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			<title>MeFi: It&apos;s OK if you&apos;re not ready. Maybe one day you will be.</title>
			<description><![CDATA[My day job is at a rural branch of a public library, and we have a Pride display. Yesterday I was at the desk when a man came in. Fifties, maybe, or sixties. Plaid shirt, mesh trucker cap, suspenders. He went up to the display and just stood there for a long moment. Then he came up to the desk. <a href="https://bsky.app/profile/jandersoncoats.bsky.social/post/3mns76pauoc2p">Not gonna lie, I braced.</a> I mentally ran through the spiel I've prepared for when someone complains about a display. Especially a Pride display. It doesn't happen often, but it happens enough. Freedom to read. Something in the collection for everyone. Here's my supervisor's card.]]></description>
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			<pubDate>Tue, 09 Jun 2026 20:01:41 GMT</pubDate>
			<dc:creator>chavenet</dc:creator>
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			<title>MeFi: Rendering Arabic script</title>
			<description><![CDATA["Once upon a time, a frontend ticket landed on my queue which was not properly mine, but the only other Arabic reader on the team was on leave. It went roughly as follows; a block of mixed-content Arabic prose on the customer-facing dashboard was rendering with a ragged left edge ... I wrote a reply explaining, more or less honestly, that the problem was not a bug in our stylesheet but the <a href="https://lr0.org/blog/p/arabic/">state of Arabic typography on the web</a>.<br /><br />The reply took and the closure of the ticket took half an hour or so. The reasons behind it took five hundred years to pile up, and they involve a twice-mutilated vizier, a Qur&#702;&#257;n that vanished for four centuries, a Beirut newspaperman with a deadline, and an Egyptian physician who taught himself font engineering for fun (or that what I imagine about him).]]></description>
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			<pubDate>Thu, 11 Jun 2026 21:36:29 GMT</pubDate>
			<dc:creator>Lycaste</dc:creator>
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			<title>MeFi: Giving fascists power in the name of protecting children</title>
			<description><![CDATA[<a href="https://retro.social/@ajroach42/116420399535623526">These age verification laws aren't about keeping kids off social media, they're about surveillance, control, and locking LGBT people out of public discourse. It's a fascist power play. Centering Children on Social Media as the argument for mandating IDs to use computers is a smokescreen, so that we're spending time arguing about how to best solve this very complicated problem, instead of talking about all the ways that this legislation will be used to facilitate the abuse of children and marginalized people.</a><br/><br/><i>From later in the thread:</i><br /><br />"[...]Anyone who sees a conversation about how age verification laws are going to cause widespread significant harm to lots of different groups of people and decides instead to talk about how social media is harmful to children is doing the work of disinformation spreading propagandists. <br /><br />They might not *be* disinformation spreading propagandists, they might have just been duped by disinformation spreading propagandists, but either way they are doing the *work* of disinformation spreading propagandists.<br /><br />This is a propaganda and PR technique that is in common use today. <br /><br />This is how it works: <br /><br />Person 1 makes a point that is harmful to the narrative the PR firm has been paid to protect. <br /><br />One or more accounts on the payroll of that PR firm, who usually just posts innocuous stuff but who *always* has an opinion on the topic of the day, chimes in with an indirectly related smokescreen argument, usually accompanied by an accusation or an emotional appeal. <br /><br />Person 1 then gets bogged down with that argument, tacitly approving that the two topics are in fact one topic. <br /><br />Lots of people then see the argument, and come to associate the smokescreen with the real issue. Some of them will be swayed specifically by the emotionally appeal ("think of the children") and some of them will genuinely believe in the smokescreen issue ("social media is bad for children") and accept that the smokescreen is important enough to justify accepting whatever the original post was arguing against. <br /><br />There are lots of these PR accounts floating around out there. They're sockpuppets. They look like real people, sometimes they *are* real people, but they're also sockpuppets.<br /><br />The end result of that is a bunch of people popping in to conversations about Age Verification laws to talk about separate and legitimately important issues as if those issues and Age Verification laws are the same thing. <br /><br />And some of those people might be paid PR Sockpuppets, but some of them are definitely real people who really care about the harm social media might have on children. <br /><br />And so we spend so much time talking about the nuance and  potential solutions to this much more complicated problem that the real issue (these proposed Age Verification Laws are actually tools of fascist surveillance and control which will be used to suppress dissent and harm marginalized communities) gets lost."<br /><br /><i>also (responding to someone):</i><br /><br />"'I'd rather give my 13 year old child a bottle of whiskey than access to Roblox' is a hell of a take, y'all. <br /><br />I'm not here to argue that Instagram or Roblox are good for kids (the opposite!) but <br /><br />1) these arguments are still just providing cover to normalize laws that mandate sending government IDs to 3rd parties (like Peter Thiel) in order to use a computer or phone, which we have decided to allow politicians to call "age verification" <br /><br />2) What the fuck? That's a hell of hot take. <br /><br />But! It's *exactly* the kind of hot take you'd get from a PR firm sock-puppet or propagandist who is trying to distract from the issue at hand. <br /><br />It provokes such a clear and immediate negative emotional response that it completely re-frames the conversation away from the very real threat of increased and increasingly inescapable mass surveillance and towards what is more harmful for kids!"<br /><br /><br />Andrew Roach, a.k.a. ajroach42 (<a href="https://retro.social/@ajroach42">Mastodon</a>, <a href="https://ajroach42.com/">blog</a>, <a href="https://andrewroach.net/">website</a>, <a href="http://buttondown.email/ajroach42">newsletter</a>) is an interesting figure, who among other things is responsible for <a href="https://newellijay.tv/">New Ellijay TV</a>, a real community television station in the mountains of north Georgia (US) with a strange and eclectic array of programming, much of it produced locally.]]></description>
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			<pubDate>Tue, 09 Jun 2026 20:45:17 GMT</pubDate>
			<dc:creator>JHarris</dc:creator>
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			<title>MeFi: A molecule that says no to the animals</title>
			<description><![CDATA[<a href="https://www.notesfromtheroad.com/desertmexico/chili-peppers.html">A visual field guide to the chili peppers of the world</a>, from wild origins to cultivated forms, <a href="https://www.notesfromtheroad.com/files/chili-peppers-of-the-world-poster.webp">illustrated with 176 hand-drawn peppers</a>.]]></description>
			<link>https://www.metafilter.com/213510/A-molecule-that-says-no-to-the-animals</link>
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			<pubDate>Sat, 13 Jun 2026 11:22:46 GMT</pubDate>
			<dc:creator>chavenet</dc:creator>
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			<title>MeFi: Any cake that is not the fire cake that tries to kill the boy</title>
			<description><![CDATA[<a href="https://theonion.com/i-work-very-hard-and-i-would-like-to-try-cake/">I Work Very Hard, And I Would Like To Try Cake</a> By A Horse [The Onion]]]></description>
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			<pubDate>Thu, 11 Jun 2026 20:32:58 GMT</pubDate>
			<dc:creator>chavenet</dc:creator>
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			<title>MeFi: As far back as the C16th the herring has been a comic fish.</title>
			<description><![CDATA[<a href="https://www.herripedia.com/about/">The Herripedia.</a> Never before have I been sent a link and so quickly come to the conclusion that I needed to share it with MetaFilter. This is like an old-school web passion project about herring, but it is so, so, so much more than that. My point of entry was the entirely hilarious yet fascinating entry on <a href="https://www.herripedia.com/thomas-aquinas/">Thomas Aquinas</a>.<br/><br/>Yes, this entire post is editorializing, but I don't care, because you need to understand how much joy the mere existence of this site is bringing me right now.]]></description>
			<link>https://www.metafilter.com/213491/As-far-back-as-the-C16th-the-herring-has-been-a-comic-fish</link>
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			<pubDate>Thu, 11 Jun 2026 14:06:26 GMT</pubDate>
			<dc:creator>jacquilynne</dc:creator>
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			<title>MeFi: Consent obtained for a game is not consent for a weapons program</title>
			<description><![CDATA[<a href="https://dronexl.co/2026/06/09/pokemon-go-scans-niantic-vantor-military-drone-navigation/">Hundreds of millions of Pok&#0233;mon Go players spent years filming the streets, parks, and buildings around them</a> to earn in-game rewards. Those roughly 30 billion environmental scans are now owned by Niantic Spatial, and they helped train a camera-based navigation model that <a href="https://www.trouw.nl/redactie/Pok&#0233;monGo/">a U.S. defense contractor is preparing to put into drones and other military robots</a> [in Dutch]. <a href="https://tvpworld.com/93715244/trouw-niantic-spatial-used-pokmon-go-data-to-train-navigation-system-for-drones">Most of the players had no idea.</a>]]></description>
			<link>https://www.metafilter.com/213501/Consent-obtained-for-a-game-is-not-consent-for-a-weapons-program</link>
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			<pubDate>Fri, 12 Jun 2026 09:28:24 GMT</pubDate>
			<dc:creator>chavenet</dc:creator>
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			<title>MeFi: AI economics for dummies</title>
			<description><![CDATA[To help us understand the upcoming IPOs of Anthropic, OpenAI and SpaceX, McSweeney's has <a href="https://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/ai-economics-for-dummies">a guide to AI economics for dummies</a>.]]></description>
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			<pubDate>Fri, 12 Jun 2026 15:47:55 GMT</pubDate>
			<dc:creator>autopilot</dc:creator>
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			<title>MeFi: Diagnosis drives treatment. Treatment is what matters.</title>
			<description><![CDATA[<em>I know this distinction in my body, because my label has changed underneath me. In 2016 I was diagnosed with Bipolar I with psychosis. Three years later, the diagnosis was revised to schizoaffective disorder, bipolar subtype. Here is the thing nobody tells you about that moment: on the day the label changed</em>, I did not change. <a href="https://kennethreitz.org/essays/2026-06-06-mental_health_for_humans">People talk about the DSM like it's scripture, a taxonomy of fixed disease entities handed down from somewhere. It isn't, and the confession is printed on the cover.</a>]]></description>
			<link>https://www.metafilter.com/213478/Diagnosis-drives-treatment-Treatment-is-what-matters</link>
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			<pubDate>Wed, 10 Jun 2026 16:27:45 GMT</pubDate>
			<dc:creator>sciatrix</dc:creator>
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			<title>MeFi: To block illegal bottom trawlers, Cambodia is building concrete towers</title>
			<description><![CDATA[To block illegal bottom trawlers, Cambodia is building concrete towers. <br /><br />It's very clever: three-tonne underwater concrete towers disable trawl nets while creating shelter and nursery space for fish. <br /><br />An NGO has now deployed 1250 of these 'Fishery Productivity Structures' across its southern coast, protecting more than 200 km&#0178; of habitat. <br /><br /><a href="https://oceanographicmagazine.com/news/concrete-towers-on-the-seabed-scupper-cambodias-illegal-trawling/">Early monitoring found fish abundance six times higher at protected sites than control areas.</a>]]></description>
			<link>https://www.metafilter.com/213463/To-block-illegal-bottom-trawlers-Cambodia-is-building-concrete-towers</link>
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			<pubDate>Tue, 09 Jun 2026 10:03:35 GMT</pubDate>
			<dc:creator>chariot pulled by cassowaries</dc:creator>
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			<title>Ask MeFi: More Things to Do in Mexico City</title>
			<description><![CDATA[I have just returned from a trip to Mexico City and it absolutely ruled. (I have been there a couple times previously, but more than a decade ago. Of course it ruled then as well.) I will go again, and I would love to have an entirely non-overlapping itinerary. Looking at the list of places I've gone, what ENTIRELY DIFFERENT THINGS should I do in the future?<br/><br/>Here's the list of places I've been, probably not comprehensive but it's what comes to mind:<br><br><strong>Parks</strong><br>Alameda Central in El Centro<br>Alameda de Santa Mar&#237;a (and the Kiosko Morisco) in Santa Maria la Ribera<br>Chapultepec I &amp; II (primarily the castle and the C&#225;rcamo de Dolores)<br>Parque Mexico in Condesa<br>Zocalo in El Centro<br><br><strong>Markets</strong><br>Mercado la Merced<br>Mercado Mart&#237;nez de la Torre<br>Mercado San Juan<br><br><strong>Museums and Art</strong><br>Casa Barragan<br>Monumento a la Revoluci&#243;n<br>Museo Casa de Leon Trotsky<br>Museo Casa Estudio Diego Rivera &amp; Frida Kahlo<br>Museo del Juguete Antiguo Mexico (MUJAM)<br>Museo Jumex<br>Museo Nacional de Antropolog&#237;a<br>Museo Rufino Tamayo<br>Museo Soumaya<br>Palacio de Bellas Artes<br>Templo  Mayor<br>UNAM's Museo Universitario del Chopo (<a href="https://www.chopo.unam.mx/01ESPECIAL/artesvisuales/nahum-b-zenil-esp.html">this excellent exhibit)</a><br>Zona Arqueol&#243;gica Tlatelolco<br><br><strong>Misc Fun and Interesting Places</strong><br>Bas&#237;lica Santa Mar&#237;a de Guadalupe<br>Biblioteca Vasconcelos<br>El Chopo<br>Hospital de Jesus<br>Lagunilla flea market<br>La Perla's excellent, most fun drag show<br>Lucha Libre (Arena Mexico)<br>Plaza de las Tres Culturas<br>Torre Latinoamericano<br>Xochimilco<br><br><strong>Murals</strong><br>Hospital de Jesus chapel (Orozco)<br>Antiguo Colegio de San Ildefonso (Orozco, et al)<br>Palacio Nacional (Rivera)<br>Bellas Artes (Orozco, Rivera, Tamayo, Siqueiros, et al)<br>Carcamo de Dolores (Rivera) <br> Secretar&#237;a de Educaci&#243;n P&#250;blica (Rivera, et al)<br><br><strong>Food and Drink</strong><br>Various pulquerias<br>Various Casa de To&#241;o locations<br>El Cardenal<br>Various Salon Corona locations<br>Bar la Opera<br>Churrer&#237;a El Moro<br><br><strong>Transit</strong><br>I hope to eventually use all of the city's several amazing systems.<br>Metro (primarily lines 1, 2, 3, 8, and 9)<br>MetroBus (primarily lines 1, 3, and 4)<br>CableBus (just line 3, but I'll definitely ride the others)<br><br><strong>Neighborhoods</strong><br>This is just a list of areas where I've walked around quite a bit or spent time, not comprehensive though.<br>Colonia Buenavista<br>Condesa<br>Doctores<br>El Centro<br>Guerrero<br>Roma Norte<br>Romo Sur<br>Santa Mar&#237;a la Ribera<br>Tepito<br>Tlatelolco]]></description>
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			<pubDate>Mon, 08 Jun 2026 20:14:11 GMT</pubDate>
			<dc:creator>kensington314</dc:creator>
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			<title>MeFi: AI denial is now a problem of the Left</title>
			<description><![CDATA[<a href="https://substack.com/home/post/p-199510456">Rutger Bregman, the progressive historian who once scolded Davos billionaires for their greed, argues that the Left is now doing to AI what the Right once did to climate science.</a>  His Substack post calls it "denial" and argues that the stakes may be even higher.<br/><br/>In a new essay (also available as a video), Rutger Bregman accuses his own side of a kind of denial he once thought belonged only to the Right. Coming from someone with genuine progressive credentials rather than an industry booster, the critique is harder to wave away. He walks through the familiar skeptic talking points, the stochastic parrots, the "spicy autocomplete," the it's-all-a-bubble argument, and contends that each has been overtaken by events. "This is the left's version of climate denial," he writes. Rather than calling to shut it down, which he thinks just hands the field to autocracies, he argues progressives should build state capacity, push international coordination, and fight over who captures the resulting wealth.<br /><br />[Disclaimer: I wrote a draft of this post and used Claude.ai to edit it.  The thoughts expressed are my own.]]]></description>
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			<pubDate>Fri, 12 Jun 2026 18:23:10 GMT</pubDate>
			<dc:creator>alex1965</dc:creator>
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			<title>MeFi: &quot;A Bedlam of vision produced by raw pork and opium&quot;</title>
			<description><![CDATA[Andrew McInnes (<em>Dilettante Army</em>, Fall 2025), "<a href="https://dilettantearmy.com/articles/john-keats-getting-it-on-a-grecian-urn">John Keats Getting It On A Grecian Urn</a>": "This year, one of my students quoted Camille Guthrie ...: '<a href="https://www.poetryfoundation.org/articles/145240/john-keats-ode-on-a-grecian-urn">Is the urn's slenderness and round opening attractive?</a>' Guthrie's rhetorical question stopped me in my tracks ...: 'Does Keats want to fuck <a href="https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/44477/ode-on-a-grecian-urn">the urn</a>?' ... This is, of course, <a href="https://petercochran.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/09/byron-and-murray-1820-18241.pdf">exactly how Byron reads Keats</a>: 'he is always f&#8211;gg&#8212;g [frigging] his imagination.'" Also at <em>Dilettante Army</em> a few years ago, Kelly Pendergrast's essay on Khlo&#0233; Kardashian's pantry, "<a href="https://dilettantearmy.com/articles/merchandizing-the-void">Merchandizing the Void</a>"--one of many answers to a <a href="https://bsky.app/profile/annakornbluh.bsky.social/post/3mo3wf4n3ws2i">recent Bluesky thread</a> about work in literary / cultural studies that illustrates those fields today, e.g. Stefan Ekman's award-winning open access book on <em><a href="https://www.fulcrum.org/concern/monographs/k0698b147">Urban Fantasy</a></em> or Zach Whalen on "<a href="https://dhq.digitalhumanities.org/vol/17/2/000707/000707.html">Lillian-Yvonne Bertram's Travesty Generator</a>" or Juliana Spahr and Stephanie Young's "<a href="https://asapjournal.com/feature/on-poets-and-prizes-juliana-spahr-and-stephanie-young/">On Poets and Prizes</a>."<br/><br/>More recent literary / cultural studies work free online (some with login): <br /><blockquote>
Kandice Chuh, "<a href="https://www.jstor.org/stable/26794724">Pedagogies of Dissent</a>." Brian Glavey, "<a href="https://www.jstor.org/stable/27037512">Having a Coke with You Is Even More Fun Than Ideology Critique</a>." Kieran Healy, "<a href="https://kieranhealy.org/files/papers/fuck-nuance.pdf">Fuck Nuance</a>" (<a href="https://www.metafilter.com/152602/Seriously-fuck-it-explains-the-papers-abstract">previously</a>). Steven J. Jackson, "<a href="https://raley.english.ucsb.edu/wp-content/Engl800/Jackson-rethinking-repair.pdf">Rethinking Repair</a>." David Kurnick, "<a href="https://english.sas.rutgers.edu/images/documents/faculty/Kurnick.A_Few_Lies.pdf">A Few Lies: Queer Theory and Our Method Melodramas</a>." Christina Lupton, "<a href="https://www.jstor.org/stable/24477774">Contingency, Codex, The Eighteenth-Century Novel</a>." Shannon Mattern, "<a href="https://cimsmethods.wordsinspace.net/2024/portfolio/november-20-bespoke-methods-syllabi/">Bespoke Methods Syllabus</a>." Mabel Mora&#0241;a, "<a href="https://www.academia.edu/10059694/_Baroque_Neobaroque_Ultrabaroque_Disruptive_Readings_of_Modernity_">Baroque/Neobaroque/Ultrabaroque: Disruptive Readings of Modernity</a>." J.D. Porter, "<a href="https://litlab.stanford.edu/pop-pres-ny/">Popularity/Prestige: A New Canon</a>." Ted Underwood, "<a href="https://tedunderwood.com/2023/03/19/using-gpt-4-to-measure-the-passage-of-time-in-fiction/">Using GPT-4 to measure the passage of time in fiction</a>." Ted Underwood, David Bamman, and Sabrina Lee, "<a href="https://culturalanalytics.org/article/id/1185/">The Transformation of Gender in English-Language Fiction</a>."<br /></blockquote>
More articles (abstracts / first page only):<br /><blockquote>
S. Pearl Brilmyer, "<a href="https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/abs/10.1086/730351">Queer Rigidity: Habit and the Limits of the Performativity Thesis</a>." Sarah Brouillette, "<a href="https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/abs/after-marx/rise-and-fall-of-the-englishlanguage-literary-novel-since-world-war-ii/F708DF9BE8254D4C8D5BD25E4D7E5312">The Rise and Fall of the English-Language Literary Novel since World War II</a>." Urvashi Chakravarty and Ayanna Thompson, "<a href="https://muse.jhu.edu/article/846836/summary">Race and Periodization</a>." Ronjaunee Chatterjee, Alicia Mireles Christoff, and Amy R. Wong, "<a href="https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2979/victorianstudies.62.issue-3">Introduction: Undisciplining Victorian Studies</a>." Ben Glaser, "<a href="https://muse.jhu.edu/article/922185">White Things: Form, Formalization, and the Use of Prosody</a>." Tayana L. Hardin, "<a href="https://muse.jhu.edu/pub/4/article/704556/pdf">The I Who Arrives: A Meditation on History as Inheritance</a>." Martin Harries, "<a href="https://muse.jhu.edu/pub/50/article/649931">Still: Sarah Kane after Beckett and Joy Division</a>." Kathryn A. Mariner, "<a href="https://read.dukeupress.edu/public-culture/article-abstract/32/1/5/147865/American-Elegy-A-Triptych">American Elegy: A Triptych</a>." Christine Okoth, "<a href="https://muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/article/849257/pdf">Peripheral Labor</a>." Keston Sutherland, "<a href="https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/0950236X.2010.499663">Wrong Poetry</a>." Patricia Yaeger, "<a href="https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/pmla/article/editors-column-literature-in-the-ages-of-wood-tallow-coal-whale-oil-gasoline-atomic-power-and-other-energy-sources/375CF31DE1FD3F640365C9B6B7963315">Literature in the Ages of Wood, Tallow, Coal, Whale Oil, Gasoline, Atomic Power, and Other Energy Sources</a>."<br /></blockquote>
More books (abstracts, tables of contents, etc.):<br /><blockquote>Emily Apter, <em><a href="https://www.versobooks.com/products/2306-against-world-literature">Against World Literature: On the Politics of Untranslatability</a></em>. S. Pearl Brilmyer, <em><a href="https://www.ici-berlin.org/publications/the-science-of-character/">The Science of Character: Human Objecthood and the Ends of Victorian Realism</a></em>. Eugenie Brinkema, <em><a href="https://www.dukeupress.edu/life-destroying-diagrams">Life-Destroying Diagrams</a></em>. Nicholas Brown, <em><a href="https://www.dukeupress.edu/autonomy">Autonomy: The Social Ontology of Art under Capitalism</a></em>. Rachel Sagner Buurma and Laura Heffernan, <em><a href="https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/T/bo63097992.html">The Teaching Archive: A New History for Literary Study</a></em>. Pheng Cheah, <em><a href="https://www.dukeupress.edu/what-is-a-world">What Is a World? On Postcolonial Literature as World Literature</a></em>. Eva Cherniavsky, <em><a href="https://nyupress.org/9781479893577/neocitizenship/">Neocitizenship: Political Culture after Democracy</a></em>. Kandice Chuh, <em><a href="https://www.dukeupress.edu/the-difference-aesthetics-makes">The Difference Aesthetics Makes: On the Humanities "After Man"</a></em>. Shane Denson, <em><a href="https://www.dukeupress.edu/discorrelated-images">Discorrelated Images</a></em>. Sarah Dowling, <em><a href="https://nupress.northwestern.edu/9780810147904/here-is-a-figure/">Here Is a Figure: Grounding Literary Form</a></em>. Brigitte Fielder, <em><a href="https://www.dukeupress.edu/relative-races">Relative Races: Genealogies of Interracial Kinship in Nineteenth-Century America</a></em>. Elaine Freedgood, <em><a href="https://press.princeton.edu/books/hardcover/9780691193304/worlds-enough">Worlds Enough: The Invention of Realism in the Victorian Novel</a></em>. Alexandra Gillespie and Deidre Lynch (eds.), <em><a href="https://global.oup.com/academic/product/the-unfinished-book-9780198830801?cc=us&lang=en">The Unfinished Book</a></em>. Emma Heaney (ed.), <em><a href="https://www.dukeupress.edu/feminism-against-cisness">Feminism against Cisness</a></em>. Caroline Levine, <em><a href="https://press.princeton.edu/books/paperback/9780691173436/forms">Forms: Whole, Rhythm, Hierarchy, Network</a></em>. Annie McClanahan, <em><a href="https://press.princeton.edu/books/hardcover/9781945861093/beneath-the-wage">Beneath the Wage: Tips, Tasks, and Gigs in the Age of Service Work</a></em>. Laura B. McGrath, <em><a href="https://press.princeton.edu/books/hardcover/9780691256160/middlemen">Middlemen: Literary Agents and the Making of American Fiction</a></em>. Dilip M Menon (ed.), <em><a href="https://www.routledge.com/Changing-Theory-Concepts-from-the-Global-South/Menon/p/book/9781032226477">Changing Theory: Concepts from the Global South</a></em>. Annmarie Mol, <em><a href="https://www.dukeupress.edu/eating-in-theory">Eating in Theory</a></em>. Aamir R. Mufti, <em><a href="https://www.hup.harvard.edu/books/9780674986893">Forget English!: Orientalisms and World Literatures</a></em>. Amber Jamilla Musser, <em><a href="https://nyupress.org/9781479807031/sensual-excess/">Sensual Excess: Queer Femininity and Brown Jouissance</a></em>. Paul Nadal, <em><a href="https://paulnadal.com/">Remittances, Literary and Economic</a></em>. Jennifer C. Nash, <em><a href="https://www.dukeupress.edu/how-we-write-now">How We Write Now: Living with Black Feminist Theory</a></em>. Sianne Ngai, <em><a href="https://www.hup.harvard.edu/books/9780674278745">Theory of the Gimmick: Aesthetic Judgment and Capitalist Form</a></em>. Joseph North, <em><a href="https://www.hup.harvard.edu/books/9780674967731">Literary Criticism: A Concise Political History</a></em>. Tina Post, <em><a href="https://nyupress.org/9781479811205/deadpan/">Deadpan: The Aesthetics of Black Inexpression</a></em>. Pooja Rangan, <em><a href="https://cup.columbia.edu/book/the-documentary-audit/9780231217989/">The Documentary Audit: Listening and the Limits of Accountability</a></em>. Roopika Risam, <em><a href="https://nupress.northwestern.edu/9780810138858/new-digital-worlds/">New Digital Worlds: Postcolonial Digital Humanities in Theory, Praxis, and Pedagogy</a></em>. Christina Sharpe, <em><a href="https://www.dukeupress.edu/in-the-wake">In the Wake: On Blackness and Being</a></em>. Dan Sinykin and Johanna Winant, <em><a href="https://press.princeton.edu/books/paperback/9780691265704/close-reading-for-the-twenty-first-century">Close Reading for the Twenty-First Century</a></em>.<br /></blockquote>]]></description>
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			<pubDate>Sat, 13 Jun 2026 06:17:44 GMT</pubDate>
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			<title>MeFi: World&apos;s biggest whale graveyard found in Indian Ocean off Australia</title>
			<description><![CDATA[World's biggest whale graveyard found in Indian Ocean off Australia.<br /><br />Hundreds of whale fossils, including those from extinct species new to science, range in age from recent to 5 million years old and are also home to undescribed deep-sea creatures.<br /><br /><a href="https://www.abc.net.au/news/science/2026-06-11/world-s-biggest-whale-graveyard-found-in-the-indian-ocean/106778126">Five whales actively decomposing and 476 cetacean fossils, including a new extinct species dating back 5 million years, were documented.</a>]]></description>
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			<pubDate>Thu, 11 Jun 2026 00:40:28 GMT</pubDate>
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			<title>MeFi: Triple webcomic bonus</title>
			<description><![CDATA[<a href="https://sarahcandersen.com/">Sarah Anderson of Sarah's Scribbles</a> fame has TWO completed webcomics for you to read. <a href="https://tapas.io/series/fangscomic/info">Fangs</a> is a light comedy about a vampire dating a werewolf. <a href="https://tapas.io/series/club_cryptid/info">Cryptid club</a> is a little sillier and about exactly what it sounds like. Neither is overlong.]]></description>
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			<pubDate>Thu, 11 Jun 2026 14:53:18 GMT</pubDate>
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			<title>MeFi: Andrew Tate&apos;s empire of abuse</title>
			<description><![CDATA[<em>"I've done this with over 100 girls," Tate said, about compelling women into sex work. "I almost sound evil. But I'm not."</em> <a href="https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2026/06/15/andrew-tates-empire-of-abuse">A long read in the New Yorker by Heidi Blake</a>. Content warning for all the things: rape, minors, violence.<br/><br/>I am unable to find a free version of the New Yorker article. Please post one if you can. Highlights of the profile of the Tate brothers include:<br /><br /><em>... Tate's representatives claimed that he hadn't really meant what he'd said online about sexually exploiting women&#8212;he had simply been playing a character "for entertainment." At the same time, they devised a campaign to attack his accusers with scores of legal filings, while Tate's affiliate network harassed and smeared them online. Even one of his team members described it as "textbook victim intimidation."</em><br /><br /><em>... In early 2014, he sat down to make a list of everything he owned. It was a dispiriting exercise. He and his brother shared a run-down apartment with barely any furniture. He owed money on his car. But then he had what he considered a flash of entrepreneurial genius. "I had about five girlfriends, all smoking hot&#8212;and females are an asset," he recalled, in a video. "Pussy is the only reason that empires were started and wars were waged. . . . I had to find a way to monetize the assets."</em><br /><br /><em>... Tate has claimed that, in the first month with Hruskova on camera, he made more than a hundred thousand dollars; the brothers bought an Aston Martin. That April, Andrew won the kickboxing world championship for a fourth time. But he soon stepped back from the sport to focus on expanding his webcam business, telling a kickboxing magazine that he was now a "pimp superstar."</em><br /><br />Look to <a href="https://www.adl.org/resources/article/andrew-tate-five-things-know">the Anti-Defamation League</a> for a much briefer profile on Andrew Tate, whom is described as someone who "both personifies and is a symptom of a broader crisis of online misogyny and gendered violence."<br /><br />In 2023, McGill University Masters student Will James suggested ways to approach the issue with <a href="https://www.mcgill.ca/definetheline/article/andrew-tate-case-study-effects-online-influencers-students-education">Andrew Tate: A Case Study on the Effects of Online Influencers on Students' Education</a>.<br /><br />In Australia's The Nightly, Eloise Budimlich writes about <a href="https://thenightly.com.au/culture/andrew-tate-joe-rogan-other-incels-how-social-media-influencers-rein-men-in-with-cult-leader-tactics-c-21043648">Andrew Tate, Joe Rogan &amp; other incels: How social media influencers rein men in with cult leader tactics</a>. Some of their tactics may be more sophisticated than we would like to think. Moreover:<br /><br /><em>These modern cult leaders don't need to choose their targets. The algorithm will serve their videos to the people who are most likely to engage with them.</em><br /><br /><a href="https://broadview.org/how-to-stop-misogyny/">Men can help fight misogyny simply by speaking up</a>, as Mike Sholars explained in Broadview in 2019.]]></description>
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			<pubDate>Tue, 09 Jun 2026 14:37:20 GMT</pubDate>
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			<title>MeFi: Created in his own image</title>
			<description><![CDATA[<a href="https://ohumanstar.com/">Oh Human Star</a> is a complete webcomic by <a href="https://www.bluedelliquanti.com/">Blue Delliquanti</a>. The inventor of the robot revolution wakes up 16 years after his death in robot body to learn about the world he created, the people he left behind and who he could have been. An emotional and award-winning science-fiction story about robots, love and gender. Blue's other, commercial, comics work is <a href="https://www.bluedelliquanti.com/comics">extensive</a>. Last discussed here <a href="https://www.metafilter.com/189502/Nothing-Is-Stranger-To-Man-Than-His-Own-Image">5 years ago</a> - but I couldn't bear to leave this wonderful story out of this series of posts.]]></description>
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			<pubDate>Mon, 08 Jun 2026 12:05:24 GMT</pubDate>
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			<title>MeFi: Strait of Hormuz - the global impact.</title>
			<description><![CDATA[<a href="https://www.kielinstitut.de/fileadmin/Dateiverwaltung/IfW-Publications/fis-import/01b7c020-27e6-4096-8cc5-e037738d2058-KPB_206.pdf">The Cost of Closing the Strait of Hormuz.</a> "Most critically for food security, the chemicals flowing through Hormuz are essential inputs to<br />global food production&#8212;a vulnerability that standard analyses of chokepoint risk consistently<br />overlook. Qatar and Iran are among the world's largest exporters of urea, the most widely used<br />nitrogen fertilizer. The Gulf's cheap natural gas feeds the Haber-Bosch process that converts<br />methane into ammonia and then into the granular fertilizer that sustains crop yields for billions<br />of people."<br/><br/>Also: <em><a href="https://bisi.org.uk/reports/helium-supply-shock-and-semiconductor-volatility-in-the-context-of-the-iran-war">Helium Supply Shock and Semiconductor Volatility in the Context of the Iran War.</a></em>]]></description>
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			<pubDate>Tue, 09 Jun 2026 17:40:11 GMT</pubDate>
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			<title>MeFi: If these trends continue&amp;amp;hellip;</title>
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			<title>MeFi: A Bigger Splash</title>
			<description><![CDATA[<a href="https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/ck77rg88gd9o">David Hockney, who has died aged 88, was Britain's favourite artist.</a> A genius in practically every medium, he worked with paint, photographs and iPads. He did etchings, lithographs, even stained glass windows - equally at home working with the grandeur of opera design and the intimacy of pen and ink.]]></description>
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