https://www.metafilter.com/ The past 24 hours of MetaFilter Fri, 17 Apr 2026 22:20:32 GMT Fri, 17 Apr 2026 22:20:32 GMT en-us http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss 60 This clock displays the current time alphabetically.]]> https://www.metafilter.com/212914/Is-It-Time-What tag:metafilter.com,2026:site.212914 Fri, 17 Apr 2026 22:20:32 GMT chavenet Accursed Alphabetically Clock Time https://www.metafilter.com/212914/Is-It-Time-What/rss Who Is Blake Whiting? The most astonishingly productive historian in recent times is someone you'll never meet

"...Amazon sells his hardbacks for $28.99, the paperbacks for $20.99, and the Kindle versions for a bargain $7.99. What you can't buy from Amazon at any price, however, is Blake Whiting's CV. Though the books claim to be copyrighted in his name, you won't find an author picture or bio, nor will you find his website or Instagram. He does not belong to the faculty of any college or university, and he is unknown to those academics he cites in his books—which are not actually copyrighted. Whiting, as you have guessed, is neither historian nor human."]]> https://www.metafilter.com/212913/Never-met-him tag:metafilter.com,2026:site.212913 Fri, 17 Apr 2026 21:25:26 GMT clavdivs Ai History llm publishing https://www.metafilter.com/212913/Never-met-him/rss Why was I invited to Beast Studios? (SLYT; 1h18). What? Dan Olson was invited by MrBeast's team to a tour of Beast Studios? Dan Olson, of the Folding Ideas channel? The "Line goes up" guy? That Dan Olson? An essay on (in)authenticity and inefficiency. Also the first essay recorded on a bouncy castle, among other firsts.]]> https://www.metafilter.com/212912/Folding-Ideas-on-MrBeast tag:metafilter.com,2026:site.212912 Fri, 17 Apr 2026 20:52:56 GMT JSilva DanOlson FoldingIdeas MrBeast https://www.metafilter.com/212912/Folding-Ideas-on-MrBeast/rss Too chonk to fail. Private Equity Vet lets you see if your local D.V.M. is just a PE with a lab coat. (previously)]]> https://www.metafilter.com/212911/Private-equity-neutering-independent-vets-since-2010 tag:metafilter.com,2026:site.212911 Fri, 17 Apr 2026 20:28:01 GMT MiltonRandKalman LateStageCapitalism Pets PrivateEquity SearchEngine SmallBusiness Veterinarians https://www.metafilter.com/212911/Private-equity-neutering-independent-vets-since-2010/rss We are the federal workers who protect America from discrimination. The federal government is dismantling YOUR right to safe housing and essential services—and silencing us to hide it from you. We break that silence and ask you to stand with us, before it's too late. Read the letters.]]> https://www.metafilter.com/212910/Dear-America-Your-rights-are-on-the-line tag:metafilter.com,2026:site.212910 Fri, 17 Apr 2026 14:33:42 GMT Winnie the Proust CivilRights Democracy Housing HUD Justice RuleOfLaw SpeakingOut WhistleBlowers https://www.metafilter.com/212910/Dear-America-Your-rights-are-on-the-line/rss From love and freedom to native title and the right to vote, these are some of the High Court cases that have helped define Australia, and the ordinary people behind them. ]]> https://www.metafilter.com/212909/The-ordinary-people-who-took-their-case-to-the-highest-court tag:metafilter.com,2026:site.212909 Fri, 17 Apr 2026 12:11:44 GMT chariot pulled by cassowaries HighCourt HighCourtOfAustralia LegalHistory https://www.metafilter.com/212909/The-ordinary-people-who-took-their-case-to-the-highest-court/rss Tie Xi Qu. In 1999, filmmaker Wang Bing used a camcorder and walked into a dying factory district in northeast China and spent two years filming what he found. The result was Tie Xi Qu: West of the Tracks - nine hours long, no narration, no score, no interviews. This is one of the most important documentaries ever made, and almost no one has heard of it. This is a fourteen minute explanation and overview by Youtube Ken D. Tie Xi Qu is banned in China. It has never been shown on Chinese television. Wang Bing's entire filmography is erased from Chinese internet as of today.]]> https://www.metafilter.com/212908/The-Greatest-Documentary-youve-Never-Heard-Of tag:metafilter.com,2026:site.212908 Fri, 17 Apr 2026 11:06:38 GMT Sebmojo china documentary https://www.metafilter.com/212908/The-Greatest-Documentary-youve-Never-Heard-Of/rss Read all of that in one breath. A MOIS-operated persona whose unit head was killed three weeks earlier walked into one of the largest medical device manufacturers in the world, exfiltrated 50 TB, then pushed a destructive button that bricked 200,000 endpoints across 79 countries in minutes, postponed surgeries, stated a retaliation motive, absorbed a $10 million FBI bounty, had four of its domains seized, and was operating a replacement site the same day. from We May Be Living Through the Most Consequential Hundred Days in Cyber History, and Almost Nobody Has Noticed [ungated]]]> https://www.metafilter.com/212907/Just-the-ones-that-broke-through tag:metafilter.com,2026:site.212907 Fri, 17 Apr 2026 10:45:03 GMT chavenet AI Cybercrime Exfiltration Hacking International Penetration Petabytes https://www.metafilter.com/212907/Just-the-ones-that-broke-through/rss OTYKEN - TUNDRA (Official Music Video) Siberian folk-pop group Otyken's new steppe techno-noir jazz single, sung in the Dolgan language (indigenous people of the Taimyr Peninsula, Siberia, Russia)]]> https://www.metafilter.com/212906/Siberian-Steppe-Techno-noir-Jazz tag:metafilter.com,2026:site.212906 Fri, 17 Apr 2026 04:34:07 GMT CrystalDave dolgan folk jazz music otyken siberia single youtube https://www.metafilter.com/212906/Siberian-Steppe-Techno-noir-Jazz/rss Researchers hope they have found a way for a fascinating living fossil to once again breed in the Brisbane River, but hunger is making it harder.]]> https://www.metafilter.com/212905/Race-to-save-Brisbane-Rivers-very-hungry-Australian-lungfish tag:metafilter.com,2026:site.212905 Fri, 17 Apr 2026 00:49:32 GMT chariot pulled by cassowaries AustralianLungfish BrisbaneRiver LivingFossils Lungfish https://www.metafilter.com/212905/Race-to-save-Brisbane-Rivers-very-hungry-Australian-lungfish/rss Within days of starting on Zepbound last February, Ms. Schmidt felt her concussion symptoms finally begin to ease. "the survey respondents were enthusiastic. Sixty-five percent of current or past GLP-1 users said they were "very interested" in continuing to take the drugs. More remarkably, 63 percent said that if their GLP-1 failed to help the condition it was initially prescribed to treat, they would either "definitely" or "probably" keep taking it for other benefits."

This experimentation is also driven by how the drugs seem to cut across the familiar borders of illness in ways that doctors haven't seen before. "What we've come to realize," said Dr. DiMarchi, who was a vice president at Eli Lilly and involved in GLP-1 research there, until he left the company in 2003, "is that many diseases may share the same root causes, even though we label them and treat them as distinct: This is an endocrine disease, this is a cardiovascular disease, this is a brain disease."]]> https://www.metafilter.com/212904/GLP-1s-may-help-a-variety-of-conditions-unrelated-to-obesity tag:metafilter.com,2026:site.212904 Thu, 16 Apr 2026 22:31:50 GMT mecran01 health medicine ozempic tbi weight https://www.metafilter.com/212904/GLP-1s-may-help-a-variety-of-conditions-unrelated-to-obesity/rss