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Ukraine today pulled off one of the most audacious attacks of the war — a coordinated attack on four Russian air fields and a naval base by a special operation called Spiderweb. This one is right up there with the sinking of the Moskva and the truck bomb attack on the Kerch Bridge.
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Jörg Hillebrand noticed that Picard's ready room had a book of annotated Shakespearean plays open to a specific page which provides proof that Patrick Stewart exists in the Star Trek universe.
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One Minute Park lets you spend sixty seconds in a park somewhere in the world. You can also upload a minute long video here.
posted by Kattullus to MetaFilter on Jun 2 at 6:31 AM
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The tech tree is an interactive visualization of technological history from 3 million years ago to today. A work in progress, it currently contains 1798 technologies and 2055 connections between them.
posted by kmt to MetaFilter on Jun 2 at 1:46 AM
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This is a fascinating 3 hour + conversation with Robinson Erhardt (who cleverly asks a few open-ended questions, and doesn’t interrupt the long, detailed answers).
posted by growabrain to MetaFilter on May 27 at 5:49 PM
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For more than two decades Hu Anyan was one of the 300 million internal migrant workers who are the lifeblood of the world’s second-biggest economy. For nearly 10 years he recorded his observations on a second-hand Huawei phone, an early Chinese-made rival to the first generation of iPhones, with a clunky Android operating system and a screen resolution about one-fifth of the quality of today’s devices.
For Hu the ''Beauty of ‘Ordinary Things’ is a Refuge From Reality.
“I Deliver Packages in Beijing” is a captivating memoir offering an unflinching look into the life of a delivery driver in China’s bustling capital.
posted by adamvasco to MetaFilter on May 31 at 10:07 AM
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mitxela - Precision Clock Mk IV
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Livestreamed presentations! Starting at 1pm ET on Wednesday and continuing for 100 hours, climate and weather scientists will spend 15 minutes each talking about their work and why it is so valuable to the American people.
posted by subdee to MetaFilter on May 28 at 6:07 PM
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Gay Native American actor Jonathan Joss, known from Parks and Rec and as the voice actor of John Redcorn on King of the Hill, was shot dead by a neighbor outside of his home in San Antonio, in what his husband has stated was the culmination of a campaign of homophobic harrassment and violence that had also involved the burning down their house and the killing of their dog. San Antonio police apparently did nothing about the numerous complaints received.
posted by Joakim Ziegler to MetaFilter on Jun 2 at 5:39 PM
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The Europeana website provides cultural heritage enthusiasts, professionals, teachers, and researchers with access to Europe's digital cultural heritage. Why? To inspire and inform fresh perspectives and open conversations about our history and culture. To share and enjoy our rich cultural heritage. To use it to create new things. We give you access to millions of items from providing institutions across Europe. Discover artworks, books, music, and videos on art, newspapers, archaeology, fashion, science, sport, and much more.
posted by chavenet to MetaFilter on May 28 at 12:29 AM
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AI Hallucination Cases Paris research fellow Damien Charlotin is compiling misuse of AI from legal decisions around the world. "This database tracks legal *decisions* in cases where generative AI produced hallucinated content – typically fake citations, but also other types of arguments. It does not track the (necessarily wider) universe of all fake citations or use of AI in court filings." Click the arrows under "Details" at the far right to get juicy details about each case.
posted by mediareport to MetaFilter on May 31 at 8:11 PM
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Django Reinhardt, Stéphane Grappelli and the Quintette du Hot Club de France -- Jazz Hot (1938)

Stéphane Grappelli --Live In San Francisco (1982)

Rob Wasserman, Stéphane Grappelli -- Somewhere Over the Rainbow (1988)
posted by y2karl to MetaFilter on May 30 at 6:29 PM
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Get your local weather, retro Weather Channel-style. A re-implementation of the WeatherStar system (wiki) . Blog post by the creator describing it: WeatherStar 4000+ (and followup: Modernizing the WeatherStar 4000).
posted by skynxnex to MetaFilter on May 29 at 7:52 AM
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Exactly what it says on the side of the box (slyt) This is Prince before he was PRINCE. Happy listening, everyone!
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Welcome to the first Pride Month LGBTQIA+ News Post. We're all beautiful on our own way.. Let's get things started with a list of pride festivals across the world!
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One of the great American songwriters talks about writing "Fortunate Son", "Bad Moon Rising", and "Proud Mary".
posted by Lemkin to MetaFilter on May 28 at 4:35 AM
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The poorest state does the best at teaching kids to read. "Its Black students rank third nationally, and its low-income kids outperform those in every other state. Mississippi is also the only state to see gains across all performance levels over the last decade. Its average went up, but so did the scores of its highest and lowest performers." As usual, the secret is ... that there is no secret. The state succeeded by providing "teacher training in proven reading instruction methods and teacher coaching. ... coaches, parent communication, individual reading plans and other supportive measures."
posted by Mr.Know-it-some to MetaFilter on May 28 at 10:27 AM
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The Aperiodical is a "magazine and blog for people who already know they like maths and would like to know more." They publish interviews, news, games, and more, such as satirical book covers and a new counting-forwards integer sequence suitable for a lullaby. They also host a monthly "Carnival of Mathematics" linking to "mathematics-related blog posts, YouTube videos or other online content". (Previously: π Day puns, The Big Internet Math-Off 2024, a card trick.)
posted by brainwane to MetaFilter on Jun 2 at 11:16 AM
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"We Jam Econo catches a lot of what made the Minutemen great, from Boon’s jagged riffs to Watt’s laser-focused aesthetic vision. But unlike so many other behind-the-scenes rock-docs, it’s haunted not by band conflict, but by the massive loss to music and the culture at large when Boon was killed."
posted by Lemkin to MetaFilter on May 31 at 7:13 AM
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The Video Game History Foundation (previously) has unveiled a collection of over 100 hours of video from Cyan’s history, including interviews and production footage, from the original Myst game (1993) all the way to Myst V: End of Ages (2005.)
They also posted a highlight video.
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Hi! It's me! That woman writing about her garden centre copy job could literally be me! I've been writing copy of one kind or another for about twenty years, covering a wide range of topics. Freelance copy is wonderful because it means you learn about heaps of different things, get to work with different people - all over the world these days -... [more]
posted by Jilder to MetaFilter on May 31 at 9:57 PM
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I have a whole new level of respect for Zelenskyy knowing now that he had this plan in the works during the whole "you don't have the cards!" schtick from Trump and Vance when they ambushed him at the white house. Seems he had pretty friggin' good cards, actually. He just knew to keep them close to the chest. This seems like a massive... [more]
posted by mrjohnmuller to MetaFilter on Jun 1 at 4:42 PM
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What specifically about Swift is it that makes a certain kind of Metafilterian feel compelled to declare either how unfamiliar they are with her work or how much they don't like it? It's weird. I, for instance, don't feel any need to go into discussions of, say, the Rolling Stones to inform people of how little of their music I've listened to.... [more]
posted by signal to MetaFilter on May 31 at 5:35 AM
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only slightly creepy oh you mean she did the kind of thorough reporting people are often complaining that journalists don't do anymore [view]
posted by sickos haha yes dot jpg to MetaFilter on Jun 2 at 11:10 AM
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Same as the other folks. Under pay people, exploit labor. Etc. etc. Or just sell 115+ million albums, sellout concerts worldwide, and make a pile of cash off of licensing your work. Not all earnings need to be garnered via exploiting others. If anything, she has set the example of not hording her earnings. I don't own a single album... [more]
posted by SegFaultCoreDump to MetaFilter on May 30 at 8:27 PM
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Metafilter's fervent support for the Trump administration continues to surprise me, but I guess this is what they wanted. what, and I cannot say this enough, the actual fuck? [view]
posted by We put our faith in Blast Hardcheese to MetaFilter on Jun 3 at 8:18 AM
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Alternatively: Mensa, so easy a baby can do it. [view]
posted by star gentle uterus to MetaFilter on May 30 at 6:48 AM
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phrases like "throwing shade" or "drip" existing for a decade or two in the drag community The black American pop culture to drag/ballroom culture to white gays culture to The Youths to the broad population acceptance pipeline is absolutely and most definitely a thing here in the US and has been for many decades. [view]
posted by phunniemee to MetaFilter on May 29 at 2:34 PM
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angiep: "My deeper concern is what Orwell warned us about: simplifying language removes nuance, and authoritarian regimes do it deliberately to create a dull and credulous populace." gen-alpha isn't "simplifying" language; there's no "simplification" in that speech. They're expressing concepts they care about... [more]
posted by adrienneleigh to MetaFilter on May 29 at 1:02 PM
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I always feel like tracking everything* happens when people don't have a strong theory of what the self is, or a theory of what a good life is. Tracking all this stuff gestures toward some vague idea of "efficiency" or "improvement" or "happiness" but doesn't really go anywhere. All that improving and for why? I... [more]
posted by Frowner to MetaFilter on Jun 1 at 7:05 AM
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National security is just a gentleman's agreement to not break norms: it's the same as the lock on my front door, which seems absurd given that there are a dozen glass windows which provide easier access. I was thinking basically this, in different images: This is why it's a good idea to get along with your neighbors. The ways they... [more]
posted by actuallyquite to MetaFilter on Jun 1 at 10:43 PM
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Lighten up, Fran945773135996324600631369096557657373753793cis. [view]
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I will note that many of my friends from the usenet era were approached for background on yarvin (who was a regular in our circle; the reporter trolled the newsgroups for people who interacted with him and tracked people down to today, only slightly creepy) and as far as I'm aware, everyone told the reporter to go to hell. We have known all along... [more]
posted by seanmpuckett to MetaFilter on Jun 2 at 10:49 AM
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Pop stars who are women are traditionally treated this way here and it's predictable and boring. No one needs to hear about how you're so above the music she makes, or how it's "not for you." We weren't worried about if it was for you. [view]
posted by tiny frying pan to MetaFilter on May 31 at 5:43 AM
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Thank you for not mincing words in the title. Some outlets reported it in passive voice, since the facts were still murky. Now that further details have emerged, it's important that we be absolutely clear what this was. [view]
posted by wanderlost to MetaFilter on Jun 2 at 5:50 PM
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The TU-95 is the Russian counterpart to the B-52. Except that the US has more B-52s in mothballs than Russia has TU-95s in active service. And that's not even including Kate, Cindy, Fred, and Keith! [view]
posted by TheWhiteSkull to MetaFilter on Jun 1 at 7:44 PM
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The New Yorker, CNN, all these other outlets are legitimizing his sewage by talking about it. Nonsense. It isn't going to go away simply because you ignore it. If it's, in fact, informing the current regime in Washington, it needs to be exposed and talked about. Trying to ignore it only allows it to grow on its own terms without being... [more]
posted by Thorzdad to MetaFilter on Jun 2 at 11:08 AM
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...and then blowing up a bunch of Tupolevs with the EV anyway [view]
posted by GCU Sweet and Full of Grace to MetaFilter on Jun 1 at 4:23 PM
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I'm a teacher and a big ol' leftie, but when it comes to my own profession the woo is real. A huge amount of what we're pushed to do is aspirational and goes against actual evidence-based practices. We're told to focus on modifying assessments so that our kids can "show achievement" because obviously they already "have... [more]
posted by kikaider01 to MetaFilter on May 28 at 3:12 PM
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The whole union question aside, I think one of the things I hate the most about AI is the way in which it has accelerated the devaluation of design work. So, where you once had people who had studied, and trained in their craft, you now have some manager who plugs a few random terms into a text box and then says "looks pretty good to me.... [more]
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