The Ascent / Meganeura by Stefans02 (cc by)Grobstein focuses on cyberpunk as social critique. Good stuff. | Continue reading
How To Build A Business Plan 22 November 2022 | 7:00 PM - 8:30 PM EST Presented by Amina Omari Introduction to AI "Text-to-Image" Artwork 22 November 2022 | 9:00 PM - 10:00 PM EST Presented by Jeremy OsbornEventbrite Tickets | Continue reading
Teegeeack AV Club Secretary has compiled a useful collection of Twitter alternatives for keeping up with Ukraine news. | Continue reading
Cosmic Fractoil..... by The Manic Macrographer (cc by)I was in very niche-y trade journalism throughout the 90s. Starting for a publication called Lubricants World ... It covered the fascinating world of motor oil, metalworking fluids, hydraulic fluids, etc... Naberius on the sur … | Continue reading
Lightbulb Streak 3664-2 by Raymond VThe inaugural Metafilter Events is finally here! "As one of the closing initiatives under our Metafilter Fundraising Drive, our online events series features presentations, workshops and discussions across a fascinating range of topics, themes … | Continue reading
just putting the meta in metaphoricalIn Ask Metafilter, Twitter account utility or helpful tool to keep following users? Related conversation on the Blue: Subterranean birdsite blues. | Continue reading
Image via bonnnuhealth, instagram.com/bonnnuhealthFundraiser Update 3: With your help, we're charting a way forward: We're two croutons past "Survive"! Check out the update to see how many toasty little pals we need to REVIVE and how to do it! | Continue reading
Scents by kuhnmi (cc by)How do I figure out why I love a perfume? "I'm not well versed in perfumes and I can't figure out what exactly about this one made it catch my attention ..." | Continue reading
Cups by Rob Oo (cc by)If you fall in, you may land in an acidic soup of crime, addiction, and existential angst. sciatrix posted about the consuming allure of the carnivorous Nepenthes. | Continue reading
Marquee by judithjackson957 (cc by)DirtyOldTown is creating member-sponsored themed days of films on FanFare for site fundraising. Currently on the marquis is katie's request for six films that pass the Bechdel Test. DirtyOldTown has posted one from each of the last six decades, … | Continue reading
kittens ripening in the Chicago area, will be ready sometime between Thanksgiving and Christmas. | Continue reading
Harissa-and-Maple-Roasted Carrots via EpicuriousLow effort, high deliciousness Thanksgiving side dishes? | Continue reading
In ask Metafilter, a question about great office gifts: people really love a useful household item that is much, much more adorable than the version of that item they already own ... How should I dominate the game this year? | Continue reading
He's a Kafkaesque character -- or maybe a Serlingesque one: Some thoughts on Gallagher, from back in 2010, from a Metafilter member filmmaker who interviewed him for a documentary on stand up comedy / comedians. Gallagher current discussion. | Continue reading
✨ Reminder! The Metafilter Fundraising Auction ends tomorrow (Sunday)! Also, in case you missed it, 2022 MeFi Holiday Card Exchange signups are open until 6am EST 11/20. | Continue reading
Yesterday I spent 5 hours working in the cold garage, encountering much mouse poop, and finally 5 fat mice ... And that's how I came to make my very first MetaFilter post! — dorey_oh in her post thread on the Peptoc Hotline, offering pep-talks by kindergarteners. | Continue reading
Week 2 Fundraiser Update: We need your help to REVIVE Metafilter: The steering committee updates the financial situation and lists all the ways you can help, with special guest star, the Crouton Meter! | Continue reading
Barcode by Conor Lawless (cc by)So I once met the person who invented barcodes, a woman engineer working for IBM in the mid-60s ... She is, of course, not named on the patent: basalganglia talks the origins of the barcode in jessamyn's great fundraising member-sponsored post on s … | Continue reading
"Mystery Science Theater Club, that odd tiny little corner of MeFi that shows bad and weird movies Thursdays every week, is doing a day-long show on Tuesday for US Election Day": JHarris in Metatalk. | Continue reading
Wheeee ... It's time for the sixth MeFi Holiday Card Exchange! 💌❄️✨ | Continue reading
A stained glass Metafilter favicon (12 inches square) made by Metafilter's own cortex is on offer in the auctionThe Metafilter Fundraising Auction is now live! "Take a look at the amazing offerings from the community. There's unique art and photography, professional services that … | Continue reading
"This book is a critique of gamification by an actual game designer, games journalist, and former neuroscientist that 'goes far beyond the usual suspects like Fitbit and Duolingo to look at the historical roots of gamification'": Discussion of "You've Been Played: How Corporation … | Continue reading
Mr. Darcy and Miss Bennet are apparently not on the same pageMefites discuss the worst Jane Austen covers ever. | Continue reading
My Social Graph from facebook by paul_irish (cc by)I'm aware that my saying all of this is like when Ollivander referred to Voldemort as "Terrible, but great." But I think it's important, on some level, to understand that Facebook wasn't a fluke: Metafilter member Tom Hanks Canno … | Continue reading
Mmm. Sweat. by BitBoy (cc by)Interesting dip into the details and deeper history on the adoption of ORT (oral rehydration therapy) by biogeo in the Dr Dilip Mahalanabis thread. | Continue reading
2010-guate-CSC_32459 by mesaba (cc by)Help Metafilter survive! - Annual Fundraiser week 1 update. Handy update in the blue from tavegyl and the steering committee on everything going on currently. | Continue reading
MetaFilter Financial Update, November 2022 (this is an *amazing* job by the steering committee!) | Continue reading
Twitter icon by Jurgen Appelo (cc by)... what ends up happening is you need more and more people to manage smaller and smaller things ... Wow! Very interesting insider comment from wooh on the scale challenges and other issues that have steered the engineering side of Twitter. | Continue reading
"Language justice is critically important for health care, legal services, workplace safety, and education": a great member-sponsored post and interesting thread from jessamyn. Sponsored posts are helping with the current, vital fundraising effort, and you can follow these posts … | Continue reading
Halloween_sweets by burgerking1975 (cc by)Treats for you, and you, and you ... Metafilter Halloween-related posts, 2022 | Continue reading
MetaFilter Gift Swap Sign-Ups end Nov 1✍ Mochapickle's Nahhhh-NoWriMo: A zero stress, no rules writing month begins Nov 1⭐️ Mefi Posts for "Sale" is still going! jessamyn, Rhaomi, and Eyebrows McGee are offering to write posts for contributions to the Mefi fundraising drive | Continue reading
Pursuit of Vikings by Artiom Ponkratenko (cc by)In your job, where are you a Viking? This member-sponsored Ask Mefi post asks "What task or part of your work day ... do you really enjoy, to the point of thinking, yeah, this is it, this is where I fit?" | Continue reading
renovations by in pastel (cc by)In Ask Metafilter: DIY home reno project got you a li'l confused? dg takes a deep dive on the proper steps, in the proper order, with the proper prep to successfully un-yuck your habitat. | Continue reading
Image from page 42 of "Coast watch" (1979) by Internet Archive Book ImagesIf you want a truly insane and mind-boggling supply chain you should look up how grocery store fish fingers are made ... Fascinating comment from 100kb about global supply chains and commoditization in an A … | Continue reading
MeFi Posts for "Sale": "We're all pitching in for Fundraising Month. Ever wanted to see a post on a topic, but didn't want to write it yourself for whatever reason? Let us do it for you." | Continue reading
TOKYO Street by t.shinobu (cc by)A walk in the city, or a drive in the country? | Continue reading
In love. by marfis75 (cc by)"It was a simple, warm potato salad" ... Long lost potato salad love in Ask Metafilter | Continue reading
Merrick Thread Co., The spider and the tiger (on black background), Boston Public Library via WikimediaHow do I help my spider friend through the winter? | Continue reading
⭐️❗️⭐️ Metafilter Wants You - The Fundraising Post! The steering committee breaks down the situation, and offers ways to help. ⭐️❗️⭐️ | Continue reading
The Wrong Kind of Cheese turns out to be exactly the Right Kind of Cheese, again, with thoughtful and expert advice on a tricky distance cleanup situation. | Continue reading
Ford River Rouge Complex, Dearborn, MI by Thomas Hawk (cc by-nc)Ok, so I am in the thick of things, working in the automotive industry — an industry with massive interlinked supply chains (geographically and temporally) and hundreds of thousands of workers ... xdvesper, with the … | Continue reading
Theater Stage by joncutrer (cc by-nc)prismatic7 on multiple aspects of planning accessibility in theatre spaces | Continue reading
Crepuscular rays at dawn over the Normandy coast by TeaMeister (cc by)Eisenhower then makes the biggest call of his life and an example to leaders everywhere: He trusts the expert ... A really great analysis by garius of Blacksod, D-Day, the planning, the storm, the leaders, the … | Continue reading
2022 MetaFilter Gift Swap Sign-Ups are Open!! 🎁 Thank you, rhyspenbras and okayokayigive! | Continue reading
In A Whisper - 1920x1200 by /\lex (cc by)Whisper, from OpenAI, is an open source tool you can run on your own computer that "approaches human level robustness and accuracy on English speech recognition" | Continue reading
In Ask Metafilter: I've allowed my Reddit feed to become filled with negative stuff ... Can you recommend quality subreddits full of positive vibes and/or longreads and/or interesting links and videos? | Continue reading