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"Was this book good or was I deeply 19 when I read it:" an investigative journalism series

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Reminder:

It’s the Scooby Doo 50th anniversary and they just released a sequel to one of their best animated movies ever on the last full moon of Friday the 13th until 30 years from now. What a powermove.

I also want people to remember that Scooby and the gang was designed by this man: Iwao Takamoto.

An American artist who was forcibly incarcerated into the concentration camp when he was a teenager. He was eventually hired at Disney in 1945 but his family were still interned.

Here’s an interview he did with CartoonBrew from years ago.

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The most impressive communal shitpost I’ve yet seen from a linguistics Facebook group

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wtf are these kind of posts

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Old-timey problems require old-timey solutions

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The Racial Roots Behind The Term 'Nappy'

A black man walks into my barber shop on Manhattan’s Lower East Side and removes his hat, revealing hair that is thick and tightly coiled. There’s usually a hum of hair clippers buzzing through the loud bachata music in the shop, but the moment the man walks through the heavy glass door, a silence seems to befall the place.

“Este muchacho tiene pelo malo,” one of the barbers says to the others, shaking his head. But in English, the barber doesn’t tell the man his hair is bad.

Instead, he says, “Your hair… it’s… ehm… nappy, yes?”

The translation of English words into other languages often unveils some interesting layers of meaning. The translation the barber chose for nappy was malo; the two terms were synonymously used to describe the hair texture of millions of people of African descent.

So some questions rose in my head: Where does the term nappy come from and why does it have such negative connotations? Is it possible to reclaim a word that has been used as a slur for so long?

Read the full story here

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Confused About Sunscreen Ingredients? Here's What We've Learned

When we smear on sunscreen, dermatologist Kanade Shinkai with the University of California, San Francisco says, most of us don’t think about it getting under our skin.

“I think there was an assumption that these are things that we apply to our skin — they don’t really get into our bloodstream,” Shinkai says.

But earlier this year, the Food and Drug Administration raised concerns about chemicals commonly found in sunscreen, noting that they can enter the bloodstream at levels significantly higher than the current FDA threshold for safety testing. And it’s unknown whether there are any harmful health effects. So the agency has asked sunscreen manufacturers to complete safety studies by this November.

The FDA noted that only two of the 16 active ingredients commonly used in commercial sunscreens — the mineral sunblocks, zinc oxide and titanium dioxide — are “generally recognized as safe and effective.” That’s a designation the FDA gives a substance when qualified experts consider it generally safe for its intended use.

Read the full story here 

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people understand that Spanish speakers speak different dialects of the Spanish language but don’t understand that black people speak a dialect of the English language

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I don’t think I’ve seen an answer to the question of how close or far apart the things happening today (”send her back”, detention centers etc) are to the nazis quite as good or thorough as this answer on quora

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It's been about 17 years since I graduated film school... but I guess things haven't changed at all.

Everyone complains about how annoying film students are to know but you don’t really understand the depths of film student hell until you’ve been in film classes

-The kid who tried to convince the professor that men’s rights activists were good and like feminists because he thought the class was too focused on feminism and it wasn’t fair

-The girl who was inspired by an ISIS attack to write a romantic drama about a woman who falls in love with a terrorist

-The guy who didn’t know “beat” in a script meant that you paused the length of a musical beat and would hit the table every time he saw it

-“My character is a kind, likable, smart, funny, talented jock that everyone loves. His weakness? He’s too perfect and popular.” “What’s his character arc?” “A girl who doesn’t like him learns to like him.” “But how does he grow and get better?” “Oh he doesn’t.” “What’s his flaw?” “He doesn’t have one.”

-The professor who asked us to argue one side of an argument or another for our papers but only let us use references that agreed with her opinion

-The guy reading aloud my script and didn’t understand that “he runs his hand through his hair anxiously” meant his own hair so he started anxiously running his fingers through the other guy’s hair

-“My character is based on me. He’s a nice guy who doesn’t have a lot of friends, he’s smart, girls don’t really pay attention to him and he’s never dated or had sex. … He’s not entirely based on me actually I shouldn’t have said that.”

-The professor who had us watch porn for homework then again in class while high schoolers were visiting

-The guy who was a super atheist who only wrote movies making fun of religion and took zero criticism because no one “got” his ideas

-“It’s about a society where robots have taken over all manual jobs so society is in upheaval as half the population is out of work. My main character is a super hero.” “Is he fighting against the rich people like Robin Hood?” “No he’s fighting the unemployed rioters.” “… That’s a bad idea.”

-The guy who wanted to be a voice actor so found every excuse to do his horrible voices in class with his favorites being a cartoon Asian accent and jive talk

-The time we had to be in groups and write a kids story and the group that unironically wrote about a scared bunny who learned to be brave and that playing in traffic is fun

-The film writing professor who didn’t know what the word climax meant in relation to plot points in a script and said she didn’t think films had a concept of having a story climax and it only happened in books

-“That reminds me of this time I was in the Louvre on shrooms…”

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one of the most amazing things that has been said to me in therapy is that self esteem doesn’t exist.

and that floored people and the psych went onto say that what she meant was that self esteem is a concept that actually includes a vast array of things and labelling them all as one thing is really limiting and prevents actual improvement

you could have real strong pride in the things you create and hate your body

you could hate your creations but also want to share them with people

you could not hate yourself at all but not take care of yourself, engage in reckless self endangerment

thats all bundled under ‘self esteem’ but saying ‘i need better self esteem’ doesn’t mean anything

whereas if you say ‘i need to work on ways to keeping myself safe, refusing to act on destructive urges’ or ‘i want to be in a place where i believe compliments trusted people give me’

thats concrete, thats a goal.

having it said in therapy helped a lot of people in my group stop saying ‘i have low self esteem’ and start specifying about the actual issue they have

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starting a counterpart tumblr blog to “shittycarmods” called shittypcbuilds and the first post will be this