https://www.metafilter.com/ The past 24 hours of MetaFilter Tue, 30 Jun 2026 16:51:17 GMT Tue, 30 Jun 2026 16:51:17 GMT en-us http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss 60 Canada's Energy Future / l'avenir énergétique du Canada

This is the second installment in the PMs "Forward Guidance" series.]]> https://www.metafilter.com/213680/Foward-Guidance-2-Electrification-Boogaloo tag:metafilter.com,2026:site.213680 Tue, 30 Jun 2026 16:51:17 GMT mrjohnmuller Canada Electrification MarkCarney https://www.metafilter.com/213680/Foward-Guidance-2-Electrification-Boogaloo/rss Radio France FIP. Description here.

It was mentioned on Metafilter only once before, buried at a bottom of a link-rich post.]]> https://www.metafilter.com/213679/Recommended-as-the-best-radio-station-in-the-world tag:metafilter.com,2026:site.213679 Tue, 30 Jun 2026 16:45:36 GMT growabrain internetradio radiostation Tip https://www.metafilter.com/213679/Recommended-as-the-best-radio-station-in-the-world/rss By Crom! is a complete webcomic by Shel Kahn - wry autobiographical comics about helpful life advice from Conan the Barbarian. The original run is now free to read online again on their sparkly new website or a pdf of the print collection (with extras) is for sale on itch.io.

Shel's other comics include: Orin and the Dead Man's Sword (complete) - Wordless adventure Lomy in the Abyss (complete) - Highschool and heavy metal A Brief Guide to (Early Onset) Wizard Puberty (ongoing) - Disability and aging]]> https://www.metafilter.com/213678/Treasures-ask-not-how-you-won-them tag:metafilter.com,2026:site.213678 Tue, 30 Jun 2026 16:17:24 GMT Lorc ABriefGuideToEarlyOnsetWizardPuberty ByCrom comic comics ConanTheBarbarian LomyInTheAbyss OrinAndTheDeadMansSword ShelKahn webcomic webcomics https://www.metafilter.com/213678/Treasures-ask-not-how-you-won-them/rss Devastating bushfires provide Kangaroo Island with a unique silver lining as it becomes the largest island in the world to eradicate feral pigs.]]> https://www.metafilter.com/213677/Kangaroo-Island-declared-feral-pig-free-after-more-than-two-centuries tag:metafilter.com,2026:site.213677 Tue, 30 Jun 2026 15:51:45 GMT chariot pulled by cassowaries FeralPigs KangarooIsland https://www.metafilter.com/213677/Kangaroo-Island-declared-feral-pig-free-after-more-than-two-centuries/rss contributing to the creation myth of a new variety of person: the American .... Traces of the form can be seen in the true-crime memoirs of someone like Hearst, but the trope is even more intrinsic to American self-understanding. Our literature brims with archetypal accounts of characters descending into the dark core of barbarism and emerging with a primal knowledge that transforms them into new persons.]]> https://www.metafilter.com/213675/A-hermeneutics-of-suspicion-need-not-blunt-our-empathy tag:metafilter.com,2026:site.213675 Tue, 30 Jun 2026 09:08:50 GMT chavenet Abduction America CaptivityNarrative Colonialists Indigenous Invaders Literature Settlers https://www.metafilter.com/213675/A-hermeneutics-of-suspicion-need-not-blunt-our-empathy/rss The Greatest Music squashes many well-known-and-pored-over "Greatest 500 [Albums/Songs/Artists] of [A Certain Time Period]" lists through an algorithmic system of weights and pulleys, and out comes the One True List (e.g., a custom 1902–1954 LPs edition). {cue choir and fanfare} Code Junkies can see how the sausage is made here.]]> https://www.metafilter.com/213674/Your-Favorite-List-of-Lists-of-Best-Bands-LPs-or-Songs-SUCKS tag:metafilter.com,2026:site.213674 Tue, 30 Jun 2026 05:00:49 GMT not_on_display Albums Algorithm Artists CallNow Compilation FiveNinetyNineOnLP FourNinetyNineOn8Track Greatest Influential Lists LPs Mash-Up Music YFBS https://www.metafilter.com/213674/Your-Favorite-List-of-Lists-of-Best-Bands-LPs-or-Songs-SUCKS/rss US space agency NASA is racing to save an aging telescope, used to observe cosmic explosions, from falling back to Earth with a daring rescue mission.]]> https://www.metafilter.com/213673/NASA-to-bump-telescope-back-into-space-to-avoid-it-falling-to-Earth tag:metafilter.com,2026:site.213673 Tue, 30 Jun 2026 04:47:37 GMT chariot pulled by cassowaries CosmicExplosions NASA NasaSwiftRescueMission NasaSwiftRescueMissionSpacecraft SwiftRescueMission Telescope https://www.metafilter.com/213673/NASA-to-bump-telescope-back-into-space-to-avoid-it-falling-to-Earth/rss Would You Eat This Guy? What If He Were God, Or A Baby?

Hi]]> https://www.metafilter.com/213672/inadvisably-low-rise-edible-jeans tag:metafilter.com,2026:site.213672 Mon, 29 Jun 2026 21:49:53 GMT Ten Cold Hot Dogs cute defector eating ethics meat meatparadox research science ShouldIEatIt https://www.metafilter.com/213672/inadvisably-low-rise-edible-jeans/rss WERWULF trailer (06/29/2026). "Esquire First Look" (06/25/2026): "We worked with two Oxford professors on the dialogue, which is in Middle English, and then ... with a dialect coach on a way to temper the pronunciation." Related, if the vocab is extensive: wer-wǒlf in the Middle English Dictionary at the Middle English Compendium; A Middle English Reader with an intro grammar; and more Middle English Texts, e.g. for fun, Mummings and Entertainments, The Game and Playe of the Chesse, "A 15th C. Word Game," or the Christmas-related ludic text Sir Gawain and the Green Knight (Cotton Nero not Percy). Or if it's familiar vocab but allows a vowel shift, perhaps it resembles constrained texts like Simple English, "Uncleftish Beholding" (explained), Morris/Magnússon translations (e.g. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9), Morris/Wyatt's Beowulf, or Eddison's Egil's Saga.]]> https://www.metafilter.com/213671/Do-not-drde-the-derknesse-Embrce-it tag:metafilter.com,2026:site.213671 Mon, 29 Jun 2026 18:55:38 GMT Wobbuffet AJWyatt anderson beowulf chess christmas cinema eddison eggers EirikurMagnusson english EREddison film films game games grammar grammars GreatVowelShift icelandic language languages learn learning linguistics lycanthrope lycanthropy magnusson MiddleEnglish morris movie movies mumming mummings norse OldEnglish PoulAnderson RobertEggers saga sagas trailer trailers translation translations werewolf werewolves werwulf WilliamMorris wyatt https://www.metafilter.com/213671/Do-not-drde-the-derknesse-Embrce-it/rss