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I could run forever, but I won't get far (free thread!)
Charly Bliss' new single/video, "Nineteen" From their upcoming album "Forever". It's your weekly free thread! Come on in, put on some tunes, kick up your heels and tell us what's up with you!
"Well, you seem like a person, but you're just a voice in a computer"
OpenAI unveils GPT-4o, a new flagship "omnimodel" capable of processing text, audio, and video. While it delivers big improvements in speed, cost, and reasoning ability, perhaps the most impressive is its new voice mode -- while the old version was a clunky speech --> text --> speech approach with tons of latency, the new model takes in audio directly and responds in kind, enabling real-time conversations with an eerily realistic voice, one that can recognize multiple speakers and even respond with sarcasm, laughter, and other emotional content of speech. Rumor has it Apple has neared a deal with the company to revamp an aging Siri, while the advance has clear implications for customer service, translation, education, and even virtual companions (or perhaps "lovers", as the allusions to Spike Jonze's Her, the Samantha-esque demo voice, and opening the door to mature content imply). Meanwhile, the offloading of most premium ChatGPT features to the free tier suggests something bigger coming down the pike.
CareFREE drumming
Junna's drumcover of Babymetal's Doki Doki Morning (It's your weekly free thread!)
Free as in Dive. Here's your free thread!
Freediving is a style of underwater experience gated by breath-holding. Do you swim? Do you dive? How low? Or talk about anything you like!
Tintreach (AC/DC in Gaeilge)
I swim the seas between paranoia and disbelief - your weekly free thread
SPRINTS - Up and Comer It's your weekly free thread! Drop in, look around, let us know what's up with you.
Happy New Free Thread, MetaFilter ... what do you want from 2024?
'tis 2024 here, there, and everywhere, and welcome to a fresh slab of 365+1 days of calendar. Much will happen during this year, on earth and up in the sky; some sports in France, and the important vote in Sweden, but eventually eyes will turn to the USA to see who emerges victorious. But, sweet dear MeFites, what are your aspirations, hopes, desires, dreams for 2024?
Merry Free Thread, MeFites ... and a MetaFilter Christmas past
(This is a free thread. But it also complements the not-free-thread. So write in either. Or both.) While some enjoy fine dining on the 25th, and do other things (inaccurate list), so others go to mass or surf, or eat domcă or plachie. But what are you doing? And while December 1999 was a quite different place on the blue of MetaFilter, what were you doing (or how was your life back then) on Christmas Day 1999?
'tiswas the free thread before Christmas...
While we shove tartes of flesh into our mouths and read seasonal food reviews, we note that a week today 'twil be the birthdays of Humphrey Bogart (1899), Annie Lennox (1954) and Chef (1984). While invaluable goods continue to disappear, a new etiquette divider is those who ladle their gravy verses those who pour it from the boat, and the best peanut spread is Pindakaas, the question remains: what are you buying or making or planning to eat? Or ... just write about anything, because this is your Free Thread.
When Robert Met Barbara
I've watched a lot of these Actors On Actors videos from Variety, but none of them have felt as truly interesting to me as Cillian Murphy & Margot Robbie meeting for the first time and talking about the phenomenon that was Barbenheimer. 45m
It's our 101st free thread!
How long can a shooting star fly for? (apropos of nothing, Katherine Ho, from the Crazy Rich Asians soundtrack, live)
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...to give you more 'room' to write in the weekly FREE THREAD. What's the point of 'intentionally blank pages' anyway? [previously, previouslyer]
Flag it and move on... to this Free Thread
As the World Cup concludes, the Christmas season reaches its peak, 2024 is almost upon us, and the prospect of Easter eggs draws near, so it is time for another FREE THREAD. Meanwhile, a Brit attempts to be champion in Australia, how to make cheese fondue, horses have the right to freedom (alarming last sentence), the best of 4,502 cheeses (who would have predicted that?), and any surface is useful when the mood strikes. Please wear PJs, MeFites.
Here on Absurd Island, and everywhere else, it's Monday so...
...it's time for your weekly Free Thread where you can talk about wtf, or that the Christmas season has officially started, or news reporting of places to socially visit in Worcestershire, or that Easter Eggs will be in the shops in 8 weeks, or just anything.
I've got a gut f(r)eeling
Gravity-free (thread)
Fred Richard's Floor Exercise @ 2023 World Gymnastics Championships. Unfettered by earthly bonds (especially starting at :30). You might not be able to flip like Fred, but you can participate in this week's free thread! [more inside]
But when I stare at the girls as if I'm free
It's Monday!
Free as in -boot
To freeboot is to commit an act of piracy without the authorization of any government or state. Derived from the Dutch, from vrijbuit (“plunder, spoils”) + -er or vrijbuiten + -er (from vrijbuit (“plunder”)), from vrij (“free”) + buit (“booty”). Lately the term has been used to refer to the sharing of digital media beyond the limits of restrictive distribution controls. Here's your Monday morning free thread!
Free Bee
I think that I shall never see, a thread as lovely as a free
Beato + Saliers = Great Interview
Rick Beato sat down with the Emily Saliers half of Indigo Girls for a conversation about her decades of making and recording music: In the Room with Indigo Girls’ Emily Saliers [50m]. It's a free-wheeling talk that I, as a long-time IG fan, felt was revelatory and insightful. And there's a lot of joy happening here, too! Includes solo performance of song Look Long.
Free as in Thread
Vores Øl, in English Free Beer,is a Danish brand of beer that markets itself as being the world's first open-source beer. And this is your free thread! Happy Monday.
Dance like someone's ignoring you
I saw a boom shadow on Fart Face
Seth Meyers and Bill Hader sit down in front of cameras to talk about their careers [30m], and each other's careers, and to reminisce about working together at SNL. It's a charming conversation between friends, and I thought I might share it here.
Free time
School's out for summer. A friend graduated from high school this weekend, and I asked her what she was going to do with all her free time, and she said "sleep in!". And then proceeded to list all the things she had to do this week. Here's our Monday free thread!
One of these days...
Free yourself!
Feel free to flop around a little
$0, same as in town
Happy freethread Monday!
It's gonna be sunny here in Seattle, which means more time on the bike saddle for me. I hope you all have a great week!
Love and a Peaceful World
LXX
Free thread! (I was planning on being more creative and going to metatalk and trying to set up a schedule, but I'm a little hungover and the morning is getting away from me. So here we are)
Free Thread #69
Belated Dyngus
Hello, it's Monday, and that means a new free thread, and so here we are. By the way, apologies for not pointing out observance of Śmigus-dyngus day last Monday. I guess it just snuck up on me. [more inside]
bunch of what, now?
Please don't be offended, but the universe, or the fates, or whoever controls this stuff seems to think that I should share Bacon Popper's "Free" in this free thread. [more inside]
New York Jewish Conversational Style
New York Jewish Conversational Style (17-page pdf, 1981)
Just your type
Hello, Monday, happy free thread! This week, I'm wondering ... does anyone remember typewriters? Weren't they fussy and fiddly and fun? And didn't they sound great? Well, if so, today I have another free thing (or two) in your free thing thing, that may be pertinent to your interests: 1) an online (type)writing app called Writer that offers "distraction-free focus" and saves your text, plus you can opt to have manual or electric typewriter key strike sounds accompany the composition of your deathless prose. Hemingwayesque! (don't be put off by the neon green text — you can change that; use the gear icon to adjust your preferences.) [more inside]
Duneworld
Welcome to Monday, time travelers (wasn't it just Monday a few minutes ago?). For today's free thread, I'd like pass over a bit o' free association I had re the Wee Free Men, and ... the Fremen. And Dune and Discworld more generally. Now, I quickly got in well over my head when contemplating the possibilities of this wyrd alternative universe, but I bet Mefite fans have thoughts. [more inside]
Talib Kweli talks to Jon Stewart for an hour
Talib Kweli's podcast People's Party welcomes Jon Stewart for one of those wide-ranging conversations that is full of Stewart insight that we long for more of in our current world. I'm not sure I felt better about the world after this, but I felt like I had some new perspectives.
Heavenly
Hello fellow travelers, once again it's Monday, when, every week, we gather to throw off our yokes and comment freely. This week, though, I'd like to point out the occasional ambiguities and ambivalences that can accompany such headlong pursuits, with The Frog Prince, a poem by Stevie Smith. [more inside]
Loveletter From Space 💫
As the planet has apparently managed to progress another eleven million+ miles along its celestial transit since last we met, for us that means it's once again Monday and time for another free thread. To celebrate, this week I'd like to bring you back to an era when we didn't rely on AI, replika lovers, or dating site algorithms to find romance. We knew that true love could only be found in one place: Space. [more inside]
Let Freedom Ding!
OMG it's Monday, free thread fam. How did that happen again? Not sure, but today we have another "free thing in your free thing" thread: this rather clever dingbat font featuring glyphs that can be chained together in various ways to create borders, backgrounds, and separators. (cute!) And which also allows a very bad pun in the page title. (priceless!) [more inside]
Legitimate
Hello, voyagers, welcome to Monday and your free thread, fully authorized and unyeeted. [more inside]
Not exactly painless
Hello, buckaroos, it's the M-day again, I'm afraid. Now, there's no way this thread can make Mondays pain-free, but today, for your own good, we will give you some pain, free. [more inside]
Roses are threads, violets are #065A8F
For this almost very special day (yes, it's Monday!), I give you this special topical quiz: What is the best kind of love? a) Free b) Pete Davidson c) Brotherly d) This thread. [more inside]
Free Time
Happy Monday, everyone! If you are returning to work today, you may want to contemplate the Latin term, "otium" or "leisure time." As in "dang, I sure wish I had more otium." Well, this thread can help. In a way. [more inside]
Gone Fission
Hello, Monday, it's dear friends. Hi, yes, I'm totally awake, and I have a short quiz for you. How is this thread like a neutron? [more inside]
Yo Dawg
Happy Monday, freedom lovers! We heard you like free things so we decided to put a whole bunch of free things in your free thing. [more inside]
Look, uh, what's your game?
Hello, yes, it's Monday, but don't worry, it's all right now, baby, it's — ah all right now, (whoa, ooh)! But don't take my word for it, just ask these guys. Like this thread, they are totally Free, and we're feeling very '70s in here. ☮️ [more inside]
Sky: Not Cloudy All Day
Hello, my fine filter friends, welcome to Monday, and your free thread, where seldom is heard a discouraging word, and the deer and the antelope play, etc. [more inside]