera if that would work! [view]
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Hahaha these are Southern White Pilates Ladies. Popeyes is MUCH better, but Popeyes is for [whispers] those people. "We don't feel it's up to our hygeine standards". I should note that my kids' school is roughly 50% black, and the swim team about 40%. I was chatting with my daughter's mom, who's black, about just this, and... [more]
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it would nearly be criminal not to mention the nigh-compulsion Sikhism seems to have with feeding LOTS of people. While generally suspect of religion, I consider the langar one of the most amazing human systems out there- they can produce some of the most amazing high-volume food out there. I mean, this is wild. [view]
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'Gaza must be eliminated': Israel’s airwaves are filled with pro-genocide propaganda I'm not sure if this has been shared here. This is not news, but Mahdawi has collected some of it together to paint a terrifying picture of a society where one can argue that an entire population, including children, should be exterminated because they are... [more]
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One would hope that somewhere along the way they'd have picked up some modicum of class or maturity or gravitas or something. Instead, they're throwing foam parties to celebrate the 19th birthday of one of their kids and scheduling pyjama parties like pre-teen girls. This seems like a very weird, judgmental take. There’s nothing wrong with... [more]
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Non-Muslim Chinese have prospered there for centuries, just as one of many examples. Wait, wait wait, this has nothing to do with minority races... Story leads with a Malay Muslim owner of a bookstore (Amir Muhammad) who got raided because they carried Jelik, a book written by a Malay Muslim, (Ismi Fa Ismail) And the article is... [more]
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The US government sponsored way more climate research--both directly within NOAA, NASA, and other agencies and through grants by the NSF, EPA, and other agencies--than Bezos ever has and did not limit their funding to technology related grants like Bezos fund does (vastly limiting the type of research they support). But then Bezos paid to get... [more]
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Here was a FPP on the Waffle House's plate-marking system for high volume service. (Here is my comment reproduced from that thread, after many people were baffled by the Waffle House system, or claimed they could come up with a better one, or asked Why don't they just do it my way?, or otherwise disbelieved the cooks and service workers in the... [more]
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How utterly disgusting this all is. [view]
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I really dislike this "soft boy" nonsense. Boy softeners are important. Hard boys can leave behind scale, residue and mineral build-up. The walls of Gordon Ramsey's kitchen have a knee-high ring of calcium deposits. [view]
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rhamphorhynchus: Weirdly enough, yes! Crickets require just 1.5 pounds of feed for every pound of edible cricket product made. This ratio, known as the feed conversion rate, is far less impressive for other popular protein sources: 20 pounds of feed for every pound of beef, 4.5 pounds for every pound of chicken and 7.3 pounds for every pound of... [more]
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That sandwich, slowly levitating and floating calmly in the air, just a moment before everything rockets sideways in apocalyptic disaster? I feel like that all the time nowadays. [view]
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