https://www.metafilter.com/ The past 24 hours of MetaFilter Sun, 10 May 2026 16:50:36 GMT Sun, 10 May 2026 16:50:36 GMT en-us http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss 60 Los Supermachos The Mexican comic book offered commentary on political and social issues in the 1960s and 70s while battling government censorship.
Through the Photographer's Lens "Mackaroomes," "Cream Brula," and other highlights of early modern English cookbooks.
The People's Bicentennial A 1976 movement to center the revolutionary origins and democratic promises of independence.
Marginalized, but Not Marginal Accounting for enslaved lives in the ledgers of a New Orleans merchant.

Some personal news: this is my 300th FPP!]]> https://www.metafilter.com/213148/Whats-New-in-Old-Books tag:metafilter.com,2026:site.213148 Sun, 10 May 2026 16:50:36 GMT Horace Rumpole AmericanHistory Books ComicBooks Cookbooks Independence Libraries Manuscripts Mexico Slavery SpecialCollections https://www.metafilter.com/213148/Whats-New-in-Old-Books/rss The professor says of his student's writing, quoting Tennyson, that it is 'Faultily faultless, icily regular, splendidly null, Dead perfection; no more'. ]]> https://www.metafilter.com/213147/The-creative-writing-students-using-AI-to-write-fiction tag:metafilter.com,2026:site.213147 Sun, 10 May 2026 16:08:24 GMT Eldritchstigmata AI University Writing https://www.metafilter.com/213147/The-creative-writing-students-using-AI-to-write-fiction/rss "If we want to save the parts of the internet worth saving we have to evolve. We have to find some sort of ethical code that says: just because I can do something and it makes money, that is not sufficient justification to unleash it on the world."

Forseeing the future, in 1997 Langdon Winner wrote "Cyberlibertarianism [is] a collection of ideas that links ecstatic enthusiasm for electronically mediated forms of living with radical, right wing libertarian ideas about the proper definition of freedom, social life, economics, and politics in the years to come. Any attempt to philosophize about computers and society must somehow come to terms with the wide appeal of this widespread perspective, its challenges and shortcomings." Thirty years later, Matt Dugan argues the hypocrisy of cyberlibertarianism remains intolerable: "People did not get better because they went online. Giving everyone access to a raw, unfiltered pipeline of every fact and lie ever produced did not turn them into better-educated people. It broke them. It allowed them to choose the reality they now inhabit." "If we want to save the parts of the internet worth saving, we have to evolve. We have to find some sort of ethical code that says: just because I can do something and it makes money, that is not sufficient justification to unleash it on the world."]]> https://www.metafilter.com/213146/The-Intolerable-Hypocrisy-of-Cyberlibertarianism tag:metafilter.com,2026:site.213146 Sun, 10 May 2026 16:05:26 GMT Skeuomorph culture cyber libertarianism society https://www.metafilter.com/213146/The-Intolerable-Hypocrisy-of-Cyberlibertarianism/rss A habitat-destroying invasive species is taking over Vanuatu's forests, but one village is fighting back and earning an income for its people at the same time.]]> https://www.metafilter.com/213145/Fighting-back-against-an-invasive-plant-in-Vanuatus-forests tag:metafilter.com,2026:site.213145 Sun, 10 May 2026 12:56:58 GMT chariot pulled by cassowaries BigLif FeralPlants Merremia Rainforests Vanuatu VanuatusForests VanuatusRainforests https://www.metafilter.com/213145/Fighting-back-against-an-invasive-plant-in-Vanuatus-forests/rss The Morse Code Hack That Made an AI Agent Spend $200,000 (Dave's Garage, YouTube, 16m13s)
We are so fucked.]]> https://www.metafilter.com/213144/By-the-end-the-whole-thing-will-make-a-horrible-kind-of-sense tag:metafilter.com,2026:site.213144 Sun, 10 May 2026 05:55:31 GMT flabdablet AgenticFinance AI ArtificialStupidity AuthorityLaundering Bankrbot Cryptocurrency ExcessiveAgency Grok LLM MorseCode Schadenfreude UncontrollableSobbing https://www.metafilter.com/213144/By-the-end-the-whole-thing-will-make-a-horrible-kind-of-sense/rss A new generation of moms is saying "enough." (WSJ) After decades where the dominant expectation for high-achieving parents was to intensively helicopter, a new generation of moms is saying "enough." They're reclaiming date night, saying no to schlepping to 17 different after-school activities and making peace with dirty dishes in the sink.

Women have always shouldered the bulk of household and child-rearing responsibilities. But it's only recently that mothers were also expected to be project managers for their kids' futures. That began around the 1990s, economists say, as widening inequality and a shift toward a knowledge-based economy made parents fear their children would fall behind without a competitive edge. Good parenting in some enclaves came to include fighting to get toddlers into exclusive preschools, putting extreme limits on screen time—or later, tracking apps on teenagers' phones—and finishing Girl Scout Gold Award projects for kids so they could list them on college applications. (Thanks for that last one, mom.) The trend was exemplified by Amy Chua's infamous 2011 hit book "Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother" (although many moms used the memoir to reassure themselves they weren't that bad). The rise of gentle parenting added emotional complexity to this labor, turning every toddler tantrum into an opportunity for a measured lesson in self-regulation. Suddenly, it wasn't enough to optimize a child's chance for success. Mothers had to follow a set of guidelines that required superhuman patience, too.]]> https://www.metafilter.com/213143/Welcome-to-the-life-of-a-beta-mother tag:metafilter.com,2026:site.213143 Sun, 10 May 2026 03:30:57 GMT Toddles mom parenting typea typeb https://www.metafilter.com/213143/Welcome-to-the-life-of-a-beta-mother/rss Shoyu-tai, the single-use plastic soy sauce fish that accompany takeaway sushi, are an eco-nightmare — but a local designer has a solution.]]> https://www.metafilter.com/213142/Time-for-a-sustainable-soy-sauce-option tag:metafilter.com,2026:site.213142 Sat, 09 May 2026 18:37:59 GMT chariot pulled by cassowaries Design Plastic SingleUsePlastic https://www.metafilter.com/213142/Time-for-a-sustainable-soy-sauce-option/rss This is just one link. Many other financial sites are reporting it. ]]> https://www.metafilter.com/213141/National-Debt-just-rose-above-GDP-for-the-first-time-since-WWII tag:metafilter.com,2026:site.213141 Sat, 09 May 2026 18:28:41 GMT aleph Finance GDP NationalDebt USPolitics https://www.metafilter.com/213141/National-Debt-just-rose-above-GDP-for-the-first-time-since-WWII/rss