https://www.metafilter.com/favorites/all Posts from across all sites, marked as a favorite most often in the past seven days. Sat, 14 Nov 2026 23:20:13 GMT Sat, 14 Nov 2026 23:20:13 GMT en-us http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss 60 General Strike! Spain shut down as millions refused to work today. At the heart of it is housing injustice and the impossibility of making a life when rent eats up 75% of your wages. Tenants' Unions have issued an enormous list of serious, plain-as-day policy demands to lower the cost of housing, including: rent freezes, public housing construction, and banning corporate ownership.]]> https://www.metafilter.com/215129/General-Strike-Spaniards-Say-No-to-Capitalism www.metafilter.com,2026:site.215129 Wed, 11 Nov 2026 16:49:18 GMT antibillionaire lo-pi radio is "Live lo-fi beats from the digits of pi, forever." It generates endless music from the sequential digits of pi along with a random walk image based on those same digits. "Every note of the melody you hear is the next digit of pi, in order. Each digit is a note in the Fmaj scale. 0 and 9 are rests (silence)." Created for The Pudding [many previouslies]

Click the "?" in the top right corner for more links and descriptions.]]> https://www.metafilter.com/215118/Youll-end-before-this-song-does www.metafilter.com,2026:site.215118 Tue, 10 Nov 2026 16:44:50 GMT indexy U.S. comedian Josh Johnson surprised by CBC journalist in viral video. (slCBC)

Here is the entirety of Johnson's bit about his curiosity involving how the CBC chooses to run certain stories. (slTikTok)]]> https://www.metafilter.com/215127/We-do-a-lot-of-stories-about-cats-So-I-need-to-know-the-specific-cat www.metafilter.com,2026:site.215127 Wed, 11 Nov 2026 15:42:05 GMT Kitteh For decades, the leaked pipeline of academic careers has been explained away by one convenient narrative: women leave science because balancing a laboratory with a family is too hard, and motherhood arrives precisely when the tenure clock is ticking. That story has shaped funding priorities, institutional policies and countless mentoring workshops. But a sweeping new study published in PNAS Nexus suggests the story has been wrong at its root. Katie Spoon and colleagues surveyed thousands of current and former tenure-line faculty across 29 academic fields and nearly all PhD-granting institutions in the United States, and their findings point to a quieter, more corrosive force: women in academia are devalued, and that devaluation is what pushes them toward the exit.

Exemplar quotes from faculty interviewees can be found in the supplemental PDF under heading C.

Unsurprisingly, the findings are even stronger for women of color than for white women. The supplement also contains an analysis of nonbinary faculty as well as binary-gendered faculty, as well as more detailed breakdowns by race than simply "women of color" versus white women.]]> https://www.metafilter.com/215104/it-is-disheartening-to-see-the-needle-barely-budge www.metafilter.com,2026:site.215104 Mon, 09 Nov 2026 17:47:57 GMT sciatrix A major literary win for an sf writer. British writer M. John Harrison, known for his science fiction work, won the prestigious and remunerative Booker Prize for his 2026 novel The End of Everything.]]> https://www.metafilter.com/215108/The-advent-of-the-iGhetti www.metafilter.com,2026:site.215108 Tue, 10 Nov 2026 00:31:07 GMT doctornemo bill wurtz uploads a new video called "hi." In three hours, it's gotten 260K views and over 6,000 comments. It is much fun and uses no "AI."]]> https://www.metafilter.com/215124/Dont-get-on-the-Infinity-Bus www.metafilter.com,2026:site.215124 Tue, 10 Nov 2026 22:51:51 GMT JHarris Colsto posts their experiments with open source intelligence methods. In their latest video, they show how a combination of ADS-B, digital elevation models, and audio spectrograms can turn barely-audible airplane propeller noises into spatial location precise to 100 meters anywhere inside the United States and resistant to protection by filtering or muting. It's the same pre-GPS method memorably explained by James Burke in a 1978 episode of Connections, but without the expensive satellites.]]> https://www.metafilter.com/215110/Here-Comes-That-Sound-Again www.metafilter.com,2026:site.215110 Tue, 10 Nov 2026 03:41:37 GMT migurski Military boards are defying orders and letting trans troops serve, Dave Philipps, New York Times, via The Philadelphia Inquirer for easier reading]]> https://www.metafilter.com/215128/Military-boards-are-defying-orders-and-letting-trans-troops-serve www.metafilter.com,2026:site.215128 Wed, 11 Nov 2026 16:11:05 GMT kristi The 100 Best Indie Rock Albums of All Time.

"Let me now introduce you to Larson's Law of Lists: The first reaction to any list is to point out what is not on it. You will scan this list, and your primary impulse will be to think of an album that's not here. This is good; embrace this. It is human nature. It is especially good for this list, because what is not here is also what shapes our definition of indie rock."

Another entry in an endless fount of rage-bait list-making that is nonetheless buttressed by a pretty interesting conversation from the folks who legitimately were in the scene (including Gerard Cosloy, who races in to claim the Gen-X crown that the entire affair is a lamestain exercise in futility).

The rub here is that major label releases are excluded (indie, innit?), along with some pretty arbitrary exclusions (shoegaze, and, seemingly, grunge) to provide plenty of grist for the CTRL+F truthtellers.]]> https://www.metafilter.com/215105/A-new-generation-of-electric-white-boy-blues www.metafilter.com,2026:site.215105 Mon, 09 Nov 2026 18:57:25 GMT 99_ These are the 363 processors they have photographed, from 1971 to 2024.]]> https://www.metafilter.com/215142/Every-processor-die-anyone-has-photographed-and-given-away www.metafilter.com,2026:site.215142 Thu, 12 Nov 2026 13:42:27 GMT chavenet a kind of modern anti-hero.]]> https://www.metafilter.com/215090/Why-take-seriously-someone-for-whom-nothing-is-serious www.metafilter.com,2026:site.215090 Sun, 08 Nov 2026 14:14:43 GMT chavenet expose on the web of financial flows that NVidia is involved in, the week before news broke of Jensen Huang's involvement with a Chinese spy.

The investigation was put out by Hunterbrook, a fascinating company that funds investigative journalism, uses the material unearthed by the investigation to place short bets, and then publishes. However, they say up front that they did not have a position against NVidia at the time of publishing this report.

Nvidia ($NVDA) no longer just sells chips. It invests in its customers, buys their computing capacity, and backstops their rent. Its commitments show how much the roughly $5 trillion company has riding on the AI boom.

‍Every financial news publication has written about Nvidia's commitments. Hunterbrook decided to go a step further — tracing every dollar Nvidia has committed to its partners in one comprehensive place.

This will be a living document; and as new Nvidia financing agreements are announced, we will add them.

Because if Nvidia is really the central bank of AI, as the company's backers say, then the world needs to know everything it is backstopping.

NVidia previouslies.
Bethany McLean previouslies.]]> https://www.metafilter.com/215165/NVidia-On-Every-Side-of-the-Deal www.metafilter.com,2026:site.215165 Sat, 14 Nov 2026 16:26:11 GMT Smedly, Butlerian jihadi The Federal Aviation Administration on Friday ordered a nationwide ground stop on all departing flights "due to extraordinary circumstances and for reasons of safety." [NBC]

Possibly related? ArsTchnica yesterday: FAA expands AI advice to manage air traffic congestion across entire US airspace]]> https://www.metafilter.com/215160/US-Planes-Grounded www.metafilter.com,2026:site.215160 Fri, 13 Nov 2026 21:47:02 GMT ChurchHatesTucker
I have tried two different physical therapists but both times they seemed confused that I didn't have a specific acute complaint and gave me some exercises that sort of helped, but ultimately it felt like they gave me the standard desk person checklist and didn't really take a close look at what was actually going on.

I'm not a very "woo" person and am absolutely not going to a chiropractor. I have had friends who do things like dance that see different types of body work professionals, but I have absolutely no clue how to find someone, what to search for, or what types of professionals would be a good fit.

Is this the type of thing personal trainers can help with? What should I look for or key words should I use? Are there specific certifications or programs to look out for?]]> https://ask.metafilter.com/391155/What-kind-of-professional-am-I-looking-for-Physical-therapy-but ask.metafilter.com,2026:site.391155 Tue, 10 Nov 2026 20:10:59 GMT forkisbetter In 1785, the French mathematician and philosopher Nicolas de Condorcet discovered that a majority can sometimes vote itself into a logical loop. In elections with three or more candidates, each voter might rank the candidates in a perfectly clear and consistent way — yet when all the votes are tallied, every candidate loses in a head-to-head contest against one of their rivals. Now three researchers have shown that Condorcet's 240-year-old paradox has a shape, and it's suitably peculiar: a Klein bottle, a surface with no distinct inside or outside.]]> https://www.metafilter.com/215122/How-Voting-Is-Like-a-Klein-Bottle www.metafilter.com,2026:site.215122 Tue, 10 Nov 2026 20:24:30 GMT ShooBoo
Wider and about as deep as the Roman Colosseum, researchers believe the newly-discovered McGetchin crater was formed after a powerful surface impact in 2024.]]> https://www.metafilter.com/215161/NASA-scientists-chance-Moon-discovery-reveals-once-in-a-lifetime-crater www.metafilter.com,2026:site.215161 Fri, 13 Nov 2026 23:20:13 GMT chariot pulled by cassowaries (sort of)]]> https://www.metafilter.com/215088/It-Was-A-Graveyard-Smash www.metafilter.com,2026:site.215088 Sat, 07 Nov 2026 21:47:12 GMT wittgenstein Glass, Hard Candy, Polymer Clay, Cookies, and Pottery.

I recently took a class on how to pull cane in lampwork glass and I am not terribly good at, but it is very cool. And it is also something you can do in a lot of other media!

A few of the best, most elaborate examples of people working in this method:
Loren Stump - Glass
Elena Herburg - Glass
Kim Snowden - polymer clay -- especially her repro of The Kiss.
Sticky Australia - hard candy
Nicole MacDougall - cookies
Cary Rapaport - pottery]]> https://www.metafilter.com/215107/Raising-cane www.metafilter.com,2026:site.215107 Mon, 09 Nov 2026 21:49:47 GMT jacquilynne
Deodands put a price on objects that caused death, sometimes providing compensation to bereaved families.]]> https://www.metafilter.com/215111/How-the-Railways-Killed-a-Medieval-Law www.metafilter.com,2026:site.215111 Tue, 10 Nov 2026 08:16:34 GMT chariot pulled by cassowaries Bloomberg [Archive] traces the gambling spending of 2,441 individuals who started gambling within a week of Massachusetts legalizing online sports betting. CW: gambling, addiction, bankruptcy, divorce, suicide.

About 6% gamble at least once a day. Deposit frequency, rather than bet frequency, is one of the best measures of a gambler's habits. By the end of the first year, the 94% nonheavy gamblers have lost an average of $756 and the heavy bettor group has now lost an average of $12,237 gambling. After two years, divorce rates start to measurably increase in states that legalized online gambling.

"This might be around the time parents, friends and loved ones notice changes. The gambler becomes more withdrawn, irritable. They may let personal grooming go. They might start telling stories that don't make sense about where they've been or what they've been doing. They might start asking for, or even demanding, money for reasons that aren't clear. Many parents say they worry their kids are addicted to drugs. It may never dawn on them it could be gambling."]]> https://www.metafilter.com/215116/More-than-half-of-American-men-age-18-to-49-bet-on-sports www.metafilter.com,2026:site.215116 Tue, 10 Nov 2026 16:04:34 GMT AlSweigart