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Extirpated is maybe a more precise word though extinct in the wild is often shortened to just extinct lately.
posted to MetaFilter by Mitheral at 9:07 AM on June 2, 2024

FT: How British politics lost touch with reality:The UK’s election campaign is part of a wider British disease: of politics detached from policy, of arguments about politics divorced from questions about whether you can even implement the proposals at the end of the day...

Part of the problem is how politics is covered. Starmer’s evasions on fiscal policy are treated as a natural, even savvy, outgrowth of long-standing voter anxieties about the party’s love of raising... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by TheophileEscargot at 1:44 AM on June 2, 2024

“Some Lessons From Google’s AI Mistakes,” Aaron Gordon, Proof, 29 May 2024
posted to MetaFilter by ob1quixote at 6:35 PM on June 1, 2024

various Staff linger with nitrogen spray cannisters. what's in that thing. well you're cold as ice, you're not willing to sacrifice those gloves. why, metallurgy sitting in the audience and the jeweler does not seem present. going to drip. that's the theme. no car keys but a single Copper Rose and I think melts in a thick enough plastic bag the patina like a Miami Beach. this is how things Fall apart by creating new ways to keep things temporary. some are in the correlation between vision and... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by clavdivs at 7:13 PM on June 1, 2024

I’d love to read a fan fiction about Camilla Cabello’s ice block purse keeping the MET gala rabble at bay until it melts away. I’m certain her designer/stylist team were one of the few that actually read and took inspiration from the Ballard short story.
posted to MetaFilter by Flecks of light at 6:33 PM on June 1, 2024

Of course, the Feist novels also plagiarized part of the setting from M.A.R. Barker's Empire of the Petal Throne, barely bothering to obscure the serial numbers, but, considering that Barker turned out to be a Nazi, I find it hard to get too worked up about it.
posted to MetaFilter by GenjiandProust at 1:11 PM on June 1, 2024

I've seen some folks around the internet asking why Josh Gibson's 800-900 HRs didn't carry over with this other stats? MLB is carrying over only the official Negro League numbers of which he hit about 230 HRs there. All of the other bombs were hit during barnstorming games and therefore, do not count in his official stats. Negro League seasons were very short, so that explains why he has so few official HRs. Hope that helps.... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by NoMich at 12:46 PM on June 1, 2024

They should double down next year and do Why I Want to Fuck Ronald Reagan from The Atrocity Exhibition.
posted to MetaFilter by thatwhichfalls at 8:07 AM on June 1, 2024

You can get this from the Metafilter InfoDump. Also, a new Project was just posted that supplies graphs of stats (Thank you, Klipspringer!)
posted to MetaTalk by loup at 8:16 AM on May 22, 2024

(almost 13 million people)
The Met Gala is the sequel to High Rise right?
more like a prequel? except cyclical:
"fashion's not about looking back; it's about looking forward"

if you want to know more, there's also an entire film about the Black man who says
"famine"
The Gospel According to... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by HearHere at 11:58 PM on May 31, 2024

The revised version of the first page of Nineteen Eighty-Four really was better than the first, it was so clunky. But that Star Wars synopsis and rough draft are amazing. It's like the writer had heard about the Star Wars universe, but remembered it all wrong. You want to reach out and grab them, and say, "No, this is how it goes."

You can see what it's like to have a great idea, a fantastic idea, a... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by bigbigdog at 6:48 PM on April 6, 2024

We live in a world now where we leave a semi-permanent record whenever we post something, and we can even leave last words without realizing it. He seemed like a good guy.
posted to MetaTalk by mecran01 at 8:02 AM on May 31, 2024

What Dirty Old Town said. Here you can miss someone you never met upon finding out about what a good person they were only upon their passing. Which speaks well for here but all the same, we are diminished.
posted to MetaTalk by y2karl at 8:22 AM on May 30, 2024

It's a special kind of bummer to find out about someone who seems very cool from their obit post, having somehow narrowly missed bumping into each other in threads for 20 years.

RIP, bbd.
posted to MetaTalk by DirtyOldTown at 10:21 AM on May 28, 2024

Awww, so sorry. Gary seemed like a sweetheart. I notice that his obit is a little short on details but you can definitely get to know the man reading his blog. He had so many great nerdy hobbies and a grand sense of humor. He was helpful here and had been here very nearly 20 years. He'll be missed. May his memory be a blessing.
posted to MetaTalk by jessamyn at 1:32 PM on May 26, 2024

Tbh I wasn't very familiar with him or Paizo, so I googled the site for his name and it made me smile:

Gary Teter is the man!

This guy has been RELENTLESS ALL WEEKEND in answering questions and keeping the faith amongst the unwashed Paizo-zombies.
Gary Teter Fanboi Love Thread

Give it up for our resident PostMonster General! The Master Monster of the Mainframe, the Sultan of the Servers, the King of Kode, the... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by Rhaomi at 6:49 PM on May 25, 2024

I wasn't planning to watch this, but then I hit a second week of deranged people telling me to watch a 4-hour video, and finally succumbed.

I like Star Wars (even though my experience with almost every bit of Star Wars media is barely shackled disappointment). I don't really like Disney, and thought this experience seemed wildly overpriced to me (I would prefer to waste my money on different extravagant nonsense thanks). I... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by grandiloquiet at 3:29 PM on May 31, 2024

Morton Hull : Do you realize that more people will be watching you tonight, than all those who have seen theater plays in the last forty years?

Chance the Gardener : Why?
posted to MetaFilter by clavdivs at 8:44 PM on May 31, 2024

The Met Gala is the sequel to High Rise right?
posted to MetaFilter by srboisvert at 6:45 PM on May 31, 2024

A table, which is commonly purchased by a brand or business, costs $350,000." (Deseret)
why it is so powerful to see Lewis Hamilton buy a table (revolt)
posted to MetaFilter by HearHere at 5:42 PM on May 31, 2024

harrowing...
i actually found this uplifting:

In his spare time – and he had a lot of it – he wrote stories, and read. Reading matter at Moose Jaw was limited to what was available on the magazine racks at one of the two filling stations or the bus depot: either local newspapers that contained nothing but reports of ice hockey matches, or magazines like Astounding Science Fiction, Galaxy and Fantasy & Science Fiction.... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by HearHere at 5:38 PM on May 31, 2024

Think of the money the could raise by charging $10 to throw a stone at an attendee….
posted to MetaFilter by GenjiandProust at 5:23 PM on May 31, 2024

Using this story for the evening's dress code is a decent tie to this year's exhibition, "Sleeping Beauties: Reawakening Fashion." Per the press release: Sleeping Beauties: Reawakening Fashion will make use of first-hand research, conservation analysis, and diverse technologies—from cutting-edge tools, augmented reality, artificial intelligence, and computer-generated imagery to traditional formats of x-rays, video animation, light projection, and soundscapes—to reactivate... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by Iris Gambol at 5:22 PM on May 31, 2024

On rabble: "A ticket to the 2024 Met Gala costs $75,000 — up 50% from last year’s ticket price of $50,000, per Time. A table, which is commonly purchased by a brand or business, costs $350,000." (Deseret).
posted to MetaFilter by Iris Gambol at 5:05 PM on May 31, 2024

There were several intense protests going on outside the MET that would qualify…
posted to MetaFilter by catrae at 4:28 PM on May 31, 2024

If I were an extremely rich person and I read "The Garden of Time", I would not immediately think, "this is a splendid theme for my rich-person fashion gala, I will wear flowers" unless I were either a terrible reader or good at irony.

Did anyone attend the gala as the rabble? Surely someone must have, or was that just the actual rabble working their shifts?
posted to MetaFilter by Frowner at 4:15 PM on May 31, 2024

Well, that was an edifying read. Not to mention harrowing.
posted to MetaFilter by y2karl at 2:53 PM on May 31, 2024

disdain a cbe? respect
posted to MetaFilter by HearHere at 2:46 PM on May 31, 2024

is quite possibly tempted to vote for Reform UK...

It's quite depressing that the Tories are chasing reform voters and Labour are chasing Tory voters.
No one is ever chasing left wing voters.

I'm probably wrong, but it feels like Labour could firm up their vote share quite a lot with even the hollowest gesture towards being even marginally socially or economically progressive. Obviously not enough to scare off the... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by Just this guy, y'know at 4:45 AM on May 30, 2024

David Gauke in the New Statesman: Brexit sealed the Tories’ fate.The Conservatives have a view as to who they are speaking to but it is to the few not the many. He or she is more often than not a pensioner, left school at 16, is socially conservative and is quite possibly tempted to vote for Reform UK...

The consequence is a series of policies that resemble Daily Express editorials. They either look like simple electoral bribes (a higher personal allowance for pensioners)... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by TheophileEscargot at 2:03 AM on May 30, 2024

Sato has a new post on the memorial event full of photos! Translation:

Kabochan's farewell party was full of smiles

Messages on Kabo-chan's departure have been pouring in from around the world on the blog, Instagram, and X. Since the day of Kabo-chan's passing, we have been busy with interviews from several countries and preparing for the farewell ceremony. I haven't had the time to slowly go through the messages we've received, but I am deeply... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by Rhaomi at 6:35 PM on May 29, 2024

Just two days ago my wife and I were driving around the peninsula. We were able to get as far as the Brimketill lava rock pool, about 12 km from Grindavik, before the road was closed. I wonder how much I would have seen if the volcano had erupted then.

Just as well, I suppose, the rental car was not covered for lava damage.
posted to MetaFilter by otters walk among us at 7:18 PM on May 29, 2024

I really did like the "move the rocks with the Force" thing they were doing in the open air atrium/fake planet scape. It was clever and fun and the rocks could likely just be picked up and moved around outside of that demonstration. That it was such a limited experience would mean people could be talking about it during dinner or cocktail hour or whatever and having others be all "what? no! really?"

It's a small touch to the experience but is a... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by hippybear at 7:23 PM on May 29, 2024

When I worked story at the LARP, my motto was, "Everybody pays $35. Everybody gets to be Luke Skywalker." I never made a dime.
posted to MetaFilter by ob1quixote at 5:55 PM on May 29, 2024

Last summer, almost a year ago *, I was lucky enough to have traveled through Iceland for two weeks. I hiked the very area that is now under lava the day of my arrival. The next day I struggled to get the silica of the blue lagoon out of my hair **. It is surreal to be witnessing these events now. I marvel at the terrifying grandeur of Mother Earth.

My thoughts are with those of the re-evacuated towns. I wish them safety and a swift return to normalcy.... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by mystyk at 2:32 PM on May 29, 2024

My friends and I were big fans of the Sierra AGI games (King Quest, Space Quest, Police Quest and the underrated Manhunter series) but we were universally terrible at them. We would crowd source information in order to solve them so in those pre-Internet days there was a lot of "hey my American cousins said if you did this and this you can get past that part in Space Quest..." Good times. For whatever reason we didn't like the later Sierra Creative Interpreter (SCI) games as much.... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by Ashwagandha at 10:29 AM on May 29, 2024

Disney’s Star Wars hotel Galactic Starcruiser was torpedoed by bad app design
posted to MetaFilter by Artw at 9:06 AM on May 29, 2024

I've nearly watched half of it now, and the best part so far is the discussion of the game-like aspects, which begins at nearly exactly 1 hour 30 minutes and goes through two complete parts.

While Disney hasn't released the details of how the story paths and their game-like elements work, Jenny makes some decent guesses based on what little we do know, which likely includes information piped, through earpieces, to actors playing their roles at their timed appearance... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by JHarris at 3:58 AM on May 29, 2024

The AI summaries are useless *and* use like 30 times more electricity than traditional searches. They should be an opt-in feature, not something you need to hunt around in settings to figure out how to turn off (thank God you can turn them off, though - even if it's going to create a class of people who don't realize how bad it is for everyone else).

Bonus, now I distrust ALL of google's helpful search suggestions and not just the ones in the AI box.
posted to MetaFilter by subdee at 7:24 AM on May 29, 2024

Our Library of Alexandria burned so slowly we didn’t even smell the smoke.

The actual Library of Alexandria did not all burn up in one go, either.

So, to say that "it burned so slowly, you didn't even smell the smoke" is actually the appropriate metaphor.

Yes, the library was damaged by fire caused by battles and disasters in the city, but the event that many point to as the... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by bl1nk at 6:09 PM on May 28, 2024

> This isn’t the best metaphor, since most of the information is still there

Not true, sadly. A lot of the sites that made the Internet so vibrant died because they stopped getting traffic from users.

It wasn't just Google's fault, tho. The SEO folks also had a hand.
posted to MetaFilter by constraint at 7:17 AM on May 28, 2024

I stopped using Google to search around ten years ago when they blocked the website of the small liberal protestant church I worked for. They created a business website for it, which resulted our actual website being forced to the third page of results, filled their own website for the church with incorrect information, such as a wrong main phone number and an image of a structure down the street instead of the building with the spire, and coolly informed me that if we entered into a... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by Jane the Brown at 6:25 AM on May 28, 2024

Jalapeños are supposed to a moderately hot pepper. That is what they tasted like until recently. If you like a milder pepper on your sandwich, that's great! May I suggest bell peppers? Or pequillos? Or sweet paprika? Or fresh pepperoncini? Or poblanos? Or padrons or shishitos if you like a little danger in your life?

If it's very important to you that what you eat is exactly a jalapeño, there are several no-heat jalapeños bred specially for that purpose. Including the... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by Nelson at 11:10 AM on May 28, 2024

I have noticed this, am not unhappy about it. When i get jalapeños on my sandwich, they are so nice. I can use them in cooking more easily and plentifully. There are plenty of tasty, toasty alternatives to milder jalapeños. I am prepared to be shunned.
posted to MetaFilter by theora55 at 10:31 AM on May 28, 2024

Not unrelated - the whole Huy Fong sriracha fiasco.
posted to MetaFilter by briank at 6:26 AM on May 28, 2024

i don't often use google, but when i do, i &udm=14
posted to MetaFilter by Aya Hirano on the Astral Plane at 5:10 AM on May 28, 2024

Our Library of Alexandria burned so slowly...
this comment is !fire!

that's my dad-joke allowance for the day.

There are two issues that plague me vis-a-vis technology- one is a discrepancy between what it (whether it is an app or a device) wants me to do and what I expect it to do, given how it was advertised. Sometimes the usability I expected is hidden in a maze of near-indecipherable menus and/or behind... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by From Bklyn at 4:53 AM on May 28, 2024

Our Library of Alexandria burned so slowly...
> This isn’t the best metaphor
isn't it? it's still burning
posted to MetaFilter by HearHere at 3:51 AM on May 28, 2024

Our Library of Alexandria burned so slowly we didn’t even smell the smoke.

This isn’t the best metaphor, since most of the information is still there; what they’ve done is replace the card catalog with a bunch of people yelling directions, some right, some wrong, and some gibberish.

So a lot of people have stopped using article indexes because Google was easier, and now Google has hamstrung itself. Will they go back? Or will... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by GenjiandProust at 3:49 AM on May 28, 2024

I am extremely familiar with the Ab-Ex CIA links, but it has assumed way too much prominence as far as the history of the New York School goes. They helped fund some shows but in no way were they fundamental in establishing that movement, as misguided art historians like Serge Guilbault, who's extremely influential 1986 book, How New York Stole the Idea of Modern Art, Abstract Expressionism, Freedom and the Cold War, claims that exact thing.
It's silly, it's more of a side show than... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by Phlegmco(tm) at 11:36 PM on May 27, 2024