https://www.metafilter.com/ The past 24 hours of MetaFilter Thu, 12 Nov 2026 10:52:00 GMT Thu, 12 Nov 2026 10:52:00 GMT en-us http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss 60 While Australia grapples with childcare scandals, Japan is delivering top-quality care with professional chefs serving up nutritious food. So how did they do it?]]> https://www.metafilter.com/215140/Lessons-from-Japans-childcare-system tag:metafilter.com,2026:site.215140 Thu, 12 Nov 2026 10:52:00 GMT chariot pulled by cassowaries Childcare Japan https://www.metafilter.com/215140/Lessons-from-Japans-childcare-system/rss Paraguayan Bank Collapse topples the country's president. (sl Substack) Paraguay's biggest bank by customer count, the digital lender ueno bank, was seized by the central bank on November 2. Within four days President Santiago Peña had resigned, been unanimously impeached and removed, and been put under house arrest. Tomás Mandl, a former US diplomat in Paraguay and author of Modern Paraguay, argues the bank's rise was built on presidential connections and a "revolving door" between business and regulators, and that the collapse shows a democracy that is still maturing.

Background: Peña held shares in Ueno Holding, the parent of the group that owns the bank, until 2025. After taking office in 2023 he appointed Carlos Carvallo, a former chairman of the bank's predecessor, to run the central bank. Public bodies including the state pension fund deposited hundreds of millions of dollars at ueno (ABC Color, in Spanish). Mandl also credits what held up under stress: the press, a central bank supervisor, Congress, prosecutors, and a deposit guarantee of about US$38,000 per person. More on the collapse: NPR: how the collapse left millions in limbo and toppled Peña Al Jazeera explainer ABC Color, 2025: Peña's brother in an offshore shareholder of ueno (Spanish)]]> https://www.metafilter.com/215139/Ueno-Is-the-Loneliest-Number tag:metafilter.com,2026:site.215139 Thu, 12 Nov 2026 04:17:00 GMT storybored bankcollapse paraguay ueno https://www.metafilter.com/215139/Ueno-Is-the-Loneliest-Number/rss Removing SmartTV Spyware Should Be Legal - We Asked the Copyright Office for a DMCA Exemption (Louis Rossmann, YouTube, 16m22s) in which Louis goes over the current state of play in Automatic Content Recognition and associated user tracking.

My personal preference would be for every executive who signed off on this bullshit to be tracked by their own software and given a daily mild electrical for the rest of their pointless and miserable lives (This Is Jinsy previously on Metafilter).]]> https://www.metafilter.com/215138/People-of-Jinsy-stand-by-your-tesselators tag:metafilter.com,2026:site.215138 Thu, 12 Nov 2026 02:46:04 GMT flabdablet ACR AutomaticContentRecognition DMCA Dystopia Foistware LouisRossmann Privacy Spyware https://www.metafilter.com/215138/People-of-Jinsy-stand-by-your-tesselators/rss How about very own slime mold kit? Here•are•​some•some•​previous•posts•​on•slime•​molds]]> https://www.metafilter.com/215137/Slime-O-World tag:metafilter.com,2026:site.215137 Thu, 12 Nov 2026 00:37:30 GMT ShooBoo biology slimemold slimemould https://www.metafilter.com/215137/Slime-O-World/rss report detailing ways in which AI R&D is speeding up. Conversations are now happening about 'slope change ', instead of just 'step change'. AI 2027 predicted this level of progress would happen several months later than it has. Zvi Mowshowitz does a good overview of the situation.]]> https://www.metafilter.com/215136/Hurtling-forward tag:metafilter.com,2026:site.215136 Thu, 12 Nov 2026 00:15:15 GMT EarnestDeer 2027 AI future METR RSI https://www.metafilter.com/215136/Hurtling-forward/rss Harmonic Automata is an audio/visual toy I created for myself to take breaks during the day. All the technical heavy lifting was done by Opus 5.5. Just open it and start making stuff. [via mefi projects]]]> https://www.metafilter.com/215135/Harmonic-Automata tag:metafilter.com,2026:site.215135 Wed, 11 Nov 2026 23:41:36 GMT chavenet AI Automata Harmonic Mefiprojects Opus https://www.metafilter.com/215135/Harmonic-Automata/rss In the Blue Mountains of New South Wales, an endangered shrub is struggling with fertility. A team of scientists hopes the plant equivalent of IVF can help.]]> https://www.metafilter.com/215134/The-delicate-mission-to-save-an-endangered-shrub-using-sperm-donors tag:metafilter.com,2026:site.215134 Wed, 11 Nov 2026 23:36:56 GMT chariot pulled by cassowaries HandPollinating HandPollination https://www.metafilter.com/215134/The-delicate-mission-to-save-an-endangered-shrub-using-sperm-donors/rss Per MacRumors it's the end of an era. After almost 30 years of continuous service, the Apple-run message board where Apple users could seek help and advice from each other is to be closed.]]> https://www.metafilter.com/215133/Apple-Support-Community-to-Close tag:metafilter.com,2026:site.215133 Wed, 11 Nov 2026 21:53:59 GMT signsofrain apple AppleSupportCommunity closure forum https://www.metafilter.com/215133/Apple-Support-Community-to-Close/rss Chuck Conners. Actor, Army veteran, Professional Baseball and Basketballl player gets a big hug from Leonid Ilyich Brezhnev. (.55 in) [Slyt, 2:22]

Note: everyone needs a hug.]]> https://www.metafilter.com/215132/The-Riflemen tag:metafilter.com,2026:site.215132 Wed, 11 Nov 2026 21:05:23 GMT clavdivs baseball basketball Brezhnev Connors film https://www.metafilter.com/215132/The-Riflemen/rss follow official advice to see if they'd survive a 1 megaton nuclear bomb being detonated a mile above St Paul's Cathedral. Hilarity (does not) ensue.]]> https://www.metafilter.com/215131/Joy-and-Eric-should-survive-At-least-for-17-seconds tag:metafilter.com,2026:site.215131 Wed, 11 Nov 2026 18:54:42 GMT Wordshore archive attack BBC nuclear preparation slyt war https://www.metafilter.com/215131/Joy-and-Eric-should-survive-At-least-for-17-seconds/rss poet.horse - a horse poetry website [via mefi projects]

"Poet.horse is a free tool for making poems out of real horse names." Some featured poems: pareidolia like a blaze Big stretch this is just to neigh I kissed you—thank god To Boldly Go Fairy Knight You can try wrangling your own horse poem here.]]> https://www.metafilter.com/215130/This-is-just-to-neigh tag:metafilter.com,2026:site.215130 Wed, 11 Nov 2026 18:43:13 GMT brook horse horses mefiprojects poetry https://www.metafilter.com/215130/This-is-just-to-neigh/rss 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 tag:metafilter.com,2026:site.215129 Wed, 11 Nov 2026 16:49:18 GMT antibillionaire generalstrike housing inequality socialism Spain unionize https://www.metafilter.com/215129/General-Strike-Spaniards-Say-No-to-Capitalism/rss 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 tag:metafilter.com,2026:site.215128 Wed, 11 Nov 2026 16:11:05 GMT kristi AirForce Army justice Marines military Navy resistance transRights transServiceMembers votedToRetain https://www.metafilter.com/215128/Military-boards-are-defying-orders-and-letting-trans-troops-serve/rss 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 tag:metafilter.com,2026:site.215127 Wed, 11 Nov 2026 15:42:05 GMT Kitteh cbc gobodegacatgo jonazpiri joshjohnson standupcomedy https://www.metafilter.com/215127/We-do-a-lot-of-stories-about-cats-So-I-need-to-know-the-specific-cat/rss