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posted to MetaFilter by brainwane at 6:02 AM on December 2, 2022

I use JustWatch to find out where movies or TV are streaming. If you're pretty sure a movie is available on Tubi, I suggest you search for it on JustWatch, find the Tubi icon in the search results, and then click that icon to get to the Tubi page for that movie.
posted to MetaFilter by brainwane at 8:35 AM on December 1, 2022

Doing that for American Graffiti gets me to this page on Tubi saying the content is unavailable. Maybe JustWatch hasn't updated their data since it got taken down.
posted to MetaFilter by brainwane at 8:37 AM on December 1, 2022

Can you help me understand why it's silly?
posted to MetaFilter by brainwane at 8:51 AM on December 1, 2022

I see Derek Lowe of In The Pipeline just mentioned setting up on Post. As a data point.
posted to MetaFilter by brainwane at 5:29 AM on November 30, 2022

Another data point I noticed: someone noting that many of the people of color they'd followed on Twitter have moved to Post, and that's why they were checking it out.
posted to MetaFilter by brainwane at 7:07 AM on November 30, 2022

More about Cohost.
posted to MetaFilter by brainwane at 9:02 AM on November 30, 2022

I'd appreciate links to notes, videos, blog posts, etc. by Post users about what they distinctly like about it, especially written/made by people from historically marginalized groups.
posted to MetaFilter by brainwane at 9:49 PM on November 30, 2022

Asparouhova, formerly Eghbal, previously.

I decided to only skim her piece because I have found her work analytically poor in the past and because her newsletter announcement of this piece includes the offputting line:

I was searching for the one weird reason that was causing hordes of people to drop what they were doing and march, hypnotically, towards the same problem space.

"hypnotically"?… [more]
posted to MetaFilter by brainwane at 3:21 PM on November 30, 2022

Cohost was also discussed in a thread about Twitter a few weeks ago. Some concerns about its terms of service came up; Cohost has addressed them in a few posts and Terms of Use changes (1, 2, 3).
posted to MetaFilter by brainwane at 2:02 PM on November 29, 2022

I framed and structured this thread to be about Cohost. The thread about Post is framed to be about Post but also Elon Musk, Twitter, and, implicitly, Twitter alternatives in general.
posted to MetaFilter by brainwane at 8:28 AM on November 30, 2022

jwz's concerns with Signal: March 2017, August 2018, Feb 2021.

A few things that do make Signal more social network-y than it may seem at first glance:

* default behavior in how it acts re: your phone's contact list when you first install it; the last time I looked into this, Signal basically keeps an eye on your contact list and checks Signal's server for "are these folks on Signal yet?" then if someone in it joins Signal then you get… [more]
posted to MetaFilter by brainwane at 1:17 PM on November 29, 2022

BTW, one new social media platform that does use public addressable URLs is a work in progress, Cohost, that resembles Tumblr -- example post.
posted to MetaFilter by brainwane at 1:30 PM on November 29, 2022

(made an FPP about Cohost)
posted to MetaFilter by brainwane at 1:59 PM on November 29, 2022

Update on progress 2 days in.
posted to MetaFilter by brainwane at 4:24 AM on November 29, 2022

Wow - thanks for the link!
posted to MetaFilter by brainwane at 9:22 PM on November 25, 2022

Very cool to get so many glimpses of shows-that-almost-were -- you could play a version of fantasy baseball/football with this sort of thing, putting together a set of alternate TV network lineups for a particular fall season and trying to play out how the Nielsen ratings and the Emmy nominations would go.

BTW for those of you who enjoy science fiction, the unaired pilot for an adaptation of Global Frequency, from 2004, made its way onto BitTorrent… [more]
posted to MetaFilter by brainwane at 9:50 AM on November 26, 2022

Twitter's built-in archive download doesn't seem to include bookmarks. Or (as far as I can tell) the usernames of the people you follow or who follow you (just their numerical Twitter user IDs). To get those bookmarks and username lists: you can use the open source web archiving tool Webrecorder’s ArchiveWebPage Chrome extension. Log into Twitter and let the tool run for a bit, and it'll scroll & save for you. Blog post & short video about it by Ed Summers -- I do like using this tool… [more]
posted to MetaFilter by brainwane at 3:15 PM on November 18, 2022

"It’s the end of twitter as we know it, and I feel fine": "My love letter to all my fellow twitterers… With love and gratitude for Michael Stipe and REM."

That’s great! It starts with a joke tweet
trolls and bots, an offer made
And Elon Musk is not afraid

Eye of a hurricane, listen to the staff churn
posted to MetaFilter by brainwane at 3:17 PM on November 18, 2022

I made a bingo card.

The afternoon of November 14th, a few friends and I were joking, and I made a bingo card of predictions for what would happen next at Twitter. It's in my most recent blog post and Twitter post, and I've posted it on Mastodon. Here are the squares:

Move Twitter HQ to Texas
Acquihire one of his other companies
Ban Unicode; Twitter goes ASCII-only
Premium members get multiple… [more]
posted to MetaFilter by brainwane at 7:52 PM on November 18, 2022

BBC reports:

Elon Musk says he will not allow the conspiracy theorist Alex Jones to return to Twitter.....

Mr Musk responded to tweets asking if Jones could be next.

He wrote that his own child had died, and that he "had no mercy" for anyone who "would use the deaths of children for gain, politics or fame".

(I had not known that Musk had been a parent of a child that died, several years ago. The article has a little more info.)
posted to MetaFilter by brainwane at 8:40 AM on November 21, 2022

A company that has lots of money to spend on advertising chooses to leave Twitter and spend that money on ads in other venues, while leftist organizations that do not have lots of money to spend on advertising have to balance "this venue has changed and is becoming less safe on multiple dimensions" with "we can post here for free and reach the audience that is still here and that we have built up over time, most of whom will not follow us If we move entirely elsewhere." The… [more]
posted to MetaFilter by brainwane at 3:35 AM on November 22, 2022

rebent: maybe some videocalls with other MeFites? I'd be happy to join one.

Kyol: I hope not.... Especially because there is a particular view at a related website, at HEP.video, that's meant to help clients. Your practitioner gives you a printout or sends you an email with a list of all the exercises you're meant to do, and each one has an associated code, such as VVQGB3WMY. You go to hep.video and paste that in to watch the video. But that's a lot more limited and… [more]
posted to MetaFilter by brainwane at 11:15 AM on November 16, 2022

I think a big reason non-practitioners are not supposed to sign up is that signed-in users can upload new exercises, and they'd prefer that all exercises be made with someone with some qualifications.
posted to MetaFilter by brainwane at 6:04 AM on November 17, 2022

beef
posted to MetaFilter by brainwane at 8:45 PM on November 13, 2022

ltl -- thank you for the correction! Sorry for misreading. I'm disappointed because I wanted more info about where they got the training data. They work a lot with Microsoft, so, maybe calls on Skype, Microsoft Teams, and XBox Live?
posted to MetaFilter by brainwane at 11:56 AM on October 13, 2022

gwint: yeah, on my laptop it was pretty slow too; I think I need to fiddle with using different sized models to see whether there's some way I can speed things up with acceptable accuracy tradeoffs.

When I used ffmpeg to extract the audio from a video of my stand-up comedy and then ran Whisper on the resulting audio file, I was happily surprised to find that, by default?, it also emitted a .srt subtitles file and a .vtt file. The .srt file is suitable for manual editing,… [more]
posted to MetaFilter by brainwane at 12:03 PM on October 13, 2022

drewbage1847: early in the standup comedy routine I transcribed, I introduce myself. The Whisper transcript got my name nearly right, choosing an alternate transliteration that would be right in some contexts. This is, in my experience, unprecedented.

The accuracy and the privacy preservation make Whisper, for me, promising as a game-changer for audio I spoke myself.

I'm firing up yt-dlp (the more-updated?… [more]
posted to MetaFilter by brainwane at 1:11 PM on October 13, 2022

The first test I successfully ran on Whisper was a song by cortex that is only one minute long. I was pleased to note that it rendered all the profanity accurately. As opposed to the automatic captions in Google Meet, which censor swearing and, as I recall, the word "porn".

In transcribing my standup, Whisper thought "exhaustedly" was "exhaustively" which is, I admit, a much more common word.
posted to MetaFilter by brainwane at 3:04 PM on October 13, 2022

I heard from a friend at the Freedom of the Press Foundation about work on Stage Whisper, a web interface to Whisper specifically for use by journalists and newsrooms:

...not all journalists (or others who could benefit from this type of transcription tool) are comfortable with the command line and installing the dependencies required to run Whisper.

Our goal is to package Whisper in an easier to use way so that less technical users can take… [more]
posted to MetaFilter by brainwane at 3:14 PM on October 13, 2022

At least in the short term, I anticipate that there's a business model for value-added transcription and subtitling/captioning work by humans. Workers could use Whisper, Stage Whisper, and similar technologies to speed up making a first draft, and offer paid services in proofreading, validation (as in, "I, a human, listened to this and verify that this mostly-computer-generated transcript is correct"), speaker labelling, redaction as appropriate to the specific recording's context, and… [more]
posted to MetaFilter by brainwane at 8:14 AM on October 14, 2022

In case you want to try Whisper but you don't want to fiddle with installing it on your computer:

The machine learning company Replicate is hosting a web-based version of Whisper so you can upload a sound file and get a transcription.
posted to MetaFilter by brainwane at 2:18 PM on October 19, 2022

Whisper has successfully made it into my rotation of tools I reach for frequently without thinking "oh should I bother?"

I recently ran several videocalls to rehearse some standup comedy. For a few early ones, if I came up with a good riff spontaneously during the rehearsal, I paused to jot them down. But of course that broke the rhythm and the quality of the performance. Then, I started to record my own rehearsal performances. I ran Whisper afterwards and that… [more]
posted to MetaFilter by brainwane at 7:00 PM on November 12, 2022

Another thing to celebrate is that we actually did get through another election without (so far) the kind of violence that some were fearing. This is not Jan 6th, Part II.
posted to MetaFilter by brainwane at 9:08 AM on November 9, 2022

Very very downballot, I looked up (for the first time in ages) the board of the school district that includes my old high school. Turns out someone I know and think well of has been serving on it for a few years, and has just gotten re-elected. I took a quick look at some recent board meeting minutes and nodded approvingly at the votes and comments they've made. Glad to see it!
posted to MetaFilter by brainwane at 4:50 PM on November 9, 2022

Zooey Zephyr, a progressive, bisexual trans woman, has won an election to the Montana state legislature (representing part of Missoula) and is Representative-elect for Montana's 100th House District. (Looks like it is a pretty safe seat for the Democrats and the real battle was in the primary.) She's 33 and will be the first out trans woman to hold public office in Montana.

The day of the general election, she had to visit New York City for a 3-month post-operative… [more]
posted to MetaFilter by brainwane at 8:48 AM on November 11, 2022

aiq, did you select it from the menu or just type in "My Guy"? You need to select it for it to count....
posted to MetaFilter by brainwane at 8:28 AM on November 10, 2022

What a loss.

I remember her blog, and Gordon Atkinson's Real Live Preacher, as two of the great blogs that emerged from Salon's wide-open blogging offering. And just yesterday I was going somewhere and the weight of my bag was causing the strap to slip off my shoulder, and as always I thought about Julie describing that phenomenon in one of her keenly-observed catalogues of moments of daily life.

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posted to MetaFilter by brainwane at 7:46 PM on November 1, 2022

fruitslinger, thanks for that link. Moskin linked to the Wayback Machine archive of Powell's blog so I am reading it afresh.

The problem is not in the recipe, of course; it’s in me. I am not worthy of Julia, perhaps.

(Wow, it just now occurred to me that perhaps I took on the Julie/Julia Project out of some deeply repressed masochism, a need so deviant and deranged that the humiliations of everyday life were no longer adequate to feed it. This… [more]
posted to MetaFilter by brainwane at 4:43 AM on November 4, 2022

cortex, I loved reading this.... your persistence and how you worked with and against your own tendencies, in particular, were nourishing for me just now. Thank you. And thanks bondcliff for posting it.
posted to MetaFilter by brainwane at 6:12 PM on November 3, 2022

Hactar: one could check here. But the Physiology or Medicine listings are not fully available, and the search-by-name page seems broken at the moment. Also, the Nobel folks only allow the public to see nominations once 50 years have passed, so the public can only view nominations from 50+ years ago.
posted to MetaFilter by brainwane at 8:00 PM on November 1, 2022

Related discussion in the online billpay thread.
posted to MetaFilter by brainwane at 10:55 AM on October 28, 2022

Joel Spolsky, in May 2000, on "chicken and egg problems":

...a lot of companies have tried to get into this field, which is technically known as Bill Presentment. One example is (guess who) Microsoft.

... there are only a small handful of merchants that will bill you over this system. So for all your other bills, you’ll have to go elsewhere.

End result? It’s not worth it. .... Now, Microsoft… [more]
posted to MetaFilter by brainwane at 2:59 PM on October 27, 2022

FedNow is mentioned briefly in the United States section of "Bank transfers as payment method" by Patrick McKenzie in his Bits About Money newsletter (previously). That essay discusses India, Japan, the US, and Europe as case studies.

Also check out his entries "Financial innovation is actually happening" and "Community Banking and Fintech":

This is the largest reason why in-place upgrades to the U.S. financial… [more]
posted to MetaFilter by brainwane at 10:55 AM on October 28, 2022

yasaman: yes!! I hope at least one of the Everything Everywhere All At Once fics does something super audacious with narrative structure -- actually I have the same hope for Severance fic. Looking forward to more fic for 17776, John Finnemore's Souvenir Programme, Baby-Sitters Club, my spouse's novels Constellation Games and Situation Normal, Naomi… [more]
posted to MetaFilter by brainwane at 10:25 AM on October 13, 2022

Yuletide signups are now open and close at 9pm UTC on Saturday, 22 October.

The frequently updated signups summary (showing us the balances of offered and requested fandoms) indicates that -- as of right now -- it would be a lovely thing for someone to sign up and offer to write fanfic for A Suitable Boy, China Mountain Zhang, Ambush Bug, Constellation Games, and/or "John Barleycorn… [more]
posted to MetaFilter by brainwane at 2:01 PM on October 19, 2022

turbowombat, per the blog post, the reason that Isaacson implemented tab purgatory is "Since users might not trust an addon that automatically closes tabs". He himself uses it in auto-close mode and does not use the purgatory feature. And in the first paragraph he says

After a couple of days I’ll have hundreds of tabs open. I declare “tab bankruptcy”, I purge them all, and start over.

posted to MetaFilter by brainwane at 4:38 PM on October 18, 2022

I learned from this blog post that I could use % (when starting to type in the Firefox address bar) to show only matches in my currently open tabs. So that makes the pile more searchable and usable.
posted to MetaFilter by brainwane at 10:18 AM on October 19, 2022

This was an excellent diversion and felt 100% true to character and genre for both Frasier and Columbo. Thanks for the post!
posted to MetaFilter by brainwane at 1:50 PM on October 18, 2022

I worked at the Wikimedia Foundation 2011-2014, coordinating open source volunteers, then managing the team that facilitated engineering volunteers' work, plus other related stuff. I'm pretty proud of those years.

My hazy recollection is that the organization paid at something like the 50th percentile of salaries by Silicon Valley engineering company standards and at like 90th or 95th percentile by US nonprofit jobs standards.

Starting last year,… [more]
posted to MetaFilter by brainwane at 12:46 PM on October 14, 2022