https://www.metafilter.com/ The past 24 hours of MetaFilter Fri, 31 Jul 2026 15:16:35 GMT Fri, 31 Jul 2026 15:16:35 GMT en-us http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss 60 Clown Corps is an ongoing comic by Joe Chouinard. Pinfall City is protected by an elite team of hi-tech, highly skilled clowns. McBell is a new recruit - a criminal given one last chance. Consistently funny, heartfelt and action-packed. This comic is a personal favourite.

Clown Corps is currently on pause as it awaits its concluding arc, but here's some oneshots while we wait: Frasier meets Columbo - Probably Joe's best-known work Craneborne - A very silly Frasier meets Bloodborne comic The Pride of Pumpkin Boy - Halloween teens vs monsters Birthday Girl's betrayal - The teens return! Springfight - The Simpsons as a shonen managa tournament arc. Just like Frasier/Columbo, it nails the fundamentals of both its source materials. Finally, apologies to JHarris who it turns out posted almost exactly this set of links (albeit with different emphasis) two years previously. I hope the double can be forgiven: I dearly wanted to showcase Clown Corps as a headliner.]]> https://www.metafilter.com/214002/To-be-a-clown-you-must-be-the-best-of-the-best tag:metafilter.com,2026:site.214002 Fri, 31 Jul 2026 15:16:35 GMT Lorc Bloodborne ClownCorps Clowns Columbo comic comics Frasier JoeChouinard Simpsons TheSimpsons webcomic webcomics https://www.metafilter.com/214002/To-be-a-clown-you-must-be-the-best-of-the-best/rss Tobi Lütke's support of proposal made by retired TD Bank executive has drawn ire on social media (slCBC)

Followup questions from me: how do I avoid giving this joker money? How do I know what retail uses Shopify?]]> https://www.metafilter.com/214001/Evergreen-reminder-that-billionaires-are-THE-WORST tag:metafilter.com,2026:site.214001 Fri, 31 Jul 2026 15:15:25 GMT Kitteh billionairesgointhesea cbc shopify tobiaslutke https://www.metafilter.com/214001/Evergreen-reminder-that-billionaires-are-THE-WORST/rss A New South Wales library has a book returned rather late, but the policy of fining people for the offence was dropped at some point during the 150 years since it was borrowed.]]> https://www.metafilter.com/214000/Library-book-returned-after-150-years-28000-fine-waived tag:metafilter.com,2026:site.214000 Fri, 31 Jul 2026 14:15:33 GMT chariot pulled by cassowaries Libraries LibraryBooks https://www.metafilter.com/214000/Library-book-returned-after-150-years-28000-fine-waived/rss less-than three-minute video from two Star Trek: The Next Generation episodes by Angela Collier.]]> https://www.metafilter.com/213999/computer-simulated-female tag:metafilter.com,2026:site.213999 Fri, 31 Jul 2026 11:35:27 GMT cgc373 AngelaCollier GeordiLaForge LeahBrahms NextGeneration StarTrek StarTrekTheNextGeneration STTNG TNG YouTube https://www.metafilter.com/213999/computer-simulated-female/rss Lenacapavir FDA-approved. Once-weekly islatravir / lenacapavir combination pill maintains HIV viral suppression.]]> https://www.metafilter.com/213998/The-first-100-effective-HIV-prevention-drug-approved-and-going-global tag:metafilter.com,2026:site.213998 Fri, 31 Jul 2026 10:23:18 GMT StrikeTheViol aids fda hiv medicine pharma https://www.metafilter.com/213998/The-first-100-effective-HIV-prevention-drug-approved-and-going-global/rss Modern life is standing at a gas station sink with your hands under a motion-activated faucet waiting for water that doesn't come. Am I a ghost, you wonder, waving your hands. Your palms look the same: a heart line, a head line, a story. Or is everyone else a ghost, and that's why they don't recognize humans anymore?]]> https://www.metafilter.com/213997/The-thing-about-quicksand-is-that-it-gets-everyone-to-shut-up-at-once tag:metafilter.com,2026:site.213997 Fri, 31 Jul 2026 08:24:41 GMT chavenet GenX GenZ Quicksand SarahKendzior Substack https://www.metafilter.com/213997/The-thing-about-quicksand-is-that-it-gets-everyone-to-shut-up-at-once/rss BBC - Anthropic's Claude AI escapes tests to hack three organisations: "US technology firm Anthropic says its artificial intelligence (AI) models hacked into the systems of three organisations during a cybersecurity test due to an error that gave them access to the internet. It comes just days after rival OpenAI said that its models had breached the systems of other companies, including AI tools hub Hugging Face." Guardian: ""Claude compromised the ​impacted ​organizations' infrastructure using ​basic techniques, such as ​exploiting ‌weak passwords and ​unauthenticated ​endpoints," it said."]]> https://www.metafilter.com/213996/Due-to-an-error tag:metafilter.com,2026:site.213996 Fri, 31 Jul 2026 08:21:47 GMT Wordshore AI anthropic Claude Internet Skynet https://www.metafilter.com/213996/Due-to-an-error/rss Underwater video captures the moment orcas in the Gulf of California slam into a sunfish, causing it to explode.]]> https://www.metafilter.com/213995/Researcher-shocked-as-orca-blows-up-a-sunfish-in-front-of-her tag:metafilter.com,2026:site.213995 Fri, 31 Jul 2026 03:01:27 GMT chariot pulled by cassowaries Orcas Sunfish https://www.metafilter.com/213995/Researcher-shocked-as-orca-blows-up-a-sunfish-in-front-of-her/rss 3 straight hours of Pokemon puppies being adorable at home, ala puppy livestreams ]]> https://www.metafilter.com/213994/Pokemon-dogs-are-also-good-boys-and-girls tag:metafilter.com,2026:site.213994 Fri, 31 Jul 2026 01:05:32 GMT creatrixtiara dogs Pokemon puppies puppylivestream https://www.metafilter.com/213994/Pokemon-dogs-are-also-good-boys-and-girls/rss Henk van Ess goes on to posit "You only censor a map that works. Every blur, every polygon, every diplomatic request was an admission that Google Earth was accurate enough to be dangerous. Governments were not worried the map would lie. They were worried it would tell the truth.,"
How to plant a nuclear plant in Iran. [Substack]]]> https://www.metafilter.com/213993/its-fun-to-let-your-imagination-run-wild tag:metafilter.com,2026:site.213993 Thu, 30 Jul 2026 23:39:57 GMT clavdivs ess Google maps technology https://www.metafilter.com/213993/its-fun-to-let-your-imagination-run-wild/rss The Seinfeld Chronicles: An unnecessary data exploration. A visual investigation of the patterns of laughter, the interactions of characters, and the use of locations across every episode of Seinfeld.]]> https://www.metafilter.com/213992/You-are-so-good-looking tag:metafilter.com,2026:site.213992 Thu, 30 Jul 2026 22:35:21 GMT Paragon AndyKirk DataVisualisation Seinfeld sonification https://www.metafilter.com/213992/You-are-so-good-looking/rss Slicing complicated disease data a different way to answer the question better: 'Is "colorectal cancer" rising in "young people"?'. Sadly, the answer looks like "yes but" or even "yes and".]]> https://www.metafilter.com/213991/Cohorts-and-colorectal-cancer tag:metafilter.com,2026:site.213991 Thu, 30 Jul 2026 22:18:43 GMT clew age Cancer cohorts data disease generations statistics https://www.metafilter.com/213991/Cohorts-and-colorectal-cancer/rss The God man is a gentle ten minute sci-fi documentary about the discovery of a humanoid object in space, en route to earth. A poignant, award-winning short by Andrew Foerster.

Andrew has a smattering of other work on his website, but I found Girl Wolf in particular worth watching. A wordless, post apocalyptic survival film.]]> https://www.metafilter.com/213990/It-was-October-4th-1963-and-I-spotted-this-strange-shape tag:metafilter.com,2026:site.213990 Thu, 30 Jul 2026 20:12:15 GMT Lorc AndrewFoerster ScienceFiction Scifi TheGodMan https://www.metafilter.com/213990/It-was-October-4th-1963-and-I-spotted-this-strange-shape/rss Leopold Aschenbrenner? His AI loaded hedge fundjust shat the bed.]]> https://www.metafilter.com/213989/Out-flew-the-web-and-floated-wide-The-bubble-crackd-from-side-to-side tag:metafilter.com,2026:site.213989 Thu, 30 Jul 2026 19:26:54 GMT chavenet AI Aschenbrenner Boom Bubble Bust HedgeFund Investing Shallott SituationalAwareness Tennyson https://www.metafilter.com/213989/Out-flew-the-web-and-floated-wide-The-bubble-crackd-from-side-to-side/rss