https://www.metafilter.com/ The past 24 hours of MetaFilter Sun, 20 Sep 2026 07:28:09 GMT Sun, 20 Sep 2026 07:28:09 GMT en-us http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss 60 The Bold Decision That Made China Unbeatable at EVs (Engineering with Rosie, YouTube, 15m) outlines the history and consequences of China's moves to electrify all its transport systems - trains, trucks and cars - starting at the turn of the century. Yes, before Eberhard and Tarpenning founded Tesla and Musk got new hair.]]> https://www.metafilter.com/214559/You-dont-win-by-playing-a-game-someone-else-already-won tag:metafilter.com,2026:site.214559 Sun, 20 Sep 2026 07:28:09 GMT flabdablet China Electrification EngineeringWithRosie EVs LeapFrogging YouTube https://www.metafilter.com/214559/You-dont-win-by-playing-a-game-someone-else-already-won/rss explores mahjong's position in China: its stigmatization to the point of not being recognised as part of Chinese cultural heritage lists, the elders warning younger people away from the dangers of gambling, younger folk engaging with it as a form of socialising with very low financial stakes. (SLYT)]]> https://www.metafilter.com/214558/Red-Dragon-or-Wild-Card tag:metafilter.com,2026:site.214558 Sun, 20 Sep 2026 04:42:09 GMT creatrixtiara China culture gambling Mahjong https://www.metafilter.com/214558/Red-Dragon-or-Wild-Card/rss One of the biggest and wealthiest Māori tribal authorities, the Waikato-Tainui, has signed a deal to invest in large-scale First Nations projects in Australia in renewable energy, mining, agriculture and more. Indigenous business groups say it's a watershed moment towards greater economic self-determination.]]> https://www.metafilter.com/214557/Mori-set-to-invest-in-First-Nations-projects-under-new-deal tag:metafilter.com,2026:site.214557 Sun, 20 Sep 2026 01:59:45 GMT chariot pulled by cassowaries EconomicSelfDetermination Maori RenewableEnergy Tainui Waikato WaikatoTainui https://www.metafilter.com/214557/Mori-set-to-invest-in-First-Nations-projects-under-new-deal/rss SKYbrary when it was mentioned in an episode of Mayday during a binge-watch. It is a European aviation-safety reference site developed by EUROCONTROL and other aviation-safety organizations, covering everything from wake turbulence and runway incursions to controlled flight into terrain, human factors, phraseology, weather and emergency procedures.

The accidents and incidents section collects investigation summaries and links them to contributing factors and related safety material. There is also a bookshelf of reports, studies, guidance material and regulatory documents. The human factors material goes well beyond "human error" as an explanation, covering fatigue, distraction, ineffective monitoring, authority gradients, plan-continuation bias, spatial disorientation, workload, communication and decision-making. There is also material on crew resource management, including situational awareness, teamwork and task allocation. It is a little like Wikipedia for aviation safety, except that many of the articles trace accidents back to the procedures, checklists and regulations that were changed or introduced afterward. There are several U.S. counterparts. The NTSB aviation database contains official accident and incident investigations going back to 1962. The FAA's Lessons Learned from Civil Aviation Accidents library turns selected accidents into case studies of what happened, what changed afterwards, and why. NASA's Aviation Safety Reporting System, run at Ames Research Center, takes a different approach: confidential voluntary reports from pilots, controllers, mechanics, flight attendants and dispatchers about incidents, mistakes and near-misses. The searchable ASRS database contains the de-identified narratives, an enormous archive of "this did not become an accident, but let me tell you what happened."]]> https://www.metafilter.com/214556/TV-Tropes-for-the-Swiss-cheese-model tag:metafilter.com,2026:site.214556 Sat, 19 Sep 2026 21:31:41 GMT techSupp0rt AviationSafety https://www.metafilter.com/214556/TV-Tropes-for-the-Swiss-cheese-model/rss Reporting (Guardian) on a draft research paper from St. Andrews shows that male patients are more likely to receive active(surgical) medical treatment compared to female patients with the same medical issue.

Also reporting from Euronews where I got the link to the article Me: This demonstrates a systematic issue and reinforces the need to talk with a doctor about treatment plans if you can and not just go with the flow when overwhelmed or in pain.]]> https://www.metafilter.com/214555/Medical-Treatment-differences-between-genders tag:metafilter.com,2026:site.214555 Sat, 19 Sep 2026 17:32:13 GMT Art_Pot DraftPublication Medicine TreatmentDifferences https://www.metafilter.com/214555/Medical-Treatment-differences-between-genders/rss Physics simulator game: Nuclear Design Bureau (Steam) Kerbal Space Program for nuclear kaboom, if much, much less cute. Design your own nuclear weapon.

Draw the cross section of a nuclear weapon of your own design. Brick of U-235 goes here, explosives go there, etc. Hit the detonate button and get a realistic physics simulation (oops, K less than 1, subcritical, try again). Don't worry, the game's tutorial will walk you through the details of the science. Absolutely not the cuteness of Kerbal. Lots of charts and graphs. Interesting charts and graphs if you like this sort of thing, or want to learn by doing. $6.50 CDN on Steam. I'm sure you are doing this only with peaceful purposes in mind, like a nuclear bomb powered spacecraft or a nuclear bomb civil engineering project (Project Orion and Project Plowshares)]]> https://www.metafilter.com/214554/All-that-is-required-is-the-VILL-to-use-it tag:metafilter.com,2026:site.214554 Sat, 19 Sep 2026 16:51:03 GMT justsomebodythatyouusedtoknow Game Nuclear NuclearBomb NuclearWeapon Physics PhysicsSimulator https://www.metafilter.com/214554/All-that-is-required-is-the-VILL-to-use-it/rss Public Books, 9/9/26), "The Saddest Cattle in the World: Atahualpa Yupanqui, Empire, and the Sound of Stolen Land": "There is a couplet that contains the essence of Argentina's colonial and postcolonial political economy, a poetic image that speaks a thousand words and synthesizes imperial ideology in one definitive swoop. Atahualpa Yupanqui wrote it, and it is the last couplet of the refrain in 'El arriero' (1944), one of his most transcendent songs ... 'The sorrows are ours. The cattle are not.'" Lyrics to "El Arriero" and more. Songs like "Luna tucumana," "Viene clareando," "La Añera," "Zamba del grillo," and "Chacarera de las piedras" are often covered. Several were in the film Horizontes de piedra, including "El Arriero." But many of Yupanqui's songs were co-written by Paula Nenette Pepin, about whom there's a recent album and documentary in French.]]> https://www.metafilter.com/214553/A-Couplet-That-Contains-a-Continent tag:metafilter.com,2026:site.214553 Sat, 19 Sep 2026 15:33:39 GMT Wobbuffet argentina argentinian AtahualpaYupanqui colonialhistory colonialism documentary film films folk folkmusic guitar guitarist history music nenette NenettePepin PabloDelCerro PaulaNenettePepin pepin postcolonial postcolonialism singer songwriter songwriters spanish yupanqui https://www.metafilter.com/214553/A-Couplet-That-Contains-a-Continent/rss Emmy Noether, whom some consider the "Mother of Modern Mathematics," continues to shape modern research and the studies of mathematicians today; including research into the investigation of airplane crashes. Invited to Göttingen by Hilbert, Emmy Noether was denied a teaching post simply because she was a woman. For four years she lectured under Hilbert's name rather than her own, as she was not permitted to teach officially. When the faculty objected, Hilbert famously responded: "I do not see that the gender of the candidate is an argument against her admission. We are a university, not a bathing establishment."

Previously and previously.]]> https://www.metafilter.com/214552/We-are-a-university-not-a-bathing-establishment tag:metafilter.com,2026:site.214552 Sat, 19 Sep 2026 14:20:06 GMT AlSweigart DavidHilbert EmmyNoether gender Hilbert math mathematics Noether women https://www.metafilter.com/214552/We-are-a-university-not-a-bathing-establishment/rss evoke a Klan Lynching.

Nike's Political Action Committee (PAC) along with their billionaire ex-CEO have a long history of donating millions of dollars to Trump and his companies.]]> https://www.metafilter.com/214551/Just-Do-It tag:metafilter.com,2026:site.214551 Sat, 19 Sep 2026 12:24:48 GMT Lanark converse maga Nike strangefruit https://www.metafilter.com/214551/Just-Do-It/rss For true explorers, the final frontier is not a distant speck in the sky, it is the underground realm beneath our feet. (Buchan, in East Gippsland, in Victoria, in Australia)]]> https://www.metafilter.com/214550/Once-in-a-lifetime-discovery-found-in-cave-hidden-beneath-paddock tag:metafilter.com,2026:site.214550 Sat, 19 Sep 2026 11:57:49 GMT chariot pulled by cassowaries ElkRiver ElkRiverCave GunaikurnaiCountry LimestoneCaverns https://www.metafilter.com/214550/Once-in-a-lifetime-discovery-found-in-cave-hidden-beneath-paddock/rss Dear Customer, Fuck you.]]> https://www.metafilter.com/214549/This-is-not-rare-It-has-become-routine tag:metafilter.com,2026:site.214549 Sat, 19 Sep 2026 10:08:14 GMT chavenet AI ClickThrough Data FinePrint Terms TheCustomerIsAlwaysFucked TOC https://www.metafilter.com/214549/This-is-not-rare-It-has-become-routine/rss