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23 votes
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The Left needs a statewide strategy
13 votes -
Isolated and struggling, many seniors are turning to suicide
8 votes -
The perilous trip of Iboga, Africa’s premier psychedelic
5 votes -
The gov.uk Design System
7 votes -
Build science in Africa | Nature Opinion
3 votes -
Screaming Females - I'll Make You Sorry
4 votes -
Tainted by association: Would you carve a roast with a knife that had been used in a murder? Why not? And what does this tell us about ethics?
17 votes -
JavaScript: What’s new in ES2019
13 votes -
Selling the Long Drink in the United States isn't just about marketing a booze product – it's about selling the country of Finland
6 votes -
Norwegian Air has announced that it will launch a crypto exchange called the Norwegian Blok Exchange (NBX)
7 votes -
'People are dying': How the climate crisis has sparked an exodus to the US
17 votes -
Female warrior long assumed to be a Viking may actually be a Slavic warrior woman who migrated to Denmark from present-day Poland
6 votes -
Getting dressed in the 18th Century
Getting dressed in the 18th Century - Women Getting dressed in the 18th Century - Men
5 votes -
'Desert Island Dump' A three-part study of the most polluted beach in the world.
Desert Island Dump Chapter 1: Shipwrecked Chapter 2: The Big Haul Chapter 3: "Stolen from Talley's" Here's an abriged version: Henderson Island: the Pacific paradise groaning under 18 tonnes of...
Desert Island Dump
Here's an abriged version: Henderson Island: the Pacific paradise groaning under 18 tonnes of plastic waste
And a video of the beach.
7 votes -
Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg has accepted a ride across the Atlantic by sail boat to attend two key climate conferences
7 votes -
Testing if sharks can smell a drop of blood
7 votes -
Malaysian court sides with forced labour victims over unpaid wages
4 votes -
ASX 200 share index hits a record high, finally beating pre-financial crisis levels
3 votes -
Border collie trained to recognize 1,022 nouns dies
11 votes -
This week's album and EP releases (20-26 July)
We're sorting out our process for these to be more efficient, so hopefully we won't be missing weeks anymore. Sorry again about that. Here's a list of a things that came out in this past week, up...
We're sorting out our process for these to be more efficient, so hopefully we won't be missing weeks anymore. Sorry again about that.
Here's a list of a things that came out in this past week, up through Friday. Of course, there's no way to be completely comprehensive with this and we avoided including things where information was too lacking, so feel free to mention anything that isn't on here that you think is worth mentioning. Beyond that, if you have any thoughts of any of these albums, it would be great to hear them :)
Artist Title Genre(s) Song Link ATLiens Ghost Planet EP Trap [EDM] Song.link Andy Grammer Naive Dance-Pop Song.link Angie McMahon Salt Indie Rock, Singer-Songwriter Song.link B Boys Dudu Post-Punk Song.link BJ the Chicago Kid 1123 Contemporary R&B Song.link Big Data 3.0 Indietronica, Synthpop Song.link Bryony Jarman-Pinto Cage & Aviary Neo-Soul, Jazz Song.link Burna Boy African Giant Afrobeats, Dancehall Song.link CUCO Para Mi Hypnagogic Pop, Alternative R&B Song.link Chance the Rapper The Big Day Pop Rap Song.link Cheat Codes Level 2 Electropop Song.link - Remixed EP Chief Keef The Leek (Vol. 8) Drill Song.link Comethazine Bawskee 3.5 Trap Song.link Cuco Para Mí Alternative R&B, Hypnagogic Pop Song.link DJ Snake Carte Blanche Trap [EDM], Electropop Song.link Datach'i Bones IDM, Ambient Techno Song.link Delbert McClinton Tall, Dark & Handsome Blue-Eyed Soul, Rhythm & Blues Song.link Dude York Falling Power Pop, Indie Rock Song.link E-40 Practice Makes Paper West Coast Hip Hop Song.link Fallow Land Slow Down, Rockstar Indie Pop Song.link Florist Emily Alone Indie Folk, Singer/Songwriter Song.link High Fighter Champain Stoner Rock Song.link Justin Moore Late Nights And Longnecks Contemporary Country Song.link Kaiser Chiefs Duck Synthpop Song.link Lil Reese GetBackGang 2 Drill Song.link Lloyd Cole Guesswork Singer/Songwriter Song.link Maneka Devin Garage Rock Song.link Mini Mansions Guy Walks into a Bar... Psychedelic Pop Song.link NF The Search Conscious Hip Hop Song.link Night Riots New State Of Mind Indie Rock Song.link Of Monsters and Men FEVER DREAM Indie Pop, Pop Rock Song.link Philthy Rich Big 59 #2 West Coast Hip Hop, Gangsta Rap Song.link Phora Bury Me With Dead Roses Pop Rap Song.link Rezz Beyond the Senses EP Post-Industrial, Electronic Dance Music Song.link Rich Brian The Sailor Pop Rap Song.link Sanction Broken in Refraction Metalcore Song.link Skizzy Mars Free Skizzy Mars Pop Rap Song.link Strange Ranger Remembering The Rockets Indie Rock Song.link Sugar Ray Little Yachty Pop Rock Song.link Sybyr Tales From the King of Enigma Trap, Experimental Hip Hop Song.link Thy Art Is Murder Human Target Deathcore Song.link Tre Mission Orphan Black Grime Song.link TroyBoi V!BEZ, Vol. 3 EP Trap [EDM] Song.link Violent Femmes Hotel Last Resort Alternative Rock Song.link Wolves At The Gate Eclipse Post-Hardcore Song.link YBN Cordae The Lost Boy Conscious Hip Hop, Southern Hip Hop Song.link Young Dolph & Key Glock Dum and Dummer Trap, Southern Hip Hop Song.link Yung Bans Misunderstood Trap, Southern Hip Hop Song.link
Notes:
If you spot any mistakes, let us know.
Parental Advisory version of all albums linked, so expect NSFW.10 votes -
What’s your favorite status-checking website to check for “Is Site down?”
Any particular reason for the preference?
6 votes -
College financial-aid loophole: Wealthy US parents transfer guardianship of their teens to get aid
15 votes -
How the Atlantic League became MLB's laboratory for the future of baseball
6 votes -
Capital One says data breach affected 100 million credit card applications
11 votes -
Busting the myths surrounding the four day workweek
13 votes -
The Voter Suppression Chronicles: When the Roberts Court all but nullified the Voting Rights Act, it said the pre-1965 practices were long gone. New hearings by the House make clear: They’re back.
11 votes -
Making an exact, working replica of the Apollo 11 moon camera
6 votes -
The internet's old guard
20 votes -
Kyoto Animation recovers data from server after studio 1 fire
9 votes -
Amazon's new Lord Of The Rings showrunners have never made a TV show before
15 votes -
Brain-eating amoeba Naegleria fowleri kills again
7 votes -
J. Michael Straczynski reveals painful origin story in Becoming Superman
4 votes -
The FBI thinks Long Island Iced Tea’s infamous pivot to blockchain was sweetened by insider trading
6 votes -
Multiple victims reported in shooting at Gilroy Garlic Festival
20 votes -
What are your thoughts on the Blloc phone?
10 votes -
The world’s last Blockbuster has no plans to close
10 votes -
Tax Watch UK report: Grand Theft Auto developer Rockstar has paid no UK corporate tax in ten years and claimed £42m in subsidies
6 votes -
Queer people of color reflect on being told to “go back”
8 votes -
Woman arrested for threatening to blow up Swedish embassy in Washington DC over A$AP Rocky case
8 votes -
Beyond Meat is working on fake bacon and steak
11 votes -
'I lost everything': The obscene cost of being a woman with a chronic health problem
7 votes -
What CIOs need to know about 5G: It isn’t time to get started with 5G implementations. But it IS time to plan
4 votes -
Do you live in a media bubble? Do you use Google News? I recommend using it signed-out at least 50% of the time
I recently started jumping around various browsers and machines. I sometimes keep instinctually going to Google News in all of these environments. I am often signed-out in these other browsers....
I recently started jumping around various browsers and machines. I sometimes keep instinctually going to Google News in all of these environments. I am often signed-out in these other browsers. This has been an eye-opening experience for me.
Many years ago I had blocked Fox, RT, and other crap out of my GNews feed. I was living in a bubble of my own making. I actually prefer that bubble, as there is more factual information in it, but it comes at a cost. I had lost a lot of my situational awareness of the political and media climate.
I am not trying to be centrist here, I just think that one should know the entire battlefield, not just the news given from their comfortable sources. For one thing, I had no idea of the dominance which Fox News had in Google News, also that RT was so prevalent, also that there was so many other sources of utter right-wing propaganda that had been normalized. How can I fight disinformation if I am unaware of its origins?
What do you think about this? Would you take me up on my challenge of reading the uncustomised news? Do you ever try to get out of your comfort zone in the news? Does it help inform you?
edit: Just FYI, to easily use Google News, or any other news site signed-out, first open a "private window" in your browser.
14 votes -
Digital Foundry Direct Retro - Nintendo's Famicom Disk System, a 1986 Japan-only mass-storage upgrade for the console
5 votes -
GitHub restricts developer accounts based in Iran, Crimea, and other countries under US sanctions
6 votes -
Any chance we can get a ~space group?
I know that this has been discussed before (I personally participated in some of that), but, to my knowledge, it's been quite a while since it was brought up. Currently, the three groups that seem...
I know that this has been discussed before (I personally participated in some of that), but, to my knowledge, it's been quite a while since it was brought up.
Currently, the three groups that seem to make the most sense for space exploration news are ~tech, ~science, and ~misc. Personally, I perceive ~tech as being best suited for general news about what's going on in the tech industry, more or less "hey, Google released this" or "these researchers are working on graphene batteries". Similarly, I understand ~science as a place for discussing scientific discoveries and "meta" discussion about science as a whole. I think that most would agree with me on those characterizations after looking at those groups when sorted by activity or new.
Space exploration, on the other hand, doesn't really fit in either. It's not exactly ~tech material, and it's also not really the right material for ~science, since much of it isn't about specific new discoveries or studies, etc. If we had an ~engineering, I would say that that would be the correct place for space discussion, but we don't have one.
If you look at what's been happening over the last few months in the realm of space exploration, I think that it's also pretty easy to see that there's enough going on to generate enough content and discussion for a dedicated group. There've been new launches on a weekly or biweekly basis, interesting moves made by different new entrants to the industry, all of the NASA Artemis news, plenty of things from SpaceX, etc.
35 votes -
How I made my own Android phone - in China
8 votes -
Fatal distraction: Forgetting a child in the backseat of a car is a horrifying mistake. Is it a crime?
19 votes -
Socialist People's Party wants a debate on whether it should be legal to produce and sell French delicacy foie gras in the EU
8 votes