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https://www.metafilter.com/210165/Dont-stick-to-the-rivers-and-the-lakes-that-youre-used-to

Thousands of climbing catfish filmed scaling waterfalls — bumblebee catfish (Rhyacoglanis paranensis), though very small, climb a waterfall situated in the Aquidauana River, Mato Grosso do Sul State, Brazil.

paper (with more possible fishvids): Marinho, M. M. F., de Paula, E. A., Severo-Neto, F., Santos, Y. S., & Gimênes-Junior, H. (2025). Bumblebee on the rocks: Massive aggregation, migratory and climbing behaviour of a small Neotropical catfish. Journal of Fish Biology, 1–4. https://doi.org/10.1111/jfb.70158 (via)

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An investigation has found probable cause that Buford Pusser, legendary lawman and subject of the Walking Tall movies, killed his wife.

Walking Tall was an influential "one lawman takes vengeance against punks" film of the Death Wish, Dirty Harry genre of the 1970s. In the film, outlaws killed his wife. Tennessee has a Buford Pusser Museum and festival.

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The second breach was far more dangerous not only because the direct messages between Tea users that were exposed included conversations they thought were private about sensitive subjects that could become dangerous in the wrong hands, but also because those conversations included details that could be used to deanonymize users. Direct messages between users often included their real phone numbers, names, and social media handles. from How Tea's Founder Convinced Millions of Women to Spill Their Secrets, Then Exposed Them to the World [404 Media; ungated]

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Next Friday, September 5, marks the U.S. debut of the 16th season of The Great British Bake Off a/k/a The Great British Baking Show, televised via Netflix. Ruby Tandoh, in The New Yorker, tells the story of the show past and present and of her own participation in it back in 2012. Will it be stodgy or airy?

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A well meaning math teacher finds herself trumped by a post-fact America. A satirical short film that demonstrates the tragedy of confusing facts with opinions.

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https://www.metafilter.com/210160/AI-will-never-ever-replace-Margot-Fonteyn

From QRIO to Optimus, humanoid robots are literally dancing their way into the cultural spotlight. And these aren't just novelty robots anymore modern humanoids are highly advanced platforms with hundreds of millions of dollars invested in R&D. They have fluidity, balance, and precision that sometimes makes us look clumsy.

(Dame Margot)

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https://www.metafilter.com/210159/For-that-you-get-the-head-the-tail-the-whole-damn-thing-Jaws-at-50

Jaws returns to theaters for its 50th anniversary including IMAX and other large screens. Released on June 20, 1975, "Jaws" went on to be come the first movie to make more than $100 million in U.S. box office receipts. It inspired a comedic stage play, The Shark is Broken, after the fact that the prop shark "Bruce" had several mechanical problems during filming. Jaws is based on a novel by Peter Benchley, who had a cameo role as the TV news reporter in the movie. You can also watch a 30-second version reenacted by bunnies. Previously on fanfare.

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https://www.metafilter.com/210158/Groundbreaking-algae-and-sunlight-tech-making-sewage-treatment-sexy

Groundbreaking algae and sunlight tech making sewage treatment sexy. Technology using macroalgae and the sun's rays to purify wastewater saves a council in Queensland's north millions, while providing fertiliser for farmers and reducing nitrogen runoff to the Great Barrier Reef.

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Novara Media contributor Kieran Andrieu reports from the Global Sumud Flotilla, billed as the largest coordinated civilian flotilla in history. Here's his interview with Greta Thunberg.

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https://www.metafilter.com/210156/Theres-still-no-shaking-the-philosopher

The fourth boom has been shut out of power, and wildly underfunded compared to the money one can make studying Friedrich Hayek at the Mises Institute. Contemporary American socialism is treated as unserious by centrist figureheads, and on the right, the fights for universal healthcare and free college are accused of being secret nihilist movements toward enforced unfreedom. This socialist contingent is explicitly ignored (and resented) by Democrats, but as Hartman notes, "reducing millennial socialism to a generational tantrum ignores the fact that many young Americans have been pushed leftward by deeply entrenched historical pressures." from Marx: The Fourth Boom [LARB; ungated]

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The diffuse

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https://www.metafilter.com/210155/Hurricane-Katrina-Twenty-Years-Later

Hurricane Katrina made landfall in Southeast Louisiana 20 years ago today. The scale of devastation is almost hard to remember (80% of the city underwater and more than 1300 people died). It's even harder to figure out what links to share to capture the full story of the impact and aftermath.

Perhaps listening to Floodlines. Or revisiting the story of Rooty the Pig. Stories of loss and resilience. 65% of the population of the lower ninth ward hasn't returned and less than 40% of the homes have been rebuilt. And other places are still empty twenty years later. Residents honored the victims with a Second Line March. People are still displaced and that carries a mix of emotions. Climate change is putting new safeguards at risk as sea levels rise. Changes to FEMA that happened in the aftermath that were meant to make the agency function better (like having a director who is an expert on emergency management) and helping communities be better prepared are being rolled back by the current admin. These links barely scratch the surface, so I invite others to share.

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Book recommendation of the week: Flying Solo, by Linda Holmes. After returning home to clean out her great-aunt’s house, a woman who recently called off her wedding finds a mysterious love letter and an even more mysterious wooden duck. (Amazon, Bookshop)

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https://www.metafilter.com/210154/Beneath-The-Eggs-There-Lies-an-Artist

In the small city of Figueres, Spain, a visitor may discover to their delight a building covered in giant eggs and a giant glass sphere. This is the Dalí Theatre and Museum, the resting place of Salvador Dalí, and a gallery of his work, that is itself, Dalí's own creation.

Enjoy a silent walk through of the museum or a travel video visit by Travels with my Friend.

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Posted by ichimunki

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Oreo and Reeses finally have an official collab. A marriage of chocolate cookie crumbs with peanut butter delight melded in one. Fans have begged and pleaded and made their own in the past. But this collaboration took serious planning, research, legal documents and partnership. Added to the challenge is that no one shared recipes. "Project Snoopy" for Oreo and "Project Powerplay" for Hershey recently delivered results. Verdict? So far, the first reviews have been positive. Archive link available here.

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Posted by chavenet

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They're overwhelmingly white and tend to have a certain kind of look. Close cropped haircuts. Windowpane suits. Golf shorts. They're not the type to be telling anyone their pronouns or using the word "queer." And they aren't the least bit offended that the leader of their party continues to stoke a moral panic about transgender people.
They're gay. But they're still Republicans. from Donald Trump's Big Gay Government [The New York Times; ungated]

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Posted by chariot pulled by cassowaries

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"I talk about it lightly, but some days it truly does feel like there's a pit in my life—a dark void of disability into which I have no choice but to hurl the things that bring me happiness. Travel, sugar, hiking, good beer, boxing, good bread, cute clothes. Reliable cognition, reliable memory. Time with family. Time with friends. Always, always, time."

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A Medieval Masterpiece: William the Conqueror's London Castle Video courtesy of Historic Royal Palaces

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CBD or THC oil for pain relief — honest feedback from fibromyalgia users Came across this the other day it's a surprisingly in-depth Reddit thread where people with fibromyalgia and chronic pain share their real-world experiences using CBD oil, THC oil, full-spectrum products, and even Rick Simpson Oil. What's refreshing is how nuanced and unfiltered the replies are: some found relief, some didn't, and others talk about dosing, brands that didn't work, and even how THC impacted their results.

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The primitive tortureboard - Untangling the myths and mysteries of Dvorak and QWERTY.

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Walking Gaza's borders for MAP On 6th September, Jack Harlow, veteran house DJ and lifelong member of Nottingham's anarchist DiY collective will begin walking the borders of Gaza as an act of remembrance, creativity and protest. The walk will take several days and will raise funds for MAP (Medical Aid for Palestinians)

The actual border of Gaza is, of course, currently unwalkable as the IDF continues to control all access in and out. So for this walk, he has overlaid the borders of Gaza onto London using the TrueSizeOf website. Overlaying the southern border of Gaza on his home created a route defined by the outline of Gaza. The route will take him through places of significance including Epping, where right-wing protestors are currently attacking hotels housing refugees seeking asylum, Stansted, a hub for migration, Stratford and Hackney, both places with a long history of communities that have been enriched by people from many different parts of the world. The walk is a way for Jack to reflect upon and bear tribute to the lives of those caught up in the multiple, interlocking conflicts and crises happening across the world and to raise awareness and funds to help.

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Canadian Prepper News * Econ Lessons * Garys Economics * Melanie Hamlett * Whitney Webb * Uneducated Economist

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Art critics regularly bring to a painting history, culture, schools of painting, and so on. But what's often left out is how the act of viewing shapes mental structures in the brain — how certain arrangements of forms can trigger deep perceptual satisfaction. from The Pleasure of Patterns in Art by Samuel Jay Keyser [The MIT Press Reader]

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The Engineering Marvel That China Hopes Will Help Wean It Off Foreign Energy - "A $167 billion power project promotes Chinese self-sufficiency while unsettling neighbors downstream."

China has begun the construction of a giant hydropower project at the earthquake-prone edge of the Tibetan plateau, a spectacular engineering feat that is central to Beijing's enduring mission to become self-sufficient in critical areas such as energy. The $167 billion facility will require digging tunnels that plunge through high mountains to harness the power of a river that sharply descends through the deepest and possibly longest canyon on the planet. If its planners succeed—after shrugging off objections from neighbors—the project could generate triple the output of the world's largest hydroelectric facility, China's Three Gorges Dam, which is big enough to power around 40 million Chinese homes... The plan, slated to be the world's most expensive infrastructure project, will also plow money into a struggling Chinese economy and bring jobs and business to a remote and sensitive corner of China where Beijing is trying to engineer the loyalty of the Tibetan population. A planned $7 billion high-voltage transmission network will deliver electricity from the site in Tibet to Guangdong province, the economic center on China's southeast coast, and the cities of Hong Kong and Macau. But the project on the Yarlung Tsangpo River has stirred accusations that it will give Beijing the power to strangle resources beyond its borders, where the river flows into northeastern India and then south through Bangladesh.

Exclusive: China's new mega dam triggers fears of water war in India - "India fears a planned Chinese mega-dam in Tibet will reduce water flows on a major river by up to 85% during the dry season, according to four sources familiar with the matter and a government analysis seen by Reuters, prompting Delhi to fast-track plans for its own dam to mitigate the effects."

The Indian government has been considering projects since the early 2000s to control the flow of water from Tibet's Angsi Glacier, which sustains more than 100 million people downstream in China, India and Bangladesh. But the plans have been hindered by fierce and occasionally violent resistance from residents of the border state of Arunachal Pradesh, who fear their villages will be submerged and way of life destroyed by any dam. Then in December, China announced that it would build the world's largest hydropower dam in a border county just before the Yarlung Zangbo river crosses into India. That triggered fears in New Delhi that its longtime strategic rival - which has some territorial claims in Arunachal Pradesh - could weaponize its control of the river, which originates in the Angsi Glacier and is known as the Siang and Brahmaputra in India.

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Explainer: Why China's neighbours are worried about its new mega-dam project - "The plan involves five dams along a 50‑km stretch where the river plunges 2,000  metres off the Tibetan Plateau. First power is expected to be generated in the early‑to‑mid 2030s, but beyond that and the price tag, China has published little information about how it intends to build the project. That lack of information is compounding fears about water security in India and Bangladesh, which rely on the Brahmaputra for irrigation, hydropower and drinking water."
Beijing grabs old dam playbook to energise growth - "While more hydropower will eventually help reduce China's greenhouse gas pollution, building it will add to them. It'll require around 30 million tons of cement, per Morgan Stanley, equivalent to two years of China's current production. It'll need plenty of steel, too. Those two industries combined account for almost a fifth of global carbon emissions."
Xi Ties His Legacy and China's Economy to $167 Billion Dam - "Sixty times the cement of the Hoover Dam, more steel than 116 Empire State Buildings and enough concrete to build a two-lane highway around the Earth five times — that's what will go into China's new $167 billion hydropower project in Tibet."

Engineers plan to drill tunnels from the top of the bend to the bottom, channeling water through turbines before sending it back into its natural course. It's a system designed to minimize upstream and downstream disruption. But in practice, it would drain one of the river's most ecologically rich stretches, and bring heavy construction to a seismically volatile region. The 8.6 magnitude Assam-Tibet earthquake, one of the strongest ever recorded on land, happened in 1950 just 153 miles away from Nyingchi...

The flipside is that the construction could unleash a cascade of environmental consequences. The Tibetan Plateau is often called the "Third Pole" because it holds more ice and snow than anywhere on Earth outside the Arctic and Antarctic. This frozen reservoir plays a powerful role in shaping jet streams and stabilizing South Asia's climate. The surrounding basin is one of the richest biodiversity zones on the planet, home to more than 150 native species of fish — some teetering on the edge of extinction — as well as elusive snow leopards and red pandas.

Why China's $167 Billion Mega-Dam Project in Tibet Is So Controversial - "Five 'cascade' dams will be built around the city of Nyingchi in the southeast of the autonomous region of Tibet. The structures will retain waters of the Yarlung Tsangpo, one of several major rivers that are sustained by Tibet's vast glaciers and provide drinking water, irrigation and hydro power for more than 1.3 billion people in ten countries... Chinese environmentalists have warned of irreversible damage to the Yarlung Tsangpo gorge, where the river drops 2,000 meters over a 50-kilometer (31-mile) stretch in an area that hosts a national nature reserve and is one of China's most biodiverse regions." (previously)

also btw... Secret Xi Letter Revived India Ties After Trump Tariff Barrage - "The economic logic of improved ties is incontrovertible. China's slowing economy is mired in deflation, with overcapacity in industries like electric vehicles and solar panels only making matters worse. India, with its 1.4 billion youth-skewed population, could be a potential new market as China faces rising protectionism in the US, Europe and elsewhere. Indian officials, meantime, are increasingly realizing they need Chinese investment in factories if they're ever to meet Modi's fledgling ambition to boost manufacturing toward 25% of GDP. If steep American levies remain, Bloomberg Economics calculates some 60% of India's exports to the US would vanish, shaving almost 1% off GDP in the medium term."

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