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What radio.garden did for radio, tv.garden is doing for... yes, tv. That is: Freely stream live tv stations from around the world!
posted by gwint to MetaFilter on Mar 28 at 4:58 PM
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One page to a booklet, no tools needed, maybe everybody already knows this. More ways of folding up paper to make a booklet, a zine, a letter, a trinket, something that's all of these:
posted by clew to MetaFilter on Mar 28 at 11:57 AM
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Why Dads Take Their Gay Sons to Hooters (NYTimes gift link, archive). Consider the delicious irony that a chain restaurant famed for its cleavage and chicken wings somehow became a secret sanctuary for young gay men.
posted by ShooBoo to MetaFilter on Mar 24 at 6:04 PM
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AI: The New Aesthetics of Fascism The right loves AI-generated imagery. In a short time, a full half of the political spectrum has collectively fallen for the glossy, disturbing visuals created by generative AI. Despite its proponents having little love, or talent, for any form of artistic expression, right wing visual culture once ranged from memorable election-year posters to ‘terrorwave’. Today it is slop, almost totally. Why? To understand it, we must consider the right’s hatred of working people, its (more than) mutual embrace of the tech industry and, primarily, its profound rejection of Enlightenment humanism. The last might seem like a stretch, but bear with me...
posted by CitoyenK to MetaFilter on Mar 27 at 6:35 PM
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"Sunday at the Village Vanguard is a live album by jazz pianist and composer Bill Evans and his Trio consisting of Evans, bassist Scott LaFaro, and drummer Paul Motian. Released in 1961, the album is routinely ranked as one of the best live jazz recordings of all time." *
posted by Lemkin to MetaFilter on Mar 27 at 7:24 PM
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Social movements constrained Trump in his first term – more than people realize
posted by latkes to MetaFilter on Mar 28 at 8:59 AM
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Rumeysa Ozturk, a Tufts University PhD student and Fulbright Scholar, was taken by ICE agents Tuesday and transferred out of state to an ICE Processing Center in the town of Basile, LA. Thousands turned out last night to protest her abduction.
posted by criticalyeast to MetaFilter on Mar 27 at 9:30 AM
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You Can't Post Your Way Out of Fascism
posted by Kitteh to MetaFilter on Mar 31 at 6:45 AM
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Jitsuvax gives the 11 main psychological reasons (so-called attitude roots) why people believe in misinformation about vaccination. It guides you on what to say when confronted with misconceptions. You will find examples of responses to over 60 misinformation themes. Back to the Vax is a website started by two former anti-vax moms. Their free information booklet.
posted by storybored to MetaFilter on Mar 27 at 4:19 PM
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The Guardian: “Jamie has fallen under the spell of misogynistic influencers and suffered cyber-bullying for being an “incel”. His parents admit that he would shut himself in his bedroom and be on his computer long into the night. They assumed he was safe but he was secretly being radicalised. His story highlights the corrosive impact of social media on impressionable minds and has resonated profoundly with audiences. Parents of teenagers have been watching rapt, heartbroken and horrified in equal measure – with the show clocking up an astonishing 24.3m views in its first four days of release, four times more than the number two show. It tops the Netflix ratings in 71 countries, ranging from Chile to Vietnam.” [Also on FanFare]
posted by Wordshore to MetaFilter on Mar 25 at 6:52 AM
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Survey shows trans adults fear losing health care, concerned about being too open about their gender-identity. Which, considering current federal policies, is probably a rational fear.
posted by mephron to MetaFilter on Mar 27 at 3:04 PM
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Alone and against the odds, one dachshund survives 16 months in the wild. Valerie, a miniature dachshund weighing in under 4kg slipped the leash to go rogue on Kangaroo Island. Now she survives as a force of nature, a maverick, possibly an eater of other animal's poo.
posted by biffa to MetaFilter on Mar 26 at 2:24 PM
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Fragments of a rare Merlin manuscript from c. 1300 have been discovered and digitised in a ground-breaking three-year project at Cambridge University Library. A fragile 13th century manuscript fragment, hidden in plain sight as the binding of a 16th-century archival register, has been discovered in Cambridge and revealed to contain rare medieval stories of Merlin and King Arthur.
posted by fubar to MetaFilter on Mar 30 at 7:19 PM
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The Most Iconic Electronic Music Sample of Every Year (1990–2024) and The Most Iconic Hip-Hop Sample of Every Year (1973–2023) [Open Culture]
posted by chavenet to MetaFilter on Mar 26 at 1:53 AM
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The queer people who are buying guns to prepare for Trump’s America
Since Donald Trump’s reelection in November, nontraditional gun groups across the city and country have seen a flood of interest. The national Liberal Gun Club said it has received thousands of training requests since the election, more than in all of 2023. A spokesperson for the group estimated that roughly a quarter were from LGBTQ people.


Bang Bang Bang - Tracey Chapman
posted by constraint to MetaFilter on Mar 24 at 7:52 PM
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AI is transforming university teaching, but are we ready for it?
posted by Lemkin to MetaFilter on Mar 29 at 8:28 PM
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[Original post removed at poster's request. Topic was: The Guardian: The new definition of antisemitism is transforming America – and serving a Christian nationalist plan]
posted by Anonymous to MetaFilter on Mar 28 at 2:14 PM
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Because much of this book hinges on the idea that there is no urgent need to settle space, here we'll try to convince you that most of the pro-settlement arguments are wrong.
posted by mumimor to MetaFilter on Mar 27 at 5:56 AM
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The best way I can express what happens subjectively when I try to project a shape onto an empty canvas is "halos of attention." I don't see anything, in any common sense of the word—there are no contours, no filling, no colors, or connected patterns in my field of view—but I know that certain parts of the canvas are more important than others at any given time, and that can feel similar to seeing. It's as if those regions of the canvas are more "active," more alive than the others. from An Aphantasic's Observations on the Imagination of Shapes [Aether Mug]
posted by chavenet to MetaFilter on Mar 25 at 12:51 PM
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Here Are the Attack Plans That Trump’s Advisers Shared on Signal In a surreal leak, Trump officials—including Hegseth, Waltz, Gabbard, and Vance—shared real-time details of Yemen airstrikes in a Signal chat... that accidentally included The Atlantic’s editor. Now the full messages are out, revealing how casually these high-level figures discussed bombing schedules, target confirmations, and civilian death tolls—like it was just another group thread. It's a disturbing look at how recklessly power is wielded behind the scenes.
posted by beesbees to MetaFilter on Mar 26 at 1:09 PM
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The idea that there is any need to assign a correct identity to Wilde is emblematic of the whole problem, the historical moment he was living through, the mania for diagnosis, classification, control. When we take on an identity, it isn't because the identity is true, it's because we're making an accommodation between... [more]
posted by mittens to MetaFilter on Mar 29 at 3:56 PM
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I see he's even citing my op-ed in Scientific American in this interview, which seems to be pitched as a refutation. That op-ed was a drastically truncated (and lossy) extract from this talk I gave in Stuttgart in 2023: We're sorry we created the Torment Nexus. Which isn't blaming the readers, it's blaming a very specific cultural... [more]
posted by cstross to MetaFilter on Mar 31 at 7:52 AM
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We could learn an awful lot by firing rich people into space and the sooner we get that started the better [view]
posted by lescour to MetaFilter on Mar 27 at 7:06 AM
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There is real and dangerous anti-semitism in this country. Elon Musk and many powerful people are de facto Nazis who post or repost or comment on openly anti-semitic material. These are people who are currently using antisemitism discourse to mop up the left, create support for actions in the Middle East, sell weapons and mobilize anti-Arab... [more]
posted by Frowner to MetaFilter on Mar 29 at 8:55 AM
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Unfortunately, most everyone on Metafilter hates Anal Husk and assumes any idea he has is automatically bad. Like all rules of thumb, it is sometimes wrong (bonus points to anyone who brings up Gödel). Are you talking about Elon Musk? Are you giving him credit for the idea of colonizing Mars? While also insulting him by calling... [more]
posted by grog to MetaFilter on Mar 27 at 7:09 AM
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I assume, being Australian, this is some form of venomous dachshund? [view]
posted by mittens to MetaFilter on Mar 26 at 2:50 PM
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I recently had a meeting about a fairly complex web app I developed years ago. The client wanted some changes made, and told me they'd already coded them and needed me to 'upload' them. They introduced their 'expert', who said he was a political scientist with a "lot of big data experience". The webapp was not related to "Big... [more]
posted by signal to MetaFilter on Mar 30 at 6:00 AM
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De-skilling is a normal part of technological evolution. But there are some skills that we need to be mindful to actively protect. At the top of this list is writing. The writing process is important not only for the end product, but for how it allows the writer to uncover, evolve and refine their own thinking. As educators, it is important to be... [more]
posted by hydropsyche to MetaFilter on Mar 30 at 3:55 AM
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The thing that I'm a bit uneasy about is that a lot of the furor is taking the approach that "we need to do something because it's affecting the safety of young girls". But I'm not seeing similar calls for "we need to do something because it's affecting the mental health of young boys." I have a niece and a nephew; they are... [more]
posted by EmpressCallipygos to MetaFilter on Mar 25 at 8:04 AM
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And no, I don't need a chatbot to make my lesson plans or tests, because for me, too, the whole point is grappling with the material myself and finding the best way to teach it and assess students' learning. And the chatbot can't do those things and also it's my fucking job to do those things and that's why I went to so many years of school to get... [more]
posted by hydropsyche to MetaFilter on Mar 30 at 3:57 AM
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Building on Empress and Frowner's points... People can't worry too much about the mental health of young boys, because the toxic model is only a slight exaggeration of socially "desirable" traits of strong dominance/authority orientation and empathy strictly delimited to members of the in-group. It's a through line that runs from football... [more]
posted by Smedly, Butlerian jihadi to MetaFilter on Mar 25 at 8:23 AM
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This rwas wonderful. And reminded me of one of the funnier celeb-meeting stories of my life. Back in my sophomore year of college (so Fall 2000 or Spring 2001), I went to a taping of The Daily Show, where Jon Stewart was conducting two interviews due to scheduling reasons (so, like, one for that episode, and one for some later episode.)... [more]
posted by Navelgazer to MetaFilter on Mar 31 at 10:07 AM
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I can’t really be mad at people watching a government committing mass murder while saying “we are murdering in the name of the Jewish people, for Jews everywhere” if they have a hard time making distinctions in their arguments against that government. We’re at the point where it’s on us as Jews to separate our identity from a genocidal apartheid... [more]
posted by Jon_Evil to MetaFilter on Mar 29 at 7:45 AM
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So this is the best television I've ever seen. I watched one episode casually because it sounded interesting. Then I watched the other three episodes because I couldn't stop watching. When they finished at 2:30 am, I seriously considered just starting over and watching it straight through again. It is brilliant. Brilliantly written,... [more]
posted by DarlingBri to MetaFilter on Mar 25 at 8:36 AM
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> This program is written in python, a programming language that I do not know. And that right there bugs the living shit out of me. Partly, because I’ve spent years of my life learning to write software, learning algorithms and languages in the process. Without meaning to, you have just rendered my life’s work meaningless and Iirrelevant.... [more]
posted by JustSayNoDawg to MetaFilter on Mar 30 at 3:39 AM
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Uhhh it doesn't know anything, there's nobody there to know things. Needs to be said every time. [view]
posted by mayoarchitect to MetaFilter on Mar 28 at 5:51 AM
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We should be sending hearty robots to all corners of the solar system and beyond. We also should be learning how to have people go to some or all of these places safely. But if the rumors are true that the Science Mission Directorate at NASA is going to get a 50+% cut next year and all the money is gonna go to prestige crewed missions for... [more]
posted by tclark to MetaFilter on Mar 27 at 7:00 AM
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4 anti semites to one morally righteous protestor? from what i’ve seen there are more Jewish Voice for Peace and American Council for Judaism protestors than any other identifiable group at these protests [view]
posted by dis_integration to MetaFilter on Mar 29 at 8:04 AM
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The student doesn't state what specific anti Semitic actions or statements they are responding to so it's hard to parse this. Something I've struggled with is people saying to me that their feeling of fear (which is a real feeling!) is evidence of anti Semitism. That fear itself can be a reliable, instinctive response, it can be based on... [more]
posted by latkes to MetaFilter on Mar 29 at 7:34 AM
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People (and I include my younger self) are blinded to the hostile nature of the Martian environment because they still unconsciously subscribe to the narrative of colonialism, and with those distorting glasses on Mars looks like the new America. [view]
posted by Phanx to MetaFilter on Mar 27 at 7:00 AM
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