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Free science fiction from its chains!
posted to MetaFilter by chavenet at 9:16 AM on June 2, 2024

"You get the most intense potato flavor you've ever experienced"

hardcore taters
posted to MetaFilter by chavenet at 9:06 AM on June 2, 2024

So great. I had never heard of this, now get to read it from the beginning. Thanks for posting.
posted to MetaFilter by chavenet at 4:39 AM on June 2, 2024

Celebrating 8 Years of Lore Olympus with Rachel Smythe
posted to MetaFilter by chavenet at 5:12 AM on June 2, 2024

So it's "be evil" all the way down
posted to MetaFilter by chavenet at 12:19 PM on May 31, 2024

Here's the "cover" of the Drudge Report right now:

GUILTY, GUILTY, GUILTY, GUILTY, GUILTY, GUILTY, GUILTY, GUILTY, GUILTY, GUILTY, GUILTY, GUILTY, GUILTY, GUILTY, GUILTY, GUILTY, GUILTY, GUILTY, GUILTY, GUILTY, GUILTY, GUILTY, GUILTY, GUILTY, GUILTY, GUILTY, GUILTY, GUILTY, GUILTY, GUILTY, GUILTY, GUILTY, GUILTY, GUILTY

(the link is to CNN's live coverage)
posted to MetaFilter by chavenet at 3:15 PM on May 30, 2024

Conviced felon ex-president Donald Trump

Felonious Trump
posted to MetaFilter by chavenet at 3:21 PM on May 30, 2024

NYT: Alvin Bragg, the Manhattan district attorney, will hold a news conference at 6:30 to discuss the verdict.

For maximum points it should be held at Four Seasons Total Landscaping
posted to MetaFilter by chavenet at 3:31 PM on May 30, 2024

have a Dark 'n Stormy Daniels, on me!
posted to MetaFilter by chavenet at 3:39 PM on May 30, 2024

New Trump campaign message: “Our man is 34 times more appealing than his opponents”
posted to MetaFilter by chavenet at 4:49 PM on May 30, 2024

I'm suddenly lamenting the closure of the Newseum in DC, because they used to have a physical and virtual display of the front page of newspapers around the world for the day - and I wish we could get to see what that would look like tomorrow.

Try this: frontpages.com
posted to MetaFilter by chavenet at 2:26 AM on May 31, 2024

Sing-a-Lago
posted to MetaFilter by chavenet at 6:46 AM on May 31, 2024

For DeMille, young fur-henchmen can't be rowing!
posted to MetaFilter by chavenet at 4:43 PM on May 30, 2024

Related: The decline of the user interface [Nick Hodges in Infoworld]
posted to MetaFilter by chavenet at 12:36 PM on May 30, 2024

The specific crime Trump is charged with turns out to be fairly complex

Spaghetti is a fairly complex problem you can solve by sticking a fork in and twisting
posted to MetaFilter by chavenet at 5:43 AM on May 30, 2024

Donald Trump didn't "fuck a porn star". He raped a(nother) woman. And then paid people off, with campaign funds, to keep it quiet.

This.
posted to MetaFilter by chavenet at 12:32 PM on May 30, 2024

Without a doubt, the hardest decisions we faced in postproduction were how to edit together sequences involving Trump. We needed him to sound sharp, dignified, and clear on what he was looking for and not as if he was yelling at people.

See, Trump was a bigly great president, he just needed better editors.
posted to MetaFilter by chavenet at 9:31 AM on May 30, 2024

Duncan Simpson's blog is in English and has many examples of these letters. It’s a fascinating dynamic.
posted to MetaFilter by chavenet at 4:15 AM on May 30, 2024

what an excellent essay. truly to the grit.

QFT:

Think of Utopia as just another word for the ideal America—the imagined one of election seasons that is prosperous, righteous, and always good—and suddenly Stevens is not so different from the person who gives a stump speech. Stevens believed that the best in the world (which he called “poetry”) came forward when we allowed the imagination to roam free. But ever the realist, he saw that… [more]
posted to MetaFilter by chavenet at 1:39 AM on May 30, 2024

Can we assume the new vessel will include a device that will hold his beer?
posted to MetaFilter by chavenet at 11:32 AM on May 28, 2024

"No, I'm going to visit a rusty, falling apart grave that's been visited a lot before!"

"Let me pack you a lunch."

Is a collapsed submersible filled with billionaires a sandwich?
posted to MetaFilter by chavenet at 12:57 PM on May 28, 2024

Yes! We have party ice!

"Where the elite meet to beat the heat and avoid having to meet St. Pete"
posted to MetaFilter by chavenet at 12:11 PM on May 28, 2024

I guess I should mention my tea for men with nipples.

There are men without nipples?

There's tea with nipples?
posted to MetaFilter by chavenet at 5:41 AM on May 28, 2024

Pie Weights For No Man

Pie Weights of the Carry Bean Plate
posted to Ask MetaFilter by chavenet at 4:03 PM on May 27, 2024

Pinochle! That's the trick-taking game of (my) choice
posted to MetaFilter by chavenet at 11:47 AM on May 27, 2024

naturalist Euell Gibbons

Some men are born to Grape Nuts, some men have Grape Nuts thrust upon them
posted to MetaFilter by chavenet at 10:36 AM on May 25, 2024

I remember reading the stories in the collection “Night Shift” over and over again trying to make them not be scary. It didn’t work.
posted to MetaFilter by chavenet at 4:17 PM on May 24, 2024

don't perfectly

I know this is a typo but even still it's about the best 2-word summary of Stephen King's work I've ever seen.
posted to MetaFilter by chavenet at 5:16 AM on May 25, 2024

I liked @dril's prescient comment from 2014: a man ate Mcdonald for a whole month . what happens next will Shock you (he passes peacefully from cancer 20 years later)


(it's fake, from "drilhistorian," but still)
posted to MetaFilter by chavenet at 5:05 AM on May 25, 2024

There are still good people!
posted to MetaFilter by chavenet at 4:22 AM on May 25, 2024

“We are 50-year-old women. We can’t just set a toxic ham on fire in a public place. We’ll get caught. We’ll get arrested.”

They're from Ohio. Up in Albany they know what to do with ham.
posted to MetaFilter by chavenet at 10:34 AM on May 24, 2024

A good story, but I'm begging people, please do not throw a ham in your stream.

Streamed ham
posted to MetaFilter by chavenet at 2:11 PM on May 24, 2024

Dogecoin up over $0.16 today, FWIW
posted to MetaFilter by chavenet at 6:56 AM on May 24, 2024

Mammoth bones, freed
posted to MetaFilter by chavenet at 11:46 PM on May 23, 2024

“It was a challenging palette.”

there's a Taco Bell challenging palate joke in here somewhere
posted to MetaFilter by chavenet at 4:24 AM on May 23, 2024

there's a Taco Bell challenging palate joke in here somewhere

it was on the tip of my tongue...
posted to MetaFilter by chavenet at 11:26 AM on May 23, 2024

AI is currently just a marketing trend, but the real thing is coming whether we like it or not.

Yes, "in 20 years, or maybe even less."
posted to MetaFilter by chavenet at 1:17 AM on May 23, 2024

Prediction #3:
At no point does any of this result in improved conditions for the working class, remote work aside, and indeed nothing does until the societal reformations in the aftermath of the Climate Crisis Crunch two centuries later.

The Low-Paid Humans Behind AI’s Smarts Ask Biden to Free Them From ‘Modern Day Slavery’ [Wired]
posted to MetaFilter by chavenet at 6:51 AM on May 23, 2024

Indeed, despite most articles concluding trigger warnings are not helpful, they continue to be widely used by the public.

Give the people what they want!
posted to MetaFilter by chavenet at 5:00 AM on May 23, 2024

What a lovely story! Rock on, all of you...
posted to MetaFilter by chavenet at 9:11 AM on May 22, 2024

So say goodbye, it's Independence Day, it's Independence Day all down the line...
posted to MetaFilter by chavenet at 9:06 AM on May 22, 2024

Turan-d'oh!
posted to MetaFilter by chavenet at 3:50 AM on May 21, 2024

PIN numbers?

For the record, this is addressed in the tags.
posted to MetaFilter by chavenet at 1:44 AM on May 21, 2024

That a marketeer for a manufactured product would willingly try to name it "Recall" absolutely blows my mind. That it made it all the way to the actual market, well...
posted to MetaFilter by chavenet at 1:20 PM on May 20, 2024

Meanwhile, I have Copilot on my work computer.

Just tried this:

You
do you have Recall?

Copilot
I apologize, but I don’t have any information about a product or service called “Recall.” If you could provide more context or clarify what you’re referring to, I’d be happy to assist further! 😊
posted to MetaFilter by chavenet at 1:23 PM on May 20, 2024

Related: Vice
posted to MetaFilter by chavenet at 3:46 AM on May 20, 2024

How many people can separate the body of work of the artist, from the personality of said artist.

I think part of Spacey's undeniable skill as an actor was his ability to channel & project his personal full dark. That he couldn't master it offstage is a tragedy, for his victims even more than him.

"The greatest trick the Devil ever pulled was convincing the world he didn't exist."
posted to MetaFilter by chavenet at 1:22 AM on May 20, 2024

"It was absolutely terrific. I thought I really didn't need this in my life but now I need it in my life. I am ecstatic," Dwight said.

This made my day.
posted to MetaFilter by chavenet at 1:14 PM on May 19, 2024

posted by numberstation

sideeyesterical
posted to MetaFilter by chavenet at 1:12 PM on May 19, 2024

Ain’t Nobody got time for that.
posted to MetaFilter by chavenet at 8:55 AM on May 19, 2024