Strippers' bill of rights bill signed into law in Washington state. The new law requires training for employees in establishments to prevent sexual harassment, identify and report human trafficking, de-escalate conflict and provide first aid. It also mandates security workers on site, keypad codes on dressing rooms and panic buttons in places where entertainers may be alone with customers.
posted to MetaFilter by chariot pulled by cassowaries at 8:22 PM on April 28, 2024 (30 comments)

Adult Swim is celebrating the 30th anniversary of Space Ghost: Coast To Coast by showing all the episodes in no particular order on YouTube right this very moment. Relive the early days of Cartoon Network's dimwitted dadaist superhero insanity, or become enthralled for the first time.
posted to MetaFilter by The Pluto Gangsta at 8:45 PM on April 18, 2024 (26 comments)

Dedicated to tomorrow's solar eclipse.
posted to MeFi Music by AppleSeed at 5:53 PM on April 7, 2024

Little synth sketch - drones and tinkles
posted to MeFi Music by q*ben at 3:37 PM on December 24, 2023 (1 comment)

Ketchup on Shawarma Waiver of Liability
posted to MetaFilter by jacquilynne at 11:57 AM on September 18, 2023 (94 comments)

Harry Belafonte made indelible marks on American culture while championing civil rights. Here's a link to his obituary.
posted to MetaFilter by Scout405 at 7:21 PM on April 25, 2023 (80 comments)

cover of a classic
posted to MeFi Music by dagosto at 6:25 AM on May 24, 2022 (5 comments)

I came out as trans to my partner of 20 years and she ended our marriage and I'm a wreck of a human being and anyway here's a song
posted to MeFi Music by Maaik at 4:29 PM on May 11, 2022 (3 comments)

Thank you, Metafilter....
posted to MetaTalk by clavdivs at 7:18 PM on April 18, 2022 (65 comments)

Little song my wife and I recorded this morning on an iPhone. Guitar and cello
posted to MeFi Music by Corduroy at 11:59 AM on January 14, 2022 (3 comments)

Another Ambient Office Project, this one involving a custom 4-voice sequencer that involves the generation of melodies and then handing them off between each voice, in and out of sync to produce polyrhythms.
posted to MeFi Music by q*ben at 10:05 PM on January 29, 2022 (4 comments)

From an album. https://danagosto.bandcamp.com/album/kitty-cat-island
posted to MeFi Music by dagosto at 1:30 AM on June 4, 2021 (1 comment)

Turn the lights down low and switch the sparkly ones on, get out your best headphones or your Big Speakers, and get ready because the MetaFilterMusic Podcast is BACK BABY
posted to MetaTalk by greenish at 4:27 AM on May 13, 2021 (5 comments)

Jersey Girl Homemade Guitars have been making hand-crafted guitars for thirty years and are based in Hokkaido in Japan. A collaboration between the luthier Kaz Goto, his wife Eiko and Akiko Oda, each guitar is unique, with elaborate and beautiful wood inlays, and comes with a matching strap and (often) a matching pedal, each designed along with the guitar. Here is an interview with Kaz Goto. Here is a direct link to a gallery of JGHG's archive of guitars.
posted to MetaFilter by Grangousier at 9:03 AM on April 24, 2021 (7 comments)

Hey folks, I posted this over in the Projects section: an incredible music video for my song Again, featuring hand made puppets and miniatures! I wanted to share here because I have been posting songs here (89 of them!) since I was 17, and the support from this community made a world of difference in my songwriting. For a long time, the ONLY people I shared my music with were you all. Probably all the songs on the album have been posted (probably in 2 or 3 forms) on this website. BUT if you'd like to order a vinyl or special edition vinyl to support a local charity in Seattle, visit seththomas.bandcamp.com. Thank you all for your support over the years (er, decade plus).
posted to MeFi Music by Corduroy at 1:23 PM on April 21, 2021 (6 comments)

Some friends and I have been writing for an album of super-dumb joke songs. This is a demo of one that's got a distinctly 90s-britpop vibe.
posted to MeFi Music by uncleozzy at 7:09 PM on March 31, 2021 (7 comments)

A mix created specially for MeFiMu by erstwhile producer, raconteur and unicyclist Crispin St Crispian.
posted to MeFi Music by MajorDundee at 1:18 PM on March 27, 2021 (5 comments)

Do you like good music?
posted to MetaTalk by greenish at 8:32 AM on March 29, 2021 (4 comments)

Decolonizing Electronic Music Starts With Its Software. "In 2004, Khyam Allami was ready to give up on electronic music. No matter how hard he tried, he couldn’t write melodies that sounded like the music in his head. “It felt like the software was leading me somewhere that wasn’t my intention, and I couldn’t understand why that was,” he recalls. Born in Syria to Iraqi parents, Allami had grown up in London playing guitar and drums in punk bands. He was exploring Arabic music for the first time—or at least trying to, but the music’s distinctive quarter-tones were proving difficult to emulate. The software simply wasn’t made for him." Now he has partnered with creative technology studio Counterpoint to create two free browser-based pieces of software - Leimma to create and explore microtonal tuning systems, and Apotome to create music with the tuning systems the artist selects in Leimma. Link to both. (Note that Apotome appears to work only in Chrome or Firefox, and the tutorials are rather long and maybe a bit heavy on the theory and music tech for the average non-musician.) Use of the software was premiered at this year's (mostly virtual) CTM Festival in Berlin.
posted to MetaFilter by soundguy99 at 7:41 AM on March 3, 2021 (37 comments)

Lately there's been a certain kind of comment on posts about celebrities that turn out to be terrible people. That comment is "oh, I always knew he was terrible! And everyone I know who liked him has also turned out to be a terrible person!" I am personally finding these comments frustrating for a whole host of reasons.
posted to MetaTalk by rednikki at 10:15 AM on February 14, 2021 (83 comments)

Ishkur's Guide to Electronic Music was one of the early influential web-based guides to electronic music, spanning decades and dozens of genres. It was also an early Flash app that provided a visual interface to music and how different genres were influenced by each other with samples of prominent songs in each genre. Ishkur has updated the guide for 2019 with a new interface AND has a 2 GB 3.5 hour mix that spans decades and multiple genres.
posted to MetaFilter by gen at 2:06 AM on August 20, 2019 (57 comments)

For your listening pleasure, I present to you the Zelda Rag, performed (with no prior practice) by Tom Brier. When that gets old, there's also a ragtime adaptation of the horse race theme from the Ocarina of Time that is not to be missed. And if Zelda's too easy, you can try the theme from Ghosts and Goblins. And, finally, an actual rag from Final Fantasy VI: the Spinach Rag.
posted to MetaFilter by kaibutsu at 8:55 PM on December 26, 2010 (21 comments)

Want to see a crocheted illustration of the importance of reducing the R-value? Norwegian biostatistician Kathrine Frey Frøslie explains in this 4-minute video.
posted to MetaFilter by Quietgal at 7:14 PM on December 3, 2020 (19 comments)

Italian singer Adriano Celentano released a song in the 70s with nonsense lyrics meant to sound like American English, apparently to prove Italians would like any English song. It was a hit, and resulted in this: THE GREATEST VIDEO I HAVE EVER SEEN.
posted to MetaFilter by Ahmad Khani at 7:23 PM on November 27, 2020 (79 comments)

Franz Joseph Haydn
posted to MeFi Music by AppleSeed at 10:42 PM on November 7, 2020 (2 comments)

System Of A Down - Protect The Land & Genocidal Humanoidz We as System Of A Down have just released new music for the first time in 15 years. The time to do this is now, as together, the four of us have something extremely important to say as a unified voice. These two songs, “Protect The Land” and “Genocidal Humanoidz” both speak of a dire and serious war being perpetrated upon our cultural homelands of Artsakh and Armenia.
posted to MetaFilter by CrystalDave at 10:45 PM on November 5, 2020 (4 comments)

What things look like from above ... can be utterly revealing, or rather abstract instead: the 2020 Aerial Photography Awards.
posted to MetaFilter by Stoneshop at 11:43 AM on November 3, 2020 (19 comments)

RIP Robert Fisk a giant among foreign correspondents.
1982 Sabra and Shatila massacre revisited in 2012
1996 Bin Laden interview.
2004 The Legacy of Iraq.
2005 Interview: War is the “Total Failure of the Human Spirit”
2011 For 10 years, we've lied to ourselves to avoid asking the one real question.
2015 Interview
Books on Amazon.
posted to MetaFilter by adamvasco at 2:04 PM on November 1, 2020 (34 comments)

We're adopting a feral rescue cat. It will live in a shed in our garden with a cat flap in it. We will never approach it (people have died*), just feed it and provide shelter. We've never had a cat! What do we need to know? *an exaggeration, but according to the rescue place folks, not by much
posted to Ask MetaFilter by greenish at 1:39 PM on October 31, 2020 (16 comments)

No-Instrument Mixing Board is a full-length album of manipulated feedback by Japanese musician Toshimaru Nakamura, whose instrument is a mixing board with its output plugged into its input. (Track 4 has some very high frequency tones; you may want to skip to 25:20 when those show up if you still have your hearing up there.)
posted to MetaFilter by cortex at 1:09 PM on October 22, 2020 (14 comments)

Mouth Dreams, by Neil Cicierega The fourth album in the Mouth * series is here when we needed it most.
posted to MetaFilter by CrystalDave at 6:26 PM on September 30, 2020 (46 comments)

♪ ♬ Happy Birthday, two nine two;
Happy Birthday, two nine two!
Happy Birthday dear jessamyn,
All my favorites, to yooooouuuu! ♩ ♫

AND MANYYY MOOOOOOORE.....
posted to MetaTalk by not_on_display at 11:26 AM on September 5, 2020 (40 comments)

Nightmarish song about an anxious trapeze artist. Motion sickness warning.
posted to MeFi Music by not_on_display at 9:31 PM on August 12, 2020 (1 comment)

I would like to request that, when considering how to delete things and preserve privacy, we adopt these three practices:

1. Deliberately leaving empty spaces / blanked comments / deletion notices as replacements for comments in threads that have been closed to discussion and have additional comments removed (e.g. via an account purge). This will help keep discussions that have faded into site history in order while also preserving privacy
2. Provides some means -preferably not entailing any kind of download or export- for users to access their own comments on posts/questions/etc. that have been purged. This will let folks remember their own contributions, even if the context has necessarily been lost
3. If user A sends user B a memail, user B keeps that memail even if user A purges their account.

posted to MetaTalk by Going To Maine at 5:08 PM on August 5, 2020 (269 comments)

Data isn't just being collected from your phone. It's being used to score you. - "Operating in the shadows of the online marketplace, specialized tech companies you've likely never heard of are tapping vast troves of our personal data to generate secret 'surveillance scores' — digital mug shots of millions of Americans — that supposedly predict our future behavior. The firms sell their scoring services to major businesses across the U.S. economy. People with low scores can suffer harsh consequences."[1]
posted to MetaFilter by kliuless at 2:46 AM on August 2, 2020 (33 comments)

This morning I manged to catch the crest of a creative wave and surf it to the expression of this little track. This song is all about layers and details with an upbeat, positive chillout vibe. Consider it a minor antidote to 2020.
posted to MeFi Music by Godspeed.You!Black.Emperor.Penguin at 1:19 PM on July 26, 2020 (3 comments)

A song that dates back many years and many arrangements.
posted to MeFi Music by srednivashtar at 12:45 PM on June 27, 2020 (6 comments)

Self-love song with guitar and lots of synthesizers.
posted to MeFi Music by Corduroy at 12:02 PM on July 21, 2020 (5 comments)

Recorded with a Roland Jupiter X as a live take
posted to MeFi Music by nikaspark at 7:14 PM on May 7, 2020 (3 comments)

ambient jam
posted to MeFi Music by ageispolis at 9:49 PM on March 29, 2020 (2 comments)

An old-time tune I've been meaning to learn forever. Solo clawhammer banjo, modal tuning.
posted to MeFi Music by usonian at 5:49 PM on March 22, 2020 (5 comments)

Stephen Jay Gould, after proposing the thought experiment of "replaying the tape of life" in his 1989 book Wonderful Life, despaired that his ideas about the role of contingency and chance in evolution could ever be tested. Little did he know that an E. coli experiment started one year earlier (previously, previously) would allow us to do exactly that - well, perhaps a smaller version of that, what with the difficulty of recreating the Cambrian Explosion - and that other biologists would take "can't possibly" as a challenge. 30 years on, where does his thought experiment stand?
posted to MetaFilter by clawsoon at 3:39 PM on January 4, 2020 (28 comments)

An upbeat instrumental piece.
posted to MeFi Music by AppleSeed at 1:43 PM on November 9, 2019 (3 comments)

A June Hog is the name for an oversized Chinook salmon. While there's still some debate about why we don't see as many of these fish as we used to, there are still some large fish out there.
posted to MetaFilter by jessamyn at 10:16 AM on August 24, 2019 (10 comments)

This isn't really about anything. It's just a solo improv piano piece called Principals.
posted to MeFi Music by Doleful Creature at 11:25 PM on July 31, 2019 (6 comments)

It's my birthday. I hope you all have at least as good birthdays in the coming years.
posted to MeFi Music by dagosto at 2:23 PM on July 29, 2019 (5 comments)

One of the coolest tunes Frank B. Converse ever wrote, from page 105 of his 1886 Analytical Banjo Method.
posted to MeFi Music by usonian at 5:50 AM on July 1, 2019 (2 comments)

A quick little minute-long tune.
posted to MeFi Music by tmcw at 7:17 PM on May 5, 2019

Why are people modding Thomas the Tank Engine into video games? [The Face] “One of the video game modding community’s odder recent crazes is replacing characters in game worlds with Thomas the Tank Engine – the ”Really Useful” children's TV character now owned by toy company Mattel. The first of these highly unofficial mods arrived for Bethesda’s fantasy epic The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim in 2013, morphing its roaming dragons into airborne, fire-breathing locomotives. Other victims of the trend include Rockstar’s top-selling Grand Theft Auto V, FromSoftware’s gloomy ninja adventure Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice and Capcom’s flashy remake of zombie horror classic Resident Evil 2.”
posted to MetaFilter by Fizz at 5:37 PM on May 11, 2019 (24 comments)

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posted to MeFi Music by ageispolis at 7:49 PM on April 1, 2019 (1 comment)